Be With Those ~ Tag

Happy Tuesday! It’s Kim here today with a fun project I worked on this week for the Quietfire Creations blog, using the Be With Those stamp. It’s a quote I am quite drawn to during these days of physical distancing!

I started my project with a large Ranger tag, about 8.5” x 4” and a background I had previously made during some gel plate play! I used some matte gel medium to adhere my background to the tag.

Once dry, I grabbed a big handful of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Dolls. I LOVE these vintage die cut images! I played with them for a bit to figure out how I wanted to layer and place them on my tag. Once I had that figured out, I took a quick photo with my camera to act as my memory when I stuck them back on using a Ranger glue stick.

Initially I wanted to emboss my quote with Tyrian Purple Modern Gilding Powder, but my background had a few bumps and I knew it would be tough to get a nice crisp image and this tag is ALL ABOUT the quote! I also tried to stamp onto some Duralar, but despite using powder to reduce the static, it was not working. That might be a technique to finesse another day!

I opted to use StazOn ink in black, on the Duralar, and stapled my clear tag onto the top left corner. I think it worked just great! So happy with how this tag turned out! 

I previously mentioned that this tag is ALL ABOUT the quote and I seriously mean that. My husband and I had fun thinking of other quotes that one could use and the whole vibe of the tag changes!

Have a great week! Get in lots of paper play before the long, summer days entice you to be outside!

~kim

Supplies:

Quietfire Design 'Be With Those' stamp

Ranger tag & glue stick

Gel Medium

StazOn black ink

Friends, Be With Those Who Help Your Being ~ Rumi

Hello! Kim here with another share on the Quietfire Creation’s blog. My second now since the COVID-19 pandemic entered our world! Now is the perfect time to scrapbook layouts of happier times when physical distancing was not part of our norm.

I printed this photo from New Year’s Eve first. It didn’t take long to ‘audition’ a few stamps and dies from my Quietfire Design collection to find which ones worked best for the story I wanted to tell.

I cut the ‘Friends’ title using the Elizabeth Craft Designs steel cutting die, designed by Suzanne Cannon. I embossed with Kells Gold Gilding Powder twice, which gave it beautiful, dimensional shine, a fun touch for my New Year photo.

I stamped the Rumi quote “Be with those who help your being” using Distress Oxide ink on a small piece of cardstock. This stamp is sold unmounted. Do NOT let this scare you away, I just add temporary adhesive to the back and stick it on my stamping platform [or acrylic block], easy-peasy! It is the perfect quote for this fun group of friends who always make me smile!

The layout uses papers and embellishments from Pink Fresh, from a monthly kit I received from Scrap Shotz. The colours are fun and vibrant, like my friends!

Don't forget to pull out your Quietfire Design stamps and dies when scrapbooking, they just might be the PERFECT embellishment!

SUPPLIES:

Quietfire Design stamp ~ Gentle Thoughts

Emerald Creek Co. ~ Kells Gold Gilding Powder 

Elizabeth Craft Designs ~ Friends steel cutting die

Elizabeth Craft Designs ~ double sided adhesive

Scrap Shotz kit / Pink Fresh

Ranger ~ Distress Oxide Inks

ECD Friends - Be With Those - When I Made This - HB

Yogi here today... I was a little stumped as to what I wanted to make for my blog post...  and then I decided to make something simpler than my norm...

I'm using an "A Way With Words" dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs ("Friends"), designed by Suzanne Cannon (also available on Quietfire Design HERE). 

HINT: If you are having difficulty positioning your die cut word and keeping the vertical parts of the letters from splaying, cut your word die from clear plastic to use the negative as a positioner. Position the clear plastic where you want your word to sit, tape down so it doesn't move, apply glue to your positive die cut and then press it into the clear plastic piece, carefully remove the clear plastic while holding down the letters as you are lifting the plastic from your word. When plastic is removed continue pressing your word to adhere completely.

Also using several other products from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Rectangles", "Bunch of Flowers", "Lady Bugs" and one of Bianca Petroschi stamps "Robin" (not colored like a robin BIG GRIN...). 

I'm also using a new quote stamp & a birthday sentiment stamp as well as a combination of parts to create my own quote... from Quietfire Design  ("Be With Those..."); ("Happy Birthday Plain And Simple" 7 pce set); ("When I Saw This...") & ("If I had a Star..." new version is slightly smaller)

I had this dirty paper towel from cleaning my craft sheet of various watercolors and Color Burst stuff sitting on my table, and I really liked the colors, so separated the 2 layers and adhered one of them on some thin white cardstock with a glue stick. Then die cut several of the "Friends" words as well as the little flowers.

Side folded my white card (5"w x 7"h).
Cut a piece of pale pink pearlescent scrapbook paper and ran through my die cutting machine using the Spellbinders tan mat to emboss the stitching detail of the die without cutting it. Note: placed the die on the back of my scrapbook paper so I would get a textured stitch detail on the front. Inked the quote stamp using Versafine "Vintage Sepia" and then hitting here and there with "Black Soot", stamped and clear embossed. Trimmed it down, making sure my rectangle was centered and adhered to card front.

Adhered my "Friends" words.
Tooled the flowers on a piece of fun foam then adhered 2 layers together and then on to card front. Added a textured light pink jewel to the flower centers.
Die cut the lady bug pieces, colored the black part with a Zig Writer and the yellow part with Winsor and Newton Permanent Marker. Inked the yellow with Versamark and clear embossed. Adhered to front.

On the inside: On a piece of white cardstock, stamped the elements for the quote using a stamp positioner.
First, inked the stamp, masking the word "saw" using the black soot, clear embossed. Masked around the word "made"inked with the black, stamped it on some tracing paper to get my position, reinked the "made" word and stamped onto my quote, clear embossed. Die cut with the stitched rectangles and sponged with a dirty pink sponge.

Die cut the next size up of rectangle from the pearlescent paper and adhered the 2 layers together then on to the card.

Created an eCut file of the Robin stamp (or just fussy cut around it...), cut from white cardstock, stamped with the black and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Adhered to card.

Cut the "Happy Birthday" stamp between the two words, positioned on my acrylic block, inked with the black, stamped and clear embossed.


Hope you enjoyed seeing how I made this card and maybe give some of the hints a try. BIG GRIN


Click on any image to enlarge. Enjoy.