Many Wishes

Welcome

I had fun playing with this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

THREE FEATHERS

I decided to make a 'collage' style card using the stencil.

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I looked through some of my discarded paper pieces and found this one I had done as a monoprint. (Monoprint- when I have inked over a stencil, there is always ink left behind on the stencil. Instead of wiping it all off, I will spray with water and press onto another sheet of paper to transfer the design)
• I placed one the the feathers from the THREE FEATHERS stencil over the left hand side of my cardstock and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio and some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted to add more interest to the background, so I stamped the Script along the right hand side to help balance out the design.
• Next, I die cut a circle from white cardstock and stamped the sentiment over it using my Misti.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background and added 3 black gems to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

THREE FEATHERS

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- A BIT O'GREEN

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Simon Says Monday- BIT O'GREEN

Tic Tac Toe- 3 IN A ROW

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle); Faded Text (Tim Holtz)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; foam tape

Happy Wishes for the Holidays

Welcome

Today's card is featuring 2 of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Christmas Montage and Marvelous Mask Arches 

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

• I began by looking through my patterned cardstock and found this green check paper.  I placed the Christmas Montage stencil over that and inked it up with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over that. I placed the Christmas Montage stencil right over the top of that and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke DOX ink.
• I removed the stencils and fussy cut out the arch.
• I placed the arch into my Misti to stamp the trees and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I set that aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock 5 times and glued those all together.
• I glued the stenciled patterned paper to a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the arch over the patterned paper, matching up the lettering.  
• I glued the red sentiment along the bottom of the arch to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Christmas Montage

Marvelous Mask Arches

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

KarenFan10

Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CAPTAIN'S LOG

Simon Says Wed.- GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

The 12 Months of Christmas- ANYTHING GOES/option: SNOWFALL

Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Pine Trees (IO)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Prism Solar White, Patterned paper (?)

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

white Posca pen; Happy Holidays die ( Waffle Flower)

That's Awesome!

 

Welcome

Here's one last card for May using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Square Swirl

A mixed media card, something I haven't done in awhile. 

Lots of stamping on this one over the stenciling.

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

• I took a piece of white cardstock and dragged some Acrylic Gel over the paper randomly, using an old gift card.  I set that aside to dry, it does take awhile.
• When the Gel was dry, I inked over the whole panel with some Peacock Feather Distress Oxide ink.  You can see through the inking the areas where I applied the Gel, giving the card a unique look.
• Next, I place the Square Swirl stencil over my card panel and inked with some Prize Ribbon DOX ink near the top of the panel.  I repeated that process, inking again along the bottom.
• I added the stamping over the background to add more interest.
• I die cut the sentiment from some white cardstock and then the sentiment shadow right from the middle of the card base and glued those together.
• I glue the finished card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place, matching it to the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Square Swirl

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 Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Sweet Stampin'- BOYS< BOYS< BOYS

Cut It Up- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Faded Type (TH); Texture 

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Vicki Boutin Acrylic Gel Medium;

TE Blending Brushes; Awesome die (Neat and Tangled); foam tape

Arum Lily Sympathy

Welcome

Some more stenciling fun today using some new stencils and an older one from 

A Colorful Life Designs.

This beautiful new flower is called 

Arum Lily that I paired up with Rocky Path and Script

I thought it would make a lovely sympathy card.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and put the Arum Lily stencil over that, centering it up.
• I used some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink at the base of the flowers, some Ripe Persimmon next and some Picked Raspberry DOX ink right along the upper edges.
• I masked around the leaves, then added some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink and a touch of Rustic Wilderness to add some depth.
• To add a bit more interest to the whole stenciled image, I went over it using the Rocky Path stencil with the same colours I used for the first inking.
• Next, I laid the Script stencil (an older release) over the lily and inked that carefully around the it with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled piece into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I added 5 black gems underneath the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Arum Lily

Rocky Path

Script

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

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) 

Supplies

Stamps- More Sentiments (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

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

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

TE Blending Brushes; black gems

Let's Be Merry

Welcome

Today's card is a fun one featuring the newly release stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Merry Christmas

I love the whimsical look of the letters.  I pulled out my Gel Plate to create this one.

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

• I started with a roll off sheet that had some red and green ink on it.  I keep these when I need to roll off my brayer while using my Gel Plate.
• I got out my Gel Plate and pressed my Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide pad right onto the plate along the middle area.  I then pressed some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink along the top and bottom and used my brayer to blend the colours together.
• I placed the Merry Christmas stencil UPSIDE DOWN (so the script transferred correctly), onto my plate and rubbed the roll off sheet over the plate to lift the pattern from the stencil that was on the plate.
• Next, I wanted to define the rows of letters, so using the Simple Grid stencil, I added the rows of squares, masking as I went along.
• To add more details, I added dots and splatters with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

Merry Christmas

Simple Grid

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:

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Inspiration- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- PATTERNED PAPER or NOT

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook (Waterloo, Ont.)

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

Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer; white Posca pen

Collaged Butterfly

Welcome

Meet today's card.

