Invisible Tears

As Breast Cancer Awareness month draws to a close, we must remember to keep those who it affects in our thoughts year round.  I originally made this stamp for my mother, who suffered mostly in silence from a chronic illness for many years and kept herself going through love of life and friends.  As with so many, her illness did not show much on the outside most of the time. When Robin Williams died, this quote was the first thing I thought of.


 

Invisible Tears is this week's Tuesday Winsday giveaway.








Here are the instructions to make this card.

1. Cut white cardstock to 10" x 6" and fold in half to create card base measuring 6" x 5".  Cut white cardstock panel measuring 4 3/4" x 4" and a light pink panel measuring 1/8" larger all around.
2. Stamp Invisible Tears sentiment in Memento Rose Bud onto white cardstock panel.
3. Die cut a frame from white cardstock using Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles.  Using the diecut as a mask, position it over the quotation and sponge Memento Angel Pink through the cut out portions and around the outside.
4. Mount white decorated panel on pink panel with Permanent Glue Dots.  Attach pink panel to card base with Pop Dots.
5. Create a bow from hand-dyed ribbon and attach to the front using Permanent Glue Dots.

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

Cupcake Birthday!

Okay, so he's 23 today. No more dinosaur/truck/spider birthday cakes.  *sigh*  But cupcakes never go out of fashion.  Turns out, it was Tim Horton's Chocolate Chip Muffins!

 

I used the Happy Birthday part of the Happy Birthday - Cupcakes set on the inside of the card.

 

Here are the thumbnail links to the products I used!

Happy Birthday Cupcake VersaFine Pigment Inks Cupcake Embossing Folder Cardblanks Tombow Markers Grand Calibur Pop Dots

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Quietfire's Queen of Hearts Blog Hop

Welcome! We are sharing our love/Valentine project ideas as we arrive at the Queen Of Hearts event today, February 14, 2013!

It's my turn! I'm glad you are here!

Each day designers have been posting new artwork they have created using Quietfire rubber stamps. This should get your creative juices flowing for your own entry in the Queen of Hearts Challenge.

You can go back and visit all our Designers blogs (see the links below), post a comment on each Blog Hop Post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50! (Yes, I doubled the value from the original announcement!)

Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop Post, so make sure to leave your comment on all the blogs by

Midnight Thursday, February 14th, 2013.

Tell your friends!

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire creations Blog on Sunday Februrary 17th.
If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address.  My email address is in the sidebar >>>>>>

Here are the other blogs you need to go leave comments on:

Terre

Holly

Wanda

Sherry

Yogi

Robyn

and here!  Don't forget to leave a comment here!!

 

First of all....

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

I've been seeing lots of projects on the web using the chalkboard look.  I thought I'd see if I could get that look. 

So I took my pastels and rubbed them over the stamp surface and stamped on black paper and oh wow!  It worked.  But.  It really only worked that one time.  So I tried different pastels and putzed around for a while playing with Perfect Pearls, Pearlex and still wasn't happy with the results.  This is what I finally came up with - and was happy with:  A reverse chalkboard look.

 

 

This was so easy, it's embarrassing.... 

 

 

I rubbed the side of the chalk stick on over the black cardstock and used my finger to blend the chalk to a more "solid" surface.  If I didn't do that, all the fine features in the stamps were lost.  I inked up the stamps with VersaMark ink and stamped into the chalked area. The sticky VersaMark ink pulled the chalk off the cardstock surface perfectly.

 

That's it. So fast, you guys!

I would probably recommend spraying the image with Workable Fixative if you were going to give it away or mail it. I have to add a thank you to my Dad, who left behind a pristine piece of chalk in one of his tool chests. Yay Dad, still saving my bacon!         

I hope this gives you something to add to your creative tool chest!

Now just add a bow and a button and you're done. The chipboard is there to make it look a bit like the wooden frame on an old chalkboard. How about that? No fancy ingredients in this project!

 

 

Here are a couple of pastel test using the same technique.  It works!  Stick pastels give you a more chalkboard look than the Conte pencils, but maybe if I'd had enough of the pastel exposed it might have been better.

 

Please leave a comment below so you are eligible to win a $50 grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber stamps.

Thanks for dropping by!  Good luck!  Suzanne

 

Valentine - Love Stamp set Pastels Versamark Ink Pad Chipboard Glue Dots Double-sided Tape Black Cardstock

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians!

We had our turkey early as small fry (not so small now) was coming in from Edmonton for the weekend.  There has been lots of turkey soup consumed since Saturday!

So here, at last, is a Thanksgiving card.  I think it took  more time to assemble than the turkey took to cook!

I couldn't resist this paper.  It's beautiful!

 

Thanks for having a look! Suzanne

 

 

A Wicked New Flipbook!

We have a new flipbook!  See how our Designers use our rubber stamps for Halloween!

Click here to go to the Flipbook - I can't embed it here because there is too much code for my little brain (and perhaps Blogger's brain, as well!)
Enjoy!
(just a note - sometimes it works better in a browser that is *not* Internet Explorer)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzanne