Garden of Flowers

Good Morning and Welcome

Today's card features our mid-month release from A Colorful Life Designs called

Mid Century Minimalist

I used it to make a fun background for my flower vine.

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

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off and then placed it back over the pattern, turning it sideways and inked it again with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. What a fun pattern it created.
• While that dried, I die cut the flowers and glued a piece of clear vellum behind the frame of the flowers. 
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the climbing flower vine over the background and then added some pearl gems to the flower centers.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FABULOUS FLORALS

Just Add Ink- STENCIL/DIES OR BOTH

Cut it Up- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/Blue/ clear Vellum

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Flower Vine die (Temu);

pearl gems

Sweet Kitty

Good Morning

Here is another great 'pet' stencil for July from A Colorful Life Designs called:

CAT CURLICUE

I thought this would make a good pet sympathy card.

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

• I began by placing the CAT CURLICUE stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted that stencil off and placed the Patterned Noise stencil from last month, over the top and inked just around the cat with some Shaded Lilac, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry and some Peacock Feathers DOX ink. By stenciling around the image, it helped to ground it and added colour and more interest.
• I placed my stenciled card front into my Misti to stamp the sentiment over to the side.
• Using the end of a pencil eraser, I stamped in the 2 eyes of the cat and stenciled in a few extra cat paws along the right hand side.
• I glued it onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white square 4 1/4" card base.
• I finished my card off by adding 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

CAT CURLICUE

PATTERNED NOISE

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming to visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- 4 LEGGED FRIENDS

Allsorts- STENCIL

We Love Stamping- SUMMERTIME/or ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Gentle Hugs (IO closed)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White; navy

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; Pencil eraser

It's Party Time

Hello and Welcome

I had such fun creating this bright and happy card using the new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

HAND WREATH

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by placing the HAND WREATH stencil over a square piece of white cardstock.
• I inked along the outside edge with some Picked Raspberry Distress ink and then inked the inside of the hand circle with some Ripe Persimmon DOX ink.
• I lifted off the stencil and placed the PATTERNED NOISE stencil from last month over the middle open area and inked that up with some more of the Ripe Persimmon DOX ink. It added so much interest to the otherwise open area.
• I placed the stenciled card front into my Misti and stamped the sentiment right in the middle.
• I glued my inked card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then black and then onto a 4 1/4" sized white card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

HAND WREATH

PATTERNED NOISE 

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Alphabet Challenge- 'F' FOR FESTIVITIES

Just Us Girls- PLAY

Supplies

Stamps- Birthday Greetings (Temu)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar white, black

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Little Toes and Fingers

Good Morning

Today's card is featuring one of the new for July stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

BABY'S HAND

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

• I placed the BABY'S HAND stencil over a piece of white cardstock and looked through my Distress Oxide inks to see what colours I wanted to use. These are the DOX colours I decided on:  Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers; Ripe Persimmon; Cracked Pistachio; Wilted Violet and Fossilized Amber. I chose lots of rainbow colours to show what life and promise a new baby brings.
• I inked around the stencil using all the colours mentioned above, adding more concentrated ink around the stencil and dragging my brush outwards near the edges to give a more unique look to the overall design.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• When it was nice and dry, I placed the piece into my Misti to stamp the sentiment in the middle.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of dark purple cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added 3 black gems just under the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

BABY'S HAND

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:

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES WITH WORDS AS FOCUS

Allsorts- STENCILS

Shopping Our Stash- YOU'RE SO SWEET

Supplies

Stamp- Little Toes and Fingers (IO- out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White; black

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

Big Dogs

Hello and Welcome

Meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Big Dogs

So many great pet stencils to use this month.

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

• I began by inking up the Big Dogs stencil with some black ink, spacing out each image across my cardstock.
• I masked the dogs and then using the Marvelous Masks Circles, I added these Distress Oxide ink colours around the dogs; Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry.
• Leaving the Circles stencil in place, I used a black fine line marker to trace around the circles. It really helped define each dog in their spaces.
• I placed my card front panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of black cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

Big Dogs

Marvelous Masks Circles

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- DIECUTS/and or STENCILS

Fab 'n' Funky- SOMETHING THAT STARTS WITH 'B'

Craft Rocket- ANIMALS

Supplies

Stamps- Friendship (Temu)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black fine line mark

It's Playtime

Welcome

Ready for some playtime with one of the newly released stencils for July from A Colorful Life Designs called

DOGS PLAYING

If you are an animal lover, you will have to check out the amazing lineup of pet stencils this month.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the dogs from the Dogs Playing stencil onto my paper and inked with some black ink.
• I repeated that process until I had inked 4 dogs onto my card front and I used some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide to add the red ball.
• Next, I cut the stenciled piece on an angle and glued a black and a red strip along the edge. 
• I cut another piece of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment into the corner with my Misti. I glued that onto a piece of black cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• To finish off my card, I used some foam tape to pop the stenciled part above the sentiment Unfortunately, it is hard to see that in the photo.

Here is the stencil I used:

DOGS PLAYING

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:

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

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Send a Smile 4 Kids- SUMMER FUN

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Greetings (Mama Elephant)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair.

Paper- Solar white

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

TE Blending Brushes

Birthday Bubbles

Good Morning

Meet just one of the newly released stencils for June from A Colorful Life Designs called:

AIRY BUBBLES

Who wouldn't love some bubbles for their birthday!!

This is how I created a simple card.

• I began by placing the Airy Bubbles stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink and some Picked Raspberry DOX ink.
• I removed the stencil and cut the circle aperture from the middle part of my cardstock. 
• Using the same die, I cut it with some scraps of pink and orange cardstock and set aside.
• I die cut the sentiment once with some white and then 4 times with the black.  I glued them together, stacking them up and off setting the black to help highlight the sentiment.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of orange cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I fit the orange and pink cardstock pieces back into place inside the aperture and then glued the sentiment over that.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

AIRY BUBBLES

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White; orange; pink 

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

Birthday die (TE); Circle Aperture die (Temu); black gems