Holly Squares 2 Ways

Welcome

I had fun making these cards using traditional colours....2 for the price of one using this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

HOLLY SQUARES

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and I masked around the berries as I wanted them to be bright red. I inked over the Holly Berries stencil leaves with some Lucky Clover and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the masks that were around the berries and then inked them up with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• Next, I took the stenciled panel and die cut it using this Poinsettia die.  I also cut a piece of dark red cardstock and gathered all the pieces together. 
• I did splatter some of the red pieces with my white Posca pen to add interest and I added a few more red dot berries to some of the open areas using the eraser on the end of a pencil.
• Using all the die cut pieces, I was able to reassemble them onto 2 white A2 sized card base fronts.
• I die cut the sentiment for both cards and then glued them onto the word shadows.
• I finished off my cards by adding the sentiments with some foam tape.

Here is the stencil I used:

HOLLY SQUARES

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:

Cardz 5 Galz- WORDS AS FOCUs

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS/ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/ WINTER

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Just Us Girls- WORD WEEK:MERRY

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/red

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

Poinsettia Cover Plate die (Temu); Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); 

Very Merry die (Amazon)

Time for Snowflakes

Good Morning

Although I am not ready for the snow to fall, I wanted to use this beautiful newly released stencil for November from A Colorful Life Designs called 

SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

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

• I placed the Snowflake Background stencil over a piece of white cardstock and then inked it up with some Peacock Feathers and some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I got out this 'Let it Snow' die and word set and I used the postage style die to cut the frame and then cut the word shadow from the stenciled panel. 
• I die cut the 'Let it Snow' from some black cardstock and the little snowflake from some silver cardstock.  I glued those over the word shadow.
• I glued the frame onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the next piece over the frame, matching the snowflake pattern.
• I used more foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place in the center of my card front.
• To finish off my card, I added a black gem to the middle of the snowflake and some blue gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

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

KARENFAN10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ANYTHING GOES

Word Power- ANYTHING WITH WORDS AS FOCUS

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/and or WINTER

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/blue/black

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

Let it Snow dies (Temu); gems and foam tape (Dollar Tree)

Christmas Peace Doves

Good Morning

Todays card features 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

The new one is called:

PEACE DOVE SET

This set has 4 lovely shaped doves on it and I used 3 of them for my card.

I combined that with an older released stencil called 

Middle Square

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

• I placed the Peace Dove stencil over a piece of cardstock and inked 3 of the 4 designs with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Middle Square stencil right over the top of it and inked again with some Chipped Sapphire DOX ink. I love the look of the contrasting inks.
• I removed the stencils and cut the doves out and glued them onto a piece of blue cardstock.
• I decided that the images would fit perfectly on a mini slimline card base (a Mini Slimline card is 6" x 3") so I cut a piece of white cardstock 6 x 6" and scored at 3" then folded in half to make my card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the panels up and lined them across the card base.
• Using the same colours as mentioned above, I inked a scrap piece of white cardstock, splattered with my white Posca pen then used that to die cut the PEACE sentiment. I used some more of the foam tape to add the sentiment across the bottom edge.

Here are the stencils I used:

PEACE DOVE SET

Middle Square

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:

Little Red Wagon- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

The Male Room- ANIMALS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white/ blue

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

white Posca pen; Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); foam tape

Split Snowflake

Welcome

Here's a card for you today that I created using the new for November stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

SPLIT SNOWFLAKE

This is what I did to create my simple card.

• I placed the Split Snowflake stencil over a piece of white cardstock and I inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• To help add more interest and depth, I took some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink and added that around the outside edge of the snowflake.
• I removed the stencil and splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment with a piece of black cardstock and then blue cardstock and glued them together, offsetting them a bit to give a shadow effect.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment in place to the side and added 3 blue gems to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Split Snowflake

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

KARENFAN10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look....so appreciated!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES

(option: One Colour plus neutral)

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/blue

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

white Posca pen; Peace, Love, Hope, Joy die (SSS)

Christmas Deer Portrait

Welcome

These beautiful new for November stencils from A Colorful Life Designs are called 

DEER PORTRAIT and SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

The Deer is such a great, majestic looking design that could be used in so many different ways especially for creating those masculine cards.

