What's next?

For a while now I've been making creations that are sold through a number of local shops. There's been a range of things, such as cards, toys, bags, brooches...

So I have decided to expand the current TOMNI design and soon it will contain a 'sub shop' containing my original handmade creations. I've been working on a few ideas for a new TOMNI design logo as well.

As owls have been one of the first original toy creations I made, I thought it would represent the shop quite well. And since my toddler son has been asking me to draw birds for him over and over, I got quite a bit of experience drawing the owls, which I then had turned into a digital image, resulting in this:

But I thought that the owl looked a bit lonely (and being black and white not very exciting), so after adding a bit of detail and colour, here's what it looks like now:

** Well the final logo ended up getting a little 'facelift' thanks to my hubby! **

No Nonsense Cards

Here’s some cards made using the Jingle Jangle paper from the Nonsense collection by We R Memory Keepers.

The following supplies (available from www.tomnidesign.com.au) were used in making this card: Core’dinations cardstock: Whitewash in Barn Siding, Red Pepper, Deco Coral, ColorBox Warm Red Fluid Chalk ink, Cafe Latte grosgrain ribbon, Jingle Jangle paper by We R Memory Keepers, Tim Holtz On The Edge – Scallops die, Trimmings Mum Rub On skinnies, MM Sanding Block, Core’dinations Dust Buddy, double sided adhesive tape. Own supplies – decorative pin, Dimensional magic.

Make the card background using the Barn Siding cardstock. Sand cardstock and ink the card edges using the Warm Red Fluid chalk.

Trim core’dinations cardstock to size to create a double border around the Jingle Jangle paper. Cut a scalloped edge in the Red Pepper cardstock using the Tim Holtz die. Sand both pieces of cardstock and adhere to each other. Adhere ribbon. Attach to card and decorate with a rub on, dimentional magic and decorative pin (optional). 

* Hint: The decorative pin was originally white, but I inked it using the Warm Red fluid chalk to colour coordinate it to the card *

Here are a couple more cards made using the same paper:   

The flower motif was cut out from the Jingle Jangle paper, adhered with mounting foam and decorated with a FTI rhinestone and rub on.

In this card I used the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die to create the layered flowers from felt and fabric.