HAMBLY & Tombow Tots- Creative Board
Yes, this summer seems to be taken over by dolls at my house and I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love that she can be so creative and entertained by just a few toys, I’m hating the picking up of teeny- tiny little papers, shoes and hair bows. That being said, when the Hambly Happiness box came to my house I knew what I was going to do with it and I knew that it would be my daughters favorite Tombow Tots project ever (even if it added to the doll drama).
These just started out as the cheap little 1.99 chalkboards from the craft store and with a little paint on the edges, a BEAUTIFUL Hambly screen print on the back (put in with MONO PowerBond adhesive), a few Clips (put on with MONO MULTI Liquid Adhesive)and of course some butterflies to add to the magic (put on with MONO Adhesive Vellum — perfect for all those overlays) it’s turned into the ultimate set-up for a miniature classroom. She even went above and beyond making miniature notebooks and ‘scrapbooks’ for the dolls. Now her summer school set-up is complete. She can’t wait to play with it and I am dreading the picking of up it… I guess that’s the way it goes, right? The creative circle of life.
Remember to check out Hambly’s new DT on their blog and make sure to add Tombow to your Facebook account too… we’re sooooo close to 1000 friends and we need your help. We’ll have a HUGE giveaway as soon as we reach the magic number so keep an eye out there too. Happy Tuesday!
-Joanna
Drum roll please! The winner of Tombow’s prize pack this week is Aimee… she commented on Monday’s post. Thanks Aimee for being part of our blogging family! As an added bonus Paper Posie was generous to throw in a surprise giveaway as well… love that! So congrats to Tommy too! You won a surprise pack from Paper Posie just for commenting on Tuesday’s Tot post! We love our readers around here. I hope everyone has had a fun (and safe) holiday weekend. Check back tomorrow as we kick off the Hambly fun.
(Tammy and Aimee — Please email me within 72 hours at jwallace at tombowusa dot come with your snail mail address and we’ll get that prize pack mailed out to you asap.)
Next week’s Team Up…. You won’t want to miss it!!!
The first card is a 6×6 card, so quick…just cut a 12×12 in half, cut a piece of coordinating paper 5×5, glue it on with Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive. Cut a 1×6 strip of cardstock and glue that down across the 5×5 square. Fasten the trim by running a strip of the permanent adhesive along, and then press the trim into place. Add a flower and a cute journaling box and you’re good to go!
The second card is 4×6. Cut a 4×12 piece of cardstock, then cut a 3.5×6 piece of this REALLY AWESOME lace paper. Use Tombow Mono Permanant Dots on the back side of it, and it’ll only put dots on the paper parts, so there isn’t sloppy adhesive showing behind. COOL! Then I stuck a cute round tag, followed by a tiny pearl dragonfly. That’s it! Remember it’s your last chance at the giveaway this week so keep the comments coming and to check out Paper Posie’s cute site for more inspiration using July’s kit as well. Winner’s announced Monday!
Whitney Pollett is a freelance illustrator with Disney Interactive Media. With creativity to spare, Whitney’s repertoire features everything from whimsical sketches of Disney fairies to vampy sirens.
Her area of expertise lies in character design, costume design, props, storyboards, textures and environments.
Whitney is a fan of our Dual Brush Pens, particularly the various shades of gray the pens come in, which she uses for sketching. Visit to see Whitney’s website to her amazing artwork.
the box from paper posies arrived and i opened it expectantly. i have never ordered from a kit club before. i was excited to use products that i wouldn’t normally buy for myself…and i was not disappointed. take a look at the loot!
i wasn’t inspired instantly, i had to sit on it for a few days, but then looking back through it i saw the maya road chipboard tickets and then i hatched an idea. my assignment was to do something altered. so i went to my box of items that i have saved for just an altering occasion. in there was a box that i had saved from a wallet i have from franklin covey. the box is really sturdy and i knew one day i would find the perfect use for it. well, today is that day.
i decided to make a ticket box…a place to keep tickets from shows that i have the pleasure of attending….broadway, local theatre, my daughter’s dance recitals. i don’t always get to take a picture at the event, or if i do, one picture and a ticket don’t always make a full scrapbook layout. so i set out to create a place to save them.
on this box i did the top cover and inside the front cover (when you flip it open). because it was a box and not a layout i felt a little more daring and layered a little more than i normally would. using pearls and the flowers is out of my comfort zone, so it was challenging but i LOVE LOVE LOVE the result. did i mention LOVE?
thanks paper posies. i think i have a new way of buying my scrapbook supplies. send me another kit!
to make the box i used Tombow PowerBond to adhere the paper to the box and to each other. I used Tombow MONO Multi on the flower, the lace paper (although i was very minimal with the application of it, so it wouldn’t ooze out the sides when i smoothed it down) and the chipboard. i still used Tombow Mono Dots on the ribbon on the inside of the box. the lace paper was actually pink, so to make it coordinate with my “blues” i flipped it over and colored the backside with a Tombow Dual Brush Pen #312. the chipboard ticket inside the cover was done with #879, as was the writing of the quote, also on the inside.
i LOVE it so much that i am going to find myself another box and make one for my son using sports paper and stickers…for all the braves games he goes to!
