Christmas slide out pocket card

 

Hello Crafty Friends!

Christmas card making is in full swing!  My craft table is covered in bits of holiday colored paper, pretty Christmas stamps, and sweet premade bows.  Holidays bring out the joy in our spirit and that is translated to handmade cards to loved ones.

Today's project is an interactive card with a lovely holiday message.  Both stamps used on the card are from the There are Many Gifts stamp set available at Emerald Creek:

Such a sweet stamp set!  The ornate tree looks great stamped in green with wee baubles applied using Nuvo drops or half pearls.  After stamping, it was mounted on patterned paper and mounted onto a card front using double sided foam tape.  Next, the sentiment was stamped onto paper and mounted onto a tag.  The tag slides easily under the stamped tree image and adds a special detail to the card.

If you do not want to make it a slide out pocket card, the tree is gorgeous by itself on the card front and the sentiment could be stamped on the inside.

I am a big fan of cards with a fun little detail such as a slide out tag.  It makes a card even more special.  :) 

Thank you for stopping by!  I do hope you enjoyed the holiday card.

Feel free to check out more of Suzanne's stamps, dies and Modern Gilding powders at Emerald Creek.

Have a happy, crafty day!

Big Hugs,

Kathy Jo

New Christmas release from Elizabeth Craft Designs/You had me at ho ho ho

Hey Y'all!

Robyn here excited to share new Christmas Dies from 

Suzanne's a Way with Words

for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

The new dies are now shipping to stores and will be available online on the ECD site next week.

Get out your die cutter and cut a bunch of all the mini elements and you will find oodles of

inspiration for all your holiday card making and decorating!

Flourished Christmas Minis 3

Create a Wreath

Flourished tree

The border is created with ECD tape and Silk Microfine Glitter.

Christmas Collection

Clear Stamps

Watch this blog and ECD blog for a group reveal of all the new dies and lots of 

projects, support and inspiration.

Christmas Collection

Supplies

• ECD A Way With Words dies-Flourished Christmas minis 3/ Create a Wreath/ Flourished Christmas tree
• ECD stamp set-Christmas Collection
• Cardstock
• ECD Clear double sided tape
• ECD Silk Microfine glitter
• Adhesive

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Comments and Questions warmly welcomed!

 

Soar Collection

Hello Quietfire fans!  Betsy here on the blog today sharing a card I made with the

Soar Collection

by Suzanne Cannon

available at:

ElizabethCraftDesigns.com

This is a wonderful collection to create with!  Lots of possibilities!

This is what I used for my card today:

The Modern Gilding Powders in Gothic Black are available at:

EmeraldCreekDesigns.com

First, I prepared my base of pale yellow card stock.  I cut it to 6" x 6 1/4"

and scored it at 3".  I cut my patterned paper to 2 3/4" x 6".

I stamped my images with a black hybrid ink and then heat embossed

them with the Gothic Black Modern Gilding Powders.  Despite my best

efforts with the anti-static powder bag, it was a hot and muggy day so

I did get stray  dots of the embossing powder.  😒

I decided to color my images with Copic markers to make the butterflies more

noticeable.  The colors I used:

Blues:  B00, B32, B23

Pinks:  RV000, R81, R85

Yellows:  Y11, Y02, Y15

I kept the shading to the centers and I was very careful not to let my markers

make contact with the melted embossing powder.  At this point I adhered my

panel to the card base. I felt it needed a bit of shimmer and shine so I first made

little butterfly bodies with light green glitter drops.  I also added just the tiniest

dots I could possibly make randomly over the background.  This really

made the black embossing powders dots seem not to stand out so much.

As a final embellishment I added some tiny clear iridescent butterflies.

And that finished my project!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial!  Suzanne's work is always

such a job to create with!

Betsy

Don't forget:

Christmas Family

It's almost Christmas!  And here is a last minute card idea for you.  Oh, look!  It's a whole family!
I always like to see what new combination of A Way With Words diecuts I can come up with and I get so excited when you come up with something I haven't thought of before!  With over 100 words in the collection, there is bound to be quite a few!  This is the first time I've used this combination.

Here is what you'll need to make this card.  Of course you can use wherever colours you wish!

Flourished Deer  QFD |  ECD

Flourished Christmas Minis QFD |  ECD

Merry Christmas 3 QFD |  ECD

Family QFD |  ECD

Cardstocks in brown, dark kraft, light kraft, turquoise and pink

Micro Glue Dots

3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives

1. Form a tent-fold card base measuring 6x6" from brown cardstock.  Cut a square panel from dark brown measuring 5.25" square and a slightly larger mat from turquoise. Adhere them together.
2. Die cut the Flourished Deer, one each from dark and light kraft cardstock.
3. Die cut the little deer from the Flourished Christmas Minis, one for each child - in whatever colours you (or they) would like!
4. Die cut Christmas and Family from your choice of colours and use Micro Glue Dots to assemble the deer together as shown.
5. Adhere the assembly of deer and words to the brown panel and mat and use 3D Foam Squares to adhere to the card base.

What a sweet card!  Enjoy making your own special version!

