2 Winners! Pretty & Fun Cards & Layouts and New Stamps & Scraps Update

Everyone,

First, for all of you wondering when the new Stamps and Creative Scraps are coming, most have arrived and will start shipping to stores and be added to our online store! We are waiting for Little Boy & Girl stamps due Friday. We've also extended our Online Wholesale Show Specials until this Friday, Feb 8/11.

I have a variety of new projects to share today, plus 2 winners to announce! Random.org picked 112 as the winning # for the $40.00 gift certificate, so congratulations goes to Victoria! We also did the January draw from the blogs that have one of our ads posted and Erin Smetak's blog was drawn and she won a $30.00 gift certificate!

If you have a blog or website you can add one of our little ads to it and be listed in our monthly draw. I've posted ads you can choose from below and you just need to email the link to our office manager Jessica at: office@craftysecrets.com

This is such a pretty layout that DT member Mary Hamer created. She stamped the 3 little angels from our Angel Blessings stamp set and cut them out so they could watch over the photo and stamped one of the sentiments on the side. I love how she added the little 'booklet' she cut out from our Little Blessings Scraps. See details HERE on Mary's Blog.

Look at this pretty card DT member Michele Kovack created for a friend that just had a baby using the Angel Blessings stamp set. The angel looks so pretty and you can get the details and see more photos HERE on Michele's Blog.

DT member Flo from France designed this gorgeous album page using one of the images from our Little Blessings Scraps. The wonderful chipboard pieces and albums Flo designs with are from a company in France called Embelliscrap.

DT member Lida Duke stamped the little girl from our Down on the Farm set on the die cut from Spellbinders to create this pretty little card. Get all the details HERE on Linda;s Blog.

Linda also created this adorable layout with her grandson using the Down on the Farm stamp set with some of the word stamps and I love how she colored the little boys on the fence.

DT member Julie Campbell created this wonderfully nostalgic layout and used the 'barefoot boy' poem from our Farm Fresh Creative Scraps (coming this week) and stamped the little boys on the fence in brown from the Down on the Farm stamps. Look at the little tied bouquet in the corner. You can read Julies wonderful family story HERE on her blog.

Look at this cute piggie card DT member Pam Hooten made with our Wonderful Pig stamp set. You can get the details HERE on Pam's Blog. This set will be shipping and added online this week.

Lastly, Lori Lynn is hosting a challenge this week over at Splitcoast Stampersto create a bookmark using any of our products and you can get the details HERE and come join in the fun. You can see the gallery HERE of great samples added so far.

I will be back with more wonderful samples this week

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn
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Creating Buttons Video, Sew Fun Ideas, Videos and Reminder!

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting a day later than planned but if you saw all of the new projects we have underway you might scream (happily)!  Today I have a variety of button and sewing theme samples to show you, including this link to DT leader Vicki Chrismans video on creating buttons with an Button Maker from  http://epiphanycrafts.com as well as some other fun button ideas.  Look at this wonderful mini layout Vicki created with 2 of the buttons she made using images from our Little Blessings Scraps!

I love this idea where she punched a hole in the front of her card to show the button she glued inside to create a really sweet card card for a friend. They have a punches that add holes and others just punch the shape with epoxy shapes to match. I'm itching to make little buttons for a cardigan sweater.

But my favorite idea is how Vicki used our double sided Little Blessing Scraps to punch images with a little circle punch and add 2 of the sticky epoxy circles to create double sided charms. She punched a tiny hole using a Cropadile punch and added jump rings. My head was spinning thinking of all the charms you could make and hang from bracelets, key rings, zipper pulls and all kinds of projects!

Vicki added images from our Domestic Goddess Scraps to these Fancy Pants buttons below.  If you don't want the double sided we still have some single sided left on SALE HERE

You can watch the video and get all the 'button details' HERE on Vicki's Blog

Now I have a lovely little sewing album to show you that DT member Melissa Phillips created using a variety of products including our Sew Nice Scraps. These are newer and never were single sided and they are so popular we just had to get them re-printed.  

