Wine Is Sunlight Gift Card

Hello and happy Monday! Kim here today with a simple but fun card share. As a wine drinker I love to give and receive wine. I also like to always include a handmade card or tag with the bottle of wine for a personal touch.

My card was made using the Quietfire Design set, Wine is Sunlight. It is one of my first sets acquired in my Quietfire Design collection and still remains one of my favourites!

For this card I knew I wanted my Southern Ridge chipboard wine bottle a deep warm purple, almost black but not! I grabbed some acrylic paints and custom blended a purple, black and beige to get the look I wanted. I used my trusted colour wheel to guide me through choices that would play well with that purple undertone. When using a colour wheel let it guide you, but remember you do not have to aim for perfection. As you see, my green has a bit more blue than the colour wheel, but I’m OK with that!

I used the green and yellow inks to add colour to the bottom and left side of my card which left a nice spot for my sentiment to sit.

My sentiment and wine bottle were embossed with Modern Gilding Powder - Copper Scroll! I adore this colour and use it often! I LOVE how it turned out!

I had some old, dried out metallic gold paint that I brushed on over the grapes to give the look of a label. I was surprised that it just needed to have some water sprayed over it to bring it back to life. I try hard to add old product from my stash to most projects ~ this was a WIN!

Before I permanently adhered my wine bottle, I felt I needed a bit more on the card, so I pulled out my Colorbox Spritzers [another OLD product in my stash!] and added a splash of colour. I made a quick mask to cover my quote so the splatter would not detract from the sentiment. I edged with some Vintage Walnut Distress Ink and secured my wine bottle!

Now, it’s ready to gift with a yummy bottle of Merlot or Syrah 🥰

Supplies:

Quietfire Design - Wine is Sunlight stamp set

Quietfire Design - Gilding Powder Copper Scroll ~ available from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies

Southern Ridge Trading Company chipboard 

Ranger acrylic paints, inks and media paper

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Colorbox Spritzers [ discontinued]

A Cup of Tea & Thee

Hello Quietfire fans!  I hope you are all having a crafty day today!  Betsy on the blog here with you bringing a sweet card using the "Tea & Thee" stamp set.

I really wanted my paper to compliment my stamping so I used a tea-themed paper from Stamperia.

I cut my card panel to 4" x 5 1/4" carefully placing the design where I thought it would best enhance the stamping.  I stamped the circle stain first after carefully laying out where

 I wanted all of the elements placed.  I used a brown hybrid ink for this.

Next I stamped the word "tea" inside the circle using the same brown hybrid ink.  I stamped the tea cup and steam images onto scraps of the paper carefully stamping it on the design elements of the paper that I wanted.  I then cut a separate panel for the sentiment and stamped it as well.  

Both the teacup, steam and sentiment images were stamped with a black hybrid ink.

I fussy cut the tea and the steam and then I inked the edges of all my elements: the panel itself, teacup, steam, and sentiment strip using Distress Tea Dye ink.

Before adhering my card together I also used the Distress Ink on my A2 size cream top folding

card panel.  I adhered my inked panel to the card, then the sentiment strip and I mounted the cup and steam with foam tape to give my card dimension.  And that finished my card!  

I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial on how to work with patterned paper to enhance your stamped elements!  I just love making them work together.

Quietfire Design products used:

Gentle Thoughts Rubber Stamps - Tea & Thee - #6263

          

Other supplies used:

Patterned paper - Stamperia - Patchwork

Hybrid Ink - Versafine Clair - Nocturne & Acorn

Distress Ink - Tea Dye

A2 size Cream card base

Adhesive/foam tape

Please visit the Suzanne Cannon Facebook Fan Page for more inspiration!

Butterfly Spray, Good Luck, Flourished Oval Frame, Thinking of You

Hello There!!!  It's Wanda here today.  We have been having a lot of "winter" this winter.  It seems to be making up for all the mild winters we had.  I am so ready for brighter colors and butterflies!!!!  I love how the colors came out on this card!!!

On a piece of Mixed Media Card I blended Distress Ink just using three colors but overlapping so it looks like five colors.  Water was sprayed over the blended ink and blotted with another piece of cardstock.  I was left with a wonderful mottled look.  The butterfly spray was die cut from this piece and look at all those gorgeous butterfly fallouts.  

A scrap piece of cardstock large enough to back the butterfly area was embossed with Gold Tinsel embossing powder and attached behind the butterflies.  The Flourished Oval Frame was die cut from heavy card and embossed with the same powder.  Thinking of You was stamped in black.  After attaching the Flourished Oval frame, a white gel pen was used to go around the oval, to outline the butterflies and to add doodles to the edges of the panel.  Everything was attached to a folded white card.

And I have another card for you today.  You can see how I used those gorgeous butterfly fallout pieces.  

For the background, Distress Ink was put on the craft sheet, water added, and then the color picked up with Mixed Media Cardstock.  A lot of water was used giving a light, very blended look.  This was dried.  I then used a piece of textured wallpaper to "stamp" the same colors over the panel.  I love how effective that stamping was giving the look of lots of texture.  Good Luck was die cut from the panel.  The die cut panel was attached to a dark green panel.  I set the die cut words back into where it was cut out to use a guide.  I then glued back in all the little fallout pieces being sure not to get glue on the words.  After all the pieces were glued in, I removed the words, sponged on some additional ink and attached them with clear foam tape.