Just ask if you have a question.  Merry Christmas!

Suzanne

Flourished Deer Puttin' On the Glitz! Ornament

Today is Group Post time over at Elizabeth Craft Designs and the theme is.... tada!.... Christmas!  The Quietfire Team is definitely going with home decor!

It's Suzanne here today and this is my project!  It was time to turn the Flourished Deer into a hanging 2-sided decoration.  Here is how I did it - and you can do it, too!  Ladies and Gentlemen, get out your glitter!

Supplies:
A Way With Words Flourished Deer  QFD | ECD
Silk Microfine Glitter

• Cool Diamond  ECD
• Teal Blue  ECD
• Bright Cranberry  ECD

Clear Double Sided Adhesive Sheets  ECD
Tombow Mono Multi Glue
Gold cardstock

Instructions:

Cut two pieces of cardstock large enough for the Flourished Deer die.  Apply Double Sided Adhesive to each piece.

 

Die cut the one deer with the adhesive on the front and one with the adhesive on the back. 

Apply two different colours of Silk Microfine Glitter to each one.  I used Cool Diamond for one side and Teal Blue for the other.

Use your finger to firmly (but carefully!) polish the glitter to bring out the shine! It makes a huge difference, so don't miss out on this step!!

Use glue on the back of one deer in quite a few places then put the deer back to back, making sure everything aligns.  Allow the glue to set.

Glitter the deers' collars with Bright Cranberry and die cut the bells from gold cardstock.  Attach with glue to each side of the deer.

Then simply add a string or ribbon through the flourished antlers as shown.

Just hang one deer or a whole herd!  Since they're double-sided, they look great from all angles!

Just ask if you have any questions. Thanks for having a look!
Suzanne

Summer Fun Party Time!

Hi there!  It's Suzanne here today with another of the Elizabeth Craft Designs Group Posts!  This theme is Summer Fun - and it just so happens, I have those words!  Make sure you pop over to their blog to see the other creations! https://blog.elizabethcraftdesigns.com/

I've created this sweet little bunting banner card to share with you today.  This would be an awesome birthday card!  Aren't these polka dots to die for?
Here is what you will need to make this card.



Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies:

A Way With Words 4 Seasons  or ECD
A Way With Words Fun Play or ECD
A Way With Words Please Join Us Collection or ECD
Stitched Fishtail Banners
Thinking About Rio de Janeiro 6x6" Collection
Clear Double Sided Tape

Others:
Yarn or string
Tiny clothespins or clips
Cardstock which coordinates with the decorated paper: Dark and light turquoise, darker and light pink, pale blue
VersaMagic Turquoise Gem
Glue Dots https://amzn.to/2LICozz 



Instructions:

1. Form a 5 x 7" side-fold card base from pink cardstock.
2. Die cut "Summer" and the largest Stitched Fishtail Banner from dark turquoise.  
3. Die cut "Fun" from pink polka dotted paper and one of the second largest Stitched Fishtail Banner dies from darker pink cardstock.
4. Die cut coordinating polka dotted and plain banners from pink, blue and turquoise from the middle and second smallest Fishtail Banners as shown and adhere them together.  Trim them to approximately 2.5".
5. Stamp "Party time!" about 2.5" from the bottom of the card front.
6. Cut a piece of twine or string and tie a knot in one end.  Stretch it across the top of the card and add another knot so the string appears slightly flexed. Trim and tack in place. Tack each of the banners in place with a Glue Dot near the bottom so the tops of the banners can be lifted and clipped with clothespins or other clips.  Hold the clips in place with Glue Dots. Slip additional Glue Dots under the banners to secure them.
7. Trim the larger pink banner to 4.5" and the large turquoise banner slightly longer and attach them together.  Attach "Summer" and "Fun" to them as shown with Glue Dots and then adhere the banner with words under the "Party time!" stamp as shown.
8. Voila!  a bright and fun card!  Happy creating!

Soar - Letter Live Broadcast from July 11 2019

For our regular Facebook Live broadcast the other day, we created this card by stenciling, stamping and diecutting!
You can see the broadcast here: https://www.facebook.com/QuietfireDesign/videos/478178656327063/
(For some reason this appears vertical sometimes and horizontal other times!  So confused! And sorry!)




Here is what we used:

A Way With Words Products from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Soar die: http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/Soar-Metal-Cutting-Die.html  or at Elizabeth Craft Designs: http://shrsl.com/1p255

Feathers stencil  http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/Feathers-Stencil.html  or at Elizabeth Craft Designs: http://shrsl.com/1p25b

Soar Clear Stamps http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/Soar-Collection-Clear-Stamps.html  or at Elizabeth Craft Designs: http://shrsl.com/1p258

Others:

·       Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper

·       Coordinating cardstocks: Bazzill Navajo, Core’dinations Scotch

·       Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Mustard Seed

·       VersaMagic: Turquoise Gem

·       Makeup Brushes

·       Glue Dots

·       Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Squares

·       3M Removable tape

·       Stamp Positioner

Instructions:

1.    Cut a piece of Specialty Stamping paper in half.  Use removable tape to adhere one edge of the stencil to the Specialty Stamping Paper near one side. Use a pencil to mark inside the 4 registration holes at the corners of the design.  This registers the position of the stencil so we can move it and keep it lined up.

