See 12 New Items Giveaways and Victorian Eggs and Arrow Samples!

Hello to our New and Old Friends,

We have 13 new items with 3 sets of double page Easter Eggs for $2.95 each and 10 single page themes of printable items for $1.95 each added to our online store at www.craftyvintagegirl.com so I thought we should do 2 Giveaways for all of them!  Just leave a comment and tell me what your favorites are. I will announce a random.org winner this Monday afternoon and another winner on Wed 13/13

Also, did you see the wonderful samples people have added to our Feb. Linky Party? There is still time, you have until just after midnight Sunday, so technically 12:05 AM Feb 11/13 to add a sample you have created with any Crafty Secrets product to be entered to win. (if it draws one of our DT members ladies I will do a re-draw).  
Here is style 1 in our new  Victorian 2 Page Printable Eggs for $2.95

I love is how versatile the eggs are as you can re-size the page, crop and print on several mediums. DT Leader Vicki Chrisman was a sweetie and whipped up the beautiful samples, below plus - you can see the cute arrows she made with our Heart to Heart Stamps! 

I think Cindy van Koll, our graphic designer did an amazing job combining all the image layers on the eggs.  I love the idea of printing the pages double sided so you can create double sided tags and signs for Spring plants, Easter baskets and gift tags. 

Here Vicki used the eggs on the first page to create a Spring Garland. She said she got a all of her paper doilies at her local Dollar Tree Store

 Here are 3 tags she made using plain card stock and Glimmer Mist with embellishments she had on hand.  You could use new or old lace and ribbon with stamps,  punches, glitter, buttons, etc. Love the moss nest idea on the middle tag.

Here is the second set called Pretty Vintage Eggs 2 page Printables

Here is the 3rd style which we didn't plan but we had all these adorable images and I know my niece and nephew would love these  Adorable Vintage Egg Printables for $2.95

Okay, now on to the other printable sheets we've added.  If you are not familiarr with our Homespun Cotton Scraps they are a  series of themes printed on Cotton Twill and everyone loved the texture of the fabric and that you could fray the edges.  Many of the Cotton Scraps have sold out so we have started adding them to our Digital $1.95 Printables. 
 Scroll down to the end to read my TIP for PRINTING ON FABRIC Using FREEZER PAPER

Our Spring Printable is our FREE Printable Gift this month when you place an order in our Crafty Vintage Girl Store just add the free marked Spring Printable to your shopping cart.
Click on the link above to see some beautiful samples!

Here is our Fairy $1.95 Printable Download Sheet   You can click on the product links to see beautiful samples by our Design Team over the years when they used the 'fabric Cotton Scraps'.

 Here is our Flowers $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

 Here is the Baby Girl $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Here is the Baby Boy $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Here is the Wedding $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Here is our Feathered Friends $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Here is the Summer $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

The Halloween $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Finally, our Winter $1.95 Printable Download Sheet

Our Cooking Printable sheet was added previously and other will be added soon.  

So be sure to leave a comment and tell us what your favorite sheets are?  

Also here's a TIP for Printing the images on FABRIC using Freezer Paper.  Freezer paper can be bought at several grocery stores and Amazon also sells it in sheets precut.  Simply iron the waxy side to a piece of plain cotton fabric and cut it to size 8.5 x 11".  The freezer paper will make your fabric stiff enough to feed through your printer and you just peel the fabric away and you can stitch up gift bags, tags, pillows and all sort of goodies!
Here's a link to a skirt I made using fabric printed with Freezer Paper for a  Dress Form I decoupaged 

I will be posting more samples next week but GET BRAVE and enter our Linky Party! Every person entering will receive Both the Victorian Style Easter Prinbtable Eggs!

PS -  a few people who entered last time haven't gotten back and I'm worried my email went in their junk mail. Just call our toll free # 1-888 597-8898 

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend!
 Wishing you joy and creativity  

Sandy Redburn

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Linky Party, DT Love Challenge and Easter Peek

Hi Everyone,

Today is the start of our February Linky Party and also our Design Team Challenge and this month it's a Love Theme, so click on each of the link below and see what our Design Team has created and scroll to the bottom to see and enter our Linky Party and win both sets!

Vicki Chrisman Team Leader

Michele Kovack

Darlene Pavlick

 Melissa Bove

Rebekah Faries

See Our Love and Romance Pintrest Board

 Here are some creative ideas I found on ways you can add a little pizzaz to food on Valentines Day.  You can also spell words like 'I Love You' using small pieces of food like candies or cereal. Our daughters liked pink mashed potatoes when they were little.  It doesn't have to be expensive or fancy - just fun!

