Some people, like flowers

Morning!  Today I wanted to share with you how you can be flexible with a particular set of cards.  I've been on a spring kick lately - making lots of flowers. So naturally I gravitated towards a quote that had flowers in it.  Garden Delights is a large set of stamps and my favorite one from there is "Some people, like flowers, give pleasure just by being." What a nice way to let someone know you appreciate just who they are.

I centered the quote on a white card base.  I then framed it with the Spellbinders Tiara Rondelle die.  The die is a bit bigger than my card so I trimmed off the excess on the bottom.

I added the 3D roses by Altenew.  Here you can change the color scheme as you would like as well as the number of flowers in your floral spray.

(Hmm... I should have shown you that instead of the Tiara die you can use any frame die for this - even a rectangle or square one.)

My last example is a leftover sticker I picked up at Michaels for a scrapbooking project.  Don't limit yourself!

Garden Delights - mounted stamps

Tea Gift Bag

Hey Quietfire Fans! I have a few of friends who love to drink tea and as part of their birthday present,  I love to them add a few bags to their gift. So, I created this awesome Tea Gift Bag which features the Tea Stamp as well as a variety of other Quietfire Design Stamps and A Way With Words stencil. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite hot beverage and learn how to recreate my gift bag at home.

To start, you'll need a cotton drawstring bag. Place the Dotty A Way With Words stencil overtop of the bag. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink through the stencil. Switch the foam on the blending tool and blend Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink through the same stencil. Switch the foam on the blending tool one more time and blend Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink through the same stencil. Remove the stencil.

Apply Potting Soil Archival Ink to the Dotted Harlequin stamp and stamp randomly on the bag. Reapply the ink to the stamp and stamp onto the bag six more times.

Apply Potting Soil Archival Ink to the tea ring and stamp in the middle of the bag. Reapply the ink to the tea ring and stamp slightly overtop of the previous stamped tea ring.

Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the splat stamp and stamp randomly on the bag. Reapply the Jet Black Archival Ink to the splat stamp and stamp four more times. Apply Potting Soil Archival Ink to the splat stamp and stamp randomly on the bag. Reapply the Potting Soil Archival Ink to the splat stamp and stamp seven more times.

Die cut a 2 1/4" stitched circle out of another cotton bag. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Tea stamp and stamp in the middle of the circle. Apply Potting Soil Archival Ink to the tea ring and stamp randomly on the circle. Reapply the ink to the tea ring stamp and stamp randomly five more times on the circle. Ink the edges of the circle using a blending tool with foam and Potting Soil Archival Ink.

To finish off your tea gift bag, foam square the Tea circle to the middle of the bag.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished Tea Gift Bag.

Here is the finished Tea Gift Bag.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Dotted Harlequin Background

- Tea & Thee

- Dotty Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Oxide Ink - Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber & Squeezed Lemonade and Blending tool with foam 

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink: Potting Soil Archival Ink

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Circles

- Misc: Cotton Bag

- Katelyn

U R Beautiful, Unforgettable, and Amazing

Today I'm sharing a set of cards with you that I really enjoyed making - especially because they include butterflies and I was able to use both the negative and positive of some dies.

The Momenta alphabet die are pretty big so you can't fit too many letter dies on there so I had to resort to "text" lingo.  Any letter dies work for this design and even printing out a big U and R in a block font would work too.   

Suzanne has several Quietfire Design word dies that are great adjectives that would work with the "you are" including Brave, Bold, perfect, family.  

I centered and die cut the U and R out.  I popped up the negative on grey card stock so the letters would pop but not too much.  I had sponged distress inks on a sheet of card stock a while back (this is also a great way to use up scrap backgrounds out of watercolor paper).  I had enough to die cut several butterflies out so I made 3 cards with them. 

This last card was made by using the U and R from the other cards and stacking them on top of each other.  I did die cut another U and R to make it a little thicker.

