Vintage Children, Altered Fairy Albums and Giveaway Winner!

Hi Everyone,  oops, I did this post yesterday and forgot to send it to our Feedblitz subscribers.

DT Leader Kathy Clement has created the most beautiful layered tag using  the children from our See You Soon Digital Stamp Set.  Kathy shows a bunch of photos with all the details on her blog on how she created this beautiful tag. 

Our See You Soon Digital Stamp Set is just $3.50 and the cute children are actually 6.5" w x 8" tall at 300 dpi/ppi. I love that this set will work for 'Saying Hello' and 'See you soon'.

Congratulations to our random.org Blog prize winner #18 henniepennie who won our latest Giveaway worth $40.00.

I came across a bunch of photos of 2 Mini Fairy Albums that DT Member Vicki Chrisman created previously and realized they would be great to post as sample album idea sheets in our online store, here and on Pintrest. 

 On both albums Vicki mainly used our Altered Fairy Creative Scraps but on her first Quote's Album she also used our Born to Fly Stamps (now digital) and printed several papers to use from CD 1 Creating with Vintage Patterns.

Here's the second Fairy Tag Booklet Vicki did as a Pocket Tag Stitched Mini Album our Altered Fairy Scraps and Gold Metallic Lace Stickers , as well as Glimmer Mist

This old cutlery Vicki altered using our Fairy Scraps was so popular at shows I had to add it. Often you can get beat up vintage cutlery cheap when is no longer good for serving food. Then you can add a moss nest and a little fairy. Look for photos of your family members or yourself as a child that you can alter and add wings and a party hat.

     
Don't forget this Monday May 4/14 is our Linky Party and DT Challenge and I've seen some of the DT projects and they are amazing , so please come by and check it out!

Wishing you joy and creativity Sandy  Redburn
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Giveaway, New Digital Birds and Blossoms, Art Blooms, Tutorial and Fab Samples!

Hi Everyone,  we have a Fun Spring Giveaway that includes a mix of items below so leave a comments to be entered and a winner will be announced this Wed, April 30/14.

Our Birds and Blossom Scraps have sold out and become a 4 Page Digital $3.75 Download! Click the preview below to check out the 4 new tickets that have been added. This Giveaway includes our last sheet of Bird and Blossom Scraps as well as the New 4 page Digital Download ...plus BOTH the Clear and Digital Art Blooms Sets, plus our Garden Style Digital Stamp Set , our printed Garden Scraps and Birds and Botanical Booklet! or trade for $40.00 in other products.

Between the 4 pages shown above there are over 40 re-sizeable images  as well as a stunning collage page filled with layers of bird and botanical designs.  Dress up birthday and greeting cards, gift tags, scrapbook pages, altered art projects and keepsakes!  Digital means you can crop and re-size the images and print them on a variety of mediums in papers, card stock, fabric, iron-on transfer sheets and more! Sample Idea Sheet included with purchase.

Check out this amazing Flower Boots Card that DT Member Elizabeth Lincoln designed for her MIL for Mother's Day using our Garden Style Digital and Art Blooms Stamps both Clear and Digital Stamp Sets included in this Giveaway.

Elizabeth used our Garden Style Digital Stamp Set to print the boots which are 5.5" tall at 300 dpi but can be reduced tiny to make a border or printed. The garden aprons and gloves are also big and make great folded cards  This set included in Giveaway.

The flowers and leaves in the top of the boot are from our Art Blooms available as a CLEAR Stamp Set on Sale for $12.50 or as a Digital Stamp Set $9.95 Download.  Also, here's a cool digital Art Blooms card our graphic designer Cindy van Koll made. 

DT Member Sheila Ramsey has a great Tutorial on Creating Magnets Using Photoshop Elements using designs from CD 3 Creating with Vintage Typography.  You can see the art frame magnets I made using Cd #1 if you missed my 14 Budget Art Ideas Post

 Sheila also made this lovely thank you card using our Little Blessings Scraps on sale for $1.95.  The glitter looks so pretty on the flowers.

Check out these other fabulous samples by our Design Team!  Here's a great Mothers Day card DT Leader Kathy Clement created using an image from our Childhood Booklet on sale for $3.50 , and adding different layers and techniques you can read about.
 

DT Member Michele Kovack made this fun How Old? birthday card using our Party Animals Clear Stamp Set on sale for $12.50. Love this card but the entire set is so freakin cute! Paper is from CD 1 Creating with Vintage Patterns.

Michele also made this Kewpie thank you card using our Digital Kewpies Stamp Set
Love all the pink and shabby embellishments.