(and just as an afterthought…maybe find a box big enough that programs can be stored inside too with the tickets. i see the tickets laying loose in the box and easy to look through. however, this collection from franklin covey had 4×6 photo album/sleeves too. i had scored myself one of these that has been laying around,
so i am going to use it to hold the tickets and try to be a little
creative with the presentation by scrapbooking a little 4X6 card to
stick the ticket to and that one picture that is taken outside the theatre. )
p.s joanna are you proud of me? my first vintage piece!
Our bathroom is in SERIOUS need of being redone. But money and time is tight right now. Even if you have a room (or whole house LOL) that needs redone, you can still do little things to make it look nice until you can get to it. I could get discouraged by how bad it looks OR do little things to keep it looking as nice as possible considering all that needs done.Okay, I digress, back to my project.
It is soooo easy and yet adds a fun little element to the room. I cut patterned paper to fit inside the frame and attached it with Tombow’s Mono Adhesive Power Bond. Then I used the same adhesive to attach these fun letters that were in my Paper Posies kit. Perfect word for a bathroom don’t ya think? Ü I could have left it like that, but it needed just a little bit more. I printed the verse out on cardstock and attached it to the chipboard tag with the Power Bond adhesive and then stamped a flower from Darcie’s set and grunged the edges a bit, added some vintage rayon ribbon and there you have it.
Here is a tip for cutting smooth rounded edges: It is hard to cut rounded edges to look nice. Just cut and adhere to chipboard and then sand the edges with an emory board. Makes it smooth and look more professional.Super easy, super fun and super cute. What do you have around the house that you can alter with some pretty papers to pretty up your home? Don’t forget to check out Paper Posies all this week for more fun.
If you take a girl and her doll to lunch
While dining with her doll she will get an idea to play school with her doll at home.
While they are playing school there will need to be lunch time because her doll will get hungry.
You will make her doll a lunch and then she will want you to make a lunch bag to put it in.
When you’re making a lunch bag for her doll to put the lunch in, she will have an idea to make one of her own.
While she’s making one of her own, she will change the pattern and make it fancier just because she’s a girl.
Because she made it fancy she will say that it is too fancy for a lunch bag but that it makes a perfect shopping bag.
Since it’s such a cute shopping bag she will say that the doll needs to do a little shopping and ask to go to the special doll store.
If she is in the doll store then she will ask to take her doll to lunch….
Supplies;
Tombow MONO DOTS Adhesive Runner
Paper Posies July Pack
Scissors
-Joanna
Paper Posies is a monthly scrapbooking kit club dedicated to bringing theirmembers the hottest and newest scrapbook products on the market. The kits are chock-full of patterned papers, specialty papers, cardstock, always two alphabets, ribbons/trims, tons of embellishments, and an alterable project (and this month, some added Tombow gifts!). Their Design Team gallery is ALWAYS full of inspiration and ideas on ways to use the product in the kits. They have challenges (and PRIZES!) going on ALL month long to keep creativity readily flowing. Add to that a fun and friendly message board with a live, online chat every Friday at 11am PST and a regularly updated blog and you can see exactly why we are so excited to partner with them this month!! This week we’ll be featuring projects from our DT using the Paper Posie’s July kit. Of course we’ll be doing our amazing giveaway at the end of the week so don’t be shy, you won’t want to miss out!
Old Fashioned Picnic Invitation
The Paper Posie package arrived and I was immediately motivated by the sizable assortment of paper and superfluities – a beautiful collection of soft, romantic colors that quickly inspired a vintage project. With Independence Day coming up I thought an old fashioned picnic was called for, complete with a fun invitation.
The invitation includes a pocket in the front, held down firmly with MONO Adhesive Permanent. Place the i
nvitation, chipboard tickets or even a menu into the pocket.
The ruffled ribbon accent is super easy to make. Lay down the MONO Adhesive Power Bond and a very thin line of Mono Multi Liquid Glue onto your project. Take a length of ribbon (I usually work right off the roll), and pleat it down the adhesive in a back and forth fashion. Don’t worry about being perfect, the irregularities in the size and direction of the pleats are what make this embellishment so endearing. The adhesive holds the pleats in place as you work and the Multi Glue holds it forever, especially when working with wider ribbons.
The chipboard tickets were colored with the Dual Brush Pens, with the easiest and fastest way ever to finish ‘raw’ chipboard! I used #723 pink and #126 light olive to match the Paper Posie package. Scribble the colors onto a piece of plastic and spritz with water. Place the chipboard down into the color and lift. Repeat until it is covered with color. To give the antique edge, and while still wet, run a #977 saddle brown Brush tip around the edge. The brown will blend as the chipboard dries.
I finished the pieces by stamping details with brown ink.
The Paper Posie package was not even dented – so I created a page ready to add favorite photos and journaling after the picnic! I would most likely antique the photos before printing to match the theme of the page. I mirrored the pocket from the invitation and kept the design simple with a quad panel showing off the pretty papers. This would also make a fun gift for an honored guest at your picnic.
-Marie
Marie– Who/What inspires you Creatively? Where do you go/look for inspiration?
I find inspiration in my tools and creative products; sorting through papers and sorting embellishments back into their place motivates me with their shapes, textures, colors and motifs. There’s nothing better than to see a wall of pretty ribbon or a mug full of colorful markers to get your creative juices going, it also helps to remind me what I have available to create with!
I also keep visual journals filled with magazine clippings, sketches, color swatches, fun sayings and any odd ephemera that I find interesting. No rules, no worries, just a visual mind dump of images I like. These always prove to be a great inspiration if I am stuck on a direction or theme for a project.
