We're featured in 2 Books , New Items Added and Coming!

Hi Everyone,

I was thrilled to receive 2 new books in the mail from artist Marie Browning who used some of our stamp sets in them. Marie is the best selling author of over 30 craft books with over 2 million books in print! She lives on Vancouver Island and I've been lucky to get together with her at shows and she loves our stamp designs and created some wonderful samples in her new books Brush Marker Magic and Pencil Magic!  These books are filled with an array of coloring tips and techniques and are just $9.95 on amazon.

Marie used both Clear and Digital Stamp Sets and now the most of the Clear Sets have sold out but all our Digital Stamp Sets can be printed and colored with markers or pencils, plus the designs are larger and can be re-sized.  In the Brush Marker book Marie used our Dahlia Stamp Set, the Rose and Sunflower Stamp Set as well as Button Up Digital Set and Home Sweet Home Set.In the Pencil Magic Book Marie made cards with our Scarecrowm Tin Man and Lion from our Wizard of Oz set, which are all available now in as a Digital Stamp Set and I love that the designs are larger but you can re-size, flip and edit them.

We found some Dahlia Clear Stamp Sets but they are almost sold out, so the link above won't last too long.  I have the Digital Dahlia and Rose Stamp Sets ready to upload but I came across an amazing Dahlia etching in an old book that I want to add and decided to do it for our Rose Digital Stamp set as well. In fact here are several Digital Stamp Sets we are working on right now that I'm adding some bonus designs to.

I found more packages of wood knobs in 1 of our show boxes and I've marked them all down to $1.50 which is a great deal for solid wood knobs. They are 1.5" wide with 6 knobs per package and holes drilled. You can use KS

 They can be painted, stained or decoupaged and you can see a decoupage tutorial I did here.

Here are some of the knobs that Vicki Chrisman decoupaged images on from our CD #3

Look at this adorable card DT Member Member Ginny from Polly's Paper made using our Farm Fresh Creative Scraps.  I like how Ginny used some of the printable paper from our Halloween CD and made it work perfectly for this country card.

Our Farm Fresh Scraps have really charming images country style images and they are all on sale for $1.95. Some people hate that they are double sided but they use to be single sided and cost $3.50. Plus you can use them as double sided tags or in window cards.

We also found about 35 sheets of SINGLE SIDED Birds and Blossom Scraps and they are on sale for $1.25.

 Look at this adorable card by DT Member Michele Kovack she created with our Bedtime Kids Digital Stamp Set. I'm really happy with the way this 55 piece set turned out and our DT have created so many great samples!

Our New Printable FREE GIFT when you place an order in our CraftyVintageGirl.com store is this set of pretty pastel papers. Just add them to your shopping cart for free until March 1/15.

  Finally, I made a little Sale Sign with the new lower prices.

 PS - Congrats to #9 Sierra who won our February Linky Party and a big thanks to everyone who joined in and posted the 23 fantastic samples! Sierra won the Valentine Kit plus any large set as a bonus and everyone else received the free image and paper, plus a bonus Spring Printable Set.

Wishing you joy and creativity Sandy Redburn

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February Linky Party Winner, DT samples and SALE

Hello, Friends!

I'm just popping in very quickly today to announce the winner of our February Linky Party.  We had some great entries this month, and it was exciting to have some brand new players join us as well.  Many of you used the free downloadable images to create beautiful projects, and I thought I would share a few here as inspiration.  But before I do that, I know you all want to know who won this month!  Drumroll, please....

...and the winner is: #9!!!  Sierra Winters!  Sierra used our sweet Valentine girl image to create a lovely little gift box:

Isn't it darling?  Sierra, Sandy will be contacting you with a code you can use to receive your prize package: the entire Vintage Valentine Digital Kit, and if I know Sandy, she'll throw some other yummy goodies in there, too!  Sierra has a lovely blog called Sierra's Gift: My Place to Share and I'm sure she'd love it if you stopped by to pay her a visit!  Thanks for playing along, Sierra!  We hope you will become a regular participant in the Linky Parties, as we just love your work!

Now, for some Design Team Inspiration.  I think everyone I know is hunkered down in their crafty space waiting out this stormy, cold winter.  I know I have been...and I would truly have cabin fever if it weren't for my crafty goodies. 

Kathy was guest designer at Word Art Wednesday last week where she shared this cute card made from the Homemade Vintage Booklet.  Sandy generously sponsored the challenge there last week.  Don't you just love these rascally boys in their chef's caps?  They look like they are ready to stir up some fun!

