Vintage Christmas Giveaway Pack, Album Clearance, New Digital and Tutorial!

Hi Everyone,

I have a great Giveaway for a JUMBO Size Christmas Pack of Vintage Products! Simply leave a comment here  (you have until 12 noon PST, Friday, Oct 25) and tell me if you like vintage Christmas to WIN:  both our Christmas CD's, 3 Blank Mini Albums, our Christmas Scraps, Stickers, 2 Image Booklets, our most popular Christmas Digital Stamp Sets, and Retro Christmas Cuts!  I will announce a winner next Friday, Oct /25/13.

We also found a case of Accordion Pocket Albums I've marked down to $2.99 each plus we have some other great albums on sale. See assorted Project  Sheets and Tutorial below.  Also - our most popular Halloween Stamps have become a $5.95 Digital Set as the clear set has sold out.

Here's a Christmas Album idea using our Natural Accordion Album on sale for $2.99 with Christmas Stickers for $1.25 and Christmas Images.  Drat - our Christmas Memories Stickers are getting low, so they will be turned into a digital set when they sell out.

  

 Here's a mini album I made with our Wood File Folder Album which we found more of and they are on Clearance Sale for $2.99 and Hardware Stickers and Christmas Stickers were used on it.  I'm the little blonde on Santa's lap with my sisters. Paper is from our Radiant Digital Collection.

 Here's the third Album in the Giveaway a Garden Gate Album for $5.50 by Tattered Angels.  I bought over 600 of these albums when Tattered Angels discontinued them because I like them so much! On Clearance Sale for $5.50 (can't go lower as they are bulky to ship) reg $12.99.

 This Accordion Album was decorated with baby paper Baby Chenille Paper  or see this Pink Rosebud  99 cent printable paper and our Baby Girl Stickers.  We only have the Natural Accordion Albums in Stock Now

 Here's a Autumn Fall Album that Vicki used a rock salt technique on.  NOTE:  These samples are old like 2005! But we still have Autumn Cuts left and on Sale for 0.75 C

 I've always loved this Halloween Album Vicki decorated but we only have $2.99 Natural Accordion Albums left and Halloween Stickers are on sale for $1.25

Here's our most popular Halloween Stamp Set over the years and now it's sold out and become Halloween Fun Digital Stamp Set Download  I love how much bigger the designs are! The little witch girl and 'monsters' are so darn cute it's easy to see why everyone loves this set!

Below is a fabulous sample sheet that's included with the Halloween Fun Digital Stamp Set download to inspire ideas.

Check out this cute Candy Boot that DT Member Michele Kovack made and embellished with a label from our Halloween Label Digital Stamp Set

Here's a classy tone on tone Halloween card DT Member Rebekah Fairies created using paper and images from CD #4.Love the way she added the broom.

 Digital teacher and DT Member Sheila Rumney has created a new step by step Fun Tutorial Showing how to use the Shape Tool in Photoshop Elements

Here's a great Christmas card by DT Member Darlene Pavlick using a page from our Christmas Image Booklet .  Look how she's used the framed journal part of the page up and tucked it behind the Santa image as an accent piece.

Lastly, I will leave you with this clever Christmas card by DT Member Elizabeth Lincoln who placed 2 of the children from our Winter Wishes Digital Set (included in our giveaway) behind a die cut window. On the actual design they are peering over a table.  I love the way she used yellow in the background to 'light up' the room and she made the green bough over the window using holly on CD 6, Creating With Vintage Christmas!

Don't forget to enter our Jumbo Christmas Giveaway - just leave a comment and tell me if you like Vintage Christmas, or what new theme you want to see?  I've been working on a Digital French Kit and what about  some Downton Abbey Fashion Ladies, or a High Tea Digital Set with fancy china and silverware?

Wishing you joy and creativity
Sandy  

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Blog Winner, Christmas cards, Tutorial, Ornaments, Mini Album & Sparkle Challenge

Hi Everyone,  I loved reading all your comments on what you love to create most, so I'm posting new & past cards, ornaments and mini albums today.

I have a random.org winner for the $50.00 Giveaway,  #64  Donna from TN who said her favorite things to make are wall hanging trimmed with beads or pendants. I’m so happy Donna won as I’ve seen her post comments for years.

 

 Look at this fabulous Christmas card DT Member Linda Duke created and she has a video tutorial here on her blog showing how she made it using 2 copies of an image from CD #2 with Spellbinders dies.

   

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman used our on sale Born to Fly Stamp Set to make Christmas Fairies and paper pieced their outfits and hats with papers from CD #1.  You can see the other cute fairy card and details here on Vicki's Blog

DT Member Julie Campbell also has some cute fairies here on her blog she created and used our Altered Fairy Scraps for one.  I also came across this pretty Christmas card Julie made last year using an image from our Christmas Booklet and on sale Seasons Greetings Stamp set

I also came across this Christmas album past DT Member Flo Teixara created and she designed so many spectacular mini albums you can see here in our Gallery. I couldn't find this Christmas album on her blog but I did see this cool Country Farm Album she made using Farm theme Stamps & Scraps

The tiny gift bag, present, wreath, stocking and cinnamon stick logs are those little details that make her albums so special.

Here is a cute tree decorating idea that I came across from a few years ago when past DT Member Lisa Zappa got a great deal on a bunch of old Bingo cards and decided to decorate her tree with them.  She used our on sale Vintage Christmas Stamp Set

                                     Snowbunnies on sale stamps used on this one

Here is Lisa's tree decorated with all the bingo cards she did as well as from friends she sent bingo card to decorate and mail back.

