Great Tutorials From Our Design Team & Heidi's Blog Candy!

Hi Everyone,

I’m excited to share some great tutorials with you today from our design team ladies who all rocked this challenge! I love how unique and interesting each tutorial is and there are some fantastic tips and ideas!

Heidi Blankenship’s Masking & Copic Tutorial.

Heidi is also hosting our July $30.00 Crafty Secrets Giveaway on her blog and you can enter HERE

Check out the rest of these great tutorials from our Design Team Members!


Vicki Chrisman’s Altered Fairy Shadow Box

Anna Wight’s Apron Card and Free Template!

Lisa Zappa’s Altered Flashcard School Album

Pam Hooten’s Lace Flowers &Recipe Box

Linda Duke’s Coloring With Markers Video

Marisa Grosson’s Sisters Shadow Box

Michele Kovack’s Texture Paste Tutorial

Vivian Peter’s Masking Tutorial

Melissa's Phillip's Vintage Photo or Custom Buttons

Michelle van Etten -Using Glimmer Mist to Watercolor

Also, I want to encourage you to take a peek in our Gallery over at Splitcoast HERE to see some of the fabulous samples people are posting using our Clear Art Stamps and Heartwarming Vintage products, like this sweet baby card Sharon Johnson created using our Baby Girl Cotton Scraps! Sharon also has a little store on her blog and is selling our Cotton Scraps and the beautiful ribbons she uses.


We are super busy wrapping up a fantastic new product line which I will be sharing with you soon!

Wishing you joy & creativity,
Sandy Redburn
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Inpiring Ideas, Samples and News!

Hi Everyone,

Our design team has been busy designing all sorts of fabulous samples! Design team leader Vicki Chrisman created this very cute layout using our Fishing Buds Clear Art Stamps set for a challenge by Taylored Expressions. You can get more details HERE on Vicki's blog.

Look at this super fun kitchen wall hanging Vicki made using an image from our Domestic Goddess Scraps. She also made a really cute Halloween Bingo card you can see and get details on both HERE on Vicki’s blog. I love the way she used her Stickles and Diamond Glaze!

Vicki also framed a bunch of our vintage images in some sweet little gold frames like this one using an image from our Homespun Fairy Scraps. I’ve seen some really nice little gold frames like these at second hand stores and dollar stores. If they are an ugly color, you can paint them gold or cream and add a bit of antiquing with inks or chalks. You can see a bunch more pretty framed images HERE

Look at this adorable card that DT member Anna Wight created with our new Mouse Party Clear Art Stamps set! You can get all the details and see the inside HERE on Anna’s blog. You also need to check our the amazing photos Anna takes from her life on the farm!

I also adore DT member Pam Hooten’s ‘Cheesecake card’ she designed with the Mouse Party set. Check out how she paper pierced the little mousse outfit and masked the cheese to layer her cake HERE on Pam’s blog.

Look at this beautiful card DT member Heidi Blankenship designed using our Seaside Clear Art Stamp set with a bunch of Spellbinder’s Dies! This little girl image off the set is one of my favorites and Heidi rocked it on this card! You can see more details and get the list of all the dies, inks and Copic Markers she used to create it HERE on Heidi's blog.

DT member Linda Duke also loves our Seaside stamp set and she made this very pretty card as well using the same little girl but different Spellbinder Dies. I love her soft colors and the way she added glitter to make the water sparkle in the ‘sun’! You can get all her details and see more HERE on Linda’s blog

DT member Vivian Peters has also been busy creating all sorts of fabulous samples like this super cute card she made using an image from our Cooking Cotton Scraps with the cookie cutter stamps from our Sweet Stuff Clear Art Stamp set. The REALLY SAD NEWS is that our Cooking Cotton Scraps have SOLD OUT and I’m still waiting to see if we can get more printed. Boo hoo!

You have to check out all the other great cards HERE on Vivian's blog that she has created including her super fun 'off to Paris on a vacuum' card she designed with our Girl Time Cotton Scraps (still in stock)!

Marisa Groson has also been a busy posting all sorts of new inspiring samples on her blog! I adore the 3 little paper doll cards she created in different outfits. You can see the other little doll cards if you scroll farther along Marisa's blog HERE as well as see her other wonderful cards like this one she made using images from our Calendar Creative Scraps and get more details Just close your eyes when you see the totally cute card Marisa created using an image from our Cooking Cotton Scraps as it just sold out. On the other hand there are probably several stores that may have it still in stock

Here is the card using some of the Calendar Creative Scraps

I love this mini album that DT member Melissa Phillips designed and the way she used our little girl laying on the grass (from our Calendar Creative Scraps). That image is from a book I own from the late 1800’s and it just shows you, some thing will never change. I think everyone can remember lying on a grassy hill enjoying the sunshine as a child. In fact it looks like a wonderful idea at any age! You can see the rest of this pretty little album and HERE on Melissa’s blog.

