Sleeping Under a Quilt, a Scrapbook Layout

Happy January 20, 2020! Kim here today, sharing a scrapbooking layout using a new favourite stamp from Quietfire Design; ‘Sleeping Under a Quilt’ [item #6245]. 

My Mom is an exceptional quilter! This past Christmas, she gifted us beautiful quilts. My son was over the moon to receive a full size quilt, he has been sleeping under my Mom’s quilts all his life, and was wanting one to fit his bed! This stamp was perfect to tell this story.

My layout started with the January Sketchy Challenge from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine. I love adapting them, to make them my own. Sketches are such a great place to start the creative process!

I used the quilt quote in the lower right corner of the grid design. I stamped it onto a piece of sturdy white cardstock using Distress Oxide ink and then embossed with Acanthus Teal Modern Gilding Powder. The Distress Oxide leaves a beautiful, crisp yet ‘juicy’ image for embossing. I like to choose a similar colour to the Modern Gilding Powder I use. Not necessary, just something I have been doing for so long, it’s just instinctual. 

Note that I also added stitching to the border.

I sewed on two fabric hearts, it seemed to be a perfect embellishment for my ‘quilted’ layout. 

I found the perfect background paper for the layout from a Moda Scrap collection I had in my stash called ‘The Beautiful Season Collection’. The colour was great and it looks like a border one might find on a quilt...I was really trying to keep with that theme!

I am really happy to have this story told and tucked into a scrapbook album. Often we think of stamps as a card making elements, but some of them are so lovely to add to scrapbooking layouts. This particular quote couldn’t be any more perfect for the job I needed it to do!

Happy creating in 2020!

Supplies:

Quietfire Design stamp: Sleeping Under a Quilt

Quietfire Design Modern Gilding Powder: Acanthus Teal

Creative Scrapbooker Superstock 

Moda Scraps: The Beautiful Season Collection

Ranger Distress Oxide Ink: Evergreen Bough

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Ali Edwards: cork heart & speech bubble chipboard

Bernina sewing machine

Sleeping Under a Quilt

It's Suzanne sneaking in today between all the usual awesomeness!  This week I released four quilt block cards over on the Silhouette store.  I wanted to make the files simple to assemble with very few pieces and yet still have the look of a true quilt block.

 

Here is an easy card I created using my Sleeping Under a Quilt stamp and the Star Quilt Block Card.  Instead of making the cutfile cardbase, I assembled the quilt block on the front of a larger card with enough room to stamp the quote.

Quietfire Digital Cutting Files available at the Silhouette Design Store

Here are the four quilt block cards over on the Silhouette site.  There is a Cathedral Window, a Dresden Plate, a Star and a Flying Geese Quilt Block.

I used Maja Designs cardstock* and Core'dinations Atoll Aqua cardstock to create these and cut everything with the Silhouette Cameo.  I have totally fallen in love with the Maja papers!  

Your own cards could be in any colour pathway you wish - even more subtle than this or bright and beautiful.  Each card measures 5x5", so you can enlarge them.  For more detailed instructions (although they're so simple, you probably won't need them), see the file description.

Thanks for stopping by!
Happy cutting and stamping, Suzanne

*If you're in Canada, I found mine at Scrap Addicts in Edmonton.

I Dream Of You - Sleeping Under a Quilt - Love You

Yogi here today with a quilt background technique that I especially love doing... Also using decorative paper - Kanban - that I recently got.

I scored and folded my cream toned  card (5"w x 7"h).

Created a stencil from Graffix clear plastic cutting a 1.5" square in the center of a larger piece. Placed the stencil on the lower left hand edge of my Soft Finish cardstock and sponged Distress "Gathered Twigs" very lightly around the bottom and right edges of the stencil. Then went a little darker near the corner creating the shadow. Sponged some "Spun Sugar on the lower side (diagonally) and some "Fossilized Amber" on the upper side - very lightly. Added some little streak lines to mimic puckered shadows from a button. Moved the stencil over to the right and butting up to the square just colored, repeated the process. Continued with all the other squares.

Inked up a little flower stamp (ggdesigns.net "Tea Pot Cup" set) using Distress markers ("Worn Lipstick" & "Lucky Clover"), misting with water and stamping, misting with water again and stamping a 2nd generation. Added white pearls at each juncture.

Hand cut a rectangle 1/2"w frame same size as my card base from Kanban "Bella Floral Damask Dark Chocolate" cardstock. Adhered my quilt to frame. Adhered some greenish lace and mauvish narrow ribbon diagonally on opposite edges, then adhered to card front.

Die cut my words from gold metallic cardstock (inside of a Bernard Callebaut chocolate box... the chocolate was delicious...). Adhered to front. PS the "i" is actually an exclamation mark upside down... ROFL Newest "A Way With Words" dies ("Calligraphic Elements 1" set . One of my DT sisters mentioned it looked like a candle - use your imagination... and "Dream" and parts of "Thinking of You" set also available on Quietfire Design HERE

On the inside: I repeated the quilting technique, adding a couple borders of butterflies (Darcie's "Paris" JCS172 stamp set) inking with Versafine Toffee and clear embossing.

Stamped the quote ("Sleeping Under a Quilt..."), inking with the toffee and then here and there with Black Onyx, clear embossing.

Stamped the "Love You ("Just For You" 4pce set) with the black on white cardstock, clear embossed, die cut with Spellbinder's "Classic Hearts" set, sponging around the edges with "Spun Sugar". Adhered to card and added 3 mini red buttons.

Click on any card image to enlarge. Enjoy

Cut Flower - You Can Never Have Too Much Fabric

Me again, Yogi... And this is the stencil used in the previous card you can see HERE, this time as the background...

In my previous card I created a stencil, with various sizes of the "Little Flowers", adding a border and "welding" everything together, adding various sized holes in the centers of each flower, then cutting it out with my electronic cutter. The previous card sponged Distress "Mustard Seed", "Shabby Shutters" & "Spiced Marmalade".

I scored and folded my 7"w x 5"h (closed) easel card.


I repeatedly stamped the "You can never" quote using Versafine Black Onyx on white cardstock. Trimmed down to fit my card front, then adhered my flower stencil/background piece. Added faux stitching with a pointed pen and a mix of Copic opaque white ink and water.

 Die cut a bunch of buttons (Memory Box) from white cardstock and sponged various colors of Distress, then clear embossed each. Tied some twine and adhered to card front.

Die cut the stopper (Sizzix Tim's On Edge "Sewing" die) from white cardstock and colored the elements, adding some linear lines for the thread spools and some Pearlescent embossing powder on the metal spools. Kept a small border on the bottom to score and fold and adhered to card floor.

Stamped the "Sleeping Under a Quilt..." with the black and clear embossed. Used the Larger flower cut the other day as a stencil to sponge matching colors around the quote. Used some of the buttons as stencils as well.

Click on images to enlarge. Enjoy