Ombre Cogs Thanks

Good morning!  The new Connected Cogs stencil from A Colorful Life Designs makes for a really fun background for your cards and projects.  I did a fun ombre by brushing pale blue, medium blue, and purple distress inks over this Connected Cogs stencil onto some white cardstock.  After I removed the stencil, I flicked some water over the panel and I also splattered some white and black acrylic inks all over.  While this was drying, I die cut the sentiment (Concord & 9th).  When the panel was dry, I adhered this to a white card base and glued the sentiment in the center.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire purchase (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Connected Cogs stencil and check out all the other great new stencils in this June release.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Birthday Numbers Shaker Card

Good morning!  One of the new stencils in this month's release at A Colorful Life Designs is this Numbers stencil.  The first thing that popped in my head was that this is perfect for a birthday shaker card, so I pulled out my Card Bling stash and picked some fun rainbow colors.  I placed this Numbers stencil over some white cardstock and inked up the numbers vertically with a pink, yellow, and blue ink (the orange and green colors are created by blending the previous colors).  I wrapped some plastic packaging material around the front of the stenciled panel and taped it to the back on three sides.  With one side still open, I poured in six colors of Card Bling:

Crystal Iris Aurora Borealis

Crystal Iris Primrose

Crystal Opaque Red Hot

Sunshine Mix

Crystal Metallic Chameleon

Crystal Metallic Mermaid

After I taped the fourth side, I adhered this shaker panel to a white card base and glued the die cut sentiment (Waffle Flower) on top of the plastic.  Then I had to giggle when I was shaking up all that Card Bling - it's just too fun!!

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire purchase (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Numbers stencil and some Card Bling, and check out all the other great new stencils in this June release.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Pointillism Cogs Hi

Good morning.  I was playing with the new Connected Cogs stencil from A Colorful Life Designs. and this background turned out so cute and rather delicate.  I placed the stencil over some white cardstock and sprayed very lightly with some dark pink and orange sprays.  If you are very light-handed with your spraying, you get these tiny little spots of color instead of a solid panel of color.  That's what happened here - all those tiny little drops of color kind of remind me of the pointillism technique.  I added a die cut sentiment (Concord & 9th) and some hearts cut from black cardstock and then glued this stenciled panel to a black card.  

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire purchase (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Connected Cogs stencil and check out all the other great new stencils in this June release.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Beautiful Day with a Glittery Butterfly

Good morning!  There is a new monthly challenge up on the Pink & Main blog, and for June they want to see sunny and bright cards.  I attended their recent foiling class in May, and we got to use some fun butterfly Stickies.  These are adhesive shapes that we applied to paper and then ran them through a Minc machine with some foil for some fabulous effects.  Well, when you peel the adhesive off, you are left with this piece of acetate with a black butterfly on it.  I couldn't bear to throw that away, so I put my thinking cap on.

I turned this acetate butterfly over and applied some liquid glue to the clear areas and then covered them with Rose Gold Glitter.  While this was drying, I pulled out the Wings of Whimsy stamp set and lightly stamped all the butterflies onto some pale aqua cardstock with Versamark.  This was cut out with a Stitched Rounded Rectangle die and I brushed some pale aqua ink all around the edges.  I wanted a little something "extra," so I flicked some white acrylic ink all over this panel and then I adhered this to a pale aqua card with foam tape.

I pulled out a sentiment stamp from the Daisy Days set, stamped it with black ink onto pale aqua cardstock, and die cut it with the matching die.  I cut two additional blank sentiments and glued these behind the stamped sentiment for a little dimension before I glued this to the card.  When the glittered butterfly was dry, I added more glue to the back and adhered this to the card, and then I added some black enamel dots below the butterfly.

I hope y'all play along with the fun challenges over on the Pink & Main blog.  Have a fabulous weekend!

 

Ombre Octagon Flowers

Good morning!  A Colorful Life Designs has some great new stencils this month, and I completely fell in love with the new Trim Octagon stencil.  In my previous posts, I used this stencil vertically, so now I'm sharing the horizontal orientation of this stencil on today's card.

I placed the Trim Octagon stencil onto a white card and I brushed some Tidepool ink at the top and some Juniper ink at the bottom, blending the two colors together in the middle.  I removed the stencil and added the white die-cut flowers (Taylored Expressions) to each octagon, and a die cut sentiment (Taylored Expressions) to one of the octagons.  Honestly, it took me longer to die cut all the flowers than it did to stencil the card!  LOL

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this new Trim Octagon stencil as well as any other stencils that you just gotta have and save some money with the code.  This code is also good on all the fabulous Card Bling, so have fun shopping!

 

Happy Moments Gears

Good morning!  Did you see all the fun new stencils in this month's release at A Colorful Life Designs?  One of them is this Gear Mask, and I got all inky with this grungy card.  I placed the Gear Mask stencil over a kraft card and I sponged several different colors of ink all over the place (dark brown, orange/rust, and patina green).  I flicked some water all over this stenciled background, and then I splattered some white and black acrylic inks all over.  While this was drying, I stamped the sentiment (Technique Junkies) and sponged some brown ink around the edges.  This sentiment was adhered to the card with some foam tape.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire purchase (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Gear Mask stencil and check out all the other great new stencils in this June release.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Father's Day Tools

Good morning!  The new stencil release at A Colorful Life Designs has some really great masculine designs this month, perfect for Father's Day cards and birthday cards for men.  This new Layered Tools stencil is going to be a really popular one.  This stencil actually comes in two parts - one for the handles and one for the metal tools.  This makes it so easy to customize the cards for whatever color tools the recipient might have.  

For this card today, I placed the first stencil layer over a white card panel and brushed blue ink over all the handles.  I removed this stencil and placed the second layer down, lining it up so the metal tools aligned with the blue handles.  Then I sponged some silver metallic ink over all these tools and set this panel aside to dry for a few minutes.  I die cut the sentiment (Hero Arts) once from black cardstock and twice from white cardstock.  The black one was glued on top of the two white ones to give this some dimension instead of messing around with a bunch of tiny pieces of foam tape.  I trimmed the stenciled tool panel down, adhered this to a white card, and then glued the sentiment on top.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire purchase (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Layered Tools stencil and check out all the other great new stencils in this June release.  Have a wonderful day!