Sentiments of the Season - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of our blog hop!

Today you are hopping over to visit

Kathy Jo's Blog
& Judi Kauffman's Project (which is another entry on this blog!)

Here are the links to yesterday's blogs:
Teresa's Blog 

& 

 Yogi's Blog

Make sure you leave a comment on each blog hop post to be eligible to win a prize!

Good Luck! 

P.S. You can leave a sweet comment on this post, but there is no prize for commenting here.  Sorry! 

Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop - Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of our blog hop!

Today you are hopping over to 

Teresa's Blog 

& 

 Yogi's Blog

Make sure you leave a comment on each of their blog posts to be eligible to win a prize!

Good Luck! 

P.S. You can leave a sweet comment on this post, but there is no prize for commenting here.  Sorry! 

Welcome to the Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop!

We’re celebrating the season with Quietfire sentiment stamps and dies.  We have some great projects to inspire you!

We’re giving away a prize for each of the Sentiments of the Season blog post.  The posts will be on our Designers’ personal blogs and on Quietfire Creations.  All you have to do is leave a comment on their Sentiments of the Season blog post and you will be entered in a chance to win one of our stamps or dies.  Each designer will randomly choose the winner from their comments.  

Here is our schedule:

Day 1- Monday November 23 : Teresa and Yogi

Day 2 -Tuesday November 24: KathyJo and Judi Kauffman

Day 3 - Wednesday November 25: Wanda and Yvonne

Day 4 - Thursday November 26: Robyn and Selma

Day 5 - Friday November 27: Diana and Suzanne

The deadline for leaving comments is Sunday November 29, 2015 at midnight PST.  Winners will be posted shortly afterwards here on Quietfire Creations.
Good luck and have fun!

Thanks Cuddlers/Friends, Wine is sunlight - Guest Designer Kim Goudy

Hello! Kim Gowdy here again with a second, Guest Designer post for Quietfire Designs. It’s always fun creating with new products, especially when it’s from a company you already LOVE!

A couple weeks back I designed a project using the “WINE IS SUNLIGHT” stamp set.
 I created a tag that I wasn’t quite sure how I would use.

I decided to use it for my current project as a scrapbooking embellishment!

This project was so fun and simple to put together! I used Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine’s November Sketchy Challenge as a starting point for my project!

After choosing my supplies, I chose to use the Quietfire Design “Thanks Cuddlers” to stamp Colorbox Frost White pigment ink over the black background paper.

I used the Elizabeth Craft Design “Friends” die; designed by Suzanne Cannon of Quietfire Design to create my title. I cut it out three times and layered them to add a bit more dimension to the title.

I wanted to include both larger pictures on my layout, so I used some washi tape to join them, creating an extra spot for journaling and means to adding another picture without affecting the layout design.

I hope these projects have inspired you to create with Quietfire Design's amazing stamps and dies! Thanks Suzanne for inviting me to play on your blog this month!

Supplies:

• Quietfire Design stamps 
• Elizabeth Craft Designs dies 
• Fancy Pants “Office Suite” collection
• Clearsnap Inks
• DCWV burlap
• Kuretake Wink of Stella markers
• CTMH washi tape

You may find Kim in any issue of Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine as well as her Blog, Facebook and Pinterest

Happy Birthday Plain & Simple and A Way With Words

Hello and Happy Wednesday to you!!!  It's Wanda here today and I love making fall themed cards and even better if I need one for a birthday.  Quietfire Design has lots of wonderful choices for birthdays and I've chosen the stamp set Happy Birthday Plain & Simple and the fabulous Happy Birthday die for this card!!

For the leaf I've used the Tim Holtz layered leaf die and embossing folder set.  I smooshed Distress Ink (mostly barn door and carved pumpkin with just a little ground espresso and picked raspberry) onto my craft sheet, sprayed them with water and dragged a piece of white cardstock through the ink.  Dried it, pressed it straight down into left over ink and dried it again.  I die cut the leaf, embossed it, and then inked over the embossing and also the edges with vintage photo. 

