Snowflake Thanks

Good Morning

I hope you are well during these difficult times.  

After Christmas I like to take some time to make thank-you cards and this is one I came up with.

I've really tried to think of the many ways I can use this snowflake stamp to create different looking card designs.  This one was pretty simple to do.

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

• I began with a panel of heavy cardstock and got out the Marvelous Masks Circles from A Colorful Life Designs.  This set has the stencils and the masks included.  I placed the smallest stencil to the side of my card base and rubbed on some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink using a blending brush.
• I covered the area I just inked with the circle mask and laid down the next size of circle and inked that with some Shaded Lilac DOX ink.  I repeated that process using a bigger and bigger circle stencil and mask and applied more DOX inks; Cracked Pistachio and finally more Peacock Feathers.
• I dried the ink, then placed it into my Misti and stamped the snowflake from Colorado Craft using some Versafine Clair ink.  
• Next, I stamped the sentiment from Your Next Stamp right down in the corner.
• To add interest to my card, I randomly stamped some text and then added some markings using an old gift card and more Versafine Clair ink.  
• I splattered using my Posca pen, then added a black gem to the snowflake center. *it's amazing how much these little additions add to the interest of the card!*
• Lastly, I mounted it onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto some soft lilac then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- LAYER IT UP

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

As You Like It- FAV COLOUR COMBO and WHY?

(I love blue with greens and purple...feels so soothing to me)

Sweet Stampers- SNOW/ WINTER

Supplies

Stamps- Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Craft); Everyday Sentiments (YNS); 

Overlapping Texture (ALL and Create)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; DOX 

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); coloured cs 

Accessories and Tools- Marvelous Masks Circles (ACLD); blending brushes (TE); old gift card;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Posca pen; black gem

Fall Wishes

Good Morning.

Another Fall themed card before all the leaves in my backyard are gone.  

This is a fun technique using real leaves and some acrylic paint.  I love the results.

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

• I went out into my backyard and picked out some leaves that would not be too big for my card front panel.  I have a shrub that still had these lovely leaves intact, so I picked a few to use for my card.  
• I die-cut the panel with the Wonky Stitched die so I knew what size I was working with.
• Using the raised veined backside of the leaf, I brayered on some acrylic paints in reds and oranges being sure to cover the whole surface.  I carefully picked up the leaf and pressed it onto my panel.
• I repeated that process with another leaf that was a bit bigger and placed it along the side for interest.
• I set that aside to dry which didn't take long as there was a thin coat of paint used....that's important so you don't lose the detail of the leaf.
• While that dried, I pulled out some Distress Oxide inks that I thought would match the orange and reds.  I ended up with some Barn Door, Candied Apple and Carved Pumpkin inks.
• I randomly stamped and filled in all the areas around the leaves using a variety of stamps from AALL and Create.  They have such wonderful stamps for creating a collage style background on cards.
• When I was happy with all the stamping, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.  
• I splattered with my black Posca pen, then I mounted the piece onto some red, then orange cardstock and then onto a heavy white card base.

 Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- THANKSGIVING

Inkspirational- FRAME IT

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiments (YNS); Splattered Numbers #350 (AALL and Create); 

Overlapping Texture #307 (AALL and Create)

Inks- Distress Oxides (colours above); acrylic paint (Dollar Tree)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- brayer (Speedball); leaves from the garden; 

Wonky Stitched Die (Avery Elle); Cuttlebug; Posca pen

Snowflake Collage

Good Morning!

Hope you are doing well in your part of the world.

Meet today's card.  

I'm trying to get a few more made before it's time to mail them all out.

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

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I placed the panel into my Misti and inked up the snowflake from Colorado Stamp with some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, sprayed with some water and pressed onto my paper.  I added some Peacock Feathers to just the very center of my snowflake.  I kept moving the panel around until the whole front was stamped.
• Next, I rubbed some Salty Ocean DOX ink onto my glass mat, added some water to dilute it and watercoloured in the background around the snowflakes. I dried that all using my heat tool
• Now it was time to add a bit more detail, so I used the Overlapping Texture from AALL and Create and randomly stamped around the snowflakes.
• I splattered with white using my Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment from the Santa's List set with some Versafine Clair and backed it with a small piece of white.  I pop dotted that over the bkg. and mounted it all onto a heavy white card base.

 Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Bastel-Traum- BACKGROUND

Creative Craft Cottage- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

Stamping Pals- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Stamp); Sentiment (YNS); Overlapping Texture #307 (AALL and Create)

Inks= Distress Oxides (TH); Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Posca white pen; pop dots; paintbrush

Ways to Live

Welcome

Fall is in the air....cooler temperatures for sure where I live.  It was only 8C when I got up.

I feel sad to see summer go, I feel like with the lockdown we missed so much of it!!

Anyways, I do enjoy the Fall and all it's splendid colours.  My little people love looking for and collecting all kids of different leaves.  They find such joy in picking them up and having them at hand to hold.  

I decided to use some real leaves to create my card.

So onto my card details.