I also wanted to tell you that DT member Michelle van Etten will be teaching make-n-takes and demonstrating using our Clear Art Stamps and Heartwarming Vintage Collection of images with Glimmer Mist at the Stampfest Show at the convention center this weekend (June 27 & 28) in Kissemee, Florida! Michelle will be working in Scraporium’s booth at the show and if you can make it, stop by and play! Denise from Scraporium, located in Lutz, FL just received a huge order from us.

Wishing you all lots of joy & creativity!

Sandy Redburn

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Free Father's Poem, Mouse Party Samples & Summer Fun!

Hi Everyone,

Free Father's Day Poem &/or Crown

Ideas Using Favorite Fellas Stamps

New Mouse Party Samples!

It's All About Me Challenge on Splitcoast

I have a free printable poem for Fathers Day and lots of fun samples to share! If the poem won't get larger when you click it on, you can download the poem HERE and save it as a picture file. It's a poem I scanned from 1930's card.

If you would also like to make a crown for good ol' Dad to wear this Sunday, you can get our free Funky Crown Pattern HERE!

The winners of the Party Crown Contest were Marlene Bender, Samantha Sibbet, Robin McCormack, Julie Campbell and Amber Tosh. In case you missed them, you can see each of their fantastic crowns HERE!

If you already own our Favorite Fellas Stamps and you haven't made a Fathers Day card yet, dust off your stamps and have a look at some of the great ideas HERE in our Gallery!

Be sure to click on page 2 to see all the samples! I just typed 'Fella' in the search box in our Gallery to find them. There are a few unrelated cards but lots of great ideas! I love these ties DT member Lisa Zappas created by stamping on papers from our Earthy Paper Pad. All of the other stamps she used are from the Favorite Fellas set as well.

With Summer here, I also had to show you this little fishing tag booklet DT member Pam Hooten created last year. Pam used a combo of these stamps: Fishing Buds, Hardware, Kewpies, and the 'Happy Fathers Day’ stamp she used on the front is from our Favorite Fellas set. Paper is from our Earthy Paper Pad. Go check out all the samples HERE.

I will show a bunch more Summer theme samples on my next post.

Now, look at these totally cute Mouse Party Samples! Our design team have begun to receive their sets and some of the ladies have had a chance to play! This brand new medium size

stamp set will be available to order this Friday, June 19th! You can ask your favorite store to order it in for you.

Also, Linda Poulsbo from WA won our new Mouse Party Clear Art Stamp Set on our last blog giveaway.

DT member Marisa Grosson created this adorable scene and I love the way colored the mouse bursting out of the paper! Marisa will also be posting details on her blog HERE later.

DT member Lisa Zappa thinks these might be her new fav stamp set and went on a little mouse party creating various adorable cards! Look at the way she cut out her stamped balloons and added them on this card.

Here, Lisa repeated the little mouse stamp and then gave the one in the middle a horn to toot. You can see all her cards up close and get the details HERE on Lisa's Blog!

Now, look at how cute this card would be for a little girl! ST member Michele Kovack just sent me this adorable card this morning and I know as soon as she has time she will post it on her blog HERE and tell you what colors of Copic Markers she used for this pretty effect.

Michele also created this sweet card using the Mouse Party set as well. I love the way she added the candle to the hunk of cheese as a slice of cake!

Look at these 2 sweet cards that Rimna and Marja from Sweden posted HERE in our Online Gallery HERE. You can see all sorts of great samples like the sewing card DT member Pam Hooten created.

Lastly, I wanted to tell you about the NEW It's All About Me challenge Pammyjo is hosting over at Splitcoast. The idea is to create a card using any of our products that express you! You can read more about it HERE and see the Gallery HERE. Why not join in the fun!

Here is Pammyjo's Card and I love how she recorded how she feels it defines her.

From the top of the card to the bottom....