DT Member Sheila made this beautiful card using images from our Digtal Birds and Blossoms Creative Scraps.  Now that these are digital, you can size them any way you need them, which gives you so much more versatility. 

 Ginny made this fabulous card using images and papers from our Typography CD.  I just love the way she's layered all the different papers and used a doily to make those chickens just pop off the page!

 Using our Victorian Easter Eggs as a card focal is such a great idea!  Dar added some sweet details and a little light distressing to make this gorgeous card!

This card from Diane is like a much needed dose of springtime!  She combined our wild roses digital paper with this cheeky bird from Birds and Blossoms Scraps.  Adding that crown and gorgeous handmade flower along with the cheery bow and pom poms really makes this card a winner! 

 I always love Shantaie's fresh approach to vintage.  This adorable tag is just loaded with texture and fun embellies.  She used our Digital Valentine Kit and fun little calendar pieces from our Calendar Seasonal Scraps.

This divine shabby chic card from DT Member Melody uses layers and layers from our Love Mail Scraps.  I love the light distressing and hand made roses on this pretty, pretty card!

If you're looking to add some new supplies to your crafty stash, you might want to check out the amazing sale Sandy has going on in the store right now.  Take a look at all the goodies that are on sale!

Many of these items are the last ones available, as Sandy moves out of her warehouse and goes completely digital.  There are so many wonderful products available here, and if you're like me, you'll want to stock up!  Make the most of your indoor time and create something beautiful to lift your spirits.  Before you know it, spring will be here!

Thanks for stopping by!

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

Cheerio,
Kathy Clement/DT Leader, Crafty Secrets

All You Need is Love for the February Linky Party and DT Challenge

Hello Friends!

Welcome to the Crafty Secrets February Linky Party!  This month we're throwing a virtual Valentine Party and you are invited along as our guests of honor!  Create some cute Valentines for friends and family,create a romantic layout, or make “off the page projects”for home décor. Incorporate music or words to a song somewhere in your project.  (Songbirds would work here,too!) You do not need to follow this theme to play along, but it's always fun if you do.

Before we get to the fabulous projects that the team has prepared for you, I have some great news to share with you! Sandy Redburn, owner of Crafty Secrets has been doing some cleaning in the warehouse and found some items that she thought were out of stock, and then she got out her red pen and slashed tons of prices in the Crafty Secrets online store.  Take a look:

I don't know about you....but I feel a shopping spree coming on!  LOL  Now, on with the Linky Party!

We have a special Guest Designer this month.   Our dear friend, and former DT leader, Vicki Chrisman  created these elegant Valentines using papers and images from our Vintage Valentine Digital kit.  Ooo-la-la!

Chocolate and Valentines day go together like love and marriage!  That's why Darlene Pavlick created this gorgeous candy box using the Vintage Valentine Kit. Dar will show you how she made this pretty box in the tutorial on her blog.

 Diane Hover put on her thinking cap and designed this really fun Valentine Party Hat that would make a great  decoration for your Valentine table. Diane has a fun tutorial showing you how to alter a grocery container into a great project like this.

 

Elizabeth Lincoln supplied the musical entertainment for our Virtual Valentine party. She combined our Party Cats digital stamps with the Vintage Valentine kit.  This darling concertina card is loaded with fun details, and Elizabeth's tutorial will guide you through the steps so you can make your own.

Sweet romance and lovely layers will have you falling in love with Ginny Nemchak's vintage Valentine made with load of our beautiful Creative Scraps and our Pastel Papers. (Watch for the digital version of these lovely papers coming soon!) She has a fun Snap Guide tutorial that will show you step by step how she created all those luscious layers!

Gloria Stengel used beautiful images from our Birds and Botanicals booklet and our Be My Valentine digital stamps to create this soft and pretty Valentine. Gloria will be sharing the tips and techniques she used to make this soft, pretty card.

DT Leader Kathy Clement   (that's me) altered a wooden heart frame using images and papers from the Vintage Valentine Kit.  This would be so pretty on the mantle or table. I have a step by step tutorial showing how she put this wall hanging together.

I am in love with these adorable kraft treat bags that Melody Clement created with images from the Vintage Valentine kit.  Melody will show you how to make these darling little treat bags on her blog.

Michele Kovack used the pretty musical note paper from the kit to alter these Jelly Belly Boxes.  How cute are these?  I love the sequins! I can't wait to read Michele's blog and find out how she made these!

