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Today's card was a fun one.  

I thought of all we can look forward to seeing Spring's arrival and this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Wildflowers inspired me.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and got out my Gel Plate.
• I pressed my Mustard Seed Distress Oxide pad directly onto the middle of my Gel Plate.  Along the bottom I pressed some Carved Pumpkin DOX ink and along the top some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink. Using my brayer, I blending the colours together.  
• Next, I placed the Wildflowers stencil onto the plate and rubbed over it with my cardstock to take the print.
• When the panel was dry, I placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the finished piece onto a piece of white, then a piece of red cardstock, then onto an 5 x 5" card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Wildflowers

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks- CAS

Craft Rocket- FOR THE GIRLS

CRAFT Challenge- FEMALE

Supplies

Stamp- Side by Side (IO- retired)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Misti; Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer; clear eb powder; heat tool

Wildflower Garden

Welcome

Here is today's card I created after watching a Friday Night Live with Vicki Boutin.

For any of you that don't know Vicki, she is a Canadian Mixed Media artist that has a line of products with American Crafts.

Every Friday night, she does a live on FB and YouTube, all free!

One of my favourite products she has is her Art Crayons.  That's what I used on this card.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front.  I got out my Vicki Boutin Art Crayons and rubbed some purple and blue onto a piece of acetate.  I picked up the crayon with a stencil brush and rubbed it onto my cardstock, blending the colours together, fading out towards the edges of the panel.
• These crayons are water soluble so when I was happy with the inking, I took the Messy Grid stencil from ACLD and using a wet stencil brush, I rubbed over it, lifting some of the ink and revealing the white cardstock underneath.
• Using some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, I stamped some script randomly over the bkg to add more interest, then splattered with my white and black Posca pen.  **I get a lot of questions about the splatters using my Posca pen.  When I want to add splatters, I press the tip of the pen onto my work surface to get the ink flowing a little bit, then I hold the pen over my project and tap it using a metal ruler.**
• As that dried, I looked through my stash of die cuts to find some flowers that would work on my card front.  I like to die cut in advance using leftover scraps and keep them in a folder for future use.  I found these and thought they worked great.
• When the panel was dry, I placed it into my Misti and rubbed it with my anti-static bag.  I stamped the sentiment from Impression Obsession using some black Versafine Clair, then clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the flowers along the bottom of the card front panel, then onto a heavy white card base.

Here is the stencil I used in the background

Messy Grid

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.- ANTHING GOES

Challenge Up Your Life- SPLATTERS

Try it on Tues.- SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- To Everything There is a Season (IO); Script (Penny Black)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Messy Grid stencil (ACLD); Posca pens; Anti-static bag;

Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; stencil brush; Wildflower Stems dies- (TH-Sizzix); 

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine