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Daily Journal Prompts for January 2007

Have you been thinking it would be nice to keep a daily journal? Or have you tried with no success? For the month of January, I am sending out a daily journal prompt to get you started. You can use a journal that you already have or collect up some pages that you can bind later.

This can be a written journal or use it as an Artist's Journal! Anything goes in an Artist's Journal! Hey, it's your book - you can do what you like in it. You can share your pages, or keep them private. There will be a photo album set up on the byhandartists Yahoo website to upload anything you'd like to share. If you're a byhandartist already, you don't need to sign up for the prompts, I will send them to the list every day) If you're not a member of the byhandartists you will need to

• sign up for this newsletter and tick the box for the daily prompts or
• if you're already a subscriber to this newsletter, sign up by changing your subscriber preferences at the bottom of the email I sent announcing this newsletter.

Happy Journaling!

and don't beat yourself up if you don't get to your journal everyday - remember, it's your book! You can do whatever you want with it.

A Card a Week

For the month of January, I will be uploading a Card A Week to inspire your creative spirit.

I will be adding these projects to the Projects Gallery. You can sign up to receive notice of the project, just as you did for the Journal Prompts

I just wanted to let you know that I am constantly working to add useful information and inspiration to this website. The buttons below can be found in the byhand product pages with certain items and alert you that "thar be treasure!".

This is the Inspiration Button. Click on this and you'll find examples of the artwork using the product you are viewing

This is the Insight Button. Click on it and you will get additional information about the product and ways you can use it.

This is the Project Button. Click it and you will be taken to a project which uses this product! Watch for them soon!

The Quote Marks are available!

Each set has 7 stamps;
5 quotations and 2 titles.
Use them to make sets of themed bookmarks or use them individually! The possibilities are endless!
Click on the images for more information.

The themes are

Cats,

Friends

&

Nature

Quietfire Design is now part of

Cyberstampers

What this means is that we'll be having chats and online classes in the near future! A huge thanks to Monica Black for her assistance in setting all this up!
If you'd like to be notified of the
online classes and chats
and you are already a byhand subscriber, click on the link at the bottom of the email you received announcing this newsletter and change your Interests by clicking the appropriate box.
If you are new to this newsletter, just fill out the form to the right of this column! Thanks!

About Cyberstampers
Cyberstampers is an online "Mall". You can window-shop through all the vendors by going to this link:
http://mall.cyberstampers.com/
to see what's current.
To join the chats and online classes you will need some Chat software. I have been using the mIRC software Cyberstampers recommends - for more information visit this link:
http://www.cyberstampers.com/chat.html
Don't be scared - it works really well! Hope to see you there.

The delightful Monica Black will be teaching an online class mid-month and a Valentine's themed class during the Cyberstampers Convention in late January. Stay Tuned for dates!

Gentle Thoughts Info
This month's Gentle Thoughts was done with

The brush lettering for Magic was done with a very dry brush.

This is a great place to look for articles (or your favourite artist!) in past issues of byhand.

Search WWW Search www.quietfiredesign.com

Some changes in the sign-up for the newsletter!

Now you will have control over subscribing and un-subscribing. And with the double opt-in format (you are sent an email confirming that you really do want to subscribe), you know that no one has signed up for you.

Thanks very much for your continued support!

P.S. I do not share my mailing list.

The byhandartists is a Yahoo group where we discuss all sorts of things related to paper arts! Get to know your fellow artists from all over the world!
Don't forget, you can set your preferences to Daily Digest so you won't be bombarded at first with a lot of email.

Suzanne is a member of the

Visit my little gallery page on the ISABA website!

Site Sitings

Well these are usually websites, but I thought I'd share some of the retail outlets where you can purchase my Gentle Thoughts Rubber Stamps. Destination shopping is fun! Even I get visitors.

Thanks to these vendors for their interest in my rubber!

ATC Swap

Anne A.	Anne A.	Beth A.	Beth A.	Chris
Irene	Jacey	Joanne	Joanne	Laurie
Laurie	Mary-Beth	Monica	Monica	Monica
Monica	Monica	Monica	Monica (inside)	Nadia
Nadia	Pat G	Rose	Rosemary G.	Therese M.
Trudi	Trudi	Yogi	Yogi