Tuesday, June 18, 2013

New 99 Ȼ Paper Sets and Beautiful Flower Garden Samples!

Hi Everyone,

We have a bunch of new Printable Double Paper for 99 cents a set so you can pick and choose favorites and print them over and over again. I also have some great samples to show you father below and I will be doing a post and adding more papers and awesome samples tomorrow as well. Plus - we are the Sponsors for Word Art Wednesday!

NOTE: I keep getting an error message when I try and send out this post to all the Feedblitz Subscribers , so will try again in Wed morning.

The first set is the 201 Butterfly Fairy Paper from our old Earthy Paper Pad which has sold out. This was a popular paper and Cindy, our graphic artist re-did the background in a soft dreamy hue. Tip: if you are looking for an embellishment for a summer project you can crop 1 of the butterflies or dragonflies, print on card stock and add a little sparkle to the wings.

I'm in love with this fairy girl and decoupaged her on this wood purse but she would be pretty on a gift bag, box, pilllow or as wall art with the butterflies layered 3D.

Printable Digital Papers come with a download link as soon as you buy them and there is no S&H. You can re-size them to suit your project, so remember the butterfly Fairy above could be made into a 1" pendant!

I love the colors in this 202 Rose Diamond paper and the worn wood I painted and crackled and we turned it into paper.

Some of these sets are brand new so I don't have any samples yet to show you but look at the pretty colors! This one is 203 Rose Swirls

Here is 204 Red Damask which has a rich texture on side B taken from an old book cover.

This is 205 Earthy Floral and it use to be in our old Earthy Paper Paper

Here's a sample that Sherri Seimens created for a seasonal album a few years ago using our Sweet Kids Clear Art Stamp Set - we still have some of the 'real' stamp sets!

I own about 6 sets of old antique letterpress alphabets and it's hard to believe that printers actually used these to print with the wood letters. Some of these would have been used to print larger titles in newspapers, magazines, etc. We mixed a bunch of sets together to create this 206 Letterpress and Journal Set below.

Here is a new set 207 Wild Roses. What do you think so far? I will be back Wednesday afternoon with more cool sets.

Now I have a fabulous mix of samples to show you! DT leader Vicki Chrisman created this stunning wall art piece using one of the large images from our Garden Printables
on a dollar store plaque. I love how she added the rose again popped up.

DT Member Michele Kovack used our Flower Garden Digital Stamp Set to create this cool card and look how she cut the opening on the seed pack and added it over the flower stamps she used. You can get all the details on Michele's Blog.

DT Member Darlene Pavlick has a great tutorial showing how she used Microsoft Word 2010 to create 2 cards, this one below and a pretty sympathy card using our Garden Printable Papers.The poem below is from the Flower Girl Small Stamp Set and the sentiment on her sympathy card is from the font included in the Flower Garden Stamp Set

Here's a pretty sample by DT Member Melissa Bove using the Garden Printable Papers

Okay, I will be back Wed afternoon with more to share. Don't forget to check out the Word Art Wednesday Blog on Wed and see what the DT Ladies there have created using our products!

Till next time, wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Father's Day Free Printable Card, New T-shirt Design and Garden Papers!

Hi Everyone, please scroll down to see our June Linky Winners and sorry for the delay.

I had to split this post into 2 parts, so click to see the Linky and Giveaway Winners, 2 great Tutorials and Road Trip Re-cap. I really wanted to post a Free Father's Day Printable today as we had such a great Mother's Day one and then we got carried away and ended up with 2 designs for Dad. So we also have a fab New Father's Day T-shirt Design Download for $2.95. Plus, our Garden Papers are finished and you can see preview sheets below.

I really like how our Free Father's Day Printable turned out this year! Cindy did a great job transforming a couple of drawings I had into super cute graphics for a quick print and fold card for your #1 DAD. Just left click the image till it gets as large as possible (it's 2 MB) and save it to a picture file.

Print on cardstock, fold and add a mushy message. It would be cute with 2 real buttons and you could print it a second time, cut out the trophy and suspenders for 3D paper piecing fun.

Here's the new Father Printable Design Download for $2.95 that will work great as an iron-on transfer for a T-shirt or pillow. You can also reduce the 7" x 8" size to create a card or make a fun sign for Father's Day.

Here's a sample showing what it will look like on a T-shirt. Simply print on a sheet of iron-on transfer paper and trim the edges close to the brown frame and follow the manufacturer's instructions to add it to a t-shirt or pillow cover.

