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Rubber Stamps for Naughty Girls Nicole Yost, a rubber stamp artist, offers retro tattoo designs and other hip images that feature skulls and crossbones, pinup girls, sharks, flames, and other stuff you might find tattooed on a sailor's arm, on her website at Asta Arts."My designs are a little out there for some folks," says Yost, an avid rubber stamp artist with a passion for tattoo art and pop culture." At first I thought my customers would primarily be rubber stampers, but about half of the folks who buy my stamps don't fall into that category at all. A lot of people just like the designs. They use them to make their own t-shirts and cuff bracelets, make edgy scrapbook pages, or just to add a little personal zing to personal notes and letters." "Some people even use them for making temporary tattoos," says Yost. "I sold a bunch to a biker in Arkansas who just wanted to try out different tattoo ideas before getting inked." The inspiration for the retro-cool stamps came to Yost during a late-night crafting session. "I was making a stack of hand-stamped cards and I just thought, 'Why doesn't anyone make any cool rubber stamps?' I knew exactly what I wanted, but no one was selling anything like that." Eventually, Yost drew up the designs herself and her company, Asta Arts, was born. "Now I have a great stamp collection and a business I love," says Yost. StoryLife Photo Cards For those bored with the same old-style photo cards, StoryLife.com is looking to provide a more creative solution by being the first online photo service to feature cards with up to four different photos on the same card. Customers transfer their photos to their account, choose a design and add their own words. They can choose from hundreds of themed designs or create their own custom background using one of their own photos. StoryLife offers hundreds of layouts with a quick and easy method to create personalized photo cards. Examples and ideas are posted online in the StoryLife Gallery. StoryLife Photo Greetings are sold in sets of 25 prints with envelopes starting at $19.95. New Gelly Roll "Silver Shadow" Pens Sakura of America, the maker of the popular line of "Gelly Roll" pens introduced a new line of pens called "Silver Shadow", based on the Gelly Roll theme.Silver Shadow Pens creates a line of silver gel ink, with a "shadow" of color around it. When you write with the pen, the silver gel and the colored shadow immediately separates when it hits the writing surfac, creating a silver line with a colored border. Pens will be sold individually with manufacturer's suggested retail price, or MSRP, of $1.69 per pen, or in a five-pen set with a MSRP of $8.45. BioBinder Cherished Memories Notebook Delphi Health Products, Inc. recently introduced a product called, "BioBinder&trade Cherished Memories - The Story of My Life".It's a three ring binder containing 100 pages of thought-provoking questions and more, that allows you to record your most cherished memories, health history, values, and wisdom. The pages are grouped into twelve sections, according to stages of life. Cherished Memories allows users to document a lifetime of precious family history, events and milestones. Thought-provoking sections include "Childhood," "Teen Years," "My Family Tree" and "My Values and Philosophies." An area for creating an Ethical Will enables users to convey not only the values and lessons passed on by your ancestors, but also the insight gained from life experiences. There is also a section for photographs and treasured keepsakes. It's available for $49.95 at the BioBinder website. |
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