Winter Hugs

Welcome

Meet today's card.

I combined 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs with this sweet mitten die one of my boys gave me for Christmas.

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock and placed it onto my Stencil Mat (I have mentioned this new to me product in previous posts and I am really love it.)
• I placed the All Over Hearts stencil onto my cardstock and rubbed on some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.  
• I removed that stencil and positioned the Delicate Scroll Stencil over the panel and inked with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink.  I think it gave a look of blowing snow.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I die cut the mittens from some white cardstock.  My son bought them on Amazon so I unfortunately don't know who makes them.
• I stamped the sentiment with some more Blueprint Sketch ink and clear heat embossed it. I glued that onto a matching cardstock scrap of paper.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of light blue cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• I added foam tape to the back of the mittens and also to the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

All Over Hearts

Delicate Scroll

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiments (YNS)

Inks- Distress Oxides (mentioned above)

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

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); mitten die (Amazon); TE Blending Brushes;

Stencil Mat (Waffle Flower); white Posca pen; foam tape; eb powder; heat tool

Lots of Love

Good Morning

Today I am playing with a new stencil from ACLD called All Over Hearts.  

A really fun stencil to create a simple card.

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

• I pulled out my Waffle Flower Stencil Mat and then cut 2 piece of cardstock; one for the card front panel and one to fussy cut the hearts from.
• I positioned the stencil over my paper and starting at the left hand side, I blended on some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.  
• I continued to ink up my panel next with some Wilted Violet, then Peacock Feathers and finally some Cracked Pistachio on the far right.  I love those colours together.
• When I was happy with the inking, I moved that panel aside and inked up another one the same way.
• I place panel #1 into my Misti and stamped the sentiment with some black ink, then clear heat embossed it.  
• I splattered the whole thing using my white Posca pen.
• I glued it onto a white card base, then I took panel #2 and fussy cut out the hearts.  I pop dotted them down the panel beside the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

All Over Hearts

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FUN WITH STENCILS

Shopping Our Stash- STARTS WITH 'S' (stencil)

Allsorts- ADD A HEART

Supplies

Stamps- Love in Your Heart (Rubbernecker)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook (Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Stencil Mat (Waffle Mat); Stencil (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes; 

Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; heat tool; Posca pen

Comfort and Peace

Hello and Welcome

I am on a quest to replenish my stash of sympathy cards.  

I made some for a friend and now I need some for my personal use.  It is difficult to make them at the last minute I find.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock.  I got out my Gel Plate and pressed some Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide ink on one side and some Crackling Campfire on the other side.
• Using my brayer, I blended the colours together.
• I had some grasses I picked up on a walk (before the snow came) and I laid them onto the plate, then rubbed my white cardstock over the plate to lift the print.
• The ink dries super fast so I was able to place the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from Penny Black using some Versafine Clair ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and added 3 little black gems.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Sympathy Sentiments (PB)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; grasses found outside; 

Gel Plate; Speedball brayer; white Posca pen

Simple Watercolouring

 

Hello

Hope you are all doing well.

Meet today's card.  I was in the mood to do some watercolouring; something I haven't done for quite awhile.

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".  I took a piece of acetate, rubbed some Spun Sugar Distress ink onto the acetate and sprayed with water.  I bent the acetate and 'kissed' it to my cardstock, then dried the ink.  That gave me a bit of a colour base to start stamping my flowers onto.
• I positioned the Lotus stamp into the corner of my cardstock, inked with some black Versafine Clair ink and stamped.  I clear embossed it as I knew I wanted to use lots of water and colour and I didn't want it to bleed.
• I stamped the lotus again onto some sticky paper and fussy cut it out to create a mask.
• I masked the flower and stamped another one beside and then above it.  I embossed them as well with some clear embossing powder.
• I rubbed some Abandoned Coral onto my non-stick craft sheet and using a wet paintbrush, diluted it.  I added some clear water to the flowers with my paintbrush, then added some of the colour into the flower petals. 
• I still had some ink left on my mat, so I splattered it over the flowers to add interest.
• I dried the flowers before watercolouring in the flower heads with some Squeezed Lemon Distress ink using the same technique I mentioned above, then the stems with some Peeled Paint.
• After I dried the flowers, I diluted some Tumbled Glass DI ink and painted in the background, adding more ink close to the flowers and blending it out.
• To add even more interest to the background, I used the Chain Weavers stencil from ACLD and gently went over the blue area that I had watercoloured using more of the Tumbled Glass ink.
• When dry, I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from the Lotus set.
• I glued it onto a piece of pale pink cardstock, then onto a 5" x 5" white card base.

Here is the stencil I used on the background.

Chain Weave

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Us Girls- INKED OR SPRAYED BKGD

CASology- RENEW 

(After making so many Christmas cards, I am renewing my love of florals for Spring)

613 Avenue Create- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Inked Lotus (Altenew)

Inks- Distress Inks (all mentioned above); Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (ACLD); Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; sponge daubers;

paintbrush; acetate sheet

Feeling Blue

Welcome

I am trying to replenish my sympathy cards...always good to have a few on hand.