2.    Blend the Distress colours in each of the down feather cutouts.  When you’re happy with that, move the stencil to the right placing the holes on the left of the stencil over the pencil marks to the right.  Continue stenciling the down feathers.  Allow to dry for a bit.

3.    Trim the stenciled paper to approximately 5.5 x 3.75”.

4.    Use VersaMagic Turquoise Gem to stamp the sentiment (positioned as shown in the photo) using a stamp positioner with multiple light impressions rather than one heavy one.  This maintains the thicks and thins of the lettering.

5.    Diecut Soar once from turquoise cardstock and once from yellow cardstock.  Adhere the diecuts together so the yellow becomes the dropshadow.  Mount to stenciled panel with Micro Glue Dots.

6.    Cut a slightly larger mat from turquoise cardstock and another slightly larger from yellow. Adhere the three layers together.

7.    Cut a 5x7” tent-fold card base from turquoise cardstock.

8.    Adhere these panels to the card base with Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares.

Summary!

• We registered a stencil and moved it to create a background pattern. 
• Coloured blending through a stencil
• Stamped on background
• Added an A Way With Words diecut with a dropshadow
• Created a layered card

Thanks for joining us!  Happy creating!

Simply Mr and Mrs

I'm over the the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today with this simple, but elegant card.  It can be quickly made or it can be a loving quest for the perfect ribbon!

See the details on the blog: https://blog.elizabethcraftdesigns.com/

Easter Rejoice

It's Suzanne dropping in with a little project for you.  The group challenge at Elizabeth Craft Designs today is .... wait for it.... Easter! It's a good time to start - Easter is even a little later this year, so there is plenty of time for creating! Here is my card for this challenge.  It's simple, but elegant.

Supplies:
A Way With Words Rejoice  Quietfire | ECD
A Way With Words Rosebud Wreath & Elements  Quietfire | ECD
Soft Finish Cardstock 100# White  ECD

Ranger Distress Inks: Bundled Sage, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry
Ink Blending Tool
Glue Dots - Micro

Instructions:

1. Form a 6.5 x 3.5" tent-fold cardbase from Soft Finish Cardstock.
2. Die cut Rejoice and the Wreath from Soft Finish Cardstock.  Cut the Wreath in half so there is a bouquet at the top of the arc. (and you have another half a wreath to make another card!)
3. Gently sponge colours on the diecuts as shown.
4. Mount diecuts on card base with Glue Dots.

That's it!
Happy creating - Happy Easter, of course!
Suzanne

The Smallest Things....

My friend recently lost her beloved furfriend  and she is devastated.  I know nothing can help, but I thought I'd send her a card to let her know I was thinking about her.

This is beautifully simple to make.

1. Die cut the PawPrint Spray design from white cardstock. 
2. Stamp the sentiment Sometimes Said Pooh with VersaMagic Midnight Black using a stamp platform.  Use multiple light touches to maintain the contrast between thick and thin lines in the lettering.
3. Trim the cardstock, mat with brown cardstock.
4. Mount on a 5x7" tent-fold card base.
5. Write your thoughts inside and give away.

I hope this gives you an idea for making your own pet condolence card.

Suzanne

Meet the Flourished Christmas Minis!

I'm over on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today sharing a project using the new Flourished Christmas Minis die set!

The Flourished Christmas Minis are part of a release of four A Way With Words die sets this week which you can see HERE!

Each element in this set was designed to fit inside the Love Joy Peace Christmas Ornament, but they're so cute they're perfect on their own!

Try pairing them with the Christmas Collection clear stamps  You'll have a lot of your Christmas card list completed really quickly! And they'll be really fun to make and darn sweet!

 

You can find the Flourished Christmas Minis on the Quietfire Design site HERE.

To celebrate the new release, we're having a weeklong celebration and a giveaway! 

To be eligible to win, leave a comment on each blog post on the Quietfire Creations Blog from September 28th through to Friday, October 5th, 2018.  We'll randomly choose three winners and send out one of the new dies to each winner!

Good luck!

Christmas in July - Word Dies Standing on Their Own!

Hi there, it’s Suzanne here today with a cool project that you may have seen before. But today I’m going to add a little extra fun.  Many of these dies can stand on their own with a little help, but if you add some embellishments to them, they can make awesome home décor.  For Christmas you can add them around the house – on the tree, on a mantle, on the dining table. You can tuck them in all sorts of unexpected places.  Spread the cheer!  Here’s how we do it.

(If you're receiving this as an email update, please watch the video tutorial on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XXCL_72USh8)

Thanks for watching!

To celebrate Christmas in July we’re having a giveaway!  One randomly chosen follower will win a $25 gift certificate for the Quietfire website.  All you have to do to be eligible is comment on the Quietfire Creation blog posts and follow us on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/user/QuietfireDesign   Entries close Sunday July 29, 2018 at midnight.  Good luck!!