Helmar & Quick Quotes Blog Hop

Hello Quick Quotes fans! Happy blog hopping!!
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Did you go out Trick or Treating with your kids last night?  If you did you are in luck because I have a Halloween layout to share with you today.  Quick Quotes has the best Halloween line...I love that it isn't just black and orange but has some green and purple thrown in there too. 

I love the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Ahesive!  It works fast and doesn't warp your paper.  I used it for everything on my layout including those googly eyes.  No slipping and sliding while I waited for them to dry!

Thanks for popping in to visit today and make sure to check out the next stop on this hop: Rhonda

Supplies Used:
Quick Quotes Halloween Collection Papers
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
SRM Stickers "Little Princess" & "Make Believe"
Momenta Letter Stickers

Back to School Card #1

My kids go back to school this week so you are gonna see a week of fun Back to School projects that I have worked on!  

I used a variety of goodies on this from Momenta & Quick Quotes.  I am loving Momenta's Clear Layered Stickers lately and have been using them on a lot of cards!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Papers from Quick Quotes and American Crafts

Stickers from: Bella Blvd, Momenta

Dimensional Embellishment Tutorial

Hi Quick Quotes Fans!  Christine here hoping you are enjoying your weekend so far!  Today I have a quick tutorial to share with you on how you can use your circle punch to make a dimensional embellishment just like the circles you see in my card.

 

To start you will want to punch four circles

And then fold those circles in half

Use adhesive to glue together two halves.  I used Beacons 3 in 1 glue because it is quick dry and tacky, but a glue runner will also work!

Continue gluing halves together, leaving the last connection open so that you can glue them down to your project.

Now wasn't that simple and fun!?!

Supplies Used:

Stowaway Patterned Paper

Beacons 3 in 1 Glue

White Cardstock

Bakers Twine from the Twinery

Sentiment Sticker from American Crafts

Quick Quotes Stowaway Card

Hi Quick Quotes fans!  Christine back today to share a card using goodies from the new Stowaway line as well as a super cool quote from the Bitty Vellum Travel Pack!

I just love the blue and brown combo in this line don't you?  I started with a cream colored cardstock for my base that is about 4 1/4" X 5 1/2".  I then added the dark turquoise layer and the striped layer.  I hand cut a banner from the brown polka dot paper and used a border punch on the light blue paper.  I attached my vellum quote to more cream cardstock and distressed the edges on that using Amaretto PowderPuff Chalking Ink.  Isn't that a fun quote?  I've never seen it before but loved it!  I embellished my vellum with some bakers twine and punched out hearts.  Lastly I drew some faux stitching for a border.  I think this will make a great card for a man or a dear friend!

Supplies Used
 Amaretto PowderPuff Chalking Ink
Stowaway Patterned Papers
Travel Itty Bitty Vellum Box Set

Welcome Home: One more Club Q Layout

Today I was a part of Inspiration Wednesday for Quick Quotes!  I really wanted to get one more layout out of my Club Q kit..I figure if you are gonna invest in a kit you want to get bang for your buck and lots of ideas.  Here's what I came up with using my leftovers from the kit:

The black cardstock, HOME letters, and Washi tape aren't from the kit; but the rest of it is!  I have wanted to do these pictures for quite awhile so it was nice to get them done and I'm really pleased with how eye catching it turned out.  Coming up next from Quick Quotes you'll get to see me premiering some of their brand new goodies being released in July!  It's been a blast to play with and I can't wait to share them with ya!

Bonus Club Q Layouts

Today I am here to share with you my first project using a Club Q kit.  This is the first time I've gotten to play with a Club Q kit and I absolutely loved it.  If you are a big fan of die cuts and coordinated items this is the place for you!

I loved all the frame options available to use for journaling, photos, etc.  I decided to use the square scallop sets to frame my photos for this layout.  I also used some of the tags that were intended for a mini album to ground my whole layout.  I inked those up and then used my heat embosser to set the ink so I could use them quicker.  My yellow scalloped borders were meant to be medallion flowers and I decided to use them just as a plain border but I cut between the scallops creating a fringe look.

 For my second layout I cut out the Summer Time from a die cut included in the kits and made it into a banner.  I used lots more of the flower die cuts and popped those up with foam dots.  In keeping with the banner idea I cut out a couple of my own from the ribbon and papers to ground my journalling.  I again used  the "meant to be a medallion flower" strip to make a border and added a piece of vellum atop that with a matching scallop border.  You can see I used lots of threes in this layout: three sets of scallops, sets of three flowers, three different banners.  It is amazing how the number three always blends together so nicely in layouts.