I've been struggling with a price for our Garden Papers because it has taken me years to acquire my collection and it felt like years to clean and design everything. The Garden Papers Set is $9.95 including the Floral and vegetable catalog cover pages. I almost split them up and was going to sell the seed packet papers separately as there is a stunning mix of 46 amazing flower and vegetable catalog covers. Every image has been re-paired and then Cindy made several changes to improve and make them unique. At 300 dpi each flower and vegetable cover image is 3 x 2" (except for 2 double size veggie ones) but they can all be cropped and enlarged a fair bit more.

We wanted the papers to work well for decoupage projects but maybe we should we have done the catalog covers as 2 separate downloads? Please leave feedback if you would prefer to have the Flower and Vegetable covers sold separately? We will try and work out a garden special

Look at these 2 adorable Garden Pincushions DT Member Melissa Bove created! You can see all the details here on Melissa's Blog

I am so in love with this one and the cute hat pins Melissa added. What a fun gift and you could add pins to it as well

I would love to hear what you think of everything? Do you want more designs like the World's Best Father's T-Shirt?

Till next time, wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy

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Garden Album and Digital Photo Card Tutorials, June Linky Winners and Portland Rd Trip!

Hi Everyone,

Somehow I make everything harder and after struggling to get my blog post to load properly I realized I should just divide it into 2 parts and it worked! So I have 2 great tutorials here plus our June Linky Winners. Later be sure to see my other post with our Free Father's Day Print and Fold Card, a new World's Best Father Design Download, plus our Garden Paper Collection and some pretty garden pincushions.

The Random.org Winners! For our June Linky Party we had 24 entires and congratulations to everyone who entered, they were all fabulous! Congrats to # 3 Pam who has won a Crafty Secrets Gift Card and everyone else has won a $6.00 Gift Card Mona will email out tomorrow. We only had 39 entries for the new Garden Color Printables and Papers, plus Flower Girl and Garden Memories Digital Art Stamp Sets and the winner was #37 Helene (2 am scrapper).

Here is another great Garden Album Tutorial by DT Member Darlene Pavlick. Darlene created this pretty Garden Notes Booklet last week before our Garden Papers were finished so she used a bunch of papers and images from CD 2, Creating With Vintage Illustrations. I love here step by step photos and you can also see her cool Fashionista Pocket Album if you missed it.

DT Member Sheila Rumney has a great step by step Tutorial showing how to Create Digital Photo Cards using Photoshop Elements. Sheila's Digital Tutorials have been so helpful for all the ladies who are loving and learning how to use our Digital Art Stamps and Printable Downloads. You can also see some fabulous photo garden cards here on Vicki's Blog if you missed them.

Okay, I had extra space so I quickly added a little blurb our the annual Mother Daughter Road Trip I do with my 3 girls for last 6 years. I wanted to start a tradition and this is one we now look forward to every year. We left early Friday and didn't get home until late last night so I've been racing all day to get all the new stuff wrapped up and then ran into blog trouble. I'm just happy it's working now!

We did have super great time and this year Portland won the destination vote again. All 3 of my daughters are real 'foodies' and watch cooking shows and worship Martha, so eating is about as important as shopping. Portland often wins because there is no tax and the city is filled with amazing fun - and inexpensive restaurants, free transist downtown and we love the Portland Saturday Market. Scott found us a deal on Hotwire and we got a room at the downtown Hilton Hotel for $98.00.

Now, before you judge all the happy hour places you should know that 'happy hour' often runs about 3 to 6 and has fantastic food deals like half off so you can make it work for lunch or dinner. Plus we all love wine so we used the free metro all weekend.

Top Fave places we ate: Mothers for breakfast (the best in Portland) , Petisco's for their happy hour late lunch $3.00 sangria and $5.00 grilled sandwiches with salad , Lúc Lác for happy hour dinner (all amazing food) , The Driftwood Room for late night happy hour (the garlic mushrooms and Springtime in Paris cocktail - yum). We play silly trivia games on the car ride and on Sunday morning always visit Powells Books, the largest book Store in the world. I love that they put used and new books together on the same shelf.

The big surprise this year - the annual Naked Bike Ride, which we came upon and it took almost 30 mins to cross the street! We heard over 8000? Yup - they were mostly and nearly naked with some crazy hats and accessories. I'm not going to post a photo but you can google it if you don't believe me.

Okay, now go check out all the new Fathers Day Free Printable Card, the Best Father Design Download and Garden Papers!

Wishing you joy and creativity!
Sandy

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Giveaway for NEW Garden Papers, Printables and Digital Stamps!

Hi Everyone, we have a NEW Giveaway for all our new Garden Color Printables and Papers, plus Flower Girl and Garden Memories Digital Art Stamp Sets! Plus, you have until just after midnight Sunday night to enter our June Linky Party and win stuff!

