Rachael's Handmade Designs

Today's great interview comes straight to you featuring a shop that specializes in RETRO ACCESSORIES!! Read on and visit the shop for some great shopping! 1. What’s your name and shop name and what do you do? Disgrace To Blondes retro accessories. Mainly I focus on Miniature top hats. I have always thought they were adorable! We do have other accessories: Hair flowers, bows, jewelry and I am now working on Steampunk accessories. 2. Where are you located? Bellingham WA 3. What’s the favorite part of your craft? The excitement of the customer. I love when people bring me ideas and I am able to execute them 4. How long have you been crafting? 5. What’s your favorite thing to make? Steampunk items. I love the idea of soft and hard combined. 6. What kind of camera do you use to shoot? I have a canon for shooting all my merch but mainly I ship out my product to photographers and models to work their magic. 7. Who or what models your items? SOO Many different girls. ...

Hi Everbody! I've got some cute new additions to the shop! I made this sweet little coffee card with a new coffee stamp. Available for Mother's Day is this sweet textured floral card. I also have a dog-themed greeting that's pretty cute! Would be perfect for Dad. And of course, there's Betty. Hope you enjoy these cards! Cheers, Xo, Rachael

Hiya! Welcome Back! Today's blog post is a technique - I never used this techniqe before, but I think I will be using it quite often now!  Here is the card that I used in my sandpaper diestressing project: I distressed the blue lined paper.  So what I did for this is cut the paper down to size, and then ink the edges with a teal.  After the ink dried a bit I took a piece of sandpaper and roughed up the edges to introduce texture and age the project a bit. You can see how it really adds to the overall feeling of the card. I was really happy with how this project turned out. Like I said before, I had never used a distressing implement before (other than fire or ink, of course) and I'm pleased with how this Mother's Day card ended up! I hope you utilize this technique in your cards or scrapbook pages because it really is quite fun! Cheers! Xo, Rachael 

Hello Again! I wanted to share with you an interview I did with Jennifer Porter of Jack's Daughter on Etsy. Jack's Daughter is one of my FAVORITE rockabilly reproduction shops on Etsy, so I said to myself "self - you should do an interview with this shop owner" - and voila! Now we have today's posting! 1. What’s your name and shop name and what do you do? Jennifer Porter but everyone just calls me Jenni. Shop name 'Jack's Daughter' This name was thought up by my daughter ( see Licorice and Cream on FB ) and she also designed and drew the logo. My Dad's name was Jack and he died in 2002 so the name is really for him. 2. Where are you located?  I'm in Bairnsdale - a small country town in Victoria, Australia. Population around 12000 people and located on the Gippsland Lakes and close to the snowfields as well as the lakes and ocean but 3.5 hours from Melbourne - the capital of Victoria. 3. What’s the favorite part of your craft? The favourite...

Hello All My Lovelies!! Today's entry is my entry for the Bombshell Stamps Blog Hop: Weddings! And here's my card! and I actually made another one that is available in my shop: ***  Hop on to Kelli's Blog  to see the rest of the crew's great projects!! Cheers! Xo, Rachael

Hiya!  I was thinking about what a sign my dad has says (it's in German) and so I looked up how to say cat or kitten in all these different languages. That's what lead to this Tuesday's Stuff Love. I just plugged in "language" and these are some of my favorites which ended up in my treasury. I hope you like it! It was fun to make! Also, here's what I've been working on that is art-related, but not a card. Follow this blog for a chance to win my blog candy. :) Cheers! Xo, Rachael

Aloha! New in my shop this week are these two fun cards: Sew Sweet Thank You  and this Bicycle Thank You. I've also opened a new shop over the weekend to sell my jewelry supplies, so come find me! SeattleSupplies is now open for business - good deals all around. :-) That's all for today. Thanks for stopped by! :-) Cheers! Xo, Rachael