Let It Snow, Warm Winter Wishes & Season's Greetings - Rocky Mountain Scene

Yogi here today with a Northern Sky (with artistic license...) - Rocky Mountain Scene... Since I live pretty close to them I get to see them all the time. Majestic and awe inspiring - and I'm not or ever have been a skier... c'est la vie.

I'm using a whole bunch of A Way With Words dies or parts of dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Let It Snow", "Warm Thoughts" 2pce set; "4 Season's - Winter" 4pce set; "Best Wishes"; "Ampersands" & "Season's Greetings" also available on Quietfire Design HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE

Also using a couple of rubber stamps from Quietfire Design ("Let It Snow" large); ("Winter Wonderland" 6pce set)


Scored, and folded my purple card (5"w x 7"h).

Created the Rocky Mountains by cutting a mask of the mountains from thin cardstock and laying it down on my white cardstock. Sponged Distress "Broken China" softly all over the sky. Then going in a streaky up and down vertical motion with the rest of the colors (Picked Raspberry", "Mustard Seed". "Seedless Preserves") then blending lightly with the blue sponge again getting a Northern Lights type of look... with artistic license...

Flipped and moved the mask down and just sponged some of the "Chipped Sapphire" along the edges lightly to create the definition between the mountains. Repeated one more layer down, then added some shadow/crevices within the mountains by using edges of my mountain mask and mainly sponging on the mask with the edge of the sponge just skimming the edge of the mask.

Die cut the "Let It Snow" from a purple cardstock, inked with Versamark and embossed with Emerald Creek "Frosted Plum" embossing powder. Adhered to card.

Stamped the "Let It Snow" and the trees (Rosewood "Snowy Trio") using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed.

Die cut the skies and poles from white cardstock and colored with markers and Distress pads.

On the inside: die cut the various words (Warm Winter Wishes &) from white cardstock, inked with Versamark and embossed with Emerald Creek "Soft Fallen Snow" embossing powder.

Die cut the "Season's Greetings" from a gold glitter sticky backed paper, then added a white shadow line detail.

Adhered all the words.
On the right side, stamped the house scene (Impression Obsession "J7763") using the black. Added the white details using a paint brush and my mix of Copic White Opaque ink mixed with water to a milky consistency.

Stamped the deer with the black and filed in with the white.
Stamped the snowflakes using Distress "Picket Fence" and embossed with the fallen snow.

Added the smoke from the chimney with a white colored pencil.

Season's Greetings - Snowy Hills

Yogi here today with a snowy hills tutorial. This is something I taught the gals at our last get together how to do. Simple and effective...

I'm using  an A Way With Words dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Season's Greetings" also available on Quietfire Design HERE

Scored, and folded my purple card (5"w x 7"h).

Created the Snowy Hills (see step by step pics below). Trimmed down, stamped the bare branches (Penny Black) using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed, then adhered to card front.

Cut a piece of white pearlized textured cardstock, slightly smaller than my card base. Cut a window and adhered to card front with 3D foam tape. Adhered a bunch of mauve and purple rhinestones.

You may recognize the cardstock I used to die cut the "Season's Greetings" - packaging from Dream Weaver stencils...Adhered to frame.

Step 1:
Punched a 1" circle to create my moon mask. Adhered to my 5"w x 7"h cardstock with removable tape.

Cut a wavy piece of cardstock to act as my mask for the hills.Sponged all over the upper area with "Broken China".

Please note: I use dirty sponges so my colors are not true. The blue sponge has various other blues mixed in giving a unique color. 

Then went in with "Chipped Sapphire" in the upper sky area. and some "Picked Raspberry" near the hills.

Moved the hill mask down and sponged with the broken china and picked raspberry, leaving a white are near the top of the hill.

Continue moving the stencil, flipping it or whatever to get the hilly look you want.

 

Continue to the bottom of your cardstock or as far as you want to go. When done, remove the punched moon. Stamp with a pleasing image.

Let It Snow Snowman - Season's Greetings die

Yogi here today with another Xmas card under my belt... Love the snowman from the "Let It Snow, Snowman" stamp set.

