Saturday, January 21, 2012

And the Winner Is....

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But first I want to thank everyone who visited!!!  And give extra thanks and hugs to everyone that left such sweet comments!! You each brought joy to my heart and a smile to my day!!!  I'm so very glad you liked the projects!!  I really did have a wonderful time making them!!

And second I'd like to share one more cute little project with you..


I thought a Butterfly Bouquet would be fabulous!!!  I stamped the larger flourish butterfly 5 times, each with a different color of ink, onto natural cardstock and cut each one out.  I took a piece of matching colored wire for each one, wrapped it around a skewer, took it off the skewer, and pulled both ends to again lengthen the wire but now it has a wave.  I attached the wires to the backs of the butterflies with a little blob of heavy gel medium.

The bottle is from Tim's corked glass vials.  I again used that very cool technique Wendy Vecchi shared for giving a faux crack to the bottle.. first brush on a thin coat of Ranger's Glue 'n Seal, let it dry, and then brush on a coat of rock candy Distress Crackle Paint.  After the paint was dry and cracked I added ink to the bottle for color.

I stamped the part of the large butterfly circle quote that had the words 'time enough' onto natural cardstock using Archival Ink jet black, cut out the words and glued them to the bottle.  The 4mm white silk ribbon was colored with Distress Ink and tied around the bottle.

To help the butterflies stand in the bottle (and also to give it a bit more weight) I put clear acrylic pieces you can find in the floral section of the craft store... I can't remember what they are called but they look like Dew Drops.. into the bottle.



And now... the winner is Nelda!!!!


Absolutely gorgeous, as usual! You continue to amaze me with your artistic abilitiy to apply ink to stamp and to cardstock!    Nelda

Nelda, you need to email your address to Suzanne of Quietfire Design, her email is   suzanne at quietfiredesign dot com.  

Suzanne will be posting all the winners on the Quietfire Style blog Here.  

Friday, January 20, 2012

Today - Friday - Is the last day...

...to leave comments on the Blog Flutter Posts for your chance to win $50 worth of Quietfire Design Rubbah!!!! There will be one name drawn from each blog.  Go HERE on my blog to leave a comment if you haven't already and find a list of the other designer blogs participating in the Flutter.  Names will be randomly drawn after midnight tonight (I'll draw mine in the morning because I'll be sleeping at midnight).

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Quietfire Design Blog Flutter is Here!!




Quietfire Design would like to introduce you to the new Butterfly Circles stamp set! (Note from Wanda - I LOVE this set)  Each day of the flutter one of the designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using this set.  Visit their blog on the day of their featured project, post a comment on their Blog Flutter project post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50!   We will be giving away five grab bags in total and all the names will be drawn on Friday, January 20th at midnight PST, one name from each blog, so you have lots of time to enter!  Tell your friends!

The Butterfly Circles rubber stamps will remain on special at 20% off throughout the Blog Flutter!

Each Design Team member will be randomly choosing a winner from their list of comments, so make sure you’ve commented on each blog.

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Saturday January 21st. If you are one of the lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen.  (Her email address is in the sidebar of the Quietfire Style blog) 

Here is the schedule:
Sunday, January 15th: Yogi  
Monday, January 16th: Suzanne 
Tuesday, January 17th: Robyn  
Wednesday, January 18th: Monica 
Thursday, January 19th: Wanda  (that's me)

Happy Fluttering!!
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I am lovin' this set of stamps but how could I not when the theme is butterflies.  I have always liked butterflies!!!!  And I was very excited when Suzanne decided to do more butterflies (I've used her other butterflies a lot).  I have 2 projects to share today and will share another one when I post the winner of $50 worth of rubber stamps from my blog on Saturday... be sure and leave a comment on this post for your chance.  

My first project is a card...


It's a 6" x 6" square card.  The base is folded Core'dinations Distress Cardstock, light pink (should be either spun sugar or tattered rose but they aren't marked so I'm not sure which).  Around the edge of the front I've stamped the smaller flourish butterfly using Distress Ink fired brick and then peeled paint and finally also stamped some with white paint.  There is also Distress Ink peeled paint sponged around the edge using an ink blending tool and foam.  The next layer up is a piece of paper from the 7 gypsies 6"x6" pad Savannah trimmed to 5 1/8" square and edged with gold paint.  The next layer up is a piece of paper from the Prima fairy flora collection and the edges have been distressed using a Zutter Distrezz-it-all.  Finally our focal piece....  I stamped the circle "butterflies" with Archival Ink jet black onto natural cardstock, centered the Spellbinder Butterfly Circle die over it and cut it out.  The edge has been inked with Distress Ink spun sugar.  The smaller butterfly flourish is stamped in the center using Distress Ink fired brick plus an extra butterfly stamped on a scrap of natural cardstock.  The extra butterfly is cut out (just the butterfly, not the flourish or antenna), inked with spun sugar, and just the center glued over the original butterfly so that the wings fold up.  Pearls added between the punched butterflies and on the center butterfly.  The 13mm silk ribbon is colored with Distress Ink spun sugar.  Another small butterfly is stamped on natural cardstock with fired brick, cut out, inked with peeled paint, glued onto the bow and a pearl added to the body.  Three larger pearls are attached to ribbon as shown.  

