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Saturday, 18 April 2026

Friendship is Special

Welcome
Meet another one of the newly released stencils for April from A Colorful Life Designs called:
This stencil can be used is so many different ways; inked then cut apart along the lines, overlapping inking, stencil layering....so many ideas. 
For today though, I kept it simple by inking and adding a die cut frame.

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I placed the THREE Xs stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked just across the middle with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink. Next, I inked with some Cracked Pistachio DOX and then along the bottom and top edges I used more of the Broken China ink.
  • While that dried, I did cut the frame with some black cardstock and set aside.
  • I took a scrap of white paper and inked it with the above mentioned colours and used that to die cut the sentiment.
  • I glued the black frame over my stenciled card front and then glued that onto an A2 sized card base.
  • I glued the 'friend' sentiment over the frame and added some silver gems to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:
THREE Xs

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Monday- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL
Cut It Up- COLORS OF SPRING
Craft Rocket- LAYER IT UP
CRAFT- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- Solar white; black cardtock
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
Triangle Grid die (Temu); Friend die (Amazon); silver gems

4 comments:

  1. I love your card. It’s so different than anything I’ve seen before.

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  2. Unique and stunning!
    Thanks for sharing @CIUP, good luck and we hope to see you again soon.
    Jackie DT @CIUP

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  3. Hi Karen, the card is beautiful and very effective. The background and the black die-cut match very well. Thanks for joining the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge. Tatiana DT

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