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In this issue of Quilting Arts Embellishments you'll find a great deal on fiber arts goodie bags, a call for photographs, and Distress ink and embossing powder tips.
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 Goodie Grab Bags, $9.99
What fun! We've put together a grab bag of assorted fiber art delights-two or three fat-eighths of fabric, threads/fibers, paper tags, and a bead or charm-for you to play with. Each bag contains more than $20 worth of materials. Subscribers take 10% off this value package.
Please note: The assortments pictured here are examples of what you will receive; each goodie bag will vary slightly from the ones pictured. We will carefully choose the contents for each bag based on the selection of papers available. In order to offer you this great price and quick delivery, we regretfully cannot offer substitutions or exchanges.
These goodie bags are in limited supply and when they're gone-they're gone, so order yours today.
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 Share Your Studio with Us!
We'd like to see where you create, whether it's in an 800-square-foot
loft or a 2-foot-square corner of your kitchen. Do you creatively
organize your stamps, papers, fabrics, and found objects? Or do you
find it more helpful to let chaos reign? Send us an email and up to three low-resolution jpegs to submissions@quiltingarts.com. Please be sure to include your name and contact information, and put STUDIO in the subject line. Thanks!
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 Distress Ink and Embossing Powder Tips
Art by Cheryl Prater
Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Embossing Powders are made to give an aged appearance to your art, but they act somewhat differently from the usual inks and powders. Here are mixed-media artist Cheryl Prater's tips for using them to their best effect:
- Distress Inks are dye inks, so they are colorfast and won't run with water. This makes them perfect for over-painting them with watercolor paints and Caran d'Ache or watercolor pencils.
- Because they are sheer, you can layer the inks, stamping with one color and then over-stamping with another color to add depth.
- Apply the inks with a rubber stamp, a make-up sponge, or just flip over the pad and apply the ink directly to your surface, like Cheryl does.
- The powders give an old, grungy feeling. After embossing, rub off the excess powder to maximize the aged, grungy appearance. Cheryl used a stiff bristle brush.
- The darker powders really give the image an "old, moldy feeling without the allergy attack."
- The lighter powders give more of a color-washed effect.
To see more of Cheryl's artwork using Distress Inks and Powders visit our website.
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For more events, projects, challenges, and new and exciting mixed-media products and books, visit our website, QuiltingArts.com. If you are a current subscriber of Quilting Arts Magazine, or if you place a subscription/renewal order with an order, you will receive 10% off our retail prices on all your purchases (excluding subscription orders and renewals).
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