Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Ideas and Tips: November 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Black Friday Sale Until Midnight Dec 2nd, New Free Gift and Printable Boxes and Baskets Sale!

Our Black Friday Sale is now Extened Until Midnight Dec 2/13 with More Discounts, Free Shipping! (USA and Canada) I forgot about Cyber Monday - internet sale day! Sale pricing and digital items only in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com
store.

Here's the New Free Download Gift Winter Winter Kids Box and Tag when you place any order until Dec 31, 2013 - plus all our Printable Mini Boxes and Bowl-Pockets are on Sale for $1.95 until 12 midnight Dec 1st! I wanted to put some of our Digital Items on sale and many NEW Customers may not have seen these.

See Other Sale Special on Last Post . This is Winter Birds Digital Mini Box and Tag regularly $2.95 and just $1.95 until midnight Dec 1/13.

Here's our Angel Mini Box and Tag Printable

Here's the vintage Santa Box and Tag Printable also on sale for $1.95 until midnight Dec 1/13

We also have 3 styles of Printable Baskets which can also be used to create vintage Christmas pockets to hold treats and gifts to decorate a tree or holiday place settings. Each one has a vintage sheet music bottom and side template with instructions. This one is Christmas Kids and it's on special for $1.95 during our Black Friday sale as well.

Here's a link to the Vintage Santa Basket or Pocket Printable Download regularly $2.95 and on sale for $1.95 until midnight Dec 1st.

Finally our Retro Christmas Basket or Pockets Printable

Here's a sheet showing different samples and ideas for using our Merry Christmas Creative Scraps

Don't forget this Monday, Dec 2/13 is our Christmas DT Challenge and Linky Party and I hope you will come join in and post a sample you have created with any of Christmas products and receive a $6.00 coupon or maybe be the Random.org winner of a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate. With so many items marked down half price it's like double the value!

If you live in the USA, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Here's a pretty card by DT Member Michele Kovack made with our Digital Thanksgiving Kit Download.

Wishing you joy and creativity

Sandy Redburn
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Monday, November 25, 2013

Black Friday Week Long SALE With Free S&H, Hot Deals and Gifts!

Welcome to our Black Friday Week Long SALE with Free Sipping, Great Deals and Gifts with orders! Sorry we can only offer Free Shipping in USA and Canada and on orders over $10.00. Last year a few sneaky people ordered something tiny everyday to get free gifts with no shipping. The more you order the better the gifts get and there are some great deals in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com store! Sale extended until midnight Dec 2/13

We just received a batch of our Vintage Christmas and Retro Christmas CD's so all week long our pair of 2 CD's are only$26.75 with free Shipping! Click on the link to see sample preview sheets of all of the files included in this fab 2 CD Bundle!

Our Black Friday Sale runs from now until midnight Dec 1/13

I have all sorts of fun gifts to include with orders this week and here are a couple

Here's a sample sheet I made with a bunch of cards that were created with our SM22 Christmas Joy Clear Art Stamp Set on Special Clearance for just $4.95 Click on the page below to see them larger and see details on DT Member Kathy Clements cool Christmas card she just made with this same stamp set!

I found out my stamp manufacture co had been sold and I quit ordering stamps months ago but this is one of the sets we still have an abundance of and they use to sell for $14.95! Stores - contact me for wholesale discount pricing from $3.95.

Also, here's a sample Draft Idea Sheet showing various ways you can use this set.

This is another Clear Art Stamp Set we have a bunch of, SM27 Season's Greetings is on Clearance for just $4.95 as well (use to be $14.95).

Here's the sample page I made up showing various cards that have been created with this charming vintage stamp set over the years. I love the sentiment and sweet faced girl, the wacky little Santa - okay - I love them all - especially for $4.95!

I'm putting our Snow Bunnies Clear Art Stamp Set on sale as well for $4.95. The drawings are so adorable and adapted from old antique comics I collect.

Here's the sample page I made up showing various cards that have been created with this fun Snow Bunnies stamp set over the years.

Here's Little Saint Nick a small Clear Art Stamp set that sold for $7.50 now on sale for just $2.50

Below is a sheet of cute sample cards. This is a great set to add faux snow and 'fur' with Fun Flock, or try paper piecing as Pam Hooten did and stamped on polka dot paper on the bottom left card. Also see Lisa Zappa's past Guest Blog Post for more samples.

