Mad for Plaid

Welcome

I have the pleasure of hosting the TLC at Splitcoast Stampers this week that I'm calling 

Let's Make Plaid

Who doesn't like the look of plaid?  

You can make it look masculine or feminine.

This challenge is to create your own plaid using some fun and simple techniques.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front and got out my low tack tape.  
• I pulled out a piece of my tape that was the same size as my card front, then pressed the sticky side of the tape onto my Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink pad.
• I laid the tape across my white cardstock and rubbed over it to transfer the ink to the paper. I inked up the tape again and made 2 more inky lines across my card front.
• I took another piece of tape and repeated that process with some Wilted Violet DOX ink and I rubbed that between the lines, filling in the white spaces. 
• I used the same pieces of tape and colours of inks to go vertically across my card front, creating the plaid pattern.

**Since I was going for a more rustic, masculine look, I wasn't worried about the mottled look the inking left behind.  You can also go back over the strips with more ink for a more solid look.**

This is a previous picture I took using some green ink.

• To help define the plaid lines, I added some doodled lines along the tape inking.
• I die cut the sentiment 5 times, glued them together stacking them and inked the top one with some more Wilted Violet and Salty Ocean DOX ink. I splattered it with my white Posca pen.
• I glued my inked card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a light purple and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment across my card front and added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Let me know if you get a chance to try it out.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Krafty Chicks- MASCULINE

Dragonfly Dreams- BIRTHDAY

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White

Accessories and Tools- low tack tape; Fine line black pen; white Posca pen;

Happy Birthday die (Amazon)

Paper Strip Die Cuts

Welcome

This week, it's my turn to host the TLC over at Splitcoast Stampers.

I'm calling my challenge:

Paper Strip Die Cuts

A simple and fun technique using scraps that I know we all have in out stash.

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

• I started by looking through all my papers and chose some that had similar colour values. For this card, I wanted traditional Christmas colours like red and green.
• Next, I cut the papers into strips, any random size will do and then I glued them onto a piece of white cardstock as seen below.  

• After all the strips were glued down and had dried, I used the 'Jingle Bells' die to cut from the strips of paper.  I love how it looked, so fun.
• I set that aside and stenciled the background using the Buffalo Plaid stencil from A Colorful Life Designs with some Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• To help the strips die cut show up a bit better, I glued it onto a red circle that I embossed with a Burlap folder and then onto a green piece of cardstock.  I used some foam tape to pop it up over my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Buffalo Plaid

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.- ANYTHING GOES

Allsorts- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES WITH STENCILS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Jingle Bells die (A Pocket Full of Happiness); Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee);

foam tape

Merry Everything

Good Morning

I'm happy to say that I have a good start on creating my holiday cards. 

This new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs added a great look to my wreath card.

Meet the new for September stencil called:

Simple Leafy Frame 

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

• I love combining older stencils with the new one, so for my wreath I got out the older stencil called Leaf Frame.  I placed that over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  To add some dimension to the leaves, I added just a hint of Salty Ocean DOX ink.
• I removed that stencil and then added the Simple Leafy Frame stencil, layering it over the Leaf Frame and inked that with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• Next, I used just the berries from the Holly Wreath stencil and inked those over the leaves with some Lumberjack Plaid ink.
• I die cut the wreath using my circle dies and set aside.
• I cut a piece of dark red cardstock and embossed it with a plaid embossing folder and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of white cardstock and die cut it out.  I die cut the word outline 4 more times and then glued them all together.
• I glued the embossed red plaid cardstock onto a 4 1/4 square white card base and then added the wreath over that.  
• I used some more foam tape to add the sentiment over the middle of the wreath.

Here are the stencils I used:

NEWEST

Simple Leafy Frame

OLDER

Leaf Frame

Holly Wreath

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:

My Time to Craft- ADD TEXTURE

Peace on Earth- CHRISTMAS

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

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

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

Infinity Circle dies (HA)

Bee Happy

Welcome

Today's card was a fun one to create.

I used a couple of new stencils for February from A Colorful Life Designs called

Double Honeycomb and Layered Bees.

I also used an older stencil called Buffalo Plaid.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock, placed the Double Honeycomb stencil over that and inked with some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.
• I used a hexagon die to cut the stenciled panel into pieces and set aside.
• Next, I cut another piece of white cardstock and  placed the Buffalo Plaid stencil over that.  I inked it with some Fossilized Amber DOX ink.  
• I laid out all the little hexagon die cuts and using the Layered Bees stencil, added a bee to each of the hexagons using some Ripe Persimmon DOX ink and some Versafine Clair for the details.  
• I added some inking around the outer edges of the hexagons and splattered with my black Posca pen.
• I glued the Buffalo plaid background onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
• Using some foam tape, I added the little hexagons over the Buffalo Plaid.
• I had a piece of black shiny paper (recycled) and die cut the letters for the sentiment from that and glued them over the hexagons.

