Quietfire and Walnut Hollow Blog Hop - Harvest Blessings!

Good morning!  Sherry here and it’s my turn to welcome you to the Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design 2014 Blog Hop!  We’re pleased you’re joining us and know you’ll find lots of creative inspiration for combining Quietfire stamps and/or digital cutting files with the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products. 



For my project, I chose to work with the Walnut Hollow Tabletop Sign (Item No. 40187)



and Quietfire Design Silhouette Digital Cutting File Harvest Blessings.  



To begin, the Tabletop Sign was painted white, antiqued with different shades of browns and then sanded.  I love the distressed look achieved using my palm sander!



The Silhouette Cameo and vinyl were used to make a stencil of the sentiment, Harvest Blessings.  



The stencil was cut in two parts, covered with contact paper and then applied in stages to the sign.  



Using the same tan/brown paints used for the antiquing, the sentiment was painted onto the sign.  Blessings was painted first, allowed to dry and Harvest was painted last.  



While the paint was still wet, the vinyl was removed.



To finish the sign, I dug through my fall decoration boxes and found some loose flowers and pumpkins to glue to the sign.  



Both sides of the sign were completed, so that it could sit on my dining room table as a centerpiece for the holidays.



Now for the grand prize!  



To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine here on the Quietfire Creations blog and five on the Walnut Hollow blog hop posts.   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.

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

Make sure you visit the other post on the Quietfire Creations Blog by Kathy Jo today.  We are posting two a day, and we would hate for you miss anything!

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design Blog Hop - Give Thanks

Hello!  My name is Kathy Jo and welcome to day 2 of the Walnut Hollow and Quietfire 2014 Blog Hop!   We’re pleased you’re joining us and know you’ll find lots of creative inspiration for combining Quietfire stamps on the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products.

For my project, I used Walnut Hollow's card box, item 1704OP

and Quietfire's newly released stamp set Give Thanks

The box is planned to be a Christmas gift and will contain Thank You cards for the recipient.  

First, the box was painted antique white.  Graphic 45's Birdsong paper was cut to size and applied to the box lid.  The base of the box was covered with faux black leather card stock.  Ivory lace was applied along the edge of the lid and a key hole embellishment was applied to the front.

Birdsong paper was die cut using Spellbinders' Elegant Ovals.  The gorgeous Give Thanks was heat embossed in gold on vellum and then die cut using Spellbinders' Floral Ovals.  Green Graphic 45 paper was die cut using Spellbinders' Foliage Flourish and was glued around the edge of the vellum.  Coordinating flowers, an antique key embellishment, mini gold ribbon and butterflies were also adhered as shown.  Stickles was applied to the butterflies as the final touch.

Here is another look at the finished box:

I just love this box!  The sentiment is so beautiful and the lovely box with the curved lid edge just begs the recipient to open it!

Would you like to win newly released Quietfire stamps and Walnut Hollow product?  How about the prize pack below?

Very awesome prize pack!  To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine here 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. 

Here are the links to the other posts today to make sure you did not miss anyone:

Sherry

Walnut Hollow

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

Have a great day and good luck!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design - Shabby Chic Card Box

  Welcome to the Walnut Hollow & Quietfire 2014 Blog Hop!  We’re pleased you’re 

joining us and know you’ll find lots of creative inspiration for combining 
Quietfire stamps on the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products. 

It's Teresa here and today I am sharing a beautiful wooden card box from
Walnut Hollow that i filled with lots of pretty ATC cards that are
stamped with my favorite Quietfire Design stamps to give for a gift.
You can see the cardbox style here and it's perfect to use for lots of other fun
things too.  You could even decorate it just to put your favorite playing cards
in that you use for fun family and friend events or a neat jewelry box!

I am a shabby chic kind of girl so i decided to create a card box to fill with lots of ATC cards.
  First i sanded the box and then cut out pieces of chipboard with the Spellbinders dies you see
 on the top and on the front.  I glued them on and then painted thin layers of white paint over
the top and let it all dry really good.  (I also painted the inside of the box white to match).

Meanwhile i cut/embossed lots of flowers and greenery from Spellbinders
and created a pretty flower spray to decorate the top with.  The pretty
jewels are from Jolee's boutique but you can use anything to pretty it up
that you may have in your stash like lots of extra ribbons and pearls.

And then to fill my box-- i made 12 of these little cards to match.  I cut
out white paper and folded it and then used an ATC die to make the pink
and white layers on the top.  The beautiful stamps are from the
Always be my Friend set and the Twirl and Enjoy set.

