Watercolored Autumn Filled Mandala Pumpkin Card

Hello! Kim here today! We are just days away from officially moving from summer to autumn, but here in Alberta there is no denying the seasons are switching! I have a bit of a love affair with all things autumn, and have been secretly celebrating it’s arrival! Today’s project share does just that!

The instant I saw this new Autumn Mandala Filled Pumpkin cutfile, I knew it was going to be a favourite! I loved the intricate design!

I uploaded the file into my Cricut Design Space and resized to a height of six inches. I wanted to make a 5x7 card, but was worried the fine lines would be a challenge to cut. I considered a few options of substrate from paper, vinyl and also cardstock with double sided adhesive attached. I decide on Cricut’s adhesive foil, and so glad I did. It cut beautifully and kept all the fine lines intact and well...it’s shiny! 

Next I carefully ‘weeded’ out the negative space of the design, using transfer paper, I easily applied the image onto a piece of watercolour paper.

I was excited to add colour to my mandala. I had purchased a set of handmade water colours last year in Kauai and they always make me smile. They are luscious and lovely to paint with! I sprayed some water on my project to allow the colours to flow as I applied them! I am not concerned about perfection with the process, it’s the variations and imperfections that make watercolour magical!

My sentiment is an older, discontinued Quietfire stamp that I felt suited the card perfectly. Honestly there are so many sentiments that could be used if this one is not in your stash already!

Thanks for checking into the Quietfire Digital Blog today, be sure to scroll through past projects for more amazing inspiration! The design team has lots of sweet ideas up their sleeves!

Supplies:

Quietfire Design Autumn Mandala Filled Pumpkin

Quietfire Design You Are Amazing stamp [discontinued]

Canso Watercolour paper

Cricut Adhesive Foil - copper

Ocean Paper Watercolours

Waves Slim Stencil Card/ Slim Envelope

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here jumping on the Slim Card Bandwagon!

Suzanne to the rescue with a new series of

slimline cards that are also stencils!

and a matching envelope.

On the Mat

Waves Slim Stencil Card

Slim Card Envelope

Cut a piece slightly smaller than the stencil front and blend distress inks

tumbled glass, broken china, faded jeans

 and spritz with 

Perfect Pearls mist.

The card base edge is gilded with a mixture of 

Modern Gilding Powders 

Acanthus Teal, Celtic Mint and Kells Gold.

The pad you bought for one sheet comes in handy for envelopes!

Supplies

• Silhouette Design Store files- Waves Slim Stencil Card- #329925
•                                                  Slim Envelope- #329928
• Emerald Creek/Quietfire Design Modern GildingPowders
• Inks
• Card stock
• Adhesive

Have you jumped into Slimlines?

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Suzanne Cannon Fan Group

on Facebook

Comments and Questions Welcomed.

Forest Stencil Card

Hello, digital crafting friends!

Isn´t time flying by? Not too long and Christmas will be just around the corner. Here is a Christmas card.

Materials I used:

FOREST WITH SYMPATHY STENCIL CARD

white and blue cardstock

rhinestones

green, dark blue and light blue ink

transparency paper 

First of all, you have to cut the forest stencil from the transparency paper. You can also use normal paper, but I wanted to keep the stencil for, later on, that´s why I used transparency paper.

on the mat

all cut

the stencil

and the negative

coloring the forest stencil with blue ink (I used some tape to hold the stencil in place)

The finished card. Now add any extras you want. I added some silver rhinestones, to get the impression of snowfall.

And here´s the card I made using the negative cut. Which one do you like better? 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a happy day!
Kora

Coneflower/Sweet peas/Poppy Pot Card in a box

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here with my usual problem of not being able to pick just one.

On the mat:

Coneflower Pot Card in a box

Poppy Pot Card in a box

Sweet Peas pot card in a box

So I used them all and ended up with a garden!

The card easily folds flat for mailing.

The label was enlarged slightly for the sentiment  gilded in Gothic Black 

and edge gilded in Acanthus Teal Gilding Powder.

