Feel the Summer

Good Morning

I love trying to combine stencils to create unique looking backgrounds.  

This card has an ocean/beach look to it as I combined 2 new stencils for July from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Sea Net and Eddies

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Sea Net stencil over it and I inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Eddies stencil right over it and inked again with some Prize Ribbon DOX ink creating an interesting, layered background.
• Next, I diluted some Prize Ribbon ink with water and used a paint brush to splatter the whole panel...like the sea spray. 
• When the panel was all dry, I placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it to help it pop over the busy background.
• I glued it onto a piece of white cardstock, then a shade of blue cardstock and then finally, onto an A2 sized card base.
• I finished the card off by adding some black gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Sea Net

Eddies

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;

Simon Says Wed.- EMBOSS IT

The Crafter's Cafe- ANYTHING GOES/OPTION: Masculine

Creative Crafting Uncles- SUMMER

Supplies

Stamp- Bring on the Sun (Technique Tues.)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

paint brush; EB powder

Scalloped Edges

Good Morning

So many new releases this month at A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet just one of the new ones called:

Fish Scales

I used the stencil to create a scalloped design and here's what I did.

• I placed the Fish Scales stencil onto a piece of white cardstock.  Starting at the top, I inked with some Prize Ribbon, then some Salty Ocean in the middle and then some Broken China Distress Oxide ink along the bottom edge.
• I fussy cut along the bottom, creating a scalloped edge.
• I used some foam tape to add the stenciled panel over a piece of white cardstock, then I glued that onto a piece of navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with white cardstock, then glued it onto a navy word shadow. I used some foam tape to pop that up under the scallop.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fish Scales

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

KarenFan10

I appreciate your visit to see what I've been up to.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Classic Design- ANYTHING GOES/option: VACATION 

Word Art Wed.- ANYTHING GOES/FAMILY FRIENDLY

The Paper Funday- ANYTHING GOES/ Fun with Stencils

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Loved and Happy die (Concord and 9th)

The Journey of Life

Good Morning

This lovely new for July stencil from A Colorful Life Designs is called:

Droplet Grid

This is what I did to create my card.

• I got out my Gel Plate for this one. I pressed my Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink pad directly onto my plate along the middle and then pressed my Ripe Persimmon DOX ink pad along each side of the pink. I brayered the colours together on the plate to blend them together.
• I placed the Droplet Grid stencil onto the plate and rubbed over it with a scrap piece of paper to remove some of the ink and lifted that off.
• Next, I took my piece of white cardstock and rubbed it onto the plate to lift the print.
• When the ink was dry, I place the print into my Misti and stamped the flowers and the sentiment with some black Versafine ink.
• I splattered just over the flowers with my black Posca pen to add some extra interest.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of pink and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Droplet Grid

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- SENDING FLOWERS

Stamping Sensations- SUMMER FLOWERS or ANYTHING GOES

Cardz 4 Gals- Welcome Summer

Supplies

Stamps- Thistle (Art Journey); Just Be Happy (Visible Image)

Inks- DOX; Versafine

Paper- Solar White

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

black gems; black Posca pen

Let's Get Creative

Good Morning

How fun is this! 

I used the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Nautilus Swirl

I enjoyed creating this one and here's what I did.

• I decided to go with a 'rainbow' theme and began by placing the Nautilus Swirl stencil over the outside edge of my white cardstock. I inked with some Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil, moved it to the side and repeated the process with the same colours.
• I splattered the panel with my black Posca pen and set it aside to dry.
• When it was dry, I stamped the sentiment and clear heat embossed it to help make it pop against the colourful background.  
• I glued the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of purple the finally onto a A2 sized card base.
• I added some black gems around the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Nautilus Swirl

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- TO GO BOLDLY

Allsorts- FOR A CHILD or ANYTHING GOES

Cardz 4 Galz- WELCOME TO SUMMER

Supplies

Stamps- Just Be Happy (Visible Image)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

Make Art Station (Ranger); black Posca pen, clear EB powder; black gems 

Good Times

 

Good Morning

A new month means a whole new release of stencils at A Colorful Life Designs.  

