Monday, January 21, 2013

New Heart Digital Stamps, Valentine Winner, my New Grand-Pup and Girls

Hi Everyone,

Here is our new Heart to Heart Digital Art Stamp Se t and I'm so in love with this $9.95 set! I need to play and make something so you can see how cool the hearts are. At full size they are 5" tall but you can shrink them for smaller projects. There are 17 separate PNG stamp designs in total that you can print on a variety of surfaces from card stock, fabric, label sheets to iron-on sheets and more!

The details with all the layers Cindy added to the hearts makes each one like a little piece of art! I noticed before I was about to do this post that one of the hearts needs to be fixed as it's a PNG file and should be transparent, but if you look you will see white in the bird below I highlighted . We will get this file replaced tomorrow (Tues). UPDATE: It's Fixed!

We have a winner in our Digital Valentine Giveaway , # 8 Rema who WON our new Heart to Heart Set, our Be My Valentine Stamps, our Vintage Valentine Digital Paper & Card Kit, and our Victorian Rose Printables!

Here are some samples made with our Valentine Paper and Card Digital Download Kit. The great thing with digital is the download is instant after you buy it, you can shrink designs down for smaller projects and print on so many surfaces - as many times as you want!

I'm in love with this gate fold card DT Member Darlene Pavlick created using our Valentine Kit. You have to see the inside photos and other samples she has HERE on her Blog.

Darlene Pavlick also made made this cute gift by gluing some of the red sheet music and images to a plastic container. If you want to make up multiple 'love packs', consider buying your candy in bulk and you can often find glass and tin items you can recycle, or visit a dollar store and turn a plain glass jar into a special gift with homespun personality!

I just came across this cute sample by Julie Campbell she made with the Kit last year. Check your craft stash as glitter, gems, lace, ribbon and paper doilies all make great Valentine embellishments.

DT Member Michele Kovack created this pretty card using papers from Patterns CD #1 and the tag is from the Valentine Kit.

I would like to introduce you to my new 'grand-pup' Ralph! Our daughter Holly is his lucky new mom and they both seem smitten with each other already. He is an Affenpinscher and is such a cutie!

Our girls gave us a wonderful Christmas gift we used this weekend, tickets to Plated and Paired, a wine and food tasting event at Granville Island in Vancouver and a hotel room! It was so much fun with a bunch of yummy food and 30 wineries Scott and I spent all weekend in the city and stayed overnight at friends on Sat to celebrate a dear friend's 60th! Where did the years go??

Tickets were around $35.00 but everything was included with live entertainment including these ladies who walked around all night on stilts and my favorite - the candy lady. Wouldn't this make the best costume! The dishes were glued on and filled with candies.

I think it would be too confusing to add another Giveaway to this post (plus my post got way too long) so I have all the printed love themed Giveaway items ready to post tomorrow with my annual post to my my Favorite Decorating Store CHINTZ and COMPANY! Their store is amazing and I got a bunch of great photos.

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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Friday, January 18, 2013

New Giveaway for Vintage Valentine Digital Stamps, Kit & Victorian Rose Cards!

Hi Everyone,

I have another fun Giveaway, this time for 4 items with our New 'Be My Valentine' Digital Stamp Set and our NEW Victorian Rose Cards Printables for $2.95 with 6 super pretty graphics filled with roses, plus our Valentine Digital Kit. I will post the fourth item this Monday as it's not quite finished but will be a Large Digital Stamp Set called Heart to Heart with 6 eclectic hearts in a collage style, keys, a lock and a bunch of great quotes for $9.95. Leave a comment here and I will post a random.org winner on Mon afternoon, Jan 21 when I show our new stamp set.

I held up our Be My Valentine Digital Stamps because I decided they would be easier for many people to use if some of the images were pre-colored red. So now every files comes in B&W and RED so you can choose which to print if you don't know how to change colors. I am totally in LOVE with how BIG some of the images are on this set! You can shrink them down for smaller projects but these will be be great to add to scrapbook pages or print on fabric for fun projects. I will be posting some samples next week as our DT ladies just received these today. These are $9.95 with 20 separate digital stamp designs!

