Shabby Tea Room Challenge, Linky Winner and Halloween Digitals

Hi Everyone, 

Sorry for the delay with the Halloween Downloads (scroll down to read more) but HERE are the Halloween Download Items so far!  I need to re-add the 12 Templates again and the Jumbo Combo Pack .  

My dad had his cataract surgery surgery today and needed a ride to and from the hospital.  At 85 he is recovering very nicely and back home here now. We built a suite for my mom and dad when we built this house 18 years ago and when I was little we lived in my grandparents old house with 5 suites and a houseful of relatives.  It's amazing how fast the years have flown by! Now our girls are all grown and moved out and yesterday was our 34th anniversary. Time flies when you are having fun!  Our girls stayed over this weekend and snapped this photo before Scott & I went on a dinner date.
 

You are going to love the fabulous shabby samples by the Shabby Tea Room DT ladies have created using our CD # 3 and you can enter the Week 131 Creative Candy Challenge  to win a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate! Just be sure to follow the rules.

Fran Westmoreland - (Host) Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Deb's Simple Treasures

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap

Rebekah Faries -  Midnite Lullabies Studio

Starr Timmons  - The Paper Chase

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness

Our Sept Linky Party had some great samples posted here!  I asked Scott to pink a winner for the $50.00 gift certificate and he picked the card above by Darlene Pavlick who entered 2 great cards (#10 and #11) so congrats to Darlene!  We were giving away 6 CD's but I decided to send a CD to everyone who entered as 4 people would have been left out, so congrats to Linda, Monti, Joann, Beth, Rene, Kate, Sarah, Sheila, Joy and Camie!  I will email links and send the CD asap.

 There are now so many amazing files on our Halloween CD I had to raise the price to $17.99 retail. I've been sweating about it all day but I need to give our distributor who sells wholesale to stores a huge discount and still make a profit after the cost of my antique Halloween images and the labor for Cindy to turn them all into paper and elements.  Here are a few more new files and you can see samples on Marilyn's Blog
Click the samples below to see some of the new files

The online Etsy Halloween File Downloads will be divided into 4 groups and priced as follows, or buy the entire digital group for $17.99  and save $7.97!
*NOTE:  The downloads  will only be available in our Etsy Store or by email and will have Free S&H of course.   

I'm back finally with links to the Halloween Downloads so far.  I need to re-do the 12 Halloween Templates and add the Jumbo Halloween Combo for $17.99

Download Pricing, no Shipping
44 Paper Designs $7.99 = less than 20 cents each
50 Image Designs $5.99     "                             "
40 PNG Stamps & Cut-outs $5.99 = less than 15 cents each
12 Template Designs  $5.99 each =  less than 50 cents each

Sample by Vicki Chrisman

 By the way, our Clearance Sale is going full force in both our Shopatron and Etsy Store!  and international orders can be placed in the Etsy Store.

  Also, the Halloween Label Stamp sets finally arrived!

Sandy

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NEW Clearance Pricing & Digital Halloween Update!

Hi Everyone,

The New Clearance Sale pricing has been added and is finally showing up in our Shopatron Store and  in our Etsy Store !

 If you missed the news I posted yesterday you can read it HERE. My biggest reason for selling everything off is because it is too difficult running the business from Canada when most of our sales are to the USA and the exchange rate has decreased profits too much. Offering our designs digitally will make my life so much easier!  Don't panic - there is a HUGE amount of many items in stock!  I need to make up a wholesale price list tomorrow for stores and it can't be half of these prices but there will be great deals!

This is a quick post as I need to drive across the border to pick up my hubby Scott from the airport and the border line-up will likely be crazy!

Here is a peek at more of the digital Halloween files, which will be sold in digital download groups on Etsy this Mon, Sept 10/12 and also on a CD next week.  Some people may only want to buy the paper and others may want just the templates or image files and have the instant convenience that digital downloads offer.

 Thanks for all your support!


Sandy

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Halloween Digital Preview, Giveaways and Big SALE News!

Hi Everyone,

I have some BIG SALE NEWS to share at the end of the post and a preview to our Digital Halloween files!  I'm also going to have random.org pick 6 winners from our current Linky Party to receive our NEW Creating With Vintage Halloween CD and we will email them digital links to all the files.  There will also be a $50.00 gift certificate winner so come enter!

