Happy Wishes for the Holidays

Welcome

Today's card is featuring 2 of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Christmas Montage and Marvelous Mask Arches 

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

• I began by looking through my patterned cardstock and found this green check paper.  I placed the Christmas Montage stencil over that and inked it up with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over that. I placed the Christmas Montage stencil right over the top of that and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke DOX ink.
• I removed the stencils and fussy cut out the arch.
• I placed the arch into my Misti to stamp the trees and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I set that aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock 5 times and glued those all together.
• I glued the stenciled patterned paper to a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the arch over the patterned paper, matching up the lettering.  
• I glued the red sentiment along the bottom of the arch to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Christmas Montage

Marvelous Mask Arches

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CAPTAIN'S LOG

Simon Says Wed.- GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

The 12 Months of Christmas- ANYTHING GOES/option: SNOWFALL

Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Pine Trees (IO)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White, Patterned paper (?)

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

white Posca pen; Happy Holidays die ( Waffle Flower)

Joyful

Good Morning

Here is a monochromatic card I created using 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, one older called Snow Doily and a new one called:

Three Snowflakes

This new stencil sheet includes 3 different designs that can be used alone or together.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the Three Snowflakes stencils into the corner of my white cardstock and inked with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I flipped the stencil over and inked the other corner with the same snowflake and ink.
• Next, I took the Snow Doily stencil and inked it up into the open corners using some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I die cut the sentiment with a piece of blue cardstock and splattered it with my white Posca pen. I glued that onto the white shadow of the die.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I glued a navy band across the middle and added the sentiment with some foam tape over that.

Here are the stencils I used:

Three Snowflakes

Snow Doily

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS

Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/OPTIONAL HALLOWEEN

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar white

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

All the Joy die (SSS); white Posca pen

If Snowflakes Fell in Colours

Welcome

Today's card is a fun one filled with whimsical snowflakes.

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

Three Snowflakes

This is a stencil that has 3 designs on one sheet, lots of ways to combine them.

Here's what I did.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then picked out the Distress Oxide ink colours I wanted to work with.  They were: Tumbled Glass, Carved Pumpkin, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac and some Mustard Seed.
• I chose one of the snowflakes from the Three Snowflake stencil and inked it up. I continued to ink using a different snowflake with a different colour until my white card front was all inked up.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment with some blue paper, then some white and glued them together, offsetting them a bit.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment over the middle and added 3 silver gems.

Here is the stencil I used:

Three Snowflakes

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for the visit today.  Very appreciated!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- BRIGHT AND COLORFUL

Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

(mine is this die, haven't used it in ages)

The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

Let It Snow die (STAMPLORATIONS); white Posca pen; silver gems (Dollar Store)

Message of Sympathy

 

Welcome

Sympathy cards are not always easy ones to make, so I like to have some on hand.

This newly released set of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs is great for creating simple ink blended card front background.  There are many different sizes in these sets too.

So, meet the newly released:

Marvelous Masks Arches Stencil

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed one of the Marvelous Masks Arches stencils over a piece of white cardstock.
• Beginning at the top of the arch, I inked with some Shaded Lilac, Peacock Feathers and some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide inks.
• I lifted the stencil off and added a mask along the bottom edge so my stamping would be contained along the bottom of the inking.
• I placed it into my Misti to stamp out the trees and the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 silver gems under the sentiment to finish the card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Marvelous Masks Arches 

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:

Ellibelle's Corner- I SPY...SOMETHING CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Cardz 4 Guyz- FALL/AUTUMN

CRAFT- GRANDPARENTS/ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- 3 Pine Trees (Nellie's Choice);  Inside Out Sympathy (Catherine Pooler)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

silver gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Sending Joy

 

Hello and Welcome

Here's a festive holiday card that I made using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Christmas Greenery 

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock into the banner shape first, then I placed the Christmas Greenery stencil over that. I inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I used some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink to fill in the details and then using the eraser on the end of a pencil, I added the red dots. I also added white dots randomly over the green with my white Posca pen and set that aside to dry.
• I picked out some striped cardstock, then used that to die cut the sentiment and glued it all together.
• I glued a piece of red cardstock onto an A2 sized white card base and added the banner shape with some foam tape.
• I used some more of the foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background.
• To finish my card off, I added a strip of white and red paper to the top and a red gem to the ornament.

Here is the stencil I used;

Christmas Greenery

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:

The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Word Power- SENTIMENT IS FOCUS

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- DP (?); Solar White (Prism)

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

Christmas Bauble Joy (Paper Rose); pencil eraser; red gem; foam tape

Lacy Snowflakes

Good Morning

Here is a non-traditional Christmas card I made using 2 newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Lacy Snowflakes and Marvelous Masks Arch

There are 2 snowflakes on one sheet and the arches come is a large variety of sizes.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4" square and found the center point.  I placed one of the Marvelous Masks Arch over the first corner with the arch touching the center spot and inked with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I flipped the arch over and inked the opposite corner next with more of the pink.
• I wiped the stencil off and inked the other 2 corners the same way, overlapping them with some Ripe Persimmon DOX ink.
• Next, I wanted to use some white embossing powder so I rubbed over the whole panel with my Anti-stick powder tool.
• I placed one of the Lacy Snowflakes over the stenciled bkg and rubbed some Versamark ink over the whole snowflake then I white heat embossed it.
• I took the 2nd snowflake stencil on that sheet, placed it over the embossed one and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and then added the die cut sentiment over the middle.
• I glued my finished card front to a piece of dark red cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 silver gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Lacy Snowflakes

Marvelous Masks Arch Stencils

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- H IS FOR HOLIDAYS

Merry Little Christmas- ANYTHING GOES

Sparkles Christmas- NON TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLOURS 

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Versamark, DOX

Paper- Prism solar white

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

White EB powder; Anti-static powder brush; white Posca pen; 

Merry Christmas die (Waffle Flower)

Denim Snowflake

Welcome

Meet another one of the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Snowflake Duo

There are 2 snowflakes on one stencil and they are perfect for creating those holiday/winter cards.

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

• I started by looking through my stash of inky backgrounds and found this one that I had used as a roll off sheet while Gel Plate printing.  (I think? I used some Salty Ocean, Uncharted Mariner and some Blueprint Sketch on my plate and I always keep some cardstock nearby to roll my brayer off.)
• I die cut the panel with the Wonky Stitches die and rubbed some ink along the edges as well.  It really reminded me of denim.
• I placed one of the snowflakes from the Snowflake Duo stencil over my cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I lifted the stencil, wiped it off and repositioned it slightly over from the first inking. Using my white Posca pen, I went over the stencil adding the white dots, creating a shadow effect.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment 5 times with white cardstock and glued them together stacking them together.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a white A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I glued the sentiment over the middle of the snowflake and added 3 silver gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Snowflake Duo

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

KarenFan10

Have a great weekend and thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- 'H' IS FOR HOLIDAYS

Cut it Up- USE MORE THEN ONE DIE

The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

Wonky Stitches die (Avery Elle); Happy Holidays die (Waffle Flower)