IRIS FOLD ORNAMENT CARD

Hi Everyone! I hope you're getting your Christmas cards done :)

I haven't done an iris fold card in a long time, and truth be told there is no folding on this one either. I cut strips of pattern paper and laid them down in an iris fold design. I really like how the papers work together, and so easy to do.

There are iris fold directions all over the web- just ask google :)

The stamp is a beauty from Quietfire Design. There's a super special on right now!

If you'd like more card ideas, check out my post at Quietfire Creations.

Thanks for looking today and have fun with your card making!

THERE'S STILL TIME!

Hi Everyone!
Today is the last day of the terrific blog hop at Quietfire Creations.

We've had so much fun bringing you our various projects this week.

This fabulous prize package will be going out to one of you. If you haven't yet, you still have time to leave comments on each designers post.

They're all here for you!

List of Blog Hop Posts with links:
Wanda 
Teresa
Chris
Sherry
Kathy Jo 
Sara 
Holly
Yogi
Chris 
Judi 
Yvonne 
Robyn
Suzanne 
Chris

Comments will be accepted until Sunday, October 5th, midnight.

Thank you for joining us on our hop this week!

FALL COLOUR & BLOG HOP

Hi Everyone! Happy Fall!  

Don't you just love the colours of fall? I sure do.

This quick card uses a stencil and a fabulous new stamp set from Quietfire Design.

Want to see more beautifully coloured and designed projects?

How about having a chance at winning a great prize package?

Sound good?

Then, hop on over to Quietfire Creations.

Today is day 3, so you'll want to make sure you see all the days of the blog hop.

Enjoy and have fun!

Thank you for your visit today.

PAPER SCRAPS & FLOWERS

 

If you'd like to see what this pile of paper scraps becomes, just click on over to 

QUIETFIRE CREATIONS, to see the full post.

 

These flowers used paper scraps as well, but larger ones to be sure.

 

After forming the wire shapes, I laid them against the scrapbook paper, and applied Diamond Glaze all around the edge of the wire. Then added a bit more to smooth across the entire area within the wire shape.

 

Once the diamond glaze was dry, I trimmed around the wire shape.

  

My eldest son didn't want a housewarming gift for his move to a new city, but did say "a plant he couldn't kill" would be okay, thinking I couldn't find such a thing.  Silly wabbit!

He'll get it in a day or two, then I'll know what he thinks about it.

I need to make more, using gelli prints this time.

Have a super fine day & thanks for stopping by!

ONE STAMP- MANY WAYS

 

Hi Everyone! I'm excited to bring you samples of a new Quietfire Design stamp. 

It's THANKS-FILL 'ER UP T and you'll love all the sharing today.

 

I chose to fill all my empty T's with doodles, and I couldn't stop at just one card.

 

Click on the link to QUIETFIRE CREATIONS and you'll find more samples, and the links to my fellow design team members. Get your coffee and settle in.......

 

I hope you enjoy the creative journey today- I know we all enjoyed getting it together for you.

Thanks for stopping here, and please go check out the rest. You'll be glad you did!

Thanks Everyone!

A SHARE & A SHOW

Hi Everyone!

Whew! It's been busy around here and this is a big part of why.

 

We deliver my entries to this show on Monday. I am relieved to be done, and yet, I'm still thinking of things to add. It's time to stop the mental creating- with regards to this show anyway. :)

I'm very excited and totally freaked out about this show, and grateful to my son for inviting me into it.

 

I have a new tutorial up at QUIETFIRE CREATIONS. 

Go see!

Another beautiful sunny morning and we are off to the Farmer's Market.

Have a fabulous day, and thanks for looking!

 

TWO CARDS

Hi! To see the rest of this card, and a second one, just click HERE 

I hope you're having a terrific long weekend-

Happy Easter!

WATERCOLOUR HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Lately, I'm trying to use supplies I've had for years and rarely use. Mostly, it's out of sight-out of mind. Do you do that too?

This card is basic watercolouring, using watercolour crayons. They are so easy to use.

As long as you stamp the image with a permanent ink- Stazon, Archival or pigment ink and heat embossing, you'll have a good experience with the WC crayons.

 

I dip my brush in water, stroke it across the crayon, then paint on the cardstock. Yes, cardstock works just fine. It may curl as it dries but it's easy enough to flatten again. You can deepen the colours by picking up more pigment from the crayon, or do another coat.

 

There are other ways to use WC crayons and I plan to share them with you over the next few days.

Today, it's basic- painting in the lines. I'll have another method for you here on Friday, and Monday, March 3rd, there will be another at QUIETFIRE CREATIONS

 

I'm glad you came by today- thank you!

 

SHE'S A WINNER!

Hi Everyone!

THANK YOU all so much for your wonderful comments during the Quietfire Design Queen of Hearts blog hop. It was a great week, and I'm glad to know, you enjoyed it too.

