Simple I Love You

Good Morning and Welcome

Hooray...it's a new month and that means new stencil releases from A Colorful Life Designs.

So meet the newly released

Fancy Four Leaf Clover

It's getting close to Valentine's Day so I decided to make a card with that theme.

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Fancy Four Leaf Clover stencil over that and inked with 3 Distress Oxide colours: Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean and Uncharted Mariner.
• To help make the flowers pop a bit more, I inked just the flower centers with some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
• I removed the stencil and die cut a stitched square right from the middle of the stenciled panel and glued that onto a navy blue square piece of cardstock.
• I glued my card front panel onto another piece of navy blue cardstock and then glued that onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the smaller die cut piece back into place, matching the pattern.
• I stamped the sentiment with some more Uncharted Mariner DOX ink and then used more of the foam tape to add it over the middle of my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fancy Four Leaf Clover

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- LOVE ME DO

Cut It Up- MY HEART

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold Stamp and die (SSS)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white

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

Stitched Square dies (Amazon); foam tape

Love Flower

Welcome

Meet one of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Love Flower

This is what I did to create my card.

• I decided to get out my Gel Plate for this one, so I rubbed my Wilted Violet and my Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto my Gel Plate and blended the colours together smooth using a brayer.
• Next, I placed the Love Flower stencil over my plate and then took a piece of white cardstock and rubbed that over my plate to create the print.
• I placed the print into my Misti to stamp the sentiment over the middle and I rubbed some more of the Wilted Violet DOX ink along the edges to add more depth and interest.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Love Flower

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- USE STENCILS

Little Red Wagon- "K" IS FOR KEEP IT SIMPLE

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamp- Love You Big (IO- out of business)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

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

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

Have a Colorful Day

Good Morning

I want to introduce you to just one of the new stencils for January from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Heart With Options

This is a great stencil that includes 4 different designed hearts and a mask included as well.  

The hearts on this stencil are spaced apart which makes inking with different colours so easy.

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

• I placed the Heart With Options stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked the first plain heart into the bottom right hand corner with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• Beside that pink heart, I inked up the next one with some Ripe Persimmon DOX ink.
• I repeated the inking process using all the different heart designs along the top of my card panel with more of the Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I splattered over the hearts with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment with some more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink, clear heat embossed it, then die cut it out.
• I glued the dried panel onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
• I popped up the sentiment with some foam tape and added 3 pearls around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Heart With Options

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- NEW BEGINNINGS

Simon Says Wed.- SOMETHING NEW

Just Us Girls- USE DIES

My Time to Craft- NEW

Supplies

Stamps- With All My Art (TE)

Inks- DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); white pearls; foam tape; clear eb powder

Love is in the Air

Morning

Meet the new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Fan Blades and Rocky Path

I decided to use them to make a non-traditional Valentine card.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and laid the Fan Blades stencil over it on my Make Art Station.  I inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Rocky Path stencil right over it and inked with some Villainous Potion DOX ink.  It added a fun pattern to the fan blades.
• While that dried, I inked a scrap of white cardstock with some more Peacock Feathers DOX ink and then I die cut the heart with the dots and used a paper punch to get the smaller one.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4 inch square card base.
• I glued the hearts over the center of the fan, then stamped the sentiment onto a piece of white cardstock and used some foam tape to pop that over the hearts.

Here are the stencils I used:

Fan Blades

Rocky Path

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 Monday- HAVE A HEART

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Die Cut Divas- NON-TRADITIONAL VALENTINE

Supplies

Stamps- Lighter then Air (Alleyway Stamps)

Inks- DOX

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

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

TE Blending Brushes; Screen Elements Heart die (SSS); Heart Punch

Big Love

Hello and Welcome

Meet the new for January

BIG LOVE

stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  

Just in time for making some Valentine cards.

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

• I began by rubbing some Broken China Distress Oxide ink onto this Embossing Folder and then ran it through my die cutting machine.  It transferred all the ink to the raised area and I was left with a fun, embossed piece for my card front.
• I took that embossed panel and placed it onto my Make Art Station.
• I laid the Big Love stencil over that and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• Next, I rubbed some Broken China DOX ink onto a white scrap of cardstock, splattered it with my white Posca pen and die cut the heart.
• I glued the stenciled/embossed panel onto an white A2 sized card base and used some foam tape to pop the heart over the 'O'.

Here is the stencil I used:

Big Love

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:

Word Power- WORDS THE MAIN FOCUS

Moving Along with the Times- NEW CRAFT ITEM

Craft Rocket- EMBOSSING

Time Out- NEW

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Circle EB folder (???); Heart die (HA); white Posca pen

Flower Mosaic

Welcome

Meet today's card using another February release from A Colorful Life Designs called Flower Mosaic.

I combined the stenciling with some white heat embossing as a resist to create my card.

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

• I took a piece of white cardstock, placed it into my Misti and stamped this Friendship script stamp over my cardstock with some Versamark ink, then white heat embossed the entire background.
• I placed the white embossed panel onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Flower Mosaic stencil over that.  I rubbed on some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink just into the center of my panel, then inked the rest of the panel with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil and wiped over the embossing to lift the excess ink with a paper towel.
• Next, I took the panel and die cut the heart from the center.
• I glued the piece onto some white cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I pop dotted the heart back into place over the large main panel.
• I took a scrap of black cardstock, stamped the sentiment and white heat embossed that as well.
• I popped the sentiment right over the middle of the heart.

Here is the stencil I used:

Flower Mosaic

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:

Little Red Wagon- DIE CUTS

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Alphabet Challenge- XOXO

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiments (Your Next Stamp); Friendship Background (Hero Arts)

Inks- Versamark; Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- Flower Mosaic stencil (ACLD); heart die (Hero Arts);

white embossing powder; Make Art Station (Ranger); TE inking Brushes;

foam tape; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Lots of Love

Welcome

Meet today's card.

I had fun playing with 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called Heart Wreath and Big Bows.

Super simple card to make.

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 Heart Wreath stencil over my paper.  I inked it up with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted to add some shading to the hearts, so leaving the stencil in place, I inked areas with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• Before I removed the stencil, I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I set that aside to dry and then inked up the Big Bows stencil with the same inks as mentioned above and fussy cut that out.
• I placed the inked wreath panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment into the center of the wreath.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto an 4 1/4" square notecard.
• I pop dotted the bow onto the bottom part of the wreath.  

Here are the stencils I used:

Heart Wreath

Big Bows

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 Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Paper Craft Crew- LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Time Out- INSPIRED BY WORDS

Supplies

Stamp- Laugh and Love (IO- retired)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX 

Paper- Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.

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

TE Blending Brushes; Misti