Holly Squares 2 Ways

Welcome

I had fun making these cards using traditional colours....2 for the price of one using this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

HOLLY SQUARES

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and I masked around the berries as I wanted them to be bright red. I inked over the Holly Berries stencil leaves with some Lucky Clover and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the masks that were around the berries and then inked them up with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• Next, I took the stenciled panel and die cut it using this Poinsettia die.  I also cut a piece of dark red cardstock and gathered all the pieces together. 
• I did splatter some of the red pieces with my white Posca pen to add interest and I added a few more red dot berries to some of the open areas using the eraser on the end of a pencil.
• Using all the die cut pieces, I was able to reassemble them onto 2 white A2 sized card base fronts.
• I die cut the sentiment for both cards and then glued them onto the word shadows.
• I finished off my cards by adding the sentiments with some foam tape.

Here is the stencil I used:

HOLLY SQUARES

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:

Cardz 5 Galz- WORDS AS FOCUs

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS/ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/ WINTER

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

Just Us Girls- WORD WEEK:MERRY

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/red

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

Poinsettia Cover Plate die (Temu); Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); 

Very Merry die (Amazon)

Time for Snowflakes

Good Morning

Although I am not ready for the snow to fall, I wanted to use this beautiful newly released stencil for November from A Colorful Life Designs called 

SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

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

• I placed the Snowflake Background stencil over a piece of white cardstock and then inked it up with some Peacock Feathers and some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I got out this 'Let it Snow' die and word set and I used the postage style die to cut the frame and then cut the word shadow from the stenciled panel. 
• I die cut the 'Let it Snow' from some black cardstock and the little snowflake from some silver cardstock.  I glued those over the word shadow.
• I glued the frame onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the next piece over the frame, matching the snowflake pattern.
• I used more foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place in the center of my card front.
• To finish off my card, I added a black gem to the middle of the snowflake and some blue gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

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

KARENFAN10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ANYTHING GOES

Word Power- ANYTHING WITH WORDS AS FOCUS

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/and or WINTER

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/blue/black

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

Let it Snow dies (Temu); gems and foam tape (Dollar Tree)

Christmas Peace Doves

Good Morning

Todays card features 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

The new one is called:

PEACE DOVE SET

This set has 4 lovely shaped doves on it and I used 3 of them for my card.

I combined that with an older released stencil called 

Middle Square

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

• I placed the Peace Dove stencil over a piece of cardstock and inked 3 of the 4 designs with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving that stencil in place, I put the Middle Square stencil right over the top of it and inked again with some Chipped Sapphire DOX ink. I love the look of the contrasting inks.
• I removed the stencils and cut the doves out and glued them onto a piece of blue cardstock.
• I decided that the images would fit perfectly on a mini slimline card base (a Mini Slimline card is 6" x 3") so I cut a piece of white cardstock 6 x 6" and scored at 3" then folded in half to make my card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the panels up and lined them across the card base.
• Using the same colours as mentioned above, I inked a scrap piece of white cardstock, splattered with my white Posca pen then used that to die cut the PEACE sentiment. I used some more of the foam tape to add the sentiment across the bottom edge.

Here are the stencils I used:

PEACE DOVE SET

Middle Square

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- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS

Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

The Male Room- ANIMALS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white/ blue

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

white Posca pen; Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); foam tape

Split Snowflake

Welcome

Here's a card for you today that I created using the new for November stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

SPLIT SNOWFLAKE

This is what I did to create my simple card.

• I placed the Split Snowflake stencil over a piece of white cardstock and I inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• To help add more interest and depth, I took some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink and added that around the outside edge of the snowflake.
• I removed the stencil and splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment with a piece of black cardstock and then blue cardstock and glued them together, offsetting them a bit to give a shadow effect.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment in place to the side and added 3 blue gems to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Split Snowflake

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

KARENFAN10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look....so appreciated!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES

(option: One Colour plus neutral)

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/blue

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

white Posca pen; Peace, Love, Hope, Joy die (SSS)

Christmas Deer Portrait

Welcome

These beautiful new for November stencils from A Colorful Life Designs are called 

DEER PORTRAIT and SNOWFLAKE BACKGROUND

The Deer is such a great, majestic looking design that could be used in so many different ways especially for creating those masculine cards.

