Stencils!
Shaving Cream Marbling with Ecoline

Check out the new artwork submitted by very talented artists, using the following products:
Crows
There are 2 things
I am the connections
Keep your faith

Artwork by
Connie Piotter
Jacqueline de Groot
Karen Steadman
Kersten Christianson
Kristy Christopherson
Wanda Hentges

Quotations Forum at
Eloquence at Quietfire Design
(quietfiredesign.net)

Have you visited the new Quotations Forum yet?
Here are some recently added gems!
Thanks to those of you who have contributed - you're awesome!

Drop in and pick up a quotation
- and leave a new one behind!

Site Siting

Recently I had the pleasure of taking a workshop taught by
Georgia Angelopoulos
in Victoria, BC.

Georgia's calligraphic passion is Gold and Gilding. She knows a lot about it and is constantly adding to her knowledge. Have a look at her site - once I start looking at it, I'm lost in the eye candy until someone needs something!!
Even if you're not a calligrapher, her exquisite works will make you want to pick up a pen and create!

You can read more about the workshop I attended on my blog here and the artwork I started in the workshop can be seen in its completed form at the top of this page.

You'll find a project there this month from someone you know.....
(I'm their Project & Designer of the Month)

Click on the photo to go directly to the current Scor-it Newsletter

Colour

Jaen's Opinionated Book Review:
Title: Colour - A Natural History of the Palette
Author: Victoria Finlay
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7142-2
cover photo: Bernard Schmid (c) Photonica

If you had to pick your favourite colour, what would it be?
Did you know that your choice probably involves
Murder,
Secrecy,
Spies,
Retired Pirates,
Smugglers,
Mayhem,
Poisoning,
Wars
or ALL of the above?

For example, my beloved Cobalt Blue is named after a German gremlin Kobald for a very good reason. …
‘Kobald was the name of a vicious sprite who lived in the earth and resented intruders. It is a decent metal on its own, but it attracts a nasty companion in the form of arsenic. So the European silver miners who often came across it hated it, gave it the name of the gremlin and for centuries they threw it away before it ate their feet and attacked their lungs. It was not simply the arsenic which made it seem a mysterious force; in the 17th Century people discovered its propensity to change colour on heating and used it in invisible inks; when the plain paper was held over a fire, it would magically turn green where the secret messages had been traced.’ - excerpt from page 296 –

And it was the Blue in the stained glass window of Chartres Cathedral that caused the 8 year old Victoria to ask the eternal question 'why?' when told by her father that 'we don't know how to make that colour of stained glass anymore.'

Instructors Supply Lists

(find them on the website under Categories- Instructor Supply Lists)

Going to a calligraphic workshop soon?
These instructors have graciously allowed me to post their supply lists on my site! Thanks!

If you are attending these workshop, click on the photos above to see the supply list . Links to their websites are included, if possible.

Holly Craft has always enjoyed papercrafting.

As a small child, she loved art and cardmaking and those loves just increased, with others such as photography, scrapbooking and watercoloring being added along the way.

She began using stamps in her creations in 1999 and that really opened up the possibilities. Holly teaches classes, demos for several companies, has served on several design teams and has been published in many magazines, including Take Ten, Legacy, Memory Makers, and Rubber Stamper Magazine.
She also enjoys playing with calligraphy and loves beautiful quotes, so when she found Quietfire Design, she was very excited!

Holly and her husband live in Atlanta, Ga and though their two children are both married and she did the papercrafting for their weddings, she still "adopts" brides and grooms and does papercrafting for them also.

You can find Holly on the web at Today's Creations

Perhaps they are not Stars Card

is by Marg Oberg in Alberta and can be seen in the June issue of Vamp Stamp News.

In this issue of VSN Marg writes how she created the face from a mold.

Monica Black's Love card is published in the
Summer issue of Just Cards - On newstands now!!

Marg and Monica won $25 worth of free Quietfire Rubber for her published card! Thanks ladies!

Anne A.

Carmen G.

Dennis G.

Irene B.

Joanne R.

Judy L.

Nadia M.

Wanda H.

Wanda H.

Wanda H.

Yogi G.

Gifts for the Artists in the Spotlight
Free Rubber!

Have you had your artwork published in a magazine?
Did it mention that you used products from Quietfire Design?

If so, then you are eligible to receive a reward of free rubber stamps!
There is one reward per issue at this time. You will need to have credited Quietfire Design in print and supply a photo/scan of the artwork and text with the credit. I'll be absolutely over the moon and will send you on a $25 shopping spree through the Gentle Thoughts Rubber Stamps.

• Qualifying Publications:
  Just Cards (have you seen the Quietfire ad?)
  Rubberstamp Madness (have you seen the Quietfire ad?)
  Somerset Studio
  Scrap and Stamp(have you seen the Quietfire ad?)
  Stampers Sampler (have you seen the Quietfire ad?)
  Take 10 (or other Stampington publications)

Just check with me for other publications that may qualify.

Create without Limits!