ALL OUR BEST WISHES ~ CARD

Hi Everyone! This is Holly today, sharing a few of my favourite things, on a couple cards. I use the butterflies and flourish stamps a lot- I love them! All Our Best Wishes is becoming a favourite too. You can find them HERE (Butterflies), HERE (Flourishes), and HERE (All Our Best Wishes).

The flourish stamp was used on the burlap paper with Faded Jeans DISTRESS INK.  The butterfly and sentiment were stamped with Jet Black ARCHIVAL INK.

For heavily textured surfaces like the burlap paper, I use ALEENE'S TACKY GLUE to attach cardstock and embellishments.The burlap and sentiment were trimmed out with cardstock showing tissue colour transfer on it.

 

This is how you do it.

Tear or snip tissue paper or crepe paper ( or crepe paper streamers) into a pile, large enough to cover the cardstock. Whichever paper you use, it has to bleed colour when wet. Some are colourfast now, so you need to check. Spray the white cardstock, matte or glossy, with water, then drop the tissue or crepe paper bits all over the wet cardstock. Set aside and allow to dry. Then brush off the papers, and save to use again. The paper in the photo above have been used twice now. I like how the colour is transferring among the bits and pieces as well.

 

Here you see the glossy cardstock on the left and regular matte cardstock on the right. Two distinctly different results. Then, the stamping with jet black archival ink, and trimming, were done.

 

The butterfly was cut out and shaped, the sentiment stamped, and the coloured strips attached to the card  base. DH and I are celebrating 36 years so I had to use this stamp from the HAPPY FAMILY DAYS stamp set. Lately, I'm seeing sequins being used a lot, so I pulled out these beautiful blues and purples- thanks for these Jutta!

 

Thank you for stopping by so I could share a few of my favourite things with you.

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

 

Exquisite Card Set by Nina Brackett - Guest Designer

 We are delighted to have designer Nina Brackett as our guest designer this month and I think you can instantly see why!  To learn a bit more about Nina, read all the way to the bottom of this blog post.

I am thrilled to be guest designing for Quietfire Design this month. I love their exquisitely lettered sentiments that come in many sizes. I have a set of three cards to show you today. They all follow the same layout and together make a nice card set to give away as a gift. I do this a lot and the Quietfire Design sentiment stamps are just the perfect focal point in each card.

 
 

For all three, I first stamped the big Penny Black Awakening stamp in aqua, melon and light pink. I then heat embossed with white the lace stamp on the bottom and leaves stamp on the top. Starting from the corners, I then inked Distress inks (Brushed Corduroy and Antique Linen) to show the white embossed images. I made sure there's enough room on my panel to stamp my sentiments. I then framed that panel with kraft cardstock before I mounted it with foam squares on card bases with coordinating colors. I embellished them with matching buttons and seam bindings with a small Want2Scrap pearl in the center. My first card uses QFD's gorgeous Thinking of You stamp with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink to make sure it stands out.

This pink card is stamped with No Act of Kindness stamp. I just love that sentiment.

Finally, this card uses All Our Best Wishes stamp.

Thank you for joining me today and I hope you were inspired to create card sets with Quietfire Design's stamps.

 A little bit about Nina:

Hi, my name is Nina. I'm a Filipino-American who now lives (and crafts in Croatia), thus my blog is called Crafting in Croatia. I was educated as a Biologist, but found my love for art through paper crafting, which was mainly influenced by my mom. When my husband and I were getting ready to move to Croatia, a thoughtful friend gave me a big box full of Stampin' Up supplies. It took one very cold winter and homesickness for me to start playing with those supplies and I haven't stopped!

I joined the paper crafting industry when I released my first stamp set in 2009. I have worked with several companies as a product designer including Penny Black Inc, Want2Scrap and Spellbinders. One of the biggest blessings of my "job" as a paper crafter is being able to share my love for it with the ladies here, where it's still a novelty. My very creative daughters are my biggest fans and enjoy playing with mommy in her craft room.