Saturday, 7 February 2026

Special Friend

Good Morning
It's been so gloomy and very cold here with lots of snow. 
I needed some colour to brighten my day and this stencil was a welcome sight.
So meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Here's what I did to create my card.
  • I looked through my stash and found this yellow Gel Plate print I had done awhile ago using some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink and the Simple Mosaic stencil. I thought it would make a good sunny feeling background for my flowers.
  • I placed the Nine Flowers stencil over my print and then inked the flowers with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  To help enhance the look of the flowers, I added some Wilted Violet DOX ink just to the flower centers which gave some nice colour variation.
  • The flowers looked a bit flat to me so I used my white Posca pen to add some details.
  • When it was all dry, I die cut the word shadow right from the bottom of my stenciled panel, then die the sentiment in black and glued them together.
  • I glued my finished card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
  • I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place.

Here are the stencils I used:

(older release)


Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Cut it Up- THIS MAKES ME HAPPY
Alphabet Challenge- 'U' IS FOR UPLIFTING
Allsorts- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- solar white
Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; 
white Posca pen; TE Blending Brushes; Friend die (Amazon)

1 comment:

Dotty Jo said...

Gorgeous work! Jo x