Saturday, May 11, 2013

See New Digital Stamp Sets, Still Need a Card for Mother's Day?

Hi Everyone,

We have some new Digital Art Stamp Sets (created from Clear Art Stamp Sets that have sold out). There will be others to be added to our online store this week like the revised Wine Lovers Set you can scroll down to see.

Also, if you still don't have a card for mom and you missed our Free 2013 Mother's Day Printable here is the link. Look at these pretty cards DT Member Vicki Chrisman made. You can also see Vic's cute pin cushion and sewing kit

Hey - only 9 people have entered our May Linky Party this month and tomorrow night is the cut off. Every person gets a $6.00 coupon and 1 random.org winner receives a $50.00 gift certificate. It's easy and all you need to do is post a sample you have created using any Crafty Secrets product and link to it. I think people are worried they have to post a Tutorial like the DT ladies did. Nope, just show us any sample or come check out the great entries so far.

Sweet Stuff was always a popular 6" x 8" stamp set but look how much bigger the images are now when printed at 300 dpi. Our Sweet Stuff Digital Set includes a mix of 32 fun retro baking images and words. Samples shown in online store were created with the original stamp set.

Our Frame It Digital Art Stamp Set is revised to include more ready to use frames and each file is a PNG so they are transparent and can digitally dragged and dropped onto different backgrounds and the decorative embellishment's can accent all kinds of projects. Check out our Tips and Tutorials Pintrest Board.

Our Grand Greetings Digital Art Stamp Set has been available but I missed showing it before and I love the lettering styles and funky accent designs you can build and embellish with.

Our Wine Lovers Digital set will be available this coming week with some others. I love wine, so I'm in love with the Wine Lovers Digital Stamps because the grape vines are larger and easier to color, you can re-size the designs like the 5" bottle to make borders. Plus there is a bonus printable Wine Glass Name Tag Sheet!

Here's 1 of 2 fun layouts by DT Member Sheila Rumney and she used our Typography CD 3 for this LO of her son's art show. Sheila made both digitally but you can also print any pieces you want to use, you just don't have to worry about using a favorite paper - simply print more!

Also, Thinking o f You Digital Stamp Set is our FREE Digital Gift for the month of May when you place an order in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com store. Look at this sweet card by past DT Member Julie Campbell

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend and if you're a mom - Happy Mothers Day!

xox
Sandy

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

I'm happy to report...

Hi , I didn't want to put the word Sale in the title and have this go to junk mail. I’m happy to report that the little glitch that happened when the 2 new Sewing Papers were added to the download is all fixed and I’m extending our Scrapbooking Days SALE until 8 AM tomorrow!

This is our biggest sale of the year and means an 30% extra off every item in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com store. All of the sewing papers are also on our new Sew Decorative CD #7 – which is easier than downloading if you have a slow computer.

We are printing the Sewing CD’s and labels here in the office but they’ve been triple tested and work great. They just don’t have the fancy printed inside card. We will have the fancy version CD’s next month for Sew Decorative, Retro Christmas and Vintage Christmas.

Hey, there are only 6 entries in our May Linky Party?!?!!! Come on ladies - go grab something you've made using any of our products and come post it at the party! You will get a $6.00 Gift Certificate to use in the online store and you may be the lucky random.org $50.00 gift prize winner! The odds are better than Vegas!

xox

Sandy

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Welcome to Our SALE, May Linky Party, and DT Tutorial Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Our May Linky Party starts today (scroll down) and it's also our Design Team Tutorial Challenge. We are also celebrating National Scrapbook Days and have a great 30% OFF SALE in our online store www.craftyvintagegirl.com until this Wed., May 8 at midnight. **NOTE: THE 30% SALE DISCOUNT WILL SHOW UP IN YOUR CART Also - scroll down to see new Digital Sets!

This month our Design Team ladies are each sharing a different technique and I think you will love the variety of their projects!

Design Team Leader Vicki Chrisman How To Embroider on Digital Stamps

Michele Kovack   How To Size and Color Digital Stamps With Copics

Darlene Pavlick   How To Transfer Vintage Images on Aprons

Melissa Bove    How To Decoupage Shabby Boxes

Rebekah Fairies    How To Create Paper Pieced Vintage Wall Art

Sheila Rumney How To Create a Digital Layout Using PSE Photoshop Elements

In honor of Mothers everywhere we have a new 2013 Free Printable for Mother's Day in case you missed it.   Plus, here are links to our Mother's Sweet Treats Box Template from 2012 and our 2011 pretty Forget-me-not Mother Poem.

I've created a Mother Sample Board on Pintrest with ideas and inspiration including this pretty layout by DT Member Sheila Rumney using CD 1 Creating With Vintage Patterns.

