So Many Happy Wishes

Welcome

Here is another card featuring our Mid Month release from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Minimalist

I paired it up with a stencil from last month's release called 

PATTERNED NOISE

Here is what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted that stencil off, placed down the Patterned Noise stencil and inked that up with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment words from some dark blue cardstock 5 times and glued those together creating a stacked sentiment. I used the word outline to die cut right from the middle of the stenciled panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of dark blue cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment into the space I cut away with the word outline and added some silver gems around it.
• I used a scrap piece of the blue cardstock to die cut the string detail and glued that under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

Patterned Noise

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Simon Says Monday- ADD TEXT

Just Add Ink- STENCILS AND DIES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/blue 

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

Happy Wishes die (SSS); Twine die (Spellbinders)

Garden of Flowers

Good Morning and Welcome

Today's card features our mid-month release from A Colorful Life Designs called

Mid Century Minimalist

I used it to make a fun background for my flower vine.

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

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off and then placed it back over the pattern, turning it sideways and inked it again with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. What a fun pattern it created.
• While that dried, I die cut the flowers and glued a piece of clear vellum behind the frame of the flowers. 
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the climbing flower vine over the background and then added some pearl gems to the flower centers.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FABULOUS FLORALS

Just Add Ink- STENCIL/DIES OR BOTH

Cut it Up- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/Blue/ clear Vellum

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Flower Vine die (Temu);

pearl gems

Let's Celebrate

Welcome

Here is a fun little card I made using the newly mid-month release stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

PATTERNED NOISE

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and using a Dot Circle die, I cut 2 circles right in the middle of my cardstock.
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the birthday greeting over the die cut circles.
• Next, I placed the Patterned Noise stencil over the stamped panel and then inked just around the sentiment with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours....Wilted Violet, Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Peacock Feathers and some Fossilized Amber.
• I glued the inked panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then I used a black fine line marker to fill in the areas of the sentiment that were over the die cut circles. Hope that makes sense!
• I glued my card front onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" white square card base.
• The last thing I did was to add 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Patterned Noise

(It's on SALE right now)

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT 

AAA Birthday Game- MASCULINE

Make My Monday- STENCIL

Supplies

Stamps- Birthday Greetings (Temu)

Inks- Versafine Claire; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Dotted Circle Dies (Temu); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black fine line marker; black gems

Hooray and YAY!

Welcome

As most of you already know, I love combining stencils to create fun new patterns and designs.

So for today's card, I combined 2 new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds and Flower Rays

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by rubbing some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink over the back of the Circles and Diamonds stencil, sprayed with Rubbing Alcohol and pressed onto the paper. 
• Leaving the stencil in place, I rubbed some more of the Broken China DOX over the stencil, filling in the circles.
• I lifted that stencil off and positioned the Flower Rays stencil over the background and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. The flowers gave the background such a great feeling of energy.
• Next, I looked through my scrap pieces of inked cardstock and found this one that I had done using Brushos on white cardstock so I used that to die cut my sentiment and glued it onto the white word shadow.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Circles and Diamonds 

Flower Rays

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MAY FLOWERS

Allsorts- MONOCHROMATIC or ANYTHING GOES

Cut it Up- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white/ navy cs

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

Rubbing Alcohol; YAY die (Whimsy Stamps); foam tape

Zipping By to Say Hi

Good Morning

Today's cute card was made using a new for May stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds

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

• I laid the Circles and Diamonds stencil flat onto my work surface and pressed my Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink pad all over the stencil until it was covered with ink.
• I sprayed the stencil with some Rubbing Alcohol and then pressed it onto my white cardstock and left it there for a minute to let the ink soak in. 
• I dried the paper, cleaned off the stencil and placed it back over the pattern, matching it up and inked again with more of the Prize Ribbon DOX ink.
• While that dried, I die cut the zipper with some navy cardstock.
• I took the stenciled base and cut a small 'V' at the top and glued the zipper over the stenciled background.  I also added a small piece of white cardstock behind the zipper to show at the top.
• I glued that onto a piece of pale grey cardstock, then onto a piece of pale blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I had a small piece of the stenciled base left when I cut it down, so I used that to create a small pocket.
• I used some foam tape to add the pre-printed sentiment across the bottom to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles and Diamonds

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Add Ink- STENCILS AND DIES

Craft Rocket- NOT SQUARE

The Sisterhood of Crafters- MAKE SOMEONE SMILE

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Zipper die (Temu); foam tape (Dollar Store); Everyday Occasions sentiment strip (TE)

Very Best Wishes

Welcome

I'd like you to meet 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

SPOTLIGHT and DASHING CIRCLE

By doing some stencil layering, I was able to create a super fun design.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Spotlight stencil over my paper then inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the Dashing Circles stencil over that, matching up the circle designs and inked again with some Villainous Potion DOX ink. What a fun pattern it made!
• I die cut a circle from the middle of my stenciled panel and glued it onto a purple die cut circle.  
• Next, I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut that out with a circle die.
• I glued my stenciled panel onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I popped the die cut circle back over my card front, matching up the pattern and then glued the sentiment over that.

