3 Tutorials, Romance 12 x 12" Stamp Set Special and Giveaway Winners!

Hi Everyone,   I have 3 great Tutorials today on making Paper Flowers by Darlene Pavlick, and Digitally Blending and How to Erase in Layers by Sheila Rumney.  Plus I have a special on the last of the 12" x 12" Tattered Angels Romance Stamp Sets and the winners of the Blog Giveaway for our Digital Love Pack.

Congratulations to random.org Blog Winner #9 Anne Mills and Facebook Winner #1 Jennifer Hawkins who each won our Digital Love Giveaway!

 DT Member Darlene Pavlick posted a great flower tutorial showing how to create paper flowers with photos and tips.  Darlene used a flower Die but her instructions will work for other flower dies or punches

DT Member Sheila Rumney has been creating some great digital Tutorials with step by step instructions showing how to use Photoshop Elements to create samples with our products. Here's her latest Tutorial showing how to blend 2 digital papers using the Gradient Tool.  Sheila used papers and designs from our Sew Decorative CD 7.

Here is Sheila's previous Tutorial on Erasing using layers in Photoshop Elements. Sheila used our Creating With Vintage Illustrations CD 2 to create this pretty card. 

 Some of you may remember I bought over 600 of these Romance Jumbo Stamp Sets when Tattered Angels discontinued them and I now have them marked down to $8.50 and am also putting in 4 jumbo square lace doilies while supplies last - as this is the only item larger than the doilies so they should ship ok.  

Sorry I don't have a photo of the doilies but they are about 10" x 10" embossed white die cut paper. Perfect to cut them up for valentine cards and accent projects as you can spray and ink them as well. 

Here's a pretty valentine card by DT Leader Kathy Clement using the Romance Stamp Set and you can see the inside on her blog. You also have to see the adorable valentine she made with the clothes line girl from our Seasonal Booklet

I adore this fabric layout Vicki made with this set when it first came out and you can see how big the large heart stamp is.

 We also have Heart shaped Ivory Coaster Board is also on sale for .50 cents each.

 Don't forget if you place an order in our Crafty Vintage Girl Online Store to add the free digital gift this month - Chandelier Fun!  If you don't see it on the home page you need to click to refresh the site

I will be back later this week with a fun home decor post or Shrinky Plastic?  I started the Home Dec post and then my printable Shrink Plastic arrived and I'm itching to try it! 

Also, many thanks to everyone for all your condolences on the passing of my father last Tuesday. We are spending a lot of time with my mom who lives downstairs. At least now we can smile and think of him in heaven drinking Pepsi and eating Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Sandy Redburn
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New Heart Digital Stamps, Valentine Winner, my New Grand-Pup and Girls

Hi Everyone,

Here is our new Heart to Heart Digital Art Stamp Set and I'm so in love with this $9.95 set!  I need to play and make something so you can see how cool the hearts are. At full size they are 5" tall but you can shrink them for smaller projects. There are 17 separate PNG stamp designs in total that you can print on a variety of surfaces from card stock, fabric, label sheets to iron-on sheets and more!

The details with all the layers Cindy added to the hearts makes each one like a little piece of art!  I noticed before I was about to do this post that one of the hearts needs to be fixed as it's a PNG file and should be transparent, but if you look you will see white in the bird below I highlighted . We will get this file replaced tomorrow (Tues).  UPDATE: It's Fixed!

We have a winner in our Digital Valentine Giveaway , # 8 Rema who WON our new Heart to Heart Set, our Be My Valentine Stamps, our Vintage Valentine Digital Paper & Card Kit, and our Victorian Rose Printables!

Here are some samples made with our Valentine Paper and Card Digital Download Kit.  The great thing with digital is the download is instant after you buy it, you can shrink designs down for smaller projects and print on so many surfaces - as many times as you want!

I'm in love with this gate fold card DT Member Darlene Pavlick created using our Valentine Kit.  You have to see the inside photos and other samples she has HERE on her Blog. 

Darlene Pavlick also made made this cute gift by gluing some of the red sheet music and images to a plastic container. If you want to make up multiple 'love packs', consider buying your candy in bulk and you can often find glass and tin items you can recycle, or visit a dollar store and turn a plain glass jar into a special gift with homespun personality!

