Four Squares

Hello and Welcome

I had fun playing with this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Circles and Diamonds

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

• I placed the Circles and Diamonds stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off and moved it to the side and inked again with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink right over the first design.
• I took my stenciled pattern and cut it into 4 small squares and glued them onto a piece of navy cardstock.
• I popped the squares up with some foam tape and then adhered them to a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I stamped the sentiment, die cut it with a circle die and used some more foam tape to pop it over the center of my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles and Diamonds

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Add Ink- DIES, STENCILS or BOTH

Crafty Catz- ANYTHING GOES

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts); Foam Tape

Time to Celebrate

Good Morning

This month is just flying by and A Colorful Life Designs has a mid-month release of a new stencil called:

Chaos Squares

I decided to do a torn paper technique using the stencil.

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

• I secured my Chaos Squares stencil in place with some tape over a piece of white cardstock as I wanted to be able to lift it up and down like a hinge when inking the pattern.
• I took a piece of scrap paper and tore it into strips and placed one of the strips near the top edge and inked it with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil up, removed the torn paper and placed another piece along the next section and inked again this time using some Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber DOX.
• I repeated that process working my way down my card front until my white cardstock was all inked up.
• I die cut a circle right from my card front and then glued it onto a larger black circle. I die cut the dandelion twice and glued that over the circle.
• I stamped the sentiment into the corner of my card front in my Misti.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then orange and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the die cut circle back into place matching up the pattern.
• Finally I added some orange gems to the flower centers to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Chaos Squares

p.s....It's on sale right now!!

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Shopping Our Stash- OUT WITH THE OLD/IN WITH THE NEW

(Old- flower die; New- stencil)

Beautiful Blossoms- ANYTHING FLORAL GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- BIRTHDAYS

Supplies

Stamps- Celebrate (IO- out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Dandelion die (Poppy Stamps);

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); scrap paper for tearing; Infinity Circle dies (HA); 

TE Blending Brushes

Wishing You Well

 

Hello and Welcome

Today's card is a simple one to create.

I used the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Breeze Squares

So, here's how I created my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Mid Century Breeze Squares stencil over that.  
• I wanted to make each square a different colour, so I masked off the first one and inked with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the mask and inked again with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.  I repeated that same process again, inking this time with some Wilted Violet DOX.  
• I removed the stencil and I used the Hemstitch die to cut a frame around the edge.
• I die cut the sentiment with some purple cardstock, then some white cardstock 4 more times as I wanted to make a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my stenciled card base onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple, then finally onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment over the middle area of my card base and added 3 purple gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Breeze Squares

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

KarenFan10

I appreciated you coming to take a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Hemstitch Rectangle die (Spellbinders); Get Well Die (Frantic Stamper)

For the Guys

 

Welcome

Today's card is featuring a fun new stencil for June from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Gears

Great stencil for making more masculine looking cards. I used it with an older release called:

Square Cutout

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock on my Make Art Station.  I placed the Square Cutout stencil down and inked over that with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Gears stencil right over the top and inked it up again with some Dusty Concord DOX ink.
• Next, I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I cut out the 'hello' sentiment 5 times from white cardstock and glued them together to create a stacked look.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of purple cardstock and then onto a white A2  sized card base.
• I cut 2 squares using a stitched square die and glued them into the middle area, added my sentiment last, over that.

Here are the stencils I used:

Gears

Square Cutout

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.- WE'RE GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES

Simon Says Monday- SPRITZ and/or SPLATTER

Cut it Up- MASCULINE /ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Friend die (Amazon); white Posca pen; Stitched Squares (Amazon)

Four Squares

Welcome

Here's another new for April stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Four Squares

I decided to use it to make a monochromatic 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 Four Squares stencil over that, centering it onto the cardstock.
• Next, I inked it up using Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch and some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks. 
• I removed the stencil and splattered with my white Posca pen, then set aside to dry.
• I inked up a scrap piece of white cardstock using the same colours as mentioned above, then die cut the sentiment.  I die cut the sentiment shadow from a piece of vellum and glued the two together.
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.  
• I glued the sentiment into the center and added a dark blue gem for the dot on the 'j'.

Here is the stencil I used:

Four Squares

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:

Word Power- SENTIMENT IS FOCAL POINT

Crafty Gals- ANYTHING GOES

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

TE blending brushes; white Posca pen; die (Amazon)

Through the Window

 

Good Morning and Welcome

Lots of wonderful new releases for October over at A Colorful Life Designs.

Today's card is featuring 2 of the new stencils for this month called:

Scandinavian Flowers and 16 Square Shadow

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and placed the 16 Square Shadow stencil over my panel.  I inked over that with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink to fill in the squares, then added a bit of Tumbled Glass DOX ink along the edges just to add a bit more interest.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Scandinavian Flowers stencil over it and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I stamped and then die cut the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up over to the side.

Here are the stencils I used:

16 Square Shadow

Scandinavian Flowers

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:

Little Red Wagon- LAYER UPON LAYER

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Big and Bold Sentiment and die (SSS)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

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

Make Art Station (Ranger); white Posca pen

I Will Be With You

Good Morning

Meet today's card featuring this exciting new Layered Squares Mandela stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  

It sure is a fun one to play with and comes with 3 layering stencils to use together or by themselves...so many possibilities.  I decided to use just 2 of the stencils together for my card.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Layered Squares Mandela stencil Part #1 over my cardstock and inked that up with some Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and replaced it with Stencil #2 of that set but this time, I used a baby wipe and some Villainous Potion DOX ink to apply the colour.  Just rub some ink onto a piece of acetate and pick up the colour with the wipe.  It gives such a different effect and look to the inking.
• Next, I removed the stencil and to add more interest, I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment into the corner and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the piece onto some pale purple cardstock, then onto and A2 card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Squares Mandela

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 very much for the visit.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STENCIL IT

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are our Game- STENCIL with option FLOWERS

Paper Minutes- STARS

Supplies

Stamp- Darkness Stars (Impression Obsession RETIRED)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Misti, white Posca pen; clear embossing powder; TE Blending Brushes

Always Better with You

Good Morning

Hope all is well in your part of the world.

Today's card features such a fun stencil called Square Frames.  It is another one of the great newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs for February.

This one is so fun as the squares overlap each other.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the Square Frames stencil over that.
• I began at the center of the stencil and inked it up with some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved outwards with the inking adding some Carved Pumpkin next and then some Picked Raspberry around the edges.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti and stamped over it with the background lines using more of the Picked Raspberry DOX ink. (This stamp only has a number on it and no name.  I can't find it on the Hero Arts site so it may be discontinued?)
• Next, I splattered with my white Posca pen and dotted the circles to add interest.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and then die cut it out.
• I glued the dried panel onto an A2 sized card base and pop dotted the sentiment in the center.

Here is the stencil I used:

Square Frames

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) 

Thanks for the visit.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SOMEBODY TO LOVE

Simon Says Wed.- FUN WITH DIES

Shopping Our Stash- LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Supplies

Stamps- Roadside Messages (HA); bkg (HA)

Inks- DOX

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

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

Make Art Station (Ranger)