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

• I placed the Deer Portrait stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide ink.  
• Next, leaving that stencil in place, I put the Snowflake Background stencil right over top of it and inked again using some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. It added great contrast to the overall design.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto some brown and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it out, then used some foam tape to pop it over the bottom of my card under the deer image.

Here are the stencils I used:

Deer Portrait

Snowflake Background

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

KARENFAN10

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- STENCIL

Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Peace on Earth- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Holly Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/brown

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); foam tape

Outline Wreath

Welcome

Meet another new for October stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

OUTLINE WREATH

Such a pretty, simple wreath perfect to watercolour or to use just as it is.

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

• I began by placing the Outline Wreath stencil over a piece of white cardstock. I used a post-it note to mask as I wanted to ink up just the ribbon part of the stencil with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• After the ribbons were all inked, I moved onto the greenery and inked that with some Lucky Clover DOX ink.  
• Next, leaving the stencil in place and to help really define the details on the wreath, I took a green marker and a red marker and traced inside the edges of the stencil. I also took a wet paintbrush and used that to do a bit of watercolouring inside the wreath outline.
• I splattered the wreath with my white Posca pen, let that dry and then fussy cut it out.
• I took another piece of white cardstock, placed the Merry Christmas stencil over my that and inked it up with more of the Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink. I splattered that as well with white and set aside to dry.
• I cut some white cardstock and scored it according to the below measurements as I wanted to make a side fold designs.

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"  sqaure

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

• I cut and glued the stenciled Merry Christmas background onto the card base, then glued the wreath on top of that.
• I die cut the sentiment and added that using some foam tape.

Here are the stencils I used:

Outline Wreath

Merry Christmas

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

KARENFAN10

Many thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Creative Creases- FUN FOLDS

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

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX, markers

Paper- Solar white

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

white Posca pen; Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); foam tape

Under the Mistletoe

 

Good Morning

Here is another card for the holidays that I created by combining 2 of the new released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

OUTLINE MISTLETOE and FLOURISH MAKER

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

• I began by placing the Outline Mistletoe stencil over a piece of white cardstock. I inked up the leaves with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.  
• The inside of the leaves was blank so I used the leaves from the Flourish Maker stencil to fill them in with more of the green ink. It gave a really nice look to the mistletoe.
• Next, I set that aside and took a piece of dark red cardstock and inked up the bow with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX and then used some clear embossing powder to heat emboss the bow to help make it pop. I fussy cut out the bow and glued that over the mistletoe on my card front panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of green cardstock, then red and then onto a white A2 sized card base and set that aside to dry.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock and glued that over the corner of my card.
• Lastly, to finish off my card, I added some red gems over the berries.

Here are the stencils I used:

OUTLINE MISTLETOE

FLOURISH MAKER

This stencil is our special 'MID MONTH' release and is such a great one

to have in your stash as it has so many possibilities!!

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:

Allsorts- FEMININE

Farm Quest Country Christmas- ANYTHING COUNTRY GOES

Sparkles- RED AND GREEN

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White; green; red

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

red gems; Clear Eb powder (Lawn Fawn); Christmas Sentiments (Amazon)

Flourish Maker

Good Morning

Meet this wonderful Mid-month released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

FLOURISH MAKER

What a great stencil to use to add extra interest and elegance to any design.

