Destiny is Not a Matter of Chance Notecard

Hey Quietfire Fans! For today's project I'm sharing with you my Destiny is Not a Matter of Chance Notecard. I combined a variety of dies, stamps and Modern Gilding Powder, which were all perfect for creating this notecard. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my Destiny is Not a Matter of Chance Notecard at home.

To start, die cut a 3 3/4" Stitched Indented Square out of kraft cardstock. Die cut a 3 1/2" Fitted Indented Square out of a piece of book page. Distress the edges of both squares. Ink the edges of both squares using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut a 3 1/4" Stitched Indented Square out of white cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Grid Background stamp and stamp onto the square. Sprinkle Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powders over the stamped image. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Distress the edges of the square. Ink the edges of the square using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut a 2 1/4" Stitched Circle out of a piece of white cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Destiny is not a Matter of Chance stamp and stamp in the middle of the circle. Sprinkle Copper Scroll Modern Gilding Powders over the stamped sentiment. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Distress the edges of the circle. Ink the edges of the circle using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the ornament from the Love Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament die out of white cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to the ornament and sprinkle Dilly Dilly Lavendar Modern Gilding Powders over the ornament. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Die cut a medium and two small butterflies from the Butterfly Flourish die out of watercolour cardstock. Using a waterbrush and water colours, colour the butterflies as desired.

 Adhere the 3 1/2" square to the 3 3/4" square. Foam square the 3 1/4" square to the 3 1/2" square.

Adhere the ornament to the Destiny circle. Foam square the Destiny circle to the middle of the 3 1/4" square.

Adhere the three butterflies as desired around the quote.

To finish the card, cut a cardbase out of white cardstock that measures 3 3/4" x 7 1/2", score at 3 3/4". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here is a closeup of the finished notecard.

Here is the finished Destiny is Not a Matter of Chance Notecard.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Destiny is not a Matter of Chance

- Grid Background

- Dilly Dilly Lavender Modern Gilding Powders

- Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powders

- Copper Scroll Modern Gilding Powders

- Love Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament

- Butterfly Flourish

Other Supplies Used:

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Circles, Stitched Indented Square, Fitted Indented Square and Watercolour Palette

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Walnut Stain and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Misc: White Cardstock, Kraft Cardstock, Watercolour Cardstock and Book Page

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope that I have inspired you to recreate your own version of my Destiny is Not a Matter of Chance Notecard at home.

- Katelyn

Quick Christmas Thank you card

It's almost Christmas! I hope you've got all your Christmas cards out by now.  I love opening the mailbox and finding a bit of that personal mail in the midst of junk mail - this is true anytime of the year but I love the frequency of it in December.  And it should keep going with a flurries of thank you cards in January.  So today I'm sharing a quick thank you card you can make and use up all those red and green scraps.

Many of the die cuts that I used were already around as extras from my previous Christmas card projects.  I did have to cut some extra pine branches to fill it in my little spray.  After gathering up one holly branch, one berry branch and 3 pine branches from the Create A Wreath set, I placed all of them together and hid the ends with a pinecone.  

I used a bit of holographic washi tape to run across the card - that was very helpful in lining up the pastel foil thank you die cut.  I topped off my spray with a bright red bow and voila - I've got a festive card ready to be filled in after all the presents are open.

Supplies used:

Thank you 2

Christmas Accents

Create A Wreath

 

Inky fun snowflake card!

  

Hello Crafty Friends!

Are you looking for an inky, easy, last minute winter card to create?  Look no further than this festively fun card using Suzanne's holiday stamps.

The main stamp set used is the lovely A Whisper On My Nose stamp set:

It is a three stamp set (two individual snowflakes and the poem).  I also used snowflakes from other Suzanne stamp sets but you can easily just use the two snowflakes from this set.

Card instructions:

1-    Create a tent fold 4.25 x 5.5" card base from red card stock.

2-    Cut a piece of white or ivory card stock to 4 x 5.25".

3-    To prevent static, use an anti-static pouch on your white card stock.  Use Versamark or white embossing powder to stamp the snowflakes.  Use embossing powder (such as the Gesso White Modern Gilding Powder) to heat emboss the snowflakes.

4-    Use a red water reactive ink (such as Spectrum Noir Water reactive or Ranger Distress Ink) the create an ombre background.  Start with the red on the bottom and gradually lighten as you go up.  Wipe snowflakes off with a clean, dry cloth to remove the red ink.  Optional: flick water on the background and pat dry for a wet, distressed look.  Use double sided tape to mount to card base.

5-    Stamp the poem using black ink (heat emboss using the Gothic Black Gilding Powders looks fabulous!).  Die cut using a square stitched die.  Apply red ink along edges.

