Autumn Joys

Welcome

It's beginning to look and feel more and more like Fall everyday here where I live. 

I decided to create a Fall inspired card using this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Waning Leaves

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

• I began by placing a piece of white cardstock into my Misti and I stamped the Leafy Leaves background stamp with black ink.
• I then placed the Waning Leaves stencil over the stamped background and inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours:  Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and Rustic Wilderness.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white and my black Posca pen and sent aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment 5x's and then glued them all together, creating a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my dried card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock and then onto a piece of red and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment across the middle to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Waning Leaves

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:

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Crafty Gals Corner- ANYTHING GOES/FALL FOLIAGE

Craft Rocket- USE DIES

Time Out- SEASONAL COLOURS WHERE YOU LIVE

(Fall in Canada)

Supplies

Stamp- Leafy Leaves background (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

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

Live, Love die (Frantic Stamper); white and black Posca paint pen

My Forever Friend

Welcome

Today's card features the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

SIMPLE LEAVES

This stencil has a nice variety of different sized leaves.

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

• I began by inking up a stencil from last month called Mid Century Square Mask with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  It gave a lot of interest to the background.
• I removed that stencil and inked each leaf from the Simple Leaves stencil, one at a time, across the top and then along the bottom with some Rustic Wilderness and some Lucky Clover DOX ink.
• While that dried, I die cut the 'friend' sentiment 5 times with black cardstock and glued them all together creating a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then green and then onto a white A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the sentiment across the middle and added 2 black gems on either side of it to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

SIMPLE LEAVES

MID CENTURY SQUARE MASK

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- DIES

Dragonfly Dreams- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

Friend die (TE); black gems

Autumn Birthday

Good Morning

Here is another card I made using this new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Fall Foliage

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

• I began with a piece of grid paper and placed the Fall Foliage stencil over that.  I inked it up with Distress Oxide inks in these colours; Ripe Persimmon, Vintage Photo, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Fossilized Amber.
• While that dried, I die cut the Grid overlay with some black cardstock then glued that over the leaves.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it with a circle die.  I glued it onto a larger black circle die cut.
• I glued my card front onto a white A2 card base and then used some foam tape to pop the birthday sentiment near the top corner.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish off my card. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

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

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FRAME IT

Paper Craft Crew- HELLO FALL

Crafty Gals Corner- ANYTHING GOES/OPTION FALL

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Circle tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

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

Grid die (Amazon); foam tape; Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

Beautiful Day

Welcome 

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

Meet one of the new for September stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Simple Leaves

A great stencil with a good collection of simple leaves to have in your stash.  

I paired it up with a fun stencil from last month called

Mid Century Half Circle Mask 

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and started by creating the overall background first. I placed the Mid Century Half Circle mask (August release) over my paper and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  
• I lifted the stencil, shifted it sideways and inked again with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• Next, one by one, I used the Simple Leaves stencil to add the leaves by inking them up with some more of the Rustic Wilderness DOX ink until my card front was covered.
• Using my white Posca pen, I splattered over the whole panel then set aside to dry.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then dark green and then onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I cut out the pre-printed sentiment and glued that onto a piece of white and green cardstock.  I added it with some foam tape across the middle of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

SIMPLE LEAVES

MID CENTURY HALF CIRCLE MASK

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Supplies

Stamps- none 

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white; green

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

Pre-Printed sentiment strips (TE); foam tape; white Posca pen

Fall Foliage

 

Welcome

It's been awhile since I have posted.  

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

Meet one of the perfect for Fall, new for September stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

FALL FOLIAGE

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock to use as my card front and stamped a script just along the side with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the Fall Foliage stencil over my cardstock and using a mask to go around each leaf, I inked them with these different colours of Distress Oxide inks:  Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Rusty Hinge.
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment along the side.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To add a bit of interest to the leaves, I used my black Posca pen and added some dots to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

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

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Time Out- THE MOVIES (sentiment- Robin Williams)

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Script (Penny Black); Words and Ideas (IO...Out of business)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

low tack tape for masking; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Geometric Leaves

It's the last day of September and where has the month gone. 

 Time for one more card using a newly releases stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Geometric Leaves

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

• I began by getting out my Gel Plate and I pressed a few of my Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto the plate.  The colours I used were:  Rustic Wilderness, Ripe Persimmon ande Fossilized Amber.
• I took my brayer and blended the inks over the plate, then placed the Geometric Leaves stencil over that.
• I took a scrap piece of paper and rubbed over the plate to lift some of the ink off, then removed the stencil and rubbed my piece of white cardstock over the plate to create the print.
• While that dried, I die cut the thin white frame using a frame die.
• I die cut the sentiment from a piece of pale green cardstock, then die cut the word shadow right from the middle of the stenciled panel.
• I glued my card front panel onto another piece of green cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the frame over the print and then used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Geometric Leaves

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; 

Speedball Brayer; Just Saying die (Concord and 9th)

Filigree Leaf

Happy Saturday!

Today's card combines 2 of the new stencils for September from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Filigree Leaf and Falling Leaves

These stencils work perfectly together to create any Fall/Autumn inspired cards.

