Butterfly Kindness

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today is my day to share a project at Quietfire Creations and I made a Butterfly Kindness card.  This card is perfect to give to a friend or loved one in appreciation for kindness or as a thank you card.  (I really like the quote stamp as it is so very true and well stated.)

Instructions to create the card are found on the Quietfire Creations post.  It is super easy to make and although I used blue, green and yellow colors, it would also look pretty in red, orange and yellow.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a happy, crafty day.
Kathy Jo

"No Act of Kindness" Quietfire and Graphic 45 Time to Flourish card

Happy Friday, Crafters!

All week I have been sharing projects using Graphic 45 papers.  I really enjoy using Graphic 45 papers and Quietfire stamps because they go so well together.  Today I am sharing a card using journalling cards from Graphic 45's Time to Flourish collection and a beautiful Quietfire stamp, No Act of Kindness:

Such a lovely sentiment and calligraphy by Suzanne Cannon!  It was stamped in Memento's Sweet Plum ink.

The journal card with distressed along the edges with inks in Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain and Dusty Concord.  It was mounted on green card stock die cut with Spellbinders' Detailed Scallops.

I took another journal card and fussy cut the flowers and clovers.  The fussy cuts were mounted with foam onto the card.  Stickles was applied.

The bottom right corner consisted of banners made from scrap Time to Flourish paper and a matching stamp.

The stacked assembly was mounted on an ivory tent fold card with distressed edges.

Such pretty papers!  The colors really make me yearn for the warmer March weather.  :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great Friday and weekend!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Die Cutting Divas- Words, Quotes or Sentiments
Word Art Wednesday, AG

CAS wedding card- Craftin Desert Divas DT challenge card

Helllloooo Crafters!

The design team has been busy with a new challenge over at Craftin' Desert Divas: Say it with a Sentiment.  Awesome challenge!  And I had just the card for it...

Recently I was asked to make a wedding card for a work colleague.  I said yes, of course, but then quickly realized I never made a wedding card before!  Luckily I own a couple of JustRite stamp sets and I just happened to have three sets that worked for this card:  Vintage Pearls Labels ("To have and to hold"- sentiment on the card front), Kindness (the gorgeous stamped background surrounding the front sentiment), and Antique Valentine Tags One (the fancy heart scroll and "Congrats" sentiment on the inside).  All of the stamped images were embossed in silver and Stickles was applied to add more shimmer.

Spellbinders Labels 20 was used on the front and inside, as shown.  The pretty lattice paper is from My Mind's Eye mini pad, Be Amazing.

So there you have it- my first wedding card!  Guess what else it is?  My first design team member post for Craftin' Desert Divas!  YAY!!!  

The challenge runs for two weeks and I hope to see your project in it!  :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a good week!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

Kraft JustRite Autumn Splendor Card

Hello Crafters.

I do hope you all are having a good weekend.

Today I am sharing a card made combining the Kraft Journal Challenge Sketch and JustRite's Autumn Splendor Challenge.  

The ivory card base was made using the Kraft Journal's think ivory linen paper.  The paper is wonderful to work with and is perfect for a card base.  The ivory paper was cut using Spellbinders Timeless Rectangle.  The Kraft sketch shows a small square over a vertical band.  Well, I decided to change the sketch a bit by making it larger and putting it under the band...this change really accentuated the JR Lace Background stamp (stamped with ColorBox's MicaMagic in green and then embossed).  TH distress inks in Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade and Red Barn was applied as shown.  The circular die cut stack is as follows: textured gold linen paper die cut using Memory Box's Quinn Flourish, Kraft paper die cut using Spellbinders Stately Circles, ivory paper die cut using Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles.  JR stamp set Kindness provided the "You mean the world to me" sentiment.  The leaves are Spellbinders Little Leaf Sets and the ivory twigs were cut using Martha Stewart's twig punch.  Red gems were applied in the areas shown.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great week.

Hugs,

Kathy Jo