Gilded Shoot for the Moon Card

Happy August! Kim here on the blog today with a quick share. Sorry I do not have a step by step photo view, as I had more to-dos than weekend available! 

My card was actually quite simple to put together!

1] Cut a 5x10” sheet of cardstock, fold in half for your card base.

2] I cut a 4.5” square of Ranger ~ Dina Wakley Media Collage Collective paper. Within that        square I cut a circle, set aside.

3] I added Elizabeth Craft Designs double seeded adhesive to both sides of a scrap of cardstock and cut out the star from the Flourished Christmas Minis 2 set.

4] Use the patterned paper as a guide to place your star and set aside one ever agin. Before revealing the adhesive on the top side of the star, wipe your card with a dryer sheet to remove static for the next step.

5] Now remove the protective backing on the star, revealing the adhesive and sprinkle with Modern Gilding Powder ~ Forever Platinum, use heat gun to set.

6] Adhere the patterned paper now,  I had some little gold, sequin stars that I glued down for extra interest and texture.

7] Using a stamp positioner, I stamped my sentiment on a piece of 5x5” Duralar film, using the card underneath as a guide to position. I used StazOn ink for it’s permanency and quick dry time.

8] I used four mini Glue Dots at the edges to secure the Duralar down and had four small blue stars that were perfect for hiding the the dots of adhesives!

Hope this month offers up some crafting time. August CHEERS to you! 

Supplies:

Quietfire Design ~ Soar Collection

Quietfire Design ~ A Way With Words, Flourished Christmas Minis 2

Quietfire Design ~ Modern Gilding Powder, Forever Platinum

Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided adhesive

Glue Dots - micro

Ranger’s Dina Wakley Media Collage Collective

Duralar film

StazOn Ink

Unknown star sequins

Where Flowers Bloom, All Occasion Card.

Hello Quietfire Design fans! Kim here with a card share for you, but FIRST...have you had a chance to check out the new website? Isn’t it lovely? You’ll notice there is no longer a shop or shopping cart...but no worries! Suzanne’s fabulous designs will be show cased here and available from Elizabeth Craft Designs, Emerald Creek Craft Supplies and the Silhouette Store! 

Let’s get started!

My card was made using the Where Flowers Bloom Collection. I hope to share a couple of techniques to ‘push’ your stamps. I am also working with an old Elizabeth Craft Designs’ sticker sheet from my stash!

The first layer of my card uses the stickers as well as elements from the stamp collection, which I embossed using the Modern Gilding Powders in Armenian Pink and Celtic Mint. They are lovely, soft colours that play well with the silver flowers and add some extra interest.

Next,  I prepared a tag using a quote from the stamp collection, embossed with Gothic Black Gilding Powder. These Gilding Powders are perfect for embossing fine details, with end results that are consistently sharp! Gothic Black has quickly become my favourite black embossing powder ❤️.

Next I added some interest to the tag by randomly stamping the dotted flower head around the edges and embossing with Armenian Pink Gilding Powder. It’s a fabulous way to make the stamp do double duty and ties into the colour from the background. I LOVE how it turned out!

Once I had my card base cut and scored, I decided to add some embossing to the edges as well. This made a custom card base to co-ordinate with the card front. Sometimes it’s those little details that take a project to the next level.

I popped my tag onto the base using foam adhesive and added a bit of ribbon from my stash! Voila! A ‘many’ occasion card ready for giving!

...and BTW, I honestly live by this quote. I bring flowers in to my home year round, it’s so good for the soul!

Happy paper crafting!

~kim

Supplies:

Where Flowers Bloom Collection - available from Elizabeth Craft Designs

Modern Gilding Powders: Armenian Pink, Celtic int & Gothic Black

        -available from Emerald Creek Crafting Supplies

Elizabeth Craft Supplies: Peel-Off Stickers 

Ranger Industries Emboss It Grey & Embossing Dauber

Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L: tape runner and foam squares

You Can Do Anything Planner Layout

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]

Take Time to Delight with Modern Gilding Powders

Hello! Kim here again with a card share for the Quietfire Creations blog. 

My card was inspired by the wonderful quote from this Quietfire Designs Gentle Thoughts stamp [#6270]. It’s [another] one of my favourites and can be used for every season. I stamped it on a scrap of deli paper to use on my background.

Before I get too far ahead of myself, let’s look at the hummingbird! I had this chipboard piece from Southern Ridge Trading Company in my stash. I LOVE adding Quietfire Designs' Modern Gilding Powders to chipboard! I took colours from the first and second collection to create this focal element. I used a Versamark pen to control the placement of my Gilding Powders.