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

• I placed the Filigree Leaf stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours:  Rustic Wilderness, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and Fossilized Amber. 
• I set that aside to dry and then placed the Falling Leaves stencil on one side of another piece of white cardstock and inked it again with the above mentioned colours.  I moved the stencil over to the other side of my cardstock and inked again, creating a trail of leaves down the left and right hand side of my card front.
• Next, I fussy cut out the Filigree Leaf by just following along the leafy edges.
• I glued my stenciled card front to a piece of dark red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the large leaf over the background.  
• I popped the sentiment strip over the leaf to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Filigree Leaf

Falling Leaves

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:

Little Red Wagon- I'M STILL STANDING

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Cut it Up- LOOKS LIKE FALL

Supplies

Stamp- Sentiment Strips (TE)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Prism Solar White

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

foam tape

Dotted Leaves

Good Morning

I had fun playing with this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Dotted Leaves

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

• I began by die cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Postage Collage die and I masked off each section.
• I placed the Dotted Leaves Stencil over the die cut and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, repositioned it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  I repeated that process one more time and inked with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I lifted the stencil off and leaving the masks in place, I rubbed some Ripe Persimmon ink around each one of the cut out framed sections
• Next, I used some red cardstock to die cut the 'THANKS' letters and glued that onto the white word shadow.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card to finish it off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dotted Leaves

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- INSPIRED BY MUSIC  

(California Dreamin')

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- DOT and/STRIPES

Cardz 4 Galz- STITCHING REAL or FAUX

(faux...faster and easier)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Postage Collage die (Waffle Flower); 

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape; Markered Messages die (Concord and 9th)

No Words

Welcome

It's not easy to create sympathy cards, but I need to add some to my stash.

So today I am playing with the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Leafy Heart Frame

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Leafy Heart Frame stencil over a piece of white cardstock and picked out some Distress Oxide inks in Fall colours.  
• Next, I randomly inked with Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness until all the leaves were inked. 
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment across the middle of the heart.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of red cardstock, the onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Leafy Heart Frame

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:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- NATURE

Make My Monday- FUN WITH STENCILS

A Place to Start- ANYTHING GOES/option- LEAVES AND CIRCLES

Supplies

Stamps- Inside Out Sympathy (Catherine Pooler)

Inks- DOX, Versafine

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

Get Well Wishes

 

Welcome

So much goodness this month as A Colorful Life Designs releases new stencils for May.

So meet this fun new one called

Praise Burst

I paired it up with an older release called

Dot Circle

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

• I began by placing the Dot Circle stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked that up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I took that stencil off and placed the Praise Burst stencil over that and inked again with some Villainous Potion DOX ink. By layering the stencils, it gave such a fun looking bkg.
• Next, I looked through my stash of cast offs and found a piece to use to die cut the frame and leaves.  
• I stamped the sentiment with some more of the Villainous Potion DOX ink and die cut it out.
• I decided to cut my stenciled card front into 4 pieces to add interest and glued them onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of purple and finally, onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the frame over the stenciled panels and used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up in the bottom corner.

Here are the stencils I used:

Praise Burst

Dot Circle

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming to visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday-STENCIL FUN

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Big and Bold Stamp and die (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prisma)

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

foam tape; Leaf Frame (Amazon)

Celebrate Fall

Good Morning

Fall is in the air with cooler mornings.  The leaves are turning colours which inspired my card.

Meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Blowing Leaves

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

• I put a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and added the Blowing Leaves stencil over that.  
• Next, I inked over the whole stencil using some Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon and some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink. I thought these colours were perfect for the colours of the changing leaves.
• I used a rectangle die to cut right from the center of the stenciled leaves and set aside.
• I glued my large card front panel onto a piece of rust coloured cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I glued the smaller die cut panel onto the same rust cardstock and used some foam tape to position it back into place over my card front.
• I die cut the sentiment from the rust cardstock and then cut it again 4 more times with some white. I glued them all together, offsetting a bit to help the sentiment show up better against the colourful background.  I glued that over the middle of  my card front.
• Finally, I added 3 red gems under the sentiment to finish off my card

Here is the stencil I used:

Blowing Leaves

Check out the bling too:

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Allsorts- AUTUMN COLORS or ANYTHING GOES

Inkspirational- MAKE YOUR MARK

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers- A is for Autumn

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Infinity Rectangle dies (HA); Celebrate die (MFT)

We Are Blessed

Welcome

Here in Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving at the beginning of October, so I decided to use the new for September stencil called 

Blowing Leaves 

from A Colorful Life Designs to make a card.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then used the Postal Collage die to cut it out.
• I placed that onto my Make Art Station and put the Blowing Leaves stencil onto the die cut and inked it up with these Distress Oxide colours:  Ripe Persimmon, Fossilized Amber, Rustic Wilderness, Lumberjack Plaid and Rusty Hinge.
• Next, I added the above mentioned colours onto a scrap piece of white cardstock and die cut the leaves from that.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of dark red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I glued the die cut leaves to one side and then use some foam tape to pop the sentiment into the corner.

Here is the stencil I used:

Blowing Leaves

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Add Ink- TEXTURE/FOLIAGE/STRING (choose 2)

My Time to Craft- ADD TEXTURE

As You Like It- TO LAYER, OR NOT and why?

(I love to layer, it adds a lot of interest)

Supplies

Stamps- Thanksgiving Blessings (Stampabilities)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger);

Leaf Fragments dies (TH); Postal Collage die (Waffle Flower); 

TE Blending Brushes