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brought to you in living colour by Quietfire Design June 2004 - Issue 35 |
Gentle Thoughts |
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the June 2004 issue of byhand! Well, I've had a very busy 6 weeks with Stampers Celebration
in Calgary, the Fibre Arts Symposium in Comox and then back to
Calgary for teaching at Thanks very much to all my students and customers who make doing this work so delightful. It's a delight to be part of your lives. Paper Pastimes
is the new retail outlet for Quietfire's Gentle Thoughts Rubber Stamps!
Drop in and visit Carole - you'll think you're lost until you step into
her wonderland where a great eclectic collection of paper temptations
await your creative passions. You might wish to call ahead for directions!
I had 2 wonderful classes at Paper
Pastimes in one marathon day creating really wonderful decorated journals
using Gentle Thoughts rubber. The journals we used were from Select Imports,
watercolour journals which are really lovely. I have some on order and
will put them on my site when they arrive. Well, you
can't go to a trade show and not come back with goodies. I can't believe
the number of new things I've brought in! Click
here to preview the new additions. I'm going to have soooo much fun
creating over the summer! At
the CCHA show, I taught to the retailers - hey, they really know their
crafts! We had 3 people drop out of their 8 a.m. classes to come to ours!
It was a busy 2 hour class where our focus was using the papers and journals
distributed by Select Imports. I have never been to a wholesale trade
show and I learned a lot. I had a really wonderful weekend. Now on with the newsletter... Table of Contents for this issue
and there's always more that I can't catagorize!!
This month the winner of the draw is: Sarah
Potter Congratulations ! Thanks for joining the byhand Family!
Changes
to the If
you are ordering by mail, you will notice that the And
hey, the first person to order 20 different
items in one order ('cause there are 20 spaces on the printable order
form) in June 2004 will win a really nice prize! |
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! Site Siting While you nourish your creative spririt by reading this newsletter, don't forget your creative body needs nourishment, too. My Mom had a quote that she liked: If you don't look after your body, where are you going to live? Come
visit my new website http://nourishment.usana.com
Check
out the nutritional supplements - they really are first class and the
Sensé products are such a treat - nourish your skin! According to an
Industry consultant, Sensé is in the top one percent of skin care lines
worldwide.
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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 |
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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! As usual Patti is very prolific, so I'm saving some of her creations to share with you next month. |
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Cherish from the Life Journey words, Decorative Corner from Metal Works. |
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It's a shame this doesn't scan better! Patti used diamond brads and the Premium Subscriber rubber to create this beauty. |
Patti used the curly frame, the ledger pages and "Memories" from the Life Journey words. |
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You can just see the little one inch charm below the stencil "1" and minibrads. |
Spring ChallengeThe byhand ATC Quotation SwapHere they are! The rules were simple! The cards
had to be 2.5" x 3.5" and must have a quotation. They could
be all the same, or all different. Enjoy the results from this wonderfully
creative group!