 

The winner from my blog is-

 

Con, please email me -(address is on the sidebar, just below my pic), your snail mail, so Quietfire can send you your prize. Please email before midnight Sunday, February 16th, or I'll have to choose another winner.

Thank you for your great comment.

 

 

Be sure to go over to QUIETFIRE CREATIONS and vote on your favourite challenge entry.

 

Have a great weekend and thanks again for joining us for our Queen of Hearts Blog Hop!

 

 

 

 

 

VELLUM TECHNIQUES LINK

Hi! Just a quick note today, to share a link to my techniques with vellum.

Go HERE to check it out!

 

Have a fantastic day, and thank you for stopping by!

ERASER CARVINGS & LINKED POST

Hi everyone! I have a quick little share today.

I needed a masculine card, and decided to use my carved eraser stamps. I just took a variety of them and stamped all over, for a background. I added some paper cord behind the sentiment, and added some walnut ink spray. One little pump, and I almost drowned this card.

 

I have a post today at Quietfire Creations.

I hope you like it.

 

Have an awesome weekend, and thanks for looking!

 

HAPPY 2014!

Hi Everyone. I hope you are enjoying a fabulous first day of the new year.

I have a post at Quietfire Creations today, with a super easy technique for you.

I encourage you to go have a look.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

HONOUR CHRISTMAS

Hi Everyone!

I have a quick card to share today. Circles and strips, a little bling and a beautiful sentiment from Quietfire Design, complete this simple card.

The design was inspired by the challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch! and the circle/strip technique is from Technique Junkies.

 

If you'd like even more inspiration, check out Quietfire Creations , where you'll find beautiful Christmas ideas.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

 

ONE SHEET WONDER 16 CARD STASH BUILDER

Hi everyone!

Does making 16 cards in a couple of evenings, or one good afternoon session, sound good to you?

Then, go on over to Quietfire Creations right now, and you can find out how.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial.

Thanks for looking!

QUIETFIRE & DREAMWEAVER BLOG HOP- FINALE

 

Hi Everyone!

I hope you've been enjoying this fun-filled and sample-packed blog hop this week. There has been so much to feast our eyes on, and fall colours are just the best.

This card dazzles with the hits of gold, a vibrantly coloured background and beautiful calligraphy by Suzanne of Quietfire Design.

 

I began by sponging different coloured inks through the Fall Borders stencil, using the oak leaves side. Then I masked off the stencil leaving two leaves open, and spread paste through them at random spots over the sponged leaves. I followed this using the Molten technique. The description for that is further down in this post.

Once cool, I sponged orange and yellow inks over the entire background to unify all the colours.

 

 

I spread Metallic Gold Embossing Paste through the Leaf Icons stencil, then poured Queen's Gold embossing powder onto the paste and tapped off the excess. I heated this thoroughly with my heat tool, to melt the powder and bubble up the paste. It's the Molten Technique and it truly looks molten. I cut around the leaf, inked dark brown ink all around the edge and set it aside.

 

I stamped The True Harvest of My Daily Life onto kraft cardstock using sepia Ranger archival ink and die cut two sides of the card using Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

The same sepia ink was then sponged around all the card pieces and the card was assembled.

 

 

 

I hope you try this and create some fall goodness for yourself.

Thank you for coming by and following along on this Quietfire & Dreamweaver blog hop.

PS- if you get caught up in your creating and forget to put your stencil and other paste tools in water right away, Magic Erasers are wonderful things. I had a dollar store variety and it worked great in a tub of water.

 

Be sure to go and see:

FROM QUIETFIRE DESIGN

Sherry Cheever

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

 

and the DREAMWEAVER Team

Stacey Rumsby

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dreamweaver Blog

and

QUIETFIRE CREATIONS BLOG

 

Remember to leave your comments as you go.
Prizes will be announced on Thursday! You have till midnight this Sunday (Sept. 22) to leave your comments.

Thanks Everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QUIETFIRE AND DREAMWEAVER---AWESOME IN AUTUMN---DAY 1

 

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are partnering with the Dreamweaver Design Team and are so excited to play with their innovative stencils, pastes and glitters!  Follow along with us and leave your comments on each blog for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages.

 

 

Here's what I've created for today's post:   

We are having such a beautiful fall this year and I  had no trouble at all giving it some shine on this card. The quote stamp from Quietfire Design  is perfect here.

I began by spreading Metallic Gold Embossing Paste from Stencil with Style onto a scrap of cardstock, using an old gift card. I kept the layer fairly thin, then stamped into it.

I washed the stamp immediately. Once the paste was dry, I smudged Metallic F/X onto it, using my finger and really pushing the powder into the crevices left by the stamp. The Pink Poppy and Ivy Garden colours really blend well with the gold paste. On the back, I traced out a maple leaf from the Leaf Icons stencil, then cut it out with scissors. I traced the same leaf onto green cardstock, and cut it out.