I am loving this new Drippy Butterfly stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  

This one comes with a stencil and a mask and I used both for my card.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4" x 5" for my card front.  I laid the Drippy Butterfly stencil over the paper, and inked it up with some  Broken China Distress Oxide inks.  
• I removed the stencil and placed the mask over the butterfly and lightly inked around the outside edges of my card with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• Next, leaving the mask in place, I randomly stamped the Friends Script and the Texture around the outer edges with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink.
• I place the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment with some black ink.
• I added some white splatters using my white Posca pen.
• Lastly, I glued it onto a heavy white card base and added 3 black gems under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Drippy Butterfly

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

(affiliate with not 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

Little Red Wagon- SENTIMENT AS MAIN FOCUS

Try it on Tuesday- BUTTERFLIES

Double D - MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamps- Texture (Carabelle); Footprints (Inkylicious); Friends Bkg (Hero Arts)

Inks- DOX ink; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Drippy Butterfly stencil (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia);

black gems, Posca pen

Livin' Life

Welcome

Meet today's card.

Super simple one using Vicki Boutin's Art Crayons, inspired again by one of her Friday Night Lives.

Before I add the details of my card, I want to send out a

BIG THANKS

to all of you that have decided to follow me.  I am so grateful!!

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

• I cut my card front from a piece of heavy white cardstock.  Using the Vicki Boutin Warm set of Art Crayons and a piece of acetate, I began adding my circles.  I rubbed the pink Art Crayon first directly onto the acetate in a circular shape, used a wet paint brush to dilute it and then pressed it onto my cardstock.
• I repeated that process over a few times with the pink at the top and bottom, then used some orange and then yellow to create the circles. 
• I dried the panel, then rubbed some of the pink Art Crayon onto my non-stick craft mat, diluted it with water and used that for stamping the script in the background of the circles.
• I used the leftover ink to add some splatters then added more black ones with my Posca pen.
• While that all dried, I die-cut the sentiment from Frantic Stamper 3 times...2 from white cardstock and one black one for the top.  I glued those all together and set aside.
• Looking at my panel, I realized it needed something more, so I doodled in the lines to define the circle shape.
• I glued the inky panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• Finally, I glued the sentiment over the circles and added the little heart.

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- HELLO SUNSHINE

CAS on Friday- SUNSHINE

Through the Craft Room Door- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Script (Penny Black)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons

Paper- heavy white- Scribes Nook Waterloo

Accessories and Tools- paintbrush, acetate sheet, die- Frantic Stamper, Spellbinder Platinum, 

black Posca pen, Nuvo glue, Signa fine line marker

Frosty for Christmas

Welcome

Today's card is a frosty one which is too funny considering we have a heat warning.

Anyways, I am really pleased to be getting some holiday cards done. 

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

• I began by making the background.  I applied a coat of Gesso over my heavy white cardstock and let that dry.  
• When it was all dry, I added some Acrylic paint with my brayer and then some Distress inks to give a dark, frosty bkg.  
• Before stamping the snowflakes, I cut the panel to card size, leaving me with a piece I could later use for the sentiment.
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes from Tim Holtz.  They have a great distressed look to them.
• I stamped the scripts from the Faded Text set in some of the open areas to add interest.
• I splattered the panel with my white Posca Pen and set aside to dry.
• Using the small piece I cut from the panel, I stamped the sentiment, also from the snowflake set, with some Versamark and then white heat embossed it.  
• I backed the sentiment with a small piece of white, then pop dot mounted it over the frosty panel.
• I added it all to a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

We Love to Create- ANYTHING GOES

Corrosive Challenge- ANYTHING GOES

All Fun- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Faded Text (TH); Weathered Winter (TH)

Inks- Versamark, DOX (TH); Archival; Acrylic paint (Dollar Store)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Gesso; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Brayer (Speedball);

Posca Pen; pop dots; white eb powder; heat tool; inking tool (Ranger)

In the Shadows

Good Morning

I wanted to challenge myself to create a very non-traditional card and this is what I came up with.

Also the challenge this morning over at Splitcoast Stampers was called 'In the Shadows' so I gave it a go.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock, placed it into my Misti and stamped the Script bkg.  

I just love the look of the mixed fonts and scripts.

Next, I placed the piece into my Cuttlebug and die-cut the deer.  I cut it again 3 more time with some extra white cardstock and stacked and glued them all together.  Before I placed the deer back into my card front, I rubbed some black along the edges to help define the image.  I stamped the sentiment from PB at the bottom in red then glued the card front onto a piece of red cardstock then glued the dear head back into place.  

I added it onto a heavy white card base then added a drop of red Nuvo to his nose like Rudolph would have lol.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sweet Stampin' Christmas- CRITTERS

Cardz 4 Guyz- CHRISTMAS CRITTERS

STAMPlorations- NEVER ENDING CHALLENGE

Supplies

Stamps- Script (Prima); Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Lawn Fawn red

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); red cs (Michaels)

Accessories and Tools- Deer die (STAMPlorations); Cuttlebug; Red Nuvo; inking tool