By Sara Shirman for Walnut Hollow
We are excited to be blog hopping with Quietfire Design all this week. We have so many creative projects to share with you using Quietfire Design high quality rubber stamps with Walnut Hollow Wood Surfaces and Tools.
We have a great prize to give away. Let us know what you think about our projects by leaving comments. We will choose a prize winner Monday, October 6. Leaving comments on all of the projects will increase your chance of winning! See where to go next at the end of my post!
Quietfire Designs has some of the most beautiful stamps that I have ever seen. The delicate Calligraphy is so well done and the stamps themselves are very high quality. It was really fun to work with Suzanne in deciding what the stamps should say for this Thanksgiving themed blog hop! It took me a whole 5 minutes to decide that I was going to make coasters for the blog hop. The size of the Quietfire Design stamps combined with Walnut Hollow’s 4.5″Circle Mini Thin Plaque were perfect for coasters on a Thanksgiving table setting!
I started preparing my Circle Plaques by sanding them and putting 2 coats of Light Buttermilk Americana Acrylic Paint
Once the paint was dry I used Coffee Bean Archival Pigment Ink to stamp on this Sunflower stamp that was purchased at Michaels.
I used a heat gun to set the ink then colored in the sunflowers with Tsukineko® Memento Dual Markers. The brush tip worked well for filling in the petals and the center of the sunflower with loose strokes.
I stamped the beautiful Quietfire Design stamp that is a part of the Give Thanks set onto a thin piece of white paper. I love the quality of these stamps! They are so clean and crisp!
I centered the paper in the center of the sunflower.
I mixed up some Ice Resin (it is so easy to use!) Here is a video that shows how to mix your Ice Resin properly.
I poured the ice resin over the stamped paper and spread it all the way to the edge. The Ice Resin is thick enough so that it does not run over the edge of the piece of wood. Ice Resin is very easy to use on wood!
I let the Ice Resin dry for 24 hours. They turned out really nice – now I can’t wait for Thanksgiving!
Thanks for stopping by to see my Thanksgiving Coasters! Now go see what Kathy Jo and Sherry have created! http://quietfirecreations.blogspot.ca/
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What a great idea! I love your very detailed instructions too.
Thank you Sandy!
I really like your coasters. They are beautiful.
Thanks Evelyn! 🙂
These are beautiful! Love the pretty sunflowers.
Glad you like them, Dawn!
I am getting so many awesome Christmas ideas. These are cool, I so doable.
Totally fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this saying and it is so true! Love your coasters great job!!
Thanks, Bonnie!
The coloring of the sunflower is great. These would be so much fun to make for all the seasons and holidays of the year. Love the idea.
thanks for sharing.
They would be great for other seasons- I could see Poinsettias for Christmas!
Yes. I love poinsettias. they are one of the perks of the Christmas season.
Love this project!
I do coasters on the wood slices. Thanx for the great idea to put saying over picture..
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!! Your photos and instructions are great!
LOVE how your coasters turned out……so pretty!!
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Thanks, Janis! I am glad you like the project!
LOVELOVELOVE these gorgeous coasters!!! My favorite flower is the sunflower so these really appeal to me!!! This is an amazing hop and I can’t wait to see what else the week has in store for us!!! See you tomorrow~!
Great tutorial! I love your coasters. The transparent look of the paper is perfect for the flowers.
Love the detailed instructions on creating these wonderful coasters. You did great work and I loved learning about using ice resin and how easy it works with wood. Thanks for a great blog hop today!
What a great idea! Also thank you for providing such detailed instructions. They look so nice and it is something I would not thought of doing. Inspiring!
lovely coasters. Good idea. makes a nice gift. Have a great day
Love the coasters, I will have to try the ice resin, thanks for the ideas and inspiration.
Thanks, Roseanna! The Ice Resin is very easy to use! The results are fabulous. 🙂
Wonderful project here.
Love the sunflower stamp
used.
Carla from Utah
Thank you, Carla!
Awesome idea, love the inspiration!
These coasters are awesome! They look hand painted and I love the sentiment.
These are lovely and what a great gift they would be for a Thanksgiving hostess!
Wonderful coasters, and a great tutorial. 🙂
Beautiful coasters! Send them over to my house!
this is beautiful and innovative . I am getting so many ideas from this hop! thanks
These are so cool and pretty! Love the idea and technique! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Your sunflower coasters are perfect for Thanksgiving.
The sunflowers are so cheery! Awesome coasters!
Love the sunflower coasters. thanks for explaining how you made these.
These are wonderful Sara! Thanks so much for sharing all the steps! I think we all decided very quickly what items we were going to work with and we stuck with them even after all these months!
Who doesn’t love coasters! These are just beautiful! Thanks for sharing the technique! Love them!
Love sunflowers My favorite…..
I recently broke my fibula. My neighbors and friends were so kind. I sure will be making more than 1 set of these to show how thankful I am for their help! Thanks for the instructions, they are so helpful!
I have never used the ice resin. Thank you for the introduction to a new product to add to my arsenal! Your project is quite beautiful. Another great idea for the youth group.
Love love love these coasters! The sunflowers are perfect!
Beautiful as well as practical!!
Great coasters. Love the design you selected.
Your coasters are so lovely and remind me of my garden at the end of summer and the beginning of fall when the sunflowers are at full bloom! You did such a lovely job on the coloring of the flowers and the wood excepted the ink really well!
Amazing coasters, I never tried to colour with markers on wood, but now I will!
Wow, Sara, your coaster turned out so beautifully! The sentiment looks so elegant on those beautiful flowers!
Love the coasters 🙂
Love those coasters. Thanks for the “how to” – I’m going to make some similar ones for Christmas.
Pretty AND practical! And with Quietfire stamps crisp sentiment, it just is perfect for Thanksgiving. 🙂 Or ANY occasion really. 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us.
I love coasters and the use of ice resin was a new technique for me. Thank you.
This is amazing.. I had no idea ice resin would make white paper clear.. Love those coasters😀
There is something new to learn every day. Neat for a little last minute gift.
Love the use of the sunflower on your coasters!
A fabulous idea and coasters are always needed! I had never thought to make my own and customize them for the season! I will definitely try this! Thanks for the inspiration!
These are adorable, I would love to have them in my home, great idea, thanks
What an awesome idea! Love the coasters! Sunflowers are my favorite!
I love your idea – really want to try this.
Those coasters are so wonderful! thanks for the great inspiration!!! 🙂