February with a Twist

A big Thank You to our sponsor for February, the unique and creative-

QUIETFIRE DESIGNS

Arlene here with a good bye to February and hello to March.

I decided to check out St. Patrick's Day and I'm ready for it.  This card was a breeze to cut on the Silhouette. Using double-sided colored paper was a perfect idea, one has a striking pattern and the other is rather a a lightly washed green.  The green panel on the front of the card is what the beautiful color is on the inside of the card.

Michelle has outdone herself and offers a Thank You card for our last post of February.  A big Thank You to our marvelous sponsor this month.  I personally am wild about this card.  I have to say "Thank You" to Michelle.



QuietFire Stair Cards, Cricut cartridges

February is almost over.  Can you believe that?  It's gone way too fast.

I had to use this Quietfire Design card base for a tree.  I had the piece of green patterned paper sitting on my desk and now the tree has grass and leaves. I like the colors and found I like the stair step card a lot.  The cutting files make it so nice and easy too.

Quietfire Design-Love lives here base card

Elizabeth Craft Designs All Season Tree

QuietFire Design Twirl & Enjoy set of three stamps 

A Bit of This and That

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

It's All About the Sentiment

Quietfire Desgn

Cathie knows how to make the sentiment the focal point with this card!

Quietfire Design Gentle Thoughts.

Spellbinders Label 1

Visit Cathie at House of Borowski for more inspiration

This is kind of a CAS card and I like the simplicity of it.  Wonderful sentiment from Quietfire Design.

QuietFire Twirl & Enjoy set of three stamps
Arlene at A Bit of This and That

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

What's up for February?

QuietFire Designs, our February Sponsor

Cathie knows a star when she sees one.  What a great guy card; What guy wouldn't want to receive this card?

Quietfire Design Happy Birthday Plain & Simple

Creative Dies Nesting Star Dies

Check out House of Borowski for more inspiration

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

Just Because

Quietfire Design

Hannah has created a beautiful CAS card for you.  Hannah just cuts to the chase and produces a beautifully simple card.

A little bit from Hannah:

My Mom grows many herbs, So when I got the Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme stamp set I was excited to put it to use and the Ten Tiny Tag Sentiments are perfect for so many occasions or "Just Because"
It was hard to choose!  The Style of Quietfire Design is Beautiful and the Calligraphy so elegant.

I had so much fun putting this together and I hope you'll check Quietfire Designs out 

and give them a try

Hannah.

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

The Moment a Child is Born

QuietFire Designs, February Sponsor of Die Cut Divas 

Dawn has created this precious card for us and she tells me she is absolutely loving QuietFire Designs sentiments.  I can understand why, can't you?  The sentiments are so beautifully done.

Visit Dawn at Dawn's World

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

Sometimes, Said Pooh

Quietfire Design

What a lovely setting for a beautiful expression.  Dawn takes the ordinary and makes the extraordinary.  Thank you, Dawn.

Using Sometimes said Pooh...die from Sue Wilson's Scandinavian collection

HAPPY, HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY!

HAPPY, HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY!

Michelle is first up with this wonderful heart card.  Wouldn't you like to receive this?  So adorable.

Quietfire Design Open Heart Border Card, Cricut Artiste sentiment,

Cuttlebug Candy Hearts EF

Marsha Drain continues with lots of hearts.  I'm in love the the two cards she's thrilled us with.  I couldn't use just one today.

Heart Spray cutting file is available here.  Marsha used a sentiment by GKD

Here's a card that's got heart!  I couldn't help this remark.  When I make this card again, I'll make the card longer, but it works and I sent it to my granddaughter.

QuietFire Twirl & Enjoy set of three stamps
Rising Hearts Card
Arlene at A Bit of This and That

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

Our Guest Artists

QUIETFIRE DESIGN

Some amazing guest artists just for YOU!  
I'm thrilled to introduce you to some of the talented Design Team members of 
Quietfire Design and their beautiful cards.

Welcome to Yogi Grunwald, part of Quitefire's design team with a gorgeous card.  The flowers almost look embroidered upon a stylish handkerchief, don't they?  This has that old fashioned love feel to it.

Wonderful easel card, beautifully done.

Visit Art with Yogi for some sensational work.and inspiration  
with Quietfire Design

Easel Fern – With Sympathy – Life is Not
The measurements are 5”w x 7”h easel closed

eCut files: Fern 

Stamps: with Sympathy 10 tiny tag sentiment set 

Life is Not Measured

Thanks a bunch and have a great day


What a fantastic card from  Wanda Hentges, part of Quitefire's design team.   I love the thump, thump, thump of her hearts beating a rhythm and the sentiment is just perfect.

 Be sure to visit Art by Wanda here. 

ekg heart you card cut file by Quietfire

          heart thump card cut file by Quietfire

           Love is friendship set on fire rubber stamp by Quietfire

Perception + Focus = the difference between a good day and a bad day.

Next we have Robyn from Quietfire Design, this months sponsor for the Die Cut Diva’s challenge.  

 Close-up and do you love the heart detail?

The print and cut sentiment, hand lettered by Suzanne, looks just like you lettered it on your card, even with Robyn's printer! (her words, honest)

Inside of card - just lovely

Robyn says she got a little carried away with stamping on the inside!

Valentine’s Day/Love-set of 8 stamps

FlourishedHearts 

Be sure to visit Robyn at RainbowWeaves

Visit Quietfire Creations for more details and lots of inspiration.