Here are the stenciled I used:

SPOTLIGHT

DASHING CIRCLE

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- THAT SONG

(Will it Go Round in Circles- Billy Preston)

Crafty Calendar- DIES/PUNCHES

Craft Rocket- LAYER IT UP

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

Joyful Music

 

Good Morning

This month at A Colorful Life Designs, some of the stencil designs revolve around music, the universal language.

So meet the new for March stencil called:

MUSIC

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

• I used an older stencil called Dot Circle to start my background and I inked that with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the notes from the Music stencil across my card base and inked it with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. 
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the musician with some black ink.
• I took the Music stencil again and inked the 'music' word along the bottom with some Salty Ocean and some Black Soot DOX ink. (by using the black ink along the bottom of the word helped ground the sentiment)
• I used some more of the Salvaged Patina DOX to add a shadow around the outside edge of my card front.
• Using my black Posca pen, I splattered just around the bottom edge of the image.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

MUSIC

DOT CIRCLE

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Just Add Ink- STENCILS/DIES or BOTH

Inkspirational- STENCILS (option- plaid)

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (IO-out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black Posca pen

YAY for You!

Welcome

This card is way more simple then it looks using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called: 

Celtic Mask

This card really shows the versatility and simple designs created by moving a stencil and overlapping the pattern.

 

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Celtic Mask over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, then shifted it over and inked again with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I splattered over the stenciling with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the 'YAY' letters from a piece of pale blue cardstock and added some white details to the letters to add to the interest.  
• I die cut the word shadow right from the middle of my stenciled card base and also from a piece of dark blue cardstock. I glued them together, offsetting a bit to show the darker behind and to give it a bit of contrast.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop my sentiment back into place, matching the pattern.

Here is the stencil I used:

Celtic Mask

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

Word Power- WORD AS FOCUS

Send A Smile 4 Kids- KIDS BIRTHDAY CARD

Supplies

Stamp- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

white Posca pen; YAY die (Whimsy)

Feeling Happy

Welcome

I had such fun creating this card using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Celtic Mask

So here's what I did to make this simple card.

• I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Celtic Mask stencil over my paper. I inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and inked that up with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink and then cut out just part of the design and set aside.
• I splattered the darker blue panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the little penguin with some black and white cardstock and glued them together.
• I placed the cut out design into my Misti and stamped the sentiment across the top, then glued the little penguin just under that.
• I glued the main panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then navy blue and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added the cut out piece with some foam tape to pop it up, matching the design.

Here is the stencil I used:

Celtic Mask

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Alphabet Challenge- 'U' IS FOR UPLIFTING

Cut it Up- THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

As You Like It- CUTE OR ELEGANT AND WHY

(I went for cute as this cute little penguin made me smile)

Supplies

Stamps- More Sentiments (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Penguin die (Amazon);

TE Blending Brushes; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); foam tape; white Posca pen

So Happy

Welcome

This fun little card was created using the new stencil called:

Circles Galore

from A Colorful Life Designs.

Lots of possibilities with this one, but I decided to keep it really simple.

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

• I placed the Circles Galore stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.  I was left with a fun panel of dotted circles.
• To add more interest, I took the eraser on the end of a pencil and added the dots in these Distress Oxide colours; Ripe Persimmon, Abandoned Coral and some Peacock Feathers.  
• I glued my square stenciled panel onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it out.  I die cut a blue circle slightly larger and glued them together before adding them to the middle of my card with some foam tape to pop it up.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles Galore

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- HAPPY NEW? (stencil)

Simon Says Wed.- SOMETHING NEW

Alphabet- 'S' IS FOR SQUARE

Simply Clean and Simple- USE SOMETHING NEW (stencil)

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle); pencil eraser

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Infinity Circle dies (HA); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

People Like You

Welcome

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

Circle Moon

So, here's how I created my card.

• I found this background in my stash that I had done on my Gel plate.  It had some blue inks on it and I thought it looked like clouds, so that was my starting point.
• This stencil has 2 parts included to overlap one another. I placed the top of the Circle Moon Stencil over the background and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil and moved it down to the detail portion and inked again but this time I used some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of blue and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I cut the pre-printed sentiment and added it along the bottom with some foam tape.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circle Moon

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Alphabet- KEEP IT SIMPLE

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES

Craft Rocket- DOTS/and or STRIPES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Gel Plate, brayer, Pre-Printed sentiment (TE)

Happy Hooray!

Happy September!!

There is a crispness in the air and the kids are going back to school.  

A new month also means a new lineup of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, some great Fall inspired designs.

Today's card features one of the new release called 

Quarter Moons

I thought I'd use some Fall colours so here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Quarter Moons stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted to add interest to the design, so I left the stencil in place and put the Bauhaus Circle Mask stencil (last month's release) right over it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto white, then yellow and finally onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Quarter Moons

Bauhaus Circle Mask Stencil

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Allsorts- BIRTHDAY or ANYTHING GOES

Stamp and Fun= Creativity- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studio)

Inks- Versafine, DOX

Paper- Solar White; Coloured cs

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

black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); clear eb powder