Filled With Joy

Welcome

I had fun creating today's card using stencils and masks from A Colorful Life Designs.

I used the Falling Snow stencil and the Marvelous Circle Masks for the background.

The sentiment was cut from a piece that I made using the Intersection stencil.

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

• I placed the Falling Snow stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti and stamped the large snowflake background right over the stenciling with some black ink.
• Next, I used the Marvelous Circle Masks to add the darker shade of circles over the snowflake using some more of the Broken China DOX ink and some Salty Ocean DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and inked up the Intersection stencil with some Broken China DOX ink, then turned the stencil around and inked again creating this plaid pattern.  I added some black lines over the stenciling to add more interest.
• I die cut that out using the JOY die and cut the outline of the sentiment with some black.  I glued those all together.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of dark blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used one silver gem for the middle of the top of the ornament and some foam tape to add the JOY.

Here is what I used:

Falling Snow

Intersection

Marvelous Masks Circles

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MERRY CHRISTMAS

Simon Says Wed.- USE DIES

Aloha Friday- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

Supplies

Stamps- Snowflake Outline (SSS)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Christmas Bauble Joy (Paper Rose); 

silver gem; fine line marker

Snow for Christmas

Welcome

Christmas Greetings

Today's card features a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Driven Snow

Here's what I did to create this card.

• I placed the Driven Snow stencil onto a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil, cleaned it off and turned it to the side so I could ink again but this time with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.  It made a fun kaleidoscope looking background.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the snowflake with some blue and then some navy cardstock and glued those together.  I glued that onto a white circle. 
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a piece of white then navy cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I stamped and die cut the sentiment and then added the snowflake and the sentiment with some foam tape.
• Finally, I added a silver gem to the middle of the snowflake.

Here is the stencil I used:

Driven Snow

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MERRY CHRISTMAS

Simon Says Wed.- USE DIES

Cut it Up- USE MORE THEN ONE DIE CUT

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; Outside In Stitched Snowflake (Lawn Fawn); silver gem

It Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Good Morning

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

Iron Cross

A bit of inking and some embellishments, made for a happy feeling holiday card.

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

• I placed the Iron Cross stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.  This stencil is a 3 x 6" stencil, not as wide as other stencils and great if you want to just create a border or ink portions of your project.
• I lifted the stencil off and turned it sideways across the middle of my panel and matched the pattern up.  I inked with the same green then splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a piece of dark green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added the embellishments with foam tape to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Iron Cross

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MERRY CHRISTMAS

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

The Holly and Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

white Posca pen; Vintage Holly Jolly Bits (Simple Stories)

So Merry

 

Welcome

Today's card is very simple and easy to recreate using these stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Merry Christmas and Flurries

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

• I placed the Merry Christmas stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I masked off some of the snowflakes from the Flurries stencil, and added them randomly around the text using some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• Using a white Posca pen, I added the dots to the letters and the green snowflakes to help define them a bit more.
• While that dried, I die cut the snowflake with some white cardstock and then glued it onto a red die cut circle.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of dark red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background and finally added a green gem to the center of the snowflake.

Here are the stencils I used:

Merry Christmas

Flurries

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Creative Crafting Uncles- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Sparkles Christmas- CHRISTMAS SONG OR CAROL

(song: We wish you a Merry Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

Outside In Stitched Snowflake (Lawn Fawn); green gem, white Posca pen; 

Infinity Circle die (HA)

All the Joy

 

Good Morning

Today's card features this wonderful stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Christmas Flowers

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

• I found a piece of white cardstock in my stash that I had rolled off onto with my brayer when using my Gel Plate. Since I had used Distress Oxide colours, I knew it would be easy to stencil over the top of it.
• I placed the Christmas Flowers stencil over the background and inked with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil off and using my white Posca pen, I added a white dot to all the flower centers and then splattered the whole thing.
• I set that aside to dry and die cut the sentiment with some dark red and splattered that with my white Posca pen.  I glued that onto the white shadow die cut.
• Next, I used my Versamark ink pad and rubbed it along all the edges of my card front and then white heat embossed it to give a snowy look to my card.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of dark red cardstock to match the sentiment and then onto a piece of pale pink, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment and 3 silver gems.

Here is the stencil I used:

Christmas Flowers

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

TicTackToe- (DIE CUTS/ EMBOSSING/ METALLIC

As You Like It- ANYTHING CHRISTMASS

(love the look of red and white for Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

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

White Posca pen; white EB powder; silver gems; All the Joy die (SSS); foam tape

Falling Snow

Welcome

I can't believe how close we are to the big day!

I had fun creating this card...doing some stencil layering again.

I used 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Falling Snow and Glittering Heavens

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front, then embossed it using a Dot Embossing Folder. Using some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink, I gently rubbed over the embossing to make it show up.
• Next, I placed the Falling Snow stencil over my embossed background and inked with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I lifted that stencil off and replaced it with the Glittering Heavens stencil and inked again with more Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I placed my stenciled card front into my Misti and stamped the large snowflake with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink right up into the corner.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment and then die cut it out.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of navy and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up near the bottom and finally, added a silver gem to the middle of the snowflake.

Here are the stencils I used:

Falling Snow

Glittering Heavens

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS, THE LAST STRETCH

(the snow is here now so ready for Christmas)

The Sisterhood of Crafters- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Dot EB Folder (Sizzix); silver gem; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

foam tape

All the Joy

Hello and Welcome

Today's card features a lovely stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Christmas Quilt

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

• I placed the Christmas Quilt stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil and inked again, filling in the open areas with the same ink.
• Using the eraser on the end of a pencil, I added the dots with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Next, I die cut the 'JOY' sentiment with some red cardstock, then the border with some black and then with a piece of green.  I glued all the pieces together and then added some details with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up over the background and added a red gem to the top of the ornament.

