Wonderful ATC

Hey Quietfire Fans! I was busy this past weekend playing with the Life Doesn't Have to Be Perfect stamp set to create my Wonderful ATC.  Along with a variety of other Quietfire Design Stamps and A Way With Words dies, they were the perfect addition to my ATC. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my ATC at home.

To start, you'll need to cut a piece of white cardstock to 2 3/4" x 3 3/4". Next, you'll need a gel press and brayer. On the gel press, put a dot of Ruby, Magenta and Tangerine Heavy Body Acrylic Paint on the plate and use the brayer to move the paint on the press in order to cover the entire press. Place the 2 3/4" white cardstock piece overtop of the press and press the paper into the press. Remove the cardstock piece. Give the piece of paper a few minutes to dry. On the same press, put a dot of Lime and Turquoise on the press and use the brayer to move the paint on the press in order to cover the entire press. Place some bubble wrap into the press and remove, repeat as desired. Put the same piece of white cardstock over the press and press the paper into the press. Remove the cardstock piece. Ink the edges of the piece of cardstock using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Crackle Background stamp and stamp as desired on the cardstock piece. Reapply the ink to the crackle background stamp and stamp as desired on the cardstock piece as many times as you want. Distress the edges of the cardstock piece. Re-ink the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam if they need them.

From the Butterfly Flourish die, die cut the small butterfly three times out of black cardstock. Trim off the swirl part on the butterflies.

From the Flourished Frame die, you'll need the single flourish. Die cut the single flourish twice out of black cardstock. Cut one of the single flourishes in half. You will use the bottom portion of the flourish.

Cut a piece of black cardstock that measures 2 3/4" x 3 3/4". Distress the edges of the cardstock piece.

Die cut a 2 3/4" Stitched Circle out of White Cardstock. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Life Doesn't stamp and stamp in the middle of the stitched circle. Apply Vermillion Archival Ink to the Crackle Background stamp and stamp as desired along the edges of the circle. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp as desired as many times as you would like. Distress the edges of the circle. Ink the edges of the circle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the 2 1/2" cardstock piece to the 2 3/4" black cardstock piece.

Adhere the full single flourish to the middle of the 2 3/4" cardstock piece, making sure the top of the flourish hangs over 1/4". Adhere the half flourish to the middle of the 2 3/4" cardstock piece, making sure the bottom of the flourish hangs over 1/8". Foam square the stitched circle of the middle of the 2 3/4" cardstock piece.

To finish off the ATC, adhere the three butterflies as desired around the circle.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished Wonderful ATC.

Here is the finished Wonderful ATC.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Crackle Background

- Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect

- Flourished Frame

- Butterfly Flourish

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot and Blending tool with foam 

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink: Vermillion Archival Ink

- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Lime, Magenta, Turquoise, Tangerine and Ruby

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Circles

- Gel Press: 3" x 4" Gel Press

- Misc: White Cardstock and Black Cardstock

- Katelyn

Life Doesn't Have to Be Perfect - Guest Designer, Kim Gowdy

Hello!

Kim Gowdy here for a quick card share for Quietfire Design. This is your one stop shop when you are looking for that “perfect” sentiment or quote for a card or scrapbooking page. Whether you are looking for something thought provoking, whimsical or sweet…Quietfire Design is sure to have what you need.

The card I am sharing is quite simple and colourful.

I started with a print I had made using acrylic paints and my Ranger Gel Plate. I like to pull my gel prints with deli paper.

I cut down my print and adhered it to a piece of Creative Scrapbooker Superstock using a gel medium. The deli paper acts almost like tissue paper and fades away when used with a gel medium revealing what is beneath [in this case just white Superstock].

Quietfire Design’s “Life Doesn’t have to be Perfect” stamp seemed to be the perfect sentiment to my messy, colourful background.

I’ve added a few staples and star sequins for that little ‘something” that was needed to finish it off and mounted it to a card base made from a Bazzill cardstock.

How will you create with your favourite quote?

Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect Card

Hey Quietfire Fans! I'm excited to be back on the blog today sharing with you my "Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect" card which features a variety of Quietfire Stamps and A Way With Words Dies. Grab a cup of your favourite beverage and I hope that you enjoy learning how to recreate my card at home. 

1. To start, you'll need a medium sized piece of Collage Paper or Tissue Paper. Place a stencil of your choosing over top of the paper. Sprinkle Orange, Aquamarine and Spring Green Magenta Nuance powder through the stencil. Spritz with water. Dry the piece of paper with a heat tool. Once the paper has dried, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the tea ring stamp from the Tea Stamp set and stamp randomly on the pieces of paper.

2. From the A Way With Words - Flourished Frame die, die cut the scroll twice out of white cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to each scroll and sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing Powder overtop of each piece. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

3. Die cut a 2 1/4" square out of white cardstock. Sprinkle Orange, Aquamarine and Spring Green Magenta Nuance powder over top of the square. Spritz with water. Dry the square with a heat tool. Once the square is dry, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the "Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect" sentiment and stamp onto the middle of the square. Ink the edges of the square using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

4. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 3 1/4" x 5 5/8". Tear out a piece of book page and trim down to 3 1/4" x 5 5/8". Ink the edges of both pieces using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

5. Adhere the book page to the white cardstock piece. Adhere the collage paper piece to the book page. Trim the collage paper if needed. Ink the edges of the collage paper using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

6. Foam square the sentiment square to the middle of the collage paper. Adhere one of the scrolls above the sentiment square and below it.

