Have Faith

Hello and Welcome

Today's card features another one of the new for JUNE stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Rope Trellis

Here's what I did to get the look.

• I placed the Rope Trellis stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off, shifted it to the right and inked again with some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• Next, I turned the stencil totally sideways and inked again with more of the Wilted Violet DOX ink to create this fun woven looking background.
• While that dried, I die cut the Flower Squares with some white cardstock and backed them with a small piece of clear vellum so they would show up better against the background.
• I placed the stenciled card front into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and glued the flowers across the front.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple and then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Rope Trellis

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- O IS FOR OUTDOOR

SSS Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Just Us Girls- SUMMER

Fab 'n' Funky- SUMMER FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Spiritual Sampler (Paper Smooches- closed)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides

Paper- Solar White; vellum

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

Flower Squares die (Temu); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Best Birthday Ever!

Welcome

I have to begin by saying how fun this card was to make.

Meet the new for JUNE stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

AIRY BUBBLES

This is how I created my card.

• I began by first cutting a piece of white cardstock and I die cut 3 Dot Circles of different sizes, along the outside edges of my cardstock.
• Next, I masked around the circles and then placed Airy Bubbles stencil over it and inked with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the masks to the other side of the circles and then inked again with some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• I removed the stencil and all the masks and placed the piece into my Misti to stamp the Grid first and then the sentiment across the middle of the panel.
• I glued my finished card front panel onto a piece of white, then purple cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

AIRY BUBBLES

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for the visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges;

Simon Says Wed.- MASCULINE

Dragonfly Dreams- MASCULINE

The Paper Players- MASCULINE

Crafty Calendar- MEN/BOYS

Supplies

Stamps- Birthday Greetings (Temu); Off the Grid (SU)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Dot Circle dies (Temu); 

TE Blending Brushes; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; low tack tape

Feel the Sun on Your Face

Hello and Welcome

I decided to make a card by combining 2 new for JUNE stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

VIBRANT SUNSET and LAPPING WAVES

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Vibrant Sunset stencil over it.  I masked off between the waves and the sun and I inked up the sun with some Fossilized Amber and some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I moved the masks to cover over the sunshine. I inked up the waves with some Tumbled Glass DOX ink, shifted the stencil and inked again with some Broken China DOX ink.
• Leaving the stencil ink place, I put the Lapping Waves stencil over it and inked with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. By adding the additional inking, the waves had so much more movement and interest.
• I placed my card front panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment, centering it under the sun.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto some blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added 2 black gems on either side of the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

VIBRANT SUNSET

LAPPING WAVES

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:

Simon Says Wed.- MASCULINE

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

The Four Seasons- ANYTHING GOES SUMMER

Supplies

Stamps- Face to the Sun (TT- Out of business)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White; blue

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; low tack tape

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.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The Four Seasons Challenge- ANYTHING SUMMER GOES

Inkspirational- FOR THE GUYS

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