Saturday, 13 December 2025

'Orange' You Glad It's Christmas

Good Morning
No new releases from A Colorful Life Designs this month but so fun to revisit the 'Oldies but Goodies'.
Today I'm using these stencils:  

I decided to go totally non-traditional for this one. 
I found this roll off sheet that I had done while Gel Plate printing so that was my starting point. 

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I began by placing the Triangle Fade stencil over the roll off print and inked it up with some Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink.
  • I lifted that stencil off and laid the Stitched Harlequin stencil over the pattern and inked again with some Black Soot DOX ink.
  • Next, I added some white dots with my Posca pen to brighten up the background a bit.
  • I set that aside to dry while I stamped and die cut the sentiment.
  • I glued the dried stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock but I didn't have any orange to match, so I took a piece of white cardstock and rubbed my Abandoned Coral ink pad over it and splattered with my white Posca pen. I used that to border my card front and glued that onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
  • To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment and I put 3 little black gems under the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:
Stitched Harlequin 


Many thanks for coming by and taking a look!

Adding my card to these challenges:
Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES
CRAFT- CHRISTMAS/ANYTHING GOES

Supplies
Stamp- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)
Inks- DOX
Paper- Solar White (Prism) 
Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes'
white Posca Pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; foam tape

6 comments:

Pat said...

The orange tones and black look great together Karen, and two more stencils which sit well together, and the circle sentiment finishes it brilliantly. x

Ashwini Rao said...

I like that you've used two stencils that don't even align, and made them work so well together. It's a gorgeous background that you could use for multiple occasions using different colors too. Very unique Christmas card! Thank you so much for joining us at the Addicted to Stamps & More challenge!

Fiona said...

Ah I see what you did there with the title - very clever - love that idea of combining the two stencils - thanks for sharing with us at ATSM

Sheryl said...

Such a cute card. Thank you so much for entering our challenge at CRAFT Challenge, wishing you a Happy New Year
Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT

Taty said...

Hi Karen,
The card is beautiful, with excellent combinations of paper designs. Thank you for joining us in the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Tatiana x DT.

Paula said...

Happy New Year! Thank you for joining us for a challenge at CRAFT Challenge Blog!