I hope you've enjoyed these bonus layouts today and much as I enjoyed creating them!

So Sweet You Are, So Sweet You Be...Spring Card Inspiration

Today I have a simple spring card made with Quick Quotes goodies to share with you.  I used a 6 X 6 card base and then cut my One Fine Day patterned paper into 1 3/4" squares and created a grid pattern.  Grids are an easy way to jazz up a card without making things too busy.  I used a border punch on my Color Strip Vellum Quote to give that a softer edge.  I added some ric rac and flowers to embellish it and voila, a pretty and simple card with lovely spring colors. 

Whimsical Tree Canvas

I've shared this everywhere else, but not here yet (: If you haven't caught it at Quick Quotes or Practical Scrappers, enjoy!  Scroll down to the next post to enter my 4OOth post giveaway!

I love clean and simple but striking art to decorate my home.  And who doesn't love creating their own!  I used 4 canvases that measure 8 X 1O to create this quick project.  For the record, I've never touched canvas before...so this was a venture into a whole new media for me!

 Each canvas uses a Whimsical Tree from Quick Quotes.  As soon as I saw these I knew I wanted to create something just like this!  I used four different colors of Powder Puff Chalking Inks: Maraschino Cherry, Amaretto, Green with Envy, and Lemonade.  For each tree I did three layers of chalking, allowing them to dry for just a couple minutes in between.  One layer would have created a more subtle color and I really wanted these to be bold.  I glued them down with Beacons 3 in 1 glue.  When all was said and done this whole project only took me about 3O minutes and that includes hanging time!

Sweet and Simple

I've got a sweet and simple little card to share with you today.  I love the Paradise collection from Little Yellow Bicycle and that's where this sweet little bird comes from!  I used my Martha Stewart fringe scissors to give the bird some grass to stand on.  Add in a blinged up cloud and and some bright pink zebra paper and you can't go wrong.  

Supplies Used:  Patterned Paper by Momenta

Cardstock by Quick Quotes

Stickers by Little Yellow Bicycle and American Crafts

Twine by The Twinery

The perfect way to scrap a whole bunch of pictures!

Have you ever gotten a piece of scrapbooking product that you just couldn't wait to try out?  I felt exactly this way about the "Frame with Doors" diecut.    I have three little kids and more pictures to scrap than I can ever possibly keep up with.  Finding something like this where I can knock out a whole bunch of pictures without having to spend 17 hours scrapping each and every one is a huge help!  I just had to decide which set of pictures to go with!  Since I'm feeling tired of the end of winter weather we've been having, I decided to go with some Beach pictures!

I carefully figured out which pictures would work, finding lots of smaller, long distance pics for the small spots.  I used the big tab with the circle for both a picture and then my journaling underneath.  

To achieve my blue "oceanlike" color for the die cut I used three different Powderpuff Chalking Inks.  I started with  "Baja Blue" and then used "Blue Moon" on the outside and then swiped "Blue Hawaiian"  in various spots over the top

I had fun embellishing the whole thing with papers from the Summer Samba collection.

So the next time you are looking to knock out a whole bunch of pictures on a layout consider trying this die cut to make it easy and extra special!

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Tin Type Cards for Quick Quotes

Today is my premiere at Quick Quotes! The Tin Type collection has a lot of really unique elements to it.  The hot air balloons kept jumping out at me and screaming to be fussy cut.  I fussy cut them and started playing with them and ended up turning them into flowers.  To create them I cut out the balloons and inked the edges. I then curled the balloons to make them look like petals and put them all together to form a flower.

 I had fun playing with the Die Cut Chipboard (Gears Bag O' Chips & Butterflies Bag O' Chips) and Powderpuff Chalking Inks (Blue Hawaiian, Amaretto, and Baja Blue).  This chipboard takes those inks fabulously!  I used several papers from the Tin Type line.  I love to do clusters of embellishments and had fun pulling these together. 

Other Supplies Used: Bakers Twine from The Twinery, Staples, Toothpick

For my second card I fussy cut both flourishes and hot air balloons from the Tin Type line.  I used the Frames Bag o Chips for my frame and left it raw...it just worked that way!  I kept this card pretty clean and simple adding in just a little doodling to break up some of the white space.  

Other Supplies used:  Bakers Twine from The Twinery, White cardstock and button from my stash

I hope you've enjoyed the projects today, I'll be looking forward to next time!