Lots of summer inspired designs for creating beach/ocean designs as well as many more.

Meet one of the new stencils for July called:

Maelstrom

So here are my card details.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station first.  I started inking the Maelstrom stencil with some Peacock Feathers, then some Salty Ocean and then some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide inks.
• The middle area of this stencil reminded me of a beach ball, so after it was all inked up, I used a circle die to cut out just that area.
• I took the circle and stamped the sentiment onto it in my Misti.  I clear heat embossed it to help make it pop, then splattered with my black Posca pen.
• I stamped another sentiment onto my card front and clear heat embossed that too.
• I glue the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the circle die cut back into place, rotating it.
• I finished my card off by adding 3 black gems under the bottom sentiment.

Here is the new stencil:

Maelstrom

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges;
Little Red Wagon- TO BOLDLY GO

The Crafters Cafe- MASCULINE/Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Good Vibes (SSS)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger);

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black Posca pen; Infinity Circle die (HA);

clear EB powder (Lawn Fawn)

TLC- Flowers for My Friend

Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) over at Splitcoast Stampers this week.

I've been noticing a trend of many card makers as they look back and remember some of the older techniques we haven't visited in awhile so....

We are revisiting an older challenge that I did about 3 years ago called Stripped Down, also known as 

Paper Strips Flip

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

• First, I randomly inked up a piece of white cardstock with some Broken China, Wilted Violet and some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide inks.
• I dried the ink on the panel and used a die to cut it into strips.  It helps to keep them together in the order that I had inked them up, by placing a piece of low tack tape along the back. This will be important for the next steps.
• When they were all cut, I peeled them off the tape from the back and glued them onto another piece of white cardstock, flipping every other strip around to face in the opposite direction.
• After I had them all glued down, I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and then set it aside to dry.
• I die cut the flowers with another piece of white cardstock, I also die cut the 'friend' sentiment 5 times and glued them on top of each other, stacking them together.
• I glued my strip panel card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I glued the flowers and the sentiment over the strips.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

To see the other card I made using this technique go here:

Holly Jolly Snowflake

and

Christmas Snowflakes

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- Weaving die strips (Hero Arts); white Posca pen;

Wildflowers (TH); friend die (Amazon)

Layered Stencils- Thanks

Good Morning

It's the end of the month already but I wanted to post one more card I made doing some fun stencil layering using 2 of the newly released stencils for June called:

Open Coils and Connected Cogs

from A Colorful Life Designs

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

• I placed the Open Coils stencil onto my Make Art Station and then inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I left that stencil in place, then put the Connected Cogs stencil over that and inked again with some Villainous Potion DOX ink.  It created such a fun, layered look.
• I took the stenciled panel and die cut the middle area using the Zig Zag Stackers, creating a frame.
• I glued the inside of the frame die cut onto a piece of purple cardstock.  
• Next, I added foam tape all along the outside edge of the the frame die cut, and placed it over the middle area.  It gave so much interest to the card front.  I glued that onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the 'thanks' with some white cardstock, then glued it onto the white word shadow.  I used some foam tape to pop it over the card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

Connected Cogs

Open Coils

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Thanks die (Amazon);

Zig Zag Stackers Frame (Penny Black); Blending Brushes (TE)

Sending You Happy Rainbows

 

Welcome

Quick and simple card today using one of the new for June stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Gears

Here is what I did.

• I placed the Gears stencil down first and then I put a piece of the Rainbow Scratch paper over that and secured well.
• Using the side of a popsicle stick, I rubbed back and forth over the paper to reveal the pattern of the stencil.  It is so fun!
• I set that aside for a moment and took another small piece of the Scratch paper and rubbed over the whole piece to use for my large Hello sentiment.
• I glued the stenciled card front panel onto a piece of black, then yellow and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added a piece of black cardstock along the bottom edge and then glued the Hello over that.

