"Something Wicked this way comes" Halloween card

Hello Crafty Friends!

Kathy Jo here sharing a card that is perfect for a Halloween friend.  The focus of the card is the cool calligraphy stamp, "Something wicked" from the Something Wicked 2018 stamp set:

It is an awesome set of stamps from the wicked tree to the wicked cat to Something Wicked quote.  

The stamps can easily combine with Halloween-y type papers, layered simply and hocus pocus!  A cool and creepy Halloween card is completed.  That is exactly what I did with this card: 

1. Create a top fold card using black card stock.
2. Cut and mat wood grain paper to card base.
3. Die cut fish net die from gold card stock and mount to card front.  (I just happened to have this in my scrap paper bin and decided to use it.  What would have also worked was a coordinating piece of patterned paper torn and the top and bottom and then adhered to the front.)
4. Cut two squares of patterned paper- ensuring one is light colored.  
5. Stamp quote onto light colored paper using black archival ink. 
6. Mount patterned paper and ribbon on the card front.
7. Decorate inside as desired.

It was easy peasy to make and I really like the results.  I hope you do, too!

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

Autumn is the Hush before Winter Tag

Hey Quietfire Fans! I'm excited to be back on the blog today sharing with you my Autumn is the Hush before Winter Tag which features a variety of Quietfire Stamps. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite Fall beverage and learn how to recreate my tag at home.

To start, take one #8 Manilla Tag out of the package. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Leafy Acanthus stamp and stamp along the edge of the tag. Continue to apply Emboss It Ink to the stamp until the edges of all of the tags are stamped. Sprinkle Champagne Embossing Powder overtop of the stamped image. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Using a blending tool with foam, blend Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink over the entire surface of the tag.  Spritz the tag with water. Dry the tag using a heat tool. Use a baby wipe to take the ink off of the embossed image. Distress the edges of the tag. Ink the edges of the tag using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam. 

Die cut a 2 1/2" Stitched Oval out of white cardstock. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink over the entire surface of the oval. Spritz the oval with water. Dry with a heat tool. Distress the edges of the oval. Ink the edges of the oval using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Apply Emboss It Ink to the Autumn is the Hush before Winter sentiment and stamp onto the middle of the oval. Sprinkle Midnight Black Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the sentiment. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Foam square the oval to the middle of the tag.

Apply Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to the wheat stamp and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock. Reapply Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to the wheat stamp and stamp onto the same piece of white cardstock. Fussy cut both wheat out. Ink the edges of the wheat using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Apply Carved Pumpkin Distress Ink to the large maple leaf stamp and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock. Repeat the previous step for the large maple leaf. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Carved Pumpkin Distress Ink over the large maple leaf. Apply Forest Moss Distress Ink to the leaf stamp and stamp onto the same piece of white cardstock. Repeat the previous step for the leaf. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Forest Moss Distress Ink over the leaf. Apply Fired Brick Distress Ink to the small maple leaf stamp and stamp onto the same piece of white cardstock. Repeat the previous step for the small maple leaf. Using a blending tool with foam, blend Fired Brick Distress Ink over the small maple leaf.  Fussy cut all the leaves out. Ink the edges of all the leaves using Ground Espresso Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

In the top left side of the sentiment, adhere the wheat. Foam square a large maple leaf and leaf over top of the leaf. Foam square the small maple leaf to the left of the french proverb.

Adhere the large maple leaf to the bottom right side of the oval. Adhere the other wheat slightly over top of the large maple leaf. Foam square the small maple leaf and leaf overtop of the wheat and large maple leaf. 

To finish off the tag, tie some brown seam binding ribbon to the top of the tag.

Here are a few close up's of my Autumn is the Hush before Winter Tag.

Thanks so much for joining me today and taking a look at my project! I hope that I've inspired you to want to recreate my tag at home. 

Quietfire Supplies Used:

- Leafy Acanthus Background

- Leaves

- Autumn Collection

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Forest Moss, Fired Brick & Ground Espresso, Distress Oxide Ink - Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo & Gathered Twigs, Distress Spritzer and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber and #8 Manilla Tag

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Midnight Black Embossing Powder and Champagne Embossing Powder

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Ovals

- Misc: Brown Crinkle Ribbon, White Cardstock and Heat Tool

- Katelyn

Sparkly Christmas Tags and Bonus Project! - Guest Designer Judi Kauffman

 

My friend Judi Kauffman designed some sparkly and super simple tags with two dies from my newest release, the flourished reindeer (from the Flourished Christmas Minis) and small size Merry Christmas.