This one was a very simple design, made on my Gel Plate using Distress Oxide inks and a stamp.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock, my Gel Plate, brayer and 2 Distress Oxide inks....Blueprint sketch and Salvaged Patina.
• I pressed the Blueprint Sketch ink pad directly onto my Gel plate on the left and the Salvaged Patina on the right.  Using my brayer, I blended the colours together. 
• I stamped the Tall Wheat directly onto my Gel Plate to remove some of the ink and then rubbed my piece of cardstock over the plate to lift the print. I got a cool looking shadow effect from stamping onto the plate.
• When the print was dry, I inked up the  stamp again with some black Versafine Clair ink and stamped over the ink lifted area of my print.
• I splattered with my black and white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment from PTI onto a piece of scrap white cardstock in my Misti.
• I glued the printed panel onto a heavy white card base, then pop dot mounted the sentiment along the bottom.

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Shopping Our Stash- STARTS WITH 'S' (sympathy)

Krafty Chicks- STAMP ACT

Through the Craft Room Door- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Tall Wheat (Hero Arts); Sentiments (PTI)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; Speedball brayer; Posca pens; foam tape; Misti

A New Year

 

Hello and Welcome

I hope your first few days of the New Year have been happy ones.

I had a few days off so was glad to have some time to play with some new Christmas goodies.

I was inspired by a video I watched and decided to try and make my first 'mini' slimline card.

Super easy to make but may be difficult to find the right size envelope so I will add how I made one at the end.

A standard Slimline card is size is 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 whereas a Mini Slimline is 6" x 3".

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

• I began by embossing a piece of heavy white cardstock using my new Snowy Forest eb folder.  I ran it through my machine to get a good impression.
• I wanted to add colour so I got out my brayer and rolled some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink along the bottom where the trees are.  I cleaned off my brayer and then added some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink over the middle area, overlapping the colours a bit.
• Finally at the top, I brayered on some Salty Ocean DOX ink to give the sky a hint of blue.
• While the ink dried, I cut my card base.  For my mini slimline the white cardstock was cut 6 x 6" and scored at 3"and folded in half.
• I then took the embossed panel and cut it in half so I could make 2 slimline cards (another one coming soon) using the one embossed/inked piece I had made.
• I glued it to one side of a piece of white cardstock, then onto a dark green that looks black here and finally, onto the white card base.
• I stamped the sentiment and circle from a new Avery Elle set I got for Christmas using some more Rustic Wilderness ink in my Misti, then die cut out the circle and pop dotted it off to the side.

ENVELOPE:

• The envelope to mail this card is very simple.  I used my Envelope Punch Board to create it.
• I cut my lightweight white cardstock to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4".  (I used the lightweight cs as it is easier to fold and not as stiff as the heavy.)
• I placed it into my Envelope Punch Board and punched the first mark at 3 1/8" and scored along the marked line.  I rotated my cardstock and followed the instructions, continuing around until my envelope was made.  It is so simple to do using this Punch Board.  You can make any size envelope. All the measurements are included on the front of the board.

Here is a picture of the Envelope Punch Board:

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- TIME TO PARTY

CAS on Friday- HAPPY NEW YEAR

Shopping Our Stash- BEGINS WITH 'S'

(slimline)

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Distress Oxides (see above)

Paper- cardstock (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Snowy Forest eb folder (Memory Box); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Speedball Brayer; Envelope Punch Board (We R Memory Keepers); 

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts); foam tape

Happy New Year 2022

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Good Morning.

Time to celebrate a New Year with new beginnings and hopefully good health and happiness!

Here's a simple card I made using stencils from ACLD.

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

• I began by getting out my Stencil Mat from Waffle Flower....a fairly new to me tool that I am loving to stencil on.  It is a silicone mat that holds your paper and stencil nicely in place.
• I positioned the Happy New Year stencil over my white cardstock.  Starting at the top, I applied Distress Oxide inks in this order:  Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Crackling Campfire, Barn Door, Peacock Feathers Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio.  
• To add more interest, I left that stencil in place and positioned the Cozy Knit stencil right over the top of it, doing a stencil on stencil technique.  I inked from top to bottom again.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I cut another white panel and using the Cozy Knit stencil again, I used the same colours of Distress Oxide inks and stenciled up the whole panel but this time I reversed the colours.  I glued that onto a heavy white card base.
• I fussy cut the Happy New Year out, then pop dot mounted it onto my stenciled card panel.

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)

Wishing you everything wonderful this New Year.

Thanks so much for all the times you have visited and for all the most kind and generous comments.

You have all blessed my life in so many ways.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- IT'S TIME TO PARTY

Time Out- NEW

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides (all mentioned above)

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

Accessories and Tools- Happy New Year stencil (ACLD); Cozy Knit Stencil (ACLD); 

Stencil Mat (Waffle Flower); TE Blending Brushes; Posca pen