Vintage Easter Bunny Contest and Two Entries

Here's two additional entries for the contest. Aren't they just the cutest!

Check out Lol's wonderful bunny card. I just love the glitter and the red. Click on her card to visit her blog and get all the wonderful details on how she created this beauty. Be sure and leave her a comment. We all love to hear from our very special visitors.



I love Jenn's Peter Cottontail Concert. It's so cute and OMG the detail! Great creativity. Be sure and visit her blog by clicking on the card and leave her some wonderful comments.



You have until Friday April 2 at midnight CST to enter. Just use the Vintage Easter bunny in any craft project using any kind of a medium. Submit your entry via a comment on the blog and leave comments on the DT members blogs and you will be entered to win. Don't have a blog, well that's ok, just email a pic of your completed project and leave your comments on the DT members blogs and you'll be entered. Just make sure you include some way for me to identify your comment to your email.



Get your entry in so that you have a chance to win some really great supplies:
So-So-Sweet 75 Paper Pack with glitter
Spare Parts designer silk flower brads
Soft Spoken Leaf embellishments
Package of silk roses
Package of Sticky Doos
Package of Paper Studio Self-Adhesive Gemstones
Package of Wiggle Eyes
Container of Fairy Dust Fine Glitter
2 Rolls of ribbon
An Easter Egg stamp from Stampabilities
5 Packages of Charms
and
Any 2 PeggyLovesVintage CDs (except the Collection of Cuties)



Have a great day full of smiles!
Peggy

Easter Contest and Amy Duff contest entry

Times quickly running out! Are you almost done with your contest entry? Here's the great stuff that will be given away to some lucky winner! Just use the Vintage Easter bunny in any craft project using any kind of a medium. Submit your entry via a comment on the blog or send me an email and leave comments on the DT members blogs and you will be entered to win.



There's some really great stuff included:
So-So-Sweet 75 Paper Pack with glitter
Spare Parts designer silk flower brads
Soft Spoken Leaf embellishments
Package of silk roses
Package of Sticky Doos
Package of Paper Studio Self-Adhesive Gemstones
Package of Wiggle Eyes
Container of Fairy Dust Fine Glitter
2 Rolls of ribbon
An Easter Egg stamp from Stampabilities
5 Packages of Charms
and
Any 2 PeggyLovesVintage CDs (except the Collection of Cuties)


So hurry, you only have until April 2 at midnight- CST to get your entry in. Make sure you visit all the DT's blogs and leave your comments. You can find all the details here

Here's an entry from Amy Duff that I received via email. Didn't she do a great job! I love the aging on the polka dots! Thanks Amy for entering the contest.



So where's your entry at? There's still time to get that chance to win the prizes that are worth over $100.00.



Have a great week just plumb full of smiles and Easter bunnies. lol
Peggy

Easter Contest and Free Vintage Duck Image

Easter is quickly approaching. Are you working on your contest project? Here's the great prizes that are going to be given away.



There's some really great stuff included:
So-So-Sweet 75 Paper Pack with glitter
Spare Parts designer silk flower brads
Soft Spoken Leaf embellishments
Package of silk roses
Package of Sticky Doos
Package of Paper Studio Self-Adhesive Gemstones
Package of Wiggle Eyes
Container of Fairy Dust Fine Glitter
2 Rolls of ribbon
An Easter Egg stamp from Stampabilities
5 Packages of Charms
and
Any 2 PeggyLovesVintage CDs (except the Collection of Cuties)


So hurry, you only have until April 2 at midnight- CST to get your entry in. Make sure you visit all the DT's blogs and leave your comments. You can find all the details here

Last week I promised you I'd show Kaiden's Easter Egg Hunting outfit. It's always so hard to figure out what to do for a boy. I have tons of sweet Easter images but somehow a cute bunny, chick or duck just didn't fit Kaiden's personality. After much searching I did find a little duck all dressed up in a military uniform carrying a gun. I didn't think the gun was quite appropriate for Easter so I got busy with Photo Shop and here's the completed layout.






Here' Kaiden showing off his Easter Egg Hunting outfit.





Here's the bunny with the posy of flowers and Kaiden's duck for you to use in any last minute Easter projects. Make sure you click on it so you get the full size image.



I have one more Kaiden picture to share with you. But first you need a little info. Kaiden is a typical boy. He is pretty stubborn and has a mind of his own. When he's doing something he's not supposed to he doesn't like the word no. He's one where he'll look at you and continue doing whatever he has a mind to do. So when he was first learning to talk and was busy with his no activities I'd swoop him up and laughingly call him my demon child. He quickly learned this phrase and started calling himself a demon child. Well he's grown out of that now but this picture brought back the demon child memories for me.



