BOO-tiful Halloween Projects and a Blog Candy GIVEAWAY!

Hello, Friends!

As I write this, autumn leaves are falling and the landscape outside is changing from summer to autumn.  I love this time of year as there are so many fun holidays on the horizon.  First up, of course is Halloween!  I've seen this holiday evolve from a very child oriented celebration to a time when grown-ups really get into the Halloween spirit with fun parties, costumes and special foods.  So today's post will be filled with BOO-tiful Halloween samples from our design team.

In our area, people are starting to get their Halloween decorations out of the attic or garage to set the stage for ghoulish good times.  Teresa Horner has prepared some tantalizing party treats using templates, images and papers from our fabulous Creating with Vintage Halloween CD #4.

If you are hosting a party, this CD is loaded with fun templates like the spooky house and the popcorn container.  We've done all the designing for you: all you have to do is print, cut score and glue together.  The house could be filled with candy and used as a party favor. It is sooo cute!

To welcome her guests, Teresa created this too cute to spook door hanger with layered Halloween papers, a printable image and pretty ribbon.

 

Creating With Vintage Halloween CD #4 is loaded with 44 designer papers, 12 easy to print and use templates, more than 100 high resolution color/black and white images like the ones you see here.   You can put together the cutest Halloween party on the block with the goodies you'll find here.

 

Teresa has had loads of fun with this CD, and put together another frightfully fun ensemble that also used images from our Vintage Halloween Image and Journal Booklet.  She has all the details and close up photos on her BLOG so I know you will want to check them out. 

 

I just have to show you how cute our Trick or Treat candy box is.  I need to make some of these with the grand girls so they can give them to their special friends!  Again, you just print, cut out, score and glue together...easy peasy!

Ok, the card is so darling, I have to show it to you as well.  The image is from our Halloween Image and Journal Notes Booklet, which is on sale for just $2.95.  Each booklet contains 32 8" x 3" pages filled with adorable vintage images like the one on this pretty card.

I love to find odd items at thrift stores and yard sales and then upcycle them into home decor.  I found this round black bank on a shelf in the Closet of Shame.  The cute images from our newly released Digital Vintage Halloween Scraps and  Halloween Time Heartwarming Vintage Cuts turned it into this not too creepy witches cauldron.  The little ghosts are made from cheesecloth, and when I share this project on my BLOG on October 2nd, I'll show you how to make them. 

Look at this fun Spooky Time card Teresa made using papers from Creating with Vintage Halloween CD and our all new DIGITAL Vintage Halloween Creative Scraps.  The download comes with 4 pages of fun vintage images like the one Teresa used HERE as well as fun tickets, ephemera bits and backgrounds.  It's one of my favorite Halloween goodies in Sandy's Trick or Treat bag! 

I love a good pocket card, stuffed with tags, gift cards or individually wrapped chocolates.  It's such a fun gift to give and receive.  Design team member Ginny Nemchak pulled together this fun, interactive Halloween pocket using the same Creating with Vintage Halloween CD.   I love those witches on the tags!

 

Ginny loves Halloween, and comes up with so many great ways to decorate.  Look at this SPOOK-tacular piece of home decor using more images from this amazing CD.  I love the way she added the moon face to the tart tin and think this would look great in a fall mantel display.

Speaking of home decor, I'm going to share a sneaky peek at a totally adorable Halloween banner that Teresa will be sharing on her blog next week on the 29th.  She made it using images from our Digital Halloween Printables and papers from that fantastic Halloween CD I keep talking about!  I hope I don't get rocks in my Trick or Treat bag for sharing this before she does, but it's just so CUTE, I can't help myself!

I also love the Halloween BINGO cards that come on the Halloween CD and in the Jumbo Halloween Digital Download.  I used them as photo mounts in my ghoulish Halloween Book Case Mini Album, and I'll show you what that looks like on the inside.  But first, here's a look at the cover of this frightfully fun album.

This box was a perfume gift box that I altered with the papers and images from the Jumbo Halloween Digital Download.  This is very similar to the CD, but you can download it right to your computer and there's no shipping cost!  Gotta love that!  I also used a lot of the images from the Halloween Digital Creative Scraps.  Here's a peeky at the inside.

The right hand side contains an accordion fold album, and you can see how I used the BINGO cards as photo mounts and as pockets, too.  I've tucked tags and other goodies behind or on the side, making this an interactive album.  It's the perfect spot to display all those fun Halloween costume photos!  You can find more photos and info on my BLOG.

Diane Hover made a great Fright Night card using the Halloween CD and Halloween Images and Journal Notes.   The googly eyeballs in the trees are such a fun addition, as are the tree branches.  You can get all the details on Diane's BLOG. 

 

Dar used our Halloween Images and Journal Notes Booklet to cook up a Clean and Layered Halloween card that uses a great fall color scheme.

 

And I just have to show you these amazing ribbon wands that Ginny made using papers and images from the Halloween CD.  These would be so much fun at a party!  They are fab-BOO-luss!  Ginny will be sharing all the details on her BLOG on October 2nd. 

