Happy Hooray!

Happy September!!

There is a crispness in the air and the kids are going back to school.  

A new month also means a new lineup of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, some great Fall inspired designs.

Today's card features one of the new release called 

Quarter Moons

I thought I'd use some Fall colours so here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Quarter Moons stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted to add interest to the design, so I left the stencil in place and put the Bauhaus Circle Mask stencil (last month's release) right over it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto white, then yellow and finally onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Quarter Moons

Bauhaus Circle Mask Stencil

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Allsorts- BIRTHDAY or ANYTHING GOES

Stamp and Fun= Creativity- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studio)

Inks- Versafine, DOX

Paper- Solar White; Coloured cs

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

black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); clear eb powder

So Happy

 

Welcome

A simple, colourful card today using the new for August stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Bauhaus Circle Mask Stencil 

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Bauhaus Circle Mask on an angle over my paper and secured well.
• Beginning at the top, I inked with some Distress Oxide inks: Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio and finally some Salty Ocean along the bottom edge.
• I took the stencil off and used the Happy Cover die to cut out the panel.  
• I glued the die cut panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then glued back in some of the piece from the die cut.
• I glued that onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I stamped the 'wishes' and die cut it out.  I added it into the bottom corner.

Here is the stencil I used:

Bauhaus Circle Mask Stencil

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CIRCLE OF LIFE

Seize the Birthday- NO FLOWERS

Allsorts- STARTS WITH A 'B' or ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- It's Your Birthday (Stamp Market)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Foam tape

Warm Wishes for You

 

Good Morning

Here is another one of the new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs for August that I played with and it's called:

Bauhaus Pinwheels

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock, placed the Bauhaus Pinwheels stencil over that and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off, shifted it and placed it back down.  I inked again using some Picked Raspberry DOX ink.
• I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and I added white dots to some of the inked areas.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment with some more of the Ripe Persimmon ink and die cut it out.
• I glued my stenciled card panel onto a piece of orange cardstock and then onto a white A2 card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of the background.
• Finally, I added some silver gems around the sentiment for more interest.

Here is the stencil I used:

Bauhaus Pinwheels

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CIRCLE OF LIFE

Seize the Birthday- NO FLOWERS

Cut it Up- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Big and Bold 2 (Simon Says)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

white Posca Pen; foam tape

Wishing You Well

 

Hello and Welcome

Today's card is a simple one to create.

I used the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Breeze Squares

So, here's how I created my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Mid Century Breeze Squares stencil over that.  
• I wanted to make each square a different colour, so I masked off the first one and inked with some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the mask and inked again with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.  I repeated that same process again, inking this time with some Wilted Violet DOX.  
• I removed the stencil and I used the Hemstitch die to cut a frame around the edge.
• I die cut the sentiment with some purple cardstock, then some white cardstock 4 more times as I wanted to make a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my stenciled card base onto a piece of white cardstock, then purple, then finally onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment over the middle area of my card base and added 3 purple gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Breeze Squares

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

I appreciated you coming to take a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Hemstitch Rectangle die (Spellbinders); Get Well Die (Frantic Stamper)

Better With You

 

Good Morning.

Here's a simple, monochromatic card I made using the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Star Balls

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

• I placed the Mid Century Star Balls over a piece of white cardstock and inked using some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• When the ink was all dry, I used a fine line black marker to draw a border around the edge to add interest.
• Next, I stamped the sentiment with more of the Picked Raspberry ink and used some clear embossing powder to heat set it. I die cut that out.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, the onto a piece of pink and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I popped the sentiment over my card front with some foam dots.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Star Balls

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- CIRCLE OF LIFE

Crafty Chicks- CAS

Creations in Pink- ANYTHING GOES in MAINLY PINK

Supplies

Stamp- Roadside Messages (HA)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

foam dots; Lawn Fawn clear EB powder; Fine line black marker; foam tape

Simple Note

 

Hello and Welcome

Meet the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Double Rainbow

I decided to make a more masculine black and white card, so here's what I did.

• For my this card, I began by getting out my Gel Plate.  I pressed my Black Soot Distress Oxide ink pad directly onto the plate and I used my brayer to spread the ink evenly.
• I place the Mid Century Double Rainbow stencil over that, then rubbed a piece of white cardstock over the stencil to create the print.
• I repeated the steps mentioned above, but this time I turned the stencil sideways and printed right over the first one to create this pattern.  I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry. 
• I die cut a circle from the middle of the dried panel and cut another circle from a piece of black cardstock and glued them together.
• I die cut the sentiment from some black cardstock and the word shadow from a piece of white and glued those together.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of black and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the large circle back into place, matching up the pattern and then glued the sentiment over that.

Here is the stencil I used:

Mid Century Double Rainbow

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Cut It Up- ADD A SENTIMENT

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

The Sisterhood of Crafters- CARD OF ENCOURAGEMENT

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white, black cardstock

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer;

white Posca pen; Infinity Circle die (HA); Just Saying die (Concord and 9th)

Wrap Around

Good Morning

Meet this new geometric stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Bauhaus

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

• Today, I thought I would look through my patterned papers where I found this blue check paper.  That was my starting point.
• I placed the Bauhaus stencil over the patterned paper and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I die cut the flowers with some white cardstock.  I die cut a circle with a piece of navy cardstock, then some blue to match the stenciled panel and glued those together.
• I cut my white cardstock base with a top fold design, then scored and glued my stenciled piece so it wrapped around from the front to the back.  I trimmed the edges with a narrow piece of the blue cardstock to give it a more finished look.
• Finally, to finish off my card, I used some foam tape to add the flower circle over my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Bauhaus

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

I appreciated your visit...thank you.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame; Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES/Optional TREES or LEAVES

Try it on Tuesday- SUMMER

Ellibelle's Corner- Anything In or From a Garden

Neglected Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

(neglected- die and this patterned paper)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/ Coloured cs

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Daisy Circle (Paper Rose)

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape