Mermaid Trio Birthday

Good morning!  Here is one more mermaid card before July is over, and this one was really fun to create.  I placed the Layered Mermaid Tail onto the right side of a white card and brushed some orange ink over that.  I removed the stencil, cleaned it, and placed it in the middle so I could brush some yellow ink over that.  I removed the stencil again, cleaned it, and placed it on the left side of the card to brush some pink ink over that.  Then I rotated the stencil and placed the scales inside the orange tail and brushed a darker orange ink over the scales.  I removed the stencil, cleaned it, and placed it over the yellow tail, brushed a darker yellow ink over that, and then repeated the process with a darker pink ink for the pink tail.  After I placed the sentiments (Taylored Expressions), I added some Crystal Iris Aurora Borealis Card Bling all over the card.

Just think of all the different color combos you could use for a card like this.  It would be so fun to have a whole rainbow of these cards on hand for birthdays, wouldn't it?  You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off everything in your cart (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Pick up this Layered Mermaid Tail stencil and some Card Bling and you'll have a stash of birthday cards ready to go.  Have a wonderful day!

 

JOY Sparkles - 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.  Today is the last day of the party, so get those cards uploaded!

I went sweet and simple with today's card.  I brushed some teal ink over the Sparkles stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) onto some teal cardstock, and then I cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.  It's really hard to see, but I sprayed some silver glitter over this panel for a little sparkle.  Then I added the die cut letters and snowflake (MFT) to spell out JOY and glued this panel to a white card.

Come play along in this Christmas in July Linky Party and share your holiday cards with us. Don't forget today is the last day of this Linky Party.  You will build up your stash and have fun and find all kinds of inspiration this week.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Merry Christmas Multi-Colored Trees - 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.

Here's the second card I promised with those tiny little trees.  I sponged Versamark over the Merry Christmas stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) onto a kraft card.  I die cut two arches - one from white and one from green cardstock.  I embossed the sentiment onto the green arch with white powder and then cut this green arch in half.  I glued this sentiment half-arch onto the white arch and added those tiny trees to the white half.  Some twine was wrapped around the arch under the trees and tied into a bow and then this arch was adhered to the card with foam tape.

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!

 

Deck the Halls with Green Trees - 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.

Remember I said you'd be seeing more trees on the next two cards?  This one was fun to put together.  I just took my time and mixed and matched all the different tree shapes and colors and added a dark green strip to the right side.  Then I cut the sentiment (also Concord and 9th) and adhered it with foam tape.

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!

 

Fa La La Trees - 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.

I was looking for some inspiration for the Tree Lot Inlay Die from Concord and 9th, and when I looked at the samples on their website, a card that Carissa Wiley created really inspired me.  I changed up the colors and did the background a little differently.  I brushed some pink ink over the Fa La La stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) and then adhered that to the left side of a white card.  I die cut a bunch of trees in different colors and then grouped five trees together onto a die cut arch and added the die cut sentiment.  You'll be seeing more trees on the cards I made for the next two days LOL!

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!

 

Season's Greetings Poinsettias - 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.

For today's card, I brushed some Versamark ink over the Poinsettias stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) onto a kraft card.  Even though the Versamark wasn't dry yet, I went ahead and sprayed the card with some gold glitter spray.  I also sprayed this gold glitter onto the pink and red poinsettia flower.  While this gold glitter was drying, I stamped the sentiment, die cut that, and glued the sentiment and the poinsettia flower/leaves/sprigs (Concord and 9th) to the kraft card. 

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 and Teal 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.

On yesterday's card, I showed you the foiled strip that I made from the leftover card that I made on Friday. (Did that even make sense?? LOL)  This is the other half of yesterday's foiled panel (foil and snowflake toner card front from Therm-o-web).  I put it in the middle of a white card and then added the teal snowflakes and the sentiment (Hero Arts).  It's so shiny!

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!

 

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!

 

Sunny Greetings

The Pink & Main blog has a fun challenge for the month of June - Sunny & Bright.  I couldn't resist coloring some sunflowers and adding a little gold glitter to my card.  These sunflowers are from a special kit that I purchased from Pink & Main.  This kit had several sheets of sunflowers and sentiments ready for coloring and matching dies to cut all the images out.  I colored the flowers and leaves with Copic markers and die cut the gold glitter frame from the Stitched Rectangle dies.  These were adhered to a card made from the Pink & Main River Walk cardstock - the perfect shade of turquoise!  I made the little gold glitter dots by using some hole punches to cut the circles from gold glitter paper. 

Feel free to play along with the Pink & Main challenge and share your Sunny and Bright projects.  I'm going to color some more sunflowers and get ready for the 4th of July festivities!  Happy 4th!!

 

Net of Wonder

Good morning!  Summer is here and so are the fabulous new summer-themed stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.  This month's stencils are perfect for those who love the water and mermaids and seashells.

I fell in love with the Layered Mermaid Tail stencil when I saw it, and I couldn't wait to play with it.  I created a little scene with three of the new stencils -  Sea Net, Layered Mermaid Tail, and Ocean Stars.  I first brushed some pale blue ink over the Sea Net stencil right onto some pale blue cardstock, and then I brushed a darker blue ink over the Layered Mermaid Tail on the right side of the sea net panel.  While this mermaid tail stencil was still in place, I sprayed some Peacock Feathers Distress Spritz for that shimmery look.  This gives the illusion that the mermaid has been caught in a net, but it needed just a little something more.  So I used some washi tape to mask off the areas around some of the stars on the Ocean Stars stencil and selectively inked up the starfish with a beige ink all around the panel.  The sentiment (Technique Junkies) was stamped with black ink and I added some TL Sea Blend Card Bling for a little extra shimmer.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs.  This code is good on all of the Card Bling and the stencils (excluding Master Creator Bundles).  The Master Creator Bundles are already discounted 20% and these are a really good deal.  This month, there are two Master Creator Bundles available to help you save money while purchasing some great new stencils.  Check out all these new stencils at A Colorful Life Designs and have a wonderful day!