Judi picked light blue and white (White and Light Blue Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz and Velvet Adhesive Sheets), colors that evoke winter, but the combination is yours to choose. And you can design your tags with other dies as well!

Only three steps:

One.

Die cut motif or sentiment from adhesive-backed Velvet sheets.

Two.

Die cut Dashing Rectangles from Shimmer Sheetz* (smallest two for the reindeer and smallest three for Merry Christmas).

Three.

Layer as shown, using clear double sided adhesive tape to secure the Rectangles, and finish by punching a hole for the eighth-inch ribbon.

Flourished Christmas Minis

Merry Christmas Small

*A metal adaptor plate is required for die cutting Shimmer Sheetz. Review Els van de Burgt's YouTube tutorial if you are new to this technique.

Tip: Shimmer Sheetz is non-porous, so pick a pen formulated for writing on glass or plastic to add names and date to the back of the tag.


A big thanks to Judi for sharing with us!

This wraps up our "official" celebration of the new Christmas release from Elizabeth Craft Designs!  I'd like to send a HUGE thanks to the Quietfire Design Team for their creations and the extra projects they've added to their personal website.

We're wrapping up our 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!  You have until tomorrow, Sunday October 7th, 2018 at midnight to leave your comments and then we'll randomly choose winners!  Winners will be announced late Tuesday!

Good luck!!

Merry Christmas with Flourished Reindeer

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with two Christmas cards featuring reindeer from the Flourished Christmas mini set and the small Merry Christmas die.  You might have seen that these beautiful dies were just released - just in time for Christmas card production!  

To celebrate the new release, we're having a week long 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!

The flourished reindeer from the Christmas mini set stole my heart, so I cut a small herd out of gold metallic cardstock and combined them with the Merry Christmas die to create a couple of cards.  The shimmery shiny background of these cards are embossed mylar Shimmer Sheetz from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  They make an absolutely stunning backdrop for the die cuts.  Still photography cannot accurately give the shimmery reflection justice but anybody receiving one of these cards for Christmas should be impressed.  :-).

This card is actually a bifold card - I scored a 10" wide piece of white cardstock at 2 1/2 and 7 1//2", and then folded those sections inward.  The stitched oval die is only attached on one side and the card is kept closed with a bit of tied ribbon.  When I ran the reindeer die through my die cutting machine, I flipped the gold metallic cardstock upside down on the second run so that I would have a reindeer facing the opposite direction.

Since I had extra reindeer, I made another quick card, this time cutting a stitched circle out of the embossed Mylar sheet before adhering my reindeer and die cut Merry Christmas.

  

Good luck in the contest and thanks for stopping by, Connie

Flourished Christmas Minis Gable boxes...and giveaway!

Hello Crafty Friends!

Have you been enjoying the projects created using the newly released Flourished Christmas Minis?  The minis are perfect for your Christmas projects this year: from tags to cards to lanterns and scrapbook pages...and treat boxes!  Today I am sharing a few treat boxes using the Gable Die Box and the Flourished Christmas minis.

The gable treat boxes are too easy and fun to put together!  The boxes will be great for table settings or treat gifts for the little (or big!) kids on your holiday list.

I made a lot of these boxes this week but thought I would share a few for inspiration:

This box was created using ivory card stock for the box.  I die cut the mini reindeer using scrap ivory card stock and rubbed it with light red ink.  Next, I dyed white seam binding using water and some of the red ink tapped onto a craft mat.  Isn't it pretty?

Another fun gable box was die cut using Kraft card stock.  I then die cut red metallic card stock using the Ho Ho Ho die.  White scrap card stock and the snowflake from the Brrrr die set was used to create the wee snowflake on the box side.

Last- but definitely not least- is the gold glitter gable box.  The box looks so festive in the gold glitter.  The mittens are a perfect combo with the die cut square background mounted on the box.  For the mitten cuffs I added Nuvo Crystal Drops...and thought it looked so nice that I used the drops in the mitten hearts, too.

Now, I have to warn you: once you start die cutting the Gable Box and Minis you won't want to quit!  The boxes are so stinking cute!