You can see the entire album and get all the details HERE on Melissa's Blog

Melissa also created this fun card with an image from our Sew Nice Scraps.  The little Hello Banner is made with Jenni Bowlen stickers but you could also use our Artsy Banner stamp set with a mini alphabet stamps.  You can get the details HERE on Melissa's Blog.

Look at how cute the dress form on the Sew Nice Scraps looks here on the sign that Christina, a customer, created for her craft room.  She cut it out and mounted it on chipboard and I love how she made a little belt for her brass charms. You can see the sign HERE on Christina's Blog. 

I posted a bunch videos using our products HERE at the end of this post but I think the most viewed one is a Sewing Tag that Rose created HERE, which is fun to watch as she speeded up the tape and goes fast to music! I was so impressed I sent Rose some goodies and she's made a few great videos now and will be back as a guest designer after things settle down with our current Online Wholesale Trade Show madness - which lasts until Feb 2/11 for retailers who sign up.

Another customer Rina used both our Sew Nice and Material Girl Clear Art Stamp sets to create this great layout and she explains who she did it HERE in this youtubevideo.

If you didn't see our NEW Little Boy or Little Girl Stamp Sets, or the Idea Postcards we are doing HERE is the LINK and you can leave a comment to be entered to WIN a $40.00 Gift Certificate. Random.org will draw a winner which I will post tomorrow night!

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn

Owner Crafty Secrets


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Peek at New Idea Postcards, Little Boy & Girl Stamps & Prize Giveaway!

Here is a peek at the new Promo Display Postcards we are getting printed for stores to display!

We will be including postcards with retail orders as we get more printed. The first in this series will show ideas for our Farm Chicks Stamp set. We will also also have a Tea With Alice Postcard and they are all full color on both sides. Please leave a comment to say what Idea Postcards you would like to see the most, or tell us what you think of our new Little Boy and Little Girl Stamp Sets (scroll down to see)!

I will get random.org to pick a $40.00 gift certificate winner this Wed, Feb 2/11

How about an Idea Postcard created with our Art Blooms Stamp Set (available Feb 2/11), like this beautiful card by DT member Linda Duke?  Of course you can go HERE to Linda's Blog and get the details but we thought it would be great to have actual photos featuring different projects with some tips and ideas for popular stamp sets. 

Look at this pretty card DT member Pam Hooten created with our Art Blooms set. You can see details HERE on Pam's Blog.

Also, check out the 3D detail on this wonderful card DT Alumni Member Marisa Grosson here created with Art Blooms

Do you want to see Postcards featuring our Floral Stamps such as the Sunflower set, like this card that DT member Michele Kovack created?  We won't be able to list every step on the Postcards if we show multiple samples. So, do you want to see multiple ideas with tips or just directions for 1 featured project?

I've wanted Little Boy and Little Girl 'Dick & Jane' style stamp sets for ages and we finally have both in 2 NEW medium size Clear Art Stamp Sets that will be available Feb 4/11.  Lots of stores are ordering these new stamp sets right now during our Online Show Trade Show Special, so please tell your fav retailer they can order them now!

SM36 Little Boy is a 4 by 6” Clear Art Stamp Set with 17 separate stamps. Charming and nostalgic, this set is perfect for creating cards and projects for all the boys in your life. Create scenes with a boy flying kite or an airplane, playing with a ball or pulling a wagon. The little frog and playful pup are perfect additions to any scene. "Every puppy should have a boy" says one of the four sentiments included in the set. There is also grass and flowers you can stamp and a dashy dot lined border you can use to create lined paper. Available Feb 4/11. Click the image to see it larger. (available Feb 4/11)

  

Look HERE at all the cute samples in the Heart Challenge Gallery over at Splitcoast that Marcy is hosting!  Yikes - they still have our old Christmas banner ad.

We have to get that changed!

I will be back tomorrow with a bunch more inspiring samples to share with you, including a cool idea from DT leader Vicki Chrisman and a link to a great resource site! Don't forget to leave a comment on what Idea Postcards you want most, or tell us what you what you think about these 2 new stamp sets!

Wishing you joy & creativity!

