Fancy Heart

Welcome

I had fun creating today's card using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Fancy Heart

It's a great one for creating cards for Valentine's Day or even for an anniversary or to send to a friend.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and put the Fancy Heart stencil over that.
• Beginning at the center of the heart, I inked with some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I used some Ripe Persimmon and then some Picked Raspberry DOX ink, blending the colours together as I went along.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I decided not to add a sentiment as I could use this card for a lot of different occasions so I left it plain.
• When the panel was dry, I glued it onto a piece of white, then pink cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fancy Heart

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My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- SOMETHING NEW

Cardz 4 Galz- USE STENCILS

Craft Rocket- SOMETHING NEW

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

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

white Posca pen

Have a Colorful Day

Good Morning

I want to introduce you to just one of the new stencils for January from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Heart With Options

This is a great stencil that includes 4 different designed hearts and a mask included as well.  

The hearts on this stencil are spaced apart which makes inking with different colours so easy.

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

• I placed the Heart With Options stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked the first plain heart into the bottom right hand corner with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• Beside that pink heart, I inked up the next one with some Ripe Persimmon DOX ink.
• I repeated the inking process using all the different heart designs along the top of my card panel with more of the Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I splattered over the hearts with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment with some more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink, clear heat embossed it, then die cut it out.
• I glued the dried panel onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
• I popped up the sentiment with some foam tape and added 3 pearls around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Heart With Options

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

Just Us Girls- USE DIES

My Time to Craft- NEW

Supplies

Stamps- With All My Art (TE)

Inks- DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); white pearls; foam tape; clear eb powder

The Grinch

Good Morning

One more Grinch card for to share with you this month as we celebrate the new releases.  

This fun one from A Colorful Life Designs is called:

3 Sizes Too Small

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

• I began by inking up the sentiment from the 3 Sizes Too Small first using some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink on a piece of white cardstock and then used the Zig Zag die to cut it out.  I did some light inking along the edges to help the details show up better.
• Next, I inked up the Grinch's hands with more DOX ink and fussy cut them out.  I also splattered with my black Posca pen.
• I glued a piece of green polka dots paper onto a piece of red cardstock, the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I traced the hearts from the stencil onto a piece of green and red cardstock, fussy cut them out and glued them together. I added them between the hands.
• I used some foam tape to pop hands along the top part of the card base.
• I used some more foam tape to add the sentiment under the hands.
• Lastly, I added some bright red gems to the middle of the heart and around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

3 Sizes Too Small

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) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CHRISTMAS

Just Us Girls- STENCILING

Just Add Ink- STENCILING

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Zig Zag Stackers die (Penny Black); red gems; black Posca pen;

foam tape

Happy Heart Flowers

Good Morning

Today's card was such a fun one to make. I think it turned out looking so happy.

I used 3 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs to make my card.

The new stencils for March are called 

Heart Flowers and Curvy Path 

I layered those two together and then I added details with an older stencil called Simple Mosaic.

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

• I placed the Heart Flowers stencil over a piece of white cardstock, then inked it up with some Peacock Feathers in the centers and some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink along the petals of the flowers.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I layered the Curvy Path over the top of it and inked with some Villainous Potion DOX ink.  It gave the flowers a fun looking pattern.
• I removed those stencils and then using the Simple Mosaic, I added some stenciling to the flower centers and around them using some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• Next, I rubbed some Villainous Potion DOX ink onto a scrap of white cardstock and then used that to die cut the sentiment.  
• I die cut the sentiment shadow from the stenciled card front, then glued the sentiment onto it.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of mauve cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment back over the center of my card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

Heart Flowers

Curvy Path

Simple Mosaic

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) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Craft Rocket- FOR THE GIRLS

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES- LARGE SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Die (Simon Says); Make Art Station (Ranger)

Love is in the Air

Morning

Meet the new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Fan Blades and Rocky Path

I decided to use them to make a non-traditional Valentine card.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and laid the Fan Blades stencil over it on my Make Art Station.  I inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Rocky Path stencil right over it and inked with some Villainous Potion DOX ink.  It added a fun pattern to the fan blades.
• While that dried, I inked a scrap of white cardstock with some more Peacock Feathers DOX ink and then I die cut the heart with the dots and used a paper punch to get the smaller one.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4 inch square card base.
• I glued the hearts over the center of the fan, then stamped the sentiment onto a piece of white cardstock and used some foam tape to pop that over the hearts.

