Quietfire Summer Blog Hop - Day 3 - Sending Hugs

Welcome to Day 3 of the Quietfire Summer Blog Hop! It’s Betsy here today.  

Each day we will be sharing a project or two to inspire your summer creativity.  We also have prizes!  There will be 2 prizes awarded, valued at $50 each and are a combination of Dies, Stamps and Digital files.  (Suzanne will have a look at the interests of the winners to decide what to give away! If you’re not a digital person, you won’t want those files!) To be eligible to win, you must leave a sweet comment on each Blog Hop blog post!  Visit Quietfire Creations and Quietfire Digital blogs to enter.

Here is the list of posts that you will need to comment on:

Monday: Suzanne on Quietfire Creations, Kathy Jo on QF Digital

Tuesday: Katelyn on Quietfire Creations, Robyn on Quietfire Digital

Wednesday: Betsy on Quietfire Creations, Connie on Quietfire Digital

Thursday: Kora on Quietfire Digital

Friday: Diana on Quietfire Creations, Kim on Quietfire Digital

Deadline for commenting is midnight Saturday, July 25, 2020

Winners will be announced on Sunday, July 26^th.

Good luck!

Here is my project:

I've been sending out so many "hugs" in the mail lately!  These dies

are the perfect way to do that.

First I gathered my papers and the Sending Hugs Kisses Die Set:

I die cut the "Sending" and "Hugs" twice out of the same yellow card stock that I

was planning to use for my base.  I adhered them together so there was a double

layer on the words...just giving them a bit more sturdiness.  I used a scalloped

rectange die to cut my flower pattern paper.

I cut my pieces and rounded the corners on the yellow card base and the

blue layering paper.  

You'll find that these word dies are the perfect size for an A2 card!

I adhered my blue layering paper and my patterned paper to the card base.  Then

I adhered the words using a liquid glue.

I wanted a bit of shimmer so I used a yellow shimmer pen on the words after they

were adhered to the card.  I've tried to capture it here:

So hard to capture shimmer in a photo!  As a final embellishment, I added some

flower sequins, tiny leaf embellishments and a tiny bluebird!

I hope you enjoyed today's project using the Sending Hugs Kisses die set #1304

from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Please join us in this Quietfire Summer Blog Hop and give yourself a

chance to win!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Betsy

Sending Smiles and Hugs with new Modern Gilding Powders

 Hi, there!  I'm still on my task of making cards to brighten people's day during this social distancing time so I picked sentiments that would be appropriate.  I also received the new Modern Gilding Powders so I wanted to test those out.   To do that, I die cut a bunch of butterflies from the Butterfly Flourish set and gilded all of them with both the old and new colors of Modern Gilding Powders.

Aren't they just so pretty like that?  I am absolutely smitten with the Celtic Mint, Armenian Pink and Forever Platinum.  Since I made all those, I decided to use them on some cards and I came up with a couple.

For this first one, I used the butterfly die cuts as a stencil - just put a bit of removable adhesive to hold the butterfly still.  I started with the colors below but then sponged over the blue with a green so that I could used similar colors of MPG butterflies.

The Sending Smiles was cut out of purple card stock and the butterflies are Celtic Green, Dilly Dilly Lavender, and Armenian Pink.  Such a light and happy card.

For my second card, I used the Butterflies Spray Stencil with different shades of green and blue inks.  If you don't have the stencil, you can used the die to make your own stencil - works just as well!  The card below features Forever Platinum, Burnished Silver and the Sending Hugs is Acanthus Teal which showed up darker than the one in my picture above - different lighting on different days.

 On the picture above, you can see the subtle difference between the Forever Platinum and Burnished Silver - both gorgeous!

Modern Gilding Powders - Spring 2020 set of 5

Butterfly Flourish die set (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Sending Hugs and Kisses die set (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Sweet Smiles die set (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Sending Hugs

Hello Quietfire fans!  Betsy on the blog today with this beautiful rose gold card.  What

a beautiful way to send someone a paper hug!

I used

Quietfire  Design - Sending Hugs & Kisses #1304

This is such a beautiful die set.  To begin, I die cut one "Sending" and one "Hugs"

 of some rose gold foil paper.   Then I cut each word again twice out of some

heavyweight white card stock.  Next, I adhered these together.

I cut this many for several reasons.  For the "sending" I did it for the stability.  And for

the "Hugs" I did it for added height.

For my card base I used a white A2 size side folding card base using the fold on top.

I made another score line on the front at 2 1/8".  I covered the front with 2 panels

of patterned paper cut to 2" x 5 3/8" each.  I adhered these to the front leaving

the fold line with nothing adhered to it.  On the bottom I placed a 1/8" strip

of the rose gold paper.

On the inside I adhered a panel of patterned paper that was 4" x 5 3/8".

On the front I added my die cut stacked "Sending" placing the glue on the

bottom half of it and adhering it to the lower panel.  I added a crepe bow

and some paper flowers.

On the inside I adhered the "Hugs" and made sure it was in the proper place

to act as a stopper for the front of the card.

And that finished my project!  Not hard to do but so elegant!

Quietfire Design Products Used:

          Sending Hugs & Kisses  #1304

Other Products Used:

DCWV - Rose Quartz Paper Pad

Paper Wishes - Crepe Ribbon

Prima - Paper Flowers

ScraPerfect - Best Glue Ever

We R Memory Keepers - Scoreboard

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Betsy

Sending Hugs (and a little punch!)

 

My friend Judi Kauffman shared a trio of cards she made with new A Way With Words dies ('Sending' and 'Hugs' from the set that also includes the word 'Kisses'). She said that she wanted to use one of her OLDEST tools - a floral border punch that she's had for a decade or so, along with her NEWEST - the dies. Such a nice combo!

 

 

I like how she used the border as a stencil on two of the cards and how she incorporated Washi tape on one, too. Thanks for sending them, Judi.

 

Sending You Hugs & Kisses

Yogi here today with another Valentines card (or could be for a birthday or in my thoughts type card...) using the newest dies. Loving them

Another, batch of fantastic calligraphed die cut words by signature designer Suzanne Cannon available on Elizabeth Craft Designs A Way With Words "You", "Sending Hugs, Kisses" and "Calligraphic Elements 2 - Ampersand" all available on Quietfire Design HERE, HERE and HERE

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

Raided my end cut cardstock stash and created the weave block. Trimmed to size and adhered to front on an angle. Trimmed excess away.

Created a shadow layer for my words - one way of doing it is by turning the dies down and tracing around the exterior of the die with an x-acto blade, being careful to not cut where the words link together. OR create images to cut with your electronic cutter and use the shadow layer function, welding everything together prior cutting. I cut mine from white cardstock and while still on the mat, painted with Distress dabbers "Aged Mahogany".

Die cut the words from white cardstock, inked with Versamark and embossed with Emerald Creek "Iridescent Shimmer" embossing powder. Adhered to my shadow layer, then onto my card front.

As a final touch stamped the hearts using Versafine "Satin Red".