Lush Flowers- Stencil Layering

Good Morning

Today's card features 2 new fun stencils for June called Lush Flowers and Wave Cloud from A Colorful Life Designs.

I did some stencil layering to come up with this fun card.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  
• I positioned the Lush Flowers stencil over that and inked it up with some Broken China and some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I positioned the Wave Cloud stencil over the flowers and inked again, this time with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink.  It added such a fun design to the background.
• Next, I stamped the sentiment in some Salty Ocean DOX ink and die cut it out.
• I glued the stenciled card front to a piece of light blue cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background.

 

Here are the stencils I used:

Lush Flowers

Wave Cloud

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold Sentiments (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Stencils (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); 

TE Blending Brushes

Monstera Leaves

 

Welcome!

I can't believe it's June 1st.  Time flies when you're having fun, I guess.

With a new month comes a whole new release of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

The stencil I used today is called Coral Reef.  I used it to add depth and details to my leaves.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock.  I inked up the inside of the Monstera Leaves 3D embossing folder from Altenew with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and ran it through my machine.
• I took that embossed panel and laid it onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Coral Reef stencil over that.  I inked it up with some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink that is a bit darker, which picked up the details on the leaves.
• I die cut the Thanks sentiment from some black cardstock.  This die comes with a shadow so I cut that out of some vellum and glued them together.  By gluing it onto the vellum, it made it easy to add it over the raised, embossed background.
• I glue the finished panel onto a piece of green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment over the center of the card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Coral Reef

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- STENCILS- OPTION FLOWERS

The Paper Funday- EMBOSS IT

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); vellum; Embossing folder (Altenew); 

TE Blending Brushes; Markered Messages die (Concord and 9th)

Celebrate BIG!

Welcome

Today's card features a new for May stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Meteorites.

Just a fun little stencil to play with that I used to create a border.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my front panel.  I laid that onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Meteorites stencil over the first edge.  It is a smaller size stencil so easy to move around without having to mask.  I inked that up with some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil around to another side of my card front panel and inked with more of the Mustard Seed until all the edges were inked.
• I cleaned my stencil off and repeated that whole process again using some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• Lastly, I went all around the edges with some Picked Raspberry DOX ink to finish it off.
• I die cut the white frame, placed it into my Misti and stamped the sentiment onto the center area.  It was the perfect fit.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card panel.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment right into the center of the panel.

Here is the stencil I used:

Meteorites

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamp- Celebrate (IO- retired)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); 

Braided Oval Frame die (Pinkfresh)

Torn Paper Stenciling- Shine Bright

 

Hello and Welcome.

I have the pleasure of hosting the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) over at Splitcoast Stampers.
So today, I decided to pair up the Star Stretch stencil from A Colorful Life Designs with some torn paper.

It's a fun technique to use to get a totally different look from your stencils.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and using some scraps of paper, I tore strips that I would use as masks with the Star Stretch stencil.
• I laid the the torn pieces of scrap paper over the white cardstock, then placed the stencil over that and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink. 
• I removed the stencil and the masks and roughly repositioned them over the areas already inked, matched up the stencil to the pattern already laid down and inked over that with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I repeated the above steps and lastly, inked with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink.  I think using the torn pieces of paper gave the stencil a very unique look.
• I removed all the masks and the stencil and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of white cardstock and fussy cut it out.
• I inked up another scrap of white paper with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink, splattered with the white again and die cut a star from that.  I did outline the edges with my white Posca pen to help it be a bit more visible over the background.
• I glued the stenciled piece onto some navy cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to mount the star in the corner and glued the sentiment onto that.

Here is the stencil I used:

Star Stretch

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

Dragonfly Dreams- MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

Supplies

Stamp- Smile, Shine, Sparkle (Sizzix)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); star die (Scrapbook.com); white Posca pen;

TE Blending Brushes; scraps of paper for masking; foam tape

Near or Far

Good Morning

Today's card features a new stencil called Classic Travel from A Colorful Life Designs.

This stencil set includes 3 different images on one sheet.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the inked cardstock into my Misti and stamped the map image with some black Versafine Clair ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  I put the compass image from the Classic Travel stencil over my paper and inked it up with some more Broken China DOX ink.
• To help it look more like a compass, I covered it with some Nuvo Crystal Glaze. It takes awhile for the Glaze to dry, but when it was, I fussy cut it out.  Sorry, the picture doesn't do it justice, I just kept getting a glare.
• I glued the map background to an A2 sized card base and then I glued the black flourish die cut over that.  A friend gifted me a package of these die cut flourishes and I thought one of them would work well on this card.  I glued the compass shape onto the center of flourish. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Classic Travel

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Make My Monday- MASCULINE

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES= OPTION FLOWERS

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- FOR THE BOYS

Supplies

Stamps- Un Voyage Autour de Monde (Carabelle Studios)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); white Posca pen;

Nuvo Crystal Glaze; flourish die (??gift from a friend); Misti

Celebrate in a Big Way

Good Morning.

Today's card features some stencil layering using 2 new stencils for May from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Star Stretch and Contrails.

Layering your stencils can give you a whole different look.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  I put the Contrails stencil over my paper and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I positioned the Star Stretch stencil over that and inked it up with some Evergreen Bough DOX ink. By leaving the first stencil in place and inking over, it allowed the white areas of the first stencil to still show through.
• I removed both stencils and splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen.
• Next, I placed the inked panel into my Abstract Rounds embossing folder and ran it through my machine to emboss it.
• I took the Evergreen Bough ink pad and keeping it flat, I dragged it across the panel, depositing ink just over the raised areas created by the embossing folder.
• I die cut the sentiment from the center of the panel and set aside.  I wanted a shadow and this die does not come with a shadow, so I made my own.  I traced around the outside edge of the die onto some white cardstock and fussy cut it out, then glued the sentiment onto it.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of dark green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment into place over the background and finally, added some green gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Star Stretch

Contrails

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Paper Minutes- EMBOSSING

The Paper Funday- EMBOSS IT

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); TE Blending Brushes;

white Posca pen; Abstract Rounds EB folder (Sizzix); Celebrate die (MFT)

Oh So Happy!

Welcome

Meet today's card featuring the new for May Night Sky stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

Also, we have another great stamp set as well called Happy Thoughts.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and got out my salad spinner.  To see how to use the salad spinner go HERE.
• I placed the white cardstock into the salad spinner, gave a big spray of Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink right into the center, placed the lid on and spun away.
• I removed the cardstock from the spinner and let dry, then laid the Night Sky stencil over the inked background and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and let it dry.
• I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Thoughts set, then die cut it into a circle.  I rubbed some Peacock Feathers DOX ink just around the edges.
• I die cut another circle, slightly larger from white cardstock and glued the 2 circles together.
• I glued the main panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I popped the circle into the center using foam tape.

Here is the stencil and stamp set I used:

Night Sky

Happy Thoughts

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order *

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Use Your Stuff- USE A TECHNIQUE

Make My Monday- MASCULINE

Everybody Art Challenge- DIE

Supplies

Stamp- Happy Thoughts (ACLD)

Inks- DOX spray and ink; Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Misti; Salad spinner (Dollar Store);

TE Blending Brushes; white Posca pen; foam tape; Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)