 

Owner Sandy Redburn previously used the Halloween CD to create these fun Luminary Lamps and I wanted to include them to show how the images light up when printed on copy paper or vellum.

 Now what fun is a Halloween Blog Post without a little Halloween Blog Candy?  I think it would be fun to have a Halloween themed giveaway, how about you?   In fact, let's do TWO giveaways: one Digital and one traditional.  How does that sound?  

I'd like to know what your favorite Halloween tradition is.  Tell me in the comment section below, and you'll be entered into a random drawing for a great big goodie bag filled to the brim with Crafty Secrets Halloween treats!  Also, let me know if you want the DIGITAL Download Prize or the TRADITIONAL Halloween Prize.  (You can't win both!).

The TRADITIONAL Halloween Prize will include the following:

     

        

That's our Creating with Vintage Halloween CD#4, Our Halloween Post Card Clear Art Stamps, Halloween Vintage Cuts, Our Seasonal Images and Journal Notes, Halloween Images and Journal Notes and a fun Embellish Me Accordion Album so you can preserve your Halloween photos.

The DIGITAL prize will include:

      

       

This prize package includes our  Jumbo Halloween Digital Kit, Halloween Fun Digital Art Stamps, 

Digital Halloween Printables, Halloween Printable Sheet, Vintage Halloween Digital Scraps, and Digital Halloween Labels.

I'll announce the winners at the launch of our October Linky Challenge and Blog Hop on October 5th, 2015.   

Also - we now have FREE Shipping on Orders Over $35.00 within the USA (except for paper pads) in our online www.craftyvintagegirl.com store.  Sorry to Canadian and overseas customers we can't offer it as the shipping is so high. Keep in mind that there is no shipping on any digital downloads, plus you can re-size and print them over and over again!

I hope you had some thrills and chills of inspiration in this special Halloween themed post!  

On behalf of Sandy Redburn, I wish you joy and creativity!

Kathy Clement

Design Team Leader, Crafty Secrets

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Beautiful New Roses Set and Digital Flower Giveaway, Samples and Winner!

Hi Everyone,  it's Sandy and I have a NEW Digital Stamp Set to show you today called Roses and a Giveaway for all 4 Flower Sets (Dahlia, Roses, Poppies and Sunflower)  I'm working on expanding our Sunflower Set and the winner will get the updated version. Plus I have the winner from our Linky Party a bunch of some fabulous new samples and an update on having our house for sale!

The new Rose set includes all the designs from our old clear rose set but I've added several new large re-sizeable designs including a folder with 15 of them also in a brown sepia tone - and it's just $6.95. If you want to change to another color - I did a How To Change PNG Stamps To Colors Tutorial previously. 

 

You can see the sizes on the preview above and look how big some are! You can resize them and print them on a variety of mediums. I've also included all the samples shown below with the stamp set for inspiration.  There are 11 rose illustrations, 5 sentiments and a lady bug.

This beautiful framed sample was colored by our shipper Lyssa who tried to warn me it was her first time ever coloring a digital stamp - and look at how gorgeous it turned out!  Lyssa says she printed the 01 Rose in black on cheap copy paper and colored it with color pencils and layering oranges and red on the rose and wrote over the lettering with a light brown pencil adding some shading after.

Here is the same rose stamp colored by Theresa who told me she used 4 Copic Markers

R22,R24, G21, and Y28.  She printed the black 01 rose on ivory card stock and sponged Distress Ink Antique Linen on the background. 

Here is the same 01 rose printed in the brown sepia by DT Leader Kathy Clement who colored hers with chalks. Kathy will be posting her sample with all the details this Monday on her blog

Check out this pretty Rose card that DT Member Diane Hover created by printing the 18 Rose stamp on vellum and I love her technique to color the back with Copic Markers.

I have a bunch more samples but first I need to announce the lucky random.org winner was #2 Loretta who won a $25.00 Digital Gift Card to buy anything that grabs her fancy in our www.craftyvintagegirl.com store. I decided to give the new Rose Set as a gift to all the ladies who joined our Aug Linky Party. They did such a fantastic job and I want to thank them for their support!

You can check out all the entries here

 

Okay, I have more awesome samples to share like these fun Kitchey File Folder Cards by Kathy Clement,  she created for her sister's birthday party using our Retro Kitchen Kit! Kathy has a bunch more photos and all the details on her blog.

Look at this very cool rainbow vase card by DT Member Michele Kovack that she created with our Button Up Digital Set. You can see more photos and all the details on Michele's Blog.

How about this cute travel theme birthday card by DT Member Melody Clement she made using our CD 3 Creating With Vintage Typography and the trunk and postcard are from our Travel Scraps

Member Ginny Nemchak designed this great pocket card using a sheet of our Fall Cotton Scraps on sale for just $1.50 or buy all 6 themes left for $6.99 and Pastel Paper Pad paper with a ribbon and flowers from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

DT Member Diane Hover made this adorable friendship card using a illustration from our Wizard of Oz Digital Stamp Set and you can see a photo of how she added glitter to the Tin Man and Scarecrow.

