Let the Music Play

Hello and Good Morning

Today' card features another one of the newly released stencils for March from A Colorful Life Designs called;

MUSIC

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

• I found some fun cardstock papers in my stash that I had picked up at the Dollar Store awhile ago but hadn't used. I began by picking out the paper I wanted to use for the cover and die cut the little album cover first.  
• I placed the new MUSIC stencil over the cover and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink. I splattered with my white Posca pen just over the sentiment and set aside to dry.
• Next, I die cut the record from a piece of black cardstock and glued the blue middle die cut to the center of it. (You can't see it in the photo, but the die actually puts the grooves in the record)
• I picked out another piece of the cardstock and glued it to a piece of white and then a piece of blue and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the record album cover over the background and slipped the record into the sleeve.

Here is the stencil I used:

MUSIC

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME

Simon Says Wednesday- ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Everybody Art- LAYERS

Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap- USE DP

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Papers- Dollar Store

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Greatest Hits dies (Concord and 9th);

TE Blending Brushes; white Posca pen

Joyful Music

 

Good Morning

This month at A Colorful Life Designs, some of the stencil designs revolve around music, the universal language.

So meet the new for March stencil called:

MUSIC

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

• I used an older stencil called Dot Circle to start my background and I inked that with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the notes from the Music stencil across my card base and inked it with some Salty Ocean DOX ink. 
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the musician with some black ink.
• I took the Music stencil again and inked the 'music' word along the bottom with some Salty Ocean and some Black Soot DOX ink. (by using the black ink along the bottom of the word helped ground the sentiment)
• I used some more of the Salvaged Patina DOX to add a shadow around the outside edge of my card front.
• Using my black Posca pen, I splattered just around the bottom edge of the image.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

MUSIC

DOT CIRCLE

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 Monday- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Just Add Ink- STENCILS/DIES or BOTH

Inkspirational- STENCILS (option- plaid)

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (IO-out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black Posca pen

Notes of Joy

Good Morning

I want you to meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

BIG MUSIC

I used it with a wonderful older stencil called

PAINT STROKES

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

• I placed the PAINT STROKES stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked from top to bottom using these Distress Oxide ink colours:  Ripe Persimmon; Picked Raspberry; Cracked Pistachio; Shaded Lilac and Salvaged Patina. It made for a fun and colourful background.
• Next, I placed the BIG MUSIC stencil over the background and inked with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment across the top.
• Using my white Posca pen, I splattered o9ver the whole panel to add some interest.
• I glued the dried panel onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base to finish off my card..

Here are the stencils I used:

BIG MUSIC

PAINT STROKES

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

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Just Add Ink- STENCILS/DIES or BOTH

Craft Rocket- NO DP

Supplies

Stamp- For the Record (Honey Bee)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

TE Blending Brushes; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

I'm Just Tuning In

Good Morning and Happy March!!

So glad we are one step closer to Spring.

Today's card is a fun one featuring just one of the newly released March stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Piano Keys

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

• I placed the Piano Keys stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil and placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment along the bottom.
• Next, I stamped the little radio in my Misti and then fussy cut it out.  I used my Copic markers to colour the radio.  I thought that the red was a nice contrast with the black and white theme.
• I die cut a black and white circle and glued those together, then I glued the radio over the circles.  
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of black and then onto an A2 white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the radio circle over to the side.

Here is the stencil I used:

Piano Keys

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

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- Music to My Ears (Catherine Pooler); Stay Tuned (Lawn Fawn)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair; Copic Markers

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Infinity Circle dies (HA)

You Rock

Welcome

Today's card was made for some very special friends who love the music world.

This was a fun one to put together.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card panel and placed it into my Misti.  The stamp set I used has a variety of different inchies so I decided which ones I wanted to use.
• I started at the center and worked my way out, stamping the different images over the panel, trying to center them as best I could.
• When I was happy with all the stamping, I glued it onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I stamped the sentiment and used some foam tape to pop it over the background.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a lookj.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Allsorts- VINTAGE or ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- USE STAMPS

Crafting From the Heart= ANYTHING GOES

 Supplies

Stamps- Music Inchie (Inkadinkadoo); For the Record (Honey Bee)

Inks- Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Rock Star

Welcome

Meet today's card.

A very simple, one layer card I created using a stencil, my Distress Oxide inks and a couple of stamps.

I decided to create a one layer card as I haven't done one for so long....I'm also playing along with the DTGD Challenges over at Splitcoast Stampers.

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

• I cut my card base- A2 from some heavy white cardstock so my finished card was 5 1/2 x 4 1/4".  
• I wanted a nice white border around my image, so I placed the Marvelous Masks Deckle Rectangle over my paper, centering it.  I love using these masks, so simple to use and no more torn paper on the edges.  Over that I laid the Corner Rays stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and secured them on my Make Art Station with magnets.   
• Using my blender brushes, I blended on some Distress Oxide inks. (Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin)  When I was happy with the inking, I removed both masks and set them aside.
• I placed the card into my Misti and stamped the Rock Silhouette to one side, the the Something Incredible sentiment on the other side.
• That's it, done in no time at all

Here are the stencils I used to create my card:

Marvelous Masks Deckle Rectangle

Corner Rays

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

CASology- MASK

CAS on Friday- FAVORITE STAMP 

(I love this stamp, makes for great cards for a guy)

The Male Room- OUR 8th BIRTHDAY

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (IO); Something Incredible (IO)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Corner Rays stencil (ACLD); Mask (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger);

TE Blending Brushes; 

Under the Lights

 

Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card.

An easy one to create using my Gelli Plate.

So many people seem to be intimidated by a gel plate, but honestly it couldn't be easier for creating fast and fun backgrounds.

I will walk you through it below.

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

• I cut my card front panel from a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I got out my Gelli Arts Plate, a brayer and some Distress Oxide inks....Blueprint Sketch, Broken China and Wilted Violet.
• I took the ink pads and pressed them directly onto my Gelli Plate, leaving a bit of space between the colours as not to contaminate my ink pads with the other colours.  
• Using a brayer, I rolled over the Gel plate to blend the colours. *be sure to have an extra piece of paper handy to roll off the excess ink from your brayer.  These often make wonderful backgrounds as well or can be used to die cut *
• Next, I place the Dot Circle Stencil from ACLD over my Gel plate and using my tweezers, I gently pushed the stencil onto the plate being sure to make good contact with the plate.
• I lifted off the stencil removing some of the ink from my plate, set it aside and rubbed my cardstock panel over my plate.  Voila, I had my background.
• I dried the ink completely....{DOX inks take a bit longer to dry so use a heat tool or just set aside for a bit.}  When dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the silhouette image from Impression Obsession and then the sentiment from Visible Image using some Versafine Clair ink.
• I mounted the inked panel onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dot Circle

                                                        Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate)

Adding my card to these challenges:

Allsorts- MASCULINE

Love To Scrap- ANYTHING GOES

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (IO); Just Be Happy (VI)

Inks- Distress Oxides (colours listed above); Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Dot Circle (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Brayer (Speedball);

Gelli Arts Plate