Mix It Up Birthday

Welcome

Meet today's card featuring this fun Cow Hide stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

I wanted to try and give it a different look.

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

• Like I mentioned above, I wanted to give the Cow Hide stencil a more unique look, plus I didn't have a cow stamp.  I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.
• Next, I positioned the Marvelous Masks Rectangle also from A Colorful Life Designs into the corner.  I wanted to use it for simplicity instead of having to mask.  
• I laid the stencil over the mask and inked it up with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the rectangle mask (I did end up having to do a bit of masking using low tack tape) and repeated the process, again inking with some Mustard Seed and then some Carved Pumpkin.
• When the card front panel was all inked, I added some details by stamping over the areas with the  same colour as I had used to ink it up.
• I stamped the sentiment with some black ink and clear heat embossed it.
• I carefully splattered with my black Posca pen just around the sentiment.
• I glued it onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto an A2 card base.
• To finish off my card, I added 3 black gems.

Here is the stencil and mask I used:

Cow Hide

Marvelous Masks Rectangles

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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

Through the Craft Room Door- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Monday- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- Grunge Tones (Visible Image); Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

TE Blending Brushes; gems (Dollar Tree), Lawn Fawn clear embossing powder

Joy

Hello

It's been such a busy time of year but I wanted to get a chance to post this card before the holiday season was over.

I created a very simple design and wanted to use as many of the snowflakes from the First Snow set by Penny Black as I could with this sentiment.

I began by die cutting the Jumbo JOY letters also from Penny Black, onto some scrap paper to use as a mask.  I applied some repositionable adhesive to the back of the letters and stuck them down.

Next, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes all over the masked area.

When I was happy with the coverage, I rubbed over the center area with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink, then removed the masks.

To help add more interest, I added some blue Nuvo drops to the center of the snowflakes.

I mounted the finished front onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- First Snow (PB)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Peacock Feathers DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Repositionable Glue; Joy die (PB); Nuvo Drops; 

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Something Different

Good Morning

Meet my card. 

 Trying something different to get a unique look using this fun stencil called Tribal Blanket and my Distress Oxide inks.  It's good to change it up now and again and I like to challenge myself to use what I have in a new way.

I decided to give this card a 'beachy' look by creating some waves. 

I began by cutting some printer paper into wavey lines to use as masks for my card front.

I placed one the wave masks onto my card, laid down the stencil and rubbed on some Salty Ocean DOX ink.

I lifted the mask and leaving some white space, masked the next area and stenciled in using the same stencil and some Peacock Feather DOX ink this time.  I repeated that process using some Blueprint Sketch and Cracked Pistachio at the bottom, each time leaving a bit of white space.

When that was all dry, I took my ScorBug which is a little tool that adds perforated dots, and scored along the wavy lines to add interest.

I die-cut the Happy Birthday sentiment 3 times from white cs, then glued them together to help give them stability and to raise them up on my card front.

I then glued it over my stenciling.

I added some Navy Sparkle Nuvo drops, then simply mounted it onto a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Tribal Blanket

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Adding my card to these challenges:

Seize the Birthday- COVER THE CARD

Crafting by Design- HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ScorPal- MORE THEN ONE SCORE

(I added 3 scored lines with my ScorBug)

Supplies

Stamps- None

Inks- Distress Oxides (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Tribal Blanket (A Colorful Life Designs); makeup blender brush (Amazon);

Happy Birthday die- (MFT); Nuvo Drops; Tombow Clear glue