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)

Flourished Night Sky - You Are Amazing - Where Flowers Bloom - Easel Flower Branch

Yogi here today with a bit of a surprise... This is the 1st time I've used Suzanne's basic flower from Flourished Night Sky die set. It was a little too plain for my style of card making, but then I looked at it... and decided to put slits in it and voila I love this die. BIG GRIN My whole perspective changed, Love when that happens.

I'm using a die "You Are" 2pce set, "Amazing" 2pce set  and "Flourished Night Sky" 4pce set from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE, HERE and HERE  

I'm also using a clear quote stamp ("Where Flowers Bloom Collection" 8pce set) from Quietfire Design also available from Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE  

  

Scored and folded my white cardstock to create the easel structure. Cut a piece same size as card and adhered to card front then cut a piece of Mid toned blue paper and adhered to card front. Cut a smaller rectangle from cream toned textured cardstock and adhered to card front.

Die cut the "flower" shape from a light blue cardstock that I had sponged and hit direct to paper with various Distress blue pads. Cut slits between the scallops to create a 4 petal flower. Tooled with a split oval shape tool on the backside. Turned flower right side up and pressed down with a small balled stylus.

 

Die cut the "Berry Spray" (Elizabeth Craft Designs) from a white cardstock and colored with Distress brown pads. Adhered to card front. Adhered a bunch of the tooled flowers. Added a dot of Liquid Pearls "Petal Pink" to each flower center.

Die cut some "Curvy Leaves" (Elizabeth Craft Designs) from alcohol decorated paper. Adhered to card.

Stamped the butterflies on another alcohol background piece of paper using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed, then fussy cut them out. Adhered to card front adding mini amber rhinestones to the bodies.

Die cut the words from an aqua blue glitter adhesive backed cardstock and adhered to card front.

 

On the floor:
Stamped the quote onto white cardstock using the black and clear embossed. Die cut with Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched circles" die set. Adhered to card floor.

Adhered some branches, a few flowers and some leaves and another butterfly - this one just colored with Distress blue.

You Are Amazing

I'm ending March's month of friendship on the Quietfire blog with an amazing (see what I did there?) card to be sent to that friend who has been there for you even when you're being unreasonable and irrational - because she know that you're just venting and needing an ear.  I am so thankful for my girlfriends who've been calm and just wonderful listeners.

And because they're worth gold, I started with some gold embossing with blooms from Altenew's Majestic Blooms on water color paper.  I then used my Zig clean color brushes to add some very light coloring.  I used the same purply pinks to make a was on a strip of paper that I had clear embossed You Are from Quietfire You Are stamp set.  I then added a black die cut of Amazing and then clear embossed it several times with extra thick embossing powder.  I love how shiny and dimensional it was on the card.  Finally, adhered the watercolor layer to black card stock to match the die.

The You are stamp set is great on its own because it comes with other adjectives but also pairs up wonderfully with many of the new dies.  Check it out in the what's new section of the Quietfire store and see how many combos you can come up with.

You are stamp set

Amazing Beautiful metal die