Another Quicky Little Contest!

Quietfire Design team member Deborah March has artwork using Quietfire Design rubber stamps in the Summer 09 issue of Paper Creations Magazine. Check out your copy and the first person telling me page numbers where her artwork appears wins a rubber stamp!

Send me an email!!!

Quietfire Creations Group Pool Prize Winners

I have drawn the names of 2 winners from the April submissions to the Quietfire Creations Pool because I couldnt' decide on one!

A huge thanks to everyone who submitted - keep on adding submissions, you never know what I'll do next!

The April winners are:

Jademond (Ramona in Germany) and

Carnival2003 (Carol?)

and you will both receive grab bags of Quietfire Design Gentle Thoughts Rubber Stamps.

And here is the slide show: Amazing!!!! (if you're receiving this as an email update, the slide show can be viewed on this blog by clicking the title above!)

How Nibs Work - Video Tutorial

If you're receiving this as an email entry, please click on the title and you can view the video tutorial online on my blog.

Calligraphy Nibs (broad-edged)
Nib Holders
Gum Arabic

Blogging from my iPhone

Isn't technology amazing? Now can I attach a totally non-relevant photo of our newly diabetic kitty?






Wow! Will this work?

-- Post From My iPhone

Sand and Blue Tuesday Created byhand Challenge

Here is my contribution to this week's Created byhand Challenge:

Made with

• cardstock - chipboard would be good!
• ribbon
• jump ring
• Memory frame
• Quietfire Collage Images - Vintage Women 3 Minis

Created byhand Challenge - Fruit

Here is my contribution! See all the others on the Created byhand Challenge Blog

Made with

• Quietfire Collage Sheet - Vintage Bare Bottoms
• Gel Extreme - White
• Puffy Hearts
• Black cardstock

Video Tutorial - Nib Holders

And here is installment number 2!
If you are receiving this as an email update, please click on the title of this entry and you will go to the blog where you can view the video. (A little smoother delivery this time, still need the manicure! As long as I'm getting the information across - that's what matters!)

Both these tutorial can be found on my website in the appropriate product categories, as well as on my YouTube Channel. You can subscribe to the videos there.

Feel free to suggest other topics for video tutorials!

Tutorial Video - Introduction to Calligraphy Nibs

Well, these have been a long time in coming.....
I have been planning to make tutorials for over a year, but I have lots of excuses! Here is my first try. It often takes me a while to get into "teaching gear" and I didn't get to that point in this video - luckily the next one is smoother!

My son tells me I don't sound anything like this. And anyone know a good manicurist???? lol!

I sometimes get emails asking some basic questions about calligraphy and I hope this is the beginning of answering those questions.

If you are receiving this as an email update, please click on the title above and you will be taken to this blog where your can view the video.

Created byhand Challenge - Spring

• Artwork created
• on Arches 140lb Hot Press watercolour paper
• using a Mitchell Roundhand Nib #3 1/2
• with Aureolin, Viridian and Alizarin Crimson Winsor Newton watercolours
• loaded into the pen with the Bristle Brush
• Stamped using the large butterfly from Quietfire Design's Butterfly Dragonfly Stamps
• Stamped with Gold Size
• Gilded with 24K Transfer Gold
  
  

Happy Easter!

I hope you're having a happy and relaxing Easter - and that you find some time to be creative!

This was lettered using

Mitchell Roundhand Nib #3

Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache Opaque White

Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache Chromium Oxide Green

Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache Paris Blue

Quietfire Digital Collage Sheet Vintage Children 3

Arches Watercolour Paper Pre-cut HP

Bristle Brush to load gouache into your pen and to make rough frame around photo

Collagevisions Easter Digital Collage Sheet (found on Kelly Burton's Etsy page - not a QFD product, darn it!)

When I mixed the gouache, I used white as the base and added a tiny amount of the Chromium Oxide Green. This made the mixture a bit too green to match the eggs, so I added an even tinier amount of Paris Blue. It has to dry before you can tell if your match is close!