Heart ShapePancakes with Martha Stewart 

Our Digital Vintage Valentine Download Kit
 
Heart Pizza  by momendeavors.com

Salad by Creatingreallyawesomefreethings
 
Heart Sandwich and Snacks byLisa Storm

Egg in Toast by Cutefoodforkids

Bento Box Kids Lunch by Bentology

Bacon Rose Bouquet by instructables.com

Chicken-soup-with Carrot Hearts

If you missed it, here's my list of 32 Creative Ways to Say I Love You   That post has the sweetest and saddest letter we've ever received, from Ruby, who was in the process of making 10 identical scrapbooks for her brothers and sisters - years after their parents were killed in a car accident in 1965. It makes me cry every time I read it.

Here's the link to our 2013 free Valentine Printable plus - past years if you missed them 

Update - we just added 9 sheets of Printables for $2.95 each from our old Cotton Scraps that have sold out.

Linky Party Info:  We would love for you to enter our Linky Party below!  It doesn't have to be a love theme, you just needs to use a Crafty Secrets product.  A random.org winner will be announced next Mon, Feb 11/13 to recieve a $50.00 Gift Certificate Plus -  all the entries will win both sets of our New Victorian Easter Egg Printables! Here's a link to Victorian Easter Eggs 1, and Eggs 2 just needs a couple of changes. Sug retail $2.95. Each set includes 2 sheets you can print single or double sided. 
 

               Each person will receive downloads for both sets. Here's a preview to Set #2

Here's where you can enter our Linky Party!

Wishing you joy and creativity  

Sandy Redburn

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Learn Easy Color Tips for Digital Stamps and Great New Samples!

Hi Everyone, 

Many of our customers are new to digital and want to try it out but don't own a program like Photoshop Elements.  I'm excited because I found a really easy way to show how you can change black digital stamps to color with a  free program called Paint.net  from Microsoft.  I colored the lettering sample below and it took less than 2 minute but I left the last few letters in  black to compare.  We also have a printable 'How To Color Digital'  Sheet Using Photoshop Elements below.  

 UPDATE:  Yippee - I just tried and it also works with 'Paint' a program automatically installed on many Windows based computers.  Check to see if you have 'Paint' and try it with a black design!  Mac users can use Gimp. Click 'Edit Color's to change the hue of each letter. Be sure to save file with a new name - so you keep your original black design.  See new example I just added. 

 Look at the color wheel - it's like having a giant rainbow of every ink! The Paint Bucket in Photoshop changes all the black at once. In Paint.net only design parts touching will change color, so see how I changed the color slightly before I touched a new word or letter with the paint bucket.  If you don't own any editing software you may want to see my post: Best Free image editing software and low cost ink).
 

 

 Here are some tips for using Paint.net to color stamps. You can left click it to make it big and right click to save to your computer but you simply open the color wheel and using the paint bucket icon to touch all the black pieces.  It works best for designs like the sentiments above but I wanted to show you how I changed the color's on the rose and bird.

Here's a printable sheet with the same technique using Photoshop Elements.

 Sometimes you have to play to see a good idea you missed. While working on a mini heart album this weekend I realized it would be great to have a red heart and a blank heart in the same shape as PNG files to use with this Heart to Heart Set.  Cindy our graphic designer created them and everyone who has ordered this set has been sent the 2 new files and they are updated in our store.

 I didn't love all my hearts printed on bright white paper in black ink, the white seemed so intense I kept adding more color. I do love color but I'm not a great painter and I don't want the hearts to over power everything else so I will finish the 3 below for another project. Weird, they don't look as white in this photo. 

Here's mail heart stamp I changed to dark red and I printed the French heart on our cloud scene paper from CD # 3, Creating With Vintage Typography.

I like how the hearts look printed in different colors on various pieces of card stock but I still want to add some chalk and do a little watercolor painting with some Glimmer Mist

You have to see DT leader Vicki Chrisman's Valentine Pretties Post with some fabulous samples like the one she made with our Free Printable Valentine 10 Things I Love About...List.    If you are looking for a quick Valentine packaging idea check out these  cute goody bags Vicki created using our Be My Valentine Digital Art Stamps (which come in red and black)

DT Member Michele Kovack created this very pretty lacey card using our Love You Mother Stamp Set.  You can get all the details here on Michele's Blog.  Ooohh, love the lacey paper over the blue and the sparkley eggs!

How about this fun rooster card Michele Kovack also created using our 
Farm Fresh Stamp Set (which I'm happy to say - we still have a bunch in stock).

 DT Member Darlene Pavlick created this super pretty Set using our Valentine Digital Collection and some paper from our Radiant Paper Digital Set. I love the other teacup she has on her blog as well!

Elizabeth is a fabulous card maker who I was lucky to meet a couple of years ago when she came to see us at the Sewing & Craft Show. She has been busy the last couple of years after moving but I'm thrilled she is back creating beautiful cards like this one she made with our Art Blooms Stamp Set~

We are working on some amazing Easter goodies I will share soon.  Plus we are going to start having more tutorials and I would love to hear any suggestions you have!

Wishing you joy and creativity
Sandy Redburn

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Toll Free Phone or Fax 1-888 597-8898
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15430 78 A Ave.,
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USA Warehouse
250 H. Street, #436
Blaine,WA 98230