  


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My second project is a 5" x 7" canvas board...


I placed the Dreamweaver Vertical Butterflies stencil along the left side all the way to the top and added white embossing paste, removed the stencil and let the paste dry.  After it was dry I sprayed the canvas with Ranger Color Wash butterscotch, cranberry, and espresso.  I dried the Color Wash with my heat tool and when it was almost dry I also dabbed a little in a couple places with a paper towel to create texture in the color and then finished drying it.  I used a brayer to add gold paint on the butterflies and also in random spots on the rest of the canvas and on the edges, dried it.  Placed the stencil back over the butterflies and added more gold ink to the tops, removed the stencil and dried the paint.  Used a black fine tip pen around the butterflies to give shadow and depth.  Sponged white ink through punchinella here and there and then did the same with paint.  The quote is stamped on a piece of paper from the 7 gypsies Savannah pack, edges distressed with the Distrezz-it-all... this is layered onto a natural piece of cardstock with the edges distressed (Distrezz-it-all).  I cut a piece of natural cardstock using Spellbinder's Butterfly circle for the outer edge and Scalloped circle for the inner edge.  Inked both the outer and inner edges with Distress Ink fired brick and vintage photo.  Cut the circle in half, over-lapped an edge of each one and stapled them to create the center of my border, glued the piece to the canvas and cut off the extra from both sides so it was even with the canvas.  I cut one butterfly from the scrap, inked it and placed it as shown where the 2 pieces met on the canvas.  The rose trim (Tim's trimmings) is sprayed with butterscotch Color wash, dried, and lightly inked on the top of the roses with fired brick and vintage photo.  Took some of the butterflies left from die cutting and glued them on as shown.  And finally sanded a bit around the edges.  




  
  

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Reminder - Quietfire Design Blog Flutter


Here is a sneak peek of one of the projects I'll be sharing Thursday for the Quietfire Design Blog Flutter.  If you haven't been following along there are links below to the fabulous projects already posted on the other blogs.  Remember... Comments on specific Flutter posts are Good... there is rubber to be won.  I hope you'll come back tomorrow to see my projects and don't forget to leave a comment on tomorrow's post for your chance to win on my blog.  


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Quietfire Design would like to introduce you to the new Butterfly Circles stamp set! (Note from Wanda - I LOVE this set)  Each day of the flutter one of the designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using this set.  Visit their blog on the day of their featured project, post a comment on their Blog Flutter project post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50!   We will be giving away five grab bags in total and all the names will be drawn on Friday, January 20th at midnight PST, one name from each blog, so you have lots of time to enter!  Tell your friends!

The Butterfly Circles rubber stamps will remain on special at 20% off throughout the Blog Flutter!

Each Design Team member will be randomly choosing a winner from their list of comments, so make sure you’ve commented on each blog.

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Saturday January 21st. If you are one of the lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen.  (Her email address is in the sidebar of the Quietfire Style blog) 

Here is the schedule:
Sunday, January 15th: Yogi  
Monday, January 16th: Suzanne 
Tuesday, January 17th: Robyn  
Wednesday, January 18th: Monica 
Thursday, January 19th: Wanda  http://artbywanda.blogspot.com/  (that's me)

Happy Fluttering!!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Starting Sunday - Quietfire Design Butterfly Blog Flutter!



Quietfire Design would like to introduce you to the new Butterfly Circles stamp set! (Note from Wanda - I LOVE this set)  Each day of the flutter one of the designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using this set.  Visit their blog on the day of their featured project, post a comment on their Blog Flutter project post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50!   We will be giving away five grab bags in total and all the names will be drawn on Friday, January 20th at midnight PST, one name from each blog, so you have lots of time to enter!  Tell your friends!

The Butterfly Circles rubber stamps will remain on special at 20% off throughout the Blog Flutter!

Each Design Team member will be randomly choosing a winner from their list of comments, so make sure you’ve commented on each blog.

