Floral Motif Card and I Wouldn't Have Missed Being Your Friend

I was pretty pleased with the Floral Motif set that is new on the Silhouette Design Store this week!  I thought it would be useful for all sorts of "stamping occasions"!

The blank space inside the card was calling to me and I couldn't ignore it.  I picked up these sweet roses the last time I was at Michaels and they were calling to me as well.

This is so simple!  Cut the elements and assemble the card as shown (stamp on the smallest circle before mounting it on the card).  Use Glue Dots to attach the roses and that's it!

Supplies:
Quietfire Foral Motif Doily Frame, Card and Accent digital cutting file
Quietfire I Wouldn't Have Missed Being Your Friend stamp
Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts VersaMagic Malted Mauve
American Crafts Smooth Cardstock - Ash
Recollections pink cardstock
Staples #110 Ivory Cardstock
Recollections paper roses
Glue Dots
Tombow Stamp Runner
Pop Dots

 Thanks for stopping by and having a look!
Happy creating, Suzanne

floral motif doily frame I wouldn't have missed VersaMagic Tombow Stamp Runner Glue Dots Pop Dots

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Behind the Designs - Lily, Ginkgo and Mom meet Art Nouveau

This week's cutting files are pretty straight forward, no tricky folds or assembling.  You can find them all over at the Silhouette Design Store. The two floral cards hold fond memories of things we had in our garden before we moved and I miss dearly!

The first one is a Calla Lily Card.  Calla Lilies are so beautiful. This card is perfect for anyone who loves flowers! When assembling the flower, mist the cardstock very lightly with water after it has been cut and it will begin curling all on its own. To give your leaves texture, use a ball stylus to add veins to the surface of the leaf. You can just do a single lily as I have done here, or make a whole bouquet. Along with the flower, you get a garden lattice frame! Assemble with foam adhesive for dimension.



We’ve given you a sweet butterfly to add to these unique Ginkgo leaves. To give your leaves texture, use a ball stylus to create veins on the surface of the leaf – there are lots on a Gingko, almost like stripes! In the spring the leaves are pale green, in the fall a golden yellow. I miss my Gingko! I bought it at Mandeville Gardens in Burnaby before we moved to the Island.  It stayed in a pot for 6 years before we planted it in the ground.  And then we moved.
Along with the Ginkgo leaves and lettering, you get an interesting frame which can be used in lots of other projects. This card measures 5x7 inches.

This is the cutting version of the calligraphic rubber stamp!  (You won't be able to cut this design as small as the rubber stamp, though!)
The original Foundational lettering was done with a Mitchell Roundhand nib and Higgins Eternal Ink.  Each of these words and the crown are separate so you may re-arrange them any way you wish.  This will fit on a 5x7" card front.

And last, but not least (in fact, watch for more items coming featuring this motif), is a design that was inspired by the glass in the door to our deck.... 

I've started to look at motifs and designs in a whole new way.  This motif is now the art nouveau flower card and envelope card and matching envelope with the same motif on the flap. You may want to make a coordinating insert to go inside the card for your message.

 

Thanks for taking a look!

Happy creating, Suzanne

Behind the Design: Heartfelt Creations Papers and Digital Die Cuts

I have this real love for Heartfelt Creations papers when I'm working on my samples for Silhouette America's Design Store!  It's definitely my go-to paper when I'm looking for something more interesting than plain cardstock, yet doesn't overpower the focal point of the design.  What prompted me to do this blog post was that all three designs I submitted this week used Heartfelt's Burst of Splendor Collection as well as the little lantern I did last week.

Easter Bookmark Tags

Easter Critters Votive Wrap

Pansy Card

I love their subtlety embedded images and how the colour fades to a lighter shade.  And of course how the colours within a collection coordinate.  I add in some solid cardstock (usually American Crafts smooth cardstock and Core'dinations cardstock) and I get the effect I want.

My favourite collection is Daphne and I did carry it for a while on the Quietfire site and it sold right out.  Unfortunately with the Canadian dollar doing what it is, I can't see carrying it again for a while.  *sigh*

Here is an Easter Bunny Flip card using Daphne papers.

Easter and Bunny Flip Card

Using the Posy Patch Collection and some plain cardstock:

Faux Gatefold Card

Always Card

Sometimes there is a bold design along the edges of the paper (which is perfectly normal seeing these are scrapbooking sized papers!), so I will move away from the edge to make use of the gentle designs.

From the Delicate Asters Collection:

Hello card with a bracket closure

Many of these papers work very well when you need a duplex paper (double-sided) with contrasting colours like in this card design.  I was one happy camper when I flipped it over. The Bunny Flip Card above is another example of a duplex paper that is very striking.  I've designed quite a few of those flip cards and it's a real treat to find patterned paper that works well with them. 









 All the above designs are available on the Silhouette Design store under my profile.


