All Hearts come home for Christmas

Well it's time to great ready for Christmas now that Halloween has passed-- today seems like a great day to get started on your Christmas cards right.  The Quietfire store is filled with beautiful stamps and dies to make cards this year and i used a special one and did it with white and gold papers to give it a beautiful and stunning sparkly effect.

The stamp i used is called " All Hearts come home" and it fit perfectly inside of the die cut circle.  I added a huge white snowflake behind it and then used foam squares from Scrapbook Adhesives to pop it up on this gorgeous gold tag from Becca Feeken's dies.  The stamp i did with gold ink and gold embossing to match the papers and then i finished it with a gold cord and a rhinestone.

I am trying to use pretty papers and just layer simple shapes so that i can make lots of them to mail out.  Pretty but simple is good and once they are cut you can put them altogether watching a wonderful Christmas show or have your kids help you put them all together.  How fun!  

Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!!

Quietfire Christmas stamps

Quietfire Design:  All Hearts Come Home

Paper: Hobby Lobby 6x6 Christmas pad

Dies: Spellbinders "Becca Feeken"

Adhesives:  Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L,  3D Foam Squares mixed white, tape runner

Shaker Card with glitter background and extra sparkles

I'm getting better at playing with glitter!  I wanted to just make a pretty shiny background and ended up with this shaker card.  Sometimes you just play and let it go where it goes.

I covered a sheet of white card stock with ECD double sided adhesive and then added glitter to the top side and let it fall down in a diagonal manner.

I then burnished in the glitter with my finger to complete the background.

I cut out the "Sending" and little flowers out of white cardstock.  A rhinestone in the middle made the flowers match my sentiment perfectly.  The shaped glitter inside the shaker element added an extra dimension of fun.

Hope you like it and have a wonderful day of sparkles and fun!

Sending Hugs and Kisses Die (Quietfire Design | ECD )

Wishing You Whimsy stamp set 

Sanded Embossing; May Your Longest List This Christmas

Happy Monday to You!!!  I hope you had a good weekend!!  It's Wanda here today to share an easy Christmas card.  Be sure to click on the pictures to bring them up larger.  

I'm using Quietfire's fabulous stamp - May Your Longest List This Christmas.  It is stamped onto cream card using Archival Ink Potting Soil and then die cut with a Stitched Square cutting die (Tim Holtz/Sizzix).  The edges of the square are sponged with White Fire Fresco Finish Paint (PaperArtsy).  The square is wrapped with Craft Thread (Tim Holtz/Eclectic Elements) that I've tied a couple of bells (Tim Holtz/Idea-ology) onto.

The background is super easy.  Cut Kraft Core paper (Tim Holtz/Core'dinations) to fit the Poinsettia Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz/Sizzix).  Emboss the panel.  Sand the paper to expose some of that Kraft Core and to bring out the poinsettia more.  Die cut the bottom left corner with the Poinsettia Mixed Media die (Tim Holtz/Sizzix).  Attach this panel to a cream colored panel leaving a small edge.  Splatter with White Fire paint thinned with water and then sponge White Fire around the edge. 

Onto a folded cream card, using double stick tape, attach a piece of Kraft Core Metallic Gold that you've distressed the edges on. Attach the background panel using foam tape.  Attach the quote panel using foam tape.  You now have a beautiful, elegant Christmas card!!!

Thanks for following along!!  I hope you have time to get crafty this week!!

Hugs, Wanda

 

"Love" Christmas Ornament card

Hello Crafty Friends!

Kathy Jo here sharing a holiday card using Suzanne's festive Love Joy Peace Ornament die set:

Her sweet die set is the focal point of the holiday card.  The colors chosen for the card are not-so-traditional- but I really like how it turned out.  The pink and light red "love" die cuts look fabulous against the gold ornament.  The blue background is a nice contrast and allows the "love" to pop!

Instructions:

1. Create a 4.5" x 4.5" top fold card from ivory card stock.  
2. Cut blue patterned paper smaller than card base and apply gold marker along edges.  Mount using double sided adhesive tape.
3. Die cut ornament from ivory card stock and gold construction paper. Mount using liquid adhesive.
4. Die cut "love" from pink and light red paper.  Offset mount using liquid adhesive.
5. Fussy cut flowers and holly from patterned paper.  Die cut evergreen sprigs.  Layout flowers and sprigs onto card.  When satisfied with the layout, adhere all layers using liquid adhesive.
6. Create double bow from ivory ribbon.  Mount using liquid adhesive.  Mount fussy cut flowers to bow center with liquid adhesive.
7. Apply glitter to flowers as desired.
8. Take a look at your happy, holiday card and smile.  
9. Repeat steps 1-9. 

