New Quietfire Design Stamps! Just living is not enough/ The greatest strength is gentleness

It's really hard to stay in creative doldrums as a member of the Quietfire Design family, 

especially when the new quote stamps fit on an ATC!

The background is an all over print stamped in Distress antique linen.

The greatest strength is gentleness 

is stamped in VersaFine sepia and heat embossed with

Ranger Superfine clear embossing powder.

The flowers are hand sketched with a Distress antique linen marker and colored with tattered rose, victorian velvet, mowed lawn and peeled paint. 

The mini pads are good for getting the ink onto your craft sheet. They are very juicy, and just a tad of water is needed to get the right consistency for painting, using a #4 round brush.

I highly recommend Cheap Joe's golden fleece brushes. They are very inexpensive so you can buy enough to use a separate brush for each color and medium that you use.

The edge is gold watercolor with an 1/8th flat brush.

This ATC is one of a series, so I took a short cut and stamped the sunflower in VersaMark and heat embossed clear.

The background was applied pad to paper, Distress salty ocean and the areas close to the flower were applied with a felt marker replacement nib.

Painting done with  #4 round brush and Distress mowed lawn, peeled paint, squeezed lemonade and mustard seed.

Water was flicked on with a brush.

When completely dry, iron the card between two pieces of clean absorbent paper to remove the embossing.

This is needed for the stamping to take to the paper.

Just living is not enough 

is stamped in VersaFine onyx and thermal embossed clear.

The edge is sponged on Delicata Golden Glitz.

This is #1 in the series

and a Brave Girl Card

Do what makes you happy

on the back

A few more ATC's using digital files and DecoArt products.

The mineral based watercolor paint resisted the oil based VersaFine ink. It still embossed well, so there is some mystery to be explored!

Celtic knot work file using a gold gel pen.

 Border of DecoArt Metallic Luster paste, Triple Thick Gloss and Glamour Dust glitter.

Comments and Questions always welcomed!

WOYWW - 350 Going Green!

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I am very tired of winter weather.

St Patty's day is traditionally the day to plant peas!

I'm ready.

Suzanne of Quietfire posted St. Patty's Day and Celtic files this week and I was right on it!

Blog post here.

New stamps i can't show yet, expressive flower painting, random papers to cover light switch covers.

Brave girl cards.

The Amour that didn't quite make it- a broken heart card?

Pick a Stick Challenge in the upper left.

Blog post here.

All in a deskers day!

What else can I say?

Thanks for visiting and I hope to visit as many of y'all as I can!

Comment and Questions Always Welcomed!

Quietfire Design V-day Digital Cards and New (to me) Deco Arts Products

I enjoy making Valentines day cards and the new cutting files from Quietfire Design's Suzanne Cannon in the Silhouette Store do not disappoint , and they are on sale!

Very different looks can be created with this file.
Heart Tree Card

15 minutes                                                                                          A bit longer!                                  

On the mat

The above file just needs to be ungrouped, cut and pasted.

I'm a new member of the DecoArt Helping Artist and Blogger Outreach Program.

DecoArt sent me some new(to me) products to play with, and I used 

the Metallic Luster to edge the card bases-110 Neenah Classic Crest White.

I'm in love with this paste. Rub it on almost anything to get a true metallic shine.

Then I messed about to get a very different feel with the same file, the patterned paper card above.

A guy card?

The hearts are cut from Elizabeth Craft Designs Velvet Paper.

 This Brave Girl Card began as white Neenah and  was rubbed with a cloth with the Gold Metallic luster.

A fine line of Triple Thick Gloss was brushed on the edge and sprinkled with Gold Glamour Dust.

I like the distressed look of the edge.

Love 

is A Way With Words Die cut from the ECD Velvet paper. 

 Thinking the Triple Thick was like Glossy accents I used it to addd dimension to my message.

It doesn't stand up as well as GA, and clouded a bit.

I used the Decou-page to adhere  the messages. It holds well, dries quickly and the matte finish disappears if it gets where you don't want it.

Here the Danke die cut was cut from freezer paper and ironed on as a resist.

 Applying the Triple thick from a fine point helped it to set up better.

The back, embellished with the Metallic pastes and stamped in VersaFine.

 Glittered glue dots and tape, messages in Triple thick and the card sealed in Decou-Page

I hope you will try the Quietfire Design and DecoArt products to create some love for V- Day and every day!

I'll be using more of the DecoArt products in days to come, so if you have a specific product or technique you want featured let me know.

Comments and questions lovingly welcomed!

WOYWW April 15 -Not Much! Be Brave!