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

• I began by placing the large flourish from the Flourish Maker stencil onto a piece of white cardstock to one side and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  
• I flipped the stencil to the other side of the cardstock and inked again.
• Next, I used the smaller flourish and inked that across the top and the bottom with more of the same ink colours mentioned above.
• I used yet another one of the flourishes across the middle part of my card front by inking that with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink as a background for my sentiment die.
• I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and when that was all dry, I die cut an oval from the center of my card front.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto a white A2 card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the oval die cut back into place on my card front and then popped the die cut sentiment over that.
• I finished my card off by adding 3 red gems just under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

FLOURISH MAKER

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- USE A FRAME

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Peace on Earth- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White; red

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

Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); foam tape; red gems

Mid Century Bauble Tree

 

Welcome

I am totally into creating cards for the holidays, it sneaks up on me so quickly!

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

Mid Century Bauble Tree

I paired it up with another mid century looking stencil from August called

 Bauhaus Geometric

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

• I began by creating the background first. I placed the Bauhaus Geometric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and masked off the sections. I used some Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink to add colour to each section.
• I removed that stencil, splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Next, I took another piece of white cardstock and placed the Mid Century Bauble Tree over that. I did some masking as I wanted to keep the baubles red and inked with some more of the Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink. I used some Fossilized Amber to ink up the star at the top of the tree. 
• I glued the stenciled background onto a white A2 sized card base. I fussy cut out the tree then I used some foam tape to pop it over to the side.
• I die cut the sentiment with some white cardstock and glued that onto a red cardstock word shadow.
• I finished my card off by adding one tiny red star at the very top of the tree.

Here are the stencils I used:

Mid Century Bauble Tree

Bauhaus Geometric

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:

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Crazy is our Fame, Stencils are our Game- ANYTHING GOES- optional Orange

The Male Room- GEOMETRIC

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

white Posca pen; Christmas word dies (Amazon)

Homespun Christmas

Welcome

I am so happy to be getting some holiday cards done and this fun new for October stencil from A Colorful Life Designs worked well.  It is called:

Homespun Christmas Trees

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

• I began die cutting the Intertwined Squares die from some white cardstock 2x's and glued those together. I took the die and lightly traced around it on another piece of white cardstock as I wanted the outside edges of my card to be green and the center area to be red.
• Next, I placed the Homespun Christmas Trees stencil over the piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink around the edges, keeping the middle area open where I had traced out the square die cut.
• I took some Lumberjack Plaid and inked the rest of the middle area.
• I die cut the sentiment and word shadow and glued them together.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the die cut squares over the red area of my card front and then used some foam tape to add the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Homespun Christmas Trees

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:

Little Red Wagon- STITCHING

Cut it Up- MORE THEN ONE DIE

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white; red

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

Intertwined Squares (Temu); Sentiment dies (Amazon)

Let's Chill

 

Good Morning

Today's card was a fun one to create with this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

MID CENTURY CHAIRS

This stencil includes 2 unique looking chairs but for today, I just used one of them.

I paired it up with 2 older released stencils to create my card.

 Dots In and Out and Tiki Room

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

• I began by creating the chair first. I placed one of the Mid Century Chairs onto a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving the stencil in place, I put the Tiki Room stencil over the chair and inked with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. It gave the chair such a fun pattern and look. I removed the stencils, fussy cut it out and set aside while I worked on the background.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and placed the Dots In and Out stencil over the paper and inked with more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• Next, I took my stenciled card base and cut the sentiment shadow from it along the top edge I die cut the sentiment from some black cardstock and glued it onto the shadow die cut.
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a white A2 sized card base. When I placed the chair over the background it didn't show up well so I embossed a piece of white cardstock, cut it on the diagonal and glued that over the background before adding the chair with some foam tape.
• I added the sentiment back into place near the top of my card and then I added 2 black gems on either side of the die cut to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

MID CENTURY CHAIRS

TIKI ROOM

DOTS IN AND OUT

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.- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Mon.- USE MORE THEN ONE STENCIL

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White, black cardstock

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

Good Vibes die (SSS); Swiss Dots EB folder (Cuttlebug); black gems