Starry Nights

Good Morning

Today's simple card features a new released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Diagonal Stars

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

• I got out an older released stencil called Marvelous Masks Arch and placed one of those stencils onto a piece of white cardstock. I inked that up with some Shaded Lilac, Broken China and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Diagonal Stars stencil right over it and inked with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I moved the stencil around and inked again to fill in some of the open areas.
• Using my white Posca pen, I added some dots to the stars and splatters to the whole card front to look like snow.
• When it was all dry, I glued my card front panel onto a piece of dark navy cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the foiled sentiment over the panel and finally, added some silver gems that matched the silver sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Diagonal Stars Stencil

Marvelous Masks Arch

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

KarenFan10

So glad you came for a visit, thanks!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CANDLE IN THE WIND

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The 12 Months of Christmas- ANYTHING GOES/optional: Sleigh Like you Mean it

Supplies 

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

silver gems; white Posca pen; Foiled Sentiments (Pinkfresh)

Merry Little Christmas

Welcome

Introducing another wonderful new for November stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Split Snowflakes

This stencil has 2 parts which you can use together or separately to create different looks.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed both pieces of the Split Snowflakes stencil over my paper.
• I inked with some Blueprint Sketch Distress and some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the right side of the 2-part stencil and then inked again with some Broken China DOX ink.
• I removed the stencils and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• When the panel was dry, I glued it onto a piece of white cardstock, then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I found this silver pre-printed sentiment and added it with some foam tape over to the side.
• To finish off my card, I added some silver gems to match the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Split Snowflakes

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

KarenFan10

Have a great day and thanks for the visit!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Moving Along with the Times- WINTER WONDERLAND

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none 

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

white Posca pen; Foiled Sentiments (Pinkfresh); silver gems

Oh Christmas Tree

Good Morning

Welcome to November and the wonderful new releases at A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet the newly released

Close Up Branches

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

• I began by die cutting 2 pieces of white cardstock using the Postage Collage die and set one aside.
• I masked around the edges of the sections of one of the die cut panels, then placed the Close Up Branches stencil over the die cut and inked with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil slightly and inked again over the whole stencil with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink giving the branches a shadow effect.
• Next, I removed the stencil and lightly inked over it with some more of the Cracked Pistachio DOX ink.
• I used the eraser on the end of a pencil to add the red dots as berries and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I took the die cut I had set aside and cut one of the sections and stamped the tree onto that.
• I used some red cardstock to die cut the sentiment, spattered with my Posca pen, then glued that onto the white word shadow.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the single tree stamp to one side and used some foam tape to pop the sentiment into the corner.

Here is the stencil I used:

Close Up Branches

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.- ANYTHING GOES

Moving Along with the Times- WINTER WONDERLAND

C R A F T- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Tree (?)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

white Posca pen; Postage Collage and Merry Christmas dies (Waffle Flower)

Baroque Swirl Snowflake

Good Morning

I love trying to combine stencil designs to create new looks 

Today's card uses 2 new stencil designs from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Baroque Swirl Snowflake and Marvelous Mask Arches

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over the middle of the bottom edge of my cardstock and inked with some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink.
• I flipped the stencil over and inked along the top, right above the bottom arch.
• I cleaned the stencil off, repositioned it over to one side along the bottom and inked with some Broken China DOX ink.  I repeated that process on the other side and then along the top edge, filling in the background.
• Next, I placed the Baroque Swirl Snowflake stencil over the background and inked with some Prize Ribbon DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some navy cardstock.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the bottom edge of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

Baroque Swirl Snowflake

Marvelous Mask Arches

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The Holly and Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING GOES

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- STENCIL FUN/optional- HALLOWEEN

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

Merry Christmas die (Waffle Flower); White Posca pen

Celebrating the Holidays

Welcome

I do enjoy creating with snowflakes although I have to say, winter is not my favourite time of the year.

Meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Baroque Swirl Snowflake

Here are the details.

• I placed the Baroque Swirl Snowflake onto a piece of white cardstock and then inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours: Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers.
• I cleaned the stencil off and inked it up onto another piece of white cardstock using some Villainous Potion and some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• Next, I took the stenciled pieces and cut them down into strips.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and using some foam tape, I popped the panels over it to create my card front.  I matched the pattern as I added them.
• I spattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment with more of the Blueprint Sketch DOX ink and die cut it out.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used more foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background and then added 3 navy gems around it to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Baroque Swirl Snowflake

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit today.  Very appreciated!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Peace on Earth- INSPIRATION BOARD

A Cut Above- ANYTHING DIE CUT GOES

Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

foam tape; gems; white Posca pen

Decking the Halls

Good Morning

I have to say that I love working on Christmas cards in preparation for the holiday season.

For today's card, I used 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, one is new and the other one is older.

By combining them together, I was able to create this fun, simple looking card.

