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)

Greetings for Autumn

Welcome

Fall is in the air as September arrives.  

That also means new releases from A Colorful Life Designs.  

This Pumpkin Pouf stencil is a good one for the Fall.

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

• I looked through my patterned paper stash and found this one...a bit grungy but works well for the theme I was going for.
• I placed the paper onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Pumpkin Pouf stencil over that.
• I inked up the leaves with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink, then removed the stencil to splatter with my white Posca pen.
• I took another piece of the patterned paper and stencil the pumpkin with some Ripe Persimmon and Carved Pumpkin DOX ink.  When it was dry, I fussy cut it out.
• Next, I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment along the bottom.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of dark green cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the pumpkin in the middle of the panel.

Here is the stencil I used:

Pumpkin Pouf

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 taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- BIG or SMALL

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT- SHABBY/CHIC

Supplies

Stamps- Autumn Foliage (Inkadinkadoo)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.); dp- ?

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

white Posca Pen; TE Blending Brushes

Tropical Flowers

Welcome

Meet today's card.

A bright and playful one with these bright, happy colours.

I'm using 2 new stencils released for June from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Tropical Flowers and Monstera Leaves.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and laid the Tropical Flowers stencil over my paper.  I inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• To add more interest and detail to the flowers, I left the stencil in place and put the Monstera Leaves stencil over it and inked with some Picked Raspberry DOX ink.
• I removed both stencils and using the eraser on the end of a pencil, I placed dots around the flowers to fill in some of the white areas using the same colours mentioned above.
• Next, I die cut the word shadow die right from the center of the card front.  I die cut the sentiment from a piece of pink cardstock and glued it over the shadow.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto a white A2 card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment back into place over the cut away area.  

Here are the stencils I used:

Tropical Flowers

Monstera 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 a lot for coming by.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Try it On Tuesday- SUMMER BLOOMS

Bastel-traum- PLANTS/FLOWERS

Crafting Happiness- 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;

Make Art Station; pencil; die (SSS)

The Best of Wishes

 

Welcome

Today, I am playing with 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called Monstera Leaves and Script stencils.

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

• I laid a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Monstera Leaves stencil over that.  
• I inked up the leaves with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and then added some Lucky Clover DOX ink to give them a bit more dimension.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I positioned the Script stencil over that and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.  It gave the leaves a lot more interest.
• I inked up a dots stamp with some more Cracked Pistachio ink and randomly stamped that in the open areas between the leaves.
• I die cut the leaf twice, once from white and then from a piece of leftover inked green that I splattered with my white Posca pen.  I glued them together and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it out.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I popped the sentiment over to the side at the bottom and then popped the leaf over that using some foam tape.

Here are the stencils I used:

Monstera Leaves

Script

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.- LOTS OF LAYERS

Shopping Our Stash- LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS

Simon Says Mon.- MAKE IT MASCULINE

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle); Dots Grunge Tones (Visible Image)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

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

Tropical Leaf (Dee's Distinctly), white Posca pen; Infinity Circle die

Split Circle

 

Good Morning

Meet the May newly released Split Circle stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

Lots of different ways to use this one.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and positioned the Split Circle stencil over that on my Make Art Station, tilting the whole stencil to one side.  I inked up over the stencil with some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, leaving the stencil in place, I positioned the Spring Foliage stencil over that and inked with some Villainous Potion DOX ink.  Layering the 2 stencils gave such a fun looking background.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and let dry.
• When the panel was dry, I placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment from Hero Arts.
• I glued the piece onto some white cardstock, then purple, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Split Circle

Spring Foliage

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:

Simon Says Stamp- STENCIL IT

My Time to Craft- MONOCHROMATIC

Addicted to Stamps and More- DIE CUTS and/or STENCIL

Supplies

Stamp- Huge Hugs (HA)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); white Posca pen; Blending Brushes (TE)

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