Quietfire Design and Spellbinders Blog Hop

Welcome to the Quietfire Design Spring Blog Hop!

Quietfire Design is celebrating the honour of being chosen as a Preferred Stamp Partner with Spellbinders™ Paper Arts!

Every day a different Quietfire Designer will post their creations combining Quietfire rubber stamps and Spellbinders products in a blog entry (days and links to each blog are below). Each day a lucky participant will win one of the Quietfire Rubber stamps used that day plus Suzanne's choice of Spellbinders™ die!

To enter, simply comment below by midnight EST and you will be eligible for a random draw.

The winner will be announced here tomorrow. If your name is announced, please claim your prize by emailing me within 48 hours or we will draw again!

Here is our list of blogs and their special Quietfire Blog Hop days

Saturday, April 2: Wanda Hentges
Sunday, April 3: Becca Feeken
Monday, April 4: Me!
Tuesday, April 5: Yogi Grunwald
Wednesday, April 6: Robyn Josephs
Thursday, April 7: Suzanne Cannon

Thanks for playing! Happy Hopping and good luck!

The background layers for this card was created with a round sponge and Lyra Aquacolors. Moisten the sponge and rub Lyra crayon on a spot, then pounce onto white cardstock in scattered areas. Mix up shades of color families to get variations. Repeat, using fresh spots of sponge for different colors. Rinse sponge as needed. I chose to suggest a twilight scene for this card with blues, lavender and purple for the "sky" and several shades of green for the "garden."

Stamp "Leave room in your garden for faeries to dance." onto piece of sky background with Brilliance Graphite Black inkpad and emboss with clear embossing powder. Cut out using Spellbinders Labels Fifteen #4.

On piece of background with sky and garden colors, use the Checkerboard Corner stamp on the garden area to give the impression of flowers. Spritz stamp with water and blot. Rub various yellow, orange, red and pink Lyra Aquacolors on the stamp and press onto background. Repeat, turning stamp as needed, sometimes only using the tips and edges. Only color areas of stamp you want to imprint. Stamp Fiddleheads along bottom with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy Dew Drop inkpad. Cut out using Spellbinders Labels Eight #5.

Run another piece of background paper through a Wizard, etc., using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. Align dots in folder and run through again to get a finished piece of 4 1/4x 6 1/4".

Rub all three layers created with background paper with Brilliance Pearlescent Purple Dew Drop inkpad.

Cut two pieces of dark green textured cardstock using Spellbinders Fancy Tags. Cut in half. Ink pieces with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy Dew Drop inkpad to match the Fiddleheads.

Ink the egg from Flourished Flight stamp set with Brilliance Sunshine Yellow Dew Drop inkpad, then use tip of Brilliance Rocket Red Gold Dew Drop inkpad on the edges. Stamp 5 times on white cardstock. Trim closely. Stack together and use needle tool to punch a hole in the smaller end. Tamp Hearts mini-brad onto Rocket Red Gold inkpad and into clear embossing powder. Hold in tweezers and heat. Repeat. Use brad and eggs to form flower. Curl edges of petals over a pencil.

Cut a layer of light green textured cardstock with Spellbinders Labels Eight #6. Create a 5x7" card and assemble card as shown. Mount saying layer and flower with popdots.

Thanks for visiting. Good luck in the drawing!