So fun to see it evolve to this finished hummingbird!

I used a gel print that I had in my stash from a previous creative play date! I used some matte gel medium to adhere to a piece of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine’s Super Stock. I used the same medium to adhere my quote to the background...a technique I use often so I can play with placement of the quote before I commit to it!

I added another layer to my background with the random bits front the Quietfire Designs' Grid Background [#5895].

I finished up my card by adding it to a card base and green mat. I did this before using Glue Dots to stick down my flower and hummingbird! I know just who will love this card and can’t wait to get it in the mail!

Supplies:

Quietfire Designs' Modern Guilding Powders ~ available from Emerald Creek

Quietfire Designs' Gentle Thoughts stamp #6270

Quietfire Designs' Grid Background stamp #5895

Southern Ridge Trading Company chipboard

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Super Stock

Glue Dots

Distress Oxide Inks

StazOn ink

Prima flowers

Bazzil cardstock

Be With Those ~ Tag

Happy Tuesday! It’s Kim here today with a fun project I worked on this week for the Quietfire Creations blog, using the Be With Those stamp. It’s a quote I am quite drawn to during these days of physical distancing!

I started my project with a large Ranger tag, about 8.5” x 4” and a background I had previously made during some gel plate play! I used some matte gel medium to adhere my background to the tag.

Once dry, I grabbed a big handful of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Dolls. I LOVE these vintage die cut images! I played with them for a bit to figure out how I wanted to layer and place them on my tag. Once I had that figured out, I took a quick photo with my camera to act as my memory when I stuck them back on using a Ranger glue stick.

Initially I wanted to emboss my quote with Tyrian Purple Modern Gilding Powder, but my background had a few bumps and I knew it would be tough to get a nice crisp image and this tag is ALL ABOUT the quote! I also tried to stamp onto some Duralar, but despite using powder to reduce the static, it was not working. That might be a technique to finesse another day!

I opted to use StazOn ink in black, on the Duralar, and stapled my clear tag onto the top left corner. I think it worked just great! So happy with how this tag turned out! 

I previously mentioned that this tag is ALL ABOUT the quote and I seriously mean that. My husband and I had fun thinking of other quotes that one could use and the whole vibe of the tag changes!

Have a great week! Get in lots of paper play before the long, summer days entice you to be outside!

~kim

Supplies:

Quietfire Design 'Be With Those' stamp

Ranger tag & glue stick

Gel Medium

StazOn black ink

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!

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

Gilded Tulip Garden

Happy Monday! [...just in case you need to know the day of the week] To those essential workers who are still heading to work ~ THANK YOU! To those who are now home social distancing ~ THANK YOU! In the midst of all this change in the past weeks, I do find some comfort in my craft room, even if my creativity struggles to surface.

This week I played with the newest colours added to Quietfire Design’s Modern Gilding Powders line. The colours are gorgeous, soft and swoon worthy! I wanted to used them all, so decided to make a garden of flowers...in hopes of finding some spring vibes in our very, winter like weather!

I added some Distress Oxide inks to some watercolour paper, to create an illusion of grass, sky and sunshine. I chose watercolour paper so I could “pull” some colour from my Tombow markers in another step.

After my background was completed, I made a stencil from cardstock using the Elizabeth Craft Designs Butterflies and Star Sprays die, designed by Suzanne Cannon. I used a foam makeup sponge to tap some acrylic paint onto my background through the butterflies. Every garden needs butterflies!

Next to make some flowers! I very loosely drew tulips and cut them out out cardstock. Using an Emboss It Dabber from Ranger, I covered my tulips with embossing and poured my Gilding Powders over top! Guess what...even the worse drawn flowers will look amazing, so give it a try!

I cut out the word Spring from the 4 Seasons die and embossed with Dragon Berry Modern Gilding Powder, a favourite from the first release of colours.

With my flowers and quote all ready, I decided how I wanted my placement. With my Tombow markers, I drew stems for my tulips and used my water brush to “pull” the colour. This allows for more of a water colour effect and softer lines! I did the same for some grass and added a few pencil lines for depth.

In signing off today, I encourage you to play. This is not my favourite card I have ever created, it did however let me play with product that has been waiting for me, it took my mind away from the constant chatter of COVID 19 news and play lets your creativity grow...it’s part of the process.

Have a healthy week!