Celebrate Marker Card

The lettering for this card was done with the darker purple and then the drop shadow was added with the lightest marker in the set.
The gilded flourish was made with the Quickie Glue pen and the variegated leaf pressed on while the glue was still wet.  I tried using Jones Tones transfer foil, but the pen glue wasn't strong enough.  Not exactly fine gilding, but fun and quick!

Card Synthesis:
Card Blanks
Quickie Glue Pen
Zig Memory Markers - Elegance
Lilac Avenue (Kaisercraft) 6x6 paper pad
Variegated Green Leaf
Xacto Knife
Pentel Clic eraser

It Is Christmas In the Heart

Here is a quickie card using the new Quietfire Christmas rubber and Spellbinder's dies.

Note:  By popular demand! the whole set of new

Quietfire Christmas/Seasonal stamps

are continuing on special until Sunday November 20th!

Stamps may be purchased individually

Card Synthesis:

Card Blanks

Quietfire Design Rubber stamp: It is Christmas in the Heart

Distress Ink: Peeled Paint

Spellbinders: Holly Motifs, Standard Circles Large, Standard Circles Small

Core'dinations: 2 green colours from Elements Cardstock

Glue Dots, Pop Dots and Double-sided Tape

Thanks for dropping by!

Terre Frye - published in Steampunk Magazine

Congratulations to Terre Frye who has been published (again!), this time in Just Steampunk! Terre used the Quietfire Italic Double Stroke Caps in her fabulous bodice creations!

You can find the Double Stroke Caps in the Stamp Department in the Alphabets and Word Stamps.

Thanks so much to Terre for using Quietfire stamps!!

Postage Stamps - Created byhand Challenge

This week's challenge is postage stamps, so I used the Spellbinders Postage Stamp Nestabilities along with some old nibs I had hanging around.

Card Synthesis
Quietfire Design I Write You Letters
Quietfire Design Flourishing Inside - Hearts
Brilliance Graphite Black Ink
Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy Dew Drop Ink
Blending Tool and Foam
Spellbinders Postage Stamp Nestabilities
Quietfire Chipboard
Walnut Ink
Gillott 404 pointed nib
7 Gypsies' Global Collection 6x6 Paper Pad
Core'dinations Coloured Cardstock
Diamond Glaze (for attaching all the nibs together)
Mica (base for nib "heart")

Calligraphers aim for high contrast between thick and thins in their strokes, so it pains me to see what can happen on certain papers with certain inks.  I really wanted to use the Chipboard.  First I used Black Archival Ink and it blurred - that's the top sample. 

By switching to a pigment pad, the ink doesn't sink into the chipboard so much and the letters are much clearer. Su-zed-q is a now a happy stamper!

Archival ink is a great ink!  Just not on absorbant chipboard.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Remembering all those who gave their lives.

11:00 ~ 11 ~ 11 ~ 2011

Quietfire Christmas Rubber Stamps 2011

Here are the new Quietfire Design Rubber Stamps for the Christmas season!  All of the 11 new stamps are available as a pre-order till Friday, November 11, 2011 at 54% off the individual price.  The stamps may be purchase individually, too! 

See them all here!  You can see more detail if you look at the individual stamps.

I'm Telling You is designed to fit on Spellbinders Labels 22

I hope you like them - there are cheeky ones in there, too!

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!

Inspiration from our Talented Customers!

Every once in a while, I get lucky enough to be sent photos of artwork which customers have created using the Quietfire rubber stamps.

This beauty is from Hellen E. in Australia.  Hellen doesn't have a blog, so I'm very happy she send this to me!

And from Carole At Carole's Soulfelt Creations (I had trouble viewing her blog using IE - but it's perfect with FireFox!)

but Carole says one of her favourites is here. I'm so glad I don't have to make a choice - they're all wonderful!

 

I've been meaning to share this one for a while. Jeneen is the Queen of ATCs and she created and gave me this adorable one. This is my little black fellow, who takes great interest in assisting with anything related to Waxed Linen thread.  I swear he can hear it coming off the spool from a dead sleep at the other end of the house. *sigh*  I think three wraps around the table is his current record.   Needless to say, he and Jeneen have a interesting relationship.....  He is one happy kitty when she visits!

Thank you all for sharing your work!
To Everyone:
Please let me know if you've uploaded something you have used Quietfire products on.  I'd love to share it!
You are also welcome to add your links to our Facebook Page, too!
Thanks for visiting, Suzanne

Kozmetica Script Typeface

Meet Kozmetica Script.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother....  What an elegant beauty.
Designed by Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa. See more details of it here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzanne

Burberry Baby Card - Chiara

Or Do-It-Yourself Plaid!

Chiara was born a few months ago to a family that loves Burberry! Chiara even had a little Burberry dress for her christening.
Here is the result of my efforts to create the Burberry tartan using the perfect tool for the job; the Dreamweaver Stripes stencil.  I think I know this tartan pretty well by now! (One day I'll get it perfectly!)



Card Synthesis

Handlettering on cardstock

Reagents:

Mitchell Roundhand Nib

Higgins Eternal Ink 

Spellbinders Grand Calibur

Spellbinders: Classic Ovals Small, Lacey Ovals

Dreamweaver stencil – stripes

Removable Tape

Gesso

Ink Blending tool

VersaMagic Dew Drops Midnight Black

Ranger Distress Aged Mahogany

Card Blanks

Burgundy Cardstock

Fawn coloured cardstock

ribbon

Sookwang Be Creative Double sided tape

Glue Dots and Pop Dots

Thanks for visiting!

Suzanne