Hot Flashes for sure and they definitely come in waves

Black..love this color with the bold contrast

Pink Breast Cancer ribbon........I was 1 in the 1 out of 7

Flowers....love to plant them, cut them, smell & enjoy

A Bra with an actual cup size......thanks to reconstruction

The pink passion hearts....a reminder to comfort my soul

Buttons, Stitching, Patterns and Scissors......I'm a seamstress

Until the next post, I wish you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn
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Party Hat and Mouse Party Winners!

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick post but I’ve learned a couple of lessons.

I need to say I will post in the evening and if I get it done sooner, then all the better! Today has been super crazy day with all sorts of unexpected hurdles to jump and mountains to climb.

Congratulations to the random winner of our NEW - Not Even Released Yet' Mouse Party Stamp set was Linda from Poulsbo. WA. Hi Linda, we emailed you as we need your mailing address please.

With contests - I’ve discovered it’s way too hard to pick one winner and I even asked for help!
Everyone agreed that every entry was very cool and each one inspired different ideas. As a manufacture, it's great to see samples that use lots of our product but the challenge said to use any of our product(s) in some way with our free crown or party hat pattern you can (download HERE) from the last post. In the end, we simply could not pick 1 winner, so we threw all the entries into a little box and pulled a winner – and then awarded $25.00 runner up prizes for everyone else!


The $50.00 winner of our random draw was Marlene Bender and I was so happy as I adore the Java Queen Crown she created! Marlene used stamps from our Coffee & Tea Clear Art Stamp set and the 'crown' stamp is from our Favorite Fellas Stamp Set. The paper looks like Graphic 45.
Here is a super pretty crown designed by runner up Samantha Sibbet that could have also easily won. We adored the colors she used with the little birdy tea party image from our Feathered Friends Cotton Scraps - plus her daughter looks so adorable wearing her crown!

Robin from MN was a runner up with her innovative Poker Crown, using an image from our Wacky & Wonderful Booklet (sadly this booklet is sold out) with playing cards and our little stamp logo which looks like she punched and glued to real poker chips.

We also loved this fun glitter crown that runner up Julie Campbell created using paper from our Earthy Paper Pad, our Sexy Little Number Stamps and she cut a couple of crowns from our Radiant Paper Pad. It looks like Julie also used a sticker from our Wonderful Wonderful Women Stickers on the Lady's head.

Runner up Amber Tosh was the only entry who used the Party Hat Pattern (link in last post) and we totally loved her cute hat with the satin trim and top, pom poms, the chipboard # 5 and the cute kids she cut out from our Homemade Image & Journal Notes Booklet. Amber also used paper from our Classic Paper Pad and the red check is from the Earthy Pad.

We all fell in love with this adorable photo of Ambers daughter wearing her party hat!

So many hundreds of people have downloaded our free patterns I had to ask our graphic designer Cindy van Koll to repost the patterns with an unlimited download HERE.

Thank you to each of you who sent in an entry and to all of you who love our products and subscribe to this Blog and/or condensed Creative Ideas Newsletter!

Wishing you joy & creativity!

Sandy Redburn

Owner

www.craftysecrets.com

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Crafty Secrets DT Challenge, Prizes, New Mouse Party Stamps and More!

Hi Everyone!

Birthday DT Challenge Samples & Enter to Win $30.00 Gift Certificate!

Today is our Design Team Birthday Challenge and our DT ladies have created some fantastic samples you can check out on these links below!

Also, DT member Anna Wight is hosting a blog giveaway for a $30.00 Gift Certificate, which the winner can use for any of our products and we will also pay the shipping! To enter just leave a comment on Anna’s Blog HERE (aka Sweet Miss Daisy) and Anna will pick a random winner tomorrow.

Please click these links below to see all the birthday samples our design created!

Anna Wight – Party Girl Card

Vicki Chrisman – Cupcake Box & Party Crown

Lisa Zappa - Lisa is posting later tonight

Pam Hooten – Pretty Gift Box & Card

Heidi Blankenship – Birthday Girl Card

Marisa Grosson - Happy Birthday Garland

Vivian Peters - Girlfriend Birthday Card

Michele Kovack – Martini Magnet Set & Chandelier Card

Linda Duke – Birthday Flower Girl Card

Melissa Philips – Birthday Gift Tags

Michelle van Etten – Birthday Layout

Enter Your Party Crown or Hat to Win a $50.00 Gift and Links to Patterns!
We are also hosting a Party Crown/Hat Contest and we will be giving away a $50.00 Gift Certificate on June 15 and 2 runner up prize packs! So far no one has entered but I hope lots of you will join in the fun and use our Free Tiara, Crown Pattern or Party Hat Downloads to create a party crown or hat. Just email your crown or party hat photo to sandy@craftysecrets.com I will post the samples and winners on June 15th.

