Happy New Year!! 2026

 

Wishing you a wonderful Happy New Year filled with great memories and many blessings.

Congrats~ Bargello Technique

Welcome

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

My challenge is to make a card using the 

Bargello Technique

Everyone has been so busy with their Christmas festivities so I thought this Technique was a very simple, achievable one to try.  So many possibilities with it as well and a good chance to use up some of those scrap pieces of designer paper you may have in your stash.

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

• I began by looking through my scrap papers that I never use and found 4 that I thought would work together.
• I cut them into 3/4" strips and glued the strips onto a piece of white cardstock side by side of each other being sure they were all touching. 
  
• I let the piece dry, then cut the strips in the opposite direction, again 3/4" wide so each strip had the patterns on them. (hope that makes sense)
  
• I glued them, one at a time onto another piece of white cardstock, offsetting the pieces like putting together a quilt pattern. There are many different ways you can create a pattern by just moving the strips into different positions.
• When I was happy with the pattern, I glued the piece onto some white cardstock and then black and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with some black cardstock 4 times and glued them together, creating a stacked sentiment.  I cut the word shadow from a piece of white and glued them together.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Thanks a lot for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Cut it Up- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Papers- various dp's (unknown)

Accessories and Tools- Congrats die (TE)

Totally Awesome

Good Morning

Here is my card for today featuring an older stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Cracked

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

• I placed the Cracked stencil over a piece of white cardstock. Beginning in the center of the stencil, I inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, moving away from the center of the stencil, I inked with some Picked Raspberry DOX and then some Lumberjack Plaid around the outside edges.
• I used my white Posca pen to add lots of white splatters to the stenciled background and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment with some white cardstock and cut the word shadow from the stenciled panel and glued them together.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto some red and then onto a 4 14" square card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment into place.

Here is the stencil I used:

Cracked

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTMENT

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prisma)

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

white Posca pen; Awesome die (Neat and Tangled)

Merry and Happy Holidays

Welcome

Today's card combines 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Stitched Harlequin and Tribal Fabric

So here's what I did to create this unique pattern in some traditional Christmas colours.

• I placed Tribal Fabric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness.
• I lifted that stencil off and placed the Stitched Harlequin stencil over the first stencil pattern and then inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid.
• Next, I rubbed my Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink pad onto a piece of white cardstock, splattered with my white Posca pen and then used that to die cut the sentiment.  I cut the sentiment 4 more times with some white and then glued them all together, offsetting them a bit to add a highlight around the sentiment.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white, then red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut a small frame with more white cardstock and glued that over the front before gluing the sentiment in place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Tribal Fabric

Stitched Harlequin

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit especially at this busy time of year.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Cut It Up- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Knockouts- TIS THE SEASON

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); white Posca pen;

Be Merry die- Lawn Fawn; Rectangle die- Spellbinders

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Greetings

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

May you time with family and friends bring you much joy and many blessings.

Have a Blast!

Welcome

Today's card was a fun one I made using this stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Cracked

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Cracked Stencil over my paper and inked with some Cracked Pistachio and some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off, then repositioned it and inked again with some Black Soot DOX ink.  The black really seemed to punch up the whole design.
• Next, I splattered the whole panel using my white Posca pen.
• I die cut the sentiment with some white cardstock and then I cut the word shadow right from the middle of the stenciled panel and glued them together.
• I added my card front to a piece of white cardstock, then purple and then glued them onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to added the sentiment back into place, matching up the pattern.

Here is the stencil I used:

Cracked

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:

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

A Perfect Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Inspiration- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

white Posca pen; It's Your Day die (Heffy Doodle)

Merry FaLaLaLa

Welcome

Here's another fun card for Christmas featuring this great stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called;

Cozy Knit

Here's what I did to create my simple CAS card.

• I placed the Cozy Knit stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil and placed the piece into my Misti to stamp the Christmas Words stamp using some black Versafine Clair ink.
• I die cut the sentiment with some blue and glued that onto the white word shadows.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment over the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Cozy Knit

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

KarenFan10

Hope you are ready for the big day and thanks so much for taking the time to visit!!

Adding my card to these challenges: 

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Simon Says Mon.- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Little Red Wagon- CHRISTMAS CARD

Supplies

Stamps- Christmas Words (IO...out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia);

TE Blending Brushes; Bold Christmas Words dies (Amazon)