Stamp focus: The best thing I ever did was Believe in you

Hello Crafty Friends.

It is the last day of February and I am so looking forward to March!  We spring ahead in March which means more sunny hours after work and in the craft room.  I am fortunate to have a happy, crafty space situated right by a window.  During the warmer weather I keep the window open to hear the sweet birds chirping and the squirrels playing in the trees.  Spring is full of life, hope and rejuvenation.  March inspired the uplifting card I am sharing today: the dark background appears as if it is being overrun by wee bright flowers.  And the stamp...well...it is one of my faves and I just had to use it!

As mentioned, the focal point of the card front is the beautiful stamp, The best thing- believe in you:

The stamp is perfect for a "proud of you" card, such as a grad or a loved one accomplishing a goal or trying for one.  I really wanted to accentuate the gorgeous calligraphic quote so it was stamped in black onto plain white card stock.

It truly is a lovely stamp!

A simple flower was adhered to one side of the die cut stamp.  Two corner die cuts were added for a touch of extra prettiness.  I tore the flower patterned paper at an angle and mounted it on dark patterned paper.  Keeping the background dark ensured the stamp remained the focal point.

Do you have a favorite stamp, die or digital file from Quietfire?  Feel free to state them in the comments below or share them on the Suzanne Cannon Fan Page on Facebook!  We would love to hear from you.

Don't forget to check out the Facebook Live tonight at 7pm EST on the Quietfire Design Facebook page.

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

There are Always Flowers Card

Hey Quietfire Fans! I'm hoping that Spring will be right around the corner and with the thought of Spring on my mind, I created this pretty There are Always Flowers which features a variety of Quietfire Design Stamps and A Way With Words dies. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage as you learn how to recreate my card at home.

To start, apply Emboss It Ink to the floral banner from the Floral Banner & Quote Stamp Set and stamp onto a piece of watercolour cardstock. Sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing Powder overtop of the stamped image. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Fussy cut the flower image out. Using Tombow Markers 743 and 177, watercolour the flower image in. Ink the edges of the flower image using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Apply Picked Raspberry Distress Ink to the Grid Background stamp and stamp off onto a piece of paper and then stamp onto a piece of watercolour cardstock. Repeat the previous step to fill the rest of the paper. Die cut the 3 1/2" Stitched Rectangle out of the now stamped paper. Once the 3 1/2" rectangle is die cut, die cut the 3" Stitched Rectangle out of the 3 1/2" stitched rectangle. Apply Emboss It Ink to the quote and stamp onto the grid rectangle. Sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing Powder overtop of the stamped saying. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Distress the edges of each piece. Ink the edges of both pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam. 

From the Wood Effect paper, choose one of the papers. Die cut the 4 1/2" Stitched Rectangle out of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the rectangle. Ink the edges of the rectangle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Butterfly Dream paper, choose one of the papers. Die cut the 4" Stitched Rectangle out of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the rectangle. Ink the edges of the rectangle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the Flourished Frame out of White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Adhere the 4" stitched rectangle to the 4 1/2" stitched rectangle. Adhere the flourished frame to the 4" stitched rectangle.

Adhere the saying rectangle to the grid frame on an angle. Foam square the frame and saying rectangle to the middle of the 4" stitched rectangle. Foam square the floral banner underneath the saying.

To finish off your card, cut a cardbase that measures 5 3/4" x 9", score at 4 1/2". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few close up's of my There are Always Flowers Card.

Thanks so much for joining me today and taking a look at my project! I hope that I've inspired you to want to recreate my card at home. 

Quietfire Supplies Used:

- Grid Background

- Floral Banner & Quote

- Flourished Frame Die

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot & Picked Raspberry and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Wood Effect Paper Pack, Butterfly Dream Paper Pack and White Soft Finish Cardstock

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Midnight Black Embossing Powder

- Tombow Markers: 743 & 177

- Misc: Watercolour Cardstock

- Katelyn

Monochromatic in Green Good Luck Card

Hi!  My card today is very St. Patrick's Day themed with my little four leaf clover but I think this great die can be used for so many occasions - interviews, exams, or any occasions that warrants a bit of anxiety.  What a great way to show someone you are thinking of them!

