2014 Queen of Hearts Blog Hop - You Are Amazing

Welcome to the final day of  the 5th Annual Queen of Hearts Blog Hop and challenge.  If you've been following along, I hope you've had a good time and are filled with inspiration from the wonderful projects that have been shared!!!  If you just found out about it, look down at the end of this post and go visit everyone you've missed.  There are prizes to be won but comments must be made by midnight PST tonight.  And don't forget the challenge part of all this... link your Queen of Hearts project on the Quietfire Creations blog (all details below).

Now for my tag.  I've just recently started playing with crackle paste and it is sooooooo much fun.  You can use either Dreamweaver's or Wendy Vecchi's paste.  I put a very thin layer of gold paste over the whole tag using a pallet knife and let it dry.  Next came the crackle paste and again I applied it with a pallet knife.  If does not have to be an even coat, mine is not.  After the paste was dry I inked over it with worn lipstick, then fired brick keeping to the outer area and finally brushed corduroy by the edges.  The 3 hearts along the bottom were stamped with red geranium.  The I Love You Alphabet is stamped randomly over the tag with brushed corduroy.  love you forever is stamped with jet black.  The mini dotted harlequin border is stamped repeatedly around the edge with jet black.  At this point I was wishing I hadn't used black and so to tone it down a bit I dabbed picket fence stain around the edged blotting some up if it was too white.  Then to define my edge again I went around with red geranium.  

Now for the big heart.  I stamped You Are Amazing onto vellum using jet black, dried it and then die cut the heart.  Next come the sewing.  I thought for sure I'd mess it up... get it majorly crooked or something but, yay, it came out great!!!  Then I inked the backside of the vellum with red geranium leaving some of the center without ink.  To make the edges curl up I laid the heart on foam and worked a stylus just in the area between the stitching and the edge.  I decided there was too much red and I needed and the heart blended in too much so I put picket fence stain on the back between the stitching and the edge and inked the edge from the front first with brushed corduroy (hmm... needs to be darker because of the dark border on the tag) and then with jet black.   

The ribbon was colored with fired brick.  Gold embroidery floss on the heart and key charms.  

Quietfire Design Stamps - You are Amazing, love you forever, I Love You alphabet, Large flourishing inside heart, mini harlequin border

Ranger #8 Manila Tag

Vellum

Embossing Paste - gold, crackle

Spellbinders nestabilities - scalloped hearts 

Distress Ink - worn lipstick, fired brick, brushed corduroy

Ranger Archival Ink - jet black, red geranium

Distress Stains - picket fence

13mm White silk ribbon

Charms - heart, key

Sewing machine, white thread, gold embroidery floss

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Now for the Nitty Gritty of the Blog Hop and Challenge... Quietfire Creations Blog is HERE.  

Welcome to the 5th Annual Queen of Hearts Blog Hop and Challenge!

There are a whopping ten designers sharing their artwork with you during this Queen of Hearts Blog Hop and you will be visiting each one, two per day. They won't all be Valentine projects, but love will be in the air!

You can win prizes!! On each participating blog, the owner will randomly choose  a winner from the comments left on their Queen of Hearts Blog post.   The blog owner will post the winner after Feb. 14.  Please check for your name on each blog and contact the blog owner privately with your name and snailmail address.

Winners from each blog will receive sets or a collection of Quietfire rubber stamps valued at approximately $15. You may only win once!!  Sorry!

DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS: Midnight PST February 14, 2014.  Winners will be chosen on the 15th and posted shortly after.

However, you can also win on the Challenge portion of our event.

Create some artwork, add it to your blog (or wherever you post online) and  link your artwork on the Quietfire Creations Blog.  DEADLINE FOR Your Artwork ENTRIES: Midnight PST February 14, 2014.   See more details below.

Here is our Blog Hop Schedule and the dates each designer will be posting (Click on each person's name to go to their blog):

Feb 10 - Holly and Teresa - setting the bar!
Feb 11- Sherry and Jutta
Feb 12 - Wendy and Terre
Feb 13 - Yogi and Robyn 
Feb 14 - Suzanne and Wanda 
   

Now it's your turn!  (All linking is done on the Quietfire Creations Blog)

You're going to create artwork to share with all of us. You don't have to use Quietfire stamps, but we'll love it if you do. You'll post your artwork on your blog (or other online spot) and share the link on this special post . On February 14th we'll close the submissions and then we'll allow voting! So make sure you tell your friends to make art and come visit! Get out your crafting supplies!

This is the blog post where you will post your artwork using the Inlinkz Linkup from now until February 14th, 2014 at midnight. If you have questions, please email Suzanne (email link is in the sidebar! >>>>>>>>>

Voting begins Feb.15 right here. The top two entries will win $50 worth of Quietfire Rubber Stamps. Another $50 prize will go to the Judges Choice. You may only win once in this category.

Good luck and happy creating!

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