Here are the stencils I used:

Fan Blades

Rocky Path

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) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- HAVE A HEART

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Die Cut Divas- NON-TRADITIONAL VALENTINE

Supplies

Stamps- Lighter then Air (Alleyway Stamps)

Inks- DOX

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

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

TE Blending Brushes; Screen Elements Heart die (SSS); Heart Punch

Heart Path

Good Morning

Today's card features the new for January stencil called 

Heart Path 

from A Colorful Life Designs.

Perfect for creating some cards for Valentine's Day.

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

• I began by cutting 2 pieces of white cardstock as I wanted to do an Cover Plate Eclipse.  Go here to see how to do that technique.
• I placed one of the pieces of cardstock onto my Make Art Station and placed the Heart Path stencil over that.  I inked it up with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off and then I placed the second piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station with the stencil over it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• Next, I took the piece I had inked with the red and die cut it using a Polka Dots die.
• I glued the die cut panel over the first stenciled panel, matching up the pattern.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the sentiment from some pink cardstock and glued it onto the white shadow word die.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment over the center of my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Heart Path

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) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SENTIMENTAL YOU

Simon Says Wed.- LET'S HAVE SOME FUN

Ellibelle's Corner- HEARTS and or ROSES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

TE Blending Brushes; Polka Dot die (WR Memory Makers); 

Warm Hugs die (Heffy Doodle)

Big Love

Hello and Welcome

Meet the new for January

BIG LOVE

stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  

Just in time for making some Valentine cards.

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

• I began by rubbing some Broken China Distress Oxide ink onto this Embossing Folder and then ran it through my die cutting machine.  It transferred all the ink to the raised area and I was left with a fun, embossed piece for my card front.
• I took that embossed panel and placed it onto my Make Art Station.
• I laid the Big Love stencil over that and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• Next, I rubbed some Broken China DOX ink onto a white scrap of cardstock, splattered it with my white Posca pen and die cut the heart.
• I glued the stenciled/embossed panel onto an white A2 sized card base and used some foam tape to pop the heart over the 'O'.

Here is the stencil I used:

Big Love

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) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Word Power- WORDS THE MAIN FOCUS

Moving Along with the Times- NEW CRAFT ITEM

Craft Rocket- EMBOSSING

Time Out- NEW

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Circle EB folder (???); Heart die (HA); white Posca pen

Coffee Time

Hello and Welcome

Today's card was a fun one.

I sure do love and appreciate my coffee in the morning.

I used this newly released Coffee Love stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and paired it up with this cute vintage image.

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

• I positioned the Coffee Love stencil onto the middle of a piece of white cardstock on my Make Art Station.  
• When I was happy with the position of the stencil, I inked it up with some Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide ink.  I added some shadows to the beans by inking just over some areas with Aged Mahogany DOX ink.
• While that dried, I stamped the image onto a piece of white cardstock with some black ink and then fussy cut it out. 
• I place the stenciled heart into my Misti to stamp the sentiment over to one side and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of brown matching cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I used some foam tape to the image and popped it to one side of the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Coffee Love

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Less is More- ANYTHING GOES

A Place to Start- ANYTHING GOES/ option- WOMEN OF THE YEAR

Stamping Sensations- ANYTHING STAMPED- option- CAS

Supplies

Stamps- Girlfriends (sentiment- Art Impressions); Coffee and Tea (Crafty Secrets)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook (Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); 

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape, Lawn Fawn clear EB powder

Happy New Baby

Welcome

Today's card features this adorable newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

  Layered Bunny Faces.  Perfect for Easter or I chose to make a baby card using it.

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

• I put a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Part #1 of the Layered Bunny Faces stencil over that.  I inked up the pink bunnies first, down the center of the cardstock panel using some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.  
• I cleaned off the stencil and then repositioned it to ink up the blue bunnies along the sides using some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed Stencil #1 and positioned the second stencil (the face details) over the bunny heads and inked them up with some black ink....so cute
• Next, I got out the Layered Rainbow Love stencil (January release) as I wanted to fill in some of the open areas.  Using just the hearts from that stencil and some more of the inks mentioned above, I inked up the hearts in the open areas between the bunnies.
• I removed the heart stencil and used a pencil eraser to add the dots for fun.
• I got out this fun die from Heffy Doodle and cut the outline of the words from the stenciled panel.  I also cut the sentiment with some white cardstock.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto an A2 card base.
• I glued the sentiment onto the shadow piece and then pop dotted those back into place.

Here are the stencils I used:

Layered Bunny Faces

Layered Rainbow Love

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

As You Like It- FAV EASTER CRITTER AND WHY (bunnies are so soft and gentle)

Critter Crazy- ANYTHING GOES WITH A FEATURED CRITTER

The Crafter's Cafe- CIRCLES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxide

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

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

-Happy New Baby die (Heffy Doodles); TE Blending Brushes; Pencil-eraser