Sandy Redburn

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SM37 Little Girls is a 4-inch by 6-inch medium Clear Art Stamp Set with 18 separate stamps. Filled with vintage charm, these images will inspire special cards and all sorts sweet projects for the little girls in your life. The girl standing is 2.75” high and can catch butterflies, hold a balloon, or stamp a bouquet of balloons. The other girl can kneel by the kitten, by the picnic basket and hold the sandwich (or cake), the bird, present, flower or her doll. There are so many sweet vignettes to create. "Such a delight with a heart so warm and a smile so bright", says one of the three included sentiments. The dainty scallop border is perfect to complete projects.  Available Feb 4/11

NEW Farm Fresh Scraps and Farm/Chicks Stamp Samples, Blog Prize Winner & More!

Hi Everyone, today I'm showing...

New Farm Fresh Creative Scraps
Down on the Farm & Farm Chicks Stamp Samples
Winners Name for Alice in Wonderland Giveaway
Splitcoast Challenge You Can Join
What Debuts Next??

I hope you all had a fun weekend!  I don't know about you but there was a lot of football and food happening in our house this weekend and I feel like I over loaded on both! 

This post got delayed today - but I'm so excited to show you our NEW Farm Fresh Scraps, actually just finished now and on their way to the printers! I have to admit when we first started these I wasn't loving them until Cindy van Koll (our graphic designer) and I spent an afternoon brainstorming silly phrases, sayings and puns with a farm/chicken theme and we came up with a bushel of fun sayings, which inspired a crop of new ideas and she did her Photoshop magic and now this is one of my new favorite sets of Creative Scraps! Click on the image a couple of times to see both 8 x 19" sides larger.

Seriously, if you knew how many bits, layers and cutting going into each set you would understand they are a labor of love! Also, to those who say they don't want our Creative Scraps to be double sided, please know - the price didn't change when we started printing on the opposite side, you now just have more images to choose from - plus the versatility to use each image double sided for tags and decor pieces you hang, or add to a window in a card or page. The sheet folds to 8 x 9.5" to hang and the fronts have complementary backs. 

The samples below were created with images I emailed a couple of our DT ladies last night who had time to whip up something so you could see some samples. The actual Farm Fresh Scraps will be available and start shipping the first week in Feb. Getting product produced in North America offers this extra advantage - no waiting foroversea shipments!   Besides the superior quality, it's also the reason our Clear Art Stamps are manufactured in the USA.

Look at this cute card DT leader Vicki Chrisman created with "I Dig Farm Boys!" Hey - she lives on a country road in Nebraska and her husband does looks young for his age (lol as Vicki would say).

Vicki also whipped up this adorable layout using the image "You Grow Girl , sweeter every year" from the Farm Fresh Scraps. I also love the 'Farm Girl' and 'Dairy Fresh' buttons she made. She used the check border and chicken wire stamps are from our Farm Chicks Stamp set .

 

Look at this fun card DT member Julie Campbell made using the 3 ladies from the Farm Fresh Scraps! We just finished the other side of this sheet today and it now has a RX prescription for a Girlfriends Pedicure and a chicken soaking her feet. A window frame in a card would allow you to see both sides.

Julie also created this very sweet card and I love the colors she picked, the jute, lace, buttons and inked edges!  The other side of this image has a cute young couple gazing out across a field with their doggie, so you can use either age couple on the Farm Fresh Scraps.

Here are our Down on the Farm Clear Art Stamps. We released this large stamp set early and you may have seen them already but we have so many new guests and they go perfect with our Farm Scraps!

This is such a cute birthday card that DT Member Michele Kovack designed using our Down on the Farm Stamp set. Michele also used the cowboy boot from Provo Crafts Country Carnival cartridge on Shrinky Dink Material and it looks so cute with the brown jute. You can see details HERE on Michele's Blog.

Look at this cute scene DT Alumni Member Marisa Grosson created with various stamps from the Down on the Farm Stamp set.  You can see the details HERE on Maria's Blog.

Here are our Farm Chicks Clear Art Stamps and they were also released early

DT member Mary Hamer created this cute decor piece using the chicken stamps from our Farm Chicks Stamp set and I love the colors she used to color them.

You may have seen some of these wonderful cards DT Alumni Member Lisa Zappa designed when she received the Farm Chicks stamp set but they are so cute I'm showing them again in this country theme post.

