Cottage Days - ECD Summer - Thoughts of You

Yogi here today with a summer memories card...

I'm using an electronic file Cottage Days  from Quietfire Design on the front which you can find in the Silhouette onLine store.

And I'm using one of the newest die sets from Elizabeth Craft Designs which will be available soon. "4 Seasons" - loving this set. Also available on Quietfire Design HERE

And of course a card wouldn't be complete without at least some Quietfire Design stamps "Remember That The Earth..." 8pce set; "Life Journey Words" 6pce set; and part of "When I Saw This..."  

Scored and side folded my cream toned cardstock (5"w x 7"h).

Stamped the fishnet background using Versafine Black Onyx on Bee Paper "Recycled Sketch Paper" (it's brownish kraft type color) and clear embossed. Swiped over it with Distress acrylic daubers "Tumbled Glass" and "Broken China"

Die cut the frame from white cardstock using the 2 largest of the long stitched line dies (Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Rectangles"). Sponged with "Tumbled Glass" and "Broken China", then hit the edges with some "Tea Dye" and "Ground Espresso. Adhered the fishnet background to the frame.

To get the sandy looking border - Applied Sookwang tape around the edges of the card, adhered my fishnet piece, then embossed the border, sprinkling with Distress embossing powders ("Pumice Stone", "Scattered Straw" and "Brushed Corduroy"). Burnished with my finger.

Created some background papers using watercolor paper and Brushos in a multitude of colors... Went a little wild... Then eCut the stamp shapes (if you don't have an electronic cutter, you can fussy cut around your stamped images. I'm lazy though...), stamped with the black and clear embossed the largest starfish and the seahorse. For the smaller starfish, stamped with  Distress pads and embossed with Queen's Gold or clear. Also cut the "Cottage Days" and embossed using Emerald Creek Hot Stuff "Turquoise Shimmer" embossing powder.

Adhered all the elements to my card front.

 
On the inside: stamped the quote ("Remember That The Earth..." 8pce set) on the left side of the card using the black and clear embossed. (ps I normally don't stamp on the left side, but since there are several layers on my front, the stamping won't show through...)

Die cut the word "Summer" (available on Quietfire Design HERE) from more of the Brusho watercolor paper and adhered to inside.

Stamped the word "Memories" ("Life Journey Words" 6pce set) using the black and clear embossed.

Another of the Designs By Ryn stamps the sea spray bubbles, also cut from the Brusho watercolor paper, stamped with Distress "Mermaid Lagoon" and embossed with Emerald Creek Hot Stuff "Midnight Sky" embossing powder. Adhered to card along with the smallest starfish.

Stamped part of the "When I Saw This..."  stamp, masking off the upper section, using the black and clear embossing.

Hope you enjoy how I made this card.

ECD Friends - Be With Those - When I Made This - HB

Yogi here today... I was a little stumped as to what I wanted to make for my blog post...  and then I decided to make something simpler than my norm...

I'm using an "A Way With Words" dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs ("Friends"), designed by Suzanne Cannon (also available on Quietfire Design HERE). 

HINT: If you are having difficulty positioning your die cut word and keeping the vertical parts of the letters from splaying, cut your word die from clear plastic to use the negative as a positioner. Position the clear plastic where you want your word to sit, tape down so it doesn't move, apply glue to your positive die cut and then press it into the clear plastic piece, carefully remove the clear plastic while holding down the letters as you are lifting the plastic from your word. When plastic is removed continue pressing your word to adhere completely.

Also using several other products from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Rectangles", "Bunch of Flowers", "Lady Bugs" and one of Bianca Petroschi stamps "Robin" (not colored like a robin BIG GRIN...). 

I'm also using a new quote stamp & a birthday sentiment stamp as well as a combination of parts to create my own quote... from Quietfire Design  ("Be With Those..."); ("Happy Birthday Plain And Simple" 7 pce set); ("When I Saw This...") & ("If I had a Star..." new version is slightly smaller)

I had this dirty paper towel from cleaning my craft sheet of various watercolors and Color Burst stuff sitting on my table, and I really liked the colors, so separated the 2 layers and adhered one of them on some thin white cardstock with a glue stick. Then die cut several of the "Friends" words as well as the little flowers.

Side folded my white card (5"w x 7"h).
Cut a piece of pale pink pearlescent scrapbook paper and ran through my die cutting machine using the Spellbinders tan mat to emboss the stitching detail of the die without cutting it. Note: placed the die on the back of my scrapbook paper so I would get a textured stitch detail on the front. Inked the quote stamp using Versafine "Vintage Sepia" and then hitting here and there with "Black Soot", stamped and clear embossed. Trimmed it down, making sure my rectangle was centered and adhered to card front.