Here is a sample that DT member Vicki Chrisman whipped up last night using the Tiara pattern, with an image from our Girlfriends Image & Journal Notes Booklet and paper from our Radiant Paper Pad.

If the patterns I've added below don't enlarge for you, please click HERE to download the Tiara and Crown Pattern from Yousendit.com . This is a new link as last weeks went over 500 downloads! The pattern works great on our 6 x 12" papers (because they are thick) but will work with any paper or cardstock 12" long. Simply print the pattern on plain paper and cut it out to use as a template to trace on.


If you would rather enter a Party Cone Hat, HERE is the link to our Party Cone and Party Hat Pattern, which was posted last year on our website and here is a hat sample that DT Member Lisa Zappa created using paper from our Radiant Paper Pad, image from our Seasonal Booklet and a Mini Chipboard Frame (19 pcs).

Win This NEW Mouse Party Stamp Set!
Speaking of parties, we are also working on a bunch of new Clear Art Stamp sets for the CHA Show next month and we just got the proofs back for a new Mouse Party Set and I have an extra one I'm going to give away! This totally cute medium size set won't be available until next month but one lucky winner will get one when we choose a random winner also on June 15th. To enter to win this fun stamp set just leave a comment HERE on this blog.
Thank You Texas!
We just got home last night from the Great American Scrapbook Show in Texas and we had a great time and met many old and new friends! Everyone was so friendly and they loved the Make-n-Takes Vicki Chrisman taught and all the fabulous samples our Design Team have created. I will post photos and info about the CHA Wholesale Trade Show and the Craft Super Show we are attending next month in Orlando Florida.

Wishing you all lots of joy & creativity!

Sandy Redburn, Owner
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Party Crown & Tiara Pattern, TX Show Cards, My Office Make Over & More!

Hi Everyone, .

First of all I need to tell you about our big party next week – PLUS give you these links to our free Tiara Crown Pattern and our Free Paper Crown Pattern (prefect for Fathers Day) and past links to our Party Cone and Party Hat Pattern as well!
I hope you will get creative with the party hat patterns and join us next week to see some great samples from our design team and the chance to WIN some fab prizes!

PLEASE – send me any Party Hat, Crown or Tiara you create to be entered to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate. Deadline – June 15/09

Here is the link to download our free Tiara Crown Pattern our Paper Crown Pattern
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/695170830/19ab6ffb681f09ed5eae253eb735ce44

Here is the link to our Party Cone and Party Hat Pattern, if you didn't get it before.
http://www.craftysecrets.com/newsletterprojects/partyhatdec2007/projects.htm

We are leaving for our biggest retail show of the year tonight; the Great American Scrapbook Convention and I want to share some photos of our two Make & Takes which will be held Thursday and Friday from 2:30pm – 2:50pm.

If you CAN’T make it to the Make & Takes, designer Vicki Chrisman has plenty of Clear Art Stamps and Heartwarming Images you can play with at our Booth! Here is the link to the show info.

For the free make & takes at the on site Pavilion at the GAS Show in Texas, I designed some quick cards that combine images from our Heartwarming Vintage Collection but there is also space inside where you will hand stamp your own choice of sentiments from our Coffee & Tea Clear Art Stamps set on Thurs or our Bird Lovers Clear Art Stamps set on Friday from 2:30 to 2:50. Here are the samples


The images above are from our Girlfriends Images & Journal Booklet and the card (1 of 3 other samples) is from our Birds & Botanical Booklet.

Here's a photo from our last show of Theresa Unrau who was demonstrating at the Puyallup Stamp & Paper Arts Expo in WA. We had a great time at this show and really enjoyed meeting everyone!

I took this photo just before the doors opened at the Portland Stamp & Paper Arts Festival in April. This was our first time doing this show and it was wonderful! I LOVE Portland and the people there!
Also, I promised to show you samples of my office make over and I’m so embarrassed about this - but I promised, so here is the BAD BEFORE SHOT. The most silly thing about this is my positive thinking sign ‘Everything is Perfect’ – far from it, but this looks really bad as it was in the middle of the move with drawers pulled out and stuff everywhere. Our middle daughter Holly moved out and saved my life from ‘clutter hell’! I moved the old storage cupboards into her room and plan to sell all this ASAP! I need to stop buying old stuff!

Now that was really bad, but this is really great!

