Summer Breeze

Welcome

Meet 2 of the new for JUNE stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Lapping Waves and Two Sea Panels

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

• I started by creating the sailboat panel first. I inked up my Gel Plate with some Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink, placed one the images from the  Two Sea Panels Stencil onto the plate and rubbed my cardstock over that to transfer the image.
• I trimmed it down, glued it onto a piece of white cardstock and set that aside.
• For the background, I inked up my Gel Plate again with some Mermaid Lagoon and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink, then placed the Lapping Waves stencil onto my plate and rubbed to transfer the pattern.  I lifted the stencil and rubbed my paper over it again, creating this fun background.
• I glue the waves background onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the boat panel up over to the side.  
• I die cut the sentiment and glued it onto the other side to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Lapping Waves

Two Sea Panels

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for the visit.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White, blue

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Friend die (TE);

TE Blending Brushes; Gel Plate

Let's Eat Cake

Hello

This month at A Colorful Life Designs, some of the designs are all about cake, party and balloons.

I decided to combine 2 of the new stencils called:

LAYERED CELEBRATION CAKE and STAR STREAMERS

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

• I began by die cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Postage Collage Die.  
• I masked off the squares and then placed the STAR STREAMERS stencil over that and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I used the ink left on my blending brush and added some ink to better define the squares of the die.
• I placed the LAYERED CELEBRATION CAKE stencil over another piece of white cardstock and inked that with some Aged Mahogany and some Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide inks.  I used Lumberjack plaid for the candles, Black Soot for the base and some Mustard Seed for the flames.
• Next, I fussy cut the cake out and set it aside.
• I stamped the sentiment in the bottom corner of my die cut postage card front than glued it onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the cake up over the background.

Here are the stencils I used:

STAR STREAMERS

LAYERED CELEBRATION CAKE

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:

Little Red Wagon- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Seize the Birthday- SWEET TREATS

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING STENCILED GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Handmade Essentials (SBC)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

Postage Collage die (Waffle Flower); foam tape (Dollar Store)

YAY...it's Your Birthday!

Good Morning

With lots of birthdays coming up, I was happy to play with 2 new for May stencils from A Colorful Life Designs. They helped me make a very festive, celebration style card. 

The stencils are called:

Floating Balloons and Star Streamers

So, here's what I did.

• I began by picking out some colours of Distress Oxide ink for my balloons. I placed the Floating Balloons stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked them up with these colours: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Broken China and some Cracked Pistachio. 

HELPFUL TIP.....When I inked the balloons, I kept the ink to just the outer edges to add more dimension to the look.

• When all the balloons were inked up, I removed the stencil and placed the Star Streamers down and inked again with the same colours as mentioned above.
• For the sentiment, I looked through my scraps and found this piece done with some DOX ink on my Gel Plate and I used it to die cut the sentiment and glued that onto a white sentiment shadow.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of pale blue cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added the sentiment over the panel with some foam tape to help pop it up.

Here are the stencils I used:

Star Streamers

Floating Balloons

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING STENCILED GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white; blue cs

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

YAY die (Whimsy Stamp); Make Art Station (Ranger)

Hooray and YAY!

Welcome

As most of you already know, I love combining stencils to create fun new patterns and designs.

So for today's card, I combined 2 new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds and Flower Rays

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by rubbing some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink over the back of the Circles and Diamonds stencil, sprayed with Rubbing Alcohol and pressed onto the paper. 
• Leaving the stencil in place, I rubbed some more of the Broken China DOX over the stencil, filling in the circles.
• I lifted that stencil off and positioned the Flower Rays stencil over the background and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. The flowers gave the background such a great feeling of energy.
• Next, I looked through my scrap pieces of inked cardstock and found this one that I had done using Brushos on white cardstock so I used that to die cut my sentiment and glued it onto the white word shadow.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Circles and Diamonds 

Flower Rays

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MAY FLOWERS

Allsorts- MONOCHROMATIC or ANYTHING GOES

Cut it Up- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white/ navy cs

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

Rubbing Alcohol; YAY die (Whimsy Stamps); foam tape

Four Squares

Hello and Welcome

I had fun playing with this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds

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

• I placed the Circles and Diamonds stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off and moved it to the side and inked again with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink right over the first design.
• I took my stenciled pattern and cut it into 4 small squares and glued them onto a piece of navy cardstock.
• I popped the squares up with some foam tape and then adhered them to a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I stamped the sentiment, die cut it with a circle die and used some more foam tape to pop it over the center of my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles and Diamonds

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Add Ink- DIES, STENCILS or BOTH

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts); Foam Tape

Zipping By to Say Hi

Good Morning

Today's cute card was made using a new for May stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds

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

• I laid the Circles and Diamonds stencil flat onto my work surface and pressed my Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink pad all over the stencil until it was covered with ink.
• I sprayed the stencil with some Rubbing Alcohol and then pressed it onto my white cardstock and left it there for a minute to let the ink soak in. 
• I dried the paper, cleaned off the stencil and placed it back over the pattern, matching it up and inked again with more of the Prize Ribbon DOX ink.
• While that dried, I die cut the zipper with some navy cardstock.
• I took the stenciled base and cut a small 'V' at the top and glued the zipper over the stenciled background.  I also added a small piece of white cardstock behind the zipper to show at the top.
• I glued that onto a piece of pale grey cardstock, then onto a piece of pale blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I had a small piece of the stenciled base left when I cut it down, so I used that to create a small pocket.
• I used some foam tape to add the pre-printed sentiment across the bottom to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles and Diamonds

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Add Ink- STENCILS AND DIES

Craft Rocket- NOT SQUARE

The Sisterhood of Crafters- MAKE SOMEONE SMILE

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Zipper die (Temu); foam tape (Dollar Store); Everyday Occasions sentiment strip (TE)

Happy Cheers

Welcome

Today's card was created using a new for May stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

CHEERS

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

• I placed the Cheers stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio and some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• Using the same colours as mentioned above, I used the eraser on the end of a pencil to add the dots.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment 5 times with some navy cardstock and glued them all together as I wanted a stacked sentiment. I also die cut a circle shutter from some white cardstock.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the shutter die cut over the middle and added the sentiment over that to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

CHEERS

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.- MAKE IT COLORFUL

The Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

(cheers die has been totally neglected)

AAA Birthday- ANYTHING BIRTHDAY GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/other

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

Eclipse die (Temu); Cheers die (TE); pencil eraser