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!

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!