Celebration Time

Welcome

It's the weekend and time to play!!

I was looking through my stencils mindlessly, trying to think about what I wanted to create.  

I like to have birthday cards on hand, so decided to go with that plan.  

I love this fun stencil, just add a few bright colours and you can make a great card.

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

• I began by pulling out my Stencil Mat and cut a piece of white cardstock.  
• I got out this fun stencil called Round Fragments from A Colorful Life Designs...one of my favs.  I decided to stencil these fun flower shapes in a totally random way, so I masked off around the largest shape and added that into the bottom corner of my white cardstock panel using some Carved Pumpkin, Picked Raspberry and a hint of Rusty Hinge right in the very center.  
• I continued to move the stencil around over my card front, masking and placing some of the flower shapes into the corners and then more into the center area.  I inked the dots from that same  stencil to fill in the open areas.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the 'Happy' and die cut it out, then stamped the 'Birthday' onto another piece of white cardstock and cut that out.  
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of matching pink cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I glued the Happy onto the card front, then pop dot mounted the Birthday under that.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 pink gems just around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Round Fragments

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Thanks so much for coming by and have a great weekend.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Sketchy Girls- FLOWERS

Crafter's Cafe- MYO BACKGROUND

Supplies

Stamps- Happy (The Stamp Market); Birthday (SU)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Round Fragments stencil (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes, 

painter's tape for masking; white Posca pen, orange gems (Dollar Tree); foam tape

Sweater Weather

Welcome

Need some last minute card ideas?  I have a simple card to show you today.

I made some plaid using my Copic Markers and a ruler.  Pretty simple but fun to try.

I love all the plaids we see for winter; so cozy and warm.

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

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  Using a red Copic marker, I drew in the lines of my plaid with a ruler.  When I was happy with that, I added a few black lines to add interest....simple so far, right?
• Next, using this 2 part 'Merry' die from The Stamp Market, I die-cut the letters from the panel and set that aside.
• I then die-cut the shadow for the die with some black and glued the lettering over the black shadow background die cut.
• I matched the plaid lettering to the background as best I could and glued it into place.
• I added some black gems for interest.
• Finally, I glued it onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto black and then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FUN WITH DIES

The Male Room- TARTAN, PLAID

Crafting Happiness- MOSTLY RED

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Copic markers

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); black (Michaels)

Accessories and Tools- Merry die (The Stamp Market); Cuttlebug; black gems

Be Happy

Hello and Welcome.
Meet today's card.
A simple one using a brayered/stenciled background.

So here's what I did.
  As I have mentioned in previous posts, I like to roll off any excess paint from my brayer onto a piece of card when using my Geli Plate.  For this one, I was using some blue and green paint, so I just rolled out the excess and voila; another bkg. piece.  I loved the look of these 2 colours blended together.
Next, using the Beautiful Reasons stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, I masked out the phrase (see below) and just used the word happy to create some background interest using my DOX inks.
I also added some stenciled dots for more interest.
Next, I used my Misti to stamp the leaf outline with black; it is a two-part stamp.  I positioned the solid part of the leaf into my Misti and inked it with more DOX inks, sprayed with water and stamped.  When it was dry, I fussy cut it out then glued it over my inked background.
I mounted the piece onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used:



Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- IN THE GARDEN

A Place to Start- CREATE A CUSTOM BKG

Allsorts Challenge- GINGHAM, STRIPES, DOTS

Supplies

Stamps- Botanicals (The Stamp Market)
Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX (Cracked Pistachio. Faded Jeans); acrylic paint
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- brayer; Beautiful Reasons (ALCD); Dotty (AALL and Create)
blending brush; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)