I love how pretty these printable sheets turned out with 6 super pretty graphics filled with roses adapted from a book of old calling cards I have from the late 1800's. Our Victorian Rose Cards Printable $2.95 Download includes 3 sheets (8.5" x 11") with 6 printable cards 4.75 x 6.75” each. You can print on a variety of mediums to create tags, greeting cards, place cards, iron-on designs, accents for scrapbook pages, print them on label paper for stationary and more! Shrink the designs small and add Diamond Glaze and glitter to create Victorian pins, pendants and charms. This is a new product but visit our blog to see more samples that our talented Design Team will be creating!

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman whipped these pretty samples up for me this morning

I promise - we are going to start a bunch more tutorials with step by step tips! First, we have 1 more love theme digital stamp set debuting on Monday, Heart to Heart, filled with 6 eclectic style collage hearts (I've wanted hearts like this forever) and these are are about 5" tall, with keys, a lock and special quotes from the heart. We are not adding any Valentine sentiments so it works year round.

So leave a comment here to be entered to WIN and a random.org winner will be announced Mon, Jan 21/13 to win: our Valentine Kit, Be Mine Valentine Digital Stamp Set, Victorian Rose Card Printables and our new Heart to Heart Digital Stamp Set debuting on Monday.

I'm also going to put together a special LOVE Package on Monday of printed items and stamps that will include our Love Mail Creative Scraps, Romance Cuts , Romance Homespun Cotton Scraps a Clear Art Stamp set - but sadly our Valentine Stickers just sold out.

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Vintage Valentine Download Kit, Random Winners of 7 Kits & Linky Party

Goodness, I'm so tardy posting Monday's winner that I just had random.org pick a Wednesday winner so now I have results for all 3 winners and details on our Valentine Kit.

I thought for sure Gail Scott would win the the draw for our Linky Party as she posted several samples but #2 Rea was the lucky winner from 29 great samples people posted you have to see! Gail did get lucky and won the Monday Giveaway and #140 Wide Eyed Stamper was lucky winner from 184 comments. Both ladies have won all sets of our Postcard 54 Piece Images & Stamp Set.

Okay, here is our Vintage Valentine Digital Kit for $9.95 but my web master just needs to add it to the site as it's over 60 MB so we can't add it.

It should be ready to download within the next couple of hours in our www.CraftyVintageGirl.com

Store. It's brimming with fun stuff in a mix of retro to Victorian styles with 9 fabulous papers, 2 printable sheets of valentines and a sheet of the matching backs, 2 sheets of shabby tags, 2 strips of cute tickets, 2 styles of invitations, a A4 and a mini envelope, 2 sheet music cupcake wrappers and decorative hearts to embellish with. There are 3 frames and a beautiful corner heart design you can use on a card or page layout and more! See samples below.

I love these fun colors, perfect for a party. Also see the adorable animal invitation below.

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman has some new Dies she designed for AccuCut that have been released like this multi purpose frame you can create albums with. I love this album she made below to celebrate her son & girlfriends engagement

Guest Designer Kristen Simmonds sent me a couple of more cool photo projects and she used a combination of

Love this little clothes line idea Kristen did

Here's a photo of her supplies she used with papers from CD 3

I hope you are having a fantastic week. I will be back later with more goodies and another giveaway

Wishing you joy & creativity
Sandy Redburn

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Giveaway for 6 Vintage Image Sets With Mini Stamp Sets!

Hello Friends Old and New,

* If you are a retailer please contact us about our Wholesale Special Sale on now!

Today is the last day to enter our Jan Linky Party and you can see everyone's fabulous samples! I will be back tomorrow with our Vintage Valentine Download Kit we updated
and a Valentine Digital Art Download Set!

I have a great Giveaway for six Image & Mini Stamp Sets! We've created some fun kits by combining extra images with the stamp set that was included in our Postcard Kits and have 6 different themes on sale for $6.95 each. To enter just leave a comment here and I will announce a winner this Mon, Jan 14, and another again on Wed Jan 16/13.

The only thing missing is the chipboard but we've included extra images and you can glue them to card stock or add them to layouts and other surfaces. You can also just buy the stamp sets for $2.95 and the remaining Postcard Sets are on sale for $9.50 that include the ivory chipboard

I adore all the images on this Family Image & Stamp Set as well as the mini stamp set with the 2 little art deco cottages and love this pretty hanging postcard past DT member Heidi Blankenship created when these first came out

The die cutting company we used closed and didn't give back our die, plus the ivory chipboard went up in price, so rather than buy a new die I decided to add extra images and put them all on clearance. Spellbinders now has Grand Labels Die Set which fits the large images in our sets or simply cut them with scissors.