We have 4 more Digital Sets and everything is marked down so they are on sale for $6.94 each until midnight Wed! You can click the names to see samples and descriptions Artsy Banners, Bird Lovers , Coffee and Tea, and Sweet Stuff All 4 were popular stamp sets.

I want to encourage you to enter our Linky Party and post any sample you have created. Don't be shy, you can enter one sample or multiples using any of our products and you might be the random winner of a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate and all the other entries win a $6.00 CS Gift Certificate.

Wishing you joy and creativity!
Sandy

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Celebrate With Us Until Wed Night

See Our Big SALE with an extra 30% off all items in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com online store! Valid now until midnight Wed., May 8/13 on regular and digital items.

Plus - come join our Linky Party and DT Challenge starting tomorrow, Mon, May 6/13.

PS - In case you missed our 2013 Free Mother's Day Printable, here is link

Wishing you joy and creativity! Sandy

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Get Our Free 2013 Mother's Day Printable, See Samples and New Sew Creative CD!

Hi Everyone,

I'm back and have our new 2013 Free Mother's Day Printable and some fun ideas if you are feeling more adventurous than making just a card. I'm also thrilled with the fantastic tutorial DT Memeber Sheila Rumney created for our NEW Sew Creative CD #7 and have details and samples below. ** Mona in our office is creating a Discount for those who bought Sewing Paper and/or Ephemera and wish to upgrade.

Just left click your mouse a few times on the printable to get it as large as possible (it's big, almost 3 MB) and right click it to save it on your computer. For personal use only please, but you can tell your friends and link here. See sample below.

Our graphic designer, Cindy van Koll, did a fabulous job this year again and you can also get our 2012 complimentary Mother's Day Printable Box here and check out the box and bottle labels I made.

This is the card I made yesterday and I was rushing to finish so I could take photos while it was still sunny. Later I added some pretty ribbon and a bow on the side and it was the finishing touch it needed.

My card is about 5" x 6"H and half of the sheet with the card front was printed again so I could fussy cut the heart out and add it with pop dots. I used a Sakura Clear Jelly Pen to add some sparkle without any mess. Too bad we are sold out of them.

As I said in my last post we didn't start out thinking we would have a Sewing CD (which is $15.95 and includes all of our Sewing Papers, all of the Sewing Ephemera #1 and now 50 NEW images in Ephemera #2 - it just kept growing! We had just finished creating 3 jumbo sized $9.95 Sewing theme Digital Art Stamp Sets: Button Up, Sew Fashionista and Sewing Basket, plus 3 Sewing Printables for $2.95 each: Button Cards, Bobbin Cards and Creative Studio Signs. I have so many wonderful images and we got obsessed designing pieces to go with each each set we worked on - and they all turned out better than I even imagined!

Here are the 2 pages of newly added Ephemera #2 files!

There are 2 book covers with spines, 3 tabbed index pages and 4 different page designs you can print to create journals that fit a standard 7" x 9" white binder album (this one is a stock item at Staples). TIP: the spine design for the side was a little hard to slide in until Cindy thought of inserting a ruler to stretch the plastic and it worked great. Album photos to come soon.

On page 2 below, you can see more pretty designs, some fun large re-sizeable words, fabulous trims, and the last row has some jumbo sized PNG (means they are transparent) templates with 2 dress forms 9"H and a sewing machine you can digitally layer over a piece of paper and they will be cut out with a pattern background! I will show a sample next time but I'm excited because I've always wanted big dress forms you could use this way and change the color and patterns. If you don't do digital (yet) you can simply open the dress form file and print it onto a piece of color paper but you will have to cut it out.

There are also 2 New Sewing Papers and if you ordered the Sewing Paper, Mona will add the 2 new Papers and Sheila's Digital Tutorial to your www.craftyvintagegirl.com account.

The text on this page is taken from different pages in an 1800's fashion magazine and it's so hilarious to read. How did they ever dress like this back then with out washers and dryers??

DT Member Sheila Rumney (see her new layouts) created a great step by step 8 page digital tutorial that is on the Sew Decorative CD. It turned out so great I'm going to see if we can add it as a freebie in our online store for anyone buying digital products that wants to learn how to do digital. Even if you print all your papers and images and craft the traditional way, it can be expand all your possibilities once you learn some of the basics such as changing colors, adding PNG files on a paper, etc.

Lastly, I want to share this photo of my niece and nephew who I'm so proud to be their auntie! My mom 79 and dad 82, look after them weekdays for my brother. They are such big helper's (they love to vacuum) and so smart and adorable. I told Kason when he gets a job one day he will be able to buy a car and he announced he has a job. "I work in the garden and help grandma and I'm going to buy a red car" he informed me. Then his sister piped in "I work in the garden to". She wants to buy a pink car.