This was such a fun project to do and i love how all the stamps
fit so perfectly on the little cards.  Below is a supply list just in
case you would like to make this project.

Supplies: Quietfire Design: Twirl & Enjoy/ Always be my friend
Walnut Hollow: Wooden Cardbox 
Spellbinders Dies: Luscious Labels One
and Medallion Seven, Flourish Trim, Blooms one, Blooms Four
and Artist trading cards.  I used pink and white papers, adhesive,
scissors and lots of 3D Foam dots and glue dots to put it together.

To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment 

on each of our blog posts, nine here 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. 

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!

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design - Tabletop Sign - Thankful

Hello!!!  I'm Wanda and welcome to Day 1 of the Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design 2014 Blog Hop!!!!!!!!  We’re pleased you’re joining us and know you’ll find lots of creative inspiration for combining Quietfire stamps on the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products. 

I am using Walnut Hollow's tabletop sign, narrow (item #40189) 

and one of the stamps from Quietfire Design's set Give Thanks - set of 2 stamps mounted.

With Autumn upon us I had soooooooo much fun putting this little scene together.  I started with a brick stencil and Ranger's Archival Inks (russet/sienna & watering can) applying the ink through the stencil with a mini ink blending tool on the tall part of the sign.  I then added russet on the ledge and all the edges.  Oh, I should mention that I did do just a little bit of sanding first on the front of the ledge area and on some of the edges and corners.

The sentiment is stamped onto white cardstock with jet black Archival Ink and cut out with Spellbinders lacy squares.  This is layered onto a another piece of white cardstock cut with Spellbinders fleur de lis squares, embossed with an embossing folder, and colored with Distress Ink mowed lawn.  I also rubbed a little bit of white fire Treasure Gold on the edges of both panels.  They are attached both together and onto the sign with foam mounting tape.  

All the foliage and butterflies are die cut (a variety of different Tim Holtz dies) from either manila cardstock or gungepaper and colored with Distress products (inks, stains, markers).  Any stamping on the foliage is done with Archival inks.  The speckling on the foliage is done using markers and a spritzer tool.  The bird is from my stash.

There is a fabulous prize to be won!!!!!

To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine here 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. 

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!

Christmas wallet gift card holder

 

Happy Friday!  Kathy Jo here to share some gift card holders I made for Christmas.  The pattern came from CardMaker magazine "Happy Holidays" (November 2014).  Also in the magazine are two amazingly beautiful winter cards from Suzanne Cannon (pages 110-112) that you will not want to miss.  A cherry on top: Quietfire has an ad in the magazine for 20% off the rubber stamp portion of your order with the special coupon code shown in the ad.  Yay!  The magazine is in the newstands now so don't forget to pick it up!  :)

I really like making this wallet gift card holder.  As a matter of fact, this is my fourth and I have plans to make more.  Quietfire stamps fit perfectly on the wallet front and they look gorgeous!  

The blue snowflake wallet used Quietfire's "Christmas waves a magic wand" stamp.   It was embossed and layered on Spellbinders' Opulent Ovals and Floral Ovals.  Snowflakes, glitter and gem were added as shown.

The inside holds the gift card snuggly between whatever pretty paper you choose.  Unlike the outside which used mainly plain blue paper dry embossed (to ensure the lovely sentiment is the focus), the inside contains pretty patterned paper.

The pattern in CardMaker used a slide on/off band to close the wallet.  Instead, I went with seam binding to secure the wallet closed.  The seam binding was only adhered under the two larger outside sections- as shown below.

Here is a snaphot again of the closed wallet:

Two other cards made used a different color scheme and Quietfire stamp, "Hold on to The Spirit of Christmas":

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

Believe in Yourself...

With all the new stamps being released i didn't want you to forget

some of the other new clings we have too so i decided to make up

a card for a friend with the "If you don't believe in miracles set".

     

I am having fun creating cards with lots of layers of pretty papers lately 

so i went ahead and used papers in pretty shades of aqua, yellow from Authentique

and mixed it with a neutral black and white to make everything pop.  The die 

set is from Spellbinders new release that you can special order on Quietfire

and they are called Labels Forty One and Labels 41 Decorative Elements.

These are 2 of my favorite new dies and you will love them and how

wonderfully the stamps fit inside of them.

Here is a close up of the beautiful stamp and the lovely lattice on the die.

I tied lots of pretty white satin ribbon on to make it glisten a little and

I added a little glitter on both the flowers and the front to make it

even more magical for the person i am giving it too!  I know that she

is going to love it.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to get your order

in for the stamp and die.  I am sure are going to sell fast!!

Teresa