Special Friend

Good Morning

It's been so gloomy and very cold here with lots of snow. 

I needed some colour to brighten my day and this stencil was a welcome sight.

So meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Nine Flowers

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I looked through my stash and found this yellow Gel Plate print I had done awhile ago using some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink and the Simple Mosaic stencil. I thought it would make a good sunny feeling background for my flowers.
• I placed the Nine Flowers stencil over my print and then inked the flowers with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  To help enhance the look of the flowers, I added some Wilted Violet DOX ink just to the flower centers which gave some nice colour variation.
• The flowers looked a bit flat to me so I used my white Posca pen to add some details.
• When it was all dry, I die cut the word shadow right from the bottom of my stenciled panel, then die the sentiment in black and glued them together.
• I glued my finished card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Nine Flowers

Simple Mosaic

(older release)

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Cut it Up- THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

Alphabet Challenge- 'U' IS FOR UPLIFTING

Allsorts- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; 

white Posca pen; TE Blending Brushes; Friend die (Amazon)

Hugs to You

Hello and Welcome

With Valentines Day just a week away, I decided to use this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs to make a heart themed card.  

So meet the new stencil called:

Buzzing Path

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

• I began by looking through some of my Gel Plate prints and found this background I had done using some Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink. I pressed the ink pad directly onto the plate, smoothed it out using a brayer and then rubbed a piece of white cardstock over the plate to create the colourful background.
• I placed the Buzzing Path stencil over the print and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• Next, I die cut the heart right from the middle of the inked up panel.  I cut the heart out 3 more times and glued them all together, stacking them as I wanted a raised heart.
• I also die cut the sentiment from the heart before gluing it all together so the pattern was consistent and matched.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto some red and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the heart back into place, matching up the pattern and then I added some silver gems around the edge of the heart to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Buzzing Path

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

KarenFan10

Have a great weekend and thanks for the visit.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- PICTURING LOVE

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A HEART

Simon Says Monday- ADD  SOME TEXTURE (sequins)

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Gel Plate; Brayer; heart die (Concord and 9th); Hugs die (Amazon); silver gems

Simple I Love You

Good Morning and Welcome

Hooray...it's a new month and that means new stencil releases from A Colorful Life Designs.

So meet the newly released

Fancy Four Leaf Clover

It's getting close to Valentine's Day so I decided to make a card with that theme.

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Fancy Four Leaf Clover stencil over that and inked with 3 Distress Oxide colours: Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean and Uncharted Mariner.
• To help make the flowers pop a bit more, I inked just the flower centers with some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• I removed the stencil and die cut a stitched square right from the middle of the stenciled panel and glued that onto a navy blue square piece of cardstock.
• I glued my card front panel onto another piece of navy blue cardstock and then glued that onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the smaller die cut piece back into place, matching the pattern.
• I stamped the sentiment with some more Uncharted Mariner DOX ink and then used more of the foam tape to add it over the middle of my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fancy Four Leaf Clover

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- LOVE ME DO

Cut It Up- MY HEART

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold Stamp and die (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

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

Stitched Square dies (Amazon); foam tape

For Your Loss

 Welcome

Sympathy cards are never easy to make, so I like to have some on hand in case I need one. 

This card is a very simple one that I did in the summer (it's winter here now, so no leaves) on the Gel Plate.

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

• I got out my Gel Plate and pressed my Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto the plate using these colours:  Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and some Lumberjack Plaid.
• I roughly blended the colours together using my brayer and then placed the leaf from my garden onto the plate.
• I took a piece of white cardstock and rubbed it over my whole plate firmly to be sure and get the leaf image onto the paper.
• TO GET THE LOOK OF THIS PRINT.....I lifted the paper up slightly off my plate but not all the way, removed the leaf and then rubbed the paper back down again. By doing this step, you will print the details of the leaf onto your paper.
• I placed the print into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.
• I glued the print onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of pale blush and then onto an A2 sized white base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

CAS on Friday- MONOCHROME

Time Out- FAV CARD MAKING TECHNIQUE  (Gel Plate Printing)

Supplies

Stamps- Inside Out Sympathy (Catherine Pooler)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- Gelli Arts Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer; leaf from Garden;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Love Flower

Welcome

Meet one of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Love Flower

This is what I did to create my card.

• I decided to get out my Gel Plate for this one, so I rubbed my Wilted Violet and my Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto my Gel Plate and blended the colours together smooth using a brayer.
• Next, I placed the Love Flower stencil over my plate and then took a piece of white cardstock and rubbed that over my plate to create the print.
• I placed the print into my Misti to stamp the sentiment over the middle and I rubbed some more of the Wilted Violet DOX ink along the edges to add more depth and interest.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Love Flower

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- USE STENCILS

Little Red Wagon- "K" IS FOR KEEP IT SIMPLE

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamp- Love You Big (IO- out of business)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; Speedball brayer;

white Posca pen; black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Patchworks

Hello

Today's card reminded me of a cozy patchwork quilt, so good for this cold winter we are having.

I had a bunch of pieces left over from doing the Bargello technique a few weeks ago, so I decided to use them and make another card.

So, here's what I did.

• 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.
• While the glue dried, I die cut the black frame and then glued that over the patchwork.
• I glued the finished card front onto a piece of patterned paper and then onto a 4 1/4" white square card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with some black and added it over the middle to finish my card off.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Time Out- FAV CARD MAKING TECHNIQUE

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW (frame die I got for Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Papers- miscellaneous dp's scraps found in my stash

Accessories and Tools- frame die (Amazon); Hello die (Amazon)

Gentle Snowfall

Welcome

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

One is new and is called:

Dotted Trellis

The older one is called:

Split Snowflakes

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

• I placed the Split Snowflakes stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink just along the top edge.
• I removed that stencil and placed the Dotted Trellis stencil over the panel and inked it up with some more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink just along the bottom edge being sure not to ink over the snowflakes.
• I took the Dotted Trellis stencil and shifted it over the first inking then added some Salty Ocean DOX ink to give the panel more of a colour variation.
• Using the end of a pencil eraser, I added the dots with more of the Peacock Feathers ink.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a pale blue then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I stamped and die cut the sentiment with some more Peacock Feathers then used some foam tape to pop it into the bottom corner of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

Dotted Trellis

Split Snowflake

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit, I appreciate it so much.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW

Jingle Belles- SOMETHING NEW/SOMETHING OLD

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

pencil eraser