 

This striking black and red Valentine from Shantaie Fowler was made with our beautiful Heart to Heart Digital Stamp set.  Isn't it classy? Shantaie always shares great creative tips in her blog posts.

Sheila Rumney's soft romantic Valentine uses images from our Birds and Blossoms Creative Scraps and our Be My Valentine Digital Stamps.  I'm sure Sheila will be sharing a look at how she created this beautiful card.

Owner, Sandy Reburn has a great TUTORIAL on creating a Dry Erase Board Digitally and has 2 different samples using the CD 3 Creating with Typography and this gold frame from CD #1 Creating with Vintage Patterns she used here.

Now, we have a Valentine present just for you!  To encourage you to play along in this Linky Party, we are giving you one of the beautiful papers and a printable image from the Vintage Valentine Kit.  Simply click on the image to make it full sized, then right click to download to your computer.  You do not have to use this image in your project...you can use any Crafty Secrets goodies you have in your stash, and create any kind of NEW project to play along. 

One lucky participant will be randomly selected to win the entire Vintage Valentine Kit.  Our Vintage Valentine Digital Kit contains everything you need to create fabulous Victorian, Retro, or Vintage Valentine Projects.  Loaded with 9 papers, 2 printable sheets of full color images, 2 sheets of printable shabby chic tags, ticket strips, cupcake liners and heart toppers, 2 styles of party invitations, and lovely frames,and so many more wonderful elements...you can create beautiful Valentine projects to your heart's content!  Many of the papers in this beautiful collection are great for use year round, too. And, if you already own the Vintage Valentine Kit, we will be happy to let you select any other digital products of equal value. Here's a peeky at the prize!



Now it's your turn:


Create a NEW project of your choice featuring ANY Crafty Secrets product and link it up to the blog no later than 11:59PT, Sunday, February 15th.  You do not need to follow this month’s theme to play along. If you do not have any Crafty Secrets goodies, check the FREE DOWNLOADS located on the  Crafty Secrets blog.  Be sure to link to the Crafty Secrets Blog inyour post, and let us know what Crafty Secrets product you are using in yourproject.  We'll announce the lucky winner on this blog on Monday, February 16th.

Well, I don't know about you, but I am blown away by these fabulous design team projects!  We'd love to hear from you in the comment section below, so take a moment and leave us a little note.  We can't wait to see what you make!

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

Cheerio,

Kathy Clement/DT Leader, Crafty Secrets

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Boxing Day Sale Until Jan 1st Save Extra 35% Off Sale Prices!

Check out our Happy Boxing Day and Save an Extra 35% Off Sale Prices Until 12 Midnight Jan 1st!  Valid on all items (including digital) in our craftyvintagegirl.com store except our Sale Packs.

 I just came across this Christmas Riddle Game I posted back in 2010 and it has been so popular I wanted to re-post it for anyone going to a party over the holidays. I was given a copy over 10 years ago and I'm not sure of the author but have included the answers below and tried to fix some of the graphics that were damaged.  Divide into teams or make a copy for each person and see who can guess the most Christmas Carols and set a timer.

 Here are the answers

 Be Joyous for Merry Christmas is Here card by Darlene Pavlick using our Vintage Santa Set, sentiment is from Deer Christmas Set, paper and ticket are from our Vintage Christmas CD 
which is on sale for $10.37 until Jan 1st at midnight. 

Also, another sweet card by DT Leader Kathy Clement using an image from the Deer Christmas Digital set as well.

I was born on New Years day 1958 so to celebrate my birthday I decided to have our sale last until 12 midnight Jan 1st.

Hope you had a great Christmas and Many Wishes for a Fabulous 2015!

Sandy Redburn

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Welcome to the September Linky Party and DT Challenge!

Hello, Friends!

Kathy Clement, DT Leader for Crafty Secrets here to welcome you to our September Linky Party and and Fall/Halloween Design Team Challenge!

It's Labor Day weekend  in the USA and Canada so I think a lot of us are enjoying an extra day in our weekend to relax, spend with family and get crafty!  It's perfect timing, because each of the ladies on our design team has prepared a wonderful tutorial to share with you as well as an inspiring project to get your creative wheels turning.  What fun!

Before I get to the DT Projects Party projects, I want to share some news.  As many of you know owner Sandy Redburn wants to go completely digital and has all her printed stock on sale 50% off but she has also just put together 6 amazing theme packs for $19.95  at over 70% off the original retail price! They include: Summer, Girlfriends, Christmas, Little Boy, Little Girl and Halloween. 