I was trying to keep the card one color and I did that by using different shades of green.  My "Good Luck" kind of disappeared until I add a green die cut underneath the white words.  Just that little bit of extra layer really helps to pop out whatever die you are highlighting.

The four-leaf clover is made from the hearts of the Heart Spray die.  I popped them up on foam tape and added a strip of card stock for the stem.  The background is a quilted 3D embossing folder by Memory Keepers and the beaded circle die is by Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Thanks for looking!

Good Luck metal die

Hearts and PawPrints Spray metal die

Hope Faux Stitched Pocket Card

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a  pocket card featuring the Way with Words die Hope.

It's a bit of a different idea for a card design but very simple to do.  Fold over a rectangle of white cardstock to create a rectangle that is approximately 4 x 6".  Cut a corner off the front half of this folded paper as shown and adhere it to the back only along the bottom and right edge, creating a pocket.  Cover the front of the cardstock with a piece of patterned paper and decorate as desired.  I like the look of stitching, but rather than getting my sewing machine out, I cheated.  I used a paper piercer and poked holes at regular intervals, and then joined those holes together with a fine black pen.

I also like texture so I added some clear butterflies to the background with the Quietfire Design butterfly kaleidoscope stencil and clear gesso.  Clear gesso is like a clear paint or primer.  This gives a subtle but very pretty effect.

Adhere your Hope word die cut to the middle of the card, and then tuck some tags into the pocket.  I used shipping tags from the stationary store as a base.  Decorate these tags with patterned paper, die cuts, stamped sentiments, handwritten messages, whatever you like.  

  Thanks for stopping by, Connie  

Quietfire Design Products Used:  Hope metal cutting die, Butterfly Kaleidoscope Stencil

Other Products:   Fly & Scrap patterned paper by ModaScraps and available at Elizabeth Craft Designs, Elizabeth Craft Designs Dandelion Fluff die , Prima Clear Gesso, Kelly Creates black pen, Beacon 3 in 1 adhesive, yarn and twine.

Stamp Focus: Fill'er Up "Love" stamp set

Hello Crafty Friends!

We are celebrating baby this month at Quietfire Creations and today I am sharing a baby card using a stamp set that was originally designed for Valentine's Day: Fill'er Up Love stamp set

This beautiful stamp set is not only great for Valentine's Day but also wedding cards, scrapbook pages, home decor and, as following this month's theme, a baby card.

Card Instructions:

1. Use an alcohol resistant ink to stamp each of the letters onto white card stock or specialty marker paper.
2. Color each letter as desired using alcohol markers. 
   
    
3. Die cut each letter using a square die.
4. Mount each letter onto coordinating square patterned paper using double sided adhesive tape.
5. Mount letter stack to a Kraft card base using double sided foam tape.
6. Create double bow and mount to card front using liquid adhesive.
7. Apply button or other embellishment to card bow center.

The card can easily be created for a boy or girl.  What I like about the card front is that it could also be mounted into a frame or onto a wall.  A sweet little decoration for the sweet little one.

Did you see the FB Live with Suzanne last Thursday?  It was a fabulously cheery card and Suzanne shared new techniques using a new (at least to me!) product.  If you did not catch it live, feel free to hop on over to the Quietfire Design page on Facebook to see the video. 

Interested in seeing the FB Live this week?  You can see it on the Quietfire Design Facebook page this Thursday at 7pm EST.

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

Once Upon A Time - Little Ones - You Can Never Have Enough Fabric - Welcome Little Ones - Ribbon Quilt

Yogi here today and I got a little carried away...BIG GRIN.  I'm not really into babies and things, but we were asked to do baby thing projects... And I came across the scissors in a Tonic Tim Holtz pamphlet and cut it out. And then I was in a mood to do a ribbon weave and the rest evolved and evolved and evolved...

