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Friday, November 27, 2015

Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop - Season's Greetings Poinsettia

Welcome to the final day of Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop!

We’re giving away a prize for each of the Sentiments of the Season blog post. The posts will be on our Designers’ personal blogs and on Quietfire Creations. All you have to do is leave a comment on their Sentiments of the Season blog post and you will be entered in a chance to win one of our stamps or dies. Each designer will randomly choose the winner from their comments.

Here are direct links to previous sources of inspiration this week!

Judi Kauffman
Teresa's Blog

Yogi's Blog

The other blog to visit today is
Diana's Blog!

Make sure you leave a comment on each blog hop post to be eligible to win a prize!
The deadline for leaving comments is Sunday, November 29th at midnight PST.

Good Luck!

When I started this card, I had no firm plan and it became a what-do-I-feel-like-playing-with time! Now the great thing about poinsettias is that their coloured petals and leaves are the same, so wherever you put the red and green will never be a mistake! This is how today's poinsettia turned out. Tomorrow's will be different!

I love tone on tone, but in this case the Season's Greetings diecut would have been swallowed up by the background! A tiny little dropshadow fixed that. I hope you find some ideas for your own creations here!

Supplies:

Quietfire A Way With Words Season's Greetings Quietfire site | Elizabeth Craft site

Flourished Poinsettia - set of 2

Versafine stamp pad

Black Embossing Powder

Arches 140lb Hot Press Watercolour Paper

Core'dinations Poinsettia (really!) cardstock

Worldwin Petallics Spring Larch cardstock

Black Cardstock

Tombow Dual Brush Pen Markers: 249, 192, 993, 856, 847

Waterbrush

KoolTak clear foam double-sided adhesive

Crafty Foam Tape Roll, Black

Be Creative Tape

Instructions:

Form a 5.5 x 7.75" card base from Spring Larch cardstock. Cut a red panel measuring 4.5 x 6.75". Mat with a black panel.
Die cut Season's Greetings once from red cardstock and twice from Spring Larch cardstock.
Stamp the poinsettia on watercolour paper and heat emboss with black embossing powder. Apply marker colour and quickly blend with water from water brush. Use an HB pencil to shade around the leaves and flourishes and form a dropshadow. Trim close to the edges of the flourishes and round the corners of the rectangle.
Mount the red Season's Greetings on one of the green diecuts offsetting them slightly to give a dropshadow effect. Mount the poinsettia panel on the other green Season's Greetings so the words don't show, but the flourishes look like an extension of the poinsettia's flourishes.
Use foam tape to attach the red/black panel to the card base and the poinsettia to the red/black panel as shown. Use clear foam tape to attach the diecut below the poinsettia.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look!
Suzanne

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design Blog Hop - Enter to Win!

All the projects have been posted - and they are amazing!

There is still time to enter to win our grand prize - and it's an awesome prize!!

To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple: Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine on the Quietfire Creations blog and five on the Walnut Hollow blog hop posts here: http://walnuthollowcrafts.wordpress.com/ So that will be 14 comments in total on two different blogs from September 29, 2014 to October 3, 2014! The winner must be a resident of North America.

You can go back and comment at any time on any of the blog posts to be eligible, but you should finish by midnight Sunday October 5th PST.

We will draw the prize on Monday October 6^th, 2014 and the winner will be announced shortly after in a separate blog post. We look forward to seeing your comments! Tell your friends!

List of Blog Hop Posts with links:
Wanda
Teresa
Chris
Sherry
Kathy Jo
Sara
Holly
Yogi
Chris
Judi
Yvonne
Robyn
Suzanne
Chris

Good Luck!

and Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Don't Miss Out on a Chance to Win!

We're having a blog hop with Scrapbook Adhesives starting on Monday!

All the blog posts will be on the
Quietfire Creations blog

Scrapbook Adhesives blog

Comment on each blog post for a chance to win and enjoy the inspiration!

See you there.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Dreamweaver-Quietfire Awesome In Autumn Final Day!

Welcome! Thank you for joining us for our Final Day.

Have you enjoyed Awesome in Autumn? This week we have partnered with the Dreamweaver Design Team and were so excited to play with their innovative stencils, pastes and glitters! Don't forget to leave your comments on each blog for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages.

Here's what I've created for today's post:

I know, I know! I have a love affair with this tree! But I had a different plan this time. I wanted the look of vellum. Well it didn't take long to find that when you apply embossing paste to vellum, it looks like it's taking a bath. It gets all puckered up. So, I scratched my head for a while, then for some reason I remembered I still had some Drafting Mylar (now available on the site, see links below) left over from the time I was a vendor for the international calligraphy conference. Denis Brown had wanted it for his class, so I got it in and had some left. Untouched until last week! And it worked. I could emboss, the paste dried and there was no puckering. I fooled around with a few things and I really need to explore the Mylar more. However, this is what I did for this card.

