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NOW AVAILABLE AT REDSTAR ink

Happy New Year

 

WISHING YOU PEACE & LOVE IN THE NEW YEAR.

Design Your Own Font

We all know that a hand written envelope is more personal than one with a typed out label. But who has time for that when you have a stack of 50 envelopes to address? One solution is to use a handwritten font and print the mailing address directly on your envelopes.

There are several websites that can generate a font from your very own handwriting. I chose www.handfont.com to create mine...and it cost less than $10! With four easy steps, a scanned sample of your handwriting is turned into a true type font that you can use in any application.

Download and complete your font form

 

Scan and save your form


Upload your form

Buy and download your font

Once you have your font, you can set up your document in whatever program you choose to use. (I created a document in InDesign and exported the multi-page document to a pdf file.) You can even add hand drawn elements to personalize it even more.

Finally, I sent my document to print and minutes later, my envelopes were done.
This post was originally written as a guest post for Queen Bee Market. Special thanks to Indie Handmade, who inspired this blog.

2011 calendars

Today my onecalendar made it to the front page of Etsy, thanks to this fabulous treasury made by Laura.

Holiday Shopping Event

Queen Bee Market is having a Holiday Shopping Event next month at the Del Mar Hilton. The timing is perfect...right before Thanksgiving. My booth will be stocked with calendars, cards, and gift tags. You can check out the other fabulous vendors here.

For directions to the event, click here.

Surfing Celebs

In September I attended the Surfrider Foundation's fifth annual Celebrity Expression Session. Hosted by the beautiful Christina Applegate, the event took place at Surfrider Beach in Malibu. As a Surfrider member myself, I was stoked when my husband told me that the company he works for, Cali Bamboo, was was a sponsoring the event with Barefoot Wine. For every wave each celebrity caught, both sponsors donated $100.

The celebrities this year were Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Sam Trammell, Martyn Lenoble, Austin Nichols, Eric Balfour, Eric Avery, and Brian Geraghty. An amazing lineup, to say the least.

So they ended up raising $29,600 for Surfrider, which is amazing. But I have to admit, the most amazing part for me was standing a few feet from Flea and Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as they waxed their boards and suited up.

As the web master and videographer/photographer for Cali Bamboo, my husband Walker was lucky enough to have press access and interviewed all of the celebrities. Not a bad gig. Check out his footage here:

During the event, all of the celebrities, including Christina Applegate signed a surfboard which will be given away to a lucky winner on Crowdrise. All you have to do to enter is donate $44 by November 29. The proceeds will go to Surfrider which is such a great organization that protects our beaches, coastlines and oceans.

Photos courtesy of Surfrider and Cali Bamboo

New Colors

There is a common thread with most of my products...COLOR. While maintaining a consistent look and design aesthetic, most REDSTAR ink products are black and red.

But I have gotten numerous requests for customized goods in different colors so I have added a new color option to my top selling items. I am pleased to introduce to you brown and blue, now available at REDSTAR ink.