I am now in office heaven and it feels so much better! I pinned up a photo of this furniture as my dream office and 2 weeks later I walked into a liquidation store and found it all marked down 75% off!

Yes, I still need to decorate but for now it just feels good to breathe!

Thank you to everyone who wrote and called with thyroid advise. I feel way better already!

Wishing you joy & creativity,

Sandy Redburn

Owner

Crafty Secrets - Heartwarming Vintage Co.

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Fun Ideas, Get a Free Set and Lower Stamp Prices!

Hi Everyone,

I have some fun ideas to share with you today and some great news in case you didn't hear - we were able to lower our stamp prices! As our volume has increased our cost went down a bit and I wanted to pass the savings on to you.

Large Clear Art Stamp Sets - Now $24.99 (prev $25.75)
Medium Clear Art Stamp Sets – Now $14.99 (prev $15.75)
Small Clear Art Stamp Sets – Now $7.75 (prev $7.75)

Plus, I’m running a Special Deal – all Shopatron orders over $50.00 will receive a Free Bouquet of Joy Stamp set. Valid until June 1/09. If you already have this set please choose another small stamp set or an Image booklet BUT – you must add the other stamp or booklet name to the Message Box on Shopatron when you place your order.

Speaking of Splitcoast, Marcy is hosting a fun new challenge to use a pocket on a project. Look at this adorable bookmark pocket she created for a nurse friend using our Feeling Yucky Stamp Set! You can see the Gallery HERE and click HERE to read the details and join in the fun!

Look at this adorable recipe album that DT member Vicki created. The little bakers are from our Cooking Cotton Scraps, pattern papers from our Earthy Paper Pad, Cooking Stickers and larger images from our Homemade Image & Journal Notes Booklet.

I love this adorable photo and the way she cut out the jar image and used the Cotton on it as well. You can see the rest of the album pages and get all the details HERE on Vicki's blog.

This cheery red color reminds me of DT member Lisa Zappa's walls in her 'shabby chic kitchen makeover. It turned out so cute! There are more photos you can see HERE. If you click on the first photo you can see the adorable magnet on her fridge that she created using our images.

How about this sweet card Marisa created as well using our Sweet Stuff Stamp set. You can get all the details HERE on her blog. Plus you can see other samples including a Fathers Day card she created using our Boys Alphabet Booklet which is on sale

When I looked at our Splitcoast Gallery today, I found this cute Tea Cup Card Lindsay created using our Coffee & Tea set. You can download the free pattern Lindsay created HERE! I adore the way she added the glitter to the sugar cubes!

With Fathers Day next month, I will be posting a crown pattern you can print to create a Crown for King Dad or make an altered party crown for a girlfriend. There will be more details soon and prizes!

Look at this fun card DT member Pam Hooten created for a 16th birthday boy using our Favorite Fellas Stamp set. .

DT member Vivian Peters has begun recycling old Cd's to make cute little monthly calendars using the months and images from our Calendar Creative Scraps. You can see her May and August samples HERE on her blog

I also wanted to show you this cute little hat that Vicki Chrisman picked up at the dollar store and altered with an image from our Baby Girl Cotton Scraps, buttons, ribbon and pom pom trim. It says; I already have you wrapped around my finger.

Finally, I had to share this beautiful birdy frame that Vicki altered using a plastic frame from the dollar store. The image is from our Birds & Botanical Booklet and you can get all the details HERE on her blog.

Wishing you Joy & Creativity!

Sandy Redburn

Owner

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New Samples and See Us at WA Stamp Show!

Hi Everyone,

I'm leaving for the Heirloom Stamp & Paper Arts Show in Puyallup, WA this morning to set up for this fun show this Sat & Sun. I'm bringing a ton of fantastic samples, lots of stock, antique postcards, sale items and some very cool pendant kits to sell with a new line we are testing at this show called Petite Collage sheets!
Check out this Birds & Blossoms sheet, one of 3 themes that our talented graphic design Cindy van Koll created! I should have more details on these in my next post.


The show is at the Puyallup Fairgrounds and you can get details HERE. I would love to meet you if you can make it to the show!
http://www.heirloompro.com/shows09/shows-Puyallup-05-16-09.html

Plus - if you mention this blog post you will get a free sheet of our new Creative Scraps with any purchase over $10.00 (one per customer).

On a personal note I wanted to ask if any of you have a thyroid problem if you have had any success with any desiccated natural thyroid such as Armour? See this article: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

I’ve been battling an under active thyroid for a few years now and Synthroid is not working well for me. I was so desperate I went to a Naturopath last week ($258.00 later) she has me on new pills but they just came in a no name envelope and I forgot to ask the name – duh! She said to take 2 if I didn’t feel better after a week, so I started taking 2 yesterday and finally feel a bit better but they are expensive. I found an online source for Armour (with a prescription) that seems like a good deal and wonder if anyone else has had success?

Okay, now on to some great samples to share with you!

DT member Heidi Blankenship has been on a roll creating all sorts of samples like this beautiful angel friendship card with our Girlfriends Creative Scraps. You can get the step by step details on her angel card HERE.

You also need to go check out the sweet little baby card Heidi made with an image from our Joys of Life Booklet on her blog HERE. You need to scroll down past some other samples but check out her JustRite & Spellbinders Pasta project! After the baby card, if you keep scrolling you will also see a really pretty Mothers Day card Heidi made with an image from our Birds & Botanical Booklet.

DT member Lisa Zappa designed this adorable birdie card using our Sweet Stuff Clear Art Stamp set. You can get the details HERE on Lisa’s blog and check out her new shabby red kitchen make over!

I love this little lace flower Pam Hooten created for her adorable card she made using an image from our Domestic Goddess Creative Scraps. Hmm, I just noticed she also used a flourish stamp from our Mini Memories Clear Art Stamp set as well. You can see all the details here on Pam's blog

DT member Vivian Peters has been designing all sorts of fantastic cards using images from our Travel Creative Scraps like this one. You can get all the details and see more cards HERE on Viv’s blog.

Our Online Gallery has been having some repairs and DT member Michele Kovack can post again but a few others are still having problems. Check out her adorable Birthday Boy card in the gallery..

Also, DT member Michele van Etten has been added to our Online Gallery and she has been posting some great samples like this cute girls dress she created with our Sweetchips Little Girls Outfit. I also love the ATC Bingo card Michelle designed using our Lucky Wishes Clear Art Stamp set.

DT leader Vicki Chrisman has a few kits left she is selling from some classes she taught at Amy’s store Precious Treasures in Gretna, NB. I love this shadow box created with an image from our Little Dolls Booklet and our paper. You can see her card box and other wonderful kits HERE on Vicki’s blog

Darlene Pavlick’s Flower-Flour challenge this week over at Splitcoast as resulted in so many fantastic samples you have to check them out HERE!
You can join in the fun and submit a samples as well and get all the details HERE.

I love this card Darlene created using our Sweet Stuff Stamp set along with an image and journal note page from our Homemade Booklet.

I will post photos of my new office, my mother daughter road trip and the stamp show next week as I need to buy a cord to download photos from my new camera.

Wishing you creativity & joy,

Sandy Redburn
owner

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Vintage Travel Samples, $60.00 Winner and News!

Hi Everyone,

I have some new samples to share today, a winner to announce for our last Give-away, a challenge, upcoming Show dates and some exciting news!

First, I better announce the winner of our $60.00 Gift Certificate and free shipping!
There were 179 people who entered and thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! It really means a lot, as each and every new item we create is a labor of love! I also know our Design Team ladies loves to hear that you enjoy the fabulous samples they create!

My daughter Chelsea picked her age (#22) as the the random winner, so the lucky lady is Barbara Bennett who said: "I love your vintage style! Great Mother's Day projects that I know my mom would love to receive. Thanks for the chance to win! "

Our design team has been playing with our 6 new Creative Scraps and they have created some great samples like these vintage inspired travel ones which have such great retro appeal!

You can see on the Travel set below you get lots of images as it folds out to 19" x 8"

I thought I would focus on a travel theme today with the nice weather and thoughts of fun road trips. I'm taking one this weekend and plan to take lots of photos!

Who hasn't heard this expression when traveling with kids! DT member Michele Kovack created this cute card using an image off our Travel Creative Scraps. I love the little fishy she added with the mini rod.

Michele also designed this pretty card using the Travel Scraps, which would be perfect to give friends heading off on vacation. You can get more details HERE on her blog.

I love this cute retro card that DT member Vivian Peters created with this retro couple from the Travel Creative Scraps and the flower paper is from our Earthy Paper Pad. You can read the details on Vivian's blog here

This is such a cool page that DT member Michele van Etten designed with her husband and son using the tag and souvenir card from this set and the bear is from our Summer Homespun Cotton Scraps. The pattern papers are from our Earthy Paper Pad. The piece of net Michele added in the left corner really adds to the page.

DT member Vicki Chrisman scrapped this page using the Travel Creative Scraps and our Artsy Alphabet set to stamp CRUISE. The photo was taken when we went on a scrapbook cruise a few years ago to teach classes to store owners. It was a really fun cruise and we need to do another!

Vicki also created this layout while we were on that cruise using the seashore image from our Joys of Life Booklet. I love this page. It's my husband Scott in the photo with his dad, who passed away when he was 13 and this is his favorite photo.

Lots of people go fishing when on vacation, so I wanted to show you this adorable card that Julie Cambell created using our Clear Art Stamp Kewpie Fishing Buds set.

Marcy is hosting a fun challenge over at Splitcoast this week to make a sentiment, word, or words on your project the main focus. You can get more details HERE and check out the gallery of great samples HERE.

DT member Marisa Grosson entered her pretty card as she used this sweet poem from our Girlfriend Creative Scraps on her card. Check out the wonderful flowers she created using Funflock glued to some little brown twigs for stems!

Our website got a new mini face lift! There are still some pages that haven’t been changed yet as we are having a brand new website built! I just couldn't’t stand to wait and it will take time. Come have a look HERE

Show News!
Here is some news on upcoming Shows where you can find our Clear Art Stamps Sets and our Heartwarming Vintage Collection products!

This weekend – May 1 & 2, Scrapbook Expo San Diego Show. Look for the Scrapyard 329 booth, as Judy will have a large selection of our things. She takes our products into all of the Scrapbook Expo Shows and carries a good selection.

May 7-9 – The Mega Meet Show in Novi, MI. Look for the Stamp On It booth as Deb will be selling our products

May 16 & 17 – Puyallup WA, Heirloom Stamp & Paper Arts Festival. We will be there and our 15’ booth will be jam packed with all of our products, demos and LOTS of inspiring samples to dazzle you with ideas!

June 4, 5, & 6 – Great American Scrapbook Show in Arlington TX. We will be there and this is our busiest show of the year, so our 20’ booth will be jam packed with all of our products and samples! Plus - Vicki Chrisman (our DT leader) will be there to inspire you with some fabulous ideas!

I had to show you this pamphlet photo of my new office furniture!

I've been trying to write down my goals and one was to get rid of our old ugly miss matched office furniture. We had desks I bought for $7.50 at the Goodwill years ago, so when I saw this furniture at Office Depot I fell in love - but it was way over my budget for all the pieces I needed. I brought the flyer home and pinned it up and said - one day! Then I walked into liquidation dept at Hardware sales in Bellingham WA last month and found it all marked WAY down! Yippee - dreams come true! We have been bringing it back across the border 1 piece at a time. It's a good thing because I never realized how much stuff I had to pack up and move out! I have 1000's of antique postcards, old books, prints, etc - plus years of clutter. I promise to show photos as soon as it's done! This is the flyer photo but yes, I even scored the lighted bookcase to show off samples!

I'm also very excited to be taking my 3 daughter away on our 2nd annual mother-daughter road trip to Portland, Oregon this weekend. We leave this morning and I have travel games again and prizes for the 5 hour drive. My girls are grown, so I found Travel Bingo at the dollar store and printed off circle word games and Sex & the City trivia sheets from the internet. Prizes include chocolate bars, hair stuff, a couple of bottles of wine and some American $5.00 bills!

We love the Portland Saturday Market, the cool stores & restaurants, the no sales tax, Hawthorne Street, Nob Hill and other fun places, so Portland won the vote again this year.

I plan to take lots of photos and make a little scrapbook that I will share. This is a photo of my girls. Holly is 23, Katie 26 and Chelsea 22. I'm so happy that they have become best friends because they fought like crazy when they were kids!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sandy Redburn

Owner

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Mother's Day Projects, Copic Tips & Enter to Win!

It’s been way too long since I’ve posted but hopefully I can start to make it up to you today! I have lots of great samples projects to share, a Copic coloring link and Blog Candy! To enter to win a $60.00 gift certificate and free S&H just leave a comment on this blog post! Draw is April 30/09.

With Mothers Day coming soon I thought I would round up a bunch of inspiring cards, layouts and keepsakes that honor Motherhood. You may be looking for something to create for your mother, or a mother figure in your life, or maybe just for yourself to remember and celebrate your joys as a mother.

