Poppy pins

Here's some of the new flower hairclips and brooches by TOMNI Design - this lot was delivered to our shop space at the Up Markets store in Lorne last weekend:

Each of these small hairclips is made from five layers of fabric that have been shaped using heat. Here's a view from a different angle of one of the hairclips:

And here's some of the Brooch/hairclip designs:

We also added some more fabric covered Magnets to the Lorne shop:

These magnets are Super Strong and each magnet can hold at least 10 sheets of A4 paper! So no more notices and bills sliding off the fridge!

If you're interested in purchasing any of our items, please email us via the 'contact us' link in the TOMNI Design Scrapbooking shop.

Red Poppies

Lately I've been creating some fabric flowers to add to the Handmade shop.

I've been experimenting with different fabrics and colours and today I was able to stock up on some more supplies. I'm impatiently waiting for some quiet time to make some more flowers!

I'll add these to the shop soon, but for now here are some pics of the red poppy brooch / hair pin

            

and necklace that are already 'sitting' in the etsy store.

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. 

Making Felt Iron Ons

Here is a follow up post showing the technique which I created for making iron ons from felt. I’ve used this technique for adhering the felt pieces to paper as well as fabric using a range of dies – and it’s given beautiful results - One of them being the previously featured Aqua tree card, which was created using this technique.

I’d love to hear what you think about the technique as well as to see your projects made using this technique, so feel welcome to send us some pics!

Dust Buddy by Core'dinations - Product Review

The Dust Buddy by Core'dinations is such a great product! Now there's no excuse to have dust all over your projects - you can now clean up all the dust and debris using the Dust Buddy and keep working on your project!

You can see the Dust Buddy in action in our Product Focus video:

Cuttlebug Thank You Felt Tree Card

I've been playing around with my Cuttlebug and felt, trying to create a technique that would let me create felt shapes that would easily adhere to fabric and paper. After a few trials I have come up with what I call 'Making felt iron-ons using your Cuttlebug machine'.. I'll soon post a tutorial on how to do this, but for now I'd like to share with you a card that I made using this technique - which also fits in with this week's Cuttlebug Challenge (using fabric in your project).

For this card I cut out the leaves and trunk from aqua and brown felt using my Cuttlebug and the 'leaves and stem' die from the 'Flowers' Cuttlekids four pack die set and attached it to the cream cardstock which I embossed using the Birds & Swirls embossing folder.




For the background I used the Aqueduct Core'dinations cardstock, which I embossed using the Swiss Dots embossing folder, then sanded the top and edges using my sanding block. I finished the card with cream grosgrain ribbon, a rub-on sentiment by Karen Foster Design and a Crystal Sparkles Brad by Trimmings.

Must say that I'm quite happy with the result!

~ Eliza