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brought to you in living colour by Quietfire Design June 2003 - Issue 25 |
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Welcome to the June issue of byhand! |
Important links at your fingertips! Back Issues of byhand
Acrylic Blocks for Rubber
Stamps
How to subscribe to the byhand newsletter and other stuff! If you wish to contact me, my email address is: suzanne@quietfiredesign.com To subscribe: send me an email
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/byhandartists/
Books to InspireTrue
Colors
Now here's a book that's worth your money! This book is almost three hundred pages of colour, comment and insight. Wow. Next month... The Copper Mini Book Swap! Stay tuned.... |
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Coming Soon!
Artwerx is a 3-day potpourri of your favourite instructors from all
over! The event runs
Just a reminder that Quietfire Design will be an Artwerx vendor and sponsor (which means, as a registrant of Artwerx, you will receive a little treat from Quietfire Design)! To celebrate, I thought we could have Meet at the Thirsty Turtle in the
Richmond Inn! Please email me if
you're going to play to give me an idea how many are coming! If you are in the lower mainland, I encourage you to come check out the Vendor market on the Friday, Aug.15 from 7 - 10 pm. Definitely a great place for retail therapy. Quietfire Design will have some Artwerx specials! See ya there! |
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Suzanne's Schedule
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Tag Book SwapThis is the last of the Tab Book Swap participant's books! If you want to read more about this challenge, click here. To see the others wonderful books in this swap, just return to the two previous issues of byhand. Here is this months collection with comments from the artists. My thanks to every one of you for doing such a wonderful job! |
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Ginny Porter My tag book was created by photocopying a number of the original 4"x6" postcards I did for the last postcard exchange within the Fairbank Calligraphy Society. I had them reduced to the same size as the cover tag then cut the outer perimeter to match the shape of the original tag. A hole was punched in each tag to match, again, the one in the cover, front and back. The postcards from the edge sheet was done the same way and all were bound, if that is the correct word, together by a ring tag purchased at the stationary store. Just for interests sake I did make some more copies but this time I had them copied double sided so the back has the usual Post Card etc. stamped on it, I also thought one could run them through a sewing machine, without thread, to create a perforation which would allow one to tear them out and use them as one does with purchased holiday postcard books. |
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Shirl Van Eaton I attached fabric pieces to the folded tag with YES glue and added a border and small design to the front with Puffy paint. The loop for the ink dyed decorative toothpick closure is book binding linen.
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Pam Stevens My tags were stamped with black leaf designs. I used a piece of plain paper for the inside. I stamped this with the same designs but used black and one other colour. I calligraphed the quote and used my scanner to copy them. For the closure my husband cut some natural ivory buttons. These were attached with thin pieces of copper. |
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Shirley Johnson Shirley sent in 3 different styles of tag books! |
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Lani Kyea Each of Lani's books were different! |
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I decided to make a venetian blind style Palm Leaf Book by attaching two tags end to end for each "page". Copper and white were not my original choice, but ended up working quite well. I stamped "Dream with your eyes wide open" using Brilliance Copper on a piece of organza and using the sewing machine, stitched the organza to the tags. I decided to combine my stamp with another quote to read: Dream with your eyes wide open, for as you dream, so shall you become. I coloured half the mini-tags with Brilliance Copper and leaving the other half of the tags white, I stamped letters again using Brilliance Copper. The tags were held in place with copper eyelets and the copper tags was also held in place with eyelets. The copper tag was stamped with metal letter stamps from Lee Valley. The lettering on the last page was scanned and printed on decorated vellum and then held in place with brads. A narrow white cord held the three pages together and copper roves decorated the knots at the ends of the cord. |
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A Passion for Copper - Part VIIParts I through VII are available in previous issues of byhand Returning next month! |
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Recently, on the byhandartists yahoo group, we began an envelope exchange. You may see many of these in last months issue of byhand, but I wanted to share a few more with you! Thanks to everyone who played!