Adhered my "Friends" words.
Tooled the flowers on a piece of fun foam then adhered 2 layers together and then on to card front. Added a textured light pink jewel to the flower centers.
Die cut the lady bug pieces, colored the black part with a Zig Writer and the yellow part with Winsor and Newton Permanent Marker. Inked the yellow with Versamark and clear embossed. Adhered to front.

On the inside: On a piece of white cardstock, stamped the elements for the quote using a stamp positioner.
First, inked the stamp, masking the word "saw" using the black soot, clear embossed. Masked around the word "made"inked with the black, stamped it on some tracing paper to get my position, reinked the "made" word and stamped onto my quote, clear embossed. Die cut with the stitched rectangles and sponged with a dirty pink sponge.

Die cut the next size up of rectangle from the pearlescent paper and adhered the 2 layers together then on to the card.

Created an eCut file of the Robin stamp (or just fussy cut around it...), cut from white cardstock, stamped with the black and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Adhered to card.

Cut the "Happy Birthday" stamp between the two words, positioned on my acrylic block, inked with the black, stamped and clear embossed.


Hope you enjoyed seeing how I made this card and maybe give some of the hints a try. BIG GRIN


Click on any image to enlarge. Enjoy.

Cuts of the Week- Checkerboard and Chevron Cards-15 Minute Wonders and more!

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here with some blasts from the past.

Suzanne instructed me to create some  "Guy" cards with the 

 Checkerboard Frame 

and

Chevron Frame cards digital cutting files.

The first card I set the 15 minute timer and CASEd the file just as it appears on the mat.

(Guy card- lock up the glitter and glitz!)

Friendship stamp

The center panel could use a border, and the timer went off!

This card is 5X7 and  likeing to work with A2,  the second card is sized down.

Easy peasy with the Cameo.

Still it took a bit more than 15 minutes with the design changes.

When I saw this stamp

Moving on to Chevron, staying in A2, a second 15 minute card!

********TIPS*******

• If you are not sure about placement of your cutting on your paper, use a pencil and sketch it out first. then if you have to just, you can do so , erase the pencil marks and no paper is harmed!
• Press down on the mat with a bone folder.  before you remove your card and all the little pieces will stick to the mat. No fussy punching out pieces.

 Fire up those cutters and show us what you can do with Quietfire Design files and stamps.

Post a link in the comments or on our Facebook Page.

(You never know who might be watching!)

Please visit my blog RainbowWeaves for more of my cut ups!

Comments and Questions warmly welcomed!

When I Saw This

Hello Everyone, hope your week is going great! Today I have a elegant, yet simple card to share with you. This creative card uses Quietfire Design's When I Saw This sentiment. My best friend recently moved to another state for her job, I miss her dearly so this sentiment says so much for our friendship so I think I will send this card to her.

The die templates that I have used in Quietfire Design's When I Saw This card are from Spellbinders, I love to use my sewing machine to stitch on my cards as well. To adhere everything together I used Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry as well as Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares to pop the sentiment up .

The Quietfire Design's When I Saw This sentiment was stamped using Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The white paper flowers and gun mental pearls are from Want2Scrap.

Thank you for stopping by my blog post today, I hope you have been inspired to create a card and send it to your best friend, it is amazing how many people do not send cards, I think we should all change that, don't you? Crafty Smiles, Terre

New Stamps Sneak Peek

It's Suzanne here again! Whew, it's quite a week here at Quietfire!  We announced our new dies from Elizabeth Craft Design on Tuesday and now we want to share our seven new stamps!

They are so new we don't have any artwork to share with you yet! Sorry! You may order these now but orders containing them will not be shipping until I return from holidays, July 30th.  I had originally planned to do a Christmas in July event, but there has been so much going on behind the scenes that the ducks didn't line up! Nevertheless, we still have Christmas stamps to share with you.  The Design Team will be having fun with these soon, so stayed tuned for great inspiration.

May Your Longest List

For more information on pricing, sizes and to order, click on the caption links to go to the website.

Christmas is a Piece of Home

And every once in a while, you need a slightly naughty stamp!

 

The Main Reason Santa Is So Jolly

Here are some sweet little doodles that would be fun on tags!

Tiny Christmas Wishes

We also have some new stamps that could be used for Christmas....

How many times have you seen something that would perfectly suit someone special in your life?  Now we have a stamp!

When I Saw This I Thought of You

This could be used for Christmas, too, but it's good for any time you're missing someone.  This was made with my friend Susan in St. Albert in mind, because we've been thinking exactly this for many years!

In A Perfect World

And the last one struck chord with a lot of the members of the Design Team!  Thanks to Robyn Josephs for sending this my way. (She also provided the "list" quote at the top of this post!) I think this quote needs to become a piece for my wall as a reminder....

Worry

And now available as a mounted stamp:

Tidings

And once again, any orders containing these new stamps will not be shipped until I return from holiday on July 30th.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks for having a look!
Create without Limits!
Suzanne