Look at this pretty 3D window card DT Member Vicki Chrisman made using an image from our Retro Christmas CD with lace and Stickles. You can see more details and photos Vicki took at the Junk Salvation Show we had a booth at last weekend.

Check out this pretty card that DT member Michele Kovack created using our Home Sweet Home Clear Art Stamp Set and we only have 10 sets left. She colored it with Copic markers and added a little Glossy Accents to the sun. I love the bright cheerful colors.

Isn't this the most beautiful Pie Crust! Kathryn at Instructables has a great pie recipe and tutorial showing step by step how she made this beautiful berry pie. I want to make one of these just for the curly vine pastry!

Here's a turkey tip if you want juicy turkey. We already celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada and our youngest daughter Chelsea has cooked our last 4 turkey's and she brines them overnight using Martha's Brine recipe and our entire family agrees they are way more tender and juicy. Please leave any turkey tips you have!

I will be back again this week with more surprises

Sale lasts until midnight Dec 2/13. I extended it a day for Cyber Monday
Also - join us this Monday for our Christmas Linky Party and DT Challenge!

Wishing you joy and creativity

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Free Christmas Printable, Blog Giveaway Link and Card, Christmas Treasures and Layout

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick post but full of great goodies! Here's the higher res link to the 2011 adorable Free Vintage Santa Card Printable which by mistake I never added to Pintrest and he's really cute! Originally it wouldn't enlarge on the Blog so the link goes to yousendit (now called Hightail) Image below gets larger but the link above is better! It's an annual thank you gift and I will be adding 2013 soon, plus - here's a link to our 2012 free Christmas Printable with a calligraphy bird and sentiment card if you missed it.

Here's my sample and if you click it on you can see how I printed it twice and popped up the Santa and the ledge and added some faux snow and glitter.

DT Member Michele Kovack has a fantastic Giveaway on her Blog which includes 2 Crafty Secrets Paper Pads and a bunch of other products. Look at this adorable Get Well card she made using our Feeling Yucky Stamp Set and check out her 'cough syrup Stickles'
This set is getting low and will be turned into a Digital Download soon and it also has the crying duck from our Feel Better Stickers

Here's a photo of all the goodies you can win and you have until this Friday to enter on Michele's Blog and simply tell her what you are thankful for.

Check out these wonderful Christmas samples by Kathy Clement using CD 6, Vintage Christmas. She has great photos and details on her blog. It's great news to hear that Kathy's husband is recovering nicely from his open heart surgery!

A lovely digital Christmas layout by DT Member Sheila Rumney and you can see another layout on her blog.

We are off to the USA warehouse to do orders and inventory. Sorry for the delay with recent orders, Shelley our shipper is having more chemotherapy treatments but she is doing great.

Free gift with every order , so larger orders = better gifts!

Wishing you joy and creativity

Monday, November 18, 2013

Tutorial, Farm Card and Photos from Junk Salvation Show!

Hi Everyone, we are back and recovering from the Junk Salvation Show and I have some photos and a video to share below as well as a great tutorial by Shelia and cute cow card by Elizabeth.

DT Member Sheila Rumney did a great step by step Tutorial on how to digitally ink paper using Photoshop Elements using papers, a frame and angel from CD 6 Vintage Christmas.

I adore the way DT Member Elizabeth Lincoln colored this card with our Down on the Farm Stamps with our cute cow and added the bell.

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman came up from Nebraska to help at the show and back here to stay with us until Thursday. She has been making samples and helping me since 2008 and we've become close friends so she is like family now and I don't want her to go home!

The show was fabulous and we sold a bunch of stuff, except for stamp sets which I said on facebook many people didn't even know what Clear Stamps were? Vicki took a video from the show on her cell phone and darn - I can't get it to post but it's on her facebook page.

I would love to have a vintage bike like this with a basket on the back and ride around to do errands - but I live in suburbia and have to drive everywhere.

There was everything from vintage Christmas decorations, shabby chic decor, upcycled furniture, lighting, retro kitchen, amazing jewelery, dainty victorian items to country farmhouse and it was hard to stay in the booth and not run off looking for treasures but we were too busy to leave the booth much.

