Monday, December 31, 2012

Sale With No S&H Continues, New Years Printables, Mini Stamps and New Samples

Happy New Year Everyone! Our Sale continues with Free Shipping and until tomorrow Jan 1 at midnight (but honestly I won't change it until Jan 2 after I've had coffee). I decided to continue the sale on my birthday. I'm a new years baby but wasn't born until 6 am so my parents didn't win free diapers for a year.

We include a little gift with orders and if you order from our CraftyVintageGirl.com store Little Chef is our New FREE Digital Stamp Set you can add to any order. Shipping is free in all 3 stores but our Digital items are only on the craftyvintagegirl store.

I came across an old New Years greeting in a letter that a store sent out to it's customers back in the 1800's and some parts of it seemed so fitting for 2012, so I pasted parts together.
Ringing in the New Year

You can also see my post back in 2010 with this free Printable New Years Poem. I also included some games & festivities. Do you have anything planned for New Years Eve? We are having a small party here and I want to play a guessing game that has 4 fun parts. Does anyone know the name? You divide into teams, pick names of famous people, cartoon characters, actors, etc and write their names on slips of paper. Each team sends up a player who grabs a slip and in the first round people takes turns 'talking', so they can say anything to make their team guess the name (just no part of the name). In the 2nd round everyone takes turns acting the name they pick out. I want to add a third round to 'draw' it and in the final round you can only say 1 word (like Disney for Mickey Mouse) . You use the same names for all the rounds so it get's easier and more fun.

We have all these mini Clear Art Stamp Sets on Sale as my chipboard manufacture went out of business but I found boxes of the images to go with them - just no chipboard. The stamp sets are on sale for $2.95 each. Should I sell the images separately?? We only have a limited amount of the full Postcard sets with the chipboard left.

Look at these cute recipe cards DT Leader Vicki Chrisman created using the little Kitchen Mail stamp set

Here's what the stamp set looks like stamped on the chipboard. The pink stove is one of the 12 mini images included with the 6 large ones. The large ones have the same shape that the chipboard had.

I love this altered album Vicki's cousin Paula made using a bunch of our images from our Creative Scraps.

Here are place cards I made using the templates from our Retro Chrsitmas CD. It was so easy as they print 4 per sheet and I just had to cut them out and add some Stickles.

Wishing you joy and creativity for a fabulous 2013!

Sandy Redburn
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Clear Stamp Stock Status and Annual Sale!

Hi Everyone, scroll down if you are looking for an update on what Clear Art Stamp Sets are SOLD OUT or LOW STOCK and details on our SALE!

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! As I mentioned in our monthly Newsletter we are running a FREE S&H and Specials from now until midnight Jan 1/13 -and we have FREE S&H set up in all 3 of our online stores. But our CraftyVintageGirl.com is the only store that has all our Digital Downloads as well as our other products. Little Chef is our New FREE Digital Stamp Set you can add to any order at craftyvintagegirl. Look at this cute card Sophie La Fontaine made.

We also have Free S&H our Shopatron and Etsy Stores till midnight Jan 1/13 and all orders will include a gift, plus orders over $50.00 will be emailed a $5.00 Coupon towards a future order! One coupon per customer

Below is an update on what is SOLD OUT and LOW STOCK on all our Clear Art Stamp Sets which are all on Sale for $15.50 for Lrg Sets, $9.95 for medium sets and $4.50 for Small Sets. I will keep this post updated with changes. We are adding more Digtal sets

Large sets

Large Sets

I will come back and add to this post but my family is calling me for brunch and our daughters all slept over and whipped up a big spread so I can't miss it!
Ok, I'm back with the Medium and Small Stamp Set Updates

Medium Stamp Sets

Small Stamp Sets

The sale will last until 12 midnight Jan 1 st (my birthday). Actually, I probably won't change it until Jan 2 morning after a cup coffee.

I will also be adding more samples and ideas to our Pintrest Boards

Thanks for your support!

Sandy Redburn
Owner See Our CraftyVintageGirl.com Store
Our Online Shopatron Store (sorry No digital downloads)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christmas is in the Air

Hello Everyone, Vicki Chrisman here, guest blogging for Sandy while she is away this week. Luckily our Talented Design Team has sent me some of their projects to share along with mine in this post today. Thanks girls!
Some of the projects are hybrid and some digital, some with the "Vintage Christmas"CD and some with the "Retro Christmas" CD. I'll fill you in on which is which :)
Those of you who know me, know that I came into this all just a few months ago knowing really nothing much at all about "digital" scrapbooking. So if you are just learning, know that I am learning right along with you.I have to admit I was nervous at first but once I started to see all the possibilities, the excitement outweighed the nervousness! I'm so thankful for the information on the CD, it's been a great help. I love cutting and pasting, so hybrid ( a little of both) is probably the way for me,.. I try to practice something new each time I work with the CD, to help me learn. Today I'm sharing a Digital layout I did this week using the Vintage Christmas CD. Still learning... little by little... But excited about the Creative adventure.

Isn't this little girl a doll? She is the Granddaughter of my friend Deb. What a little Sweetie. The dress shes is wearing was Debs when she was a little girl.

