Thursday, 11 December 2025

Greetings for the Season

Good Morning
Today's card features an older stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:
Such a unique and interesting stencil to play with.
So, here's what I did to create my card.

To begin, here are the measurements for my card.
I decided to make a Side Fold card using the stencil so I began by prepping my card base.  Here is how I did that:
- Base: cut a piece of cardstock 9 3/4" x 4 1/4"
- Score the base at 4 1/4"\

- Stamped Panel Front measures 3 3/4"  
- Side Panel measures 1 1/2" x 3 3/4"

** MY STENCILED PANELS ARE A BIT SMALLER AS I ADDED A BORDER AROUND**

  • I placed the Tribal Fabric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Salvaged Patina and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
  • I cleaned the stencil off and then masked just the center area with the lines on it and inked again with more of the Cracked Pistachio DOX ink, creating a grid effect for the trees.
  • I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the tree line and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
  • I cut the panel into the sizes mentioned above and glued them onto a white card base.
  • I stamped the sentiment and then glued it onto a green die cut circle.

Here is the stencil I used:


Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Make My Monday- CHRISTMAS TREE

Supplies
Stamps- Christmas Tags (Avery Elle); 3 Pine Trees (Nellie's Choice)
Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair
Paper- Solar White
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Infinity Circle die (HA);
white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

5 comments:

Pamela said...

thank you for sharing this card with us at MMM challenge, happy holidays to you, see you in 2026

Pat said...

Such a beautiful scene with the stamped trees over the wonderful green and blue stencilled stripes and dots Karen, and finished with a lovely sentiment circle and pretty green matted layers on this and the background too. x

Dawn Phillips said...

This is brilliant. I love the background and I never would have thought to try that. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday. Love Dawn x

Darlene said...

Oh Karen, this is just awesome! I would have not known what to do with a stencil like this but you sure did! Fabulous design! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Stencil Fun challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Stencil Fun Co-Owner

corysnana said...

The stencil technique you used t=for yout background really created an interesting card design. So creative! Thanks for sharing your card with the Addicted to Stamps & More December Christmas theme Challenge! Cathy ATS&M DT