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Gentle Thoughts
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Stolen Moments
This is my first spread from the byhand Altered Book Project. I'm not quite sure what prompted me to use the theme of angels for my book. I had picked up the book from the library for 50 cents. It is just a contemporary novel, nothing special, or old. However, after I had begun working on it, I realized that the title of the book was "Replay" and there is a sentence on this page just above the lower right stamped frame that says : "He was dying." I thought this was quite spooky! Here is how I constructed this page... First I coloured the background with walnut ink. I did some brush lettering on the page, then stamped the frame stamp (Magenta) in four places on the page using black Memories ink. It's easy to get the frames straight as you can line them up with the lines of text on the page! The 2x2" glassine envelopes (Quietfire) fit perfectly inside the frames and I used Vellum Tape (3M) to secure them inside the stamped frame. The flap on the envelopes were reversed, and the envelopes mounted "backwards" so that the pocket is always open. The pockets were filled with "evidence of angels", like a feather, a lock of angel hair (in truth, less than angel hair, it was that of my 13 year old son....), and some angel "dust" which is a tiny ziplock filled with sparkles! The 4th pocket is awaiting some treasure. I just love attaching the tiny tags to the flaps of the glassine envelopes using an eyelet and washer (all Quietfire Design). I used DTP (direct to paper technique) with Memories Sand to colour the tiny tags and a Pigma pen to label them. Some additional hand lettering was done with a Pigma pen and "Evidence of Angels" was stamped using a rubber alphabet (Quick Arts). The final touch was stamping the all-seeing eye (vickieenkoff.com) in the bottom right hand corner. Some additional dark brown colour was added to the frames using a dauber and brown Memories ink. The foredges of the pages were torn to add to the aged look. |
Journal ChallengeThis was designed as a little challenge to help out those who had trouble sticking to writing in a journal. All the participants had to do was to jot down 3 words to describe their day. I wasn't expecting decorated pages, but as you can see below, some of them were quite entertaining! Anne A. even had a little door to open on hers! Thanks to all the participants! |
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Ellen |
Sue B. |
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LouAnn Leonard |
Anne A. |
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Pat Williams |
evelyene |
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Sandy Sommerfeld |
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Note about these items I have for sale.For your convenience,
you may visit the If
you are using the byhand Products
order form, please make your cheques payable in Canadian or U$ funds
to Suzanne Cannon. |
Waxed Linen Thread
4-ply Waxed Linen Thread Prices: It is $0.50/yard
Cdn ($0.35/yard U.S. funds). For those of you who have taken the Coptic Stitched Class, it takes two yards of thread to complete the book as we made it. For those of you who have taken the Criss Cross Coptic, you will require five yards per book. Please see the byhand Products page for the complete list of colours! |
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The eyelets! |
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| Brass coloured regular | $5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
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Brass Long neck temporarily out of stock |
$5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
| Silver regular | $5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
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Silver Long neck temporarily out of stock |
$5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
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Copper regular temporarily out of stock |
$5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
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Copper Long neck temporarily out of stock |
$5.00 Cnd | $3.50 USD |
(the long and short Copper are real copper and the long neck brass are real brass)
This
is just the best little eyelet setter! It's hard to mess up, in
fact, since I began using this setter, I haven't messed up!
$8.50 each
$5.50 USD each
Subtle, but they make a statement!
These are washers for your 1/8" eyelets. What will they think of next???100/package
specify:
brass
silver
copper
$5.00 each
$3.50 USD each
temporarily out of stock
The Envelopes
These cool fellas are perfect for altered books, journals and cards!
| Glassine Envelopes 4x4" 10/pkg. | $2.50 Cnd | $2.00 USD |
| Glassine Envelopes 2x2" 10/pkg | $2.00 Cnd | $1.50 USD |
Anywhere
punch with 6 bits This wonderful punch has 6 different bits allowing
you to punch holes in the following sizes: 5/64, 3/32, 1/8, 9/64, 5/32
and 11/64 (or 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4 and 5 mm) $14.00 Cnd ($9.50 US dollars)
I have put together some
Book Cradles for sale as some of you have been asking for them.
They are not things of great beauty, but really, really handy for when
you have a lot of holes to pierce. The legs come off so they're perfect
for going to classes. They are large enough for an 8.5" spine length and
are $18Cdn (or $12US - to the States).
I will try to bring these to classes so you can
see them in person!
There is an additional $2.00 shipping charge for this item
Book
Corners
Jazz up your book covers with metal corners!
I use them on the foredges of books, by applying a little glue
and then crimping them, ever so lightly with a pair of pliers.They are
all brass except the 3rd one down is Nickel or silver coloured.
| Brass slotted | $0.50 Cnd each | $0.35 USD each |
| Brass regular | $0.50 Cnd each | $0.35 USD each |
| Nickel regular | $0.50 Cnd each | $0.35 USD each |
| Brass scalloped | $0.50 Cnd each | $0.35 USD each |
They fit nicely on a bookboard of about 2.2mm thickness covered with decorative paper.
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Bone Folders $10.00 Cnd $6.00 USD |
Chicago Screws, brass, post and screw, $0.75 pair Cnd $0.50 USD |
Collage
Packs - 40 different collage
paper treasures - colour-coordinated Japanese papers. There is
one colour scheme on the front and a different one on the back. For invitations,
name tags, collage, card-making, bookmarks, drawing, painting, poetry,
rubber-stamping, photo mats, calligraphy, place cards, book covers, gift
wrapping. . . Assorted
colours
$9.50 US dollars per pack
$14.00 Cdn per pack
Book
Boards - precut 9" x 6", perfect for Coptic Bound, Criss-Cross Coptic
and Pipe Organ Bindings.
Give yourself a break! $1.50 Cdn per pair
$1.00 USD
(there is an additional $0.50/pair charge for shipping this item)
To order any of the above items and the rubber stamps
go to:
Printable byhand
Products Order Form OR the PayPal
shopping cart.
byhand Altered Book ProjectIn
late April, after some discussion on the byhandartists list, I thought
the thing many of us needed was a step-by-step project to get started
on our altered books. It's fine to have all these techniques thrown at
you, but unless you have a lot of drive, it's easy to wallow in the information. The
focus of our first spread was Envelopes. (We are now beginning our 9th
spread!) |
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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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