7. Cut a piece of black cardstock that measures 3 1/2" x 5 7/8".

8. Cut a cardbase out of white cardstock that measures 3 5/8" x 12. Score at 6". Adhere the card front to the cardbase.

Here are a couple of close up's of the card.

Thanks so much for joining me today and taking a look at my project! I hope that I've inspired you to want to recreate my card at home. 

Quietfire Supplies Used:

- Tea & Thee Stamp Set

- Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect

- Flourished Frame

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Midnight Black Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Collage Paper

- Magenta: Nuance - Orange, Aquamarine and Spring Green

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Dashing Squares

- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous: Diamonds Layering Stencil

- Misc: White Cardstock, Black Cardstock and Book Page

- Katelyn

You can do Anything-Affirmation Quotes- ATC's Quietfire Style!

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here today with a confession.

Suzanne has new stamps on the way and I hadn't even used these newest ones yet.

Check back here next week for Sneak Peeks of the new dies!

ATC's to the rescue!

The cards are cut from the sheet of water color paper I use to wipe off my brush when painting.

A light, watery blue/green wash was added to tone down and soften the edges.

Splatter  and border added with some gold gouache.

Be sure your paper is completely dry before stamping with Versafine Onyx and thermal embossing clear.

Quick and easy peasy 6 cards to give to friends, family - or yourself -for a bit of affirmation!

The only time

Life doesn't have to be perfect

Anyone can change everything

You can do anything

Kites rise highest

Destiny

Comments, words of affirmations and Questions welcomed!

New Digital Paper from Quietfire Design

Hi it's Teresa here using a brand new addition to our already gorgeous line of digital papers called "Go Fly a Kite".  There are 3 sets in this new line that you can download/print to coordinate with your projects in beautiful shades of pale aqua, dark aqua and this gorgeous shade of avocado.  I love how all the prints mix and match so well together and the best part is if you mess up you can print a new piece.  And there is a new stamp in the Quietfire store that goes perfect with it and it's a quote by the amazing Winston Churchill.  It is called "Kites rise highest".   You can't get any better than that.  I created a simple card to let the papers really stand on their own and then framed the sentiment in with a fancy die cut shape.  All it needed was a pretty bow and metal button to finish it off.

The sentiment really is gorgeous and matches perfect with the kite papers don't you think?

And i printed up some extra papers in the dark red and dark aqua shades and used our new " Life doesn't have to be Perfect" stamp for it.  For this card i actually printed on only one side of the paper so that i could cut and fold it to make the card base like you see above.  And then i just cut a small piece of the printed kites to match with the diagonal stripe for the center panel and divided it ever so nicely with a leftover piece of the light aqua.  The chipboard frame i chalked to go with the prints and then stamped and framed the sentiment.

I love this one.  You could send this to anyone to cheer them up and think just a bit more positive :)

Thank you for stopping as always and i hope that you can pop on over to the store and try a few of these papers.  You are really going to love them...  Teresa

Quietfire Printable Papers:   Go Fly a Kite ( set of 3 designs)

Kites rise highest stamp

Life doesn't have to be Perfect stamp

Ribbon, brads, paper trimmer and scissors

Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect with easy background

In this age of social media, it's easy to think that someone else has the perfect life but we all know that everyone has their own difficulties.  But sometimes we need a reminder and this stamp is just perfect to encourage someone who needs a visible encouragement (and it's always a cheer to receive a handmade card in the mail, right?)

To make this card, I used the Neat& Tangled Calthea set.  It's not my usual style to purposely do a loosely stamped background (because most crafters enjoy a nice dose of OCD).  I added some splatter to my watercolored/stamped background.

The sentiment was stamped in black Versafine and framed with a light green matting - same as the card base.  

Thanks so much for looking and I hope you find the wonderful in your life!

Life doesn't have to be perfect mounted stamp

"Life doesn't have to be perfect..." upcycled frame

Hello Crafty Friends!

This month is a great month at Quietfire Creations: we are sharing projects using Quietfire Design's new stamp release.  We are also creating Quietfire Design projects incorporating a frame.  I like to upcycle so I chose an old, tired frame to make new again.

The focal point of the project is one of the newly released stamps, Life doesn't have to be perfect:

Project instructions:

1. Prep frame.  (My frame was old, dark, sad.  I applied white Gesso and then white paint to the frame.  After drying, gold paste was rubbed onto the raised areas.)
2. Stamp quote onto white paper and die cut.  Apply ink to die cut before removing from the die.  
3. Die cut gold paper.  
4. Cut patterned paper to size and apply gold marker to edges.  Adhere to frame base using liquid adhesive.
5. Mount gold die cut using liquid adhesive.  Adhere quote using double sided foam tape.
   
6. Use liquid adhesive to adhere flowers.
7. Apply liquid drops to create pearls.

Isn't is a beautiful stamp? 

It feels good to bring new life into an old item!  

Have you tried Quietfire Design stamps on an upcycled project?  If so, we would love to see it!  Feel free to share on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and tag Quietfire Design.

Talking about sharing, did you see the video I shared opening the package containing the new release stamps?  So many wonderful stamps!!!

Thank you for stopping by!

Have a happy, crafty day!

Big Hugs,

Kathy Jo