K-Cup Caddy and Card

I am having fun with my new Silhouette Cameo machine. I used it to make a Keurig Coffee Cup Caddy to match a birthday card.

This little caddy holds four K-cups in 1.75 inch circles. I found the free PDF design online, but wanted to cut it with my Cameo so I needed to re-create it from scratch in the Silhouette Designer Edition software. It was very easy. This is my first attempt. The next one will be more decorative, but I was working on a deadline for an office gal's birthday the next morning.

It's a fun way to present a few special flavoured coffees.

The card was made using a design from the Silhouette Online store for the base and the flowers. The leaves were die cut the old fashioned way, with my Cuttlebug. The greeting is a clear stamp from Crafty Secrets, the only stamping on this card!

Christmas Card Challenge: Glitter!

May is my month to host the Waltzingmouse Stamps Christmas Card Challenge and I have chosen Glitter! for our theme.

My challenge is to use glitter in some form or fashion. I made a few samples to share in the WMS forum. This one is using glitter under acetate.

Stamps: WMS Vintage Ornaments; Paper: Memory Box

I stamped on one side in StazOn Iris ink and then used clear drying glue to apply glitter to the underside. Here's a close-up:

I am a new Silhouette Cameo owner (sooo excited!), and one of the things I have been eager to try is cutting out masks for the Burnished Velvet technique. For the card below, I used the free Bright Season cut files bundle from WMS to create the scroll frame and lantern.

I applied Sookwang double-sided tape to plain cardstock. The Cameo blade cut out the top layer of liner, but not the tape or the cardstock. I peeled away sections of liner and applied glitter one colour at a time. Below you can see where two colours have been applied so far.

The entire card front, except for the leaves, berries and banner, is one layer of glittered-up cardstock. It is smooth to the touch (hence the term "velvet"). It's mounted on metallic copper cardstock.

My last card features a cut file from the Silhouette Online Store for the card base. I thermal embossed the poinsettias and frame with Carbernet Twinkle Embossing Powder. The glitter is a little more subtle here. 

I hope you will join us at WMS to make a few more cards for your Christmas card stash. Details can be found by clicking on the logo at right.

Today's Quietfire Creations Guest Designer

... is me! In my second posting to the Quietfire Creations blog this month as guest designer, I present some really simple, quick, yet elegant cards. I hope you click on the blog link above and visit. While you are here, I will share a couple of other cards using Quietfire stamps. This first one features possibly the very first stamp I purchased from Quietfire Design way back when.

Distress Ink background, Tim Holtz Postcard Texture Fades Embossing Fold

Next up, I created an alcohol ink background for this card and silver embossed "thank you" on the top half. The bottom half features a Lace Border Dreamweavers Stencil and the Burnished Velvet technique.

And lastly, here is a card created very simply with  a wash of Springtime Twinkling H2O's on watercolor paper, then the Thoreau quote stamped with Versafine Deep Lagoon and clear embossed.

Spellbinders Labels 18, silver mirror cardstock, navy Canson Mo-Teintes

Thanks for visiting today - please go check out the Quietfire Creations blog to see more!

WMS Christmas Card Challenge

A quick catch up post on my neglected blog. The monthly Christmas Card Challenge at Waltzingmouse is in full swing (see link at right). For April, Linda Suarez challenged us to use a non-Christmas WMS stamp in our card. Other than the sentiment, all the stamps I used are non-Christmas, from the Sewing Box - Hugs set. 

In March, the task was to use the colours of navy and a "zesty citrus green," thanks to Cassie J. You might want to put on sunglasses before scrolling further!

I used the wreath from the Around Christmastime set, the border from Nordic Winter and the Noel from Compliments of the Season Two. WMS stamps are fun to mix and match! It is hard to capture in a photograph, but I added diamond stickles to the wreaths and borders.

I am slowly working on the Christmas 2013 card stash. Thanks for visiting!

I'm not here... I'm over there!

Just a note to invite you to visit Quietfire Creations blog, where I am Guest Designer for the month of April! Above is a wee sneak peek at what you'll find over there. Bit of stage fright here - hope you enjoy!

Personalized Wedding Card

My daughter is of an age where weddings are the main social activity, it seems. Consequently, I am called upon to make wedding cards. Where possible, I try to incorporate papers or motifs from the couples' wedding invitations. My thinking is, if they picked it out for their special missives, surely they must like it!

The silver embossed paper above once held the invitation, which I carefully removed. I slid in some black cardstock and mounted a lacy oval cut from silver cardstock. I thermal-embossed the greeting in silver on more black cardstock and cut it to fit the inner oval. Et voila - a meaningful, personalized wedding card.

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps

Ink: Ranger Embossing Ink

Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder, Spellbinders Floral Oval Die

Cardstock: Black Recollections, Silver

Circular Thanks

Here' s a card where an embossing folder provided a textural background without competing with the main sentiment. I don't usually do Clean and Simple style cards, but I think this hits the mark.

I even made a matching envelope!

Stamps: Inkadinkado

Ink: Versamagic Thatched Straw, Encore Metallic Purple

Accessories: Cuttlebug embossing folder, yarn

Cardstock: Purple and yellow from my stash