I'm using a die "Once Upon A Time"  and "LittleOnes" 7pce set from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE and HERE

I'm using a rubber stamp quote which I love from Quietfire Design ("You Can Never Have Enough Fabric")

I'm also using a clear stamp design element designed by Suzanne Cannon and available on Quietfire Design "Welcome Little One" 5pce set and also available on Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE 

 

Scored and folded my pink cardstock  to create the easel structure. Cut a piece same size as card (7"w x 5"h) and adhered to card front.

Created the ribbon quilt: adhere strips of Sari variegated ribbon to the top edge of a piece of cardstock. Started weaving horizontal pieces of ribbon starting with a cream toned polka dotted ribbon. I alternated with a bright pink silk ribbon, and a bright green silk/gauze ribbon. Adhered some double sided tape to the outer edges to hold the ribbon in place. Trimmed down. Die cut a frame using Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Rectangles" and adhered over weaving. Adhered to card front off set.

Die cut the "Once Upon A Time from a white gold pearlescent cardstock (Paper-Garden.ca). Adhered to card front.

Cut out the scissors from the Tonic Tim Holtz brochure. Inked with Versamark and clear embossed twice. Adhered to card front.

Stamped the fabric quote onto cream cardstock inked with Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed. Trimmed down adding the picot edge and adhere to card front.

On the floor: Stamped the "Welcome Little One" onto cream cardstock using the black and clear embossed. Cut out with a Spellbinder's oval die set. Die cut a couple small circles to create handles and adhered to either edge of quote piece. Slipped the pink ribbon through the loops and adhered all to card floor.

Die cut the feet and Onsey from white Shrink Plastic. Colored with alcohol ink and shrunk. Adhered to card using Glossy Accents.

Die cut the Thread spool (Memory Box "Thread Spools") and the thimble and pin cushion (Spellbinder's "Sewing Elements"). Colored with mini Distress pads and colored pencils then adhered to a piece of cream cardstock then onto the floor to act as my stopper.

Butterfly Spray, Good Luck, Flourished Oval Frame, Thinking of You

Hello There!!!  It's Wanda here today.  We have been having a lot of "winter" this winter.  It seems to be making up for all the mild winters we had.  I am so ready for brighter colors and butterflies!!!!  I love how the colors came out on this card!!!

On a piece of Mixed Media Card I blended Distress Ink just using three colors but overlapping so it looks like five colors.  Water was sprayed over the blended ink and blotted with another piece of cardstock.  I was left with a wonderful mottled look.  The butterfly spray was die cut from this piece and look at all those gorgeous butterfly fallouts.  

A scrap piece of cardstock large enough to back the butterfly area was embossed with Gold Tinsel embossing powder and attached behind the butterflies.  The Flourished Oval Frame was die cut from heavy card and embossed with the same powder.  Thinking of You was stamped in black.  After attaching the Flourished Oval frame, a white gel pen was used to go around the oval, to outline the butterflies and to add doodles to the edges of the panel.  Everything was attached to a folded white card.

And I have another card for you today.  You can see how I used those gorgeous butterfly fallout pieces.  

For the background, Distress Ink was put on the craft sheet, water added, and then the color picked up with Mixed Media Cardstock.  A lot of water was used giving a light, very blended look.  This was dried.  I then used a piece of textured wallpaper to "stamp" the same colors over the panel.  I love how effective that stamping was giving the look of lots of texture.  Good Luck was die cut from the panel.  The die cut panel was attached to a dark green panel.  I set the die cut words back into where it was cut out to use a guide.  I then glued back in all the little fallout pieces being sure not to get glue on the words.  After all the pieces were glued in, I removed the words, sponged on some additional ink and attached them with clear foam tape.

The butterflies were attached as shown only gluing the bodies and folding up the wings.  Stamping was added to the open corners as shown.

The panel was attached to a folded white card.  

In this last picture you can see bits of the clear foam tape but in person they really aren't noticeable.

I hope you've enjoyed these cards today.  This is my last post on the Quietfire Creations Blog.  I will be taking a break from Design Team work.  I've loved working with Suzanne and her team!!!!  

