Fa La La Lights

Good morning!  There is a fun new week-long linky party on the BYSHC blog and I'm playing along.  All you need to do is make a holiday or wintry card and enter it into the linky party.  I love making Christmas cards, so I cranked out several cards to share with you throughout this week.

I pulled out the Layered String Lights stencils from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) and brushed green and red inks over these onto some white cardstock.  There is some space between the lights and it's perfect for a small sentiment, so I stamped the large "fa la la" (Concord & 9th) with black ink onto some white cardstock, trimmed it, and layered it with some black cardstock.  Then I used that as a guide for the sub-sentiment so I could center it and stamped it between the two lower strands of lights.  I'm so happy that it worked out! 

 

Pink Vanilla Poinsettia

Good morning!  There is a fun new week-long linky party on the BYSHC blog and I'm playing along.  All you need to do is make a holiday or wintry card and enter it into the linky party.  I love making Christmas cards, so I cranked out several cards to share with you throughout this week.

I placed the Beautiful Poinsettia stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) over a pink card base and brushed some pale pink ink over the entire card.  After I removed the stencil, I placed this card in my MISTI tool and stamped the sentiment (Pinkfresh) with black ink.  For my finishing touch, I added some gorgeous Opaque Iridescent Vanilla Card Bling from A Colorful Life Designs (you can use code HollyFan10 to save 10%)  in the center of the poinsettia and all over the card.  I love the subtle impact of that soft stenciling in the background.

 

All is Bright Doily

Good morning!  There is a fun new week-long linky party on the BYSHC blog and I'm playing along.  All you need to do is make a holiday or wintry card and enter it into the linky party.  I love making Christmas cards, so I cranked out several cards to share with you throughout this week.

I spread some glittery white paste over the Snow Doily stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) and let it dry.  Meanwhile, I stamped the sentiment from Pinkfresh, die cut it, and adhered it with foam tape after the stenciled background was dry.  I love this clean and simple look.  

 

Joyful Shaker

Good morning!  There is a fun new week-long linky party on the BYSHC blog and I'm playing along.  All you need to do is make a holiday or wintry card and enter it into the linky party.  I love making Christmas cards, so I cranked out several cards to share with you throughout this week.

My first card for the linky party is this fun shaker card I created with the beautiful Christmas Flowers stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save 10%) and some gorgeous Card Bling in holiday colors.  The die cut sentiment is from Concord & 9th.  I'll be back tomorrow with another holiday card for this linky party.

 

Woodsy Pine Christmas

Good morning!  Today I'm sharing a fun way to use the new Layered Mixed Wreath stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  I "deconstructed" this stencil and used all the elements separately instead of creating the intended wreath.  I started by masking off one of the pinecones and I stenciled that with brown ink randomly all over a kraft card base.  Then I masked off one of the leaf sprigs and stenciled that with a light green ink all over the card.  The holly leaf was masked off and stenciled with a dark pine green ink and then I masked off some of the little stars and dots.  Those were randomly stenciled with kraft ink.  It's a fun woodsy-themed background.  When I was happy with all the stenciling, I splattered the whole card with some white acrylic ink.  

While that was drying, I masked off the sentiment and stenciled that with brown ink onto some white cardstock.  After I trimmed that down, I added a dark brown layer behind the sentiment and glued it to my stenciled kraft card base.  Lastly, I added some Opalescent Sprout Card Bling for a fun shimmery accent.

This Layered Mixed Wreath stencil is on sale for only $4 until October 22, so hurry up and grab this at this great price.  You can also use this code, HollyFan10, to save an extra 10% of everything in your cart (excluding Master Creator Bundles).  You will love this fabulous stencil!  Have a wonderful day!

 

Christmas Pine Wreath

Good morning!  A Colorful Life Designs just released their new Mid Month Motivation stencil, and it's gorgeous!  This new Layered Mixed Wreath stencil helps you create a beautiful holiday card and it's on sale for only $4 until October 22.  The sentiment is separate from the wreath elements so you can use it by itself or you can mix and match all the different pieces.  I used a classic red and green color combo for this wreath along with a little touch of brown for the pinecones.  I also added some Opalescent Sprout Card Bling on the wreath for that touch of shimmer.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save an extra 10% off everything in your cart (excluding Master Creator Bundles), so grab this Layered Mixed Wreath for only $4 and use the code for the additional discount.  Don't forget to check out all the October release stencils and the gorgeous Card Bling!  Come on back tomorrow and I'll share a "deconstructed" way to use this stencil.  Happy Shopping!

 

Merry Grinchmas

Good morning!  Have you watched the original cartoon with the Grinch?  That's such a classic Christmas movie, and A Colorful Life Designs has some awesome stencils based on classic moments from that movie.  One of them is this new Stink Stank Stunk stencil with the Grinch holding one of the ornaments from the Whoville village.

I placed this Stink Stank Stunk stencil over some white cardstock and masked off the ornament.  The Grinch hand was inked up with Lemongrass ink (Concord &9th).  I removed the mask from the ornament and carefully masked the green fingers before I inked up the ornament with Lumberjack Plaid distress ink.  I went over the top of the ornament with a gold pen and then added a gold twine bow.  

For the card, I placed the same stencil so that the sentiment was at the bottom of a Lemongrass card.  I brushed some black ink over the sentiment, removed the stencil, and let it dry.  The first stenciled panel with the Grinch hand was glued to a black mat, and then I glued this panel to the green card.

Please use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Be sure to check out all the fabulous new holiday stencils and all the gorgeous Card Bling.  Have a wonderful day!