Here are the stencils I used:

Double Honeycomb

Layered Bees

Buffalo Plaid

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:

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Ellibelle's Corner- I SPY SOMETHING THAT STARTS WITH 'B'

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

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

Hexagon Infinity dies (Hero Arts); black Posca pen; Ditsy Letters dies (Photoplay)

Fluttering Snow

Hello and Welcome

Today's card is featuring the new Fluttering Snow stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

The technique I used on my card is called the Cover Die Eclipse. 

I love how it turned out on my card.

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

• I cut 2 pieces of cardstock that were 4 x 4 inches square and put one of them onto my Make Art Station.
• I placed the Fluttering Snow stencil over my cardstock, then inked it up with some Salty Ocean and some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink, removed the stencil and set aside to dry.
• Next, I inked up the second piece of cardstock with the same stencil and this time I used some Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I was now left with 2 square panels inked with the same stencil.
• I took the 2nd panel that I had inked and used the Simple Plaid die to cut it out.
• I glued the die cut piece over the first one, matching up the pattern. I love the effect.  I glued that onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
  
• I added a pre-printed sentiment and then finally added some silver gems to some of the snowflakes.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fluttering Snow

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.- CHRISTMAS

Alphabet Challenge- NATURE

Christmas Craft Creators- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Make Art Station (Ranger); Simple Plaid die (TH); silver gems (Dollar Store)

Just Adding a Smile

Good Morning

Today's card is just a simple, happy feeling one using the new for July stencil called Smiley Faces from 

A Colorful Life Designs.

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

• I began by looking through some of the backgrounds I had previously made and found this fun plaid patterned one.  I had done it using the Markered Turnabout stamp.  I thought the bright colours went perfectly with the smiles.  It was stamped using Distress Oxide inks.
• I laid the plaid onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Smiley Faces stencil over it.  I inked it using some black Memento ink.  
• While that dried, I die cut the 'smile' sentiment from some black cardstock.  This die doesn't come with a shadow/background so I traced around the die on some white cardstock and fussy cut it out to make my own.  
• I glued the plaid panel onto a piece of pale lavender cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop up the sentiment. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Smiley Faces

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:

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

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Inspirations- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Markered Turnabout (Concord and 9th)

Inks- Distress Oxide, Memento

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

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

Smile die (STAMPlorations); TE Blending Brushes

Christmas Mini Slimline

Welcome

Today's card has more of a masculine feel to it.

I'm using up some scrap pieces to make this mini slimline.

Super easy to make but may be difficult to find the right size envelope so I will add how I made one at the end.

A standard Slimline card is size is 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 whereas a Mini Slimline is 6" x 3".

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

• I had these scraps of cardstock leftover so decided to use them on this card.  I had stamped it with the Plaid Turnabout stamp and Distress Oxide inks.  The colours I used were Iced Spruce, Uncharted Mariner, Brocken China and some Rustic Wilderness.  
• I cut the leftovers into strips to fit on the white panel that was 5 3/4 x 3".  
• Next, I die cut the sentiment outline in white and then the backing in some blue cardstock and glued them together.
• I glued the sentiment over the plaid flag background.
• I glued the finished panel to the slimline base.
• To add some interest, I punched out the holly leaves and added 3 silver gems.

ENVELOPE:

• The envelope to mail this card is very simple.  I used my Envelope Punch Board to create it.
• I cut my lightweight white cardstock to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4".  (I used the lightweight cs as it is easier to fold and not as stiff as the heavy.)
• I placed it into my Envelope Punch Board and punched the first mark at 3 1/8" and scored along the marked line.  I rotated my cardstock and followed the instructions, continuing around until my envelope was made.  It is so simple to do using this Punch Board.  You can make any size envelope. All the measurements are included on the front of the board.

For mailing purposes, I would mail it in a business size envelope so 

you wouldn't have to pay extra postage.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Paperminutes- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

The Sisterhood of Crafters- CHRISTMAS or WINTER

Supplies

Stamp- Plaid Turnabout (Concord and 9th)

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Merry Christmas die (Amazon); Misti; punch (Martha Stewart);

silver gems

Mad for Plaid

Welcome

I love seeing some plaid on a holiday card...how about you?

This one came together so easily using the Buffalo Plaid Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and placing it onto my Make Art Station, then positioned the Buffalo Plaid stencil over that.
• I decided to make my card monochromatic, so I inked it up first with some Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink, then added some Barn Door DOX ink, keeping it into just the center of the panel.  I kept most of my inking to the middle area and faded it out along the edges.  
• I splattered using my white Posca pen to give a snowy look to my card.
• Next, I took the panel and die cut a circle from the center and placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and the little vines around it.
• I die cut another white circle and glued them together.
• I glued the plaid background onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I foam taped the circle back into the center of my inked background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Buffalo Plaid

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)

Adding my card to these challenges:

Winter Wonderland- LET IT SNOW

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Addicted to Stamps and More- DIE CUTS AND/OR STENCILS

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Encircled in Warmth (SU); Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

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

Make Art Station (Ranger); TE Blending Brushes; Misti, Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)