THANKS For all You Do!

Good Morning! Kim here, on this last day of April 2020! Despite the uncertainty that has been our past month, this I know for sure; it’s tulip season and Mother’s Day is right around the corner. Today’s card share could be used for your Mom or a Thank You in general.

This card uses a simple watercolour technique that should be on everyone’s ‘to try at least once’ list. If you have never tried it, let me show you a quick step by step. I have used the Quietfire Design Tulips stamp for my focus image.

1- Use water based markers like Tombow, Stampin’ Up or Ranger’s Distress markers. I have used two colours of green, a pink and a light purple.

2- Colour your stamp, not worrying too much if your colours overlap a bit, I often add in order of light to dark.

3- Gently mist your coloured stamp with water. This reactivates the ink and will allow for the watercolour effect.

4- Carefully stamp your image onto watercolour paper, using other types of paper will produce slightly different results, not quite as soft as watercolour paper.

When you lift up the stamp, the magic is revealed!

My sentiments both come from the Quietfire Design Thanks Cuddlers set. I used the watercolour technique using just one colour on ‘for all you do’.

For a little extra fun I embossed the word stamp ‘THANKS’ using Armenian Pink Modern Gilding Powder.

Check out that colour and shine! Armenian Pink makes my knees week, it is absolutely GORGEOUS!

Hope this technique finds it’s way to a card near you!

Everyday is a Journey Notecard

Hey Quietfire Fans! For today's project I'm sharing with you my Everyday is a Journey Notecard. By combining a variety of stamps, dies and the new Modern Gilding Powders, they were all perfect for creating my notecard. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my Everyday is a Journey Notecard at home.

To start, die cut a 3 1/2" Stitched Rectangle out of white cardstock. Apply VersaMark Ink to the Leafy Acanthus Background stamp and stamp on the right side of the rectangle. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp on the left hand side of the rectangle. If the background doesn't match up completely, it's okay as there will be other elements layered up on the card. Ink the edges of the rectangle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut a 2 1/2" Stitched Rectangle out of a piece of book page. Ink the edges of the rectangle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut a 2" Stitched Rectangle out of white cardstock. Apply VersaMark Ink to the "Everyday is a journey" quote and stamp in the middle of the rectangle. Sprinkle Armenian Pink Modern Gilding Powder over the stamped image. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Ink the edges of the rectangle using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the Flourished Oval Frame out of white cardstock. Apply VersaMark Ink to the frame. Sprinkle Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powder over the entire surface of the frame. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

Apply VersaMark Ink to a piece of white cardstock. Sprinkle Dilly Dilly Lavender Modern Gilding Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Die cut the butterflies from the Butterflies and Stars Spray out of the embossed paper. Apply VersaMark Ink to another piece of white cardstock. Sprinkle Armenian Pink Modern Gilding Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Die cut the butterflies from the Butterflies and Stars Spray out of the embossed paper. You'll need a total of three purple butterflies and two pink butterflies.

Adhere the 2" stitched rectangle to the 2 1/2" stitched rectangle. Foam square the 2 1/2" rectangle to the middle of the 3 1/2" stitched rectangle.

Adhere the Flourished Oval Frame to the middle of the 2 1/2" rectangle.

In the top right corner of the frame, adhere two purple butterflies and one pink butterfly. In the bottom left side of the frame, adhere one purple butterfly and one pink butterfly.

To finish the card, cut a cardbase out of white cardstock that measures 3 1/2" x 9 1/2", score at 4 3/4". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished notecard.

Here is the finished Everyday is a Journey Notecard.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

- Leafy Acanthus Background

- Everyday is a Journey

- Flourished Oval Frame

- Butterflies & Stars Sprays

- Dilly Dilly Lavender Modern Gilding Powder

- Armenian Pink Modern Gilding Powder

- Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powder

Other Supplies Used:

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Rectangles

- Imagine Crafts: VersaMark Ink

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot and Blending Tool with Foam

- Misc: Book page and White Cardstock

Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope that I have inspired you to recreate your own version of my Everyday is a Journey Notecard.

- Katelyn

The Only Time

Hello Quietfire fans!  Betsy here today hoping you are all doing well with

the social distancing.  Great time for card making!  

Today my project uses:

The Only Time - #6331

Modern Gilding Powders - Acanthus Teal

I first selected my papers.  I ended up using 6 different coordinating papers that

included 2 different colors of card stock.  I took the green flowered paper and

stamped my quote onto it with black hybrid ink.  Then I used the Modern Gilding

Powders in Acanthus Teal to heat emboss.  Using the hybrid ink instead of

traditional embossing ink always assures me of a crisp image of my stamp.

Next I die cut the 3 layers for my focal.

I used a die set that had graduating sizes to do this.  I made my card base from a

piece of dull yellow card stock that was 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4".  I adhered

to that a piece of aqua card stock that measures 4" x 5 1/4".  I adhered the biggest

and darkest die cut directly to the card center.  Then I adhered the yellow piece.

I die cut a piece of fun foam for my stamped piece to give some dimension.  I

added some white and aqua paper flowers replacing the centers with enamel

dots.  I foam taped these in place.  For my last bit of embellishment I add some

navy twine tied into a bow and that finished my card!

Quietfire Products used:

The Only Time #6331

Modern Gilding Powders - Acanthus Teal

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Quietfire Design, I do receive the products I use from them.

 All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

Every good and perfect gift

We are finishing up our Bible Study Fellowship class with the book of James this month so I pulled out one of my favorite Quietfire Design for the occasion - Every Good & Perfect Gift.  I love the flourishes on this one.

