Autumn Thanks

Happy Autumn!  It's Suzanne here today with a project with a Thanksgiving theme.  This is for an Elizabeth Craft Designs Group post which you can see over on their blog.

Autumn is such an amazing riot of colours!  Simply gorgeous!  And so that is what inspired this card!  Thank you Autumn!

Supplies:
A Way With Words 4 Seasons  QFD | ECD
A Way With Words Thanks   QFD | ECD
A Way With Words Leaves Snowflake Stencil  QFD | ECD
Soft Finish Cardstock: Pale Peach, Rust, White
Glue Dots Micro
Scrapbook Adhesive 3D Foam Squares
Distress Inks in Bundled Sage, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade and Festive Berries.
Makeup brushes or similar

Instructions:

1. Form a 5 x 7" tent fold card base from white cardstock.
2. Die cut Autumn from Pale Peach and Thanks from Rust.  
3. Cut a rectangle approximately 6 x 4.5" from white cardstock (this will be trimmed later).
4. Use removable tape to hold the stencil on the white rectangle near the top.  Designer Tip:  You might want to cover the snowflake cutouts on the stencil so you don't accidentally colour in them!
5. Blend the Distress colours through the stencil onto the Soft Finish Cardstock starting with green on the left and red on the right as shown.
6. Trim the stenciled cardstock to 5.75 x 4".  Cut a mat slightly larger from Rust cardstock.
7. Colour blend Festive Berries on the bottom of the Autumn die cut as shown and adhere the word dies to the stenciled panel with small pieces of Clear Double Sided Adhesive or Glue Dots.
8. Attach this panel to the mat and then both panels to the card base using 3D Foam Squares.

Now give it to someone special!

Thanks for having a look!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy creating, Suzanne

To Give Thanks Card

Hello, everyone!

It's Nancy back with you today! I have a new card to share with you,
using a combination of a fabulous Fall stamp set from Quietfire Design,
along with a fantastic Fall card cut file from the Silhouette Design Store.

With our Canadian Thanksgiving fast approaching,
I decided it was time for a Happy Thanksgiving card.
These wonderful products made it so easy!

Here's my card:

I began with the cut file.
This is the Autumn Pumpkin Doily Card.
Here's what the pieces look like all cut out:

I opted to use all plain cardstock for my card this time. 

The front focal piece has some intricate cuts that I didn't want lost in patterned paper.

I knew I wanted to do some stamping with black ink, so I chose black for my card base.

It adds a great frame around the finished piece.

Then I moved on to the stamping, using the To Give Thanks Stamp Set.

I began by stamping the "Happy Thanksgiving" in the center of the front piece.

For my layered piece behind it I chose the orange cardstock.

That way all the little pumpkins would show orange through the green.

Using a stamp positioning tool, I positioned the little pumpkin in the corner and stamped.

Then I just had to rotate the cardstock, and the pumpkin was stamped the same in each corner.

Then I adhered all the layers in place, using foam tape under the top lay for added dimension.

Finally, I added a double-loop bow out of shimmery ribbon.

I didn't take a picture of them but all the little pumpkin cutouts are adorable.
They'd make wonderful confetti to add to the inside of the card! ;o)
  

Quietfire Design Products Used:

To Give Thanks Stamp Set

Autumn Pumpkin Doily Card 

Other Materials Used:

Cardstock: Recollections, American Crafts;

Ink: Imagine Crafts - Memento Tuxedo Black;

Ribbon: Celebrate It.

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!

I hope you liked looking at my card! I sure enjoyed making it! 

See you again soon! 

Nancy :o)

"There is always something to be thankful for"

Hello Crafty Friends.  Kathy Jo here sharing a card that can be given to someone special in celebration of Thanksgiving or as a thoughtful thank you gift/card.  The card uses one of the stamps from the Quietfire Design stamp set, Give Thanks:

Instructions:

• Stamp the sentiment onto ivory card stock using Jet Black Archival Ink.  Die cut using die from Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Squares.  While die cut is still in die, apply Distress Ink in Dried Marigold.
  
• Die cut gold card stock using Spellbinders Victorian Medallion Three die.
• Create tent fold 5" x 5" card using Kraft card stock.
• Cut orange and ivory gingham patterned paper from Graphic 45 (6x6 Time to Flourish pad).  Cut patterned band and image from Graphic 45's Place in Time patterned papers (8x8 pad).
  
• Adhere all layers as shown. Create double bow from gold ribbon.  Adhere orange twine ribbon.  Cut postage stamp (Graphic 45's Place in Time) and adhere using foam tape.

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

For more beautiful Thanks and Thanksgiving stamps, be sure to check out Quietfire's Thanks-Gratitude stamps.

Have a happy, crafty day!

Big Hugs,

Kathy Jo

Thanksgiving Easel Card - Kelly Klapstein, Guest Designer

Hello Everyone! I’m so pleased to be joining you again this month as guest designer, and today I have a Thanksgiving card to share.

The beautiful stamp set “To Give Thanks” is perfect for a Thanksgiving card. I made an easel card base and added pieces of patterned paper and a pumpkin, along with stamped images.

To Give Thanks, set of 4 stamps

Quietfire Thanks die from Elizabeth Craft Designs

 

The die “Thanks” was cut from black cardstock and layered onto paper that has the “To Give Thanks” text stamped onto the background.  You can easily make your own script paper by stamping text onto it.

