Christmas Paper Preview, 3 Winners and Christmas Tutorial Link

Hi Everyone,

Scroll down to see a preview for our Printable Christmas Paper Collection that will be released as a Digital Download this week!

Thanks to all who entered such great samples in our Nov Linky Party I have 3 random.org winners! Congratulations to #9 Sheri Elmont. All the others who joined the Linky Party have each won a Christmas Printable Box & Bowl-Pocket template. Vicki has a Christmas Basket Tutorial on her Blog but the images can also be folded to create gift pockets. I also have 2 Blog Giveaway Winners; congrats to lucky # 13 Nancy Y and #48 Stacie D.

Here is Sherri's adorable Grade A card made with our Farm Chicks Stamp Set and paper is from CD #1

Okay, here's a preview of our Printable Christmas Papers! The CD should have been ready by now but we had too many interruptions (building new website, staff off sick, changing stamp sets to digital, etc). So they will be released as a download with the paper available to order tomorrow or Wed. If Cindy gets better and comes back to work this week the other jpg images and PDF ephemera files will be available later this week.

I'm really excited about the variety of papers and how many will work for other non-Christmas projects. I'm in love with the Christmas Border paper and I want to do a tutorial on how to make Washi Tape with it. Here's a little slice so you can see the detail in the border designs.

I've learned a lesson - no more big CD's for a while. It's so much work and I'm fussy and want to include everything.

We stopped working on Christmas to do the Thanksgiving Printable Kit, then I wanted to raise funds for prostate cancer at Movember.com mustache events (they have raised $35,794,789!!!) so we did the Barber Shop Kit and Mustache Men Digital Stamp Set after our Halloween CD. My back is messed up from sitting at the computer for so long and my eyes are sore from too many Photoshop hours cleaning and changing old images!

**There are still a couple more sheets to be added with Christmas text and cute snow girls but look at our cool Santa papers!

Here are some tins DT Leader Vicki Chrisman decorated with a variety of the Retro Christmas Papers.

I will post the images and ephemera later this week but you can see some images on these samples below and our DT ladies are busy whipping up inspiring samples they will be sharing soon on their blogs. Sample sheets will be included in the downloads and on our Pintrest Boards like our other CD's.

DT Member Rebekah Fairies created this adorable sample with some of the printable paper and images that will be available.

DT Member Darlene Pavlick designed this stunning wall art piece to frame a wonderful poem that's on one of the papers. She printed the paper a second time and gave it a tole effect raising the poem with some foam tape. Also - see the new Stamped card Darlene created with our Christmas Express Stamp Set and it's on sale for $9.50!

PS - DT Member Melissa Bove and her family live in NJ and were hit hard twice by the storms so she was with out any power for several days and may take awhile before she can get back into crafting. I told her not to worry a bit - we are just happy she and her family are all fine and their house didn't suffer much damage!

The CK Show we were at this weekend was slower than normal as the attendance seemed down but it was great to see so many long time customers and meet so many new ones!

See you later this week with more Christmas images to show you!

Sandy Redburn
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Vintage Halloween CD, Tips & Links, New Samples and Update!

Hi Everyone,

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Our Halloween CD finally arrived and a bunch of orders were sent out Friday! The silk screened superior labels take longer than paper ones but it all turned out amazing!

We send our orders by priority mail and here's the link to the Halloween CD in our Shopatron Store. We've also been selling the Halloween designs in smaller groups in our Etsy Store with papers $7.99, or the 12 templates for $5.99.

Click on the covers to see them jumbo sized and you can also see the preview sheets and samples here in our Shopatron Store.

If you are wondering why I increased the price(it's $17.99, CD 1, 2 & 3 are $15.99) by $2.00 it's because quality antique seasonal images and are far more costly than buying patterns to create papers, plus the altered witch ladies and children as well as the 12 templates took so much time to design - but they were so worth the effort and hours our graphic designer Cindy van Koll put into it! Also, Liv from Country Liv's Cottage Art helped wrap things up when Cindy was on vacation and made samples sheets like this with the Templates.

I love all the Templates like the mini Popcorn box which has a funny poem on one side.
I made cheesey popcorn for my niece and nephew and they loved having their own.

I've been learning Photoshop and helping and we currently working on several projects including an amazing Christmas CD that is making my heart sing!

Image Editing Programs

I've had so many people inquiring about the CD's who are new to digital and wondering if they will be able to 'figure it out'. Yes - if you can open a jpg or png file you can use our CD’s to print the papers and designs for all sorts of projects! See my list below.

If you have an image editing program you can also easily re-size, crop, color, add text and print our Halloween images and designs on a variety of mediums using several image software programs that are FREE. Check your computer to see if you already have a built in program you can use such as Paint, Microsoft Office Picture Manager, Windows Photo Gallery and often printers come with photo editing programs.

Here are Links to the Most Popular FREE Image Editing Viewing Programs

www.gimp.org for Windows or Mac

www.adobe.com Adobe offers a free 30 day trial for Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and for Adobe Premiere Elements. Both are for the fully functional programs and offer a perfect way to see if you like the software!

ALSO: All of our Creating with Vintage CD series have a tutorial by digital expert Patty Deboswski www.thedigitalscrapbookteacher.com who shows step by step how to build and create a layout with multiple layers using Photoshop Elements 10.

Designer Leader Vicki Chrisman was also a huge help whipping up many of the included samples and getting me hi res photos. You can see some more of the samples on Vicki's Blog. Vicki is also putting on a huge Fall Fair & Vintage Flea Market next weekend Oct 5 - 6 at her home in Nebraska with her art group, so if you live in the area you should stop by as it sounds so great I want to go!!!

DT Member Marilyn McIldoon and Darlene Pavlick also made this cute cards

We also included a sample of DT Member Julie Campbell's Halloween Art Journal and Melissa Bove's fun witch hat. I wish I could show everything!

Look at this adorable stamped card Sophie La Fontaine emailed me. I just added the watermark as it looked so big when clicked him on but I wanted you to see the cute coloring job Sophie did. She turned our Uncle Sam from the American Beauty set into a football fan and you can get the details. Yikes - I just went to Splitcoast to find Sophie's link and spotted a bunch of gorgeous cards by a bunch of ladies you can see here!

UPDATE: Everything is sorted out with the little copyright problem I wrote about on my last post and all the items have been removed.

We are working on a new website to make the digital downloads easy and instant!

SALE: We are starting to sell out and get low on some stamp sets and I will do another blog post and list the status of everything tomorrow. A new stamp manufacturing company has contacted me about making stamps (my old stamp company was sold) and I'm tempted to have them make our 2 new Christmas sets that we finished last month. I will show you a peek tomorrow and see if you like them. My old stamp company was sold I've also been given some contacts for other stamp manufactures to see if they want to carry our best sellers. Material Girl is almost sold out and that is so sad! But - maybe no company will want our stamps now that I've discounted them so much and will also be offering them digitally.

We still have a large amount of some sets and tons of printed stuff like Stickers, Creative Scraps, Booklets, etc and they are all on SALE.

PS - I will add the Halloween CD to our Etsy Store tomorrow

Wishing you all joy & creativity

Sandy

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