New Kit Up On My Etsy Shop

The fashion doll tag craze is in full swing and I love it as well, but I've had trouble getting my hands on those wonderful new rubberstamps, so I took a look around my craft space and realized I could create something similar with what I had on hand. Then I thought there are probably a lot of others out there having the same problem I am with finding these "out of stock" items, thus I came up with this Fashion Model Tag Kit!!! It is loaded with plenty of embellishing goodness for the included tags, etc. I will be compiling more kits shortly to list on Etsy. Photos show the kits content of the 18 fashion models 7" tall, plus the 8 1/2" tags all the extra goodies for embellishing and the 3rd photo is just an example of what I made quickly.

Posting to Beverly's PINK SATURDAY over at Howsweetthesound.typepad.com

TGIF!!!

HOMEMADE SMASH BOOK TO SHARE FOR PINK SATURDAY

Hello an welcome to another post for PINK SATURDAY, so happy that you stopped by an I am eager to share some of the pages from a new SMASH BOOK  that I made over the past two days.    I'm very pleased with how the entire journal came out and especially with the copies I made onto vintage dictionary pages of my daughter, Morgan's sketches.  I asked her to draw me her version of Alice in Wonderland, and she sketched the scene above!  ONe flower with curling lashes and the other showing its "disgust" of Alice.

The page on the right is a very thin side "pocket" that I attached the butterfly wing to.  It extends the pocket's hold on items behind it, with the help of the paper clip.  I also created the butterfly tag using the negative of stickers and DITTO ink spray.

This page I glued all the tiny butterflies to the edge - they hang over for a nice border, then added the black washi tape as well to make their color "pop".

Some Tim Holtz grungeboard letters used as a mask and more DITTO ink spray was all it took to transform this originally plain page. 

Another one of Morgan's original sketches that I copied onto a vintage dictionary page.  I really love the look of this and will be doing it more for the next smash books I create.

The left side is simply a copy of a chipboard piece which I half glued in to create a "tuck-in" for the journaling papers.  On the right, although its a little hard to see is a pocket page made out of a much larger plastic page protector.  I secured the sides I had to cut to make it fit with glue and Tim Holtz tissue tape.  Behind it is another page, just a piece of scrapbook paper with multiple designs, perfect for more journaling along with whatever you want to "smash" onto the page.

Large journaling tages which I taped at the top for flip up use, an a piece of decorative paper which is actually recycled from an old calendar, an a mini tag attached with colored paper clip.

Here is another example of a thin side pocket then I added the butterfly/moth to the bottom for more "holding" spot, an added the stamped tags.  On the right I stamped the bird cage, put down some strips of washi tape then hit it with the DITTO ink spray and pulled the tape up to create a one of a kind journaling page.

And this is a rubber stamped image I cut out and turned into a "tuck-in" spot.  I purposely left the image uncolored for the recipient to personalize it.  A quote is added at the top along with some journaling spot tags.  The right just a piece of scrapbook paper.

The journal has 26 pieces of paper for 52 sides of SMASHING on an it comes with more paper and a bag filled with smashing bits and pieces.  I am selling this in my Etsy shop an hope to list more homemade Smash Books this coming week.  Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you find other inspiring blogs at http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ and please stop back soon.  Have a fun weekend!

Original Smashing Stickers

I've been having fun in my Smash book and have purchased a lot of Smash embellishments; as well as using my scrapbook stash.  My oldest daughter, Morgan sketches all the time an since we also have an Etsy shop, came up with a great idea.  I took some of Morgan's sketches, reduced them and copied to sticker labels for unique Smash stickers - which I am listing in our shop tonight: RoMoHoDesigns.  The cool thing - you get to color them in if you want using markers or colored pencils.   These can also be used for scrapbooking, as return address labels, cards, labeling items, mail art, journaling, etc.
We are also making more sheets with other graphics as well, coming soon!

Hope everyone's Monday is not as wet as our's is now.

Pink Saturday and More Mail

Its been awhile since I posted for Pink Saturday http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ , nice to do it again!

My daughter, Morgan, is always sketching; I grabbed a stack of her "doodle" pages while she was visiting from OSU and found this and the following images.  I played with my copier and decided to "create" stationery out of her "Les Femmes"...since I love writing letters to my pals, thought this would be fun and original to use. 

Talked to Morgan about it and we are also listing them this weekend in our Etsy shop: RoMoHoDesigns,  stationery sets of Morgan's original sketches...the "ghost" image stationery works best using Sharpie Ultra Fine marker, I only had green at the time, but black would be even better.

Going to have envelopes to go along with them, will probably put a small copy of  each "Les Femmes" in the corner of the envelopes with a little decoration around the edges, still debating.

Happy to have received Pink decorated mail from my pal Kendra in CA, love all that decorative tape!

An another piece from new pal, Abby - she did all the colorful drawings on this envie, put a smile on my face!

an this is the back side of the envie and...

This is the back of the notecard she designed, so creative!!

Here's to a wonderful Pink Saturday of loveliness and inspiration!