Amazing Beautiful (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Unforgettable (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Butterfly Flourish (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Monday Inspiration: Destiny is not a matter of chance

Hello Crafty Friends!

Happy Monday! I hope you had a happy, crafty weekend.

Are you ready for some inspiration?  Suzanne has designed so many gorgeous calligraphy stamps- many of which are inspirational quotes.  The focal point of today's card uses one of those stunning stamps, Destiny is not a matter of chance.

Card instructions:

1. Create a 5.5 x 5.5 tent fold card using black card stock.
2. Use double sided adhesive tape to mount 5.25 x 5.25 turquoise glitter card stock onto the base.
3. Cut a piece of white card stock to 5 x 5 .  Use liquid adhesive to randomly apply Deco Foil in lime green around the edges.
4. Apply turquoise wax (Spectrum Noir) randomly around edges.
5. Apply gold marker along edges.  Mount to card front using double sided foam tape.
6. Mount gold doily using liquid adhesive.
7. Use black archival ink to stamp quote onto white card stock.  Die cut using circle die.  Mount using double sided adhesive tape.
8. Apply coordinating flowers along perimeter of quote using liquid adhesive.
9. Decorate inside of card as desired.

It is a bright and cheerful card to inspire a friend, family member...or yourself!

Thanks for stopping by!  I do hope you enjoyed the card.
Have a great day!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

The Real Voyage of Discovery Wall Hanging

Hey Quietfire Fans! Spring has arrived and with the thought of Spring on my mind, I created this pretty The Real Voyage of Discovery Wall Hanging which features a variety of Quietfire Design Stamps and A Way With Words dies. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite spring time beverage as you learn how to recreate my wall hanging at home.

To start, die cut a 4" Stitched Fishtails out of white cardstock. Die cut a 3 1/4" Stitched Circle out of the same piece of white cardstock. On a gel plate, put Coral, Blush and Spanish Mulberry Acrylic paint on the plate, use the brayer to combine the paint colours together. Press a stencil in randomly on the plate. Place the stitched fishtail facedown on the gel plate and press it into the plate. On the same gel plate, put Coral, Blush and Spanish Mulberry Acrylic paint on to the plate and use the brayer to combine the paint colours, press the stitched circle into the plate. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Crackle Background stamp and randomly stamp the background onto the stitched fishtail and stitched circle. Reapply the ink as needed to the stamp. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Grid Background stamp and randomly stamp the background onto the stitched fishtail and stitched circle. Reapply the ink as needed to the stamp. Distress the edges of the stitched fishtail and stitched circle. Ink the edges of the stitched fishtail and stitched circle using Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Apply Emboss It Ink to the "real voyage of discovery" stamp and stamp onto the middle of the stitched circle. Sprinkle Glacier White Embossing Powder over the stamped sentiment. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

Die cut the leaf wreath twice, from the Rosebud Wreath & Elements die, out of white cardstock. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Ink over the entire surface of the wreaths. Spritz the wreath with water. 

From the Rosebud Wreath & Elements, die cut the three tulips twice out of white cardstock, the single tulips four times out of white cardstock, six tulip overlays out of white cardstock and two heart flourishes out of white cardstock. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink on the four tulips and two three tulips. Spritz the tulips with water.

Die cut the 4 1/2" Stitched Fishtails out of white cardstock. Distress the edges of the stitched fishtails. Ink the edges of the stitched fishtails using Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the 4" Stitched Fishtail to the 4 1/2" Stitched Fishtail. Adhere the Stitched Circle to the middle of the 4" Stitched Fishtail.

Adhere the first leaf wreath around the edge of the Stitched Circle. Adhere the other leaf wreath overtop of the first leaf wreath, but making sure that the leaves don't over lap.

 Adhere an overlay tulip over top of two of the single tulips. Adhere one of the overlay tulips over top of the middle tulip on the set of three tulips. In the bottom right hand side of the leaf wreath, adhere one heart flourish. Foam square the three tulip bunch slightly overtop of the heart flourish. Adhere a single tulip with an overlay to the left of the tulip bunch and adhere another single tulip with an overlay to the right of the tulip bunch.