I also have a fabulous Tutorial by Sheila Rumney on How To Highlight Text using Photoshop Elements. Sheila used paper from our CD #3 and she shows step by step photos.

I've been going to some scrapbook garage sales at local stores like Clipper Street and Country Lane
 and I met a lovely lady Linda who bought one of our Boys Chipboard Outfits at a previous sale and brought the sample she made to show me. I wanted to add it to our Linky Party but you need to link it to a Blog or Gallery and I never got a post done that night in time, so I'm sharing it here as it turned out so adorable.

 

So some of you may have wondered what the heck happened to me as I've been missing from the blog and DT Leader Kathy Clement has been running things for me.  Our house is for sale - which is just short of a miracle as we built the house 21 years ago and with 3 kids, my parents, 2 dogs, and the business it became filled to the rafters with stock, samples, old books, paper, postcards and way too much 'stuff' in general. I was a 'collector' or maybe a hoarder is a better term so I have been working like a busy bee to de-clutter. It's been a month and we've had 4 offers and really thought it was finally sold and then yesterday we found out the buyers didn't get financing which was so disappointing, I'm sure sad for them as well after paying $500 for an inspection.

So back to square one but I sure hope it sells this weekend! All my time is being used up cleaning and looking for the perfect townhouse close by the condo we found for my mom in White Rock. She's 83 and so excited as this will be the first time in her life to live on her own. She will be 1 block away from all the shops and not too far to the beach. I will my our house but I'm totally excited about the future!

Don't forget to leave a comment here to be entered to WIN All 4 of Our Digital Flower Stamp Sets. Which set do you like the best?   Roses,   Dahlias,   Poppies and the new soon to be larger  Sunflowers! A random.org winner will be annouced next Wed Aug 26/15.

Wising you joy and creativity
Sandy Redburn
Owner

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Free Flower Thank You Printable, 2 Giveaways, Specials and News

Hi Everyone, I've been missing in action but I'm back with a fun 'Free Flower Girl Thank You Printable' and 2 great Giveaway Packs, each for 15 of our Homespun Cotton Scraps. Plus news about our Bellingham, WA pop-up store closing, changes to our copyright, invite to our July Linky Party and more!

I hope you like this card I made from an old Beatrice Mallet postcard I recolored and faux embossed parts of it. For personal use only please. Just left click with your mouse until it's as big as possible and right click to save.

 

 We also have a double Giveaway with 2 chances to WIN ALL15 sheets below of all our Cotton Scraps (including those sold out) as I came across a few extras. Plus the 2 Winners will also receive all of theses in a digital set as well, so they can re-print the images on any medium! The Cotton Scraps that are sold out and now digital are 08 Wedding (I missed adding it below), 09 Fairies, 13 Winter, 14 Cooking and 15 Feathered Friends. We also have a Special Cotton 6 Pack for $6.99.

Since April we've been in a little store in Bellingham, WA and Lyssa (my shipper) was managing the store and had it fixed up so cute and last week we found out we had 1 day to move everything out! Stacia from Red Barn Jewelery who had the lease is about to have her baby any day and found out she couldn't extend her lease. Lyssa was also selling Stacia's beautiful jewelry. Too bad - but I'm Canadian and can't sign a 1 year lease so had to let it go. 

          I'm so sad the store had to close. Many of the items have been moved to the Picket Fence, a consignment store on Front Street in Lynden, WA.  Lyssa will still be filling our USA online orders. 

        

 Our Etsy Store is open but I've changed my Copyright to allow people to create handmade products to sell and I need to update all the digital products with the new copyright and upload them all again. Here's the NEW Copyright information in case anyone is interested in selling handmade products using any of our Digital images. 

 

 Clipper Street is a popular scrapbook store here in Langley BC and they hold a Garage Sale each month with is a big hit with their customers buying and selling items. I've rented 2 parking stalls and will have a huge amount of craft supplies there this Sunday July 12, 10 till 2 pm. Extra items that are easy to ship will be listed in our Etsy Store.

If you want quality resealable clear bags you can hang I have a great deal on packages of 100 bags for $2.95  in our Etsy Store.

I also have other items for sale that are too large to ship but showing in case someone lives near Bellingham, WA or the Vancouver-Surrey area in BC Canada. One of the larger pieces is this antique oak buffet sideboard for $350.00.The hand carving detail is beautiful and the fancy piece over the drawers is a hidden drawer. 

 

Also, an Oak Draw Leaf Hand Carved Table (opens to 72") with 4 chairs for $450.00. 

Contact me for details if interested.

 

Please go by and check out our July Linky Party and Summer DT Challenge. I HOPE WE GET MORE ENTRIES! There are some free printables if you want to join in (yes- be brave) and post any sample you have created and used a Crafty Secrets product and you could win the $25.00 Gift Certificate! Our DT Ladies have also created some great samples.

I'm trying to get our house ready to list for sale so I will be listing more craft supplies and specials! After 20 years in this house with my business I have a pile of stuff!


Don't forget to leave a comment here and/or our Facebook page to enter our 2 Winner Cotton Mega Giveaway. The 2 Winners will be announced next Monday from the Blog and Facebook. 


Hugs from Sandy
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