Use Translucent Embossing Paste with the Tree of Life stencil on a piece of 8x8" Drafting Mylar. Remove the stencil and allow the paste to dry for about 20 minutes. Use Dreamweaver Metallic FX to gently dust the embossing paste with a soft brush (that doesn't shed....). I used Amber Glow and Eye of the Tiger. Allow the paste to dry, then you can literally wash the excess powder off in the sink!
Use Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four to diecut Neenah 80lb Cardstock with "window". Use the "window" die to cut a piece of off-white cardstock. Trim the off-white to 1/8" larger than the Elegant Label Four. Use glue dots to mat the white die cut to the off-white cardstock. Trim the Drafting Mylar so that the tree is positioned in the middle of the "window" and use Glue Dots to adhere the Mylar to the back of the matted pieces.
Use VersaMagic Red Brick to stamp The Love We Give Away on a cardblank made from Neenah 110lb Solar White Cardstock. "Float" the matted window over the quotation using Pop Dots.

All your stenciling needs and wants can be found at Stencil With Style!

Thanks for having a look!

Suzanne

Here are the thumbnail links to the products I used that are available in the Quietfire Design shop.

Spatula

Neenah 80 lb Cardstock

Prizes will be announced on Thursday! You have till midnight Sunday (Sept. 22) to leave your comments.

Saturday, September 21st: (visit these blogs today!)

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Stacey Rumsby

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

The Complete List

Check out this week's awesomeness which includes...

Tuesday, September 17th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

and

Dream Team members...

Cherylynn Moser

Heidi Erickson

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Wednesday, September 18th: (visit these blogs today!)

Quietfire Design Members...

Debbie Sherman

Robyn Josephs

and

Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Thursday, September 19th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Teresa Horner

Terre Fry

and

Dream Team members...

Cherylynn Moser

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Lea Kimmel

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Friday, September 20th:

Quietfire Design Members...

Yogi Grunwald

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Wendy Jordan

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Saturday, September 21st:

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Stacey Rumsby

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Friday, September 20, 2013

Dreamweaver - Quietfire Blog Hop - Day 4

Are you enjoying this amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! We are partnering with the Dreamweaver Design Team and so excited to play with their innovative stencils, pastes and glitters! Follow along with us and leave your comments on each blog for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages.

Here is what I've created for today's post:

I simply adore this tree stencil. I've been doing this technique for some time, but not everyone may have seen it.

Using 140lb Arches HP paper, I stamped Don't Let Yesterday with Brilliance Galaxy Gold, then thermal embossed with Queen's Gold.

I centered the Tree of Life stencil above the quotation and taped it in place with Removable tape. Add some extra protection if you're worried about going over the edge of the stencil and tape. In place of embossing paste I used Jones Tones Plexi glue.

Who me paranoid about messing up the watercolour paper with the glue??

Calligraphers have a thing for raised gilding and this is a fun way to get the effect without the classical torture! Although I've used composition leaf here, you can use real leaf (gold, silver, copper, aluminum) or transfer foil. The great thing about the Jones Tones plexi is that it dries sticky and is thick enough that it has body when it dries. Thus, raised gilding.

Before you add the variegated leaf to the tree, feel around the surface of the watercolour paper. The Removable Tape may have left some residue. If so, rub it off with your finger or you will have a rim of gold where the edge of the stencil was! Ask me how I know this. I created a paper mask to help avoid it and an eraser can help if there is still any errant leaf.

If your leaf is variegated, pick and choose your pieces and press it into place with your fingers. Give it a little rub - the softness of your fingers will help press the leaf onto the edges of the glue and not just the top. Composition leaf is easier to handle than the real thing.

When you have your tree completely covered in leaf, use a soft stencil brush and make circular motions over the top of the tree to remove the excess leaf. There will be some places you will have to scrub more vigorously. Just be careful not to remove the leaf on the glue.

Nice, huh?

I decided to leave it there. Sometimes less is more.... I trimmed the watercolour paper and simply mounted it with brads onto a piece of coordinated cardstock.

I hope you've enjoyed this! Thanks for looking!
To see a variation on this technique, visit the Quietfire Creations blog today.

Here are the thumbnail links on the Quietfire Design site to the products I've used. The Tree of Life stencil may be found on the Stencil with Style website here.

Don't Let Yesterday

Stamp Positioner

Brilliance Gold

Queen's Gold Embossing Powder

Arches Watercolour Paper

Magic Removable Tape

Tree of Life

Embossing Paste Spreader

Jones Tones Plexi

Composition Metal Leaf

Gold Mini-Brads

Coloured Cardstock