The butterflies were attached as shown only gluing the bodies and folding up the wings.  Stamping was added to the open corners as shown.

The panel was attached to a folded white card.  

In this last picture you can see bits of the clear foam tape but in person they really aren't noticeable.

I hope you've enjoyed these cards today.  This is my last post on the Quietfire Creations Blog.  I will be taking a break from Design Team work.  I've loved working with Suzanne and her team!!!!  

Hugs, Wanda

Supplies:

Butterflies & Stars Sprays Cutting Dies

Good Luck Cutting Die

Flourished Oval Frame Cutting Die

Merry Christmas Collection Clear Stamps

Where Flowers Bloom Collection Clear Stamps

Nuvo Mousse Resist; It is said that When it is the Darkest; Fiddleheads; Stars

Hello on this wonderful Monday!!!  It's Wanda here today. 

I love resist!!  And it's always fun using something new for that resist.  Today I've used Nuvo Embellishment Mousse as my resist.  I applied the mousse through the star spray using a brush.  You could also use an ink blending tool which would give you a heavier application.  Don't you just love the metallic shine!!?

 

Always Believe That Something Wonderful is About to Happen

Hello and Happy May Day!!!  It's Wanda with you today.  It's been very wet and chilly here in Southern Iowa and I'm ready for the warm weather to come back.

I recently bought a Royal Sovereign Laminator (Model CL-1223) and have been testing it out with foil.  Very fun!!!!  For this card I wanted to try using Transparent Embossing Paste.  Onto a piece of Mixed Media Paper (Ranger), I put the paste through the Butterfly Kaleidoscope stencil scraping it mostly flat, removed the stencil (clean your stencil before the paste dries), let the paste completely dry on the paper, put a piece of foil over the paper (Therm-O-Web iCraft deco foil, Emerald Watercolor), placed the paper with the foil on top inside a folded piece of parchment paper,  ran it through the heated up laminator, pulled the piece of foil off and, ta-da!!, gorgeous foiled, dimensional butterflies!!! 

I added background color to the piece with Distress products.  I sprayed some water on the paper first, then sprayed Distress Spray Stain Picked Raspberry just in the center of the paper (but, of course, you get speckles toward the edges of the paper), blotted with a paper towel and dried it.  Around the edges I inked with Distress Ink Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade and then also distressed the edges.  When I was putting the card together I decided to add a bit more to the background and did some random stamping with the Crackle Background using Distress Ink Mustard Seed. 

For my center piece I also started with Mixed Media Cardstock (Ranger), inked the Crackled Background with Distress Oxide Ink Cracked Pistachio, gave it a very light spray with water and then stamped it onto the paper, dried it, stamped the quote (Always Believe) with Archival Ink Jet Black, sprayed the paper with Distress Spray Stain Squeezed Lemonade, blotted it, dried it, dripped on some water, blotted it, dried it, cut it out with a Stitched Circled die (Elizabeth Craft Designs), and inked the edges with Distress Ink Mowed Lawn.  

The "flowers" are Elizabeth Craft Designs ModaScrap Dandelion Fluff diecut from colored cardstock, inked with Embossing Ink (Ranger), embossed with clear powder, and white dots added to the ends with a Posca Paint Marker.  The butterfly is metal (Finnabair Mechanical Grungy Butterflies, Prima).  I used my finger to dab on some Ranger Ink Enamel Accents (a mix of Classic Cherry and Wild Orchid).  I've also used a paper doily and some twine on the card. 

I hope you've enjoyed this card.  If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks for following along!!!!

Hugs, Wanda

Sometimes I just look up...

Hello everyone,

Yvonne here with a card using the Quietfire Design stamp "Sometimes I just look up".

For the card I used a white cardbase size 5¼ x 7" upon which layered patterned paper and die-cuts.
For a 3-dimensional look foam squares were used for the die-cut layers.
The sentiment was stamped using brown ink.

Leave the die-cut in the die and ink using brown Distress ink and an ink blending tool.
Finish the card with mulberry flowers, leaves, crochet ribbon and self-adhesive pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Have a great day,

Yvonne

Courage doesn't always roar...

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here sharing a card made with the Quietfire Design companion stampset "Courage doesn't Always roar".
A great quote saying that courage makes you not giving up....so true!

Used materials:

• Quietfire Design Courage Doesn't Always Roar
• Archival inkpad: Jet Black
• cardstock: white, dull gold, pink patterend
• paper distresser, Distress inkpad Vintage Photo, ink blending tool
• 3D foam squares, glue
• self-adhesive Pearls, mulberry flowers, leaves

By altering the edged of the patterend paper and add a little brown ink (with the ink blending tool) you get that lovely worn look.

I hope you like the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by and wishing you a lovelyday.

With hugs from Holland,

Yvonne

Forever - Love - Hand in hand life's journey begins.

