Just living is not enough...

Hello Crafty Friends!  Kathy Jo here sharing a happy card using Quietfire Design's lovely stamp, Just living is not enough:

It was stamped using Jet Black Archival Ink onto ivory paper from Basic Grey's Serenade collection.  It was die cut using Spellbinders' Stately Circles.

Green card stock was die cut using Spellbinders' Wreath die set.  The larger wreath die cuts had Inka Gold applied as shown.  Light green patterned paper (Basic Grey Serenade) was dry embossed, covered with Distress Ink (Picket Fence) and heat embossed.  It was layered on polka dot paper from the same paper collection.  The tent fold base was created using orange card stock  

Such a sweet sentiment!  Reading it makes me smile.  :)

I hope you enjoyed the card!  Here is another link to the stamp.  Oh- and don't forget about the current specials at Quietfire Design:

All unmounted stamps are 50% off
All Spellbinders are 50% off

Thanks for stopping by!  
Have a happy, crafty day,
Kathy Jo

Wine is Sunlight

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with another scrapbook layout designed around a Quietfire Design stamp.  Today I am using the ‘Wine is Sunlight’ stamp from one of my favourite stamp sets.  It is a perfect accent for photographs I took while I was on a wine tour near Niagara Falls last fall.  This area of Canada is simply beautiful and there are many many wineries to visit.

The ‘Wine is Sunlight’ stamp is from a set of four stamps, all of which would be wonderful for embellishing scrapbook layouts about wine tours or getting together with friends. Or,these stamps make great tags for wine bottles given as a hostess gift or on invitations to wine and cheese parties.  Imagine the possibilities!  

Supplies Used:  Quietfire Design stamp, Heartfelt Creations patterned paper and vine die, Sizzix alphabet die, Clearsnap Ink, May Arts ribbon.

Friendship Isn't A Big Thing

Happy Mid-Week!!!  I hope things are going well for you!!!

It's Wanda here today and I decided to get a little shabby chic for this post.  I've combined one of Quietfire's wonderful friendship quotes with a self done background, some 7 gypsies paper, and some die cuts.  

Let's get started...

1.  Create a 5" x 6 1/2" side-fold card from Misty Mauve.

2.  Cut Watercolor Paper 4 1/2" x 6".  Stencil numbers with gesso in three areas and let dry.

3. Put Shabby Shutters, Wild Honey, and Fired Brick on craft sheet, drag stenciled paper through color, spray water on paper to help color move tipping paper to allow it run, blot over stenciling a little and dry paper.  

4.  Use dauber top to add Bundled Sage across paper and dry.  Use dauber top to rub Picket Fence across paper and dry.  Distress edges.

5.  Choose patterned paper from book, cut/tear pieces to use, use dauber top to rub Picket Fence over papers, splatter patterned papers and watercolor paper piece with gesso thinned with water.  

6.  Choose paper to stamp quote on.  Stamp quote with Jet Black ink.  Rub Picket Fence around edges.  Tear and distress edges.

7.  Attach papers together.  Stamp gesso circles.  I used an empty paint bottle cap and the end of an eraser to stamp the circles.

8.  Attach a piece of lace along left edge of layered papers and then attach stack to folded card.  

9.  Add some shading along the edges of layered papers by scribbling pencil along edge and activating with a water brush. 

10.  Die cut leaves from watercolor paper.

11.  Die cut flowers from Misty Mauve, spray with just a bit with water, crumple flowers, carefully uncrumple, dry with heat tool, dry brush some gesso on petals and dry.  

12.  Attach leaves and flowers as shown adding pearls to center of flowers.  

13.  Cut a butterfly from pattered paper and attach to card.  Add a scrap of lace under paper layer in lower right corner.  

Supply List -

Quietfire Design Rubber Stamp - Friendship Isn't a Big Thing

Watercolor Paper

Soft Finish Cardstock - Misty Mauve (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Victoria Paper Pack (7 gypsies)

Distress Stains - Shabby Shutters, Wild Honey, Fired Brick, Bundled Sage, Picket Fence

Archival Ink Jet Black (Ranger)

White Gesso (Golden)

Number Jumble Stencil (Dylusions)

Bunch of Flowers 3 Die Set (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Leafy Branch Die (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Self Adhesive Pearls

Distrezz It All Paper Distresser (Zutter)

Inktense Pencil - Black (Derwent)

The Greatest Strength....

