It Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Good Morning

I had fun playing with this stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Iron Cross

A bit of inking and some embellishments, made for a happy feeling holiday card.

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

• I placed the Iron Cross stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.  This stencil is a 3 x 6" stencil, not as wide as other stencils and great if you want to just create a border or ink portions of your project.
• I lifted the stencil off and turned it sideways across the middle of my panel and matched the pattern up.  I inked with the same green then splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the stenciled card front onto a piece of dark green cardstock, then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added the embellishments with foam tape to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Iron Cross

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MERRY CHRISTMAS

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

The Holly and Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.)

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

white Posca pen; Vintage Holly Jolly Bits (Simple Stories)

So Merry

 

Welcome

Today's card is very simple and easy to recreate using these stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Merry Christmas and Flurries

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

• I placed the Merry Christmas stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I masked off some of the snowflakes from the Flurries stencil, and added them randomly around the text using some Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.
• Using a white Posca pen, I added the dots to the letters and the green snowflakes to help define them a bit more.
• While that dried, I die cut the snowflake with some white cardstock and then glued it onto a red die cut circle.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of dark red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the background and finally added a green gem to the center of the snowflake.

Here are the stencils I used:

Merry Christmas

Flurries

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Creative Crafting Uncles- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Sparkles Christmas- CHRISTMAS SONG OR CAROL

(song: We wish you a Merry Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

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

Outside In Stitched Snowflake (Lawn Fawn); green gem, white Posca pen; 

Infinity Circle die (HA)

All the Joy

 

Good Morning

Today's card features this wonderful stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Christmas Flowers

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

• I found a piece of white cardstock in my stash that I had rolled off onto with my brayer when using my Gel Plate. Since I had used Distress Oxide colours, I knew it would be easy to stencil over the top of it.
• I placed the Christmas Flowers stencil over the background and inked with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil off and using my white Posca pen, I added a white dot to all the flower centers and then splattered the whole thing.
• I set that aside to dry and die cut the sentiment with some dark red and splattered that with my white Posca pen.  I glued that onto the white shadow die cut.
• Next, I used my Versamark ink pad and rubbed it along all the edges of my card front and then white heat embossed it to give a snowy look to my card.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of dark red cardstock to match the sentiment and then onto a piece of pale pink, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment and 3 silver gems.

Here is the stencil I used:

Christmas Flowers

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

TicTackToe- (DIE CUTS/ EMBOSSING/ METALLIC

As You Like It- ANYTHING CHRISTMASS

(love the look of red and white for Christmas)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

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

White Posca pen; white EB powder; silver gems; All the Joy die (SSS); foam tape

Falling Snow

Welcome

I can't believe how close we are to the big day!

I had fun creating this card...doing some stencil layering again.

I used 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Falling Snow and Glittering Heavens

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front, then embossed it using a Dot Embossing Folder. Using some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink, I gently rubbed over the embossing to make it show up.
• Next, I placed the Falling Snow stencil over my embossed background and inked with some Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I lifted that stencil off and replaced it with the Glittering Heavens stencil and inked again with more Peacock Feathers DOX ink.
• I placed my stenciled card front into my Misti and stamped the large snowflake with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink right up into the corner.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment and then die cut it out.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then a piece of navy and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up near the bottom and finally, added a silver gem to the middle of the snowflake.

Here are the stencils I used:

Falling Snow

Glittering Heavens

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS, THE LAST STRETCH

(the snow is here now so ready for Christmas)

The Sisterhood of Crafters- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Dot EB Folder (Sizzix); silver gem; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

foam tape

Christmas is Coming

Welcome

Christmas is coming quickly, so I decided to make a simple cas card.

It's so disappointing this year as Canada Post is on strike and no Christmas cards can be sent.  

For today's card I used this fun stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Dot Duo

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

• I placed the Dot Duo stencil over a piece of white cardstock and got out the inks I wanted to use.
• I wanted to give my card front a unique look, so I cut another piece of white cardstock to use as a mask while stenciling.  I placed the mask along the top corner over the stencil and inked with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the mask down on an angle and inked again with some Twisted Citron DOX ink.  
• I repeated that process again using some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink next and just continued that process until my whole card front was inked up.
• I removed the stencil and splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the 'Jingle Bells' sentiment with some greens and red cardstock and glued that all together.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of red cardstock, then green, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment and added 3 red gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dot Duo

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIE CUTS FOR DIECEMBER

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

Jingle Bells die (A Pocket Full of Happiness); white Posca pen; red gems

All the Joy

Hello and Welcome

Today's card features a lovely stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Christmas Quilt

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

• I placed the Christmas Quilt stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil and inked again, filling in the open areas with the same ink.
• Using the eraser on the end of a pencil, I added the dots with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I splattered the whole panel with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Next, I die cut the 'JOY' sentiment with some red cardstock, then the border with some black and then with a piece of green.  I glued all the pieces together and then added some details with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment up over the background and added a red gem to the top of the ornament.

Here is the stencil I used:

Christmas Quilt

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Mon.- USE DIES FOR DIECEMBER

Mix it Up- ANYTHING GOES/option: Paper Piecing

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Allsorts- IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

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

white Posca pen; Christmas Bauble Joy (Paper Rose)

Let's Get Holly and Jolly

 

Welcome

Today's card was a fun one using a simple stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Puzzle Pieces

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and placed the Puzzle Pieces stencil over that and inked with some Dusty Concord Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, repositioned it and inked again with some Villainous Potion DOX ink. I repeated that again using some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink this time.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• Next, I took another piece of white cardstock and embossed it with a Burlap Embossing Folder and then cut a circle from that.
• I glued the embossed piece over the stenciled background.  I stamped and fussy cut out the bear and coloured his scarf with my Copic markers.
• I glued the card front onto an A2 sized card base and used some foam tape to add the bear in the corner and the pre-printed sentiment over the top corner.
• The last step was to add 3 silver gems under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Puzzle Pieces

My Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- WINTER BLUES

Simon Says Mon.- MAKE IT SPARKLE

The Holly and Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils Are Our Game- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Alphabet Challenge- R for Round

Supplies

Stamp- Polar Pals (MFT)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

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

Infinity Circle dies (HA); white Posca pen; Foiled Sentiments (Pinkfresh);

Burlap EB folder (Honeybee)