hapagirlren humbly handmade: The Pink Parlour Festival!

It's so rare for me to actually post, but our most recent show at the Pink Parlour Festival located at the Santa Anita Race Track in Pasadena, CA really got me inspired and I wanted to share.

The Pink Parlour Festival is a wonderful and fun event that celebrates women in crafts. I want to share the first paragraph from their website, "The Pink Parlour Festival, is a unique one-of-a-kind event that caters to women of all ages. This festival was conceived with the purpose of celebrating the creativity of women. Our objective is to unite women, while bringing together the collections that they create. These include artists such as crafters, visual artists, and performing artists amongst others. Many additional attractions also include musical performances, a fashion show spotlighting young, "Up 'n' Coming" designers, children's activities, along with the excitement of horse racing, concession foods to fine dining and so much more!"

Of course I was there with my craftin' other half, Leanne Poe, as well as our wonderfully and talented friend Jenny Chen of Sesame Bijoux. This was a new adventure for myself and Leanne and we endured some sleepless nights handcrafting items to sell at the show. Unfortunately, those sleepless nights didn't include the planning of the look of our booth and we ended up with a very humble and simple set up of tables with black table cloths. We were so incredibly fortunate in the location of our booth. We had three sides wide open with a view of the stage and all the fantastic entertainment of the day. We attended the show as customers once before and fell in love with it. This time we were a part of it and had just as much fun! We recommend this show to anyone who can attend. Everyone that attended said that it was a blast! Leanne, myself, and Jenny will definitely be there next year and we'll be better prepared :) LOL! Sleepless nights are no bueno and we don't plan to do that again!

Here are some pictures of the items I had for sale...

These are my vintage inspired gift tags. All tag shapes were cut by hand and not with a die. The dress form images are from Lost Coast Designs Mannequins rubber stamp set. I used my Copics W1 and W3 for the inside shading and C1 and C3 the outer shading as well as Vintage Photo Distress Ink to age. The edge of the tag is also distressed to add age. The bodice of the mannequins are all paper pieced with the backside of the patterned paper.

Here are my accompanying 4x4 vintage inspired frames...

This little scene is completely paper pieced in several layers. It is laid out on a flat surface wood frame and treated with Mod Podge. The wonderful little creatures are my favorite critters from The Greeting Farm: Forest Friends.

With these next set of frames I highlighted Gorjuss stamps...one of my absolute favorite artists, Suzanne Woolcott, is the creative hand behind these images. All images have been colored with Copic Sketch markers :)

The last bit of of my focus was a bit more retro. I'm so bummed I didn't have time to finish more product with this theme! Both of the frames below were the first to sell. yaye!