I love this idea for stacking old suitcases for storage on a stool base by the booth next to us called The Blue Chair

She also had these jumbo decorations and this one would go perfect over my mantle at Christmas

Lots of funky furniture like these chairs I spotted on a trip to the restroom

This was a cool booth behind us that was all draped in sheer curtains. Too bad my other photo was blurry as it showed the booth off better. She had some great small framed pieces but was sold out of everything I liked by the time I went back to buy something.

Here I am on Friday night when the show opened from 6 till 9 for early bird shoppers. It soon became packed with people

I brought the rest of my wood letterpress alphabet blocks and they were one of the most popular items in our booth.

This is my hubby Scott with long time customer Sarah who always comes with her aunt Beki and they have been shopping in our booth at many shows in WA for years.

Lastly, I have to share this cute photo Vicki took of my niece and nephew who stayed here with Grandma & Gramps this weekend and came upstairs to help me make scrambled eggs Sunday morning.

We uncovered a bunch of goodies at the warehouse from brass and glass pendant tiles, bulk card stock, dictionary and sheet music pages and more I will be adding in my next post.

Wishing you joy and creativity

Sandy Redburn

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

See Us at the Junk Salvation Show in WA Nov 15-16 , Fall, Christmas Samples and New Lower Stamp Prices!

Hi Everyone, I have show news, fab samples and lower prices on our small and medium Clear Art Stamp Sets!

Everything is packed up and ready for the Junk Salvation Show we have a double booth at this weekend Nov 15 - 16 and Vicki Chrisman will be there helping us at the Puyallup, WA Fairgrounds . Darn - I wish everyone could come! The show opens Friday night from 6 - 9 PM and Sat 10 - 4 PM. Here's a link to a video. There will be over 100 booths and a Sewing and Quilt Show next door!

We will have all our SALE items in Clear Art Stamps, Scraps, Booklets, Albums, etc - plus small furniture, antique dictionary paper and sheet music, old bottles, greeting cards, postcards, lace, ribbon and more!

This is a photo from our last show in Portland. We still have a bunch of the wood alphabet letterpress blocks as I had about 14 full sets plus oodles more loose letters. People loved buying letters to spell their family name and special words. I still have those big gold framed angel prints. I lowered them to $65.00 for the pair but I think I paid over $150 to have them matted and framed years ago.

Vicki Chrisman will be at the Junk Salvation Show this Fri and Sat and she whipped me up these double sided Christmas Postcards that are on our CD 5 Retro Christmas. to display at the show. They are designed so you can print 1 side on card stock and then print on the back side. Great for hanging on a tree or gift and you could punch a out a small photo to add on the back.

Here's the backside of the postcards, which would also make great journal cards on a scrapbook layout. They print 5.25" x 3.5" at 300 dpi but you can re-size them.

CD 6 Vintage Christmas also has postcards, tags, etc and I will post samples when I get back but here's a preview.

Also, here are some adorable Christmas tags Vicki made also using the Retro Christmas CD. You can see a couple more tags on Vicki's Blog.

You can see more journal tags by DT Member Rebecca Fairies for a Christmas Album she's creating using our Vintage and Retro Christmas CD's.

Here in Canada we already had Thanksgiving (it always seems way too early) but you're just gearing up for it and look at the wonderful Fall colors on this fun card by DT Member Kathy Clement. Kathy's husband just had open heart surgery so please say a prayer for his speedy recovery.

Congrats to DT Member Michele Kovack who had her air brushed tutorial card featured on the cover of Paper Crafts: 18 Free Card Making Ideas, Scrapbook Layouts, and DIY Paper Flowers E-Book! Michele used our Vintage Silhouettes Stamp Set (sold out now) so it's a Digital Stamp Set download and the design is larger, re-sizeable and no S&H. PS - if you click on the stamp link you can see a bunch more fabulous samples made with this set!

Lastly, I lowered the price on all our Small Clear Stamp Sets originally $7.50 and NOW $3.50 and Medium Clear Art Stamp Sets originally $14.99 NOW $6.95 so the stamps and printed stock is half price or less now! I had already lowered the Large Stamp Sets to $12.50, originally $24.99. I will do a Blog Post showing the Clear Stamp Sets left when I get back.

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