Here is a sample using the new Quietfire Believe metal die and quote.  This paper is from their Balmy Breeze collection and I loved that it coordinated with both American Crafts cardstock and Coredinations cardstock.

I don't have any affiliation with Heartfelt Creations other than liking what they do, but I wouldn't complain if I did!  Their papers are awesome!  And they work well with the Silhouette Cameo - but I'll think you've already guessed that!
Thanks for stopping by!
Suzanne

Washi Tape Hello and Document Corners

This project started out with me wanting to utilize some of my washi tape stash....  It evolved into the need to design a  digital cutting embellishment!

Quietfire Hello Metal die

This card was very simple!  When I had just Hello on the card, it looked a bit too simple but I didn't want to overwhelm the card with too much embellishing.  Years ago, my Mom was cleaning out her
stash and found these things called Document Corners.  So I pulled one apart to see how it was made.  The template for it has been on my website (somewhere!) for years. It's the basic template and was crying out for embellishment.  Now that I have this incredibly cool and amazingly accurate tool called the Silhouette Cameo, I converted the template into a cutting file and added some pizzaz to the plain jane document corners!

I could have make these with the same cardstock as the card base if I wanted to be *really* subtle, but I don't think the turquoise corners overwhelmed the Hello.  Hope you think the same!



Supplies:
Quietfire Hello Die
Washi Tape
Quietfire Decorative Document cutting file
Co'ordinations Bermuda cardstock
American Crafts Blush cardstock
Recollections turquoise cardstock
Pop Dots
Kooltack 3D Clear Foam Tape

Decorative Corners - Quietfire at Silhouette Design Store

Instructions:

1. Cut a card base from Bermuda to 7 x 5".  Cut a panel of the same colour to 6 x 4".  Cut a Blush panel to 6.25 x 4.25". Adhere the 6 x4" panel on top.
2. Lay strips of washi tape side by side on a piece of white cardstock.  Diecut Hello through the strips of washi tape.
3. Cut decorative corners from turquoise and slide them on the Blush/Bermuda panel and adhere at the back.
4. Adhere die cut Hello to center of panel and use Pop Dots to adhere the panel to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!
Suzanne

Westcoast Icons Card

I've had this card hanging around for a couple of weeks and I finally got around to photographing it!
 Here are my four Westcoast Icons, available on the Silhouette Online Store, combined into one card.

 
 

I was originally inspired by the icons inside BC Ferries car decks!  They have huge images on the walls to help you remember where your car is located....  I don't remember what they are - although I'm sure there is a starfish and a crab.... Ahem, except for once, I always remembered where my car was (it was a terrifying few seconds). That's not too bad considering how many times I've taken BC Ferries! 

I love all these icons together, but they'd make great cards all by themselves. Great for a scrapbook page after a visit to the westcoast!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peak!
Happy creating, Suzanne

Thank You Card

This card combines one of our new digital cutting files with the horizontal Thank You in the new Quietfire rubber stamp set Floral Thank You. Meet the new Flourished Leaf Rectangular Frame!

 

This digital cutting file is the calligraphic leaf ornament from the Floral Thank You stamp set! That ornament appears in the oval. We also have an oval version of our Flourished Leaf frame. Both are available on the site now.

 

Here is a detailed photo. In hind sight, I might have cut out the back layer of the ornament.

Next time!

I used Smokey Gray Versafine to stamp the sentiment.

 

Thanks for stopping by and having a look!  Just ask if you have any questions.

Suzanne

Here are the thumbnail links to the products.

My Dark Side Chocolate Chip - Quietfire Digital Cutting File

I'd like to introduce you to the new Quietfire Digital Cutting Files.

Recently I acquired a Silhouette Cameo and well, it's been non-stop fun and a lot of hard work ever since! The fact that my site could handle digital downloads made everything fit together.  Right now we're kind of in the testing stage, but there are some freebie files on the site here.

Robyn Josephs and I were having a "conversation" the other day and chocolate came up....  So off I went to make a chocolate chip cutting file to compliment My Dark Side is Chocolate stamp set. (The Chocolate Chip files is a free svg file!)  I thought I better make a card to go with them and I have never used one of the larger 5x7" Spellbinders set. 

The result was cheeky elegance.

 

 

Here is a little more detail.  How nice the quote fit the medallion!  (LOVE it when that happens!)

Funny about the colour on this detail photo....  In reality it looks more like the full card above.

 

 

I use the new Pearlescent Chocolate VersaMagic (what else?!) for stamping the image and Distress Frayed Burlap to antique the edges of the Spellbinders die cut.
Thanks for taking a look!
Suzanne

NOTE:
Quietfire Digital Cutting Files are for those artists who own digital cutting machines and can accept SVG files.  These files DO NOT WORK with manual machines.

Make sure you see how Robyn Josephs has used some of the new Quietfire Digital Cutting Files on her 4th of July blog post!

 

Thumbnail links to the products are here: