CHA Winter 2012 :: Hambly Screenprints
I love how some things become such a trademark and these paper lamps covered in Hambly transparencies? They are a total tradeshow trademark now. Hambly always have a small but perfect booth and as soon as I can see the lamps, I know there is good stuff to be found.
You need to know that Hambly also have awesome customer service and because they are small, they have this small team that talks to people so personally and they are just extra welcoming. So I walk up and they say ‘Stop right there: we know where we have to start. Let me show you this…’ and that ‘this’?
It’s CAMERA PRINTED WASHI TAPE.
Be still my heart.
I may have told them if I have to give up clothes and start dressing as a mummy, I want to be a mummy clad in camera-printed washi tape. True story. (Obviously I’m talking Egyptian wrapped-in-bandages mummy. Not British mother of small children mummy. I don’t think they generally change their clothing habits that dramatically.)
So yes, let’s focus. There’s new washi tape and that collection includes a camera print, and also a larger size with labels, perfect for adding right to a photo or for attaching an overlay to your layout. Nice.
Some pretty-pretty pages from the Hambly design team.
Brand new mini overlay sheets, perfect for adding transparent layers to divided page protectors. Love these, and will be stalking the new products at Two Peas for their arrival day as I’m sure they will be gone in no time. May have learned that one by experience.
The mini overlays also include labels. Cut apart then attach to your project with tape, staples, stitches, brads or clear adhesives like spray glue or a Xyron machine. (Or if you’re adding more layers, use your regular adhesive and just hide it with something else on top.)
Six new patterned papers in a different look for Hambly – two with very colourful prints and four with just one main colour, including a chevron for good measure.
And these look very fun indeed – mistable papers with a resist pattern – in clouds and hexagon prints (and a couple other patterns). Just add mist or ink over the top and the pattern will stay white but you can customise the background colour.
Which means even if you want to make the sky behind those clouds blue, you can do so with your own amount of colour and shading, and create pretty faded looks like this example with blue at the top but the pale paper at the bottom.
Eeep: do you see what I see? Map print overlays? Indeed!
In fact lots of things that are relatively travel-themed. Clouds…
Airplanes…
…what I’m convinced looks like the graph paper they use with a seismometer? I could be way off here, but it’s fancy graph paper. Let’s go with that.
And non-travel things too, like two different chevrons and a hexagon design.
Diagonal stripes and herribone – all four of those will be really easy to use for plenty of themes.
And the map!
So do excuse me if you see someone dressed as a mummy in camera-printed washi tape holding a see-through map trying to find her way around town. Sadly there is just something about the unique products that Hambly creates that causes me to go a little less than normal.
In more acceptable terms, let’s hope we can get these products and use them on craft projects. Screen-prints are made to order so the shipping times will vary, but look for these to start hitting stores in late March.
Click here to shop for Hambly products, including select designs at 25% off.
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9 February 2012, 09:23
Oohhh really like these, only have one roll of washi tape and it is a dodgy purple flower print which matches nothing – need to get me some of these. Oh wow the map overlay is so pretty!! Wish they did them of UK cities!
9 February 2012, 09:27
OH my GOSH I need to win the Lotto seriously Chevron be still my heart… I mean how delish is that I can’t take it!!
9 February 2012, 09:45
beautiful – i love the mini label overlays!
9 February 2012, 09:46
I haven’t used any transparencies yet, but I have been thinking about it…..this might have just pushed me over the edge….
9 February 2012, 09:48
Love the bird on a wire washi tape and the map paper.
9 February 2012, 09:54
Overlays have always scared me a little – but these may help me overcome my fear! And those mistable papers – must have!
9 February 2012, 10:11
Yummy washi tapes, chevrons, and hexagons and clouds. Well done!
9 February 2012, 10:11
Wow, those mini overlays are a must have!!! And the map overlay too, of course! :) Love it all!
9 February 2012, 10:18
The mistable papers look fun.
9 February 2012, 10:27
ooooh, yes! this makes me happy!
9 February 2012, 10:30
If I had a tail, it would be wagging right now – what a fabulous collection of transparencies! Love, love, love
9 February 2012, 10:39
Want. It. ALL!!