Wedding Week at Quietfire!!!!!

We’re pretty excited over here at Quietfire Design. One of our own is being married this week!  Congrats Yvonne van deGrijp!!!!  

Yvonne is marrying the love of her life, Harrie, in the Netherlands – in a windmill... tomorrow.  Very romantic!!  She’s so excited!

This week we’re celebrating her happy event with a collection of well wishes!  Congratulations Yvonne and Harrie!  Have a wonderful day.  We wish you all good things in your life together.  

For the background of my card I've used Distress Inks (various greens including evergreen bough which brought in some blue-green) applying them to white cardstock using the wrinkle free distress technique, dipping and drying until I liked what I had.  Next I stenciled hearts (Tim Holtz Stencil) with Distress Ink Hickory Smoke.  I added a heart rub-on adhesive (Prima, Christine Adolf) to the left side of the paper applying silver foil over the adhesive.  At this point I decided to cut my background into two pieces, edged them with hickory smoke and distressed the edges of the heart piece.  "Forever" and "Love" were cut from grey, white, and black cardstock, layered together as shown and attached to the heart piece.  This piece was attached to the folded white card.  The other piece of background was stamped with the Hand in Hand quote using Archival Ink jet black.  I wrapped grey twine around the bottom and tucked in a little bouquet of roses.  This piece was attached to the folded card with foam mounting tape.  

I love you....

Hello everyone,
Yvonne here with card that is all about love...with only two weeks to go to my wedding I cannot resist making cards about love :-)
For my card I used the Quietfire Design stamp "I love You Alphabet".
The words I love you are highlighted just a little bit using an ink blending tool and a pink distress ink pad.

Materials used:

• Quietfire Design: I love You Alphabet
• Spellbinders die templates
• cardstock: white, dull gold, grey
• black inkpad, Distress inkpad Spun Sugar, ink blending tool
• red marker
• acrylic stamp block
• self-adhesive pearls
• 3D foam squares, glue
• bone folder, paper trimmer

I hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by

and wishing you a great day.

Hugs from Holland,

Yvonne

The Earth Laughs Rose - Crackle Background

Hi There!!  It's Wanda here today!! 

I just love how the flower turned out on this card!!  Of course, it helps that Suzanne penned such a beautiful rose to begin with!!  A little color and you've got a beauty!!  The rose and the quote are the two stamps in The Earth Laughs Rose Set.  I've also used the new Crackle Background (yep, love this stamp also!!)

Let's get started -

• With a #8 Manila Tag oriented horizontal, 'ink' Crackle Background with Distress Paint (Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade) and stamp on right side of tag covering about 2/3 of the tag. Dry. 
• Rub Distress Stain (Twisted Citron) over entire tag, blot and dry.
• With a Blending Tool, add Distress Ink (Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade) randomly on tag.  Dry.
• Use a damp towel to remove excess ink from paint-stamped crackle. 
• Stamp quote with Archival Ink (Jet Black). 
• Stamp flower onto tag with Archival Ink (Leaf Green).  Left side of flower will run off tag.  Add color to stem with a marker.
• Stamp flower onto watercolor paper with Archival Ink (Jet Black).  Color flower using Distress Ink (Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade) and a Water Brush.  Cut out flower only (not the stem) and attach over flower on tag gluing just the bottom-center area of flower leaving the top and sides to slightly lift.  
• Stamp around edges of tag with Crackle Background using Distress Ink (Picked Raspberry). 
• Ink some areas of tag with Distress Ink (Mustard Seed) to brighten it up a bit and help some of the detail pop. 
• Mask off quote and splatter watery, white paint over tag.  Dry.  
• Layer tag to white cardstock, then pink dotted cardstock, and then to folded white card.  Finished size of card is approximately 4" x 7". 

I hope you've enjoyed today's card!!  I had a lot of fun making it!!!  

Happy Family Days - Happy Anniversary

Hello!!  It's Wanda here with you today to share this anniversary tag using the Happy Anniversary sentiment from the Happy Family Days set of 4 stamps.  

I started with a #8 Ranger manila tag and first did the wrinkle free distress technique using Distress Inks Tea Dye, Antique Linen, and Pumice Stone.  After drying this, I placed the heart stencil (Tim Holtz) over the tag and inked through it with Versamark, removed the stencil and applied PanPastel Permanent Red buffing off any extra with a paper towel.  The chalk sticks heavily to the ink and lighter to the other areas.  The edges of the tag were then distressed.  Happy Anniversary is stamped on white cardstock with Archival Ink Jet Black, trimmed, edges distressed and colored with the PanPastel.  The flower pieces (Geranium - Elizabeth Craft Designs) were cut from white cardstock and color added to the center with the PanPastel.  The geranium leaves were cut from green cardstock and highlights added with PanPastel Bright Yellow Green.  The other leaves (Tim Holtz) were cut from watercolor paper and inked lightly with Distress Ink.  All the pieces were shaped and glued to the tag.  To finish it up 3D lady bugs were glued on, ribbon and twine tied to the top and white gel pen dots added some of the hearts.