So Many Happy Wishes

Welcome

Here is another card featuring our Mid Month release from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Minimalist

I paired it up with a stencil from last month's release called 

PATTERNED NOISE

Here is what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted that stencil off, placed down the Patterned Noise stencil and inked that up with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment words from some dark blue cardstock 5 times and glued those together creating a stacked sentiment. I used the word outline to die cut right from the middle of the stenciled panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of dark blue cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment into the space I cut away with the word outline and added some silver gems around it.
• I used a scrap piece of the blue cardstock to die cut the string detail and glued that under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

Patterned Noise

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Simon Says Monday- ADD TEXT

Just Add Ink- STENCILS AND DIES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/blue 

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

Happy Wishes die (SSS); Twine die (Spellbinders)

Sending the Best Wishes

Good Morning

It's been such a fun month creating with the new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

So I decided to make another card featuring the new for JUNE stencil called:

Rope Trellis

Here's what I did.

• I placed the Rope Trellis stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I shifted the stencil over and inked it up again with some Salty Ocean DOX ink to create the fun pattern.
• Next, I used a blue fine line marker and added the straight lines over the pattern.
• I die cut a white square using a square stitched die and glued it right over the middle of my card front.  
• I looked through my scraps and found this navy cardstock. I cut it into strips and glued it around the edges of the white square in the middle.
• While that dried, I die cut a white circle and stamped the sentiment onto it in my Misti.  I glued that onto another larger navy die cut circle.  
• I glued my finished card panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then navy and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added the circle die cut sentiment over the middle and finished off my card by adding 3 navy gems under it. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Rope Trellis

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANY OCCASION

Craft Rocket- BIRTHDAY

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Square Stitched die (Amazon); blue fine line marker; blue gems

Infinity Circle dies (HA)

Anniversary Flowers

Welcome

Today's card is done with this beautiful Dahlia layering stencil from Altenew.

So many possibilities and looks can be achieved with this stencil.

I went for a very bold colour.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and laid Stencil A onto my paper.  I inked that up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide inks and then over that some Blueprint Sketch, blending them together in some areas.
• I removed that stencil and positioned Stencil B into place.  I inked that up with some Peeled Paint then some Rustic Wilderness just to add a hint of a shadow.
• I removed the stencils and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried, I die cut the frame using this wonky stitched die.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto an A2 card base and popped the frame over that.
• I stamped and die cut the sentiment and pop dotted that over the bkg. and added 2 silver gems just under the sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- STENCILS AND DIE CUTS

Unicorn Challenge- SUMMERTIME

Supplies

Stamps- Simple Strips (Taylored Expressions)

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Dahlia Layering Stencil (Altenew); Waffle Flower stencil mat; 

white Posca pen; Stitched frame (YNS); Blending Brushes (TE); silver gems (Dollar Tree)

Happy Anniversary

Welcome

I so appreciate you came to see what I have been up to.

I made this card a couple months ago for my husband when we celebrated our 38th Anniversary.  

He loved the simplicity of it and the wood background.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and I rubbed different colours of Distress Oxide inks  directly onto the paper, spraying with water and blending as I added more and more colour.

• When I was happy with the inking, I embossed the inked panel using the Tim Holtz Lumber embossing folder.  This folder is amazing and gives deep woodgrain impressions on your paper.
• I rubbed some Black Soot DOX ink randomly over the top to highlight the grain of the wood, then set it aside to dry completely.
• I stamped the heart from Studio G onto a piece of black cardstock with some Versamark ink, then white heat embossed it.
• Using a red Copic Marker, I coloured in the heart and then added some Nuvo Crystal Glaze over the heart to help make it pop.
• I glued the woodgrain panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto a black card base.

Well that's all for today.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- LOTS OF LAYERS

Watercooler Wed.- ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS (Anniversary)

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANY OCASION

Supplies

Stamps- Heart in Circle (Studio G)

Inks- Distress Oxide ( Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Rusty Hinge, Black Soot), Versamark

Paper- Michaels; Accessories and Tools- Lumber EB folder (TH); Nuvo Crystal Glaze; heat tool; 

Lawn Fawn white embossing powder

All Natural

Morning.

Today, my hubby and I are celebrating our 33rd Anniversary.  Hard to believe where the years have gone.

This is the simple card I came up with. 

Right now I have an abundance of ferns growing in my garden...love the purity and natural look they give when using them to stamp with.  So, I picked a fern from my garden and used it as the focal point of my card to help represent the home we have created together.  It's so fun using things from nature to create with!

I placed the fern frond into my spray box, sprinkled Brushos over the whole piece then sprayed with water to activate the powder.  I carefully lifted it up and placed it onto my heavy weight cardstock.  Then using a piece of scrap paper, I pressed it firmly onto my paper to get a good impression and set it aside to dry.

 When it was dry, I used some Salty Ocean Distress ink to watercolor the background and added some splatters for interest.

I mounted that onto a piece of black cardstock then stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed it with white powder.  The sentiment was then pop dotted over the fern image.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sweet Stampin'- OUTDOORS 

Anything But Cute Mixed Media- SUMMERTIME

The Crafter's Cafe- CAS

 

Happy Little Stampers/Mixed Media- RECYCLE

Paper Creator- JUST FOR MEN 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look and have a great weekend!

Supplies:  sentiment stamp?/ Brushos/ ink- Versamark, Distress/ paint brush/ fern from garden/ wh embossing powder/ heat gun/ Mini Mister

Happy 65th Anniversary!!

Happy 65th Anniversary to my in-laws.  Wow...such a great accomplishment. 

I am addicted to the look of watercolouring achieved with rubber stamps.  So simple, yet so effective.

I wanted a watery looking flower so I inked up my stamp by colouring on it with Memento markers in pinks and some purple, then sprayed with a generous amount of water.  I did that twice so I could cut a smaller panel to mount on the top of the larger one.  Stamped the sentiment on the smallest panel then pop dotted the whole thing to my card front. 

I am adding my card to these challenges:

CASology- #87 BLUSH

Addicted to Stamps- MAKE YOUR MARK

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.  Hope you have a great week.

Supplies:  stamps- Hero Arts, Studio G/ Memento markers/ mini mister/ bl. Memento ink, pop dots

Happy 30th Anniversary

Today my DH and I reach a milestone....Happy 30th Anniversary.  I know we all say it but today I really feel it; where does the time go??  This is the card I made for him.  

In my attempt to make it feel more masculine I stamped the grunge bkg. from Kaiser stamps in different colours then cut them into pieces so I could fit them together into a quilt-like pattern on a hand cut heart.  I thought the stitch line added a nice touch.   The sentiment is from the alphabet set by Paper Smooches.  

Here's to looking forward to many more years together.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look!

Supplies:  stamps; PS, Kaiser/ Distress inks/ pop dots/ twine