Oh So Happy!

Welcome

Meet today's card featuring the new for May Night Sky stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

Also, we have another great stamp set as well called Happy Thoughts.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and got out my salad spinner.  To see how to use the salad spinner go HERE.
• I placed the white cardstock into the salad spinner, gave a big spray of Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink right into the center, placed the lid on and spun away.
• I removed the cardstock from the spinner and let dry, then laid the Night Sky stencil over the inked background and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and let it dry.
• I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Thoughts set, then die cut it into a circle.  I rubbed some Peacock Feathers DOX ink just around the edges.
• I die cut another circle, slightly larger from white cardstock and glued the 2 circles together.
• I glued the main panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I popped the circle into the center using foam tape.

Here is the stencil and stamp set I used:

Night Sky

Happy Thoughts

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Use Your Stuff- USE A TECHNIQUE

Make My Monday- MASCULINE

Everybody Art Challenge- DIE

Supplies

Stamp- Happy Thoughts (ACLD)

Inks- DOX spray and ink; Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Misti; Salad spinner (Dollar Store);

TE Blending Brushes; white Posca pen; foam tape; Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

Be Happy Birthday

Good Morning

Meet today's card.

Just a happy feeling card with these colours, using the newly released stencil called Faded Lines from A Colorful Life Designs.

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

• I decided to make a square card today, so I cut a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4" square and placed that onto my Make Art Station.
• I positioned the Faded Lines stencil over that and inked it up with some Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink. 
• When the whole panel was inked, I rotated the stencil and inked in the other direction.
• For the sentiment, I found a piece of previously inked up cardstock in my stash that matched the colours on my stenciled background.  I splattered that with my white Posca pen and then die cut the Happy Wishes sentiment from that.
• I die cut the shadow portion of the die from a piece of white cardstock and then glued the words onto that.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto a 4 1/4" card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Faded Lines

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(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamp- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook (Waterloo, Ont.)

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

TE Blending Brushes; white Posca pen; die (SSS)

BFF=Fun

Welcome.

Today's card is a fun one, created using a Bokeh layering stencil and my Distress Oxide inks.

I'm playing along with a Best Friends Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my main panel and laid it onto my Stencil Mat.
• Next, I got out the Bokeh Layering stencil from TE. This set has 3 stencils to it, so I placed the first stencil over my panel.  The stencil mat has a corner which is very useful when doing laying stencil, so you are able to get all the stencils lined up in the right position.  I inked over it with some Mustard Seed DOX ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the 2nd one down and inked with some Carved Pumpkin and repeated that process with the final stencil and some Picked Raspberry.
• When all the stenciling was done, I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I decided to cut the finished panel into 2 pieces to add interest and glued them onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of some matching orange cardstock.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti, die cut it out with a circle and glued that onto a slightly larger orange circle.  
• I glued the panel onto an A2 card base, then popped the sentiment over to one side.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

Paper- 110lb. white-Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Bokeh stencil (TE); Waffle Flower Stencil Mat; 

white Posca pen; Misti; Infinity Circle dies (HA)

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)