January Designer Challenge - Elizabeth Craft Designs

The Elizabeth Craft Designs Designer Challenge for January is "You Fill My Heart", just in time for Valentine's Day!  

I wanted to use this simple thought which says it all....  You're never getting rid of me!  ;-)   I chose delicate colours, I even used the same paper to cut Forever that I used on the background.  A black diecut used as a dropshadow made all the difference!

For today's challenge, Elizabeth Craft Designs will be giving away Gift Card to use on their website to 3 lucky winners.  To enter, simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge Blog Post!  Good luck! 

Here is how you can make this card.  It's so simple. Choosing the paper is fun!

Instructions:

1.       Form a 6 x 7” side fold card base from pink cardstock.  Cut a green panel measuring 4.75 x 5.5” and a white mat that is about 1/8” larger.  Adhere panels together with Clear Double Sided Adhesive.  Adhere the panels to the card base with foam squares to give some dimension.

2.       Die cut Believe from white cardstock, Forever from green cardstock and the flourished heart from pink cardstock.  Die cut all three dies from black cardstock as well. 

3.       Layer the words together so the black diecut is slightly offset.  Designer tip: make sure each of the black diecuts is offset the same way (distance offset and direction of offset) in each pair of diecuts!  You don’t have to use lots of Glue Dots, just a few placed in the widest parts of the letters.

4.       Use Glue Dots to adhere Believe and Forever to the green panel as shown.  Cut small pieces of the Kool Tak Clear Foam to raise up the heart as shown so it appears to float above.  Voila! You’re done!

5.       Give the card to someone you love!

        

This would make an wonderful wedding card when done in white!

Thanks for dropping by for a peak.  Don’t forget to hop over to the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to be eligible for their giveaway!

Supplies from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Believe  QFD | ECD

Forever   QFD | ECD

Calligraphic Elements 2   QFD | ECD

Beacon Kids Only Glue  ECD
Clear Double Sided Adhesive  ECD

Others:

Micro Glue Dots

Maja Designs Papers – Sofiera collection and other pink

White cardstock

Black cardstock

Ranger Distress Ink – Mahogany

Ranger Ink Blending Tool

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares

Kool Tak Clear Foam Tape

Our Hearts Grow Tender Christmas Scrapbook Layout

Hi there, Connie Nichol here today with a Christmas layout featuring the Believe Way with Words die and a Quietfire stamp with a most beautiful quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  My kids are getting older, but even as gawky teenagers, they still adore Christmas and all the special traditions that come with it.

I stamped onto a piece of BoBunny patterned paper and then trimmed and matted it to make a page embellishment.  Here's the stamp - perfect for so many Christmas themed scrapbook layouts.

And of course, the word die 'Believe' is a perfect page title, although I suppose I could have used Merry Christmas!  

Make sure that you  take a few pictures to capture the memories this Christmas, even if it is not ideal!  This past Christmas we were still in the middle of renovations and the flooring had all been ripped up.  Plywood is not a very conducive environment for Christmas decorating but it is still a special time of year and I'm glad to have these photos to remember it by.  Happy scrapbooking!

Believe - Easy Flourished Embossing on Gold Foil

This one word can mean so much.  The special person who receives this card will think of you and smile every time its reflected shimmer catches their eye.

You can have so much fun with this technique!  It will be your customized creation.

 

 

Here is what you'll need to make this project:

 

Elizabeth Craft Designs Believe die  Quietfire Site | Elizabeth Craft Designs Site

Core’dinations cardstock: Purple Grandeur and Wisteria

Thermoweb iCraft Deco Foil Transfer Gold

Thermoweb iCraft  Easy-Cut Adhesive

Thermoweb 3D Foam Squares

Stylus

Smooth Cardstock

Glue Dots

Diecutting machine

Mouse pad or flower-shaping foam pad

 

 

Instructions:

1.       Form a 7.5 x 5.5” card base from dark purple cardstock.  Cut one panel measuring 6.5 x 4.25” from light purple and one panel measuring 6 x 3.75” from dark cardstock.