Admittedly, after I made this card I had difficulty putting the die set away!  I ended up making four more- and totally different- cards using the die set.  It really is a great set and, I think, a must have for die cutterers!  

I would love to see your project using Suzanne's new dies or stamps!  Feel free to share a link in the comments below.

Thanks for stopping by!  
Have a happy, crafty day!
Big hugs,
Kathy Jo

Joyeux Noel...

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here with a simple but elegant Christmas card using a gorgeous Christmas ornament die-template set by Quietfire Design and also a Quietfire Design stampset.

I used the ornament die-template also for die-cutting the image of the robin...this way it fits perfectly in the frame. Before taking the image out of the die-template, I embossed the die-cut.
Joyeux Noel is a stamp from the set International  Merry Christmas.
For the background I embossed parchement paper.

Used materials:

• Quietfire design: Love Joy Peace Christmas Ornament # 9000-1442 (set of 4 metal cutting dies), International Merry Christmas #6003 (set of 6 stamps)
• rectangle shaped die-template, Christmas embossing folder
• cardstock: white, green, gold, parchement paper
• satin bow

I hope you like the card.
Thanks for stopping by
and wishing you Happy crafting!

Hugs from Holland,
Yvonne

Happy Birthday, Unforgettable and Magic - More Photo Cards

Hello, Connie Nichol here again with three more cards using a photograph as a base and adding a die cut word from the selection of Way with Words dies from Quietfire Design.  I am in love with this idea.  It is such a quick way to make a unique card for that special someone.

It's also quite a frugal way to make cards - it costs only about 15 cents to print a 4x6 photo if you take advantage of a sale promotion.  And of course, the metal dies are a great value because you can basically use them forever to cut infinite numbers of die cut words.

Adhere the die cut directly on the photo if there is room, or on the card base if there is not. You don't have to get fancy.  I had some leftover patterned paper and burlap that I used up, but really, it's all about the photograph and the die cut word.

I hope you are inspired to create some beautiful cards.  Here are the dies I used:

 

 

Other Supplies Used:  Elizabeth Craft Designs patterned paper and cardstock, EK Success border punch, Brother sewing maching, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L adhesive, burlap, ribbon.

Foiled Merry Christmas 2 - Bonnie Hampton, Guest Designer

Bonnie Hampton is back with us to share another fun and easy technique!  If you'd like to see her card earlier this month, click here! 

Merry Christmas 2

1. On a non-stick craft mat, put down some colors of Distress Inks and gently spritz with water. I used northern lights colors - my favourite thing to try to replicate is the northern lights!
2. Swipe a piece of watercolour paper through the wet colours and allow to dry. 
3. Place the panel in the Stampin' Up Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and run through the Big Shot. 
4. Highlight the raised trees with Black Soot Distress Ink. 
5. Add snow in the sky, crooks of branches and on the ground. I used Marvy's Snow Marker by simply drawing on the paper surface.  Apply heat with a heat tool and it puffs up! 
6. Cut Quietfire's Merry Christmas 2 from Inkssential Metal Foil Tape Sheet and apply to card.

A big thanks to Bonnie for sharing her projects!  You can visit Bonnie's blog and more of her awesome cards at Bonnie Lynn's Blog.

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Blog Hop - Day 5

Hello everyone! Welcome back!  It's Day 5 of the Quietfire Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway!  Oh, no!  Say it isn't so! It's the final day of our blog hop!  I hope you've enjoyed each and every project.  I'd like to send Scrapbook Adhesive a big THANKS! for playing with us this week.  It's been awesome - all the designers have outdone themselves and deserve a special thanks! You can see all the projects together on a new Pinterest Board I made for this hop, although if you're reading this early, I won't have added today's creations yet!

Make sure you enter to win the prizes - read on to the end of the post for details.

Also to celebrate our hop, I'm making it a weekend of free shipping for orders over $60 placed on the Quietfire site. (offer ends Monday October 23, 2017)
And now on to today's project.

It's Suzanne here for our last day. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one adhesive that would work for everything?  Unfortunately that’s not the case, but luckily we can get most of them from one place!  Thank you very much to Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® for this blog hop and supplying their great products to use in the creation of our projects. If you're looking for a fun playtime, check out their 3D Foam Holiday Embellishment Kit which has foam diecuts in snowflake, stars and tree shapes along with foil included in 5 colours.  Now if that's not crafting heaven in a package, I don't know what is.  And that's where I started.....

Although this card isn’t a traditional Christmas colour scheme, sometimes it’s good to have a little shake up!  Here is how I created this Gold and Silver Snowflake Ornament card.