Click on any image to enlarge. Enjoy

I'm using an "A Way With Words" die from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Season's Greetings" also available on Quietfire Design HERE.
I'm also using a design element/sentiment stamp set from Quietfire Design "Let It Snow, Snowman" 5pce set


Scored and folded my white card. Stamped the winter scene (Deep Red "Winter Stream") using Distress "Iced Spruce" and clear embossed.

Embossed a border around the scene using Cuttlebug "Winter Borders" set, moving the folder as needed.

Adhered a piece of grey/silver Sari ribbon.

Created an electronic cut file of the snowman and design word (or fussy cut around the stamped images... you know how lazy I am BIG GRIN)  and cut from white cardstock. Stamped the words using "Stormy Sky" and embossed with Emerald Creek Hot Stuff "Blue Sparkle" embossing powder. Stamped the snowman using "Tumbled Glass and embossing with Emerald Creek Hot Stuff "Turquoise Shimmer". Adhered both to the card front.
Inside: Stamped the snowflakes using the stormy sky and embossing with the pearlescent embossing powder

Die cut the "Season's Greetings" from white cardstock, inked with the stormy sky and embossed with the turquoise shimmer .

Sponged some blue around the edges.

A Way With Words- Christmas Ornaments

Welcome to our blog again today for another fun share using the new "Quietfire Designs Dies" by "Elizabeth Craft Designs".  I went for a look to see what was new out for the holidays at my local craft store and found this cute tin ornament to decorate and also this lazer cut one so i thought i would see what i could come up with using the dies.

The tin ornament was really fun and they come in different shapes so you could do lots of them to decorate.  I chose this one because i thought my "Season's Greetings die" would look really nice across the center and i could put lots of things in the backround to decorate.  The papers are from WeR and i picked it because it went great with the color of the metal.  I really wanted to make the sentiment pop so i cut out 2 of the same in white and glued them together.  This way it's really thick and it really shows up well.  You could also cut thin cereal box cardboard and put that in the back to add more depth.  It measures 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches just to let you know the size.

 And to make it pretty and glistening like snowflakes i added lots of rhinestones and a pretty bow at the top of it.  And just a bit of some decorative edging that i had in my stash... gotta have texture :)

And this ornament is a bit smaller and i inked the top and then put a clear coat of varnish over it to seal it.  Then i cut a silver mat for the green center and glued that on.  The "Merry Christmas die" I cut out of silver mirror cardstock and glued that on the top.  And I finished it with a bow and rhinestones in a few places to make it glisten when it's on the tree.  It was super easy and would be great to give as a hostess gift for your holiday party or for friends and family.

Be sure and check out all the posts we did with the new dies and our Facebook page with even more inspiration to use them.  Thanks so much for stopping by.... Teresa

A Way With Words - Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings Mini Album!

 

Welcome to A Way With Words!  Each day during this event we’re sharing projects made with the brand new Elizabeth Craft Designs word dies.  All these designs are from original hand lettering by Suzanne Cannon and can be found on the Quietfire site and on the Elizabeth Craft Designs site.  

It’s Kathy Jo here today and I am beyond excited to share my project using two of the new dies, Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings.  

 

I used both dies on a festive 5x7 Christmas album.  Full disclosure: this is the first time I have made an album.  I always thought that an album would be overwhelming or difficult but it was the opposite - it was easy to do using the new dies and stamps from Quietfire.  (I plan on making more!)

The Merry Christmas die was the focal point on the album cover. 

The first two album pages...

...have a sweet Santa scene on one page...

...and the next page has Quietfire's stamped sentiment, May your longest list this Christmas.  What a sweet sentiment!

Next we have a cute indoor stocking scene.

On the left is Santa filling the stockings with the wee ones looking on...

...on the right is Quietfire's stamped sentiment, Christmas is a piece of home.

The last two pages remind me of my hubby and I.  

The first sheet has a cover scene from The Saturday Evening Post and the heartwarming sentiment, My idea of a perfect Christmas.

The right side is an old postcard with snowflake tags:

The back of the album is a mirror of the front's layout.  The die used is the new Season's Greetings die.  Gorgeous die!

Thanks for visiting!  I really hope you enjoyed the new dies and stamps!  Don’t forget to stop by the Quietfire site and the Elizabeth Craft Designs site to see all of the lovely new dies!  

Big Crafty Hugs,
Kathy Jo