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

Hello Fall

 

Welcome

I wanted to make one more card this month using this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

SIMPLE LEAVES

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

• I began by placing a piece of white cardstock into my Misti. I stamped the Mixed Mesh as my background using some Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I inked each leaf from the Simple Leaves stencil around the edges of my cardstock over the stamped background. I varied the shades of green to add interest. I used these Distress Oxide ink colours: Speckled Egg, Rustic Wilderness and some Cracked Pistachio.
• I splattered the whole panel using my black Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I die cut the Hello sentiment with some black cardstock, the word shadow with some white and glued them together.
• I used a circle die and cut right from the center of my card front panel. I glued that onto a slightly larger black circle.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock then black and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the die cut circle back into place matching it up and then glued the sentiment over that.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Simple Leaves

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 Monday- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Crafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamp- Mixed Mesh (Stampendous)

Ink- DOX

Paper- Solar white/black cardstock

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

Handwritten Hello die (SSS); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

Autumn Joys

Welcome

It's beginning to look and feel more and more like Fall everyday here where I live. 

I decided to create a Fall inspired card using this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Waning Leaves

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

• I began by placing a piece of white cardstock into my Misti and I stamped the Leafy Leaves background stamp with black ink.
• I then placed the Waning Leaves stencil over the stamped background and inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours:  Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and Rustic Wilderness.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white and my black Posca pen and sent aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment 5x's and then glued them all together, creating a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my dried card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of red and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment across the middle to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Waning Leaves

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

Crafty Gals Corner- ANYTHING GOES/FALL FOLIAGE

Craft Rocket- USE DIES

Time Out- SEASONAL COLOURS WHERE YOU LIVE

(Fall in Canada)

Supplies

Stamp- Leafy Leaves background (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

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

Live, Love die (Frantic Stamper); white and black Posca paint pen

My Forever Friend

Welcome

Today's card features the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

SIMPLE LEAVES

This stencil has a nice variety of different sized leaves.

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

• I began by inking up a stencil from last month called Mid Century Square Mask with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  It gave a lot of interest to the background.
• I removed that stencil and inked each leaf from the Simple Leaves stencil, one at a time, across the top and then along the bottom with some Rustic Wilderness and some Lucky Clover DOX ink.
• While that dried, I die cut the 'friend' sentiment 5 times with black cardstock and glued them all together creating a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then green and then onto a white A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the sentiment across the middle and added 2 black gems on either side of it to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

SIMPLE LEAVES

MID CENTURY SQUARE MASK

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:

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- DIES

Dragonfly Dreams- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Friend die (TE); black gems

Autumn Birthday

Good Morning

Here is another card I made using this new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Fall Foliage

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

• I began with a piece of grid paper and placed the Fall Foliage stencil over that.  I inked it up with Distress Oxide inks in these colours; Ripe Persimmon, Vintage Photo, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Fossilized Amber.
• While that dried, I die cut the Grid overlay with some black cardstock then glued that over the leaves.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it with a circle die.  I glued it onto a larger black circle die cut.
• I glued my card front onto a white A2 card base and then used some foam tape to pop the birthday sentiment near the top corner.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish off my card. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FRAME IT

Paper Craft Crew- HELLO FALL

Crafty Gals Corner- ANYTHING GOES/OPTION FALL

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Circle tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

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

Grid die (Amazon); foam tape; Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

Webby Leaf

Hello and Welcome

Meet another one of the newest releases for September from A Colorful Life Designs called

Webby Leaf

This unique looking leaf also has a bit of a Halloween/spider web kind of look to it.

Here is what I did to create a simple card.

• I placed the Webby Leaf stencil over a piece of white cardstock and using my ink dabbers, I simply pounced the brushes over the stencil with these Distress Oxide ink colours...Ripe Persimmon; Lumberjack Plaid; Rustic Wilderness; Cracked Pistachio; Fossilized Amber.
• While the ink dried, I took another piece of cardstock and scored it (it doesn't show up in the photo) to use as my card front front.
• Next, I fussy cut out the leaf and glued that over the scored card front.  I then glued that onto a piece of green cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I wanted a simple sentiment for the front, so I cut out one of the pre-printed sentiments and added it with some foam tape to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Webby Leaf

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Sponge ink dabbers (Amazon);

pre-printed sentiment (TE); Scoring Tool; foam tape

Beautiful Day

Welcome 

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

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

Simple Leaves

A great stencil with a good collection of simple leaves to have in your stash.  