 I just came across this cute sample by Julie Campbell she made with the Kit last year. Check your craft stash as glitter, gems, lace, ribbon and paper doilies all make great Valentine embellishments.

DT Member Michele Kovack created this pretty card using papers from Patterns CD #1 and the tag is from the Valentine Kit.

I would like to introduce you to my new 'grand-pup' Ralph!  Our daughter Holly is his lucky new mom and they both seem smitten with each other already. He is an Affenpinscher and is such a cutie!

Our girls gave us a wonderful Christmas gift we used this weekend, tickets to Plated and Paired, a wine and food tasting event at Granville Island in Vancouver and a hotel room! It was so much fun with a bunch of yummy food and 30 wineries  Scott and I spent all weekend in the city and stayed overnight at friends on Sat to celebrate a dear friend's 60th! Where did the years go?? 

Tickets were around $35.00 but everything was included with live entertainment including these ladies who walked around all night on stilts and my favorite - the candy lady.  Wouldn't this make the best costume! The dishes were glued on and filled with candies.

I think it would be too confusing to add another Giveaway to this post (plus my post got way too long) so I have all the printed love themed Giveaway items ready to post tomorrow with my annual post to my my Favorite Decorating Store CHINTZ  and COMPANY!  Their store is amazing and I got a bunch of great photos.

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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New Giveaway for Vintage Valentine Digital Stamps, Kit & Victorian Rose Cards!

Hi Everyone,

I have another fun Giveaway, this time for 4 items with our New 'Be My Valentine'  Digital Stamp Set and  our NEW Victorian Rose Cards Printables for $2.95 with 6 super pretty graphics filled with roses, plus our Valentine Digital Kit.  I will post the fourth item this Monday as it's not quite finished but will be a Large Digital Stamp Set called Heart to Heart with 6 eclectic hearts in a collage style, keys, a lock and a bunch of great quotes for $9.95.  Leave a comment here and I will post a random.org winner on Mon afternoon, Jan 21 when I show our new stamp set.

I held up our Be My Valentine Digital Stamps because I decided they would be easier for many people to use if some of the images were pre-colored red.  So now every files comes in B&W and RED so you can choose which to print if you don't know how to change colors.  I am totally in LOVE with how BIG some of the images are on this set!  You can shrink them down for smaller projects but these will be be great to add to scrapbook pages or print on fabric for fun projects.  I will be posting some samples next week as our DT ladies just received these today.  These are $9.95 with 20 separate digital stamp designs!

I love how pretty these printable sheets turned out with 6 super pretty graphics filled with roses adapted from a book of old calling cards I have from the late 1800's. Our Victorian Rose Cards Printable $2.95 Download includes 3 sheets (8.5" x 11") with 6 printable cards 4.75 x 6.75” each.  You can print on a variety of mediums to create tags, greeting cards, place cards, iron-on designs, accents for scrapbook pages, print them on label paper for stationary and more! Shrink the designs small and add Diamond Glaze and glitter to create Victorian pins, pendants and charms. This is a new product but visit our blog to see more samples that our talented Design Team will be creating!

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman whipped these pretty samples up for me this morning

I promise - we are going to start a bunch more tutorials with step by step tips!  First, we have 1 more love theme digital stamp set debuting on Monday, Heart to Heart, filled with 6 eclectic style collage hearts (I've wanted hearts like this forever) and these are are about 5" tall, with keys, a lock and special quotes from the heart. We are not adding any Valentine sentiments so it works year round.

So leave a comment here to be entered to WIN and a random.org winner will be announced Mon, Jan 21/13 to win: our Valentine Kit, Be Mine Valentine Digital Stamp Set, Victorian Rose Card Printables and our new Heart to Heart Digital Stamp Set debuting on Monday.

I'm also going to put together a special LOVE Package on Monday of printed items and stamps that will include our Love Mail Creative Scraps, Romance Cuts  , Romance Homespun Cotton Scraps a Clear Art Stamp set - but sadly our Valentine Stickers just sold out.

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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