I Wouldn't Have Missed Being Your Friend - Bonnie Garby, Guest Designer

Hi everyone.  I'm Bonnie Garby from Make Time to Craft and I'm guest designing for Quietfire Design this month.  Today I'm back with a card featuring the wonderful 'I wouldn't have missed being your friend for anything' stamp.  What a lovely quote for a card for a dear friend.

 

This time I started with a 5-1/2" square card base.  I stamped my beautiful sentiment on white cardstock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.  I die cut around the sentiment with the Large Silver Circle Pierce and Cut Tool and the Circle Classic Large Stacker die, both from Cheery Lynn Designs.

For the background I cut a 5" square piece of white cardstock and backed it with Stick It adhesive.  I centered the Lords & Commons Square Doily from Cheery Lynn Designs on the right side of the cardstock and cut it out.  I then adhered the die cut to a piece of gray cardstock and trimmed leaving a narrow border.  I then added layers of yellow and gray.  Then I wrapped a piece of Metal Grey Diamond Satin around the center of the card and secured in back.  Then I added a layer of white mulberry paper and attached the panel to the card base.  Next I cut a piece of Yellow and Gray Confetti Dot Grosgrain Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon and dove tailed the ends.  Then I layered that piece over the diamond satin ribbon layer.  Then I attached the sentiment panel to the center of the card front using foam tape.

 

 

I created my roses with the Medium and Large Rose dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I cut the flower layers from white cardstock and inked the layers with yellow ink.  I sponged the edges with gray ink to define them.  I cut the Tiny Fanciful Flourish Right and Left from Cheery Lynn Designs out of green cardstock.  I attached the flourishes and roses below the sentiment.

I created a bi-color double-loop bow using Lemon Delicate Stitched Satin and Metal Gray Diamond Satin Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon on the Bow-it-All V2.0 Tool and attached it above the sentiment.

 

Bi-Color Double Loop Bow Video Tutorial

To view this video on YouTube, please click HERE.

I love finishing off a card with the perfect bow and this bi-color double-loop bow is a real show stopper.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I've enjoyed creating projects to share with you this month featuring beautifully calligraphed quotes from Quietfire Design.  If you like my work, please stop by my Make Time to Craft Blog.  I will be sharing lots more projects featuring beautiful quotes from Quietfire Design in the coming months.

I Wouldn't Have Missed Being Your Friend - Guest Designer Christi Conley

My name is Christi and I am thrilled to be today's Guest Designer on the Quietfire Design Blog. I have been a fan of Suzanne's lovely calligraphy stamps since I discovered rubber stamping and now that they have added cut files and dies the creative options are amazing!  Here is the card I created:

How I Made my Card
Supplies:

Quietfire Designs Sentiment "I wouldn't have missed being yourfriend" #5958

Quietfire Designs Leafy Frame Cut File (also available at the Silhouette Store)

Core'dinations Essential Darks Cardstock

Vanilla Cardstock

Dark Brown Cardstock

Memories Acid Free Dye Ink in Artprint Brown

Silhouette Cameo

Pop Dots

This card is a little bigger than I typically create, but the 5" x 7" format is needed to showcase all the creative goodness. 

The cool thing about these cut files is they include everything you need to make the card - the card base, the frame, the ovals, everything. I wanted to cut everything out prior to beginning so I ungrouped the file and first cut the card out of orange cardstock (using a Silhouette Cameo is so easy once you get the hang of it - when you ungroup a file you just move the pieces you don't want to cut off the cutting mat and they won't cut).  Then I cut the leafy frame out of an olive green color, the mat and small oval out of vanilla cardstock and the large oval out of dark brown cardstock.

 

 

Once all my components were cut all that was left to do was stamp the sentiment onto the vanilla oval and assemble the card - so easy and quick! I glued the leafy frame onto the vanilla panel, attached the vanilla oval onto the dark brown oval, then pop dotted the panel and the oval onto the card base.  I really think the fall colors work so well with this cut file and the layers add a little something extra.

And here is another look at the card.  I adore the sentiment and the calligraphy is so beautiful! 

Thanks for visiting!  Christi

[You can find Christi regularly on her blog Art Without Anxiety!]