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I went outside and picked up a few different leaves in different sizes.
• Using a brayer, I rolled some acrylic paint that I got from the Dollar Trees, onto the back side (the veins up) of the leaves and pressed onto my card panel.  *I placed a piece of scrap paper over my leaf to help me press firmly and get a good print.  I just love the look it gave.  I used some Fall paint colours....red, orange and yellow.  
• I set my card aside to dry.  While that dried, I decided what I would add to make my card a 'collage' style card, then I pulled out a variety of stamps from AALL and Create.  I picked them up during the lockdown and most were by the talented Tracy Evans.  
• Using some Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks, I randomly stamped the background.  
• When I was happy with all the stamping, I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp this sentiment from IO and clear heat embossed it.  
• I splattered the card front with my black Posca Pen and added some lines along the edges using an old credit card.
• I mounted the panel onto some coloured cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters- AUTUMN INSPIRATION

Crafty Girls- FALL COLORS

Paperminutes- COLOURS OF AUTUMN

Supplies
Stamps- Laugh (Impression Obsession); AAll and Create #350, #338, #307
Inks- Versafine Clair, Distress Oxides, Acrylic paint
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); leaves; Speedball Brayer; Posca pen; clear eb powder; heat tool

The Journey

Hello and Welcome
Here is a collage style card I made recently.  Also wanted to play with some new stamps I picked up by AALL and Create.

So onto my card details.

• I began by getting out my Gel Plate and rolled on some different shades of blue paint.  I lifted some off as I wanted the print to have some white open space.  
• I laid down a maple leaf that I pulled off of the tree at the front of my house and pushed it into the wet paint with the vein sides down.
• I lifted the leaf off and then took the print onto some heavy white cardstock.  I love how just part of the leaf lifted, almost looks like a ghosting impression.
• Using a few different stamps, I inked them up with some Archival ink and stamped randomly over the painted surface.  
• I placed the piece into my Misti, stamped the sentiment with some black Versafine Clair ink, then clear heat embossed it.
• I mounted the piece onto some black cardstock, then onto a matching background colour.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
The Library Challenge- MINIATURE GARDEN GROWER
The Corrosive Challenge- ANYTHING GOES
Color My Heart Color Dare- MONOCHROMATIC BLUES


Supplies
Stamps- Find Joy (High Hopes); AALL and Create (#307; #304, #350)
Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; acrylic paint; Faded Jeans Archival Distress (TH)
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); brayer; Gel Plate; clear eb powder

Feeling Festive

Welcome

Meet today's card.  

Just having some fun with my Distress Oxide inks and a few tools.

I've been watching many of Eileen Godwin's FB videos during this lockdown.  She does workshops all the time in the UK and her creative style is one of clean and simple.

Some of the cards she has posted show a simple technique using her Stencil Pal as her flat edge to create lines, creating a grid like effect on her cards.  I thought I would give it a go. It is so simple and needs no special tools.  

So onto my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  Using my Stencil Pal, (a stencil Pal is a plastic tool that you use when applying pastes over a stencil and has a flat edge on one side) I randomly used it to create lines on my card panel by pulling ink with an inking tool away from the straight edge.  You could use a ruler, piece of heavy card or anything that has a flat edge.  I made sure the lines crisscrossed each other using different colours.  

When I was happy with the grid design, I stenciled in some areas to add interest.

I dried the inks using my heat tool to be sure the inks were dry before the next step.

I rubbed over the panel with an anti-static pad, stamped the image, then clear heat embossed it to help make it pop.

I die-cut a frame using a Stitched die from Memory Box to add, then I pop dotted the panel over a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Have a great weekend.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- EMBOSSING

Crafty Gals Corner- FANTASY

Southern Girls- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Dream On (Prima)

Inks- Distress Oxide (Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Dusty Concord, Cracked Pistachio)

Verafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Stencil Pat; Dotty Stencil (AAll and Create); Stitched Rectangle die

(Memory Box); sponge applicator; Cuttlebug; clear embossing powder

Summer Roses- The Flower Challenge

Welcome
A new month means a new theme at
The Flower Challenge

This month our theme is:



Our Guest Designer this month is Mac Mable from thesweetestofpeas. Do check out her blog if you have a minute as she makes such fabulous cards.


I chose Summer for the theme of my card so here is what I did to create my card.
I began by making the background using my Gel Plate.  I wanted a white border on my card so I positioned my Rectangle Acrylic Mask onto my heavy white cardstock first, then I brayered some Salty Ocean DOX ink onto the plate, splattered with some diluted Blueprint Sketch DOX ink and pulled my print.
Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the roses along the top then coloured them using my Zig Waterbrush markers.  I dried that and then stamped the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
I mounted the panel onto a pale mauve piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.



Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
I hope you will come and play along with us.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Supplies
Stamps- Flowers Are the Music (Rubbernecker); Bouquet Large (AALL and Create)
Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides; Zig markers
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Rectangle Acrylic Mask (A Colorful Life Designs); paintbrush;
pearl dots; clear eb powder; heat tool