Happy New Year Wishes

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!

Today's card is the first for this year.

It features just one of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Interconnected Circles

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

• I placed the Interconnected Circles stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Next I placed the background into my Misti and stamped the snowflake into one corner, turned the card around and stamped again in the other corner with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I randomly stamped the little snowflakes over the background with more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink to add more interest.
• I stamped the sentiment into the bottom corner with some Verasafine Clair ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of light blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base and added the blued gems to the middle of the snowflakes to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Interconnected Circles

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

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May 2026 bring you much happiness, health and be filled with many blessings.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- WINTER RELATED

Simon Says Mon.- SPARKLE AND SHINE

Everybody Art- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

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

TE Blending Brushes; blue gems

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

2025

Wishing you good health, happiness and many blessings.

I'm looking forward to a year filled with fun and lots more creativity.

Let's start the year off with a newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Five Rings

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

• I placed a piece of black cardstock onto my Make Art Station and rubbed the whole thing with an anti-static bag.
• I then placed the Five Rings stencil over the bottom corner and inked with some Unicorn White ink.  I moved the stencil to the open area at the top corner and inked again.
• I sprinkled the whole piece with white embossing powder and heat set.
• I added some white splatters with my Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Using some silver textured cardstock, I die cut the sentiment.  I cut the sentiment again 2 more times with some white cardstock and glued them all together.
• I glued the card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then black and then onto an 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I added the sentiment with some foam tape and a shiny gem.

Here is the stencil I used:

Five Rings

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- NEW BEGINNINGS

Simon Says Wed.- SOMETHING NEW

CAS on Friday- NEW YEAR

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Unicorn White (HA)

Paper- silver texture cs, black and white cs

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Happy New Year die (Amazon);

white Posca pen; white EB powder (Lawn Fawn); silver gem; 

Anti static powder

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!

I hope you enjoyed a wonderful Holiday Season and that you were able to find much peace and happiness.

Meet today's card.  

Time to show you one of the new stencils for the New Year from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Fancy Doily

I love doing stencil layering to create unique and interesting designs so I paired it up with the Jewel Snowflake to see what I could come up with.

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

• I got out a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  I positioned the Fancy Doily stencil over the cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Jewel Snowflake right over it and then inked it again but this time with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I removed both stencils and was left with this lovely design.
• Next, I splattered with my white Posca pen and let dry.
• When it was dry, I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti, stamped the sentiment and then clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the panel onto some white cardstock, then onto a piece of navy and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I added 3 silver gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Fancy Doily

Jewel Snowflake

Something new as well.  A Colorful Life Designs will be also selling these:

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

 A big thanks to all of you that take the time to come and have a look and leave me such kind comments.  All are so very appreciated.  

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- WHAT'S NEW

Simon Says Monday- A NEW START

Paper Minutes- SOMETHING NEW

Supplies

Stamps- Christmas Cheer (retired)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger);

white Posca pen; TE Blending Brushed; silver gems

A New Year

 

Hello and Welcome

I hope your first few days of the New Year have been happy ones.

I had a few days off so was glad to have some time to play with some new Christmas goodies.

I was inspired by a video I watched and decided to try and make my first 'mini' slimline card.

Super easy to make but may be difficult to find the right size envelope so I will add how I made one at the end.

A standard Slimline card is size is 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 whereas a Mini Slimline is 6" x 3".

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

• I began by embossing a piece of heavy white cardstock using my new Snowy Forest eb folder.  I ran it through my machine to get a good impression.
• I wanted to add colour so I got out my brayer and rolled some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink along the bottom where the trees are.  I cleaned off my brayer and then added some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink over the middle area, overlapping the colours a bit.
• Finally at the top, I brayered on some Salty Ocean DOX ink to give the sky a hint of blue.
• While the ink dried, I cut my card base.  For my mini slimline the white cardstock was cut 6 x 6" and scored at 3"and folded in half.
• I then took the embossed panel and cut it in half so I could make 2 slimline cards (another one coming soon) using the one embossed/inked piece I had made.
• I glued it to one side of a piece of white cardstock, then onto a dark green that looks black here and finally, onto the white card base.
• I stamped the sentiment and circle from a new Avery Elle set I got for Christmas using some more Rustic Wilderness ink in my Misti, then die cut out the circle and pop dotted it off to the side.

ENVELOPE:

• The envelope to mail this card is very simple.  I used my Envelope Punch Board to create it.
• I cut my lightweight white cardstock to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4".  (I used the lightweight cs as it is easier to fold and not as stiff as the heavy.)
• I placed it into my Envelope Punch Board and punched the first mark at 3 1/8" and scored along the marked line.  I rotated my cardstock and followed the instructions, continuing around until my envelope was made.  It is so simple to do using this Punch Board.  You can make any size envelope. All the measurements are included on the front of the board.

Here is a picture of the Envelope Punch Board:

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- TIME TO PARTY

CAS on Friday- HAPPY NEW YEAR

Shopping Our Stash- BEGINS WITH 'S'

(slimline)

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Distress Oxides (see above)

Paper- cardstock (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Snowy Forest eb folder (Memory Box); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Speedball Brayer; Envelope Punch Board (We R Memory Keepers); 

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts); foam tape

Happy New Year 2022

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Good Morning.

Time to celebrate a New Year with new beginnings and hopefully good health and happiness!

Here's a simple card I made using stencils from ACLD.

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

• I began by getting out my Stencil Mat from Waffle Flower....a fairly new to me tool that I am loving to stencil on.  It is a silicone mat that holds your paper and stencil nicely in place.
• I positioned the Happy New Year stencil over my white cardstock.  Starting at the top, I applied Distress Oxide inks in this order:  Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Crackling Campfire, Barn Door, Peacock Feathers Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio.  
• To add more interest, I left that stencil in place and positioned the Cozy Knit stencil right over the top of it, doing a stencil on stencil technique.  I inked from top to bottom again.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I cut another white panel and using the Cozy Knit stencil again, I used the same colours of Distress Oxide inks and stenciled up the whole panel but this time I reversed the colours.  I glued that onto a heavy white card base.
• I fussy cut the Happy New Year out, then pop dot mounted it onto my stenciled card panel.

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)

Wishing you everything wonderful this New Year.

Thanks so much for all the times you have visited and for all the most kind and generous comments.

You have all blessed my life in so many ways.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- IT'S TIME TO PARTY

Time Out- NEW

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides (all mentioned above)

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

Accessories and Tools- Happy New Year stencil (ACLD); Cozy Knit Stencil (ACLD); 

Stencil Mat (Waffle Flower); TE Blending Brushes; Posca pen

Happy New Year

Meet today's card. 

I hope you enjoyed a wonderful Christmas.

With the New Year almost here, I created a quick and easy card.

I began by using the snowflake stencil from SSS and rubbed Tumbled Glass Distress ink over the top.

To add some more depth and interest, I left the stencil in place and using various sized circle stamps, I stamped over it using darker shades of Distress inks.

I splattered on some acrylic paint, more blue ink and lastly some water to lift a bit of the colour.

I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches in the bottom corner.

To add to the festive, celebration theme, I applied some shiny Nuvo Drops over some of the small circles.

 

 Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- HELLO 2017

Shopping Our Stash- WINTER WONDERLAND

Paperminutes- New Year's Cards

Simon Says Monday- PARTY TIME

 Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

 Supplies:  stamp- Paper Smooches/ ink-Memento, Distress/ stencil- SSS/ circle stamps- HA, pencil eraser/ clear Nuvo drops/ applicator tool

Happy New Year!! 2015

2015

Wishing you a wonderful New Year filled with many good times, good health and much happiness.

Blessings.