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Saturday January 21st. If you are one of the lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen.  (Her email address is in the sidebar of the Quietfire Style blog) 

Here is the schedule:
Sunday, January 15th: Yogi  
Monday, January 16th: Suzanne 
Tuesday, January 17th: Robyn  
Wednesday, January 18th: Monica 
Thursday, January 19th: Wanda  http://artbywanda.blogspot.com/  (that's me)

Happy Fluttering!!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Queen of Hearts


With Valentine's Day coming up Quietfire Design is again having a Queen of Hearts Challenge with prizes awarded!!!  Go HERE to get all the details.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Blue Jeans



In the Winter 2011 Somerset Studio Gallery Issue, Pages 36-39, by Lori Lundy, is the inspiration for these jean pocket wall hangings.  I totally fell in love with the ones she shared in the magazine and had to make some as gifts for Christmas.  The first picture here is the first one I made and sent over seas to a terrific online friend.  Then I made a few more, tweaking the design (which for the most part came from a sample in the magazine) a little.  I love these and will be making more with lots of themes... I'm already thinking of some love, Valentine themed ones.  Lori Lundy has an Etsy store HERE with wonderful pieces of art (yes, I've already purchased one thing from her that I fell in love with).


                            



You will notice that the pictures below have no red "berries" (alcohol ink on pearls) by the bow... I took the pics and then realized I had forgot to glue them on.



Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A Prize and A Tag

In December Ranger Ink shared 12 Days of Ornaments on their blog and they gave away prizes just for commenting.  This picture, taken from their blog, shows what the prize consisted of and I was thrilled when I was one of the final prize winners!!!  Woo-Hoo!!!! Sooo......


...as I was creating using my new Antiquated Collection stamps plus I had this wonderful prize sitting here I decided I should use some of it also.  I realized that this lady from the Society Lady set would look perfect in the Memory Frame.  I stamped her onto natural sticky back canvas using jet black Archival Ink, colored her using Cut n' Dry Nibs and Distress Ink, added white to the pearls with the Inkssential pen, added ruby slippers Glitz Stickles onto the 'berry' (or whatever they are) areas of the hat and rubbed some crystal ice Ice Stickles around the edges.  When it was all dry I sandwiched it between 2 pieces of Memory glass and into the frame.  For the background I did Tim's wrinkle free distress technique with festive berries Distress Ink, dried it, stamped the background image (Studio 490 background from the set Sentimental Art) with Archival Ink sepia, added Distress Ink vintage photo around the edges using an ink blending tool.  Added lace, brown mini rickrack, and sticky back pearls (cream over the rickrack and red on the lace) to the bottom part of the tag.  Hung a heart charm from the loop on the Memory Frame and attached the piece to the tag.  Stamped "Society lady" onto a scrap of cardstock, sponged on festive berries ink, and attached it as shown.  Rubbed a bit of the crystal ice Stickles around the edge of the tag and tied lace to the top to finish things off.  



This picture captions some of the sparkle from the Stickles.


Monday, January 2, 2012

Stylish and Fashionable



Back in November Lisa M. Pace, along with Pink Persimmon, debuted her new stamps, the Antiquated Collection.  I've purchases a couple of the sets so far and finally took time to play with one of the sets.  These are clear stamps that stamp beautifully with lots of details.  The old images are just fabulous!!!  I've used stamps from the Stylish and Fashionable set.  I started with a Maya Road chipboard heart... added Distress Crackle paint rock candy... after it was dry added pink sherbet Paint Dabber... stamped the leaves (an old Posh Impressions stamp) with Adirondack Pigment clover... stamped the hearts (Stamps by Judith) with Adirondack Pigment watermelon... stenciled on some snow cap white ink... I also stamped a "Love" stamp by Hero Arts with a light ink and although you get some added contrast from it you can't really read it... and added gold Paint Dabber around the edges... made sure everything was dry and embossed 2 layers of clear UTEE over the heart (a variation of Shelly's technique Here).  Stamped the lady and gentleman onto cardstock with Archival Ink jet black... cut them out, cutting off the guy's book and the lady's umbrella... colored them with chalks... sealed them with workable fixative. Cut up a little bit between the man's arm and his jacket to make it easier to stand them together with there arms around each other... bent the lady's arm up at the elbow... glued them together with Glue 'n Seal and then onto the heart with Glue 'n Seal... I used glossy so if any smeared onto the heart it would blend with the glossy UTEE and not be visible... and then trimmed off the extra the hung below the heart.  For the ruffle around the heart I used Tim's tissue tape... I placed double sided tape around the edge on the back of the heart... pressed on the tape ruffling it as I went... the back of the tissue tape is facing the front... after the tape was all attached I brushed perfect gold Perfect Pearls onto the sticky side of the tape giving it a beautiful gold shimmer and you still get some of the pattern of the tape showing through.  Colored a scrap piece of grungepaper with gold Paint Dabber, dried it, stamped the bird with Archival jet black, cut it out, added a dot of white gel pen to the eye pressing over it with my finger while it was still wet thereby removing some of the white so it wasn't so bright, and added it to the heart with foam mounting tape to help it stand out more (this also covered the hole that comes in the chipboard).  Stamped "Stylish and Fashionable" on cardstock, cut it out and glued it on as shown.  Wrote "My Love" on a scrap of cardstock, cut it out and attached it as shown.