Day 1 of the Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas....
I opened this!


Now isn't this just the cutest little decoration you've ever seen? Needle Felting by Judy in the Okanagan! Very cool. Thank you so much Judy!!

The byhandartists 12 Days of Christmas Swap - The Basket

Now this swap is just too cool. I've never played in it before and boy, have it been missing out! These little package keep coming in the mail!! What's not to like? - even before you start opening them.

Here is my basket filled with the presents which have arrived. Sweet! Thanks to everyone playing for the joy of anticipation!

All the presents are numbered and each day we will open a new offering from a different swapper!

Tape Glitz

I was just wrapping up my gifties for the 12 Days of Christmas exchange on the byhandartists list. Each giftie needs to be marked for the day in which it should be opened, so I opted for tags. Now holding those tags on presented me with a dilemma.... should I just tape them on? Surely I could come up with something more interesting....
Luckily I had some transfer foil on my drafting table which attracted my attention.... and then never far away is the double-sided tape.....

I thought this was a bit more interesting than just taping the tag on....

Happy creating! Suzanne

A Final Card and the Grand Prize Winner

The Grand Prize Winner of the random draw for $100 worth of Quietfire Rubber Stamps is

Daria!

Congratulations! Please email me!

Here is what she said (I'm still chuckling):

Well, heck! I kept track of every single stamp used. LOL. All of the artwork was wonderful, and even though I was late for some of them, I enjoyed seeing them.I wasn't able to leave a comment on Monica's blog today since I didn't fall into any of the categories she has set to leave a message. So I'll just say it here:Monica, I loved your card and the idea of using the ornament. Thank you for the advice about doing a little at a time when embossing over a line from a VersaMark pen. I tried that once and made a terrible mess doing it all at once.Thank you to everyone!

Once again thank you to the Quietfire Design Team members and alumni who played! Links to their blog posts have been added to the Project Gallery should you be looking for them at a later date.

This card was made with the Spellbinder's Wizard, the Dreamweaver Poinsettia stencil (run throught the Wizard), Spellbinders Fancy Tags and Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls embossing folder. Peace is from the Textured Holiday Words.

Happy creating everyone! Thanks so much for playing in the Blog Hop. We hope we've inspired you!
Suzanne

End of the Blog Hop - Grand Prize Day!

Click on each photo to go to the blog entry!

Welcome back to my blog! I hope you've enjoyed the Hop!

A HUGE thanks to the talented Quietfire Design Team who have contributed their time, talent and enthusiasm!

Visit their blogs often for more inspiration - they're amazing!

Although we've been telling you all week that you'd have to keep track of the stamps, I've decided that we'll make life easy! Just leave a comment here on this post for a chance to win $100 worth of Quietfire Rubber Stamps.

Congratulations to the Winners so far:
The Winners of a $25 selection of Quietfire Rubber Stamps:
Yogi's draw: Jan Castle
Kristy's draw: Vicki Holdwick
Kim's draw: Sandi
From Deborah's draw: Suzanne C.
From Suzanne's draw: Delores Azary
Wanda's draw: Marianne C.
Becca's draw: Janet Castle (for a second time!!!!)
Monica's draw: Gail O.

Grand Prize Winner: Leave your comments here to be entered!

Create without Limits!
Suzanne

Blog Hop Winner for my blog!

Thanks so much to everyone who visited and commented on my blog yesterday!
I'm delighted to hear that everyone is enjoying the Blog Hop.

The Friday winner, picked from a Random Number Generator, is:

Delores Azary

I love the accordion book! That is so much fun! You are right, you could make a
beautiful star book with that! Delores Azary

Congratulations Delores! Please email me! suzanne@quietfiredesign.com

Now today, everyone should be visiting Wanda's Blog to see more inspiring artwork!

Happy Hopping! Suzanne

A Purple Christmas - Quietfire Design Blog Hop!

Welcome to our very first Quietfire Design Blog Hop. We've seen some really lovely artwork this week so far! They really put the pressure on me!!!



I've been wanting to use the 12 Days of Christmas, so this was finally my chance.




Here is my project
Just a little post script! This is really an accordion book - I just arranged it like a star to photograph it - but it sure would make a great Star book!
What a treasure you could turn it into!
Supplies used:
12 Days of Christmas Rubber Stamps
Flourishes
Merry Christmas Snowflake
Textured Holiday Words
Bazzill Purple Monochroms
Pale Lavender text weight paper
Brilliance Dew Drop Pearlescent Lavender
VersaMagic Dew Drop Purple Hydrangea
Spellbinders Wizard
Spellbinders Classic Squares
Spellbinders Fancy Tag
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Make sure you leave a comment for this blog entry! You might win a grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber stamps valued between $25 and $30.

And keep track of the rubber stamps use in all the projects because you have a chance to win a grand prize at the end of the Blog Hop! Good luck!

Winners must contact suzanne@quietfiredesign.com to claim their prize!!!

