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 20^th 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 21^st. 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.