Happy Haunting!

Ever since Sherry used Mr. Bones for her haunted shrine on the Quietfire Creations Blog, I've needed to have my own Mr. Bones.  Well, how about a family, some of who are just "hanging" around?
Have a fun evening!

On-top-of-the-world Mr. Bones

 

 

Just-Hangin'-Around Mr. Bones

 

 

 Exercising Mr. Bones

 

Relaxing Mr. Bones

 

Stay safe - and stay out of the candy! (send it to me.  KIDDING!)

A Wicked New Flipbook!

We have a new flipbook!  See how our Designers use our rubber stamps for Halloween!

Click here to go to the Flipbook - I can't embed it here because there is too much code for my little brain (and perhaps Blogger's brain, as well!)
Enjoy!
(just a note - sometimes it works better in a browser that is *not* Internet Explorer)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzanne

Trick or Treat! Oh, just a little trick....

It's my turn today over at Quietfire Creations.

Drag your chains over to see the whole card and how it was made!

See you there!  Suzanne

Boo!

Here's my first attempt at carving just the skin from a pumpkin!

I enlarged the Boo stamp from the Quietfire Design Wicked 2011 rubber stamp sheet.  As you can see, I didn't get everything lined up quite right!  I'll do better next year!  And we were so late getting pumpkins that there were none left with stems!  :-(

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you're recovered from Halloween!

If the Broom Fits

Here is my contribution to this week's Created byhand Challenge!
This week's theme is Witches/Circle Dies

NOTE:

This week two lucky Challenge participants will each receive one of the stamps from the new Quietfire Wicked set. Names will be randomly chosen and posted with the Sampler!  Happy creating!

Card Synthesis

Reagents:

Flying Kitty image from the internet
Cardblanks

If the Broom Fits & Wicked
Golden Ivory Waves – Decorative paper for moon
Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Accents
Spellbinders Standard Circles Large
Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine paper
Archival Ink Black
VersaMark Ink

Thanks for stopping by!
Suzanne

A Grandmother Pretends

Judi Kauffman is becoming a frequent guest designer at Quietfire Design.  Her latest: A batch of Halloween cards and an ATC. 

Two of Judi's friends have recently become grandmothers, so she was elated to find a stamp that so perfectly fits their new role (the Erma Bombeck quote).  

Judi used black ink for all stamping, both black ink and metallic copper ink to smudge and alter the edges of the pieces.  The bats are punched from Black Iris Shimmer Sheetz (Shimmer Sheetz is from Elizabeth Craft Designs, the punch is from Stampin' Up!), the spider web border is a Martha Stewart around the Page duo, the spider is a Cuttlebug die.  Judi said she's not sure if the ghost and pumpkiin brads are still available or not (she got them several years ago from Stainslaus Imports), but it would be easy to find alternatives.

Thanks for sharing Judi!!
Suzanne

What's Not to Like?

Judi Kauffman and I had a long phone interview prior to her beautifully written article in Scrapbooking.com which appeared a few days ago. During the conversation, I stopped her at one point and said "Say that again", and so a rubber stamp was "born"!

Judi is not a minimalist when it comes to stamping envelopes!  The ones she shared with us will ferry her Halloween cards in style.  She used two of the new Quietfire Design stamps, a black cat from Cherry Pie Art Stamps, candy corn from Rubber Stamps of America, M candy from Toomuchfun Rubberstamps, and a tiny ghost and spider from Rubber Stamp Tapestry.     

{I just *love* that cat!  Except for the eye colour, it could be the one who is planning to pussy-foot all over my keyboard.....}

I think we all want to be on Judi's mailing list! Thanks for sharing Judi!

Boo! ATC size

I went to an ATC trade on Sunday!  Yes, miracles happen - I got out of the house.  The stampers will have a go at me for being so lousy at thermal embossing....  Sorry!!!  I need more practice, right?

ATC Synthesis:

Quietfire Wicked Halloween Rubber Stamps

Tim Holtz Candlelight Fright Sizzix die

Black cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot

Ranger Ultrafine Silver embossing powder

ATC Synthesis:

Midnight Dreary Cardstock

Quietfire Wicked Halloween Rubber Stamps

Tim Holtz Candlelight Fright Sizzix die

Black cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot

Ranger Ultrafine Gold embossing powder

Shakespeare's Soup - Quietfire Wicked Halloween 2011

I had a lot of fun creating the stamps for this set and I finally got a chance to use them the other day!

 First the card (although it was the last thing I made)

All projects use the Midnight Dreary Scrapbook paper.

Card Synthesis:

Quietfire Design Wicked Halloween Rubber Stamps

Archival Black Ink

Spellbinders Labels 21

Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Rectangle

Grand Caliber or other Die cutting machine

Black Card Blanks

Black Cardstock

Orange Cardstock

Ribbon

Black Buttons

Pop Dots, Glue Dots

Project Synthesis:

Quietfire Design Wicked Halloween Rubber Stamps

Archival Black Ink

Spellbinders Labels 21

Grand Caliber or other Die cutting machine

Tim Holtz Vials
Black 4-ply Waxed Linen Thread
Black Buttons
Tiny Tag
Ribbon
Orange Ink
Pop Dots, Glue Dots

Project Synthesis:
Quietfire Design Wicked Halloween Rubber Stamps

Archival Black Ink

Spellbinders Labels 21

Grand Caliber or other Die cutting machine

Spellbinders Bracket Box

Tim Holtz Vials

Black 4-ply Waxed Linen Thread
Black Buttons
Cotton Batting
Orange ink
Pop Dots, Glue Dots

Happy creating!
Suzanne

Some Halloween Inspiration

Here are some ideas for using the new Quietfire Wicked Halloween rubber stamps in your artwork, compliments of the Quietfire Design Team!