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brought to you in living colour by Quietfire Design July/August 2004 - Issue 36 |
Gentle Thoughts |
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Hi everyone! Welcome to the summer issue of byhand. I've already gone into summer snooze mode, that's why this is so late arriving in your mailboxes! I am finding time to be creative - probably more at this time of year than others. I've brought in some more goodies for your creative pleasures and have tried to give you examples of artwork using them. I hope that helps jumpstart your creative juices (just in case you needed a jumpstart!). Enjoy your summer and have a happy, relaxing and creative time!
and there's always more that I can't categorize!!
Changes
to the If
you are ordering by mail, you will notice that the
Quietfire
Design can now accept VISA!
Site Siting At long last byhandartist
Click
here to go to Patti's site! Congratulations Patti!
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Important links at your fingertips!
If you wish to contact me, my email address is: suzanne@quietfiredesign.com or
Quietfire Design, Box 1231, Port Alberni, BC
Books to Inspire Back next month
Don't forget if you'd like to share some artwork that you have stamped with a Quietfire Rubber Stamp, please send me a copy and I'll be delighted to put in the Stamping Gallery. Don't be shy!
Please drop into my other website and see how the challenge is going!
While you nourish your creative spririt by reading this newsletter, don't forget your creative body needs nourishment inside and out!
Join the supporters
of byhand and become a
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Although you can't see it well, this piece of twill was put through the inkjet printer. First I chose the text I wanted on the twill and made sure it was not too large a point size for the tape. I rotated the text so that it ran down the length of the letter size paper and printed it. I cut a piece of twill the appropriate length for the quote and placed it over top of the text I had just printed out on the paper. A piece of tape was used to anchor the leading edge of the twill tape so it would not catch in the printer. I also used double-sided tape to hold the tape over the previously printed text and sent it off through the printer. And there is another suggestion for using cotton twill tape in the Stolen Moments section of this newsletter.... |
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Send me your "Favourite Things"
suggestions and you might see it here!
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Suzanne's Schedule 2004 and 2005
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Kalligraphia '04Lethbridge
Community College |
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Kalligraphia
is a Calligraphy Conference being held in Lethbridge, Alberta Instructors
and Classes:
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Windows of Life Challenge
There will be a pile of prizes! The winners names will be drawn from a hat.First
Prize All you have to do is decorate a slide mount or coin mount and send it in! It can be mounted on a post card, ATC or other piece of art. It can be art all by itself! Just send it in. You can enter as many times as you wish - but each one has to be different! Your entry(s) will appear in the September newsletter in all its glory! Window of Life must be received by July 30, 2004 and the draw will take place shortly afterwards. If you don't know where to get your "Windows", I have them here! Slide
Mounts, cardboard - package of 20 Need some inspiration? Send you entry(s) to Quietfire Design, Box 1231, Port Alberni, BC V9Y 7M1 Canada |
Stolen Moments |
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Making your own closures
It is sometimes a bit tricky setting eyelets inside an envelope, so you you might choose to go for the brad look. And if you choose the eyelet look, you may want to insert the eyelet from the back and set it outside the envelope - for this I prefer the Quietfire eyelet setter as it creates the same look on both sides of the eyelet, not the split look that some setters give. Use an awl to pierce the holes for the brads as using a punch will make the hole too large and the brads might fall through (how annoying!). I used a long eyelet for the side that secured the thread and that worked well. I used waxed linen thread for the string, but any string will do. I wound the thread around the stem of one of the brads or eyelets, behind the cardstock circle before I set it. This step required some, ahem, finesse! You might want to add a dab of glue to secure the string if your closure will be seeing a lot of "action"! !Create without limits! |
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Ideas for Creating Interesting
Index Tabs in your Decos or Journals
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Here is the Letter Deco I did for a byhandartists round robin. Each of the tabs were tags which were coloured and simply glued onto each page. |
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This is a metals deco I did for a round robin on the CST list and hosted by Linda Cameron. I cut off the ends of copper and aluminum metal tags and used eyelets to attach them to the page. Each person embossed their initials into the tab. What a great bunch! |
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And yet another method of adding tabs to your pages!
This is white 1" twill
stamped and 1" black twill
stamped with Memories white ink - it's actually brighter in real life.
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Oh, and, silly me, I almost forgot.... the Stencil tabs! (and don't even ASK about the order these are in..... sigh.) Happy creating! |
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In April, just before Stampers Celebration, I challenged Patti Sandham to create using byhand Products - in particular the Gentle Thoughts rubber stamps. Here are just some of the amazing things she produced! Thank you from the bottom of my heart Patti! This is continued from last month - if you missed it, check back to June's newsletter to see more amazing artwork! |
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AndPatti completed this lovely
small accordion book shown here. The Paris stamp on spread #4 is from
a rubber stamp sheet she designed for Non Sequitar Rubber Stamps.
Don't forget to visit Patti's new site! |
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What's
New!
Upholstery Tacks |
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Player Piano Paper |
Stencils!! A full set of letters in each package, plus number and
symbols - |
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Yummy dark Size 5 (2 3/8" x 4 3/4") |
Cotton Twill in a variety of widths |
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Gang Tags 4 - #7* Tags still attached together. Add them to an Altered Book or add some covers and you have a premade accordion book! *5 3/4" tall x 2 7/8" per tag |
Scrabble Tile Grab Bags! |
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Slide Mounts |
Library Pockets in two sizes |
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Coin Mounts - Round |
Coin Mounts - Oval |
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Puffy little stars |
Puffy little hearts |
 Larger
burgundy heartson the OCS page |
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Samples of some of the full sheets of paper I have in
stock - oh, yum!!
See them on the OCS page |
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Original Vintage Ledger Pages
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Microscope Slides! |
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If there is any information you would like to see in this newsletter,
let me know. Each month I will email you to let you know the new issue
is published. If you know someone who would like to receive notice of
byhand, just have them email me and I
will put them on the list. Bye for now and thanks for visiting! suzanne@quietfiredesign.com |
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The original title lettering of byhand was done with a Mitchell's Roundhand Nib, size 0, and Higgins Eternal Ink. Quietfire Design Rubber stamps were used to create the other designs. |
Artists whose work is shown in this newsletter retain the copyright on their own work.
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© 2004 Suzanne Cannon
This newsletter is for the personal use of the subscriber and may not be reproduced
without written permission from Suzanne. You are welcome to email or print it
in it's entirety to share with friends, but ask that you include this copyright.
Thank you for your help and your understanding.
Try using a 1/2" circle punch (but a 3/4" might look better)
on black or manilla cardstock and add either eyelets or brads to hold
the circles on an envelope or book.
Amber
F.
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