So meet the newly released

Christmas Greenery Stencil

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

• I placed an older released stencil called Ball Jumble onto a piece of white cardstock and inked with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink. It reminded me of pieces of holly.
• I lifted the stencil off and placed the newly released Christmas Greenery stencil over the panel and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.  I also added some Salty Ocean DOX ink for some shading.
• Next, using the eraser end of a pencil, I stamped in the red dots with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  I added the white detail to the dots with my Posca pen.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment from a piece of red cardstock and then cut the word shadow right from the center of the stenciled panel and glued those together.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added 2 red gems beside the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Christmas Greenery

Ball Jumble

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Simon Says Monday- USE MORE THAN ONE STENCIL

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

Holiday Sayings dies (Concord and 9th); white Posca pen; red gems; pencil eraser

Layered Snowflake

Good Morning

Today's card is featuring 2 of the new stencil for October from A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet the new 

Christmas Montage and the Snowflake Duo 

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

• I placed one of the Marvelous Masks Rectangles stencil onto a piece of white cardstock and then placed the Christmas Montage over that.  I inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencils off and placed one of the snowflakes from the Snowflake Duos stencil over the stenciled background and inked that up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I lifted that stencil off and placed the panel into my Misti.  
• I looked through my snowflake stamps and found this large one from Visible Image. I stamped it right over the stenciled snowflake as they seemed to work well together.
• Next, I stamped the sentiment with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it on a piece of pale blue cardstock
• I glued my card front onto a piece of pale blue and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the snowflake to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Christmas Montage 

 Snowflake Duo 

Marvelous Masks Rectangles

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Simon Says Monday- USE MORE THAN ONE STENCIL

Jingle Belles- DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW

Supplies

Stamps- Let It Snow (Visible Image)

Inks- DOX; Versamark

Paper- Prism (Solar White)

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

white EB powder; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Happy Wishes for the Holidays

Welcome

Today's card is featuring 2 of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Christmas Montage and Marvelous Mask Arches 

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

• I began by looking through my patterned cardstock and found this green check paper.  I placed the Christmas Montage stencil over that and inked it up with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over that. I placed the Christmas Montage stencil right over the top of that and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke DOX ink.
• I removed the stencils and fussy cut out the arch.
• I placed the arch into my Misti to stamp the trees and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I set that aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock 5 times and glued those all together.
• I glued the stenciled patterned paper to a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the arch over the patterned paper, matching up the lettering.  
• I glued the red sentiment along the bottom of the arch to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Christmas Montage

Marvelous Mask Arches

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CAPTAIN'S LOG

Simon Says Wed.- GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

The 12 Months of Christmas- ANYTHING GOES/option: SNOWFALL

Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Pine Trees (IO)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White, Patterned paper (?)

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

white Posca pen; Happy Holidays die ( Waffle Flower)

Joyful

Good Morning

Here is a monochromatic card I created using 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, one older called Snow Doily and a new one called:

Three Snowflakes

This new stencil sheet includes 3 different designs that can be used alone or together.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the Three Snowflakes stencils into the corner of my white cardstock and inked with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I flipped the stencil over and inked the other corner with the same snowflake and ink.
• Next, I took the Snow Doily stencil and inked it up into the open corners using some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I die cut the sentiment with a piece of blue cardstock and splattered it with my white Posca pen. I glued that onto the white shadow of the die.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I glued a navy band across the middle and added the sentiment with some foam tape over that.

Here are the stencils I used:

Three Snowflakes

Snow Doily

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS

Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/OPTIONAL HALLOWEEN

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar white

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

All the Joy die (SSS); white Posca pen

If Snowflakes Fell in Colours

Welcome

Today's card is a fun one filled with whimsical snowflakes.

Meet one of the new for October stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Three Snowflakes

This is a stencil that has 3 designs on one sheet, lots of ways to combine them.

Here's what I did.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then picked out the Distress Oxide ink colours I wanted to work with.  They were: Tumbled Glass, Carved Pumpkin, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac and some Mustard Seed.
• I chose one of the snowflakes from the Three Snowflake stencil and inked it up. I continued to ink using a different snowflake with a different colour until my white card front was all inked up.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment with some blue paper, then some white and glued them together, offsetting them a bit.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment over the middle and added 3 silver gems.

Here is the stencil I used:

Three Snowflakes

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit today.  Very appreciated!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- BRIGHT AND COLORFUL

Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

(mine is this die, haven't used it in ages)

The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

Let It Snow die (STAMPLORATIONS); white Posca pen; silver gems (Dollar Store)

Message of Sympathy

 

Welcome

Sympathy cards are not always easy ones to make, so I like to have some on hand.

This newly released set of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs is great for creating simple ink blended card front background.  There are many different sizes in these sets too.

So, meet the newly released:

Marvelous Masks Arches Stencil

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed one of the Marvelous Masks Arches stencils over a piece of white cardstock.
• Beginning at the top of the arch, I inked with some Shaded Lilac, Peacock Feathers and some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide inks.
• I lifted the stencil off and added a mask along the bottom edge so my stamping would be contained along the bottom of the inking.
• I placed it into my Misti to stamp out the trees and the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 silver gems under the sentiment to finish the card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Marvelous Masks Arches 

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:

Ellibelle's Corner- I SPY...SOMETHING CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Cardz 4 Guyz- FALL/AUTUMN

CRAFT- GRANDPARENTS/ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- 3 Pine Trees (Nellie's Choice);  Inside Out Sympathy (Catherine Pooler)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

silver gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)