See Princess Tea Party at Craftberrybush, I’m a Proud Mom, Blog Winner & More!!

Hi Everyone, 

I'm all gushy today!  I have the prettiest post to share with party samples that Lucy from Craftyberrybush shared on her Blog for her niece's birthday party.  I also want to gush about my oldest daughter Katie who is jet setting across Canada interviewing possible bachelorette ladies for the new Bachelor Canada Show!  We also have a winner for our Blog Giveaway for our new stamp sets with congratulations to Kathi # 46! and scroll down to see more great ideas!

I showed some links previously to Lucy's Blog The Craftberry Bush as I'm so inspired by her creative ideas and tutorials! I didn't realize she is also Canadian when I first discovered her blog. I think in 'Blogland' the world becomes smaller and I don't even notice  borders.  She is still over 4000 miles away but the internet allows us to all connect, share and inspire each other globally and that is a wonderful thing.

Our Vintage CD's work great for so many home decor and altered projects so I sent Lucy copies of the CD's and a few other goodies and she is has been playing and is also going to do a giveaway next month.

I love the way she printed papers from the CD's to create 'wallpaper' and party decor for her 6 year old niece's princess tea party.  The colors look so sunny & inviting, perfect for girls of any ages. You can see a bunch more photos HERE on Lucy's Blog .

Okay, why am I a proud mom? I'm so happy and proud of my family but I've been missing our oldest daughter Katie as she is traveling with an exciting new show. Here is one of my fave recent photos of all of us together, our 3 daughters, 2 boyfriends and the dogs and Katie (in pink with her pug George) has been working at Force Four Productions for a couple of years as a writer and production assistant and she is currently traveling across Canada with the crew doing auditions for their new show Bachelor Canada!  

  

 

Katie's last show Million Dollar Neighbourhood is a reality TV series on the Oprah network about the community of Aldergrove BC and the families who are trying to take control of their finances and the power of the community to help each other. They have weekly goals and 3 months until the $10,000.00 bonus is awarded. 

We had our annual Oscar Party here last night and each bet $5.00, printed ballots, voted and Scott won.  Katie's boyfriend Ryan & their dog George came - except we all missed Kate but are super excited for her.  Her crew did auditions for possible Bachelorette's in Montreal today and are heading to Nova Scotia before flying home.

I have a couple of more great projects to show you.  I like this idea Jan Hennings had to stamp on a dollar store muslin towel and then used to stitch a little bag. Jan used stamps from our Material Girl Small Clear Art Set.

Also look at the 2 layouts Julie Campbell stitched using papers from our CD # 2, Creating with Vintage Illustrations.  Pure shabby goodness and you can see her other layout and the details HERE on Julie's Blog.

 I really want to thank you for all the wonderful comments and fabulous feedback on the last post!  You have no idea how much it means to know you like what we are doing! I wish everyone could win that why we include a nice gift with every order. 

 I will be back soon with new eye candy and more 2012 show details this week.

Mar 9 & 10  we will be at the Creative Stitches Show at Pearkes in Victoria BC

Mar 23 - 24 we will be at the Creative Show at the Tradex in Abbostford, BC

May 10 - 12  Pattythe digitalscrapbookteacher.com will have our CD's at Mega Meet Show in Novi, MI

May 31 - Jun 2 see us the Great American Scrapbook Show in Arlington TX 

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn

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CD #2 Samples, 3 Winners, Sew Special Ideas & Christmas Fun Tomorrow!

Hi Everyone, 

If you recieved our monthly newsletter rhis morning you saw my plan was to do a Christmas post first and tell you I would announce 3 winners at 6 pm. I hope you haven’t been here checking – I’m always a little behind but the Christmas Fun is coming tomorrow! I had to come back here and add a bunch of links to the sewing projects. Here are the 3 winners and some sample peeks from CD 2.  Then I have some fabulous Sewing theme projects to show you!

I got caught up today in making test samples from all the cool Templates we will have on CD #2, so I just asked my husband Scott to quickly pick 3 names from all the entries and here is his winner’s  list:

Congratulations Ladies!  I wish everyone could win but – there are more giveaways coming!

Carmen L cal8007

Carole Miller

Arty Marti

This CD will be for personal use only but the designs can be licenced. In fact I hope a paper company will want to license papers from our first CD # 1 and this CD and print them!

Our graphic designer, Cindy van Koll did an amazing job again on all the pages!  There will be a fantastic array of themes and creative possibilities for printing on a variety of mediums! You will be able to create albums, cards, pillows, wall art, and so much more with ideas on the CD and Blog.   Here are a few of the templates.

This one makes a cute basket but today I had Cindy added a funky handle to it. There will also be a plain white template you can print on the pattern papers.

There will be boy & girl Dolly Dingle dolls you can print on fabric and stuff to make them into pillow dolls 10” tall, cute jumbo cards, or shrink smaller.

A box template that folds into a house.
There is also a great background page with this house on it

Family tree pages.  Most of the pages are 12 x 12" (like CD #1)
but can be sized to print on regular 8 x 11" paper

Several pretty floral papers.  I had to reduce these samples as we've had problems with 'internet image theft'.  Be assured every file on the CD will be 300 dpi resolution.

This stitched rose paper is one of my favorites! DT Leader Vicki Chrisman stitched
and aged the paper and Cindy added the script and roses

Some fun B&W Illustrations and frames

Here is one of the sewing papers

Okay, now I have some fabulous sewing theme projects to share with you! 

Look at this very pretty card Beate Johns from Spitcoast designed using our

Sew Special Stamp Set and Beate did a great step by step video tutorial on how she created it as a 'Tunnel Card" as you can see on the inside photo posted below

 

Here is the link to watch Beate's video

She is a fantastic step by step teacher!

I've wanted to do an sewing blog post since seeing this fabulous idea that Sarah from Vintage Figments created in 2 mini domino albums she designed and she used Cream Shrinky Dink Plastic to stamp on.  She is so sweet she gave me this cute album and everyone who has seen it has been amazed at how detailed the stamped images stayed after they shrunk down! ** If you know any, I've been looking for a good supplier of 'cream sheets of Shrinky Dink Plastic! She said she just used her heat gun to shrink all the stamped images tiny and my head keeps seeing buttons, flowers, birdies....sigh.

She used a combo from our Sew Special Stamp set and Material Girl Stamps, with images from our Sew Nice Creative Scraps on the inside.  Also, check out the adorable Recipe Domino Album Sarah designed using our Little Chef Stamps and What's Cooking Stickers and her Recipe Binder Book  she made using our CD #1, Creating With Vintage Patterns after helping DT Member Vicki teach the class in TX at the Great American Scrapbook Show last June.  

I also  wanted to show you this beautiful keepsake box that
Lana Edwards decorated with our Sew Nice Creative Scraps.

There use to be a clock inside it but Lana couldn't get it to work so she turned it into a little memento box for sewing ephemera. See the details HERE on Lana's Blog and the box friend Darlene Pavlick also created. Tomorrow have a another Christmas project by Darlene!



I will be back tomorrow with a Christmas Post! 

Also, if you are in the area, please come see us at the Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Show , Nov 11 & 12 in Bellevue, WA.  PS - We will have CD # 2!

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn
Crafty Secrets

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This Blog: http://heartwarmingvintage.blogspot.com
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15430 78 A Ave.,
Surrey, BC V3S 8R4

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250 H. Street, #436
Blaine,WA 98230