I really like the way Lisa combines so many stamps from a set to create little scenes like this little hen party!

On this card, Lisa stamped the large egg multiple times and made a nest with some raffia. The chicken wire stamp looks great stamped on paper and aged with some distress ink

I just love this card, which DT Member Pam Hooten created using the Farm Chicks set! Look how she restamped the rooster and popped him and the little banner stamp up.

For any of you feeling intimidated by the great coloring on all the samples above, I want to show you how cool they look stamped in plain black ink, accented with a red marker.  DT leader Vicki Chrisman stamped all of these fun tags using the Farm Chicks Stamp set on manila shipping tags and embellished them with scraps of paper, ribbons and buttons.

This little chick running is one of my fav images on the Farm Chicks set and look how different she looks in pink & black with the little party hat stamp, or in country colors.

Okay, Congratulations to #5 Lana, the winner picked by random.org for our Alice in Wonderland Blog Prize! who said:
Sandy I absolutely love these new releases!! I can not pick just one!! Look forward to seeing what else you come up with your DT is fabulous!!

Okay, you have to go check out the challenges at Splitcoast in our little forum!  Last week Pammy Jo asked people to try and use any of our produst to create something with 'Just 1 Layer' and there are some fabulous samples you can see HERE in the Gallery!

Then this week Marcy Talbert is hosting a challenge and her clues are posted right HERE.  Come join in the fun!  I will post the gallery link next week.

I will be back this week with some more wonderful surprises and ideas!

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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New Floral Stamp Sets & Samples, plus More Floral Ideas!

Hello everyone,

I'm back and I have so many wonderful projects to share with you today!  I got a bit carried away because I wanted to show a bunch of my favorites floral samples. We have 2 new floral theme Clear Art Stamp sets that will start shipping the first week in February - SL38 Art Blooms and SM35 Floral Art.

SL38 Art Blooms  is a 6x8” large Clear Art Stamp set with 41 separate stamps that are so much fun to color, stamp in different colored inks, or try paper-piecing! You can create single flowers, bouquets and floral scenes adding the 1.25” butterfly and 2”W bird. There are multiple styles of flower heads, buds, decorative leaves, stems, curly vines and berries! The larger flower heads work well for paper tole style projects, with the largest flower 2” wide. The words Smile, Bloom and Grow are separate stamps. You create tiny or build large designs from wild funky art in a rainbow of colors to beautiful pastel floral art accented with a shimmer of glitter. Made in USA from high quality photopolymer. Available Feb 2/11

Look at this pretty card DT member Heidi Blankenship designed with the Art Blooms set, stamping all the flower pieces in pink ink and shading the edges.

Heidi also created this pretty card using the Art Blooms stamps and stamped the background with our Floral Vines Small set.  You can see step by step photos HERE on Heidi's Blog.

I love this card DT member Michele Kovack designed using the Art Blooms Stamps and how she added the butterfly stamp and depth with green shading on the stem. You can see details HERE on Michele's blog.

DT member Pam Hooten designed this beautiful card with our new Art Blooms stamps and I love how she stamped the bird and flowers and added them popped up for dimension. You can see the details HERE on Pam's Blog.

DT leader Vicki Chrisman created this beautiful card HERE with the Art Blooms set and the flowers look so pretty cut out and added to her frame, accented with a bit of glitter.

Vicki also designed this fabulous Flower Pin by stamping flowers from the Art Blooms set on circles of muslin fabric and tissue that she made into a flower pin with a rhinestone center. You can get all the details on how to create these  HERE on Vicki's Flower Pin Tutorial!

Okay, now I have a second new floral set to show you! 
SM35 Floral Art is a 4 x 6” medium Clear Art Stamp set with 4 separate stamps. The 2 large floral images are taken from antique art history books and have been lovingly restored. The detail on both of the designs is exquisite and great for coloring, or simply stamped in a variety of ink colors. For a different effect try stamping metallic gold ink on solid cardstock, using resist inks. You can stamp either design randomly to create background papers or as a focal image on a card. The stamps “Hello” and “Dear Friend” are 1” long. Made in USA from high quality photopolymer.  Available Feb 2/11

I have a couple of samples to show you using this set that I've posted before in case you missed them, and both are stunning!  Click on the photo to see in detail this gorgeous frame DT Alumni Member Marisa Grosson created by stamping the one top stamp from Floral Art randomly on a wood frame. You can see the 3D flowers she added and color details HERE on Marisa's Blog .