I love new stamps and making fun things with them. I haven't done a really pretty flowery card in a long time so today i am using the new stamp called "The Greatest Strength" and some new papers i just got from Prima.

I made the card super simple for the backround just by cutting layers of paper and inking them around the edges to make them pop.  And then i made this pretty flower cluster with Prima flowers and some twine and cheesecloth that i had in my stash.  It's super feminine and it would be a great card to give to a special someone that you really appreciate and care alot about.

Supply List: 

Stamp: The Greatest Strength

Prima Tales of you and me 6x6 paper pad

Prima Flowers

Momenta Ink in Rich Cocoa

Versamagic Chalk ink in Gingerbread

Ivory twine, cheesecloth and adhesives

Thanks for stopping by today and have a really wonderful week!

Teresa

Butterfly Kisses - Connie Powell, Guest Designer

Today we have guest designer Connie Powell's lovely home décor project to share with you.

This project comes with a poignant story of a baby who never had the chance to take a breath.  Here is what Connie wrote:

This project is dedicated to Baby Evelyn aka Evie.

Her family was able to hold Baby Evelyn after her birth and I think the sentiment was perfect for them. I call this Butterfly kisses because the Butterflies are headed to Heaven and leaving her family kisses. They will always ""Remember the Moments" of the day they got to hold their beautiful daughter.

 
Instructions: 

1. Heat emboss one plain double light switch cover with embossing glitter
2. Ink stamp with multiple colors onto a die cut
3. Cut the die cut into pieces to fit light switch cover
4. Adhere the die cut onto the switch plate cover after the heat embossing is set
5. Stamp the switch plate cover with Quietfire Design Stamp "We do not remember days...We remember moments."

 

 

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.

You Are Never Too Old

Good Morning.  This is Selma Stevenson this morning with a card to let us know we are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.  I love this sentiment and it pairs so well with the die cut, A Way With Words "Dream".

 

This sentiment was stamped, using VersaFine black ink,  on one of the Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles.  A matching frame was die cut for the die cut, A Way With Words "Dream". 

The flowers were created with Susan's Garden Anemone dies.  The bird was die cut using Els van de Burgt die.  Silk Microfine Glitter was used on the bottom layer of the bird die cut.

I hope you will check out all the beautiful calligraphic sentiments in the Quietfire collection. 

9500-1158 A Way With Words - Dream

6420 - You are never too old  

If I had a Star....

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here today sharing a card using Quietfire Design stamp "If I had a Star for every time you made me smile"
For this card soft pastel colours were chisen for a feminine touch. Personally I love to combine soft pink with grey.
Since the die-cut is an intricate pattern, no patterned paper is used for this card.

Used materials:

• Quietfire Design: If I had a Star for every time you made me smile (#5970)
• Spellbinders: Becca Feeken Intertwined Spirals , Standard Circles Large
• Archival ink: Jet Black
• mulberry flowers, leaves, satin ribbon, self-adhesive peark strips
• Scrapbook Adhesives: 3D foam Squares
• glue
• cardstock: white, grey, pink, silver.

Hoping the quote on this card brings a smile to your face :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Wishing you a great day!

With a hug from Holland,

Yvonne

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.

May each treasure...

Hello!  So are you a cat person or a dog person?  My best friend is a cat person (but I love her anyways) and when she lost her furbaby, I can empathize with her loss as I have my own furbabies of the canine variety.  So I made this card with her in my thoughts and prayers with this Quietfire Design stamp. 

The base is a an A2 sized card made with black card stock and the  burgundy matting is made with the largest of the Spellbinders Matting Basics A.  I then stamped this sentiment in black Versafine and die cut out with the Spellbinders Deckled rectangles. Before I removed it from the die, I sponged a bit of Distress InksAntique Linen along the edges.  The frayed straw was something I picked up at a Scrapbook Expo many years ago that I never used - just goes to show you that hoarding pays off.  :)

The cat is a piece of wood veneer that I painted gold over.  He was just perfect for this card.

May Each Treasured Memory

Sympathy cards are hard to make - I hope this gives you an idea of how you can use this wonderful stamp.  Thank you so much for looking!