  You will find all of these amazing blowout packs on the front page of our online CraftyVintageGirl.com Store.  Don't miss out on these and they would also make amazing Christmas gifts for your crafty friends and family members!

Sandy is also offering a wonderful FREE DOWNLOAD with any order through September8th (when it will change to a new free gift).  So you could order one of these lovely blowout packs and receive these beautiful Seaside Printable Cards for free.  They  would make beautiful gift tags, greeting cards, bookmarks, labels or journaling pages.

   

Fall/Halloween Themed September Linky Party and Guest Designer

Now, let's get this Linky Party going!  We are happy to have another wonderful Guest Designer this month.  Glenda Brooks of Magpie's Corner is our honored guest in this September Linky Party.  Glenda has been on various design teams, and is a recent addition to our Linky parties.  She has fallen in love with the vintage style of Crafty Secrets, and has added her amazing talent for card making and hand made flowers to this sweet Halloween card that uses our Digital Halloween Printables.  She has a tutorial for making those gorgeous flowers, and for adding dimension to that wonderful wrought iron fence.

 

You all know how much I love fall flowers, so I created an 8x10 canvas that combined papers from our Digital Vintage Halloween Jumbo Download with images from our Digital Garden Memories Stamps and Digital Garden Printables.  I was so inspired while working with these images that I wrote a poem about the beautiful fall asters I made to go with the project.  My TUTORIAL is on stamping onto printed paper.

  

Michele Kovack is shaking things up with a complete tutorial for making this darling Halloween Shaker card.  She used our Vintage Halloween Creative Scraps as the base for her project. I love the orange and black sequins peeking through! So fun!

DT Member Shelia Rumney created a great digital Halloween layout using our Creating with Vintage Halloween CD 4.  Her tutorial will show you step by step how to layer these papers and images. 

 

 If you're looking for a cute idea for Halloween treat bags, you'll want to be sure to check out Darlene Pavlick's project!  She also used our fabulous Halloween CD #4 which is loaded with yummy papers, images, Bingo cards and ephemera.  Just look how adorable these little bags turned out!

 

 

Elizabeth Lincoln has a tutorial for making this amazing dimensional fancy fold card. She also used the Halloween CD.  You can see how very versatile this CD is, and how many different looks you can create when using it.

 Also going with a Fall theme, Gloria Stengel has created a delightful gift ensemble using our Vintage Patterns and Vintage Typography CD's.  She also used our Digital Radiant papers and our Down on the Farm and Farm Chicks Art Stamps to assemble this wonderful set.  Her tutorial will guide you through the process of making the box and envelopes.  She'll also share tips for creating a coordinated gift giving set and Gloria also runs the Craft Hoarders Challenge which Crafty Secrets is sponsoring #15 now and again on Sept 15th.

 

I can't wait to share Diane Hover's frightfully fabulous altered clock project with you!  It is so imaginative, so FUN and absolutely beautiful.  Diane used our Halloween CD and put her creativity cap on for sure!  Take a look at this wonderful project! Visit her blog for a complete tutorial.

  

Melody Clement  has a great tutorial on building a Halloween pizza box to hold special treats. She put our Halloween CD to good use, combining papers, ephemera, borders and Bingo cards in making this "Not too spooky"  treat box.

 

  

I've saved DT member Shantaie Caudill-Fowler's beautiful place setting for last.  Burlap is so trendy right now, and she has used it beautifully here.   Shantaie used our gorgeous digital Thanksgiving Collection to create this little silverware pouch that would also serve as a take home gift for your holiday parties.

   

 

Wow!  That's a whole lotta inspiration!  I bet your fingers are itching to get busy creating with your own Crafty Secrets goodies!  Well, that's the whole idea!  Go visit each design team member's blog for inspiration, then create a NEW project that features Crafty Secrets product and link it up here before midnight PT, Sunday, September 14th 2014. You need not follow the Halloween/Fall theme to play along, but it's always fun if you do.  The design team will be visiting your lovely blogs and then one of you will be randomly selected to win a $50 gift card in our online store (sorry the gift card can't be used on the Sale Packs).  Each participant will receive a code for a $6 credit at the store, so everybody wins!  The winner will be announced right here on Wednesday, September 17th.  If you don't have any Crafty Secrets goodies, just look in the sidebar of this blog where you'll find a huge list of free downloads so everybody can play along.

I can't wait to see what you make!

Until next time, on behalf of Sandy (who will be the beautiful mother of the bride this coming Saturday, September 6th!) ....

 

I wish you joy and creativity,

Kathy Clement, Design Team Leader for Crafty Secrets