Feeling Grateful

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Meet today's card.

I wanted to use the newly released stencil called Mega Flower from A Colorful Life Designs to make a sunny, happy feeling card.

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

• As always, I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.
• I placed the Mega Flower stencil over my cardstock.  Beginning at the center of the flower, I inked up with some Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved outwards over the stencil and inked next with some Carved Pumpkin and then finally some Mustard Seed on the outer edges.
• I moved the stencil a bit to fill in some white area left along the side and inked again, filling up my whole card front.
• I splattered with my black Posca pen to add interest.
• I placed the finished panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment to one side.  
• I glued the panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 card base.
• I added some white dots to the flower centers and 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish it off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mega Flower

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Let Us Be Grateful (IO-retired)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

black and white Posca pen, Misti

Pink for Spring- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning

Meet today's card.  Another one for our fun theme at 

The Flower Challenge

I'm playing with this fun Together flower stamp from Penny Black again and doing some more Alcohol Ink lifting.  The lifting is such a fun and easy technique to play with.

(To see the other card I made using this technique, go HERE)

I began with a discarded piece of Yupo paper that I had inked using Rangers Alcohol inks and blending solution.  A lot of times, I will do some inking then set it aside until I figure out what I will use it for.  The piece I had done used shades of reds and pinks so I thought it would be great to use with this stamp.

So, I placed the AI inked piece inside my Misti, positioned my flowers over it, then inked with Rangers Alcohol Lifting Ink and stamped.  This ink lifts the AI so you are able to transfer it to a piece of plain cardstock.  I took out the piece of Yupo then stamped the flowers onto a piece of plain white cardstock.  I cleaned off the stamp, put the pieces back into my Misti and repeated that process to get a good solid image transfer.  I was left with these pretty pink blossoms.  Having a stamp positioning tool makes this process the easiest but you don't have to stamp twice, I just like a darker finished image.

Next, I took my Simple Grid stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and added some pattern to the background using Spun Sugar Distress ink and a small sponge dabber.  I like that it added some interest and complimented the look of the flowers. 

 I placed the piece back into my Misti and stamped the PB Grateful sentiments then glued it onto a plain white card base.  I also added 2 pink pearls to the flower centers.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

As You Like It- DIES or STENCILS and WHY?

(stencils because it's so easy to add interest and texture)

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP

Supplies

Stamps- Together (Penny Black); Grateful Sentiment (Penny Black)

Inks- Ranger Alcohol Lifting; Distress- Spun Sugar (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tool- previously Alcohol inked piece; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); sponge dabber; 

Simple Grid stencil (A Colorful Life Designs)

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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