The origin of love

Supplies

• Silhouette Design Store Files-Coneflower Pot card in a box- #328488
•                                                  Poppy Pot Card in a box- #328489
•                                                  Sweet Peas Pot Card in a box - #328486
• Emerald Creek-Modern Gilding Powder- Gothic Black
• Emerald Creek-Modern Gilding Powder- Acanthus Teal
• Quietfire Design Rubber Stamp- The origin of love
• Cardstock
• Adhesive 
• distress ink for label, antique linen
• VersaMark ink 

Now for the chocolate!

Please share your creations with us on the

Suzanne Cannon Fan Group

Facebook Page.

FLORAL CARD

Hey all!

A friend of mine turned 40 recently. As she loves flowers and gardening I wanted to create a floral card for her. So I "took" the flower from the FLORAL EXPLOSION BOX and put it on a card. To add some extra glimmer I also used the Quietfire Modern Gilding Powders to make the semen and some leaves look glimmery.

Materials used:

Floral Explosion Box

Modern Gilding Powders: Acanthus Teal, Burnished Silver, Copper Scroll, Kells Gold

green and yellow cardstock

watercolour patterned paper (background)

rhinestones

on the mat

all cut

gilding the semen

the flowers and leaves put together

adding some rhinestones

The finished cards. Wishing you a sunny day, 
Kora

Halloween Card Using HALLOWEEN TREE CUPCAKE BOX

Hello! Here we are on the 19th of August already. I feel as if summer is moving along too fast but also love the season that follows! I love crisp days, autumn colours and Halloween! I got the urge to make a Halloween card this weekend despite the 29C day!

Browsing through Suzanne’s Silhouette store, I found the perfect cut file for what I had in mind! The Halloween Tree Cupcake Box! The file cut as made, is pretty sweet, but I did not need all the elements that made it 3D!

I pulled the design into my Design Space, I use a Cricut Maker.

 

Next I hid all the elements I did not require. This left me with the tree, owl, bat, cat and part of the box. Using my software I grabbed a square and used the “slice” feature to remove the box. If you are not sure how to do this, it is just as easy to cut  the entire piece and cut using scissors. I cut two identical images.

My background and moon were layered using some gel prints I had previously made. I can get lost in that process and just save all the prints for use in cards, journals and scrapbooks.

I took one of my images and sliced off the owl, cat and bat with scissors.

I embosses these parts using Quietfire Design Gilding Powders in Copper Scroll and Gothic Black. I like the extra texture it adds when adhered to the full cut image.

As a finishing touch, I used the Quietfire Design stamp, Something Wicked, with Gothic Black Gilding Powder to add my sentiment!

I finished the card with some littles eye details using a Dylusions Paint Pen and some purple washi tape. I can’t wait to send it off to someone this coming October!

Thanks for checking out my project this week! Let's not whisk away summer too quick, but there is no shame in feeling some Autumn feels!

SUPPLIES:

Halloween Tree Cupcake Box design #304540 from Suzanne's Silhouette Store.

Copper Scroll Modern Gilding Powder available through Emerald Creek Crafting Supplies

Gothic Black Modern Gilding Powder available through Emerald Creek Crafting Supplies

Something Wicked stamp set  available through Emerald Creek Crafting Supplies

Ranger's Embossing Ink

Versafine Black

Ranger's Dylusion Pens

Stampin' Up cardstock

mix of adhesives

QFD BUTTERFLY CARD MONOGRAM FONT

Hello, to all of you!

It´s Kora here today sharing a birthday card with you. I made an L (using the Butterfly Card Monogram Font) as the birthday girl´s name is Linda.

Materials I used:

QFD Butterfly Card Monogram Font

QFD Guilding Powder - Armenian Pink

Metal Cutting Die - Flourished Frame

pink rhinestones

pink heavy cardstock

on the mat

all cut

I wanted the butterflies to look shimmery, so I guilded the background with Armenian Pink.

I kept the cut out butterflies, put them together, and put them on the card. 

To finish off the card I added some extras using the flourished metal cutting die and some rhinestones.

Have a great week!
Kora