Here is a fabulous card that DT Member Michele Kovack designed using the top stamp from our new Floral Art set and the stamp 'Hello' for a Faux Tile Tutorial she created for splitcoaststampers.com HERE, 

Now I wanted to show you a few fabulous stamping ideas DT leader Vicki Chrisman sent me using our other medium floral sets SM31 Rose and SM33 Dahlia! Look at how Vicki used the Rose stamp set to create background paper. She will be creating a future layout with this but I wanted to show you how versatile stamps can be 

Here Vicki used our SM33 Dahlia stamp to randomly stamp tissue paper. The great thing is it looks good on either side and you could create tissue paper in any theme for a gift bag.

Then Vicki took the same Dahlia stamp and randomly stamped on a plain white photo mat to create this stunning classy frame to hold a special photo of her son and his fiancee. See detail HERE on Vicki's past blog post.

Vicki also jazzed up some little gift boxes by stamping the Dahlia stamp on pink paper and adding a bit of glitter and sheer ribbon.  So, I encourage you to use your imagination and think of all the possible surfaces you could decorate!  Plus - the great thing about clear stamps, besides seeing exactly where you want to stamp, you can can also bend them to stamp a curved surface or over an edge.

I also have a link HERE to 5 Fantastic Flower Samples which DT Members Heidi (SM31 Rose), Marisa (SM32 Poppy and SM33 Dahlia), Michele (SM34 Sunflower) and Linda (SM31 Rose) created with our 4 medium Flower sets we released in the summer.

Plus, look at this beautiful card below that  Beate Johns from spitcoaststampsers.com created and also had a red rose published ine new Copic catalog. Beate has created several video tutorials using our stamps and the list HERE at the end of this post  along with several other great videos from other talented designers!

A few DT ladies didn't receive our new floral stamp sets as we had limited proofs to start but they got busy and created some wonderful samples with a floral theme I also want to show you!

Look at this pretty garden fairy keepsake frame DT member Julie Campbell created using a combination of images from our Altered Fairy and Garden Scraps! You can see the details HERE on Julie's Blog.

DT Member Flo Texeira from France designed this stunning botanical theme album with so many beautifully detailed pages you can see HERE on her blog.  You can click on the English translator button on the far right side

Flo used a large assortment of our Clear Art Stamps and images from all of these products!

Birds &  Botanicals and Summertime Image & Journal Notes Booklets

Garden and the  Vintage Photo Creative Scraps

Artsy Banner Clear Art Stamps  , Garden Girls Clear Art Stamp  

Sunflower Clear Art Stamps and  Poppy Clear Art Stamps

DT member Mary Hamer created this very pretty album with a floral fairy theme using a combination of Creative Scraps from Little Blessings, Birds & Blossoms and Sew Nice.  You can see more pages HERE on Mary's Blog. Note: not all the vintage images are ours.

On this page below in her album Mary used some vintage sheet music that will be on our new CD - Creating With Vintage Patterns and she changed it from black to pink and printed it on white cardstock.  I hoped this CD (the first of 3 in this series) would be ready next month but it looks like it may take a bit longer as I keep adding more patterns and we will also be  featuring templates and projects on these CD's.  I will keep you posted on the progress.

Please come back on Monday to see the debut of our Farm Fresh Creative Scraps and a collection of fantastic samples using our Farm Chicks and Down on the Farm Clear Art Stamp sets!  If you haven't entered our GIVE AWAY for a Free Tea with Alice Stamp Set and 2 sheets of our Wonderland Tea Creative Scraps, you can enter just by leaving a comment HERE on this Wonderland Blog Post and a random winner will be announced Mon, Jan 24/11

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn

Owner
Crafty Secrets

Visit Our Store Locator Here
Visit Our Online Store Here

Toll Free Fax 888 597-2578
Local Ph 604 597-8817

Head Office
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Surrey

BC V3S 8R4

In The USA

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Blaine, WA

98230