Here is the list of participating artists

Monday, Nov 16th - Yogi Grunwald

Tuesday, Nov 17th - Kristy Christopherson

Wednesday, Nov 18th - Kim Prince

Thursday, Nov 19th - Deborah March

Friday, Nov 20th - Suzanne Cannon

Saturday, Nov 21st - Wanda Hentges

Sunday, Nov 22nd - Becca Feeken

Monday, Nov 23rd - Monica Black

Happy Blog Hopping!!
I'll send out daily reminders!

Quietfire Design Blog Hop!

Don't miss out on our very first Quietfire Design Blog Hop. Over the next week or so you will visit each of the blogs of all of the present and some of the past extraordinary Quietfire Designers.
Here is how it works


Each day, you will visit one of the Quietfire Designers blogs.

Check out the fabulously inspiring artwork there and leave a comment in their comments section:

On the first day (today) you will visit Yogi's blog.
Comment in her comments section on that entry and at the end of the day, Yogi will randomly draw a name from those comments and that person will win a grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber Stamps valued between $25 and $30.

On the next day, Yogi will post the name of the winner and
that winner must contact me with their name and address so I can send off their prize!
After you have checked to see if you have won the prize, hop to the next blog:
visit Kristy's Blog and leave a comments there. And so it will continue to the end!

Make sure you enter to win every day!

TIP: Keep track of which artist used which rubber stamps and there will be a grand prize at the end! (More details on that to come)
Please leave your comment in the

Winners must contact suzanne@quietfiredesign.com to claim their prize!!!

Here is the list of participating

Monday, Nov 16th - Yogi Grunwald

Tuesday, Nov 17th - Kristy Christopherson

Wednesday, Nov 18th - Kim Prince

Thursday, Nov 19th - Deborah March

Friday, Nov 20th - Suzanne Cannon

Saturday, Nov 21st - Wanda Hentges

Sunday, Nov 22nd - Becca Feeken

Monday, Nov 23rd - Monica Black

Happy Blog Hopping!!
I'll send out daily reminders!

Winnipeg Delight

I just returned from two awesome days of teaching in Winnipeg.

On Saturday we Added Funk to our Foundational. Along with reviewing Foundational, we also discussed pen nibs and how they work as well as looking at various inks and different type of nibs. I *think* we managed to get everyone straightened out so they were making their letters without fighting with their tools! Ahhhh, there is nothing quite like making beautifully crisp strokes with pen and ink!

Each participant received pieces of the following papers to test their lettering on:
Boris 37
Cotton Comp
Graphics 360
Paper for Pens
Fabriano Ingres - Celeste (Sky Gray)

In the afternoon, along with adding Funk, we added glitz. We played with
Jones Tones Plexi Glue on the Dreamweaver Tree of Life stencil , which was later foiled with Jones transfer foil.
We lettered with Schmincke Tro-Col .
We lettered with Jerry Tresser’s Gold Size and then gilded with 24K Transfer Gold and Moon Gold
We colour blended with Ecoline Inks
And we decorated letters made with Automatic Pens and Parallel Pens with Gel Extremes

My hostess , Charlotte, lettered with Jerry Tresser’s Gold Size and then applied Varigated Green composition leaf to the letters. The results were amazing! I’m going to have to try that myself! Thanks Charlotte!

We took over a wonderful art room at a lovely private school for the weekend. The lighting was very good, which made it a pleasure to work in. You really want to take a workshop with this group: Every morning at 10 am, the coffee cart arrives with coffee, tea, scones and muffins.

My hostess, Charlotte, fed me a wonderful homemade pizza using her freshly made focaccia. Yum! Subsequent lunches were made on the same focaccia. Lucky me! I was treated to fabulous Thai food and Sushi (ahem, NOT the same evening!) Thanks so much to Charlotte and her husband for the Thai treat and Charlotte and Irene for the Sushi! (Did we ever figure out which one had the eel?)

On Sunday we created the Pipe Organ binding and the group made really lovely books. It was the first time I’d used some of the papers in this kit and results were awesome.
The cord used for making the Pipe Organ Binding is found here, and the punches are here. Waxed linen thread is here. The Removable Tape is here. Another item we used was the Soapstone Pencil for marking dark paper and bookcloth.



Thank you so much to this wonderful group for making my visit so enjoyable. A special thanks to Charlotte and her family for their hospitality!

And thanks to Mother Nature for keeping the temperature above zero and saving me from packing my boots!



Happy lettering and binding everyone! Thank you so much! Suzanne

Naughty ATC

The title got your attention, didn't it? vbg!

I made this little girl image up for students in the Lutradur class to use if they so wished and I can't resist using her everwhere!

I was cleaning up my drafting table in anticipation of a whack of certificates arriving and... well... It's getting there....

Items used to make this ATC
Notting Hill 7 Gypsies paper (part of 2 different sheets)
Flourished Corners Quietfire Rubber stamp
Flourishes Quietfire Rubber stamp
Naughty Nice Quietfire Rubber stamp
Star Brad
Distress Inks: Faded Jeans Tea Dye