Many Smiles

Happy Saturday!

Today, I'm having some fun with this great Paint Strokes stencil from ACLD inked up with happy colours of Distress Oxide inks.

So many possibilities using it too.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock that was 3 3/4" x 5" first.  I wanted my card to be simple with a clean white border around it, so I placed one of the Marvelous Rectangle Masks from ACLD over my cardstock that masked off an area in the center of my card panel.
• I used the Paint Strokes stencil in a random way, placing it onto the panel and inking some of the strokes from the top and some going up from the bottom all within the rectangle mask.  Here are the colours I used in order from left to right:  Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.
• When I was happy with the inking, I splattered using my white Posca pen.
• When the ink was dry, I die cut the sentiment outline from the middle of the panel and the word part from some white cardstock, then glued them together.
• I used my ScorPal board to score a border around the inked area after removing the rectangle mask.  It really helped to frame it up and gave some more visual interest.
• I glued the stenciled piece onto some blue cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dot mounted the sentiment back into place in the center and glued on the white heart.

Here is the stencil and masks I used:

Paint Strokes

Marvelous Masks Rectangles

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- stencils and masks (ACLD); ScorPal; Posca pen;

Sending Smiles die- (Simon Says)

Congrats

Welcome

Meet today's card.

A super simple one for congratulations of a new baby.

I thought this cute image from Old Island Stamp Company would work great for this.

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

• I cut a panel from a piece of heavy white cardstock and then positioned the Marvelous Rectangle mask from A Colorful Life Designs over that.  (they are so awesome to use instead of taping it all off)
• I took out the Tie Dye set from Hero Arts and using one of the stamps, I inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and randomly stamped inside the masked area.  I repeated that process using some Twisted Citron and then some Broken China until the area was covered.
• Next, I placed the stamped piece into my Misti and I took out this sweet birdhouse stamp called Community from The Old Island Stamp Company and stamped it with some Versafine Clair ink over the background.  
• I stamped the birdhouse again onto some white cardstock, fussy cut it out and then watercoloured it with a paintbrush using some diluted DOX inks with the same colours mentioned above.
• Using my Misti again, I stamped the 'Congrats' with some Versafine Clair and clear heat embossed it.  
• I glued the inked panel to a piece of blue cardstock and then to a heavy card base.  I pop dotted the watercoloured birdhouse back onto the image.

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.

Supplies

Stamps- Congrats (Basic Grey); Community (The Old Island Stamp Company); Tie Dye (Hero Arts)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Distress Oxides (mentioned above)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Rectangle Mask (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); pop dots; 

Wow cl embossing powder; heat tool