June Challenge Winner, DT Samples and Inspiration

Hello, Friends!

Thanks to everyone who played along in the June Linky Challenge!  We put all the eligible names in a hat and the lucky winner is:

#10: Helene from 2 AM Scrapper!  Hooray!  Helene used our Bedtime Kids Digital Art Stamps and moon and stars paper to make this adorable card for her grandson.

Congratulations, Helene!  Sandy will be contacting with the info you need to claim your prize!

Well, it's almost Father's Day!  Are you ready?  If not, our Father Digital Download can be used to make some really cute cards really fast!  Take a look at this cute card from DT Member Sheila.  I just love the texture that the burlap background adds to our stylish steampunk puppy!

 

And if Dad's an angler, we've got you covered there, too!   I love the touch of glitter Sheila added to this great vintage image!

As someone who struggles with coloring an image, I'm always blown away by the beautiful coloring that Michele adds to her projects!  Just look at the gorgeous hens in this card she made using our Farm Chicks Digital Art Stamps!  You almost feel as though you could reach out and touch those brilliant feathers! And that gingham bow and flower just pop off the card front!

  

 

I love a blue and white card just about any time of the year, but in the summertime, I think they are especially glorious!  This beauty from Diane makes me think of a blue sky filled with puffy white clouds.  I just love the way she used our Birds and Blossoms Digital Vintage Creative Scraps.  So sweet! And the sweet background paper is from out Retro Kitchen Digital Kit.

Sheila has a fabulous new digital layout on her blog!  She used our Sew Creative CD and the beautiful Birds and Blooms Digital Paper Kit to capture memories from a special mother/daughter trip to NYC. 

 

Ginny combined papers from our Barber Shop Kit, Thanksgiving Kit and Vintage Typography CD to make a fabulous digital layout honoring her son's achievements in Boy Scouts.  I love that pocket watch, how about you?

Teresa created a shabbylicious trio of cards using our fabulous Creating with Vintage Typography CD.  She added images from our Little Blessings Creative Scraps which are on sale for just $1.95 each in our online store.  I love the color palette and beautiful ribbons she used!

 

It has been soooo hot here in North Carolina!  Today it's just under 100 degrees!  It's great weather for staying inside and getting my craft on!   I'd love to hear from you!  What have you been creating? 

I hope you'll take a minute to visit the design team blogs, and to let us know what you've been working on.  Sandy has some great new collections in the works, and I'll be back soon with more inspiration for you.

Until then, on behalf of Sandy Redburn, I wish you joy and creativity! 

Cheerio,

Kathy Clement

Design Team Leader, Crafty Secrets

Father's Day Goodies, Frogs in Love and DT Samples

Happy Friday, everyone!  I hope you've had a healthy, productive week with room for a little fun thrown in, too!

Father's Day is just around the corner, and if you and/or your little people are planning to create something special for Dad, I have a new product that you are going to love!  Our "hot off the presses" Father Digital Download is filled with fun vintage images you can use to create birthday and Father's Day cards, layouts, mini albums and keepsakes for good old 'DAD'! There's a mix of 12 images and words on this printable page.  It prints out clear and crisp (300 dpi jpg. file) and can easily be resized to make large or small projects.  Best of all, you can use it again and again...just print from your home printer!  Many of the images actually appear to be 3-D embossed images, and there's a great range of themes from silly, to cute to sincere.  It's perfect for any masculine project you might need to make.

Darlene used the wonderful lion image and made a card that's fit for a king!  She'll be sharing this on her blog, Dar's Crafty Creations on the 11th, and you'll be able to get all the details there.

 

Sandy has a great free gift this month.  Just place an order online, and add this brand NEW Retro Father's Day card to your cart for free.  I think this is such a cute (and easy) design!

 

 If you need more inspiration for Father's Day or masculine cards, you can find them HERE .  

I'm super excited about our new Frogs in Love Postcard and Gift Tag Printable Set!  Oh, goodness...they just make me grin from ear to ear!  In fact, as soon as I laid eyes on these whimsical images, my fingers began to itch, and my creativity went into high gear.  

I "toadally" love the fact that these digital prints come with a post card.  It makes it so easy to create a layered card like this one.  My base paper is taken from Creating With Vintage Illustrations. I know I say this all the time, but our CD's are a wonderful resource for anyone who is limited by space or by budget.  Each CD is crammed full of gorgeous images, papers and ephemera.  Card making has never been so easy! You just pop the CD in your computer, choose the paper, image or ephemera you want to work with and print it out on your home computer.  Easy peasy!

I found that these froggy images were addictive, so I made a couple more cards...because I was having too much fun to stop! I think these would make such darling engagement announcements or decor for a bridal shower.

 This sassy Ballerina Toad just makes me grin from ear to ear!  Wouldn't it make a great thank you card for your child's dance teacher?  Or a birthday card for your favorite little ballerina?  Or a great gift tag...yeah, I'm kinda in love with Frogs in Love! You can read all the details on how I made these fun cards on my blog, Kathy by Design.

Here's a look at the entire 2 page set.  You can order it HERE.  And since it's an instant download, you can have it in your hot little hands today! 

 

Our design team has worked up some great samples to inspire you right before the weekend.  Diane made the most gorgeous tags with our Pastel Papers and Love and Romance Vintage Cuts.  They are truly shabbylicious! You can get all the details on Diane's blog, Nellie's Nest.

   

Lilacs are blooming in many parts of the country, and Teresa celebrated them by making some beautiful cards!  She combined papers from our Creating with Vintage Patterns and our Creating with Vintage Typography CD and then added card focals using our Flowers Printable Sheet Download.  The details on these cards are just beautiful, and you can read all about them on Victorian Paper Queen.

 

 Just look at that sweet bluebird with the sunflowers on Teresa's second card.  I'm swooning!

 

With school coming to a close, many of us are giving little gifts to thank all the people who work so hard to give our children a bright future.  Ginny made a beautiful card using our Birds and Blossoms Creative Scraps and papers from Creating with Vintage Patterns and Creating with Vintage Illustrations.   You can read all about this lovely card at Polly's Paper Studio.

 

I don't know what you have planned for your weekend, but I hope you'll find a little time to be creative.  Our June Linky Party is in full swing, and we'd love to have you join us for the fun!  We're celebrating the fellas in our lives this month, and the blog is loaded with tons of inspiration.  You can find a free digital paper and stamp to download and then enter your project with the Linky tool.  Did I fail to mention there's a fabby prize package?  You can check it out HERE. 

And if you haven't visited our online store in a while, you are in for a lovely surprise!  We've had a facelift!  Everything is looking fresh as a daisy, and the new search tool is really fast!  Come on by for a visit and see what's new, what's on sale, and what you can't live without!

On behalf of Sandy Redburn, I wish you joy and creativity!

Cheerio,

Kathy Clement

Design Team Leader, Crafty Secrets

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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