We are trying madly to wrap up this CD but I keep adding more designs (like Halloween Washi tape) and Cindy is finishing up the templates. There will be a haunted house shaped gift box, 2 lanterns, a candy box, games, paper dolls and so much more!  Click on each of the boxes below to see everything larger!    You can see most of the papers in this first box

I didn't really plan on doing a Halloween CD with Cindy (our graphic design) and myself being on Summer holidays a bunch - but I couldn't stand it as I have so much great stuff!  Now we are running out of time with Halloween coming so the race is on!

Besides the CD which will retail for $15.99 like our CD's 1, 2 & 3, there will be digital downloads added to our Etsy Store.  Our Shopatron Store does NOT work well for digital products.  Our files are really high resolution so you can print images BIG, so we are trying to see how else to email large files besides yousendit.com does anyone know of a better download site or what do you think of Dropbox for getting files?

The digital files will be divided up into groups and I would LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS - 
Do you think we should add witch hats to the kids in the photos?  See 2nd box, or add to the 2 ladies in the first box with the bingo skirt?  I thought we could have a sheet with some 'accessories' so you could add different witch hats, a broom etc and size them to fit various photo and use digitally or print and cut them out for a 3D look.

 Please leave your feedback and don't forget to enter our Sept Linky Party or go have a peek at what people have started adding.  There are only 2 entries so far!

Okay - now the NEWS!  My stamp manufacture moved the plant and we've had a horrible time getting stock delivered and sales have fallen off.  (I am SO SORRY to everyone who ordered Halloween Labels for the huge delay and you will all get a free medium stamp set and extra gifts for your patience.)  I've been talking about changing over to digital for ages and I have just decided to go for it.  We are waiting for drafts of our 2 NEW Christmas Clear Art Stamp Sets and I will place orders for them and one more order for our top selling stamp sets but I'm going to discount all our stamp sets further as well as all our printed items.  Prices will all get reduced starting tomorrow when I have Mona back in the office.

THESE WILL BE the NEW SALE PRICES:
Large Stamp Sets were $24.99 will be $15.50
Medium Stamps were $14.99 will be $9.00
Small Stamp Sets were $7.50 will be $4.50
Creative Scraps originally $3.50 will be $2.50 
Cardstock Stickers originally $2.35 will be $1.50
Vintage Cuts originally $1.75 will be $1.00
Postcard Kits originally $12.75 will be $9.50 (cuz hubby Scott has to make them up)
Image & Journal Note Booklets originally $6.75 will be 4.00

 If you just ordered and we haven't shipped it yet we will contact you to see what extra FREE gifts we can add, as I can't change the Shopatron invoices. I'm going to try and change the Etsy prices today but Shopatron needs excel spread sheets and there are over 200 items, so I need to wait for Mona or Jessica.

Am I sad?  No I'm excited because I've been learning Photoshop and have been working on a bunch of new products like Digital Christmas, plus a line of T-shirts, art prints, greeting cards, mugs, iphone and ipad cases and more for a Zazzle Store I want to start (they print & ship) and we will offer many of the same images as 'DIY Designs' in our Etsy Store so you can print your own T-shirts, pillows and more, plus design kits with themes like calendars.  Plus, I have an idea for a little 'craft club' I want to start that will be so much fun!
Scott will also be happy to have me selling things that don't take up more space!

I know stampers will be sad when our Clear Art Stamp Sets run out of stock - but we will have tutorials showing all the cool things you can do with those images digitally as they can be re-sized larger and will be on CD's in themes.

Big Hugs to all you sad stampers!

Sandy

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Sept Linky Party, Vicki's Bag Tutorial & Giveaway & Samples!

Welcome to our Sept Linky Party - plus I also have some great samples to share.  Scroll to the bottom to enter or see this months Linky Party Samples!

DT Leader Vicki Chrisman has a bunch of great cotton gift bags on her Blog she's altered with images from our CD's and Stamp Sets - plus she has a Giveaway for CD #3 and a bunch of blank bags from State Line Bag Co!  You can check out all the bags and her tips and leave a
 comment to be entered to WIN up until Sept 7/12.