9 February 2012, 10:46
their stuff is just so darn cute- I love the map overlay and ALL their washi- why is is so hard to get my grubby little mitts on over here
9 February 2012, 10:47
Oh, I’m sooo looking forward to watching Shimelle create with this new line! Can she scrapbook while giggling endlessly?
9 February 2012, 10:55
Love the camera wahi tape, the hot air balloon transparencies and the chevron paper^^gosh if only I was sure to find this in France which is I know it impossible
9 February 2012, 11:28
Everything looks so versatile! Might have to finally try Hambly!
9 February 2012, 11:31
Lol, as a mummy and collector of Washi tape, I thought for a minute I had been using it wrongly!! I have been off Hambly of late, the last thing I bought had owls on and is untouched in my paper box, but some of these designs look like they would fit much better with my current supplies.
** Kate **
9 February 2012, 11:47
Love the washi tape and the map print overlays. Adding them to my wishlist…
9 February 2012, 12:39
Love that cloud paper. Clearly I’m going to have to try some of the new Washi tapes, too.
9 February 2012, 12:50
Be still my heart. Chevron and all the other transparencies, camera printed Washi tape. Yes, please.
9 February 2012, 13:34
I really like some of the hexagon patterns and those maps…love, love, love. and…more hot air balloons. They are just all over right now, aren’t they?
9 February 2012, 13:55
For me it is the aeroplanes – gotta love ‘em. Having been to a large number of air displays in my life, which I love, I have stacks of photographs. Aah, the thrum of old warplane engines and the whine of newer jet engines. Plus helicopters and gliders if you get real lucky. Bliss. Can see myself using these plane papers and overlays. Plus the hot air balloons. Cool.
9 February 2012, 14:27
I do really like the hambly pieces. I find that I end up just getting one or two here or there, but am always pleased and have used them in a variety of ways.
9 February 2012, 14:49
Love the minis! and the chevrons and hexagons and clouds and, and, and. Really like these products.
9 February 2012, 15:57
These are so great!!! I love them!
9 February 2012, 19:39
SO in love with the camera washi tape!!!
9 February 2012, 20:00
Hambly makes such beautiful things. I’ve never actually had my hot little hands on any of them, but I sure would love to have some one of these days! I admit that I am a bit intimidated by transparencies and overlays- so pretty and yet I am just stumped how to use them…but they are just soooo pretty!
9 February 2012, 20:45
Love the camera washi tape and the chevron overlays.
10 February 2012, 08:18
Love the map!!! Love the chevron, mini overlays & washi tape!!!
10 February 2012, 08:20
I love the tapes and the overlays, of course, but the papers are pretty awesome, too!
10 February 2012, 10:41
In absolutely love every single roll of their new wash tapes! The clouds, hexagons and chevrons, are super fun in all the papers and overlays… Can’t wait to stalk two peas for some of this Hambly goodness!
10 February 2012, 14:35
Oh my LOVE LOVE LOVE Hambly and their new collections! Especially in love with the mini overlay labels in pink (swooning. Tough to find here so will need to order online.
10 February 2012, 18:02
So trendy!! I love all the patterns and that label washi is truly inspired!!
10 February 2012, 23:05
Wow lots of overlays. Never was good at using them. But they Are pretty
11 February 2012, 08:03
I’ll take lots of everything in this booth! Love Hambly!
11 February 2012, 16:02
Oh my. And PURPLE camera printed washi tape. Love it. I must start buying more Hambly products. I don’t know how I’ve stayed ignorant of their awesomeness for this long…
12 February 2012, 20:28
How is it that even when everything Hambly does fits right in with current trends, it still looks like they’re totally doing their own thing? Genius, I tell you.
Most excited for those tapes!!
13 February 2012, 15:21
I’ve heard u mention this brand a few times (or should that be read?)but I’ve never spotted their goodies for sale in the shops I frequent. I love the idea of the resist patterned paper, talk about customisation! I think a washi tape mummy outfit would catch on fast!
24 February 2012, 08:03
Wow! I’ve never bought anything from Hambly that I know of, but this range? There’s so much jumping out at me! Especially the Washi tape… I want!
5 March 2012, 01:01
I am in love with Hambly! ;)