Flurries

Good Morning

It's October already which means time for some great new releases at A Colorful Life Designs.

This new release will definitely get you into the spirit of creating some cards for the holidays with a large variety of stencils and a great new stamp set too!

Today's card features the new stencil called

Flurries and a Christmas stamp set.

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

• I decided to use the Flurries stencil as a stamp for my background.  I inked up the largest stamp from the Paint Swatches stamp set from Simon Hurley with some All That Jazz ink, then pressed the inked stamp onto the stencil to transfer the pattern, then stamped that onto my white cardstock base.  I love the look of the rough edges!

Here is the stamp I used to transfer the image from the stencil

• I used my white Posca pen to add some dots to the center of the snowflakes and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the snowman from the Christmas stamp set did a bit of colouring on it with my Copics, then fussy cut it out.
• When the panel was dry, I put it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment to one side so there was enough room for the snowman.
• I glued the panel onto a blue background, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop up the snowman to the side.

Here is the stencil and stamp set I used:

Flurries

Christmas Stamp Set

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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

Make My Monday- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

52 Christmas Card Throwdown- USE A STENCIL

Supplies

Stamps- Spread Love (A Colorful Life Designs); Paint Swatches (Simon Hurley)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Catherine Pooler; Copic markers

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

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

foam tape; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Merriest Wishes

I wish I shared the excitement my little ones have for the snow but I don't look forward to the winter and the winter winds and cold that it brings.  Well I guess if you live in Canada, that's what you get.

Anyways, I am sharing a card I made for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast yesterday (inspiration photo from Pinterest below).  The snowman is a digital image...so cute and created by my friend Lisa Lara.  I coloured him with Copic markers then pop dotted him the card front that was partly embossed.  

I am also adding my card to the CAS-ual Fridays (embossing) challenge and the Simon Says (keeping it clean and simple) Challenge.

Thanks for coming by and taking a peek.

Supplies:  stamps; Hero Arts, digi from Clearly Stamped/ eb folder/ Copic markers/ pop dots