Vicki used a combination of stamps from Costume Cuties and Jolly Halloween.  The bags come in a variety of sizes making them versatile to hold so many things!

I love these rose bags she did with iron on transfer paper and images from CD #2. Check out the artist supply bag she did by reducing an image from CD #2 and you can see the bags she stamped and sprayed with Glimmer Mist. 

Look at this adorable birthday card DT Member Michele Kovack designed using our new Animal Party Stamp Set. It looks like the perfect card for a little or big boy!

I love this ABC Book that DT Member Julie Campbell created by printing the ABC pages on cardstock from CD #3 Creating With Vintage Typography. The pages print 4 to a 8.5 x 11" page - but with 300 pixel resolution you can crop and enlarge the pages using multiple free photo sizing programs safe to download from from cnet.com and read all the reviews.

Here's a fun altered Halloween page DT Member Marilyn McIldoon created using our Halloween Creative Scraps

I love the soft pastel colors that Marie-alice used on this pretty birdie card she stamped with our Sing For Joy Set 

Marie-alice also colored this pretty Christmas card for a challenge using Ranger's Rich Razzleberry, Green Galore and lights lemonade colors and although you might not think of this combo on a Christmas card look how pretty and festive it turned out.  She used the snow kids from our Winter Wishes Clear Art Stamp Set.

I will be back tomorrow afternoon to show you our new Halloween CD and all the files have turned out Fangtastic and is packed full!  Digital downloads will also be available.

Now here's your chance to enter our Sept Linky Party, which snuck up this month so I didn't send a reminder and it's a holiday but you have all week to enter any project you have created using Crafty Secrets image products or Clear Art Stamps. You just click the link button below to add your image and link to your blog or a gallery and tell us what you used.  A random.org winner will be announced next Monday to WIN a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate! 

 




 Also, I thought you would enjoy this inspiring post showing ideas for decorating stairs from Marcia's Blog; Decorando a Escada

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Altered Halloween Spoons, Art Journal, Banner, Travel and Fun Stamped Cards!

Hi Everyone,

I have some fun projects to share today and a special free gift to tell you about when you scroll down below to see the Art Journal.  

Read Vicki's blog post to see how she altered these fun Halloween spoons using a variety of images from our Halloween Cuts, Double Sided Scraps and new Jolly Halloween Stamp Set and you can see all of our Halloween theme stuff here. 

We have a bunch of our Wood Clip Board Albums on SALE for $1.95 to clear them out - but you will receive a FREE Wood Album as an EXTRA GIFT if you purchase CD # 3 or our Art Studio set until Oct 1/12.  They are basically a 6" x 8.5" wood front and back cover and 2 binder rings.  This was a fun Art Journal DT leader Vicki Chrisman designed using paper and images from CD #3.  The magnify glass and ART word are PNG files on the CD layered over the script paper with the bird.  Vicki used Glimmer Mist to spray white cardstock for the inside pages and stamped them using our Art Studio Set. Click image to see pages big.  Also see Vicki's 'Love Vintage' Banner on Scrapbook Adhesives Blog

 

DT Member Julie Campbell was dreaming of places she would love to travel to and created this fun card and a cute travel Tag you can see on her blog.  The tag would be great to stick in a plastic luggage tag holder with contact info on the other side. 

Julie is a wonderful story teller with an amazing collection of family photos she's been scrapbooking like this one of her great-great-great grandmother she created using papers from CD #1.  You can read about her families journey in the mid 1800's here on Julie's Blog.

 I love this classy Halloween card by Marie-alice using our Costume Cuties stamp set

Great coloring job Marie!

Sophie la Fontaine has a wonderful knack of coming different stamp sets to create unique whimsical scenes like this adorable one she designed using the Mouse from Cutie Cats , the Mushroom from Fairyland , Postal cancellation from Artsy Banner , "For You" from our Animal Party set and the flock of birds are from Bird Notes. Also see Sophie's cute Puppy Pals card here.

We are trying to wrap up a cool Halloween Digital Kit I will show you next week.    Have a fun and fabulous weekend!

Sandy Redburn  
Crafty Secrets

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