6-    Die cut red card stock using the next larger size stitched square die.  Mount poem onto red die cut.  Use double sided foam tape to mount to card front.

7-    For extra awesome, add gems or glitter to the snowflake centers and randomly on the background.

The red really makes the snowflakes pop and adds a festive feel to the card.  

Thank you for stopping by!

Have a happy, crafty day!

Big hugs,

Kathy Jo

Ho Ho Ho Christmas Ornament

 

To start, die cut the ornament twice from the Love, Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament die out of white cardstock. Flip one of the ornaments over, this way it will match when you adhere the two together. Apply Emboss It Ink to one of the ornaments and sprinkle Kells Gold Modern Gilding Powders over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Apply Emboss It Ink to the other ornament and sprinkle Kells Gold Modern Gilding Powders over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.      

Die cut the Ho Ho Ho word from the Flourished Christmas Minis out of white cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Ho Ho Ho word and sprinkle Forever Platinum Modern Gilding Powders over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.   

Die cut two small cut out pinecones and two plain pinecones from the Christmas Accents die out of Copper Foil.

From the Create a Wreath die, you'll need the bow and one of the sprigs. Die cut the bow out of red cardstock. Die cut the sprig twice out of dark green cardstock.

From the Christmas Accents Die, cut out two small and two medium flowers out of red cardstock. Die cut the centres for the flower once out of a dark yellow cardstock.

Adhere the bow to the top of the ornament as desired. Adhere the Ho Ho Ho word to the left hand side of the ornament as desired.

Adhere the other ornament to the backside of the ornament with the bow on it.

Flip the ornament over so that the Ho Ho Ho is showing. Adhere the two sprigs on the right hand side of the ornament as desired.

Shape your flowers and adhere a small and medium flower together. Adhere the flower centre to each flower. Adhere a cut out pinecone to a plain pinecone. Repeat the previous step for the other pinecone.

Adhere the flowers and pinecones as desired on the right hand side of the ornament making sure they are covering the bottom parts of the sprigs.

To finish the ornament, tie a piece of twine through the top of the ornament creating to the hanger.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished ornament.

Here is the finished Ho Ho Ho Christmas Ornament.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Love, Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament

- Flourished Christmas Minis

- Create a Wreath

- Christmas Accents

- Forever Platinum Modern Gilding Powders

- Kells Gold Modern Gilding Powders

Other Supplies Used:

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Misc: White Cardstock, Red Cardstock, Dark Green Cardstock, Twine and Copper Foil

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope that I have inspired you to recreate your own version of my Ho Ho Ho Christmas Ornament at home.

- Katelyn

Building A Christmas Scene

 I'm over on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog today with a Christmas scene I made using a lot of different die sets.  I'm in love with how versatile the new Christmas dies are. Can you spot them all?

Christmas ornament card

How many homemade Christmas ornaments do you have on your tree?  Every year I make some so the numbers are increasings and the plain glass ones are gradually staying more and more in the box as I have less room.  Maybe I just need to add another tree.  :)

My latest ornament is inspired by a friend who called me and asked me to make something to put on her mom's Christmas tree as a surprise.  She just got diagnosed with breast cancer, her grandkids won't be able to come for Christmas and she's just not feeling festive this season.  So her wonderful daughter thought of bringing a fully decorated tree to her front door with ornaments made from her family/friends.  Isn't that a great idea?

I made this ornament all with dies from Quietfire Design and then taped it to a card - makes it easier for mailing and it just completes it, you know?  It took me a while to figure this out but any die with a nice simple shape can be made into a shaker card!  And you don't even need to have foam which I never seem to have on hand.

I die cut the Flourished ornament from the Love Joy and Peace Ornament set 7 times.  I found a circle die that was bigger than the opening and smaller than the outer edge and used that for the backing of the shaker element.  You can handcut one if you don't have the perfect size because the edges of the circle will be hidden later.  I also cut a circle from an acrylic sheet for my shaker component.  Glue all the 7 layers together and on the back, the circle from cardstock.

You can add more layers depending on how thick you need the spacing.  I'm using chunky glitter so I did not need it too thick. 

Add the glitter and seal it in with the acrylic layer.  I die cut another ornament out of gold foil and put that on the top.  I flipped over the foil and die cut another ornament the wrong side up so that I could put that on on the back of the ornament.  To get rid of the edges of the die cut that is going the "wrong way" I ran just the diecut through my Big Shot again to flatten it out.

I added a tiny poinsettia from the Christmas accents and the word Peace to the front.  I liked this so much I made a few more and am sending the set below to her.  You can write on the back a message - I added some Bible verses that I thought would be encouraging.

I hope you like it and will be inspired to see which dies you can turn into a shaker card/ornament!

Love Joy Peace Ornament Set

Christmas Accents