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

Leaves, Sunflowers and Pumpkins

Happy September!

Fall is right around the corner and the leaves are turning colours.

So meet 2 of the new stencils from A Colorful Life called:

Blowing Leaves and Layered Sunflower Pumpkin

I decided to use these 2 stencils together, so here's what I did.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and put the pumpkin from the Layered Sunflower Pumpkin stencil over that. I inked up the pumpkin first using some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.  To add some shading, I added just a touch of Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink to the top of the pumpkin.
• I cleaned the stencil off and then moved it to stencil the sunflowers with Fossilized Amber and some Mustard Seed DOX ink.
• I moved the stencil again and then finally inked the flower centers and the leaves of the flower.
• Next, I stenciled some of the leaves from the Blowing Leaves stencil just under and around the pumpkin.  I did have to mask it off in a few areas to add the leaves around the base of the pumpkin.
• I splattered just the pumpkin with my white Posca pen and set it aside to dry.
• I cut another piece of white cardstock and placed the Blowing Leaves stencil over that.  I inked them up with some Ripe Persimmon, Fossilized Amber, Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I glued the Blowing Leaves stenciled panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I fussy cut out the pumpkin and sunflower portion of my cardstock out next and used some foam tape to pop it over the leaf background.

Here are the stencils I used:

Blowing Leaves

Layered Sunflower Pumpkin

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) 

p.s. Some good sales on now too!

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

TICTACTOE- LEAVES/INK BLENDING/ MULTIPLES

Krafty Chicks- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; foam tape

Let's Gather Leaves

Good Morning and Welcome

The new releases for September are great at A Colorful Life Designs.  

The one I used on this card is called

Layered Fall Foliage.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  The Layered Fall Foliage is a 2- part stencil but I just used stencil #1 for my card.
• I inked up the stencil with some Fossilized Amber and some Ripe Persimmon.  
• I wanted to add some different looking interest to my card, so I looked through my other stencils from older releases and got out the Stained Glass stencil.  
• Leaving the leaf stencil in place, I put the Stained Glass right over the top and inked that up with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  It gave some really unusual interest to the leaves.
• I removed the stencils, added a bit of the red ink along the card edges and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.
• I glued the finished piece onto some red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• Finally, I cut 2 red strips of paper, glued them to the side and added 3 black gems around the sentiment.   

Here are the stencils I used:

Layered Fall Foliage

Stained Glass

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.

Supplies

Stamp- Gather (Impression Obsession)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

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

Make Art Station (Ranger); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

For Your Birthday

Welcome

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

Layered Fall Foliage.

A great one for this time of year.

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

• I found a piece of cardstock that I had rolled ink onto with my brayer while Gel Plate printing.  I thought the yellow would work well for the background.
• I put that inked up piece onto my Make Art Station, placed stencil #1 from the Layered Fall Foliage onto my cardstock and inked it up with some Carved Pumpkin and some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed stencil #2 (leaf details) into place and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil and then used my white Posca pen to add the dots.
• When it was all dry, I placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• To add more definition to the main panel, I drew a red line around the edge using a Tombow marker and a ruler.
• When it was all dry, I glued it onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally to finish off my card, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Fall Foliage

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:

Cardz 4 Galz- LEAVES

Seize the Birthday- USE FALL COLORS

The Male Room- LEAVES

Supplies

Stamp- Birthday Blessings (IO)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX; Tombow Marker

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

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

white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; 

clear eb powder; TE Blending Brushes

Lined Leaves

Good Morning

Today's card is in honour of those lost in the 911 tragedy.

I'm using a new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Lined Leaves.

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

• I began by embossing my white cardstock with the Angled Mosaic Embossing folder, then I placed it onto my Make Art Station and placed the Lined Leaves stencil over that.
• I inked over the whole stencil with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink.  I wanted to add a bit of shadow and add to the interest of the background, so I shifted the stencil slightly and inked over it again but this time with some Weathered Wood DOX ink.
• I removed the stencil and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment and then die cut it out.
• I glued the dried panel onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up over the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Lined 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 very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafting Happiness- ANYTHING GOES

Dream Valley Challenges- DRY EMBOSSING

The Male Room- LEAVES

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold Sentiments (SSS)

Inks- DOX

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

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

TE Blending Brushes; white Posca pen; Angled Mosaic EB folder (Altenew)

Bike Ride

Hello

Meet today's card featuring the new Lined Leaves stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

I used some stamping foam with my stencil to create the fun background.

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

• I got out my Simon Hurley Stamping Foam and heated it up until it was all smooth.
• I pressed it onto the Lined Leaves stencil to transfer the pattern onto the foam.  It's so fun to use!
• I inked up the foam with some Cracked Pistachio, gave a spritz of water and pressed it onto my white cardstock.  It left a lovely impression of the leaves.
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the Bicycle, then clear heat embossed it.
• I added some white features to the bike using my Posca pen.
• I glued the finished piece onto some matching green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Lined 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:

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Simon Says Mon.- STAMP IT

Stamping Sensations- Garden Delights

Supplies

Stamp- Bicycle and Flowers (Dollar Tree)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

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

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

clear eb powder; heat tool; white Posca pen; Stamping Foam (Simon Hurley)