How Beautiful Leaves Grow Old/ Thankful-Quietfire Design,Walnut Hollow Blog Hop Day 4!

Hi Y'all, Robyn here welcoming you 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. 

Look at this prize package!!!

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!

I started with this Walnut Hollow Rustic Market Sign

and one of the newest Quietfire Design Rubber stamp releases

How Beautifully  Leaves Grow Old

The sentiment is stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed

with  copper embossing powder on Spellbinders Decorative Labels 28 layered on Spellbinders Floral Oval.

The leaves are cut from Spellbinders Assorted Leaves, Kraft Glassine paper, crinkled and colored. The ink needs to be heat set into the paper.

The flowers are constructed from Silhouette Cut files,

Sunflower and Coneflower

Here is how they look on the mat.

First I tried the Harvest Blessings cut file to make my sentiment embellishment and for some creative reason, Thankful stole the show!

On the mat:

I've always been an Italic kind of girl, and Suzanne has won me over to Blackletter!

Cut five layers out of card stock, glue them together and thermal emboss gold.

The whole thing is held together with a lot of glue dots. I cut many of them up into tiny pieces to hide them and if you run your scissor through perfect medium or VersaMark they won't stick.

The adhesive of choice is Glue Dots! They held well to both paper and wood, are almost invisible, and I could move them around a bit it needed.

***Tip***

Put all your elements in place, take a photo, then you can take it apart and glue it, with the photo for reference.

I hope you are inspired by my project, and be sure to scroll over to Yvonnes post, and the Walnut Hollow post to see what more is in store for you today. 

***Remember to leave a comment on all the blogs in the hop- it's not to late to go back-to be entered into the grand prize drawing!****

Please visit my blog RainbowWeaves for possible back story,and more Quietfire Design inspiration!

In addition to a garden ornament, I'm going to be using this as a floral offering when it is my turn in our Church Guild!
Be sure to visit Yvonne's post for more inspiration !

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!