2.       Die cut one Believe from dark and one from light cardstock. Adhere them together, using Glue Dots, with the light coloured diecut on top and the dark diecut slightly offset behind so it appears as a drop shadow.

3.       Cut a panel of smooth cardstock measuring approximately 6 x 3.5”.  Cut a piece of Easy-Cut adhesive to 5.75 x 3.5”. Remove one side of the release paper and adhere it to the smooth panel.  Run this through your diecutting machine for even adhesion.

4.       Remove remaining release paper and lay foil, gold side up, over the whole adhesive surface.  Place this panel inside a folded sheet of copier paper to protect it and run it through your die cutting machine again. Trim to 5.75 x 3.25”

5.       Adhere Believe into the middle of the foiled panel using Glue Dots.

6.       Place foiled Believe panel onto the foam pad and use your stylus to emboss the surface  by pressing firmly.  Draw flourishing designs and leaves and dots around the diecut.

7.       Assemble panels as shown in the photo using foam adhesive.

 

Thanks for stopping in to have a look!  Happy creating, Suzanne

 



I'd like to thank Thermoweb for supplying their product for this project and Prime Publishing (publishers of favecrafts) for sponsoring their Blogger Networking Event at CHA in January!
This project is entered in the Prime Best Blogger Craft 2016 Contest.

Believe

Hi there, Connie Nichol here today with a scrapbook layout featuring one of the new Quietfire Designs Christmas stamps and the gorgeous Believe die.  The latter makes a perfect title for layouts about Santa.  These pictures are from over a decade ago when my boys were little and visiting Santa was an annual tradition.  Sadly, it's been a few years since they believed in Santa Claus but scrapbooking these older photos lets me go back in time and remember some of the magic.

The Quietfire stamp about childhood memories was the perfect accent for the project.  I stamped the quote with Colorbox chalk ink in dark moss, cut it out with a Sizzix Framelit die and mounted it with some dimensional foam adhesive to make it pop a little bit.

I embellished the layout with extra poinsettias cut from another piece of patterned paper and embellished the centers with coloured pearl beads that came from the dollar store.  I tucked some flourishes and berry branches cut using dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs under the flowers and dressed them up a bit with Liquid Pearls.

Have a wonderful Christmas and be sure to take lots of pictures.

Supplies used:  Heartfelt Creations patterned paper, Quietfire Designs Christmas stamp and Believe die, Elizabeth Craft designs flourish and berry branch die, Sizzix framelit dies and Big Shot cutting machine, Colorbox ink, Ranger White Opals Liquid Pearls, lace, pearls.

Believe....Blessed is the season...

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here today with a Christmas card.
Here in Holland almost all the leaves have fallen and the weather is starting to get colder.
Realizing it´ll be Christmas before we know, it´s time to make some Christmas cards :-)

Personally, I absolutely love Christmas...it's that time of the year we all seem to be just that bit more friendly and forgiving to eachother....like there is that special love is in the air and all around.
And that is exactly what my card is about....just by combining  Quietfire Designs gorgeous Believe die-template with a matching Quietfire Design stamp...

Used materials:

• Quietfire Design: Believe die-template
• Quietfire Design: Blessed is the Season (rubber stamp)
• Archival ink - Jet Black
• cardstock: white, craft, white glitter and blue patterned
• self-adhesive rhinestones
• paper distresser, ink blending tool, Distress inkpad Vintage photo
• 3D foam squares

I hope you like the card.
Thanks so much for stopping by
and wishing you a great day,

Hugs from Holland,
Yvonne

A Way With Words Home Dec

It's Suzanne popping in with some additional inspiration to my blog post on Elizabeth Craft Designs blog yesterday.  Make sure you check it out for the tutorial on assembling these little decorations using the A Way With Words craft dies!

Try using patterned paper for one of the diecuts.  Experiment with Elizabeth Craft Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape and Silk Microfine Glitter for one of your die cuts.   
 
 For some real glitz during the holiday season, try using Shimmer Sheetz or gold cardstock for the front die cut.

Leaving these around the house is sure to bring a festive smile to anyone who sees them!

Happy decorating!