How about this cute girls pinafore card by Darlene Pavlick that she made for a neighbor expecting a baby girl soon.  Dar used our Chipboard Girls Outfit on sale for $2.95, baby Stickers and paper from CD #1.

Be sure to leave a comment here to be entered to win this Giveaway Package!  A random.org winner will be announced this Wed, April 30/14. Winner can trade for any other items with $40.00 total value.

Wishing you joy and creativity
Sandy  Redburn

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Mother's Day Gift and Card Ideas, Sale and Fabulous Free Printables!

Hi Everyone,

I have some great samples, gift and card ideas for Mother's Day, wonderful FREE Printables and more SALE items marked down! Scroll down to see the price reductions.
Some of our past free printables were lost in cyberspace so I'm posting them here and some links as this Blog will be moving to our new site soon. 

Looking for gift ideas for Mother's Day? Do you have a Rock Star Mother, or maybe you are one?  You can create T-shirts using iron on transfer sheets.  I made this T on zazzle.com and used words from our CD 3

I also created a list of Mother's Day Gift Ideas which includes some ideas for having an experience together if you can't think of what to buy.  I'm sorry for any of you who may not have a mom in your life. You can also celebrate any woman you love - including yourself! We are all getting older which means many of our parents are getting very elderly.

Personal gifts are fun and Zazzle.com now lets you custom create 100% cotton tea towels besides a huge array of items!  I made this tea towel by pasting together the 12 x 12" rose paper from CD #1 Creating with Vintage Patterns, then added the words to oval frame from the CD and put it on the rose design. Sure you can buy cheaper tea towels - but not with your mom's name and the fact that you can personalize it with any images!

Here's a Queen Mother T-shirt idea with the same 'Mother' lettering from our CD #3  Typography and the crown is from our Bird Notes Digital Art Stamp Set Download. 
Heads up - all our Medium Digital Sets now $4.95 and all Clear Stamp Sets $5.95 or lower!

 Our Love You Mother CLEAR Art Stamp Set has been marked down to $5.50!  What a deal, while supplies last!  We also have Love You Mother Digital Stamp Set for $4.95. Look at the beautiful samples that have been created with these designs! The words, nest, coupon and silhouette in the digital set are much larger and re-sizeable.

Our Postcard 54 pc Image Sets (no chipboard) are still on sale for $6.95 and include the mini stamp sets - except Christmas only has images and we are low on the Friendship Kit.

Here's some of the New Sale Price Reductions but really all our printed stock is 50% off or more in our craftyvintagegirl.com store, plus we have a free digital gift when you order online, free shipping over $50.00, a free gift with mail orders and if you spend over $75.00 you get a FREE CD! Just tell us which one in the comment box.

Our Free Vintage Rose Poem Printable below is from 2008 and I don't think we will save blog posts from that far back when the Blog moves so I'm re-posting it here. Just left click it until it gets as large as possible and right click it to save to a picture file.

Our Free Printables are a thank you gift to our customers and are for personal use only. Here's another older Free Printable, our Forget Me Nots and Poem from 2010.

The link to this Free Daisy Printable was broken and I couldn't find the image until it popped up recently. This would be fun to color. Do you like big flowers?  I've thought of doing some jumbo digital flower sets.

This is our Free Printable 2011 Crown, which is perfect to print on card stock and create a crown for mom to wear on Mothers Day. You can dress it up with some glitter and bling. 

Here's a sample by Melissa Phillips who reduced the size and used it with our Love Mail Scraps as a faux cup cake topper.

Here's a link to our Free 2013 Mothers Day Hearts Printable from last year and as you can see on the sample I made below there are 2 hearts so you can include the poem on the inside of a card if you like. 

 

This sample is from our 2012 Free Sweet Mom Box Template and the link includes a little tutorial I did on printing labels which is what I put on the bottle and made the candy box.

Here are a few fabulous layouts that may inspire you with an idea for a photo you may have of your mother.  DT Member Sheila Rumney created this LO using paper and designs from our Typography CD 3

Sheila Rumney also created this Mothers layout using our Patterns CD #1.

Past DT Member Victoria Warren Mears created this pretty layout of her as a child with her mom using papers from our Creating With Vintage Pattern CD #1.

Here's a photo I need to scrapbook with my mom and daughters after they took us for Mother's Day Tea last year. 

I hope you enjoyed this tribute to Mothers. Now you can get an early start and may be inspired by an idea you saw today.

I've been working on several new projects and will share some news next week

Sandy  
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Flea Market Show, Pretty DT Samples and Linky Winner!