 

You can find the Flourished Christmas Minis on the Quietfire Design site HERE.  The Gable Box is HERE.

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY????

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!

Thanks for stopping by!  Good luck on the draw!

Kathy Jo

Flourished Candle 3 Sided Lantern - Merry Christmas

As you must realize, Suzanne came out with a bunch of new A Way With Word dies and I choose the flourished candle to play with first BIG GRIN.

I'm using an A Way With Words dies  "Flourished Candle" 5pce set from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE

And I'm using a clear sentiment stamp from Quietfire Design ("Christmas Collection" 11pce set) also available from Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE 

Cut the 3 panels from a dark green textured cardstock (see diagram below for measurements. Scored each flap and the roof.
 

Die cut the oval from each side using Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Ovals" die set. I used the smallest die from the set for each side.

I then used the 2 smallest dies together to create the white border around the die cut.

Die cut the Flourished Candle 3 times. Masked of the candle area and inked the flourish area with Versafine "Toffee" and embossed with Queen's Gold embossing powder. Masked off the flourish and the flame and inked with Distress Picket Fence and embossed with Emerald Creek "Soft Fallen Snow" embossing powder - love the texture... Colored the flame with some markers. Adhered to each cut out side.

 

 Die cut the Holly Leaves and berry (Elizabeth Craft Designs "Holly Leaves" which seems to be discontinued...). The leaves from a light green mirror cardstock and the berries from a deep red textured cardstock. Adhered to each cut out side.

Stamped the "Merry Christmas" on the green cardstock, inked with the Toffee and embossed with the gold. Trimmed down close to stamping and used a large corner rounder to cut the rest of the shape. Adhered to each cut side.

Adhered all the flaps to create the structure. Cut a little notch in the point and threaded my knotted Sari ribbon through the hole from the inside using a twisted/squeezed paper clip.

To cut the floor, I used the assembled lantern and a pencil, outlined the shape and cut from the green cardstock. Adhered to the bottom flaps.

Merry Christmas Mittens

I hope you've been enjoying all the inspiration using the new dies!!!  It's Wanda here to day with a card using the mittens from the Flourished Christmas Minis set (QF / ECD) and the new smaller Merry Christmas (QF / ECD). 

Remember, To celebrate the new release, we're having a week long 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!

I started with a piece of card from the Through The Lens - Wood pack (ECD), cut an oval with a Stitched Oval die (ECD), inked over the paper with Distress Ink Picket Fence, dried it, and glued Silk Microfine Glitter - Silver (ECD) around the edges with Glossy Accents. 

I cut both the mittens and Merry Christmas from both red and white cardstock.  I layered Merry Christmas, red over white, offsetting as shown.  For the mittens I pieced the white hearts into the red mittens, glued Sparkly Fluff to the white cuffs and glued the cuffs onto the mittens.  All the die cuts were glued to the oval.  

The base is folded kraft card.  Over that is a piece of Kraft Core Distress Cardstock distressed with a sanding block, inked around the edges, and wrapped with a piece of twine.  This is attached to the folded card and then the oval attached.

Thanks for following along and don't forget to leave a comment if you'd like the chance to win a new die set.  And I'd love to here what you think of the card!!!

Hugs, Wanda

Merry Christmas and Flourished Candle with wreath background

Hi, Diana here with a Christmas card using two of the new dies by Suzanne - it's time to get started on making those Christmas cards and these new dies will make them so very elegant!  

Merry Christmas Small is the original Merry Christmas in a reduced size and leaves space for another image on your card front.  Here I used the Flourished Candle in silver Mirror Cardstock.  I did die cut the candle out of white card stock to add some shading to the wax and color to the flame.

I first started by drawing a circle on my watercolor card base.  I then used different green Zig markers to make a subtle wreath background.   I then spritzed the page with water and the result was so pretty I kept it like you see in the final card.

(Full disclosure, I was going to die cut a wreath out but I liked how it turned out so I just left it there and turned it into a background.)

The Merry Christmas die was cut out of glittered red cardstock - it's a little dark in the picture but it has a nice subtle glitter look in real life.

You can combine any of the new releases below - and even more possibilities when you add other word dies by Suzanne!

To celebrate the new release, we're going to have a  

week long 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 next Friday, October 5th, 2018.  We'll randomly choose three winners and send out one of the new dies to each winner!