This is a cute ornament idea by DT Member Heidi Blankenship to use wire, punched snowflakes and buttons you can buy in bulk, glued around images from our Christmas Scraps.

I spotted this very cute cheese ball snowman with a recipe on Julie's blog; Less than a Perfect Life of Bliss and had to share her fun idea.

I'm hosting the challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers this week to create something with SPARKLE using any of our products - you can even use any of our free printables like this Printable Vintage Santa on my last post, 

or the Retro Santa from last year, or Christmas Angels from year before - but it doesn't have to have a Christmas theme. You can add sparkle with gems, paints, pens and any glitter products such as German Glass Glitter, Stickles, etc.  I will get random.org to pick a  $50.00 winner next Monday, Dec 12/11. 

 Use Code:  CSSC200

Please come and join in the fun here! 

Tomorrow I will be posting some Quick Christmas Card Printable Tutorials sheets using our Christmas Creative Scraps as so many of you have ordered them lately!

PS - If you are wondering why we are having the BIG SALE on all our Clear Stamps and many of our other products you can scroll back and read previous blog posts or read HERE. 

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn
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Altered Spoon Album Tutorial, Heart Album, Layouts and Vintage Card Samples - Oh My!

Hi Everyone,
Ooops, I’m a day late with this post due to ‘unforseen obstacles’ but I have some great samples to share!   Check out this fantastic Altered Wood Spoon Mini Halloween Album Tutorial  that DT Member Michele Kovack designed.  She also did a Christmas Spoon Mini Album HERE last month using a Spellbinders oval die, which come in many sizes. On my next post I will add a printable project sheet that Cindy our graphic designer is making.


We just got these heart albums back in stock and DT Leader Vicki Chrisman designed this gorgeous album using papers from the CD , our Love Mail Scraps and Flourishes Stamps



The albums come unassembled in an ivory chipboard and include 4 mini frames . You can see all of the other pages HERE on Vicki’s Blog


Look at this fabulous card fellow internet pal Marlene Bender was so sweet to sent to Vicki’s mom for her 90th birthday!  Vicki sent me photos so I could see how pretty it was and I had to share and show you. All of the images & sentiment she used are from our Girlfriends Creative Scraps. Click her link to see other great projects.


Marlene used our Glamour Girls Clear Art Stamp set to stamp the corners and lady on the inside adding to the nostalgia. I got the lady on the swing in a portfolio I bought by an artist who drew ads for a furniture store in the late 1920’s. The original is over 18” tall and so pretty we are adding her to paper on our CD #2.


I thought this was such a cute idea they way DT Member Gini Cagle added a pennant banner to her layout with the matching twine. The image is from our Homemade Booklet and spoon is from the Kitchen Classics Stamp Set. Details HERE on Gini’s Blog.


When I first saw this cute Halloween layout DT Victoria DT Member Victoria Warren Mears did HERE of her son I didn’t notice she used our Pattern CD to create the entire page.  The faux ‘white studs’ look so 3D and she cut the leaves and pennants from different papers, enlarged the page pattern across the top and used one of the journal pages.

DT Member Michele Kovack also made this fun rooster card and I love the way she added the small treat bag (stamped with our chicken wire) behind the rooster from our Farm Chicks Stamp Set and how the bag holds a tag (but could also hold a custom coupon, movie tickets, birthday money, etc.), eliminating the need to wrap a gift!

DT Member Debbie Marcinkiewicz sent me these next 3 fantastic cards using a combo of our images, stamps and CD papers. I loved each so much I couldn’t pick a favorite!  Just click Debbie’s name above to see a bunch more fun cards she made for our last Retro Challenge.  Image below is from our Homemade Booklet, label frame from Vintage Label Stamps.

I love how Deb mixed 2 stamp sets with postmarks off Artsy Banners and ‘sweet BIRTHAY wishes’ is from the Born to Fly Stamp Set. The adorable image is from our Little Blessings Scraps. 

She also used our Artsy Banner Stamps for the banner and a combo of Happy Birthday stamps off our various various stamp sets. Ticket is off our Love Scraps and our CD paper was used on form, but I’m not sure where the form is from?  Geez, I’ve seen this shape many times – can anyone tell me where/who?

DT Member Gini Cagle explains HERE on her blog how she used Sakura Crystal Lacquer with an image from our Mini Scraps to create a 3D image.


DT Member Viola Mahr HERE created this very pretty card tucking the pansy image from our Garden Scraps behind her ‘fence’, with details on her blog when you click on her name.

In Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving the 2nd Monday in October and it always feels too early to me. I don’t want Fall to start, I still want Summer to hang around!  No choice – we had Thanksgiving this past weekend here, but it was a wonderful sunny day and there were several goofy but helpful participants! From left: my sis Wendy, my dad Russ, daughters Chelsea & Katie, hubby Scott and B-in-law Ron.

All 3 of our daughters adore Martha Stewart and her recipes and this year our youngest, Chelsea 24, asked if she could use Martha’s Brine Recipe and cook the turkey.  Brine…weird?  It was the most delicious turkey I ever eaten! Hmmm… I have to ask her; did she use the whole bottle of wine?  Too bad, DD #2, Holly was away. I love big family dinners! We added all 3 leaves and christened our ‘new but old’ oak table but I need better matchy chairs.


I leave you with one of our happiest guests, sweet Arissa, my niece who loved the fruit punch her Grandma made!


Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn
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