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I'm moving! and in that in-between space, neither here nor there.

My plan is to be inky again in time for the swap, so in addition to swapping with my * partner and Julia, leave me a comment if you want to swap.

My New Years resolution was, No Hiding and Be Brave,

so I continue with Brave Girls cards, and stepping out into this move.

Hold me the the Light dear deskers!

Comments and Questions welcome, tho it may take me awhile to get back to y'all.

WOYWW 299 -Decisions, Decisions!

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Anyone else feeling 299 pressure?

My brain is frozen!

It is not in my plan to live where it can be 0F

and white stuff is more than a fleeting photo op.

I remember standing in the Hardware Store in September and talking myself out of buying bulbs to force 

as I am cheap

as they were expensive.

Today...worth every penny and interest spent!

The desk is littered with this weeks new Quietfire Design cut files and frozen brain is having difficulty making choices.

Please come back on Thursday for the exciting conclusion!

and

winners of last weeks RAK( envies are peaking out far right) and this weeks RAK op!

( if you decide to leave a comment it could be you)

I'm in a RAK mood.

Still clearing out, and found an old tape dispenser with nothing in it and thought myself brill to fill it with a washi tape I use for random taping.

Brave Girl cards- make some- give some away! 

Be Brave!

Poetry Journal Monthly

An idea ahead of it's time?

Where has the month gone?

Post now or meditate on it for next month.

Oh decision, decisions.

I've decided to stop rambling on and hop around the world through desking!

Comments and Questions Always Welcomed!

WOYWW #297-Love is everywhere!

Can you feel it?

Love is everywhere- at least on my desk.

I remember the day, one of my sons said to me

"Mom, I am not your valentine"

DH was next.....

So I join swaps!

Above are some envies from the Flourish Forum, cards I've yet to send, stickers that might go back in to the V-day bin for next year and more

Brave Girls Club Truth cards.

Make some- it will help you be brave!

Pretty please link up to my Poetry Journal Monthly.

I need more poetry in my life.

It doesn't have to be about love!

You can see I have not caught the WOYWW tidy virus, and I'm off to see how y'all are doing this fine Wednesday!

Comments and Questions welcomed!

Tropical Tuesday- It takes two to Mango!

It's freezing snowing and blowing in Prime Publishing land, so they invited us all to post our warmest tropical crafts and recipes.

Tho the weather here is mild, I've had a hankering for 

Tropical Fruit Salad.

1 can organic mango

left over cranberry sauce!

1 pint fresh organic Florida Strawberries

freshly grated coconut-a gift from Florida!

1 organic banana

3 chopped medjool dates

Of course you can add whatever you have.

Let it sit for awhile if you can to marry the flavors.

Adding a few Little Bee tropical flowers adds to the festivities!

The card is a

Brave Girl Club Truth Card

You will find lots of info and words of  kindness, truth and bravery to download at this link.

At the end of the day using what is left on my desk, I make at least one card and try to give one away to a Brave Girl everyday.

The act of giving to people I don't know, as well as ones I do has helped me to be Brave, and who knows how much Bravery has been born by this RAK.

Thanks for visiting today, and I hope you will take some time to scroll around and see what else is happening at Casa Rainbow.

I'd love you to join in my

Poetry Journal Monthly link up.

There be prizes for comments!

Comments and Questions always welcomed!

WOYWW December 31, 2014- Out with the old in with the new

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Happy New Year.

What ever leads to more Joy and less worry in 2015!

Santa brought me a Bow-it -all.

Much less worry in the bow department!

New stamps- look for lots of love coming from The Quietfire Design DT.

Lots of Words of Kindness cards using up all the bits and pieces on my desk.

This brave girl is off to CHA!

Heres to another year of creative blessings!

Comments and Questions welcomed!

WOYWW Dec 24-All is calm, All is bright...Brave Girls

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My DSIL says, be careful what you do on a holiday, it will start a tradition!

With most of my Christmas making done, I am throwing caution to the wind!

These are

Words of Kindness cards

from the Brave Girls Club.

I want to be a member, don't you?

To join, just make some cards and give them away.

RAK and peacemaking at it's best!

I've started hanging out with the 38 children at the

 Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth and Families.

( this link will tell you how you can help)

These children and youth are brave, beyond what most of us can even imagine.

And these are the lucky ones.

I'm grateful to be there and to support their bravery.

Here's the calm and bright !

This is where I tidied Julia, and the christmas elves abhor a vacuum !

God(dess), Spirit, Bless us every one!

Be a gift this year.

Dona Nobis Pacem.

comments and questions always welcomed.