Poinsettia Noel with Foiled Panel - BYSHC Christmas in July

Good morning!  There is a fun Linky Party over on the BYSHC blog for Christmas in July, and I'm playing along by posting some new Christmas cards this week.

On yesterday's card, I foiled a snowflake panel from Therm-o-web.  When I peeled the foil off that panel, I had a gorgeous reverse snowflake foil left over, and I couldn't bear to throw that away.  I had some white toner cardstock, so I placed that left over foil onto this special white cardstock and ran it through my Minc machine.  It foiled beautifully, and I cut this down into two pieces.  You'll see the other piece on tomorrow's card.

For the rest of my card, I placed my favorite Christmas Flowers stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) over a red card and brushed a slightly darker red ink over the whole card.  Then I added the foiled strip, the die cut flowers/foliage (C9), and the sentiment (C9).

Come play along in this Christmas in July Linky Party and share your holiday cards with us.  You will build up your stash and have fun and find all kinds of inspiration this week.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Foiled Snowflakes Holidays - BYSHC Christmas in July

Good morning!  There is a fun Linky Party over on the BYSHC blog for Christmas in July, and I'm playing along by posting some new Christmas cards this week.

During the last Linky party in May, I was a lucky winner of a gift card from Therm-o-web.  I bought some Iridescent foil and these gorgeous Winter Sparkle snowflake foiling panels.  After I foiled this panel, I blended some blue and purple inks and then softly wiped the ink off the foiled areas.  I trimmed this down and adhered it to a white card, and then I added the die cut sentiment (Concord & 9th).

Come play along in this Christmas in July Linky Party and share your holiday cards with us.  You will build up your stash and have fun and find all kinds of inspiration this week.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Mermazing Eddies

Good morning!  I'm back with another mermaid card today because we can never have enough mermaids, right?  LOL  I started this card by very lightly brushing some pale blue ink all over a white cardstock panel.  Then I placed the new Eddies stencil over the cardstock and brushed the same blue ink all over the stencil.  I removed the stencil and placed the open tail from the Layered Mermaid Tail stencil over the panel and brushed a teal ink over that.  I moved the stencil to put the scales inside the teal tail, and I spread some Iridescent Rainbow gel paste over this.  While the gel paste was drying, I die cut the sentiment (Impression Obsession) and spread some of this same gel paste over the sentiment and let it dry.  I glued the panel to a white card and then affixed the sentiment.  The sparkle on this card is so pretty!

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire cart (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Check out all the great new July stencils - you just might find something that you need in your craft room.  Have a fabulous day!

 

Exploration with Sprays

Good morning!  There's a new Mid Month Inspiration stencil at A Colorful Life Designs today, and this Mid Century Mask stencil is really fun.  The abstract lines and squiggles of this stencil creates backgrounds full of movement and life.  This stencil is on sale for only $4 until July 22, AND you can use this code, HollyFan10, to save an extra 10% off this stencil as well as everything else in your cart (excluding Master Creator Bundles).

I decided to try a little experiment with some blue and purple sprays.  On the first card above, I did an even spray to saturate the paper with the colors.  On the second card below, I did a much lighter spray, letting the nozzle drip now and then for those big blobs.  See how the lighter spray looks like a bunch of tiny little dots, like the pointillism technique?  It's just fun to dry different things with all the mediums I have here in my studio.  On both cards, the sentiments are from Pink and Main.  Have fun shopping at A Colorful Life Designs!

 

Let's Shell-ebrate!

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Good morning!  There's a new challenge up on the Pink and Main blog, and it is an Ocean theme.  So I pulled out my Shell-ebrate stamps and inked up a bunch of the shells and die cut them.  For the blue waves, I brushed a pale blue ink onto some white cardstock and then tore the paper apart to get those white "foam" edges.  The card base is kraft cardstock that I sponged some kraft ink onto and I used several brown Copic markers to dot the "sand" all over the card base.  After I glued down the blue waves and the shells, I stamped the sentiment with a dark brown ink.

Come play along in the challenge and share your ocean-inspired projects.  Enjoy your weekend!

 

 

Rainbow Waterfall Hello

Good morning!  How about a fun rainbow waterfall to kick off this Friday morning?  LOL  I used the new Waterfall stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and a rainbow of inks to make this CAS card.  The sentiment (Pinkfresh Studio) is stamped with black ink and I added some Satin Matte Black Card Bling to complete the card.  It's a fun way to start off the weekend.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% on all stencils and Card Bling (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Check out all the new July stencils and have a fun day!

 

Dotted Sun Hi

Good morning!  Have you seen all the great new summer-themed stencils over at A Colorful Life Designs?  There's so many fun new designs, and one of them is this Dotted Sun stencil.  I love that whimsical look!

For this card, I actually started by placing the new Waterfall stencil at the bottom of a white cardstock panel.  I wanted it to look like ocean waves, so I turned the stencil around so it went across the bottom of the card.  I brushed some aqua ink over the stencil and then stenciled this again onto some scrap paper.  I cut the wave shape out from the scrap paper to make a mask and carefully taped it over the blue waves on the panel.  Then I placed the Dotted Sun stencil so it looks like the sun is rising from the ocean and brushed some yellow ink over that.  Some orange ink was just barely brushed across the top of the panel before I glued this panel to an orange card base.  Lastly, I die cut the sentiment (Altenew) and added it to the center of the sun.

How fun is that?  You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% (excluding Master Creator Bundles) when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs.  Check out the July stencils and have a wonderful day!