Quietfire Design Christmas 2012 Blog Hop/Ornaments Abound!

Welcome to the Quietfire Design Christmas 2012 Blog Hop.

For the next five days our designers will amaze and inspire you with their creative use of our new hand lettered deeply etched rubber stamps.

Visit the blog of each designer and be sure to leave a comment on their blog to be entered into a contest to win a bag of Quietfire Rubber.

One winner will be chosen  randomly from each blog, so be sure to comment by Midnight Friday October 19.

Winners will be announced on the Quietfire Style Blog,(and here)
Sunday October 21st.

If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne(or me) privately with your snail mail address.

Here is the schedule.

Here is our schedule:

Monday, Oct 15th: Yogi ,Wanda

Tuesday,Oct 16th: Robyn(you are here!), Holly

Wednesday, Oct17th:  Sherry

Thursday, Oct 18th: Monica, Terre

Friday, Oct 19th: Suzanne

Happy Hopping and Good Luck!!

WARNING:

Creating even one of these ornaments is habit forming!

Once I started making these ornaments with the new stamps, I couldn't stop.

 The first one I made I used the Peace on Earth stamp and punched out 8 pieces.

 Fold each piece before

you do your surface design. 

I used a scoring board. I colored the paper before I punched on this one-lots of Distress Ink , stains and thermal embossed with Versamark and Ranger Superfine Gold Embossing powder.

For all fine line stamps I highly recommend Versafine inks and Ranger superfine embossing powder, to get these results.

Below are some assembly shots-I used some Ranger glue stick and some quick dry wet glue.

After creativity, glue might be the most important element in success with paper.

Fold each piece and glue one side to another and glue the last piece to both sides.
It's easier than it sounds.
The snow was created with a puffy pen and I added a gold hanger and beads.
There is enough of a hole in the middle to pass a long needle through with your hanger.




The rest are made with Spellbinders dies.

This was an Ornament die with O Little Town Stamp.
I thermal embossed with Versafine Crimson and Deep Lagoon.

 The background was added after cutting out the shapes and is an all over snowflake design with Stormy Night Distress

Above Spellbinders 2010 Holiday Tree and Peace on Earth . Thermal embossed with Versamark and Ranger green embossing tinsel.

Below, Spellbinders Dahlia and one of my new faves the Flourished Tree and Joy. 

I was going for

vintage here. No  embossing.I only used 3 sections as I wanted to see more of the stamp and less folds.

Spellbinders Lacy Squares and Flourish Noel-themal embossed Versafine Deep Lagoon, Brilliance Gold and Platinum pad to paper and hand embossed star with a rubber mallet and Cuttlebug folder-***shout out to Yogi****

Added some gold to the edges and a lacy hanger .

A new shape, all the lovely stamps, a stash full of embellishments- the possibilities are endless. Please post your own creations on the Quietfire FB page. I'd Love to see them.

So leave a comment and in addition to the drawing for a grab bag of QF rubber one other lucky commenter will receive the ornament of their choice-Sorry- the green snowy tree is already spoken for!

Comments and questions always welcome.

Now hop over to Holly and she what inspiration she has ready for you! And you can still go back and visit the blogs you missed . You have till Friday night to leave comments.

Thanks for visiting and good luck with the prizes!