Sorry for the delay with these. Cindy, (our graphic designer) was off so we had a set back. She designed the papers and the first set of printables below. I usually get the images together and help clean them up but she is the Photoshop master. I'm proud to say I cleaned and put together everything for the 2nd set of printables below! I hope you like them - it took me ages! So I may as well tell you - **I raised the price to $3.50 per new set. I looked on Etsy and most companies charge that much for 1 page and these are 2 pages, big, beautiful, take forever to clean and re-design, plus the cost of the books

I cleaned the flowers for the 4 Large Flower Prints below, which were torn and faded from being so old. Then Cindy designed the background, frame and layered everything together. With 2 on each page at 300 dpi/ppi they will make great wall decor, pillow transfers, decoupage on tins or wood pieces, or shrink them small for cards, layouts, garden journals, pendants and more.

Here's the Garden Printable Set . A couple of these images were used very small on our Mini Creative Scraps such as the garden lady with the basket but now she's large with enhanced colors.

Here's the 2nd page. Past DT Member Viola Mahr helped design our Mini Creative Scraps if you recognize the rose bouquet and bookmark with the birds. I just changed the saying. I love the fairy bookmark!

The papers won't be available until Monday and I haven't set a price as I'm not sure how many there will be. I'm really excited with how great they look!

I love this large rose frame Cindy designed but I'm still not sure if it will be sold separately or with the Garden Papers?

Here is a new Small Digital Stamp Set called Flower Girl for $3.95. It's a real deal as it didn't have as many stamps as a medium set but the little girl is 6"w x 8"h and there are 3 sentiments!

Also, in case you missed them, here are the Garden Memories Digital Stamp Set included in this Giveaway! They are available now in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com store

Yikes, We are working on several projects and I have images everywhere! I should take a photo of my office and spare room I keep everything in but I'm too embarrassed. So many images are in old books and magazines , so there are stacks loaded with post-it-notes.

Okay, you have until just after 12"05 AM midnight Sunday to enter this Giveaway and I will announce a winner for all of the above items, plus a random.org winner for our June Linky Party. Come and post a sample and you will receive a $6.00 Gift Certificate! Note: 1 per person but you can enter up to 4 samples and increase your random.org $50.00 chance.

PS - DT Leader Vicki Chrisman was the proud 'Mother of the Groom' this past weekend and you can see some great wedding photos on her blog! Vicki has been part of Crafty Secrets for about 9 years now and I would be lost without her!

Wishing you joy and creativity!
Sandy

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Monday, June 3, 2013

June Linky Party, DT Garden Challenge, Peek at New Set and Winner!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to our June Linky Party and Design Team Garden Challenge! You have all week to post any sample you have created here on this blog (it doesn't have to be a garden theme) and you will be entered to win a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate. Everyone who enters also wins a $6.00 Gift Certificate. Scroll down to see the Garden Stamp Winner, more samples and a peek at our Garden Memories Digital Set coming this week!

Click on each of the links to see what our Design Team ladies have created

Vicki Chrisman - Design Team Leader

Michele Kovack

Darlene Pavlick

Melissa Bove

Rebekah Fairies

Sheila Rumney

Congratulations to #49, Indy who was the random.org Winner for our Flower Garden and Vegetable Garden Sets.

I also have a couple of pretty extra samples to show you. DT Member Sheila Rumney has a new Tutorial on How to Layer Digital Images. Sheila created her layout using our Flower Garden Digital Stamp Set and the frames are from CD 3, Creating With Vintage Typography and she shows you how to make butterfly in layers of white and blue.

DT Member Rebekah Fairies used the Flower Garden Digital Set to create this pretty card and you can see details on her blog

I also love these sweet gift tags Rebekah made using Papers from CD 1 and Birthday Stamps. You can see details here on her blog.

I have a bit of a problem - we have too many images! I can't believe I said that but we also have Garden Papers, Garden Color Printables and a really fun line of 'soon to be' dies that will cut out big (garden boots 5.8", garden gloves 4.7" and garden aprons 5.5"H). I will be adding new items this week and doing a new Giveaway! Plus, we have been working on a huge array of images and T-shirts for Zazzle.com

This set has a journal theme and can be used to create a working Garden Journal. The Plant Log prints 8.5 x 11" and has headings for: Purchased From, Price, Spacing, Plant Name, Date Planted, Date to Maturity, Actual Harvest, Time in Bloom, and Remarks and Notations.

Okay, now it's your turn to post a sample you have created using any of our products. You have all week to join in the fun. I will be back to post the Garden Memories and Flower Girl Stamp Sets, plus some color printables this week and will do another giveaway!