Our Dreamweaver-Quietfire Blog Hop Winner!

The winners of these awesome prize package are..... (drum roll, please!)

CraftyJo
and
Janis
(see the Dreamweaver blog for details on which Janis)

Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who left their comments. I know each designer really appreciated your thoughtful words.
Thank you to Dreamweaver Stencils for all their work and inspiration.
See you at our next event!

Dreamweaver-Quietfire Awesome in Autumn Blog Hop Final Day

Welcome!  Thanks for joining us for our final day!

 

We hope you've enjoyed our amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! We have been partnering with the Dreamweaver Design Team and have been so excited to play with their innovative stencils, pastes and glitters!  Make sure you leave your comments on each blog for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 The brand new Thanksgiving rubber stamps arrived yesterday (link below) and I had been leafing through Lynell's book New Dimension's in Cardmaking and saw stenciling inside an open stencil.  The new quote mentions flying and I have this butterfly stencil.... Not exactly what was in the book....

 

 

 Well, you can see how that came together.  I chose a paper that I love and have never used - Ancestry.com by KandCompany and chose a sheet with autumnal colours.  Once you have the bits and pieces assembled, this is a very quick card!

 

1. Use Open Butterfly to stencil VersaMagic Pumpkin Spice, Red Brick, Mango Madness and Thatched Straw onto decorative paper. Remove stencil.  Cut apart stamp quotation and stamp using Versafine Crimson Red. Trim stenciled paper to 5.5" x 3-3/8".  Use Ink Blending Tool to antique edges with Pumpkin Spice and Red Brick.
2. Use Spellbinder's Branching Out die to cut Core'dinations cardstock.  Use Spellbinder Foliage Two to die cut two leaf branches from Kraft-Core Green then sand to reveal the kraft core.
3. Assemble using Glue Dots and Pop Dots as shown.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Suzanne

 

Here are the thumbnail links to the products I used and that are sold on the Quietfire Design site.

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

 

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

 

Quietfire Design Members...

Debbie Sherman
Terre Fry

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

Dreamweaver-Quietfire Awesome in Autumn Day #4

Welcome!  We're so happy you're joining us for Day #4!

 

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are partnering with the Dreamweaver Design Team and are 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's what we've created for today's post: 

 

 

 

This is a variation on the project over on Quietfire Style - yes, I get double duty today!  Lucky you! For all the detailed instructions to this point, please visit there. (Basically, I've stamped the sentiment, thermal embossed it and used the wonderful Tree of Life stencil with Jones Tones Plexi glue.)

 

 

 

The next step is to add transfer foil.  Once the glue is dry (it will still be very tacky to the touch, but clear), lay the dull silver side down on the glue-stenciled tree (gold side up)

Use your fingers to press on the foil.  That helps all sides of the raised leaves get covered with foil.

 

Peel the foil off.  Move the foil and rub fresh foil on any place that you missed.  This will need repeating a few times. 

 

Now this looks pretty good, so you might want to stop there, but you could do a little more.....

 

 

Let's see if we can get some drama happening. 

Since this is watercolour paper, let's get it wet.  Although this only shows a wet circle, I ultimately wet the whole piece of watercolour paper.  Then right in the middle, I added very concentrated Walnut Ink, made from crystals.  Then see what happens.

Vintage happens.

 

 

So you swirl and you roll your paper.  You drip water from your fingertips after it dries - the first time.  You throw some Walnut Ink crystals on a damp spot and let them slowly dissolve.

Nothing is completely predictable!  And that's okay.

 

 

Allow your project to dry, mount it on a chipboard card, distress the edges, add an ornamental brad and a wire butterfly and voila! You have a completely different look from the variation!

 

 

 

To see a variation on this technique, visit the Quietfire Style blog.

 

 Here are the thumbnail links to the products on the Quietfire Design website used in this project. The Tree of Life stencil may be found on the Stencil with Style website here.

Thanks for stopping by. 

 

Quietfire Design Members...

Debbie Sherman
Terre Fry

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