 Adhere an overlay tulip over top of two of the single tulips. Adhere one of the overlay tulips over top of the middle tulip on the set of three tulips. In the top left hand side of the leaf wreath, adhere one heart flourish. Foam square the three tulip bunch slightly overtop of the heart flourish. Adhere a single tulip with an overlay to the left of the tulip bunch and adhere another single tulip with an overlay to the right of the tulip bunch.

Punch a hole in the top left and top right corners of the 4" stitched fishtail. Pull some twine through the holes and knot the twine at each hole. 

Here are a few closeup photos of the wall hanging.

Here's the finished The Real Voyage of Discovery Wall Hanging.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Grid Background

- Crackle Background

- Every Day is a Journey

- Rosebud Wreath & Elements

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Oxide Ink - Black Soot, Worn Lipstick & Peeled Paint, Blending tool with foam and Distress Sprayer

- Dylusions for Ranger Ink: Bubbles - Small stencil

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink and Emboss It Dabber

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Fishtails and Stitched Circles

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Glacier White Embossing Powder

- PaperArtsy: Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics - Coral, Blush and Spanish Mulberry

- Gel Press: 6x6 Gel Plate

- Misc: Twine, Brayer and White Cardstock

- Katelyn

Merci - Grid Background, Tulips, The Best Thing - Easel card

 

Yogi here today and I was in a mood to do something French...

I'm using a die "Merci"from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE

I'm also using a quote and design element stamps from Quietfire Design ("The Best Thing"); ("Grid Background"); ("Tulips") 

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

If you've been watching Suzanne on Facebook Live on Thursday evenings, you'll have noticed she uses a clear plastic in her Stampin Platform. Great idea. I usually just shove a piece of tracing paper...

So I used the clear plastic technique and the "Grid Background" stamp and repeatedly stamped the design on white cardstock using Versafine Clair "Glamorous" stamp pad until my grid covered the whole of my cardstock. Trimmed down and adhered to card front.

Stamped the Eiffel Tower image (Darice "Paris") using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed on white cardstock. Sponged a bit of Distress "Salty Ocean" very lightly to create a cloudy sky. PS use any large stamped image or die cut or digital image of an Eiffel Tower...

Created a silhouette file of the tulips and electronically cut several from white cardstock. Stamped with a red and a green Distress pads. Applied some of the color to a craft sheet and picked up the color with a wet paintbrush. Adhered several to card front.

Die cut the "Merci" from red cardstock and adhered to card front.

Added a couple of linear flying birds with a black marker.

On the floor:

Created another piece of the grid background as well as stamping the quote with the "Glamorous" pad and clear embossed then die cut with Spellbinder's Oval die set.

Adhered one of the Tulip stamped images (the whole design with the flourishes) partially to the floor to act as my stopper.

Easter Rejoice

It's Suzanne dropping in with a little project for you.  The group challenge at Elizabeth Craft Designs today is .... wait for it.... Easter! It's a good time to start - Easter is even a little later this year, so there is plenty of time for creating! Here is my card for this challenge.  It's simple, but elegant.

Supplies:
A Way With Words Rejoice  Quietfire | ECD
A Way With Words Rosebud Wreath & Elements  Quietfire | ECD
Soft Finish Cardstock 100# White  ECD

Ranger Distress Inks: Bundled Sage, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry
Ink Blending Tool
Glue Dots - Micro

Instructions:

1. Form a 6.5 x 3.5" tent-fold cardbase from Soft Finish Cardstock.
2. Die cut Rejoice and the Wreath from Soft Finish Cardstock.  Cut the Wreath in half so there is a bouquet at the top of the arc. (and you have another half a wreath to make another card!)
3. Gently sponge colours on the diecuts as shown.
4. Mount diecuts on card base with Glue Dots.

That's it!
Happy creating - Happy Easter, of course!
Suzanne