Kiss the Cook

Good morning!  A Colorful Life Designs has just released their Mid Month Inspiration stencil called Kiss the Cook.  It's full of all kinds of fun bbq images and it's perfect for making some cards for Father's Day.  It's only $4 until May 22, so hurry and get this stencil while it's on sale.

 I created two cards with this fun stencil - one is an apron shaped card and the other one is an A2 sized card.  It's really fun to pick and choose the images to stencil onto your project, and no two cards will be the same.  I drew a plaid pattern onto the bbq gloves above with some black and white markers for a little touch of whimsy.

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Check out the wonderful stencils in the May release and add a few to your cart along with this new Kiss the Cook stencil.  Don't forget to stock up on that Card Bling, too!  Have a wonderful day!

 

Infused Thistles Blessings

Good morning!  Did you see all the great new stencils in the May release at A Colorful Life Designs?  Aren't those new flowers just gorgeous?  The new Thistle stencil has such a gorgeous look to it, sort of art deco-ish.  I wanted to try something different with this one.  When I do some messy creating and I have leftover puddles of ink or paint, I usually take some extra cardstock and smoosh it around to soak up all that leftover liquid.  

For this project, I happened to have one of those panels where I had smooshed some watercolor cardstock around in some blackberry ink.  It was completely dry, so I placed the new Thistle stencil on top and carefully sponged some Versamark over the whole panel.  After I removed the stencil, I covered the panel with white embossing powder, tapped off the excess, and melted the powder with a heat tool.  Wow, this white really stands out against the dark blackberry background!  I added a sentiment (Pinkfresh) and some Crystal Metallic Flamenco Card Bling to complete this card.

Please feel free to use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  If you want all of the new flower stencils, you can get them in the Flowers bundle with a savings of 20%.  This is such a good deal!

 

Daisy Ring Joy

Good morning!  The new May stencil release at A Colorful Life Designs has some gorgeous new floral stencils, and I fell in love with all of them as soon as I saw them.  One of them is this Ringed Daisies and I couldn't wait to ink this one up.  I placed the stencil over a white card so that one of the rings was framing the upper left corner.  I brushed on a light pink ink first and then I used a darker pink ink in the centers of each daisy.  I stamped the sentiment (Pinkfresh) with black ink and then I added some Opalescent Peony Card Bling.  I love the simple elegance of this daisy cluster.

Feel free to use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  If you want all of the new flower stencils, you can get them in the Flowers bundle with a savings of 20%.  This is such a good deal!

 

Christmas Blooms - Spring into Christmas BYSHC

Good morning!  I'm playing along with the Linky Party on the BYSHC blog for their Spring into Christmas event this week.  I bought this Festive Blooms die set from Concord & 9th last year but I didn't actually use it until this week.  It's been fun to have an excuse to actually USE some of the things that I bought.  LOL

This set is really fun to play with.  It's mostly just die cutting and gluing pieces together.  The hardest part is figuring out the colors of cardstock you want to use.  I basically grabbed some colors from some of my older cardstocks so I could use them up.  This is a great way to make a bunch of cards for your Christmas stash!

I hope y'all play along in the Linky Party and share your Christmas creations with us. Today is the last day of the party, so get those entries in!  Have a wonderful day!

 

Sweet Christmas - Spring into Christmas BYSHC

Good morning!  I'm playing along with the Linky Party on the BYSHC blog for their Spring into Christmas event this week.  It's a fun week of sharing Christmas, Hannukah, and winter cards while also building up our holiday card stash.  This really helps us get those cards done before December rolls around.

I started this card by pulling out the Christmas Quilt stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save).  I placed this stencil onto some pink cardstock and spread some pearl white paste over the whole panel.  While this was drying, I stamped the Christmas cake (Pink & Main) and colored it with Copic markers.  I die cut this cake and adhered it with foam tape to a small white arch panel and I stamped the sentiment with black ink.  After I glued the stenciled pink panel to a white card, I adhered this white arch with some foam tape.

I hope y'all play along with this Linky Party and build up your holiday card stash!  

 

Sending Holiday Cheer - Spring into Christmas BYSHC

Good morning!  I'm playing along with the Linky Party on the BYSHC blog for their Spring into Christmas event this week.  It's a really fun week of sharing our new Christmas, Hannukah, and winter cards that we are making for our stash of holiday cards.  

I finally broke out some of the supplies from the 2024 Taylored Expressions Advent Calendar and I watercolored this panel before I die cut it with an arch-shaped die.  I also cut some gold glitter paper with a slightly larger arch-shaped die.  I glued these two together and punched a hole on the arch end so I could tie some sheer red ribbon into a bow.  I stamped a green card with some winter foliage and then splattered some white paint for that snowy look before I added the gold glitter arch and the watercolored panel.  That gold glitter paper just makes me smile!

I hope you play along with this Linky Party and share your holiday creations with us! 

 

Bright Thistle Birthday

Good morning!  Did you see the awesome new stencil release at A Colorful Life Designs?  In case you couldn't tell, I fell in love with all the new flower stencils.  Today I'm using the gorgeous Thistle stencil.  I took my time with this one, masking off the leaves first so I could brush some light and dark purple inks over the thistle flower heads first.  Then I removed the sticky notes from the leaves and used them to cover up the flower heads so I could brush some green inks over the leaves and stems.  After I removed all the sticky notes, I stamped the sentiment (Pinkfresh) with black ink and then adhered this panel to a purple card base.

Please feel free to use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  Check out all the great new stencils in the May release and have fun shopping.  If you want all of the new flower stencils, you can get them in the Flowers bundle with a savings of 20%.  This is such a good deal!  Have a great day!