Here is the stencil I used:

Gears

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:

Crafter's Cafe- ANYTHING GOES/optional MASCULINE

Simon Says Wed.- WE'RE GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES

Inspiration Station- INSPIRATION PHOTO

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Paper- Rainbow Scratch paper (Dollarama)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Hello die (Amazon);

popsicle stick for scratching

I'm Thinking of You

For June we have welcomed lots of newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.  

Meet just one of the new ones called:

Tiki Room

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

• I began by securing the Tiki Room stencil on my desk and then laid a piece of white cardstock over the stencil.
• Using a blue Crayola crayon, I removed the paper wrapping it has on it, laid the crayon on it's side and rubbed over just the middle section of the stencil to reveal the pattern.
• I repeated that process using a purple crayon along both sides.  It is such a fun and very easy technique to do with your stencils.
• Using my white Posca pen, I splattered the whole panel.
• Next, I stamped and die cut the sentiment with some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink.
• I glued my stenciled card front to a piece of white, then blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle and then added silver gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Tiki Room

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- SPRITZ and/or SPLATTER

Craft Rocket- NO DESIGNER PAPER

Krafty Chicks- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Supplies

Stamps- Big and Bold Stamp and die (SSS)

Inks-DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Crayola crayons;

Make Art Station (Ranger); silver gems (Dollar Store); white Posca pen

For the Guys

 

Welcome

Today's card is featuring a fun new stencil for June from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Gears

Great stencil for making more masculine looking cards. I used it with an older release called:

Square Cutout

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock on my Make Art Station.  I placed the Square Cutout stencil down and inked over that with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Gears stencil right over the top and inked it up again with some Dusty Concord DOX ink.
• Next, I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I cut out the 'hello' sentiment 5 times from white cardstock and glued them together to create a stacked look.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto a white A2  sized card base.
• I cut 2 squares using a stitched square die and glued them into the middle area, added my sentiment last, over that.

Here are the stencils I used:

Gears

Square Cutout

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:

Simon Says Wed.- WE'RE GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES

Simon Says Monday- SPRITZ and/or SPLATTER

Cut it Up- MASCULINE /ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Friend die (Amazon); white Posca pen; Stitched Squares (Amazon)

Celebrate Your Day!

Welcome

Here's a fun one for you today using this newly released stencil for June from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Open Coils

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

• I placed the Open Coils stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it with some Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off, flipped it over and placed it onto another piece of white cardstock and repeated the same above process, creating a mirror image.
• I cut each panel on a diagonal and then glued them onto a white piece of cardstock.  
• Next, I die cut the sentiment with some yellow cardstock and glued that onto the orange word shadow.
• I glued my card front onto another piece of orange cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added the sentiment with some foam tape and lastly, added a few silver gems under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Open Coils

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:

Simon Says Wed.- WE'RE GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/optional- SUMMERTIME FUN

Allsorts- ANYTHING GOES or WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY

(sunny days, bright colours make me happy)

Supplies

Stamps-none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Bold Birthday die (TE); silver gems (Dollar Store)

To My Friend

 

Welcome

Meet today's card I made by doing some stencil layering using 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Open Coils and Rainbow Roads

***Rainbow Roads is our Mid-month release and is on sale***

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

• I placed the Open Coils stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Picked Raspberry and some Tattered Rose Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I layered the Rainbow Roads stencil right over it and inked again using some Prize Ribbon DOX ink. It created a fun designs behind the coils by layering them.
• Next, using the Colour Wheel Love die, I cut the large circle from the stenciled panel and then from a piece of navy cardstock as well.  
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of pale pink, (sorry, it looks orange in the picture) and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I took the piece of navy cardstock that I die cut and positioned it back into the cut area of the front panel.  I took the die cut from the stenciled part and glued it on top, off setting it a bit so I would become more visible.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the die cut middle.

Here are the stencils I used:

Open Coils

Rainbow Roads

Was: $6.99

Now: $4.00

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Cut it Up- MASCULINE

Crazy Catz- ANYTHING GOES

AAA Birthday- NO STAMPING

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Friend die (Amazon); Colour Wheel die (Paper Rose)