Here is a New Years Card DT Member Darlene Pavlick created. (Vintage Christmas CD)

Here are a couple of sweet ornaments DT member Michele Kovack Made. ( Vintage Christmas CD)

DT Member Melisa Bove made these fun card bundles with the Vintage Christmas CD

Melissa also made this fun goodie container using the Retro Christmas CD

And I just couldn't resist sharing a picture of our newest pup Daisy in her festive outfit. lol I used the Retro Christmas CD to create this Card.

I hope Sandy is enjoying some well deserved time away with her family. I'm sure she'll have photos to share with us when she returns.
For now... back to the Christmas Baking :)

Yum! My favorites

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

Friday, December 14, 2012

Free Christmas Printable, 2 New Digital Art Stamp Sets and Alice Card Book

Hi Everyone,

I decided to make the Christmas bird I showed on my last post our Free Printable Christmas Gift to thank you for your support. I posted it here earlier this morning and said I would come back with the updated image and I love the way it turned out! We did it as a 'Print & Fold Card' but you can cut it apart. I also added the original sentiment below in case you like it better.

Just left click on the image a couple of times to get as big as possible and then right click on the image with your mouse to save it to a pictures folder. Print it on paper or card stock and trim any excess white border off the right and bottom side after you fold card. A bit of stardust glitter on the swirls will add some festive sparkle.

Here's a photo of the card made up. The image above looks smaller than the poem below but it's a high resolution 300 ppi/dpi jpg and ready to print on 8.5 x 11" paper, card stock, label paper, etc.

Here is the first poem we had that I didn't like as much

We did the Pen & Ink Birthday Birds Digital Stamps $4.95 separately (see below) and a super cute last minute Christmas Kewpie Set $6.95. Also be sure to check out the fabulous Alice in Wonderland card booklet Anne made for her daughter with our Clear Art Stamps below.

Pen & Ink Birthday Birds DAS_100 $4.95

Pen & Ink Birthday Birds is a Digital Art Stamp Set that includes 2 beautiful pen and ink drawings of birds in a gift tag and jumbo size, a mini crown and 2 Ready to Print Cards with a warm brown, or a blue and green combination. You can resize these high quality 300 ppi/dpi PNG files depending on your project. The large bird is 11”W x 7”H W at full size and hand drawn with stunning penmanship over 125 years old!

Here's a small image of one of the 2 printable cards included with the stamps. Please tell me what you think about pre-colored stamp images? Do you use digital stamps and if so, what image editing software do you use? In the new year we are going to focus on tips and tutorials. Here's my list of Best Free Digital Editing Software, Printing Ideas and Tips.

Also, if you have purchased any of our Creating With Vintage CD's, each one has a Step by Step Tutorial by expert Patty Debowski from thedigitalScrapbookteacher.com showing how to change colors, re-size, crop, layer and build a layout using Photoshop Elements. (each CD shows wedding layout using CD #1 paper & embellishments). She even included small photo's with arrows for dummies like me.

When I came across these Kewpies from an 1916 magazine I couldn’t resist turning them into a new Digital Art Stamp Set because I love how big some of them are! I just wish it wasn’t so close to Christmas but I didn’t want to have to save them until next year.

Christmas Kewpies is a fun Digital Art Stamp Set for $6.95 that includes 12 separate re-sizable PNG files in a mix of illustrations and greetings sure to produce smiles. The Kewpies hanging in the stockings are 8” long, big enough for a scrapbook page or pillow. The Kewpies with the wreath are 7.5”W. The dancing puppy is the smallest stamp and just over 1” H. The whimsical lettering adds to the charm with the sentiments.

Anne from the UK created this fantastic Alice birthday card booklet for her grown daughter Anis who still loves Alice in Wonderland. Anne used our Tea With Alice Clear Art Stamp Set on sale for $15.50 and thankfully we still have about 50 sets left. This set and our Greetings From Wonderland Stamps are being turned into Digital Art Stamp Sets for $9.95 and the images will be larger and in PNG format so you can layer them. Our matching 18" Wonderland Tea Scraps are also on sale for $2.50.

I love how Anne used the stamps from the set in the background and all her die cut layers. She explains her techniques and shows more pages here on her Blog

I keep forgetting to say that our Christmas Mail Digital Art Stamp Set is a free gift with any order placed this month in our Crafty Vintage Girl Store. It's marked as 'Free' so just add it to your cart (one per month). Mailed orders also get a little gift included

As a small business owner I'm usually rushing around trying to do too many things but this week has been extra hectic as we leave for a week vacation tomorrow. We have been planning this big family vacation since last year to Mexico and I am so ready to relax!

Cindy, Mona and Jessica will be here in the office and we have friends house sitting.
DT Leader Vicki will do a Guest Blog Post for me mid week. We get back a couple of days before Christmas and we are doing our annual Christmas day brunch and having the whole clan here for dinner but this will be the first year ever we are not doing gifts and it feels so weird!

I've been in and out of the office all day on errands and keep hearing about the horrible shooting at the school in Connecticut. It's so heartbreaking. As a Canadian I can tell you everyone I met today is mourning with you. I'm sending everyone a big hug.

Sandy Redburn
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