QF Rubber - Happy Family Days - HB

ID: QF Rubber - Labels 1 - HB

You can NEVER have enough "Happy Birthday" stamps... and I'm so glad Suzanne from Quietfire Design  came up with another one for my repertoire. It's paired up with a beautiful flourished frame that fits Spellbinder's Label 1 die (5 stamps on the "Happy Family" set). Love it, Love this card, it makes me sooooo happy (pun intended) love the vibrant colors and fun-ness of it.

side view - you can see the score lines

I stamped the Flourish Frame along left and right side edges of cream cardstock using Versafine Black Onyx, embossed with clear embossing powder, colored it with Prisma colored pencils and a Lyra blender pencil. Used my Scor-it board and made vertical score lines every 1/2".

Layered my panel onto a bright red cardstock, then a side folded cream card (5"w x 7"h).

 Stamped the sentiment and Flourish Frame with the black, clear embossed, die cut with Spellbinder's Label 1 and sponged Distress Mustard Seed and then some Wild Honey around the edges. Adhered to card with 3D foam tape.
Punched out a bunch of small and medium sized Sakura blossoms (Carla Craft) from decorative paper that had the same colors. Die cut the leaves (Dee's Distinctively "Large Green Leaf") and added some Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils to the green decorative paper I used to give it a more Limey color, wet with my water brush. Adhered the elements, then added matching small and medium rhinestones in the centers of the flowers.

Punched out the butterfly (EK Success layer punch) - another piece of decorative paper (my stash is very slowly dwindling...), applied glue and sprinkled with Stampendous "Crystal Snow"

Click on images to see larger versions etc. Enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Craft Your Passion  #123 put a bug on it
Totally Stampalicious  Use your favorite colors (since I love all colors, this is my combination...)
Creative Craft Challenge  Just a sentiment
Belli Challenge  #150  Winged things
The House That Stamps Built  #82 use scoring lines
Crafty Mess Challenge  #15 just words
Colour Q  #150 see image below

MC Sept - Dots & Stripes - Thanks

Love the clean and simple lines of this card and the colored dots are a background I resurrected after having a friend tell me about the technique of making a bar code background. I did mine with a bit more of a twist. And I use my ribbon punch technique you can find HERE

I also used those slim embossing folders, running them through my Cuttlebug all in one shot and then using my Scor-It to make embossed lines between the designs. Love this technique which I've never used before. The combinations are endless.

Of course I used a Quietfire Design rubber stamp. Click on card to see close ups and descriptions etc. Enjoy

And it fits for a whole bunch of challenges:

Crafty Card Makers #29 Clean & Simple
Little Paper Shop Clean & Simple
Fab n Funky #39 Anything Goes
Gingersnap Creations #GC70 Punches
Charisma Cardz #36 try something new (multiple Thin Embossing folders at one time)
Creative Prompts 4 U #31 Inspiration Image (see web site)
S2G paper Crafting #73 Use spots & dots
Frosted Designs Use a Quote
Prairy Fairie Designs #35 Wet or dry embossing
Stamp Challenges Spots & Stripes
Totally paper Crafts #33 lets go dotty
Drunken Stampers #33 use circles
SSDS Challenge #54 Thank You
Simple Doodles #26 Dots
Alys Sunday Challenge #25 Sparkly & Glittery
Craftalicious #8 Thanks
Craftalicious #8 Thanks
Oh La La Challenges #62 Stripes

Gilded card samples

I'm having to make some samples for a gilding class I'll be teaching in August so I can figure out what I want to teach... BIG GRIN. Anyway, I've been having a blast creating them. The leaf page has 3 cards on it.
The gilding supplies can be found at QuietfireDesign.ca and the Peel Offs designs and word sentiments can be found at ECraftDesigns.com

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them

Get Well card

I'm just zipping along this weekend. An online friend suggested I look at this video with Michael Strong demoing a card made with elements using the Scor-it board. I really like his results, so I thought I'd try it, and since I needed a get well card for a friend, I thought I'd combine my efforts. It worked.