The October Sky

Welcome October

It's a new month and an exciting time for all the new releases at A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet the new

Marvelous Masks Arch Stencils

These Mask sets have a number of different sized masks and stencils to use for cards or scrapbook pages.

There is nothing like the colours of a Fall morning sky, so here's what I did to create my Fall inspired card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then placed one of the Marvelous Masks Arch stencils over my cardstock.
• Beginning at the top of the arch, I inked it up with some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I inked with some Ripe Persimmon and then some Picked Raspberry DOX ink, blending them all together until the whole stencil was inked.
• I lifted the stencil off and placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the flowers and the sentiment in the top corner.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the mask sets:

Marvelous Masks Arch

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

KarenFan10

Please check out our new releases for October.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Seize the Birthday- STENCIL

Crazy is Our Fame, STENCILS are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/NATURE

Crafty Gals Corner- FALL SPLENDOR

Supplies

Stamps- Thistle, Clover Silouette (Magenta); Beautiful You (STAMPlorations)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

black gems; TE Blending Brushes

Garden Celebration

 

Good Morning

I love the look of this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Bauhaus Circle Mask

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock, placed the Bauhaus Circle Mask stencil over that and inked it up with some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink.
• When the ink was dry, I rubbed over the panel with an anti-static bag (to help prevent the embossing powder from sticking everywhere) and then placed it into my Misti.
• I stamped the flowers along the bottom edge with some Versafine Clair ink and used some clear embossing powder to help the flowers pop against the background.
• I repeated that process with the sentiment as well.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Bauhaus Circle Mask

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:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- ANYTHING GOES

We Love Stamping- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Celebrate (IO, out of business); Garden (ISC- out of business)

Inks- Distress Oxide; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

Clear EB powder (Lawn Fawn); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Blue Mandala

Welcome to the Weekend.

Really good to have a bit of crafting time.

Meet today's simple card using this beautiful Split Mandala stencil from ACLD.

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock and centered the Split Mandala stencil over my paper.  
• Using some Versamark ink and a small sponge dabber, I rubbed over the stencil, being sure to get into all the little nooks and crannies.
• After it was all inked, I removed the stencil and sprinkled on some Tim Holtz Distress Peacock Feathers Glaze and heat set it.  The glaze is just like using Embossing Powder but I found it gave a bit more of a shiny appearance to the finished card.
• This stencil has a space in the middle and seemed the perfect place to add a sentiment.  I stamped the Happy Birthday from the Everyday Sentiments set in black Versafine on a paper strip and pop dotted that into place.  
• It needed something more in that space, so I added 3 black gems in 2 different sizes on either side.
• I mounted it onto a white card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Split Mandala

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate with not extra cost to you)

Thanks so much for taking the time to come by and take a look.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiments (YNS)

Ink- Versamark; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Split Mandala stencil (ACLD); TH Distress Glaze; foam dabber;

heat tool; black gems; foam tape

Comfort and Peace

 

Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card.

Another sympathy card made for a friend who has requested to have a few on hand.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock.  Using some Wilted Violet and some Dusty Concord, I rolled my brayer directly onto the ink pad and rolled the colours onto my white cardstock until I was happy with the coverage.  
• Using the Simple Mosaic stencil, I added some detail using the same inks mentioned above.  The subtle stenciling adds a lot of interest and depth.
• Next, I placed the inked panel into my Misti and stamped the thistles and sentiment.
• I splattered using my black and white Posca pens.
• I rubbed my Versamark ink pad along the edges of the card front, then white heat embossed, again, just to add more interest.
• I foam taped it onto a piece of purple cardstock, then onto a white card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Simple Mosaic

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Nature Flowers (Art Journey); Sympathy Sentiments (Penny Black)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair, Versamark

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

Accessories and Tools- Posca paint pens; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Simple Mosaic Stencil (ACLD); Speedball Brayer

CAS- The Flower Challenge

Hello and Welcome

This is my reminder card for 

THE FLOWER CHALLENGE

It is a special month for us as we celebrate our 3rd birthday and there are prizes to be won.

We have a PRIZE to give away again this month. The amazing Michele from 
CAS-ual Fridays stamps has generously agreed to give our lucky winner this month a
prize of $25. All the Design Team have used CAS-ual Fridays stamps also on their cards. Michele very kindly gave us all some of her stamps to use on our cards ;)

We also have a new Guest Designer for October ,Tina Magnusson I am sure you will agree she makes such beautiful cards. Do check out her blog you won't be disappointed!.

So here are my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and masked off the top and bottom of my card front so I would have lots of white space left.
This flower is from the CAS-ual Friday set called Peaceful Garden and is a two-step stamp.
So, I stamped the circles within my masked area, overlapping them a bit using some Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin and some Festive Berries DOX inks.
Next, I took the curly flower and stamped it over the inked areas to create my flowers.
I sponged the edges with some more Fossilized Amber to help define it, then I removed the masks and added some scored lines.  I glued on some black gems to the center of the flowers to add interest.
Using my Misti, I stamped the sentiment from the same set and simply mounted my card front 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.

Supplies
Stamps- Peaceful Garden (CAS-ual Fridays)
Inks- Versafine Clair Nocturne; DOX inks (TH)
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); ScorPal; black gems