Look at the cute images and stamp set in this Baby Boy kit

How about this sweet baby boy door or wall plaque that past DT member Vivian Peters created with an image from the Baby Boy set when these first came out.

Here is the sweet Baby Girl Images & Stamp Set

Look how adorable this frame is and how quick this would be to alter for a baby shower

These cute illustrations are all in the Story Time Image & Mini Stamp Kit

Look how Melissa added the extra mini images to the front of her card

Here is the Best Buds Images & Mini Stamp Set and it has always been a favorite of mine with the colorful vintage flowers, birds and children, as well as the super sweet stamp set!

If you've never seen this layered sample by past DT member Marisa Grosson click the link for all the photos. She just used 1 rose image and cut it multiple times with the Spellbinders Labels 4 Nestabilities. It's just too bad this set won't cut the first big image. You need the smallest die from the Grand Labels 4 to cut the big postcard size images.

Here's the Halloween kit. We are sold out of the Mini Christmas Stamp sets but we have a bunch of the images and I'm hitting myself over the head for not bundling them up in November for Christmas! If you want me to add Christmas without the stamp set please say.

These Halloween images and the stamp set are super cute and you can see more samples made with all the kits in our CraftyVintageGirl.com Store. Love these quick treat bags Michele Kovack made up.

Stamped postcard back by past DT member Lisa Zappa. The images are printed on a heavier text weight white paper which you can glue to card stock or chipboard if you want to create a sturdy postcard

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered to win all of the sets shown above! Which do you like best? Sadly, I actually erased a bunch of comments when I was deleting some spam the other day. We love reading your comments!

I will be back tomorrow with our Vintage Valentine updated Kit and a very cool Valentine Digital Download Set!

Sandy Redburn
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Welcome to Our Jan Linky Party & DT Challenge and Printable List: 99 Places to Put Images & Words

Welcome to our January Linky Party and Design Team CD Challenge. Plus, see my Printable List of 99 Places to Put Images & Words and exciting News! Scroll down to the Linky Party Box to upload a sample and you have all week to submit anything you have created using our products. A random.org Winner will be announced next Mon, Jan 14 to WIN a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate. Don't be shy - come play because every person that enters receives a $5.00 coupon to use in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com Store!

First see what fabulous creations our Design Team has created using our CD's

Vicki Chrisman Team Leader

Michele Kovack

Darlene Pavlick

Melissa Bove

Rebekah Faries

Our DT Guest Kristen Simmonds used CD 3 Creating With Vintage Typography to make this beautiful butterfly wall art by printing the butterfly paper from CD 3 on a piece of fabric and ebellishing it with beads, stitching and gems.

Click on the pictures to see the details

I love the texture, detailed hand stitching and beading she added

Photo of supplies Kristen used. She will be posting details on her blog

Here’s my Printable List of 99 Places to Put Images & Words to inspire creative ideas! Enjoying beautiful pictures and words can add more joy to our lives and they don't need to be buried in an album or only added to greeting cards you make.

Our expanding list of Printable Downloads, Digital Art Stamps and Vintage Image CD’s are all high resolution, re-sizable designs and this years goal is to show multiple creative ways you can use them and our On Sale Printed Products to re-vamp tired or boring objects and turn them into little pieces of art for your home and inexpensive gift ideas full of vintage charm!

We will be introducing more large printable images and versatile Design Sets and showing you multiple creative ideas, tips and tricks for creating fabulous and functional home decor and wonderful gift ideas!
Here's a little peek of some designs I quickly pasted together:

Okay, finally to our Linky Party which as I said earlier anyone can add a sample they have made as long as they have used our product(s). A random.org Winner will be announced next Mon, Jan 14 to WIN a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate. Don't be shy - come play because every person that enters will receive a $5.00 coupon to use in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com Store!

DT Member Darlene Pavlick has a giveaway on her Blog to enter until Jan 31

Lastly, I'm sorry to say that DT Member Julie Campbell is leaving our Design Team to focus on her fabulous journals. She was a DT member for so many years and we will miss her wonderful samples and stories! She will likely come back and play sometime - maybe if we create a special Journal Kit.

Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn
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