Bring on the New Year

Good Morning

Here is another card I made for the New Year using one of the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Interconnected Circles

I layered it up with an older stencil to create this fun background.

So this is what I did to create my card.

• I began by placing an older stencil called Stitched Harlequin over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the Interconnected Circles stencil sideways over the first inking and inked with some Salty Ocean DOX ink.
• I removed that stencil and stamped over the circles with the little starburst.
• Next, I die cut a star right from my stenciled card front and then I die cut a larger one from some navy cardstock and glued those together after I stamped the sentiment over the smaller star.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the star back into place, matching up the pattern.

Here are the stencils I used:

Interconnected Circles

Stitched Harlequin

Happy 2026 and thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING NEW

We Love Stamping- ANYTHING GOES or ANYTHING NEW

Stamping Sensations- I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE SOMETHING BEGINS WITH 'B' (Blue)

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle); Amazing (SSS)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

Star die (SBC); foam tape

Happy New Year Wishes

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!

Today's card is the first for this year.

It features just one of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Interconnected Circles

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

• I placed the Interconnected Circles stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Next I placed the background into my Misti and stamped the snowflake into one corner, turned the card around and stamped again in the other corner with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I randomly stamped the little snowflakes over the background with more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink to add more interest.
• I stamped the sentiment into the bottom corner with some Verasafine Clair ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of light blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base and added the blued gems to the middle of the snowflakes to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Interconnected Circles

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

KarenFan10

May 2026 bring you much happiness, health and be filled with many blessings.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- WINTER RELATED

Simon Says Mon.- SPARKLE AND SHINE

Everybody Art- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

TE Blending Brushes; blue gems

Happy New Year!! 2026

 

Wishing you a wonderful Happy New Year filled with great memories and many blessings.

Congrats~ Bargello Technique

Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) at Splitcoast Stampers.

My challenge is to make a card using the 

Bargello Technique

Everyone has been so busy with their Christmas festivities so I thought this Technique was a very simple, achievable one to try.  So many possibilities with it as well and a good chance to use up some of those scrap pieces of designer paper you may have in your stash.

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

• I began by looking through my scrap papers that I never use and found 4 that I thought would work together.
• I cut them into 3/4" strips and glued the strips onto a piece of white cardstock side by side of each other being sure they were all touching. 
  
• I let the piece dry, then cut the strips in the opposite direction, again 3/4" wide so each strip had the patterns on them. (hope that makes sense)
  
• I glued them, one at a time onto another piece of white cardstock, offsetting the pieces like putting together a quilt pattern. There are many different ways you can create a pattern by just moving the strips into different positions.
• When I was happy with the pattern, I glued the piece onto some white cardstock and then black and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with some black cardstock 4 times and glued them together, creating a stacked sentiment.  I cut the word shadow from a piece of white and glued them together.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Thanks a lot for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Cut it Up- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Papers- various dp's (unknown)

Accessories and Tools- Congrats die (TE)

Totally Awesome

Good Morning

Here is my card for today featuring an older stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Cracked

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

• I placed the Cracked stencil over a piece of white cardstock. Beginning in the center of the stencil, I inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, moving away from the center of the stencil, I inked with some Picked Raspberry DOX and then some Lumberjack Plaid around the outside edges.
• I used my white Posca pen to add lots of white splatters to the stenciled background and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment with some white cardstock and cut the word shadow from the stenciled panel and glued them together.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto some red and then onto a 4 14" square card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment into place.

Here is the stencil I used:

Cracked

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTMENT

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prisma)

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

white Posca pen; Awesome die (Neat and Tangled)

Merry and Happy Holidays

Welcome

Today's card combines 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Stitched Harlequin and Tribal Fabric

So here's what I did to create this unique pattern in some traditional Christmas colours.

• I placed Tribal Fabric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness.
• I lifted that stencil off and placed the Stitched Harlequin stencil over the first stencil pattern and then inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid.
• Next, I rubbed my Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink pad onto a piece of white cardstock, splattered with my white Posca pen and then used that to die cut the sentiment.  I cut the sentiment 4 more times with some white and then glued them all together, offsetting them a bit to add a highlight around the sentiment.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white, then red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut a small frame with more white cardstock and glued that over the front before gluing the sentiment in place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Tribal Fabric

Stitched Harlequin

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit especially at this busy time of year.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Cut It Up- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Knockouts- TIS THE SEASON

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Be Merry die- Lawn Fawn; Rectangle die- Spellbinders

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Greetings

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

May you time with family and friends bring you much joy and many blessings.