Here is the stencil I used:

Christmas Quilt

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Mix it Up- ANYTHING GOES/option: Paper Piecing

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Allsorts- IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Christmas Quilt Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

white Posca pen; Christmas Bauble Joy (Paper Rose)

Let's Get Holly and Jolly

 

Welcome

Today's card was a fun one using a simple stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Puzzle Pieces

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and placed the Puzzle Pieces stencil over that and inked with some Dusty Concord Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, repositioned it and inked again with some Villainous Potion DOX ink. I repeated that again using some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink this time.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Next, I took another piece of white cardstock and embossed it with a Burlap Embossing Folder and then cut a circle from that.
• I glued the embossed piece over the stenciled background.  I stamped and fussy cut out the bear and coloured his scarf with my Copic markers.
• I glued the card front onto an A2 sized card base and used some foam tape to add the bear in the corner and the pre-printed sentiment over the top corner.
• The last step was to add 3 silver gems under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Puzzle Pieces

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- WINTER BLUES

Simon Says Mon.- MAKE IT SPARKLE

The Holly and Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils Are Our Game- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Alphabet Challenge- R for Round

Supplies

Stamp- Polar Pals (MFT)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

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

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

Infinity Circle dies (HA); white Posca pen; Foiled Sentiments (Pinkfresh);

Burlap EB folder (Honeybee)

Happy Christmastime

Good Morning

More snowflake fun as I play with this newly released stencil again from A Colorful Life Designs called 

SNOWFLAKE GRID

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

• I placed the Snowflake Grid stencil onto a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I die cut it out with the Christmas Snowflake die and set aside.
• I then took a piece of pale gray cardstock and inked up the Snowflake Grid again using more of the Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I glued the die cut snowflake (the white one that I had stenciled first) and glued it over the gray, matching up the pattern.
• I glued that onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I found a scrap of blue cardstock and die cut the small snowflake to glue over the center of the large coverplate snowflake.  
• Finally, I added the pre-printed sentiment with some foam tape right over the middle of the two snowflakes.

Here is the stencil I used:

Snowflake Grid

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- MASCULINE

Double D- WINTER

Paper Minutes- STENCIL

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Christmas Snowflake Coverplate die (Paper Rose); Stackable Snowflakes die (MFT);

Pre-printed greeting (SSS)

Layered Poinsettia

Good Morning

This new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs is so pretty and it's called;

Layered Poinsettia

It's easy to ink up onto a piece of cardstock, but I took it a step further to give my flower more interest and dimension.

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

• I placed the Layered Poinsettia stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Barn Door, Candied Apple and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I repeated that process on another piece of white cardstock, splattered both flowers with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I placed the Poinsettia leaves onto another piece of white cardstock and inked that up with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• Next, I placed the Merry Christmas stencil over the stenciled leaves and inked that up with some more of the Barn Door DOX ink and splattered that as well.
• I fussy cut out both of the poinsettias, then used some foam tape to position one of them over the leaves.  
• I took the second poinsettia and cut out just some of the flower petals, rolled them with a pencil and then used some foam tape to pop them over the larger one.  It really gave lots of great dimension to the flowers by layering the petals.
• I glued the card base to a piece of burgundy cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I added some Glossy Accents to the flower center.

Here are the stencils I used:

Layered Poinsettia

Merry Christmas

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS

Time Out- INSPIRED BY WORDS

Supplies

Stamps- None

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Foam tape; TE Blending Brushes; Glossy Accents

Swirling Snow

Good Morning

We are having a mid-month new release so meet the new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Pop the Cork

When you see the stencil pictured below, you will see that I used it in a totally different way then intended.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and then placed just part of the Pop the Cork stencil over half of my paper and inked it up with some Broken China and a bit of Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil off and repositioned it over the other half of my card front and inked again with the same colours.
• I diluted some of the ink with water and splattered over the whole card base. After that dried, I splattered again with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried completely, I took another piece of white cardstock, inked it up with some more of the blue inks and then die cut the snowflakes from it.
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a piece of dark blue cardstock, then onto a pale blue piece and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the snowflakes across the top. The sentiment was also added with some foam tape under the snowflakes.
• Finally, I added some silver gems to the middle of the snowflakes.

Here is the stencil I used:

Pop the Cork

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- WINTERTIME

Unicorn Challenge- CHRISTMAS and/or WINTER

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS and/or WINTER

Crafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

white Posca pen; Drifting Snowflakes die (Memory Box); foam tape; 

Pre- printed sentiment (SSS); silver gems 

Christmas Postmark

Welcome

Today's card features a lovely new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Christmas Postmark

I paired it up with an older stencil called Merry Christmas to create my card.

Postal dies, stencils and stamps are all so hot right now and this one is perfect for your holiday cards.

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

• I placed the Merry Christmas stencil over a piece of white cardstock and then inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I used the Postal Collage die to cut it out, added more green ink along the edges and set aside.
• I die cut another piece of white cardstock with the Postal Collage die and then placed the Christmas Postmark stencil over that and inked it with some more of the same ink as mentioned above. I cut a small part of the die cut out as I only wanted the stenciled area.
• I glue my stenciled card front onto a piece of red and then onto a piece of green cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the postmark over the background.
• I die cut the foliage, glued that to one side and added the pre-printed sentiment. 

Here are the stencils I used:

Christmas Postmark

Merry Christmas

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

My Time to Craft- STENCILS

Allsorts- CHRISTMAS

Word Power- WORDS AS THE FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Postal Collage die (Waffle Flower); Foliage dies (SSS); Pre- printed sentiment (SSS)