I just love this stamp set and die combination! 

It was wonderful to have the opportunity to work with the Quietfire Design products, and I am thankful for the invitation. The exceptional quality makes crafting a delight!

Kelly Klapstein

Additional Supply list:

Core'dinations cardstock; FabScraps paper; Brother ScanNCut; Clearsnap Ink; May Arts Twine; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Runner and Crafty Foam Tape.  

To see more of Kelly’s projects and learn some crafty tips, visit her website www.kellycreates.ca

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Blog Hop - Last Day!

Welcome to the final day of the Walnut Hollow & Quietfire 2014 Blog Hop!  We’re pleased you’re joining us and hope you've found lots of creative inspiration for combining Quietfire stamps on the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products. 
 

 I love autumn. I'm not a lover of hot weather.  Thanksgiving used to be such an event in our family.  While the turkey was cooking, my mother took me out for walks and we'd collect leaves which inevitably ended up on the table and then later pressed in books. Visits to my grandparents when I was young found me reading a book or building a model airplane - or climbing the maple tree in their back yard. 

As soon as this blog hop was conceived, I had an idea. When you have something in your mind for so long (Chris and Sara from Walnut Hollow and I discussed the hop at the CHA conference in January!), I'm not sure the reality can ever live up to the expectation.  But, no matter what, it was fun getting to the final product.


I'm the daughter of a woodworker/furniture refinisher (amongst other things), so when my Walnut Hollow treasures arrived, I was in sniffing heaven!  Who doesn't love the smell of wood? I chose the Walnut Hollow Rustic Wood Ledge for this project and rather than use it as a ledge, I (as I think most of us would) flipped it over to use as a container! 

Along the side of the ledge, I chose to create the year-long story of a maple tree as it goes from bare branches in the winter, to maple syrup time and fresh buds, to lush summer coolness and on to the glorious colours of autumn.

Last week I introduced a new cutting file to help make this project easier:

maple tree - four seasons

Because of my passion for wood in its bare state, I didn't paint or stain the beautiful pine surface. (lol, no, it's not maple, but that's okay!)

Here is the supply list:
Walnut Hollow: Rustic Wood Ledge
Quietfire Design: Being Thankful, Give Thanks

Silhouette Online Store: maple tree - four seasons and leaf spray card
Silhouette: Cameo
Silhouette: Vellum (for snowflakes)
Tsukineko: VersaMagic Dew Drops Jumbo Java, Spanish Olive, Pumpkin Spice
Zva Creative: Long Flourish Pearls
Cardstock: American Crafts Smooth and Recollections
Bo Bunny: Autumn Song
Kaisercraft: Treasures Metal Corners Brass
copper book corners
candles, rocks
Adhesives:
Glue Dots: micro and mini 
Pop Dots
Zip Dry
Tombow Dot Pattern Stamp Runner

Instructions:

1. Cut 8 trees from brown cardstock.  If your cardstock is fairly thin, cut 16 trees and double up each tree with adhesive so you have eight sturdier trees in total. Cut leaves in many colours, snowflakes from vellum, and swings, birdies and buckets from red cardstock.  (You could use Elizabeth Craft's All Season Tree die set if you don't own an electronic cutting machine.)
2. While they lay flat, assemble the trees with leaves, snowflakes and other elements as shown in the photographs. Decorate both sides of the trees as back of the tree tops will show across the table!
3. Stamp the sentiments on off-white cardstock and trim. Blend Jumbo Java around the edges of the cards to antique them.  Place book corners on each corner of each card and crimp in place.
4. Attach the brass corners to edges of ledge.
5. Apply the pearl flourish to the side of the ledge so winter blows into spring. Attach trees and sentiment panels to ledge with Pop Dots as shown.

6. On the Silhouette Cameo, ungroup the leaf spray card elements and cut only the leaves from a sheet of patterned paper.  Use Glue Dots to attach leaves to the ends of the ledge - because we just can't leave it naked!

7. Add some scented candles and rocks to the inside - or fill it with pressed leaves and you'll be all set for the sharing part of Thanksgiving!

Speaking of thanks....
Many thanks to Chris Wallace and Sara Shirman at Walnut Hollow and Judi Kauffman for playing with us, and to Walnut Hollow for providing the Quietfire Design team with such wonderful products.  You will see more projects over the next few months featuring other Walnut Hollow items.

And thanks, as always, to my amazing Design Team!  You inspire me to be better - and different - every day!

And now............

To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine here on the Quietfire Creations blog and five on the Walnut Hollow blog hop posts here: http://walnuthollowcrafts.wordpress.com/   So that will be 14 comments in total on two different blogs from September 29, 2014 to October 3, 2014!  The winner must be a resident of North America.  

You can go back and comment at any time on any of the blog posts to be eligible, but you should finish by midnight Sunday October 5th PST.

We will draw the prize on Monday October 6^th, 2014 and the winner will be announced shortly after in a separate blog post. We look forward to seeing your comments!  Tell your friends!

Good Luck!

and Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians!

List of Blog Hop Posts with links:
Wanda
Teresa
Chris
Sherry
Kathy Jo
Sara
Holly
Yogi
Chris
Judi
Yvonne
Robyn
Suzanne (that's here!)
Chris