DT member Melissa Phillips created this pretty Mother’s Day card using a floral image with the script writing from our Garden Creative Scraps and an embossed die cut frame from Tattered Angels she glittered up. You can see more photos and details HERE on Melissa’s blog.

I also began reading one of Melissa's earlier blog posts on the joy she feels being a mother and it made me get all teary eyed when she spoke about the love that is shared between a mother and child. It really is one of the greatest joys in life! You can read her Lucky to Be Loved post HERE.

I also adore this pretty card that one of our long time customers Denise Dillman created using the motherhood image from our Family Cotton Scraps. I'm not sure of the printed paper but it all looks wonderful together!

Some of these projects you may have seen in the past but we have so many new subscribers I had to share a few again. Gift certificates are so popular and I love DT member Lisa Zappa’s library pocket idea here to hold a Starbucks Gift Card for Mother's Day.

Lisa used a Bazzill Library pocket for the holder and added the yellow ‘crackled wood paper’ from our Radiant Paper Pad to the bottom. She mounted a seed pack image from our Seasonal Booklet so that it hides the gift card behind it. "Mom" is stamped with the letters from our Artsy Alphabet Clear Art Stamp Set. The white flowers are colored with a Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Glitter Pen. She used Pink Making Memories Glitter around the edge of the seed packet image, May Arts Ribbon, a corner punch and a slit punch for the insert inside the pocket.

Look at these pretty tins that Lisa Zappa also created last year using 2 images from our Summer Image & Journal Notes Booklet and a combo of our stamps. I love the way she used our sheet music stamp on her flowers! You can see more photos, supplies and her technique HERE on her blog.

This wood frame that DT member Vicki Chrisman altered is a few years old but it's still my fav project using alphabet our older Divine Alphabets & More Booklet. The word Wonderful is off the top of the W page and I love the way she stitched it to some frayed muslin. All 6 old Alphabet Books are on sale for $4.95 each to make room in our little warehouse. You can read about them HERE (2 pgs)

I also had to show this layout Vicki did of her mom by stitching paper together from our Pastel Paper Pad on pink cardstock cut with an Accucut scallop die. The colors looks so pretty and have such shabby appeal. Past DT member Janel Brown said this layout was quick and fun using our Homemade Images & Journal Notes. She also used our Flourish Clear Art Stamps for the photo corners. Janel created her music paper by scanning a page of her Grandmother's vintage music. The photo is of her mother, sister and Janel is the baby!

DT member Marisa Grossan created this pretty frame using some floral paper from our Classic Paper Pad and stamping the letters MOM from our Artsy Alphabet Clear Art Stamps. Poor Marisa is having problems with her computer and blog but she has been able to upload samples in our online gallery here. Some of the other members are having problems but - we are getting a website make over soon!

Look at this cute kitty image from our Joys of Life Booklet that past DT member Lisa Strahl used to create this fun card. I even have this kitty as a magnet on my fridge as a reminder to all who may forget!

See these sweet little inspiration bottles DT member Pam Hooten created with angel wings you can read about HERE! on Pam's blog. This idea would make a fun gift with a photo of ‘Mom’.

Jars and containers of all sorts can be dressed up to hold all sorts of goodies. How about this cute canning jar that Vicki embellished with an image from our new Domestic Goddess Creative Scraps and a scrap of fabric and ribbon. You can see more fun container ideas HERE on Vicki's blog.

Copic Coloring Fun with Linda Duke!

Several people love the way Copic Markers work for coloring in stamped images but they are not sure how to do the shading to achieve a real artistic look. DT member Linda Duke has begun creating little videos on youtube showing how she shades and blends her colors! You can watch Linda's video HERE and see some great samples on her blog! This is also a LINK to frequently asked questions and tips from the Copic site.

Before I leave - I have to tell you to check out the very cool challenge Pammyjo is hosting over at Splitcoaststampers.com using our products with pleats, buckles and jewels! Some fabulous samples are arriving in the Gallery HERE!

Don't forget to enter our Blog Candy Give Away for a $60.00 Gift Certificate with free S&H! You just need to post a comment here on this blog!

PS - Our regular newsletter will go out later this week and include some free vintage printable poems and verses for Mothers Day projects!

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn
Owner

www.craftysecrets.com

Our Online Store Locator
Our Shopatron Store

Crafty Secrets
Toll Free Phone or Fax 1-888 597-8898
Local Phone 604 597-8817

Head Office
15430 78 A Ave., Surrey, BC V3S 8R4

USA Warehouse
250 H. Street, #436
Blaine, WA 98230