Drama Queens Always Need A Supporting Cast Last week, I took you on a tour of the Bold, Bright paintstik colors. The Brights are the Drama Queens of the matte color line. They’re vibrant, in-your-face colors. Today, I want to introduce you to the Dark colors. Along with the Dusty colors (coming next week), the […]
Archives for April 2011
Exploring Matte Colors 3: Bold & Bright
This is part three of my Matte Color Series. You can read the earlier articles by clicking on these links: 1 – Naturally Neutral 2 – Luscious Lights There are 17 Bright colors in the Matte Paintstik line. I’m going to divide these into 2 sections for a very important reason — some of these […]
Crossing Borders with DIVAS
I’m fortunate to belong to a small group of adventurous quilters called the DIVAS. (Yes, it actually stands for someting — Designing, Innovative Visual Art Sisterhood!) We took a road trip Saturday morning to meet with a similar group called Crossing Borders. We met at a delightful coffee house called Jitters in a town that’s […]
Matte Madness Sale
I usually do my blog posts on Monday, but we’re having a SALE and I want to get the news out before the weekend. Forget March — It’s Time For Matte Color Madness! March Madness is finally over and not a moment too soon! I’m a little tired of hearing about basketball. I’d much rather […]
Exploring Matte Colors 2: Luscious Lights
This is part two of our Matte Color Series. You can read the first part of the series in an earlier post. (Click on the title to go to that post.) 1 – Naturally Neutral There are six colors in the Matte paintstik line that I think of as LIGHT. These are clean colors that […]
Go On Safari Without Leaving Home
For the past few weeks, I've been talking about some projects that you can do with Design Magic stencils. Today I want to show you a super-simple quilt that would look great from any Design Magic design. The quilt is called "On Safari" and you'll find the instructions in the project section of the Design [...]
Exploring Matte Colors 1: Naturally Neutral
I love color. I love to dye fabric, play with paints, browse through fabric stores and wander through greenhouses. I simply love places and things that are packed with color. I keep telling myself it’s OK — I could have far worse vices than color. Try telling that to my husband who looks at my […]