I cut out a border with the Fancy Border Cutout by Impression Obsession die. I added some vines using leaf dies by Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I'm pretty sure those little flowers are by Altenew but I found a pile of them in a corner of a tray I have.  Sometime in the past I made a pink watercolor background, had little bits of still left and instead of wasting them or storing tiny pieces of scrap, I die cut flowers out of them.  I added some white enamel to the center of the flowers.

I have a tendency to stamp on the lower right corner of my cards.  I decided to be adventurous and move the stamp up to the right corner - so adventurous!  Lol!

I found an older Memory Box die that works well with this layout and used Copic markers to color these also.

Every Good & Perfect Gift.

Friends, Be With Those Who Help Your Being ~ Rumi

Hello! Kim here with another share on the Quietfire Creation’s blog. My second now since the COVID-19 pandemic entered our world! Now is the perfect time to scrapbook layouts of happier times when physical distancing was not part of our norm.

I printed this photo from New Year’s Eve first. It didn’t take long to ‘audition’ a few stamps and dies from my Quietfire Design collection to find which ones worked best for the story I wanted to tell.

I cut the ‘Friends’ title using the Elizabeth Craft Designs steel cutting die, designed by Suzanne Cannon. I embossed with Kells Gold Gilding Powder twice, which gave it beautiful, dimensional shine, a fun touch for my New Year photo.

I stamped the Rumi quote “Be with those who help your being” using Distress Oxide ink on a small piece of cardstock. This stamp is sold unmounted. Do NOT let this scare you away, I just add temporary adhesive to the back and stick it on my stamping platform [or acrylic block], easy-peasy! It is the perfect quote for this fun group of friends who always make me smile!

The layout uses papers and embellishments from Pink Fresh, from a monthly kit I received from Scrap Shotz. The colours are fun and vibrant, like my friends!

Don't forget to pull out your Quietfire Design stamps and dies when scrapbooking, they just might be the PERFECT embellishment!

SUPPLIES:

Quietfire Design stamp ~ Gentle Thoughts

Emerald Creek Co. ~ Kells Gold Gilding Powder 

Elizabeth Craft Designs ~ Friends steel cutting die

Elizabeth Craft Designs ~ double sided adhesive

Scrap Shotz kit / Pink Fresh

Ranger ~ Distress Oxide Inks

Tutorial with Video! Fancy Fold Friendship card

Hello Crafty Friends!

Are you a member of the Suzanne Cannon Fan Group on Facebook?  It is a happy place for fans of Suzanne to see projects using her product, learn about special sales, be the first to learn about new product, and watch Facebook Lives that share new techniques and tutorials.  The FB Lives occur on most Thursday evenings at 7pm EST and sometimes during the week we might share a special FB Live.

Last Thursday I shared a fancy fold card using three of Suzanne's gorgeous stamps.  The card has special folds revealing a sweet hidden message:

 Lift the band and then the banner to reveal the sentiment:

The card is fun and easy to make!  Check out the video for the card instructions (Click here if you are viewing this through email):

Suzanne Cannon stamps used:
Twiggy Wreath and Sentiments
You are Sunlight
Friends are

Thank you for stopping by!
Have a happy, crafty day!
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo

Gilded Butterfly Kaleidoscope Card

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a card featuring the butterfly kaleidoscope stencil, several colours of  modern gilding powders and the I will Write Peace stamp. 

The background of this card was super fun and easy to make.  I just spread embossing paste through the butterfly stencil, sprinkled with a few colours of gilding powder - Celtic Mint, Dilly Dilly Lavender and Armenian Pink - and heated with my embossing heat gun.  The gilding powders melt and the embossing paste puffs up, adding some lovely dimension.

Mount your butterfly background on some coordinating cardstock, add the stamped sentiment and a bit of ribbon and you're done.  Have a wonderful day, Connie

Quietfire Design Supplies used:  Butterfly Kaleidoscope stencil, I Will Write Peace stamp, modern gilding powders

Other Supplies:  Bazzill cardstock, Dreamweaver embossing paste, Ranger Ink

No Act of Kindness...

Hello Quietfire fans!  Betsy on the blog today sharing how I made this beautiful

simple card using:

Rubber Stamp - Act of Kindness 

Modern Gilding Powders - Celtic Mint

I chose my papers to match the Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powders.  I started by

taking an A2 size white top folding card base and adhering a piece of the aqua wash

paper to it.  That piece measures 4" x 5 1/4".  Next I took my patterned piece of

paper and die cut 2 different sizes in my die set.  The stamped quote fit perfectly

on the smaller one.  Then I heat embossed the quote with the Celtic Mint Modern Gilding 

Powders and stamped it onto the smaller of the 2 patterned pieces I had die cut.  

The soft shade of the Celtic Mint Modern Gilding Powders went so well with

the patterned paper.  I adhered the larger die cut piece to my card first.  Then

I adhered the embossed piece and popped it up on a piece of fun foam.

I added a double crepe bow and a few gold rimmed pearls.

And that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial.  Quick, easy and elegant!

Quietfire Design Products used:

Rubber Stamp - Act of Kindness 

Modern Gilding Powders - Celtic Mint

Other Products used:

Paper (Simon Says Stamp) - Moda Scrap - Spring Flowers

ScraPerfect - Gold Rimmed Pearls

Paper Wishes - Aqua Crepe Ribbon

Amazon - Fancy Rectangle Dies

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Betsy

For a more detailed tutorial please check out my blog at:

/https://caringheartcards.blogspot.com/

In my capacity as a design team member for Quietfire Design, I do receive the products I use from them.

 All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.