I paired it up with a fun stencil from last month called

Mid Century Half Circle Mask 

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and started by creating the overall background first. I placed the Mid Century Half Circle mask (August release) over my paper and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  
• I lifted the stencil, shifted it sideways and inked again with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• Next, one by one, I used the Simple Leaves stencil to add the leaves by inking them up with some more of the Rustic Wilderness DOX ink until my card front was covered.
• Using my white Posca pen, I splattered over the whole panel then set aside to dry.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then dark green and then onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I cut out the pre-printed sentiment and glued that onto a piece of white and green cardstock.  I added it with some foam tape across the middle of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

SIMPLE LEAVES

MID CENTURY HALF CIRCLE MASK

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Supplies

Stamps- none 

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white; green

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

Pre-Printed sentiment strips (TE); foam tape; white Posca pen

Fall Foliage

 

Welcome

It's been awhile since I have posted.  

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

Meet one of the perfect for Fall, new for September stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

FALL FOLIAGE

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock to use as my card front and stamped a script just along the side with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the Fall Foliage stencil over my cardstock and using a mask to go around each leaf, I inked them with these different colours of Distress Oxide inks:  Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Rusty Hinge.
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment along the side.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To add a bit of interest to the leaves, I used my black Posca pen and added some dots to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

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

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Time Out- THE MOVIES (sentiment- Robin Williams)

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Script (Penny Black); Words and Ideas (IO...Out of business)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

low tack tape for masking; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Christmas Peace

Hello and Welcome

This month it is my turn to host the TLC (Technique Lovers Challenge) at Splitcoast Stampers.

The technique we will be doing this week is called:

RUBBER BAND STAMPING

It's a fun and easy technique to play around with and I have been wanting to start making some cards for the holidays.

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

• I began by getting out my long acrylic stamping block and I wrapped some different width elastic bands around it in a grid pattern.
• I pressed the bands wrapped around the block onto my Speckled Eggs Distress Oxide ink pad and stamped over my white cardstock in a few different areas.
• I wiped off the elastics and repeated that process using some Salty Ocean and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink until I was happy with the pattern covering my cardstock.
• I diluted some of the ink mentioned above with water and splattered my whole card front using a paint brush, then set aside to dry.
• Next, I created my snowflake.  I took a piece of acetate and pressed the DOX inks onto it, sprayed with water and dragged another piece of white cardstock through the wet ink and set that aside to dry.  
• I splattered the inky cardstock with my white Posca pen and then used that to die cut the snowflakes.  I also used a piece of silver shimmer paper to cut the stars for the centers of the snowflakes.
• I glued my elastic stamped card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 white card base.
• I glued one snowflake at the top and one along the bottom and then I used some foam tape to pop up the stars in the center of the snowflakes.
• I die cut the sentiment and added it to the center of my card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Mon.- LOTS OF LAYERS

Girlz Creative- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Papers- Solar white; scrap of silver shimmer

Accessories and Tools- rubber bands; long acrylic block; Funky Snowflake die (SSS);

foam tape; Peace die (Amazon)

Cat Sympathy

Welcome

Losing a beloved pet can really be a tough thing to deal with, so I've been creating some 'pet' sympathy cards this month using the new for July stencils from A Colorful Life Designs. 

This one is called:

PAW HEART

I paired it up with an older release called FUR

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

• I placed the Paw Heart stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving the stencil in place, I put the Fur stencil over it and inked with some Black Soot DOX ink.  
• Next, I fussy cut out around the heart and added some dots using a black Posca pen.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it on black cardstock.
• I glued a piece of grid paper onto black cardstock, then white, then another piece of black and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I glued the paw over the grid paper and then I used some foam tape to add the sentiment into the corner to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Paw Heart

Fur

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- ONE THING

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- PATTERNS

Supplies

Stamp- Sympathy Sentiments(Penny Black)

Inks- Versamark; DOX

Paper- Solar white; grid patterned; black

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

white EB powder; white Posca pen; foam tape