You Can do Anything...

Hello everone,
Yvonne here sharing a card with one of the latest Quietfire Design stamps: You can do Anything

Used materials:

• Quietfire Design: You can Do Anything #6425
• Spellbinders die-template
• cardstock: white, kraft, patterned, gold
• black inkpad, acryllic stamp block, pink metallic pen
• mulberry flowers, leaves, satin bow

Thanks for stopping by

and wishing you happy crafting!

Hugs from Holland,

Yvonne

How far you've come with butterflies

Ah, Distress Oxide inks, butterflies, and Quietfire stamp - the card just practically make themselves... and I made 3!  I found this Recollection Butterfly Confetti die at Michaels and though I don't need any more butterfly dies (need - no, want - yes) I got it anyway because I loved the shapes and sizes that were in the die. 

I made a rainbow swatch over half a sheet of cardstock in a diagonal pattern and then die cut the butterflies out twice.  Once over the red/orange/yellow area and then another from the blue/greens.  The butterflies were arranged so they swirled around the quote.  I could not decide if I liked the black card base or the white and I didn't have to decide since I had enough butterflies for two cards. Nice, eh?

From the negative, I made another quick card using the You Are die.  Tune in tomorrow to see the other negative piece where I got the reds/orange/purple butterflies that I used.

On the inside, I can add stamps or dies to finish the sentiment.  Quietfire has a ton to choose from - see some below!

You are... brave, beautiful, amazing, family, a blessing fun...

The Only Time Mounted Stamp

You Are Perfect Dies

 

Amazing Beautiful Dies

Be Brave Bold Yourself

I came, I saw, I loved.....

Today i have another share from the brand new stamps just released from Quietfire Design stamps.  This is one of my favorite stamps called "Veni, Vidi, Amavi" from the set so i paired it with a really pretty ornate chipboard frame and then used Prima's new Lavender collection for the papers.  Since all of it is so ornate already i kept the card design simple and added just a touch of purple to the chipboard frame i used and a pretty bow and flower to finish it off.  I love easy and this stamp is so beautiful my card will be perfect to send to my friend.

And i have a second project to share with you today using another of the brand new release stamps called "Life doesn't have to be perfect".  For this project i wanted to make a frame to decorate in my house so that it would remind me each day of how truly wonderful life can be if you look at it in a different way than being perfect.  I used a small wooden frame that i picked up for $1 and painted it both front and back in brown and then sanded the edges and let it dry.  Then i cut Bo Bunny papers to fit around the chipboard sentiment to make it pop more and glued them together.

For the stamp i used Versafine ink in brown and embossed it and then chalk inked around a chippy frame from GSLC and glued that together.  Then i glued all of it to the frame and added a pretty bow with some twine and a few flowers from my stash.  Super easy and super fast to make.  Something like this would be a great gift for a wedding or you could use one of our cute birthday stamps too!

Thank you so very much for stopping over today!   

Teresa

Supplies:

Veni, Verdi, Amavi Stamp

Life Doesn't have to be perfect stamp

Paper, ribbons, flowers, chipboard frames, twine, adhesive, scissors, paper trimmer

Let Your Dreams Soar

Hello!!!  It's Wanda with you!!!  It's Spring!!  It took it's time getting to southern Iowa.  Yes, it teased us a couple of times but seems to have finally decided to stay.  Yay!!  I'm sure summer is just around the corner as we don't seem to keep Spring very long.

This card uses a stamp from the Soar Collection along with the Soar cutting die. For my background I started with a Gel Press print from my stash.  I tore a section from the Tim Holtz Collage Paper Aviary and glued it over the print using Distress Collage Medium Matte.  Once dry I used a metal ruler to tear the paper into a square.  Next there is some stenciling with Archival Ink and the edges are inked with Distress Ink.  "let your dreams soar" is stamped and embossed with black powder.  The panel was attached to a grey cardstock panel, the edges lightly inked with Distress Ink, real stitching added, twine wrapped around near the bottom and tied with a bow and the panel attached to a folded kraft card.  A White Gel Pen was used inside the closed letters of the quote.  "Soar" was die cut from both black and white cardstock.  The black piece was made shiny with black embossing powder.  Both soars were attached together as shown and glued to the card.     

Love lives here- Tulips

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here with an all occasion ATC

featuring 

New Stamps from 

Quietfire Design.

Tulips

love lives here

The stamping is created using stamp positioners and  masking

 and  the painting with no line watercoloring.

Begin with stamping on a piece of acetate to position your stamp on the card.

Put the card in the positioner and move the  acetate around till the image is where you want it to be.

Remove the acetate and stamp in a light water based ink.

Distress old paper was used here so you can see it.

This ATC was done with Distress antique linen

Stamp on masking paper and position over the card

Use a positioner again to get the placement of the third tulip

Ta da!

Save the mask to use again.

Use your favorite water medium to color to your hearts content.

The light ink will disappear into the painting.

Outline the flourish with gold gouache or a pen can be used.

Love lives here

was positioned as above, stamped in Versafine Onyx and thermal embossed clear.

Here is the ATC without the masking.

Which do you prefer?

Comments and Questions Welcomed.

Anyone can change everything

Hello Crafty Friends!