For the background I again did smooshing with Distress Inks, mustard seed and wild honey, and dried it.  I used 5 of the 7 stamps from the Happy Birthday set putting them all onto an acrylic block and stamped with vintage photo ink.  It was easy to continue stamping so I got a pleasing arrangement of words in my background.  I used a waterbrush and barn door ink for the speckles in the background.  With the wet brush I picked up ink from the craft sheet and tapped the brush against my finger to cause the ink to splatter out.  Because it's a waterbrush, as you are tapping the brush against your finger more water goes to the tip and you get both darker speckles and lighter speckles.  The edges are inked with vintage photo and carved pumpkin.  A black pen was used to doodle lines around the edges.   

Happy Birthday was die cut twice from white cardstock backed with double sided adhesive and once from a beige velvet adhesive sheet (Elizabeth Craft Designs).  These were stacked together with the velvet on top and then I sprayed it with Distress Stain ground espresso to get a deep rich brown color.  A white gel pen was used to add some dots along the left side of the "H" and the "B".  

Everything is assembled as shown and adhered to a white folded card.  Finished size is 5 1/4" x 6 1/2". 

Believe in yourself

The excitement of the holidays is so contagious and it's so much fun to start in with projects for all of them early.  This month it's a good time to give cards to those we are thankful for in our lives and it doesn't have to be anything special but just send something hearfelt you created to show you care.

My card today is made with the "Believe in yourself" stamp from the "If you don't believe in Miracles" set of 3.  I have a friend who is trying for an internship and i thought this would

be the perfect card to give her with a fun snowflake kind of feel since snow is arriving everywhere

already.  I used lots of white cardstock and Spellbinders dies and a embossing folder to create

the base for the card.  And the flowers are from Becca Feekens newest realease called Cinch and Go

Flowers.  They were super easy to make and you could even dip them in color around the edges

if you wanted to add something to it.  

The stamp is done with black versafine ink and silver embossing powder and i love the way it 

stands out and has a pretty shine to it.  It's really a gorgeous stamp and so are the others in the set.

And that's it from me today and i hope that i inspired you to get out some of your stash and

have fun and create something gorgeous to send to one of your friends too.

Happy Monday to all of you.... Teresa

I Wouldn't Have Missed Being Your Friend - Guest Designer Christi Conley

My name is Christi and I am thrilled to be today's Guest Designer on the Quietfire Design Blog. I have been a fan of Suzanne's lovely calligraphy stamps since I discovered rubber stamping and now that they have added cut files and dies the creative options are amazing!  Here is the card I created:

How I Made my Card
Supplies:

Quietfire Designs Sentiment "I wouldn't have missed being yourfriend" #5958

Quietfire Designs Leafy Frame Cut File (also available at the Silhouette Store)

Core'dinations Essential Darks Cardstock

Vanilla Cardstock

Dark Brown Cardstock

Memories Acid Free Dye Ink in Artprint Brown

Silhouette Cameo

Pop Dots

This card is a little bigger than I typically create, but the 5" x 7" format is needed to showcase all the creative goodness. 

The cool thing about these cut files is they include everything you need to make the card - the card base, the frame, the ovals, everything. I wanted to cut everything out prior to beginning so I ungrouped the file and first cut the card out of orange cardstock (using a Silhouette Cameo is so easy once you get the hang of it - when you ungroup a file you just move the pieces you don't want to cut off the cutting mat and they won't cut).  Then I cut the leafy frame out of an olive green color, the mat and small oval out of vanilla cardstock and the large oval out of dark brown cardstock.

 

 

Once all my components were cut all that was left to do was stamp the sentiment onto the vanilla oval and assemble the card - so easy and quick! I glued the leafy frame onto the vanilla panel, attached the vanilla oval onto the dark brown oval, then pop dotted the panel and the oval onto the card base.  I really think the fall colors work so well with this cut file and the layers add a little something extra.

And here is another look at the card.  I adore the sentiment and the calligraphy is so beautiful! 

Thanks for visiting!  Christi

[You can find Christi regularly on her blog Art Without Anxiety!]