Quietfire Sentiment of the Season Blog Hop - Day 3

Welcome to the Quietfire Sentiments of the Season Blog Hop! We’re celebrating the season with projects using our favourite Quietfire sentiment stamps and dies.  We have some great ideas to share with you!

We’re giving away a prize on each of the Sentiments of the Season blog posts.  The posts will be on Designers’ personal blogs and one on Quietfire Creations.  All you have to do is leave a comment on the Sentiments of the Season blog posts and you will be entered for a chance to win a Quietfire stamp or die from that blog.  Each designer will randomly choose the winner from their comments. 

Here is our schedule:

Day 1- Monday November 23 : Teresa and Yogi

Day 2 -Tuesday November 24: KathyJo and Judi Kauffman

Day 3 - Wednesday November 25: Wanda (that's me) and Yvonne

Day 4 - Thursday November 26: Robyn and Selma

Day 5 - Friday November 27: Diana and Suzanne

If you get lost, just hop back to the Quietfire Creations blog to find all the links!

The deadline for leaving comments is Sunday November 29, 2015 at midnight PST.  Winners will be posted shortly afterwards here and on Quietfire Creations.

Good luck and have fun!

I'm using stamps from the brand new Quietfire set - Flourished Ornament.  A gorgeous set that includes an ornament and 3 different flourished words that will fit inside.  The words can also be used without the ornament making this a set that works all year long.

The ornament is stamped onto white cardstock with embossing ink and embossed with Queen's Gold powder.  "Joy" was stamped with embossing ink and embossed with red geranium powder.  I used Distress Ink cracked pistachio along with water and a paint brush to add color to the inside of the ornament.  A gold brad and gold string create a hanger.

The red frame is an Elizabeth Craft Designs die - Fitted Frames 2, Lace Squares.  I cut it from soft finish cardstock backed with double sided adhesive,  inked it with Archival Ink red geranium, and adhered to the white cardstock leaving a border around the frame. 

For the next layer I began with Ranger's glossy cardstock, stamped one of the snowflakes from the new Quietfire set - Let it Snow Snowman with Ranger's resist ink repeating until I had enough snowflakes.  Next I inked over the piece with cracked pistachio (no need to ink the center) adding enough ink to bring out the pattern of the snowflake.  I then flicked some water over the piece, blotted it and dried it.  

I attached the main panel to the green panel with foam mounting tape, wrapped the hanger to the back and taped it down.  This was then attached to the 5 1/2" folded white card.

Finally I added the 2 dark green flourishes.  These are a die from the Elizabeth Craft Designs set - Flourishes & Branches.  I cut them from soft finish cardstock backed with double sided adhesive.  The backing paper was removed and silk microfine glitter - forest green - added to the adhesive rubbing it down well.  I attached the flourishes with glue leaving the ends loose.