I'm so glad that Suzanne Cannon could play with us today.  Did you know Suzanne designs new digital cutting files each week?  I love the unique and beautiful heart and message..

Be Mine Card

This 5x7” Be Mine Card was created with American Crafts cardstock, Little B Kraft Corrugated Tape, Quietfire Design’s FlourishedHeart Cutout cutting file

the Quietfire Cutting file Be Mine available in the Silhouette Design Store.

Please visit Suzanne's personal blog!: Quietfire Style.  I did and you won't be disappointed.

Please leave some love for our guest artists this month. 

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

When in Doubt

Quietfire Design sponsors Die Cut Divas with our challenge theme

WORDS, QUOTES & SENTIMENTS

This little girl makes me want to dance and twirl.  What a perfect sentiment for this lovely card.

Quietfire Twirl and Enjoy Stamp set

Spellbinders Grand Labels 1, Label 1, Art by Miran Petal Blossom. 

Visit House of Borowski for more on this cutie.

Let's Take a Look at Hearts

February's Sponsor for Die Cut Divas is none other than QuietFire Designs

Starting off today is our fabulous Michelle Nutter with a fantastic February card.  I love the red and white that one feels natural for our February cards.  You'll find the red and white glamorous cards below.with beautiful elegance.

QuietFire Flourished Heart Digital Card,

QuietFire Real Love Stories stamp

Be sure to visit Michelle at Just a Nutter Paper Crafter

Marsha Drain has me thinking hearts too.  WOW, what a beauty.

 Flourished Heart SVG
.
Isn't this inside beautiful?


Don't you love the way Michelle and Marsha used this same Flourished Heart in different ways, one the positive and one the negative.

Beautiful work, ladies!

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

Grant Me the Serenity

February's Sponsor QuietFire Designs

Isn't this the most darling card!  I love the colors and background patterned paper with the wonderful fence and bow.  The little girl is darling, just so sweet.   The color of the hair ties in with the colors of the flowers on the patterned paper.  

Did I say I liked it?   The sentiment is from our wonderful sponsor this month, QuietFire.  

Source of the following information:

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr^[1][2] (1892–1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The best-known form is:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

QuietFire God give me the Serenity . Obsession Expression fence die and Spellbinders oval and scallop oval dies.  

Be sure to visit Dawn's blog today.

When in Doubt, Twirl

QuietFire Designs - sponsor for February

I love cutting all those little shamrocks on my Silhouette Cameo, now that I've finally started using it.  You've got to visit QuietFire Designs so you can see all the wonderful quotes, rubber stamps and files Suzanne has waiting for you. 

Kitty Collection Cut File from QuietFire

QuietFire Twirl & Enjoy set of three stamps

Arlene at A Bit of This and That

:Look what Marsha did with hearts!  Don't you love the XOXO?  Beautifully done card.  I'm eating my heart out, I just love it so.

Heart Spray cutting file can be found here.  She used an  XOXO SVG file

See more at Marsha's blog, Gramma's Room.

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

And we have a winner.....

A huge thanks to Elizabeth Craft Designs for being great sponsors for our January challenge...

and a huge thanks to all of our participants...we have reached a milestone with the number of entries this month..... you are all winners in my eyes...

However our winner is..........drum roll please

 Congratulations to Art and Soul Creations (Barbara)

Please email us at thedcdivas@gmail.com to claim your prize.  We'll need your name and address so Arlene can send  you your awesome prize package consisting of:
Silk Microfine Glitter - Warm Diamond
Double Sided adhesive (5 X 5 inches)
2 each of the following Peel-Offs  (Crystal Flowers), (Seashells), (Lighthouses) and (Rubber Ducky).


and some of our favourites..

Arlene's choice from January 2015 is Gail from Lacy Lassy.  There were 200 choices and it was a difficult pick to make.  There were funny, sporty, elegant, winter, and all sorts of cards.  I think this  wintry image and coloring called to me this month.

Cathie's choice from January 2015 is Wendy L from Spanish Crafter. I was drawn to the design feature of the accordion card and I love that pop of colour only in the middle.

My choice is from Yantis Lovely Craft.  I was drawn to the delightful embellishments on her beautiful diary

Thanks to you all... and hope we see you in this months challenge

Dawn and the Divas

WORDS, QUOTES & SENTIMENTS JUST FOR YOU!

February is a new month and a new challenge sponsored by

 QUIETFIRE DESIGN

  

The generous prize will be The prize will be $30 worth of stamps and .svg files.  

If the winner can’t use svg files, then the prize will be all stamps!

NEW CHALLENGE:  WORDS, QUOTES & SENTIMENTS

Edited 2/6/2015:  Remember the Rules include

• All cards/projects must be made using at least one die cut or embossing folder, using any die cut machine, this also includes the use of Cameos and Cricut machines.

Quietfire Design-Love lives here
from Michelle

 Using QuietFire The Perfect Pair of Shoes stamp, 

Tattered Lace Shoe die, PP from Couture Creations (Vintage Rose Collection)

Quietfire Design

from Dawn

Kitty Collection Cut File from QuietFire

QuietFire Twirl & Enjoy set of three stamps

from Arlene at A Bit of This and That

Heart You Card with Heart Closure SVG file

Inside of card 

By Marsha Drain

I love the card and its unique closure.  I love the traditional look and style. I like two different colors on the heart closure.

From Cathie

Creative Dies Nesting Star Dies, Quietfire Design Happy Birthday Plain & Simple

From Cathie Borowski

You can use this card for anyone; anyone can be the star Birthday boy or girl.

Come play with us.

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

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