Are you ready for some inspiration?  Yes, the Quietfire Design Team has been loving Suzanne Cannon's newest stamp release.  We have all enjoyed sharing projects using the new release.  The stamps are gorgeous and full of inspirational quotes and images for your next crafty project.  Today I would like to share a project using Quietfire Design's Anyone can change everything and Tulips stamp sets.

Card instructions:

1. Apply Tombow markers to Tulips stamp.  "Huff" onto the stamp to moisten the ink.  Stamp onto marker paper.  Color in tulips and leaves as desired.
2. Stamp quote onto paper using black archival ink.  
3. Die cut using rectangle die.
4. Add grass using Tombow markers.
5. Die cut gold card stock using Spellbinders Tallulah Frill die.
6. Create tent fold card from white card stock.
7. Cut coordinating yellow card stock to size and mount.
8. Mount gold die cut.  Mount tulips and quote using double sided adhesive tape.

Seeing tulips makes me smile.  Such a pretty stamp!

Feel free to check out the new release...it is fantastic!  Oh- and the almost gone forever items are 50% off. Super sweet.  :)

Thank you for stopping by!
Have a happy, crafty day.
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo

Flourished Oval - Mom You Are So Loved

Yogi here today and I made a top fold card... a rare occurrence for me. I was gifted with a sampler pack of cardstock and papers in various colors, such beautiful pearlescent and metallic papers. I'm using 3 from the sampler pack..

I'm using an A Way With Words dies  "Flourished Oval Frame" 2pce set and "Butterfly Flourish" 3pce set from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE and HERE

And I'm using a design element and sentiment stamps from Quietfire Design ("Keep Calm and Call MOM" 3pce set): ("You Are" 5pce set) 

Scored and top folded my white cardstock. I cut a piece of Stardream "Azalea", same size as card front and adhered this deep pink to front.

Cut a piece of Stardream Rose Qurtz (light pink) a touch smaller than card to have a border around the edges of the deep pink. Die cut the rose design (Sizzix Tim's "Mixed Media #5) and adhered to front.

Stamped the "Mom/rose design onto white cardstock using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed. Painted the flower/leaves with watercolors. Fussy cut around some of the flourishes and positioned my oval flourish die, placing the cut flourishes above the die so they wouldn't be cut off.

Cut a flourished oval from the light pink cardstock. Cut the larger oval (Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Ovals") from the deep pink. Die cut the white layer using "Curious Metallics Iced Silver" and the Cuttlebug Anna Griffin "Flourish Medallion". Adhered these layers together,

Stamped the text using the black and clear embossed. Adhered the flourished oval assembly

I had some Brusho/Colour Burst decorated cardstock in pinks and die cut the butterfly. Adhered to front and added some white half pearls to the body.

New Digital Paper from Quietfire Design

Hi it's Teresa here using a brand new addition to our already gorgeous line of digital papers called "Go Fly a Kite".  There are 3 sets in this new line that you can download/print to coordinate with your projects in beautiful shades of pale aqua, dark aqua and this gorgeous shade of avocado.  I love how all the prints mix and match so well together and the best part is if you mess up you can print a new piece.  And there is a new stamp in the Quietfire store that goes perfect with it and it's a quote by the amazing Winston Churchill.  It is called "Kites rise highest".   You can't get any better than that.  I created a simple card to let the papers really stand on their own and then framed the sentiment in with a fancy die cut shape.  All it needed was a pretty bow and metal button to finish it off.

The sentiment really is gorgeous and matches perfect with the kite papers don't you think?

And i printed up some extra papers in the dark red and dark aqua shades and used our new " Life doesn't have to be Perfect" stamp for it.  For this card i actually printed on only one side of the paper so that i could cut and fold it to make the card base like you see above.  And then i just cut a small piece of the printed kites to match with the diagonal stripe for the center panel and divided it ever so nicely with a leftover piece of the light aqua.  The chipboard frame i chalked to go with the prints and then stamped and framed the sentiment.

I love this one.  You could send this to anyone to cheer them up and think just a bit more positive :)

Thank you for stopping as always and i hope that you can pop on over to the store and try a few of these papers.  You are really going to love them...  Teresa

Quietfire Printable Papers:   Go Fly a Kite ( set of 3 designs)

Kites rise highest stamp

Life doesn't have to be Perfect stamp

Ribbon, brads, paper trimmer and scissors

Sometimes....

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here sharing a card using the Quietfire Design stamp "Sometimes I Just Look Up".
Such a lovely hand lettered quote expressing that special feeling I think all of us have experienced at least once in life....

Looking at the stamp I think of some very special that I have lost not too long ago and....a smile and many good memories come to my mind...

Dear Suzanne,
Thank you so much for creating this lovely stamp!

Simple stacking of several die-cuts and adding sunny flowers complete the card.

Warm hugs from Holland,
Yvonne

Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect with easy background

In this age of social media, it's easy to think that someone else has the perfect life but we all know that everyone has their own difficulties.  But sometimes we need a reminder and this stamp is just perfect to encourage someone who needs a visible encouragement (and it's always a cheer to receive a handmade card in the mail, right?)

To make this card, I used the Neat& Tangled Calthea set.  It's not my usual style to purposely do a loosely stamped background (because most crafters enjoy a nice dose of OCD).  I added some splatter to my watercolored/stamped background.

The sentiment was stamped in black Versafine and framed with a light green matting - same as the card base.  

Thanks so much for looking and I hope you find the wonderful in your life!

Life doesn't have to be perfect mounted stamp