Friendship is Special

Welcome

Meet another one of the newly released stencils for April from A Colorful Life Designs called:

THREE Xs

This stencil can be used is so many different ways; inked then cut apart along the lines, overlapping inking, stencil layering....so many ideas. 

For today though, I kept it simple by inking and adding a die cut frame.

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

• I placed the THREE Xs stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked just across the middle with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink. Next, I inked with some Cracked Pistachio DOX and then along the bottom and top edges I used more of the Broken China ink.
• While that dried, I did cut the frame with some black cardstock and set aside.
• I took a scrap of white paper and inked it with the above mentioned colours and used that to die cut the sentiment.
• I glued the black frame over my stenciled card front and then glued that onto an A2 sized card base.
• I glued the 'friend' sentiment over the frame and added some silver gems to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

THREE Xs

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

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Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Cut It Up- COLORS OF SPRING

Craft Rocket- LAYER IT UP

CRAFT- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white; black cardtock

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

Triangle Grid die (Temu); Friend die (Amazon); silver gems

Happy Easter

Hello

I'm feeling in the mood for making some Easter cards using some spring-like colours.

Now for those of you that don' t like to get your hands dirty, this may not be for you, but I have to say I love how this turned out.  Those blended colours are so very easy to do with this technique.

So now that I have your attention, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by pulling out this great stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Stained Glass and a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I positioned the stencil over my card front.
• Next, I pressed some Distress Oxide inks onto my non-stick craft mat (colours- Peacock Feathers, Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch) and sprayed with a bit of water.
• Using my finger.....>>>>> yes, I said my finger, I dipped it into the wet ink and pressed it over the stencil onto the paper.  I did one colour at a time, wiping my finger off between inking.  I did try and overlap some of the colours for more interest.
• I continued over my stencil until all the areas were filled with colour.  I used the leftover ink on my mat to add the splatters with a paint brush.
• I removed the stencil and set aside to dry.
• When the panel was dry, I used this sweet bunny die and cut it from the center.  I cut it 2 more times onto some white cardstock and glued them all together so it would be raised on the finished card.
• I stamped the 'Happy Easter' greeting onto the bottom of the panel, then I glued a piece of dark purple paper behind the cutaway bunny area.  (it looks black in the photo but really is purple)
• I glued that onto a heavy white card base, then positioned the bunny back into place, matching it up with the background.
• I added 2 little purple gems to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Stained Glass

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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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

Allsorts- ANY 'REAL' ANIMAL

Critter Crazy- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Happy Easter (Craft Smart- Michaels)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Stained Glass stencil (ACLD); Floral Bunny die-Tutti Designs; 

purple gems (Dollar Tree); paint brush; non-stick craft mat

Birthday Fun

Welcome

I have a lot of birthdays coming up this month, so I pulled out my stencils and got to playing.

I don't know if you have ever stenciled and then cut out the images of your stenciled piece. Well that's what I did today with the flowers.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and laid the Stained Glass stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over my paper.  Using my blending brushes from Taylored Expressions, I rubbed on some Picked Raspberry randomly over my stencil, leaving some areas un-inked.  Then, using some Carved Pumpkin, I went over the stencil again filling in the empty areas and blending with the pink.
• When the whole panel was inked, I left the stencil in place and splattered it with water to lift some of the ink and add interest to the background.
• While the panel dried, I did some more stenciling on another piece of white cardstock using the same colours with the Flower stencil from the Fresh Collection by Vicki Boutin.  I fussy cut out the flowers from the stenciled background.
• Using a strip of white cardstock, I stamped the Happy Birthday, then glued that over my main stenciled panel. 
• I pop dotted the flowers to the side and then glued it all onto a heavy white card base.

This is the stencil I used:

Stained Glass

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps-  Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX (mentioned above), Versafine Clair Nocturne

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

Accessories and Tools- Stained Glass (ACLD); Fresh (VB), TE Blending Brushes