You Never Know How Strong You Are

Happy Monday!!!  Wanda here today with a card to share with you.  

The Quietfire stamp I've used is You Never Know How Strong You Are.  This stamp is available cling mounted. 

I've done lots of distressing of edges on this card.  My top layer is Ranger's manila cardstock and the other layers and folded card are from the Tim Holtz Core'dinations Distress Cardstock pack. 

On the piece of manila I started with stenciling snow cap Pigment Ink through the Dylusions Dotted Flowers stencil and dried the ink well.  I scribbled some Distress Stain (tattered rose and weathered wood) on my craft sheet, sprayed a little water over the ink and dragged my manila piece through the ink.  After drying I dipped the tattered rose colored area into ink again to deepen the color and dried it.  The quote is stamped with Archival Ink jet black and embossed with detail clear powder.  I sponged Distress Ink pumice stone around the edges and then distressed edges.  To further distress the edges I sprayed some water on the back side of the piece just around the edges, let it sit a bit and then crumpled around the edges.  I distress the edges of the next two layers and lightly sanded the edges of the folded card.  The manila piece is attached to the green piece with foam mounting tape and the green piece to the yellow piece with double sided adhesive.  I colored some ribbon from Tim Holtz Trimmings with Distress Stain tattered rose and weathered wood, crumpled it and dried it.  I tied the ribbon around the card and also tied a piece of Tim Holtz Linen Ribbon over the first ribbon finishing my colored-ribbon knot on top of the linen ribbon.  I added mini paper clips and a trinket pin and then attached the whole thing to the folded card with foam mounting tape.

You Never Know How Strong You Are!

Good morning!  Sherry here today and I have a very clean and somewhat simple card to share with you using Quietfire Design You Never Know How Strong You Are (which now comes cling mounted).

I used watercolor paper for the background, misting it with water and embossing with 3D embossing folder, Tiger Lilies.  I love the detail achieved when embossing watercolor paper when it’s damp.  When dry, the embossing holds and doesn’t flatten out if you need to trim the edges or anything.

The sentiment was stamped in gray ink and then die cut/embossed with ovals.  I used a gray cardstock along with the watercolor paper and added a sea foam grosgrain ribbon.


Thanks for stopping by and joining me today!







Project Supplies:

Quietfire Design - You Never Know How Strong You Are - Mounted Quietfire Design - 3D Foam Squares, BLACK (Scrapbook Adhesives) Ranger Heat-it Craft Tool Ranger Misters, 2oz Spellbinders at Quietfire Design

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Gate Fold Card - Friendship Quote Marks, Happy Family Days, You never Know

Yogi here today with a gate fold card and a multi-looped bow.

I scored my cream cardstock at the 2.5" and the 7.5" points, then trimmed down the center where the sides meet to get a perfect fit. Embossed both sides with Cuttlebug "Bamboo" 5 x 7" embossing folder, using the "off the edge" technique to only emboss the front of the card on the right flap. Lightly sponged Distress Crushed Olive over the high points.

Die cut the lattice piece from cream cardstock and used the rubber mat to emboss the designs as well. Lightly sponged using my dirty brown sponge over the edges. Die cut the underlayer from Chyiogami paper (fall colors/leaf pattern) and adhered to my lattice piece. Stamped the quote with Versafine Vintage Photo and touched areas with Black Onyx, clear embossed and die cut with the center die of the set. Sponged again with my dirty brown sponge and adhered to lattice piece. Cut another cream toned underlayer piece and adhered to lattice assembly. Adhered the lattice assembly to the front of the left side.

Cut another cream toned underlayer and adhered it to the inside of the card, matching the edges and only adhering to  the front flap edge. This leaves a pocket type opening for the right side flap to fit into to keep card closed.

Created my bow by making several loops from black and cream toned gauze ribbon. Cut ribbon to 4", adhere to form a loop with a small piece of Sookwang tape.

I used a piece of thin string to pinch the first few loops in the center to give more of a bow look, tying the string in the back. Used an awl to pierce my bow in the middle and inserted my pearl brad. Kept stacking the loops, arranging them in a circle pattern. Punched out a 3/4" circle for the base. Opened my brad points then adhered the circle to the card. Cut a couple tail ends of ribbon and adhered them to the front with some Sookwang tap, trimming them to fit the contour of the design. (should have cut a slit and stuffed them under... hindsight). Cut ends into fishtails.

On a piece of brownish Kraft cardstock, stamp the left part of the frame with Versafine Toffee using a stamp positioner and some tape on the stamp as a mask. Ink the stamp, remove the tape and stamp. Emboss with Queen's Gold. Stamp the right side of the frame in a similar way using the stamp positioner.

Stamp the quote  using Versafine Vintage Sepia and touching areas with Black Onyx, clear emboss. Trim cardstock down and adhere to inside of card.

Click on images to enlarge. Enjoy

Tuesday Winsday - Win "You Never Know" from Quietfire Design

Yesterday Wendy made a beautiful heartfelt card, so today we're using the stamp for our weekly giveaway!  Please follow the directions below to enter.  It's a bit more complicated this week, but you can do it!!

Here is the stamp and Wendy's card to remind you how she used it.
Good luck!!!





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Strong, Your Only Choice

Happy Monday All!!  It's Wendy here today. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and is ready to get this week started!!

When it came time for me to create for this post, I got out all of my Quietfire Design Stamps and read all of the sentiments, which are ALL wonderful, but You Never Know How Strong You Are really yelled out at me today.  I have had a lady I know on my mind quite a bit lately.  She is undergoing treatment for the THIRD time for Ovarian Cancer.    This sentiment from Quietfire Design just hit the nail on the head.

I chose the lovely teal color, because that is the ribbon color for ovarian cancer and I love teal and navy blue together!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: stash

Dies: Classic Circle, Scalloped Circles (Spellbinders)

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Bauble: stash