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Good Morning

Well, A Colorful Life Designs has done it again.

They have just added these wonderful new masks called 

Marvelous Masks Hexagon 

There are 2 different size sets, but for my card, I used set B.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the middle sized mask from the Marvelous Masks Hexagon B set onto the middle of my cardstock on my Make Art Station.
• I inked over the mask with some Peacock Feather and then added some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink just along the edges.
• I moved the mask around on my card front and kept inking with the same colours.
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the Wildflowers along the bottom with some more of the Villainous Potion DOX ink.  I love the look it gave.
• While that dried, I rubbed some more of the Villainous DOX ink onto a scrap piece of white cardstock, splattered with my white Posca pen and then die cut out the sentiment.  I glued that onto the white shadow die I cut from another scrap.
• I splattered the whole finished panel with my white Posca pen and then glued it onto a piece of pale mauve cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment near the top of the panel.

Here are the masks I used:

Marvelous Masks Hexagon Set B

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Cut It Up- THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

Tic Tac Toe- STENCIL,DIE CUT, FRAME

Supplies

Stamps- Wildflowers (Simon Says)

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); white Posca pen;

Happy Wishes die (SSS); Make Art Station

Big Snowflake Wishes

Welcome

Today's card was done using the technique called Cover Plate Eclipse.

It is a fun technique to try and gives a unique look to your cards.

See the other card I made using this technique here.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock into my Misti, inked up the snowflake stamp with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink, sprayed with some water and stamped.
• I added some Villainous Potion to the center of my snowflake and stamped again over the first inking.  I set that aside to dry.
• Taking another piece of white cardstock, I repeated that whole process mentioned above and I was left with 2 panels stamped the very same.
• Next, I took one of the panels and die cut it with the Hexagons.
• To give more height to the die cut, I cut it again using some plain white cardstock and glued them together.
• I glued the die cut panel over the stamped snowflake, matching the two up to create my cover plate eclipse.
• I glued it onto an A2 sized card base and then added the stamped sentiment with some foam tape.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafting From the Heart- ANYTHING GOES

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Die Cut Divas- ALL ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS

 Supplies

Stamps- Let is Snow (sentiment- Visible Image); Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Craft)

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Simply Hexagons die (Pinkfresh Studio)

foam tape

Striped Hexagon

Good Morning

Meet today's card.

Lots of bright, happy feeling colours using this newly released Striped Hexagon stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock and placed the Striped Hexagon over it. 
• I masked off the top and bottom area of the stencil and inked that up with some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the masks to another area and inked with some Carved Pumpkin DOX then finally some Picked Raspberry in the areas left uninked.
• I took the finished piece and die cut a hexagon right from the center of the panel.
• I placed the die cut into my Misti and stamped the border and the sentiment onto it.  I splattered over it with my black Posca pen.
• Next, I decided to cut out the finished stenciled piece and I popped that onto a piece of white cardstock.  I glued that onto some matching orange cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• I popped the sentiment back into place over the stenciled background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Striped Hexagon

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate with no extra cost to you)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

We Love Stamping- Anything Stamped with the option of Hot Sunny Colours

The Corrosive Challenge- Anything Goes

Creative Fingers- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Hexagon Greetings (SSS)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook (Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Striped Hexagon stencil (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes;

low tack tape; Misti; foam tape; black Posca pen; Infinity Hexagon die (HA)

Happy Thoughts

 

Welcome

Meet today's card.

I got out my salad spinner again to create my card.

For anyone that may have missed my little video using the salad spinner and Alcohol inks, please check it out.

Salad Spinner video

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

• I began by getting out my salad spinner, an inexpensive one that I got at the Dollar Store.  It must be a dedicated spinner and not ok for food after using it with inks.
• I cut a piece of Yupo paper and placed it into the bottom of my spinner.  I dropped in some Ranger Alcohol inks....green and a hint of blue (sorry I didn't write down the colours I used).... then sprayed in some Rubbing Alcohol to help the inks move.  I placed the lid onto the spinner and then spun away.  DO NOT SPRAY BLENDING SOLUTION, you can drip it in to help get the inks moving as well.  
• I repeated that process to fill my whole piece of Yupo with ink.
• When the panel was dry which took almost no time at all, I splattered with my black Posca pen and set aside.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and used a hexagon die to cut it out.  I cut a piece of green cardstock as well and glued them together.
• When the inked piece was dry, I used a larger hexagon die to add an impression around the area that I was going to add the sentiment. It gave a framed look without cutting into the Yupo.  (I did cut a hexagon from the Yupo right where my sentiment is, but changed my mind and left it off.)
• I glued the panel onto some white cardstock, then onto a piece of green cardstock and finally onto a white card base.
• I pop dot mounted the sentiment over the front of my card and added 3 silver gems under the sentiment.  

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A DIE CUT

Get Creative- USE GREEN

Simon Says Mon.- USE GREEN

Supplies

Stamps- Hexagon Greetings (SSS)

Inks- Ranger Alcohol ink; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- salad spinner (Dollar Store); Hexagon Infinity dies (Hero Arts);

silver gems; black Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); foam tape

Snowflake Christmas

 

Welcome

Wow, I can't believe how quickly the holiday season is approaching.

Time to kick it into full gear and get to finishing up some more holiday cards.

I picked up a new set of dies- Nesting Hexagon Infinity dies from Hero Arts and wanted to give them a try.

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

• Once again, I began by looking through my stash of previously inked pieces and found this blue one that I had done in a Gel Plate Class I took in the summer.  I used bubble wrap to lift the paint off the plate and leave the impression you can see in the background.  So using one of the hexagon dies, I die cut the panel into pieces cutting them close together as I knew I wanted to reassemble them onto my card front. helpful hint:  by adding a small mark to one corner and numbering the panels helps so much when reassembling them onto the card front
• I glued the pieces onto a piece of white card stock, matching the pattern up and trimmed away the excess along the edges.
• I placed the glued up panel into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes randomly with some Versamark ink and then white heat embossed them.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from SSS onto another piece of white cardstock, then glued it over the dry panel.
• I glued it all onto a white cardstock base then added the little white pearls to the snowflake centers.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- CHRISTMAS

Craft Rocket- WINTER/ SNOW

Paper Minutes- CHRISTMAS IN PATELS

Supplies

Stamps- Snowflake Flurry (MFT)

Inks- Versamark

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

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate print; Acrylic paint; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Lawn Fawn white EB powder; Posca pen; die- SSS; white pearls; Hexagon dies (HA)