Thoughts of You

Good Morning

Meet this gorgeous new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs simply called:

Hydrangea

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station. Starting at the bottom corner, I placed the Hydrangea stencil down and inked it up with some Villainous Potion and some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil up and over to the side and inked the flower head again.  I moved the stencil one more time and inked another flower in the top right hand corner.
• I cleaned the stencil off and then I added the leaves and stems into some of the open white areas along the edges with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink. I also added the flower centers with some Tumbled Glass DOX ink.
• Next, I splattered the whole stenciled panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• When it was all dry, I glued it onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of purple and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I cut a strip sentiment and glued it onto a piece of purple cardstock. I added that over the middle of my card to finish it off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Hydrangea

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

Try it on Tues.- ROMANCE

Ally's Angels- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none 

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); white Posca pen;

TE Blending Brushes; Simple Strips Sentiments (TE); foam tape

Flowers for Your Birthday

Good Morning

Today's card will hopefully give you a little piece of sunshine.

Meet the fun stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Layered Daisies

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Layered Daisies stencil over that.
• I wanted to give my flower card the look of a field of flowers so I chose a variety of colours to use for inking.  These are the Distress Oxide inks I used:  Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Ripe Persimmon, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio.
• Next, I inked up the flower centers with some Black Soot DOX ink and splattered the panel with my white Posca pen.
• When it was dry, I die cut the panel with a Postal die for the outside edge and then I die cut a smaller area from the middle of the panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I stamped the sentiment, die cut it out and glued it onto the smaller piece I had cut from the card front.  I used some foam tape to pop that back into place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Layered Daisies

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafty Gals- FILL IN THE BLANK...Pink Pretties

Craft Rocket- HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Sisterhood of Crafters- RED or PINK

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold Stamp and die (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); white Posca pen;

Make Art Station (Range); Postal dies (Spellbinder); TE Blending Brushes; foam tape

Floral Postage

Hello and Welcome

Here is another card I created using the new for February stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Retro Flower Duo

This stencil has 2 flower designs on it and this time, I used both in combination.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I die cut a piece of white cardstock with the Postage Collage die  and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  
• I masked around the squares and placed one of the flower from the Retro Flower Duo stencil over the first square and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress ink.
• I wanted to add some depth of colour to the flowers, so I blended some Villainous Potion DOX ink right over the center of the flower.  I used some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink for the stems.
• I continued using the same colours and moving the stencil around to ink each box.
• After all the squares were stenciled, I splattered with my white Posca pen and removed the masks.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment, the small detail leaves on top and bottom of the sentiment and then die cut it out.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of dark burgundy cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Retro Flower Duo

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Beautiful Blossoms- ANYTHING FLORAL GOES

Everybody Art- DIE CUTS AND PUNCHES

Addicted to Stamps and More- DIE CUTS and/or STENCILS

Supplies

Stamps- Anytime Expressions (TE); Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Modern Sentiment Labels die (TE);

white Posca pen; Make Art Station (Ranger); small inking brushes (Amazon);

Postage Collage Die (Waffle Flower)

A Single Flower Notecard

Good Morning

A simple card this morning using a newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Retro Flower Duo

This is a 2 flower stencil but for today's card, I used just one of them.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by getting out my Gel Plate and I pressed my Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto the plate, then blended them together using a brayer.  The colours I used were Villainous Potion and some Uncharted Mariner.  
• Next, I laid the Retro Flower Duo stencil onto my plate and pressed a piece of cardstock over that to create the flower print.  
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry. When it was all dry, I die cut it using a large circle die.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some more of the Villainous Potion DOX ink and then I used an embossing folder to add some texture.  I lightly sanded off some of the raised areas to give it more interest.
• I glued the embossed piece onto a 4 1/4" square white card based and then I used some foam tape to pop the flower up.
• To finish my card off, I added some silver gems onto and around the flower.

Here is the stencil I used:

Retro Flower Duo

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Mix it Up- ANYTHING GOES- OPTION: Monochrome

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer;

Dots Embossing folder (Sizzix); white Posca pen; sanding block, silver gems;

Infinity Circle dies (HA)

Regal Doily

Happy February!

I've heard so many say they are grateful that January is over because where I live with the snow and the ice, that means we are one step closer to getting Spring.

Lots of new releases over at A Colorful Life Designs this month.

This card was created using the newly released:

Regal Doily

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and centered the Regal Doily stencil over that.  
• I began in the center and inked with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink. Next, I moved outwards inking with some Ripe Persimmon and then finally with some Fossilized Amber DOX ink along the outside edges.
• I lifted the stencil off and splattered it with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried, I cut out the pre-printed sentiment strip and glued it onto a piece of pink cardstock.
• When the panel was dry, I glued it onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the center and added some gems around that.

Here is the stencil I used:

Regal Doily

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- A is for Anything Goes

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Just Add Ink- A TOUCH OF BLING

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Simple Strips Sentiments (TE); gems (Dollar Store); Make Art Station (Ranger);

white Posca pen

Birthday Boy

 

Welcome

I like to have some masculine cards on hand as I know sometimes it's hard to create them.

This newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and a few shades of blue fit the bill.

The new stencil is called:

MultiShadow

So, here's what I did to create my card:

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and put the MultiShadow stencil over that on an angle.  I inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off and then repositioned it slightly over and then inked again with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. I removed the stencil and was left with a lovely layered look effect.
• I splattered the whole card front with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• When it was nice and dry, I die cut the sentiment shadow from the card front and then glued the black die cut sentiment onto that.
• I glued the finished card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then light blue and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place and then finished it all off with 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Multishadow

**If you get a chance to, please read my blog post about some important changes**

(It talks about some changes with my affiliate links)

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

My Time to Craft- MAKE IT MALE

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW

Just Us Girls- USE STENCILS 

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes; 

black gems; Make Art Station (Ranger); Bold Birthday die (TE)

Spring Buds

 

Welcome

Going monochromatic today with this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Spring Buds

I don't know about you and where you live, but I'm so ready for Spring to be here!

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Spring Buds over a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and inked up the flowers with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I used some Salty Ocean DOX ink to add a darker shade of blue to the flower centers.
• I turned the stencil upside down and inked again using the same colours, creating these fun little flowers. 
• I die cut the sentiment with some navy cardstock and then die cut the shadow for the sentiment right from the middle of the stenciled panel.  I glued those 2 together.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto an A2 white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place over the card front.
• Finally, I added 3 navy blue gems under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Spring Buds

**If you get a chance to, please read my blog post about some important changes**

(It talks about some changes with my affiliate links)

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW

Cardz 4 Galz- STENCIL

Addicted to CAS- BLUE

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Make Art Station (Ranger); Sending Smiles die (SSS); navy gems