Instructions:

1. Form a side-fold card base measuring 4” x 8.5” from black cardstock.
2. Cut a piece of black cardstock, remove the release paper from one side of a sheet of black 3D Foam Creative Sheets and adhere to the cardstock. With the foam side up, die cut ornament.
3. Die cut the ornament again, this time with no adhesive, from black cardstock. Remove the release paper from one side of three snowflakes from the 3D Foam Holiday Embellishment Kit and apply them to the ornament’s center circle. Don’t worry if they hang over the edge. Use scissors to trim the foam snowflake edges.
4. Remove the release paper from the ornament and with gold side up, lay the foil from the 3D Foam Holiday Embellishment Kit over the surface and press everywhere.  Lift the foil sheet off and admire your shining handiwork!
5. Apply silver foil to the snowflakes.  Adhere some of the stars from the kit to the centers of the snowflakes and apply gold foil to them.
6. Stamp the sentiment on black cardstock and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.  Trim to 3” x 6.75” with the sentiment positioned as shown.  Cut a mat from red cardstock approximately 1/8” larger all around and adhere the layers together with E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips.
7. Adhere the ornament above the stamped sentiment with Adhesive Dots Micro on the flourishes of the ornament and Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium for the center of the ornament.  Attach this panel to the card base with 3D Foam Square Black Regular Size.
8. Top the ornament off with one of the foam stars foiled in red.  Beautiful!  Merry Christmas!





 


Quietfire Supplies:
A Way With Words Love Joy Peace Ornament
All Hearts Come Home for Christmas stamp
Supplies:
3D Foam Creative Sheets
3D Foam Holiday Embellishment Kit
Adhesive Dots Micro
Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium
E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser
3D Foam Square Black Regular Size
Others:
Black cardstock
Imagine Crafts VersaMark Ink Pad
Ranger Queen’s Gold Embossing Powder



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Day 2, click: Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway – Day 2!  Our blog
Day 1, click: Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway – Day 1!  Our blog

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Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Blog Hop - Day 4

Hello everyone! Welcome back!  It's Day 4 of the Quietfire - Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Blog Hop and Giveaway!  The inspiration continues!  Make sure you enter to win the prizes - read on to the end of the post for details.

Yvonne always creates the most elegant cards, even when they're funny! Here she has perfectly fit the "Christmas is the Day" stamp image into this frame!

Instructions:

1. Create a white cardbase.
2. Cut and adhere a mat from soft green cardstock and alter the edges of the patterned paper using brown distress ink and an ink blending tool.
3. Use Scrapbook Adhesives® E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser to affix onto card base.
4. Die-cut a frame from gold cardstock and glue to the cardbase using 3D Foam White Mix.
5. Stamp Quietfire Design stamp Christmas Is the Day  on white cardstock and die-cut.
6. Glue the die-cut on the card base using E-Z Runner Permanent Strips.
7. Glue the embellishements onto the card base using Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium.
8. Finish the card with some self-adhesive rhinestones.

And voila…your card is ready to be sent to someone special this Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by!

Quietfire Design supplies:

Christmas Is the Day – Mounted

Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3L supplies:

E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser #01200 

3D Foam Squares White Mix #01614

Dodz Adhesive Dots Medium #01301

Wanda is our background gal!  She loves to mix, blend, stencil, smoosh and stamp!

Hello!!  I've created a card just right for Autumn using one of the gorgeous Quietfire calligraphy stamps from the Give Thanks Set.  It's stamped onto a panel that's been brayered with Distress Oxide Inks and die cut with a Stitched Rectangles cutting die.  In the background I've smooshed some regular Distress Inks and then stenciled with Oxide Ink using the wonderful leaves on the Leaf and Snowflake Spray stencil.

Everything is held together with either E-Z Dots Permanent Adhesive Dots or 3D Foam Squares.  I've also used the small 3D Foam Squares as an embellishment on the quote panel by covering them with Distress Glitter Dust Vintage Platinum.  A line of the Adhesive Dots along the bottom covered with foil give another touch of bling.

Quietfire Design Supplies --
Give Thanks For A Little from the Give Thanks Set of stamps
Leaves Spray from the Leaf and Snowflake Sprays Stencil

 Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Supplies --

 E-Z Dots Permanent Refillable Dispenser3D Foam Squares White Mix

If you missed our other blog hop days, no problem! Visit:

Day 3, click: Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway – Day 3!  Our blog
Day 2, click: Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway – Day 2!  Our blog
Day 1, click: Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop and Giveaway – Day 1!  Our blog

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