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Tina Shoaga
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Faith Lloyd |
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The back and front (right) of Vickie Enkoff's cards |
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Patti Gramza |
Ellen Harper |
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Janice Rusnak |
Nadia |
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Tracey Guillemaude |
Rose Davidson |
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Renee Jensen |
Phyllis Schaffer |
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Vicky Martindale |
Julie K Hmmmm, mine were so simple.... Cut up a flyer, stamped quote in black ink and clear embossed. Layered on black and added a deco fiber. |
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Donna Knadle
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Marilyn Smitshoek closed (above) and open |
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Lorna Long, outside (left) and opened Fish - twisted floral wire with embossing powder melted and wee fish confetti added for scales/color. I do this on cooking parchment on a hot plate - like an electric frying pan. Trim outside melted powder while warm. Wooden business cards are from Lee Valley and front is lightly stamped. Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt printed on onion skin via computer and edged with embossing powder. Brass hinges and fastener made from a roll of brass sheeting I got from Lee Valley. Careful. Edges are sharp but oh what fun |
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Judy B (front and back) |
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Anne Atkinson above and right! Mine (the "Passion" ones above) were hand lettered. The passion for life one I did on a 11 x 17 piece of paper and shrunk it to hide the mistakes! These were my first ATCs. |
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Kathy Mostardi Made with various paste papers, hand-lettering and glitter glue. I'd say Kathy had a happy time while she was playing! |
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Beth Ann Walker My little long haired guy with the button up boots was scanned from an old ad postcard. I cut him out and then placed him on top of scrapbooking paper with a sliver of homemade marbled paper. The text was clipped with deckle scissors and then edged with a gold Krylon pen along with the edge of the entire card. I added a brass frog for whimsy. The back of my card was created with a scanned picture of a hand with pen from a Jim Harter book of copyright free images. Wonderful source for blackline images. I scanned the image and brought it into Adobe Photoshop to erase the original text being written by the hand. I added a script with my name. The other info; name, e-mail, series, date;also added within Photoshop. I attached this to the back of the card and then used a small square stamp pad for the triangles and the edges in a color that matched the script from the hand and pen. |
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Elaine McLeod You can see all of Elaine's ATCs as a feature article in the April issue of byhand! |
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Stencils!! |
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Yummy dark Size 5 (2 3/8" x 4 3/4") |
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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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Suzanne's Schedule 2004 and 2005
Fall 2004
2005
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Quietfire
Design (that'd be me!) will be heading out to teach and/or be a vendor For more information on each of these events, click on the title and you will go to their respective website. All these websites are being continually updated so visit often. |
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Kalligraphia
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Vancouver British Columbia
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Lethbridge
Community College
Lethbridge AB Canada |
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Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, |
Sunday,
August 15 to
Saturday, August 22 2004 |
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Quietfire Design is a Sponsor, On Saturday the 14th, I'll be teaching a short
evening class |
Here
is the list of instructors and their classes: NOTE:
There may be slight changes or additions to classes as numbers dictate...full
class descriptions, supply lists, housing and food information will be
included in the course registration packet due out by the end of March.
To
hold a registration spot (classes will be filled according to registration
number) send a $100 (cheque or money order made out to Kalligraphia '04)
deposit to: |
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Deco Round Robin II Here are the decos from Group 2. |
Patti's J deco |
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Patti's Sign-In page |
Patti in her own deco |
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Suzanne in Patti's |
Nadia in Patti's |
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bj in Patti's |
Ellen in Patti's |
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Mieke's in Patti's |
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Suzanne S deco |
Suzanne in her own deco |
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Suzanne's sign-in Page |
Patti in Suzanne's |
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bj in Suzanne's |
bj in Suzanne's |
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Ellen in Suzanne's |
Ellen's Poem Only
when we accept
Am I allowed to turn this into rubber??? pretty puleez? |
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Nadia in Suzanne's |
Mieke in Suzanne's |
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Ellen's E Deco |
Back of Ellen's deco |
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Patti in Ellen's |
Suzanne in Ellen's |
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Mieke in Ellen's |
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Mieke M deco |
Mieke's sign-in page |
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Suzanne in Mieke's |
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Ellen in Mieke's |
Patti in Mieke's |
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Nadia in Mieke's |
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bj in Mieke's |
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bj's F deco |
bj's sign-in page |
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Ellen in bj's |
Suzanne in bj's
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Patti in bj's |
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Nadia A deco |
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Nadia's sign-in page |
Nadia in her own deco |
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bj in Nadia's |
Ellen in Nadia's |
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Ellen in Nadia's |
Mieke in Nadia's |
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Mieke? on the left and Suzanne on the right (in Nadia's) |
Suzanne in Nadia's |
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Patti in Nadia's |
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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. |
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Thank you for your help and your understanding.
During
May, I attended the Fibre Arts Symposium in the Comox Valley as both an
instructor and a vendor. 
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