Hi Everyone, 

We went to the Vintage and Revamped Market Show in Cloverdale, BC on Saturday and enjoyed it so much I took a bunch of photos to share today and include with our Design Team's latest creations and our lucky April Linky Winner.  I will do my big Mother's Day Post Tuesday as no room to fit it in here. 

Everyone who enters our Linky Parties (first Monday each month) receive a $6.00 coupon and 1 lucky random.org winners gets a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate. This month congratulations goes to #4 Theresa who entered 3 projects. Note: you can enter up to 4 samples and increase your odds of winning but it's only one $6.00 coupon per person.

What did I buy at the Show?  Silver plated teapots and earrings made from cutlery. Our youngest daughter Chelsea is getting married this Sept and her 2 best friends Brenda and Kristy have started a wedding consulting business www.aydaproductions.com so I grabbed these 3 silver teapots to hold flowers for Chelsea's wedding and for Brenda and Kristy to use.  $40.00 for all 3 = $13.50 each.  I polished them up for this photo, now imagine them filled with roses and greenery for an outdoor wedding!

I'm smitten with gold and brown tones lately but I still love silver and fell for these dainty earrings that Tom creates from vintage silverware.  For $15.00 I felt they were a great early Mothers Day gift from Scott and he was there to approve. I love that Tom includes the name of the pattern and year. He must have made these from tiny dessert or cocktail cutlery as they are so dainty.

Mixed media artist and teacher Linda Lock  was there with some beautiful painted furniture and info on painting classes she offers in her seaside studio store in White Rock BC.  I took painting classes from Linda about 15 years ago and can promise she is a fantastic teacher, plus she now offers a line of great home decor paint and design stencils.

At the Nostalic Nest booth I fell in love with this seaside oil painting but Scott was not into  it and no matter what I said I couldn't convince him that $75.00 was a good value for an original oil in a vintage window frame.  Anyways, I want him to love what ever comes into our house so I passed on it but looking at it now makes me a little sad.  Does anyone else love this painting or am I nuts??

I also wanted to buy this sassy table for our middle daughter Holly who just moved to a cute house and loves champagne.  It already sold and I was already over my budget so I took a photo to show her I thought of her.

I can't find the name for this booth below that was on the far left wall but I loved their workmanship and creative imagination!  Both of these desks were so unique, one crafted from an old printers drawer and the other from vintage yardsticks and both on old sewing machine bases.

MonicaStacy.com had some beautiful pieces. Check out this stylish black cupboard below with the decoupage poster of the Eiffel Tower.

This dresser by Debra's Originals was really striking and it was sold and gone the next time we walked past. I was so impressed with her gold script freehand writing.

If you click on the photo you can see how the writing is actually 3D and I think Debra did it with a gold leaf overlay. It was beautiful!

Okay, now onto some fabulous samples by our Design Team ladies! 

DT Member Kathy Clement has been delving into mixed media and playing with all sorts of painting, inking and distressing techniques and explains step by step what she used and did to create this altered art canvas.  You have to see Kathy's close up photos to see how she curled and distressed papers to achieve great layers of antique vintage charm. The papers, banner, bingo card, postcard, etc are all from our Typography CD # 3

DT Member Vicki Chrisman posted these pretty blue frames and added some of our Printable Eggs and  Vicki also used our Spring Bunnies Digital Stamp Download to make some cute plant pokes, or add to a basket or use as a cake topper.

We have 3 Digital Easter Egg Downloads and if you missed the Stitched Eggs Vicki made  with the Adorable Set you should check them out.

 DT Member Darlene Pavlick used this botanical rose from our Garden Printable Download and curled and distressed the edges to create this pretty Mother's Day card with vintage flair.

DT Member Sheila Rumney used papers and a rose from Sew Decortaive CD # 7, along with the 'Birthday Wishes' stamp from our Digital Garden Girls Download to create this E-card and Tutorial  using Photoshop Elements. The flower is all cut out, so once you learn how to crop, paste and layer, you can create a card quickly to email for a friends birthday. I love Sheila's TIP: save a PSD file so you can return anytime and quickly make changes to suit a new occasion.

Look at this adorable Feel Better card that DT Member Elizabeth Lincoln made using our Feeling Yucky Digital Stamps with paper and cherries from CD #1 Creating with Vintage Patterns. I love how she added Diamond Glaze to the cherries and made cherry cough syrup for the spoon!  Duckie inside card are from

 Lastly, look at Mrs Bunny by DT Member Cherry Nelson

I will be back tomorrow with a Mother's Day post filled with inspiring samples and links to freebies

Thanks so much for your support and feedback, it's truly appreciated!
 
Sandy Redburn
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