Thursday, 30 October 2025

Baroque Swirl Snowflake

Good Morning
I love trying to combine stencil designs to create new looks 
Today's card uses 2 new stencil designs from A Colorful Life Designs called:

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over the middle of the bottom edge of my cardstock and inked with some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink.
  • I flipped the stencil over and inked along the top, right above the bottom arch.
  • I cleaned the stencil off, repositioned it over to one side along the bottom and inked with some Broken China DOX ink.  I repeated that process on the other side and then along the top edge, filling in the background.
  • Next, I placed the Baroque Swirl Snowflake stencil over the background and inked with some Prize Ribbon DOX ink.
  • I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some navy cardstock.
  • I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple and then onto an A2 sized card base.
  • I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the bottom edge of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:



Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES
Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- STENCIL FUN/optional- HALLOWEEN

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- Prism Solar White
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
Merry Christmas die (Waffle Flower); White Posca pen

Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Celebrating the Holidays


Welcome
I do enjoy creating with snowflakes although I have to say, winter is not my favourite time of the year.
Meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Here are the details.
  • I placed the Baroque Swirl Snowflake onto a piece of white cardstock and then inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours: Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers.
  • I cleaned the stencil off and inked it up onto another piece of white cardstock using some Villainous Potion and some Wilted Violet DOX ink.
  • Next, I took the stenciled pieces and cut them down into strips.
  • I took another piece of white cardstock and using some foam tape, I popped the panels over it to create my card front.  I matched the pattern as I added them.
  • I spattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
  • I stamped the sentiment with more of the Blueprint Sketch DOX ink and die cut it out.
  • I glued my card front panel onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
  • I used more foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background and then added 3 navy gems around it to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:
Baroque Swirl Snowflake


Adding my card to these challenges:
Peace on Earth- INSPIRATION BOARD
A Cut Above- ANYTHING DIE CUT GOES
Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Supplies
Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)
Inks- DOX
Paper- Prism Solar White
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
foam tape; gems; white Posca pen

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Decking the Halls


Good Morning
I have to say that I love working on Christmas cards in preparation for the holiday season.
For today's card, I used 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, one is new and the other one is older.
By combining them together, I was able to create this fun, simple looking card.
So meet the newly released

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I placed an older released stencil called Ball Jumble onto a piece of white cardstock and inked with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink. It reminded me of pieces of holly.
  • I lifted the stencil off and placed the newly released Christmas Greenery stencil over the panel and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.  I also added some Salty Ocean DOX ink for some shading.
  • Next, using the eraser end of a pencil, I stamped in the red dots with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  I added the white detail to the dots with my Posca pen.
  • While that dried, I die cut the sentiment from a piece of red cardstock and then cut the word shadow right from the center of the stenciled panel and glued those together.
  • I glued the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
  • I added 2 red gems beside the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:


Thanks so much for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE
Simon Says Monday- USE MORE THAN ONE STENCIL
Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- Solar White (Prism)
Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
Holiday Sayings dies (Concord and 9th); white Posca pen; red gems; pencil eraser

Friday, 24 October 2025

Layered Snowflake

Good Morning
Today's card is featuring 2 of the new stencil for October from A Colorful Life Designs.
Meet the new 

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I placed one of the Marvelous Masks Rectangles stencil onto a piece of white cardstock and then placed the Christmas Montage over that.  I inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
  • I lifted the stencils off and placed one of the snowflakes from the Snowflake Duos stencil over the stenciled background and inked that up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
  • I lifted that stencil off and placed the panel into my Misti.  
  • I looked through my snowflake stamps and found this large one from Visible Image. I stamped it right over the stenciled snowflake as they seemed to work well together.
  • Next, I stamped the sentiment with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it on a piece of pale blue cardstock
  • I glued my card front onto a piece of pale blue and then onto an A2 sized card base.
  • I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the snowflake to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:




Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- CLEAN AND SIMPLE
Simon Says Monday- USE MORE THAN ONE STENCIL
Jingle Belles- DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW

Supplies
Stamps- Let It Snow (Visible Image)
Inks- DOX; Versamark
Paper- Prism (Solar White)
Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
white EB powder; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Sunday, 19 October 2025

Happy Wishes for the Holidays


Welcome
Today's card is featuring 2 of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I began by looking through my patterned cardstock and found this green check paper.  I placed the Christmas Montage stencil over that and inked it up with some Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink.
  • Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Marvelous Mask Arches stencil over that. I placed the Christmas Montage stencil right over the top of that and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke DOX ink.
  • I removed the stencils and fussy cut out the arch.
  • I placed the arch into my Misti to stamp the trees and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
  • I set that aside to dry while I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock 5 times and glued those all together.
  • I glued the stenciled patterned paper to a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
  • I used some foam tape to pop the arch over the patterned paper, matching up the lettering.  
  • I glued the red sentiment along the bottom of the arch to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:



Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:
Little Red Wagon- CAPTAIN'S LOG
Simon Says Wed.- GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS
The 12 Months of Christmas- ANYTHING GOES/option: SNOWFALL
Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

Supplies
Stamps- Pine Trees (IO)
Inks- DOX
Paper- Prism Solar White, Patterned paper (?)
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
white Posca pen; Happy Holidays die ( Waffle Flower)

Saturday, 18 October 2025

Joyful

Good Morning
Here is a monochromatic card I created using 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, one older called Snow Doily and a new one called:
This new stencil sheet includes 3 different designs that can be used alone or together.

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed one of the Three Snowflakes stencils into the corner of my white cardstock and inked with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
  • I flipped the stencil over and inked the other corner with the same snowflake and ink.
  • Next, I took the Snow Doily stencil and inked it up into the open corners using some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
  • I die cut the sentiment with a piece of blue cardstock and splattered it with my white Posca pen. I glued that onto the white shadow of the die.
  • I glued my card front onto a piece of navy cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
  • I glued a navy band across the middle and added the sentiment with some foam tape over that.

Here are the stencils I used:




Thanks, I really appreciate you for the visit today. 

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS
Moving Along with the Times- SENTIMENT AS FOCUS
Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/OPTIONAL HALLOWEEN

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- Prism Solar white
Accessories and Tools- Stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
All the Joy die (SSS); white Posca pen

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

If Snowflakes Fell in Colours


Welcome
Today's card is a fun one filled with whimsical snowflakes.
Meet one of the new for October stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:
This is a stencil that has 3 designs on one sheet, lots of ways to combine them.

Here's what I did.
  • I cut a piece of white cardstock and then picked out the Distress Oxide ink colours I wanted to work with.  They were: Tumbled Glass, Carved Pumpkin, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac and some Mustard Seed.
  • I chose one of the snowflakes from the Three Snowflake stencil and inked it up. I continued to ink using a different snowflake with a different colour until my white card front was all inked up.
  • I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
  • I die cut the sentiment with some blue paper, then some white and glued them together, offsetting them a bit.
  • I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and the onto a white A2 sized card base.
  • I glued the sentiment over the middle and added 3 silver gems.

Here is the stencil I used:
Three Snowflakes


Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- BRIGHT AND COLORFUL
Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES
(mine is this die, haven't used it in ages)
The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- Prism Solar White
Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
Let It Snow die (STAMPLORATIONS); white Posca pen; silver gems (Dollar Store)