The Good Life

Good Morning.

Today's card features the new Viewmaster stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

Have you ever used your stencils to stamp with?

It's a fun technique and easy to do.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock to use as my card front panel.
• Next, I got out one of the solid images from the Paint Swatches stamp set...see it below.

• I inked the stamp up with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink along the top and then some Candied Apple DOX ink along the bottom.
• Here's where the stamping part comes in.....I pressed the inked solid stamp onto the Viewmaster stencil to pick up the pattern, then stamped it onto my white cardstock.  I love how it transferred the pattern onto the stamp and what a great way to get a different look using your stencils.  You can also see how it transferred the pattern of the paper towels that I had the stencil sitting on top of.
• When the ink was dry, I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the flowers along the bottom and the sentiment into the right hand corner.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of pink cardstock and then onto an A2 card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Viewmaster

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Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters- IN THE GARDEN

Bastel-Traum- PLANTS/FLOWERS

The Flower Challenge- CAS

Supplies

Stamps- Paint Swatches (Simon Hurley); Live sentiment (Rubbernecker); 

Nature Flowers (Art Journey)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Painted Hello

Welcome

Today's card features one of the new stencils for July called Layered Arches from A Colorful Life Designs.

I decided to use it in a different way.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and got out the new to me Catherine Pooler Carnivale ink set. I then decided what colours I wanted to use on the panel. I'm using one of the Paint Swatches stamps from the Simon Hurley set to do this technique.

Here is the stamp from the set I used.

• I inked up the smallest stamp from the Paint Swatches set with some Grape Crush and pressed that onto the bricks of the Layered Arches stencil to impress the pattern of the bricks, then stamped it to one side of my panel.
• I repeated that same process, stamping from left to right using some All That Jazz, Samba and finally some Be Mine ink.
• When the panel was dry, I die cut the shadow from the 'hello' die right from the center. I then die cut the word from some white cardstock and glued them together.
• I didn't have any matching blue cardstock to use as a border, so I inked up another piece of white cardstock with some All That Jazz ink and glued the finished panel onto that.
• I glued that onto an A2 sized card base and used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place over the panel.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Arches

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

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Paint Swatches (Simon Hurley-Ranger)

Inks- Catherine Pooler

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Hello die (SSS); 

foam tape