Suzanne

P.S.  Adding Believe to any of your Santa images adds to the fun.  This is Graphic 45 patterned paper.

Believe - Guest Designer Chana Malkah

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

I am so excited to present this project as a Guest Designer for Quietfire Creations!

I was honored to be invited, and trust me, I agonized over what to create!  Eventually I created two projects using the Quietfire Believe Die.

Believe Craft Die

Project #1   An Upcyled Ping Pong Paddle

I was inspired by a project from Asmah Abidin.  She had the fabulous idea of upcycling a ping pong paddle.  I thought this would be the perfect showcase for the Quietfire Believe Die!

I sent my hubby off to the Goodwill. He returned with 2 paddles, and a Racketball Racket.  

He says he purchased the racket in self defense in case my inspiration took me in a different direction! (Translation no more sudden trips to the Goodwill. )

The elegance of this Quietfire "Believe Die"  really draws the eye into this design, I think!   

Quietfire offers a Believe Stamp Set that could be use to complement the die. 

I used exterior house paint as my base color and the just pulled items from my "stash" to complete the embellishments!

 The handle and rim were stained using Tattered Angels' Plain Jane Baseboard "Clay" and "Bittersweet" Semi Opaque Matte Mists. To brighten the palette a little, I added the orange-red flowers and a smattering of TH Abandoned Coral DI on the flourishes.

Project #2 - Journal

 Since both items will be given to the same person, I tried to mimic the color palette.  

This journal was ordered to be used in a place of worship, so the Believe die is perfect!

I resisted the temptation to make the spine and back more elaborate!  Very pleased with the decision to leave both black and add only random swipes of gold! 

 I covered the entire project with three coats of  Liquitex Professional Gloss Varnish...the effect is quiet lovely!

Chana was one of our prize winners not so long ago and shared a project she created using the prize and we were so taken with it, we asked her to be our guest designer!

Chana calls Decatur, Georgia home and is the queen of more than one blog.  You can find her at

Redora LeeDesigns

and her Challenge Blog: 613 Avenue Create - Owner

She designs for 

• Canvas Corp Brand (7 Gypsies, Tattered Angels, Canvas Home Basics)
•  Earth Safe Finishes
• 613 Avenue Create
• Shopping Our Stash

Introducing the New Quietfire Metal Dies

It's so exciting to finally have these.  I've been planning this for a long time and it's amazing to finally see it happen!

For all those who'd rather have a real die than a cutting file, we now have the start of the  Quietfire Metal Dies line.  We hope you love them as much as we do!  I just can't stop playing with them.  Please note that Believe and Hello are both available as digital cutting files.  The links are in the product descriptions on our website.

These dies are wafer thin steel dies, made in the USA, and can be used in most table top die cutting machines.
Sandwich Recipes:
For the Grand Calibur: use the same sandwich as for Spellbinders dies.
For the Cheery Lynn Crossover: use pressure setting at approximately #4.


Only a few members of the Quietfire Design Team have received the new dies in the mail, but we wanted to share what we've done so far!

Here is Yogi's first creation - you can see the rest of this fabulous card, including the inside on her blog here.

 

Kathy Jo has been burning the midnight oil with the new Quietfire dies! She'll be posting these designs on her blog over the next few days.

 She started with a guy card...

Then she moved on to practical and pretty....  (wait till she gets this on her blog, then you can see the inside!)

then Kathy Jo moved on to just plain pretty (and golden!).

I've been having so much fun!  Here is what I've done so far.  You can see and read more details (like which patterned paper I used, as well as complete instructions) on my blog here.  

Flying pigs. I know you believe.

The direct link to blog post with these cards is here.

I had a little inlay fun!  Normally a calligrapher would fill in all these counterspaces with paint, but now you can do it with paper! You can read more here.

And here is Believe combined with a Quietfire rubber stamp. See the details here.

I hope you've enjoyed our little introduction. Please visit the designers' blogs to see lots more!  The design team will be posting even more creations over the next few days.  I'll share their post on the Quietfire Facebook Page and I've started a new Pinterest Board for the dies as well.
Happy creating!
Thanks for visiting!  Suzanne