 

Floral Nautilus

Good morning!  Summer is here and so are the fabulous new summer-themed stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.  This month's stencils are perfect for those who love the water and mermaids and seashells.

My card today features the awesome new Nautilus Swirl stencil.  I inked this up with some orange and pink inks and added a die cut flower and the sentiment (Altenew).  Some Crystal Metallic Calypso Card Bling provides the perfect finishing touch.  This card is actually a 5x7 size instead of my traditional A2 because I really wanted to show off this gorgeous Nautilus Swirl stencil.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs.  This code is good on all of the Card Bling and the stencils (excluding Master Creator Bundles).  The Master Creator Bundles are already discounted 20% and these are a really good deal.  This month, there are two Master Creator Bundles available to help you save money while purchasing some great new stencils.  Check out all these new stencils at A Colorful Life Designs and have a wonderful day!

 

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!

 

Life Moments in Trim Octagon Windows

Good morning!  The new stencil release at A Colorful Life Designs is just fantastic, and I fell in love with the new Trim Octagon stencil.  There's just so many fun ways to use this!  I did another "window" scene but this time with a solid colored background and some colorful foliage.  

I placed the Trim Octagon stencil over a white cardstock panel, and I brushed a soft blue ink over the entire panel.  After I removed the stencil, I carefully masked off the bottom of each window and stamped the foliage and butterflies (Papertrey Ink).  The sentiment was stamped with black ink and the "Life" was fussy cut with scissors before being adhered with foam tape.

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!

 

Faded Octagon Flower

Good morning!  Did you see the new stencil release over at A Colorful Life Designs?  There's so many great new masculine designs this month, but I decided to go in a feminine direction with today's card.  I love the new Trim Octagon stencil, and I had a lot of fun making all kinds of different cards with this new stencil.

I placed the Trim Octagon stencil over a white card and very lightly brushed some soft brown ink from the center out.  This creates a wonderful fade out to the edges of the card.  I stamped the sentiment (Taylored Expressions) in one of the octagons and then added the die cut and ink-blended flower (Kristina Werner).  

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!

 

Father's Day BBQ Apron

Good morning!  The new stencil release from A Colorful Life Designs includes a fantastic BBQ stencil which is perfect for making Father's Day cards.  That's what I've done here, except I used an apron die to make a fun shaped card with a pocket to insert a gift card.  

I started by placing the BBQ Party stencil over a white cardstock panel and I brushed some blue and green inks over the entire panel.  Then I used an apron die (Honey Bee Stamps) to cut the stenciled panel.  I adhered this to another apron die cut from white cardstock with a little hinge on the left side so it opens like a card.  For the pocket, I die cut that first from white cardstock, then I stamped the sentiment (Ink Blot Shop) with blue ink.  I placed the BBQ Party stencil on each side of the sentiment and brushed green ink over the glove and jalapeno.  I folded the pocket and adhered it to the apron card and added the blue neck loop at the top.

You can save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) by using this code, HollyFan10, when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs. Check out all the great new stencils in this month's release.  If you gotta have it all (like me!), then these Master Creator Bundles are a great deal - 20% off all the stencils in each of the three bundles below.  Have a great day!

 

 

Wildflower Octagons

Good morning!  Have you seen the new stencil release at A Colorful Life Designs?  There's so many great new designs, and one of them is this awesome Trim Octagon stencil.  I had so much fun with this one.  You can use this stencil vertically or horizontally, and I will have several cards with this new stencil on my blog during the month.

For this card, I placed the Trim Octagon stencil over a white cardstock panel and I brushed on a rainbow palette of inks horizontally across the panel.  Then I carefully masked off individual octagons and stamped the silhouettes and sentiment and winged critters (Waffle Flower) with black ink.  This panel was trimmed down and then adhered to a white card base.  I love how this turned out!

You can save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) by using this code, HollyFan10, when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs. Check out all the great new stencils in this month's release.  If you gotta have it all (like me!), then these Master Creator Bundles are a great deal - 20% off all the stencils in each of the three bundles below.  Have a great day!

 

Vintage Gears

Good morning!  There is a fantastic new stencil release over at A Colorful Life Designs today, and this month is all about backgrounds and masculine themes.  I played with the cool new Gears stencil and I knew that I wanted a rusty, grungy look with this stencil.  I started by smooshing some green inks (light and dark) onto my glass mat, sprayed it with water, and pressed some watercolor paper into the "pool" until it was covered with green inks.  After this panel dried, I placed the Gears stencil on top, sponged some distress oxide inks (Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twigs) over the whole panel and let that dry.  After I removed the stencil, I then splattered the panel with some Rusty Hinge distress spray and some glossy black acrylic spray.  While that was drying, I stamped the sentiment (Technique Junkies) and grunged it up by brushing some brown ink over it.  I used the same brown ink to grunge up the edges of a white card base before I adhered the Gears panel.  The sentiment was affixed with some foam tape.

You can save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) by using this code, HollyFan10, when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs. Check out all the great new stencils in this month's release.  If you gotta have it all (like me!), then these Master Creator Bundles are a great deal - 20% off all the stencils in each of the three bundles below.  Have a great day!