Hugs, Wanda

Supplies:

Butterflies & Stars Sprays Cutting Dies

Good Luck Cutting Die

Flourished Oval Frame Cutting Die

Merry Christmas Collection Clear Stamps

Where Flowers Bloom Collection Clear Stamps

Rise and Shine with some coffee

Who's a morning person?  I am actually.  But I do have a need for caffeine - I thought I drank coffee for the warmth and taste but found out I get a headache in the afternoon when I don't drink my coffee.  When did that little addiction happen?!

I do have a couple of friends who do not function without coffee at all - like don't speak to me until I've had my first cup of coffee kind of people.  

So maybe give them a cup of coffee before you give them this card for them to actually appreciate it.  Haha!

For this card, I did a lot of sponging and blending.  I first made a background using a Sun Ray Stencil by Tim Holtz with Distress Inks.  I started with the yellow, went to orange then red.  I went back with the lighter colors to blend the inks.

For the letters (Alphabet Caps by Elizabeth Craft Designs) and words (Shine and & from QF, also available from Elizabeth Craft Designs), I used Copic markers to color the letters the same shades as the sunrise.  I kept the same color scheme with the coffee cups I fussy cut out.

Enjoy your morning coffee (or tea)!

Shine Metal Die Cut (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Calligraphic Elements 2 (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

But First, Coffee Mounted Stamps - Quietfire Design

Happy Anniversary Tag

Hey Quietfire Fans! Valentine's Day is right around the corner and with the theme of love in the air I thought it would be fun to create this pretty mixed media Happy Anniversary Tag which features a variety of Quietfire Design Stamps. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage as you learn how to recreate my tag at home.

To start, die cut the medium Entwined Heart out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Using a blending tool with foam to blend Candied Apple Distress Ink overtop of a piece of scrap White Soft Finish Cardstock. Die cut the small entwined heart twice out of the red paper. Ink the edges of the hearts using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

On a second piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock, use a blending tool with foam to blend Spun Sugar Distress Ink overtop of the entire surface. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Twiggy Heart stamp and stamp onto the coloured cardstock piece. Sprinkle Pastel Pink embossing powder over top of the heat image. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Fussy cut the heart out. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Happy Anniversary stamp and stamp in the middle of the heart. Ink the edges of the heart using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Cut a white doily in half. Ink the left edge of the doily with Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Next you'll need two #8 Manilla Tags. Lay both tags out in front of you. Place the Heartstruck layering stencil overtop of one of the tags and sprinkle Raspberry, Orange and Rosebud Magenta Nuance powder overtop of the stencil. Spritz the stencil with water. Lift the stencil off, flip it over and place on the other tag. Lift off the stencil and dry the tag with a heat tool.

Once the tag is dry, place the Hearts Layering Stencil overtop of the tag. Take a palette knife and apply Texture Paste - Transparent Matte through the middle of the stencil. 

After the stenciled image has dried, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Grid Background stamp and stamp onto the edge of the tag. Reapply the ink to the grid background stamp and continue to stamp as much or as little as you'd like on the tag. Apply Candied Apple Distress Ink to the heart stamp from the Twiggy Heart Wreath and stamp randomly onto the the tag. Reapply the Candied Apple Distress Ink to the heart stamp and continue to stamp as much or as little as you'd like on the tag. Ink the edges fo the tag using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the doily to the middle left hand edge of the tag. Adhere the medium entwined heart in the top right side of the tag.

Foam square the Happy Anniversary heart slightly overtop of the medium entwined heart. Adhere the six red hearts as desired on the tag.

To finish off the tag, tie cream crinkle ribbon to the top of the tag. Wrinkle the ribbon.

Here are a few close up's of my Happy Anniversary Tag.

Thanks so much for joining me today and taking a look at my project! I hope that I've inspired you to want to recreate my tag at home. 

Quietfire Supplies Used:

- Grid Background

- Twiggy Wreath & Sentiments

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Candied Apple, Spun Sugar, Black Soot and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink, #8 Manilla Tags, Texture Paste - Transparent Matte and Emboss It Ink

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Entwined Hearts and White Soft Finish Cardstock

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Patel Pink Embossing Powder

- Magenta Nuance: Raspberry, Orange and Rosebud

- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous: Heartstruck and Hearts Layering Stencil

- Misc: Cream Crinkle Ribbon

- Katelyn