 

I made shimmer spray by mixing hairspray (from a pump style bottle), a few drops of rubbing alcohol and about a 1/4 teaspoon of Metallic F/X Pink Poppy, into a small spray bottle. I did the same again with Ivy Garden Metallic F/X, both from Stencil with Style and then I spritzed them randomly onto white cardstock, with the grid stencil taped to it. I removed the stencil, then used the leaf stencil and sprays in a few random areas, and let the cardstock dry thoroughly.

Once dry, I stamped the quote and tore all around the edges of the cardstock, then curled the corners.

This was layered onto green cardstock with distressed edges, then wrapped with hemp cord. This was attached to the dark brown card base, then the main leaf was placed over the knot on the cord. The green leaf was crumpled a bit, spritzed, then cut apart and attached behind the focal leaf.

 

 

Happy Fall Everyone!

Remember to leave a comment on each blog you visit, and I'm sure that will be all of them.

There are awesome prizes to be won!

You can find stamps, stencils and accessories for your fall cards at Quietfire Design.

 

Check out this week's awesomeness which includes...

Tuesday, September 17th:

 

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook-you are here!

and

Dream Team members...
 

Cherylynn Moser

Heidi Erickson
Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

 

Wednesday, September 18th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Debbie Sherman

Robyn Josephs

and

Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

 

Thursday, September 19th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Teresa Horner

Terre Fry

and

Dream Team members...

Cherylynn Moser

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Lea Kimmel

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

 

 

Friday, September 20th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Yogi Grunwald

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Wendy Jordan

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

 

Saturday, September 21st:

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and
Dream Team members...

Stacey Rumsby

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

GET CREATIVE CHALLENGE AND A DIY WITH QUIETFIRE DESIGN

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful summer.

We are having a very busy one, but it is wonderful too.

 

Recently, I discovered this great challenge blog, from Greece.

You can CLICK HERE to go check it out.

 

This month, they have the image below as the inspiration for the card.

 

It turns out, I needed to decorate a clock to use at our new home. We have a lovely covered deck, and would like a clock out there. So, I used the challenge image to complete the DIY clock revamp.

 

I used an assortment of beautiful Quietfire Design stamps for the sentiment and most of the design. Love those butterflies and bees! The stamped flowers are Stampin' Up! and the dots around the edge are a pencil eraser. I am very happy with the result and will get a photo of it in use.

 

Now, I have some news........my friend Jutta is posting as a Guest Designer tomorrow -August 7th-over on the QUIETFIRE CREATIONS blog. I know she'd love for you to go have a look, and please leave her a comment. I know I don't have to ask you to, you'll want to.  :)

 

One more piece of news.......I've been published!  I am so excited to tell you that Paper Creations has a card of mine within it's pages. Page 35 to be exact. Suzanne Cannon and Wanda Hentges are featured in the article as well. You could call this a bucket list item for me.  :)

 

I've missed blogging and I was so happy to have fun news to share today.

 

I hope to be back soon.

Thanks for looking!

 

NEW STAMP SET AND CHALLENGE CTS #36

Look at how pretty this stamp set is! You can see the entire set HERE. 

I thought I would try heat embossing on grosgrain ribbon and I love how it worked out. The Queen's Gold embossing powder is so bright! Love it.

The thank you stamped oval works perfectly with the Spellbinders Oval die set. The pretty rose stamp was cut out after colouring. Fussy cutting isn't so bad if you're only cutting out one, and if you cut a little outside the line.

 

I think it works for the CTS #36 challenge. Want to play? Go HERE. 

Even if you don't play, you'll want to see all the inspiring entries there.

 

ONE MORE THING:

I have a post today at Quietfire Creations.

I hope you'll like it, so go check it out okay?

It's right HERE. 

 

 

I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

Thank so much for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

 

METEORS, GALAXIES, HARLEQUIN.....OH MY!

I love boxes in the mail, especially when they come from Quietfire Design.

Today, my new pretties included a harlequin background stamp (love it), a set each of Gelly Roll stardust pens, in meteor and galaxy colours, and a few more awesome things to be shared another day.

This quick card showcases the stamp and pens. This is only 5 of the 12 colours between the pen sets.

A couple glitter brads from Stampin' Up! and it's done.

FYI: the 'thanks' stamp is also available at Quietfire Design.

 

Have you checked out Quietfire Creations lately? Always something to see and I have a new card up today.  :)

 

Thanks for stopping by- I always appreciate it!

AMAZING RETRO

When I received my retro M-Bossibilities folder, I couldn't wait to use it. Coupled with the technique I used in my tutorial at Quietfire Creations yesterday, it really works.

The tutorial is fun and easy so I invite you to go see it HERE.

 

I hope you can get in some creative time today. Remember- it's good for you!

 

Thanks for stopping by.