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

• I placed the Deer Portrait stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide ink.  
• Next, leaving that stencil in place, I put the Snowflake Background stencil right over top of it and inked again using some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink. It added great contrast to the overall design.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto some brown and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it out, then used some foam tape to pop it over the bottom of my card under the deer image.

Here are the stencils I used:

Deer Portrait

Snowflake Background

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

KARENFAN10

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- STENCIL

Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Peace on Earth- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Holly Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white/brown

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); foam tape

Outline Wreath

Welcome

Meet another new for October stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

OUTLINE WREATH

Such a pretty, simple wreath perfect to watercolour or to use just as it is.

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

• I began by placing the Outline Wreath stencil over a piece of white cardstock. I used a post-it note to mask as I wanted to ink up just the ribbon part of the stencil with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• After the ribbons were all inked, I moved onto the greenery and inked that with some Lucky Clover DOX ink.  
• Next, leaving the stencil in place and to help really define the details on the wreath, I took a green marker and a red marker and traced inside the edges of the stencil. I also took a wet paintbrush and used that to do a bit of watercolouring inside the wreath outline.
• I splattered the wreath with my white Posca pen, let that dry and then fussy cut it out.
• I took another piece of white cardstock, placed the Merry Christmas stencil over my that and inked it up with more of the Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink. I splattered that as well with white and set aside to dry.
• I cut some white cardstock and scored it according to the below measurements as I wanted to make a side fold designs.

Here is how I did that:

- Base: cut a piece of cardstock 9 3/4" x 4 1/4"

- Score the base at 4 1/4"

- Stamped Panel Front measures 3 3/4"  sqaure

- Side Panel measures 1 1/2" x 3 3/4"

• I cut and glued the stenciled Merry Christmas background onto the card base, then glued the wreath on top of that.
• I die cut the sentiment and added that using some foam tape.

Here are the stencils I used:

Outline Wreath

Merry Christmas

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

KARENFAN10

Many thanks for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Creative Creases- FUN FOLDS

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- STENCIL FUN/optional orange

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX, markers

Paper- Solar white

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

white Posca pen; Bold Christmas Words die (KSCraft); foam tape

Under the Mistletoe

 

Good Morning

Here is another card for the holidays that I created by combining 2 of the new released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

OUTLINE MISTLETOE and FLOURISH MAKER

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

• I began by placing the Outline Mistletoe stencil over a piece of white cardstock. I inked up the leaves with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.  
• The inside of the leaves was blank so I used the leaves from the Flourish Maker stencil to fill them in with more of the green ink. It gave a really nice look to the mistletoe.
• Next, I set that aside and took a piece of dark red cardstock and inked up the bow with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX and then used some clear embossing powder to heat emboss the bow to help make it pop. I fussy cut out the bow and glued that over the mistletoe on my card front panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of green cardstock, then red and then onto a white A2 sized card base and set that aside to dry.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment with some red cardstock and glued that over the corner of my card.
• Lastly, to finish off my card, I added some red gems over the berries.

Here are the stencils I used:

OUTLINE MISTLETOE

FLOURISH MAKER

This stencil is our special 'MID MONTH' release and is such a great one

to have in your stash as it has so many possibilities!!

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:

Allsorts- FEMININE

Farm Quest Country Christmas- ANYTHING COUNTRY GOES

Sparkles- RED AND GREEN

Just Us Girls- STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White; green; red

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

red gems; Clear Eb powder (Lawn Fawn); Christmas Sentiments (Amazon)