Have a great week full of smiles and don't forget to submit your contest entry
Peggy

PeggyLovesVintage Easter Contest using a Vintage Easter Bunny Image

Are you ready for a contest? Last week I shared with you the candy that will be given away as the prize.



There's some really great stuff included:
So-So-Sweet 75 Paper Pack with glitter
Spare Parts designer silk flower brads
Soft Spoken Leaf embellishments
Package of silk roses
Package of Sticky Doos
Package of Paper Studio Self-Adhesive Gemstones
Package of Wiggle Eyes
Container of Fairy Dust Fine Glitter
2 Rolls of ribbon
An Easter Egg stamp from Stampabilities
5 Packages of Charms
and
Any 2 PeggyLovesVintage CDs (except the Collection of Cuties)


So here's the contest rules...

Using this image



or this one with the white background to create a craft item. Click on the image in order to be able to save it at its full size.



Any craft project is acceptable as long as it uses one of the two images. You can use paper, fabric, glass, wood, whatever medium you like to work with. Once you've completed your project leave a comment on this post and include a link to your blog showing and describing your project. Don't have a blog, that's ok too. Just send me an email and include a picture of your completed project.

Once you've completed this portion, visit the blogs of the designers and leave a comment on the post with their bunny project. If you're using email instead of a blog make sure that you include your email id in the comment or provide some way for the two to be connected.

That's all it takes to enter the contest. Complete your project and leave your comments between March 21 and midnight (CST) April 2, 2010 and you'll be entered into the random drawing for a chance to win the fabulous prize.

So here's the designers you have to visit and the wonderful projects they've created with the images.

Sherri


DeeDee

Donna


Julie


Peggy


Here's the inside of the card if you'd like to include all or part of it in your craft project. It is not a contest requirement to use this.


So let's have fun!

Have a great week full of smiles!
Peggy

PeggyLovesVintage Easter Contest Project

This was so much fun! For the contest I thought I'd try something with fabric to show you how versatile the images are. I've only used the Fabric transfer kits once before so this was a little bit of a challenge. I thought I'd try my hand at creating an Easter Egg Hunting outfit. This would consist of a Tee-Shirt, Hat and canvas tote for the kids to use for their Easter Eggs. Here's how my completed project looks.



We had so much fun with this. She just had to do the modeling pose with her new outfit.






Since this was for Jordan everything had to be pink, her most favorite color! So off I went to find my supplies. I purchased the tee-shirt, hat and canvas tote at Hobby Lobby. I sure had good timing because everything was 50% off. Boy you can't beat that kind of a deal! I found the Fabric Transfer Kit at Walmart. It comes in two types one for light fabric and one for dark. Since everything was pink, I choose the light kit.

So now I was ready for the design phase. For the tee-shirt I wanted to wind up with an image that would cover almost the whole front of the tee-shirt. I found that if I designed it to print on the entire sheet of fabric transfer paper (8.5 x 11) it would fit perfectly and be the right size. So with the size in mind, I knew I wanted to use the bunny music above and below the bunny and include a few Easter eggs as added embellishments. Since her tee-shirt was pink, I didn't think the green music would look right so using Photo Shop I changed the green color to black. I wanted the bunny to take up most of the room on the 8.5 x 11 sheet, so I didn't include the eggs on the bunny sheet. So here's the completed tee-shirt design.



I did a test print of the design on regular paper to check that it would look right and fit correctly on the tee-shirt.

I created the eggs and used Photo Shop to color them to match the colors in the bunny. I needed two different sized bunnies for the hat and tote, so Photo Shop to the rescue again. I also decided to use a little creative license and using Photo Shop's clone utility I replaced the music with a little flower bouquet. So now I was ready to create sheet 2 with the two bunnies and all the eggs I would need. Here's how it looked.



As an after thought I decided to add her name to back of her tote. So I went hunting for a cool Easter font that would make it something special. Here's what I came up with. I found it at this site fancy fonts . Originally the font is just plain black and white but I wanted it to be different colors so using Photo Shop again I created the text and then flattened the image and colored in the different areas. I think it turned out pretty cool! Make sure you click on it so you can see it big.



So all in all it was pretty easy once the design process was completed. Things I did learn from this... Most important... don't trim your images too close on the fabric transfer sheets. The ink has a tendency to bleed a little as you're ironing it. You can see that primarily on her completed tote image. I trimmed really close so the iron picked up the ink and spread it around a little bit.. lol. Also, make sure your iron is not too hot for the fabric. It has to be really hot for the transfer to occur but you don't want it to scorch the fabric. You can see where this also occurred on the tote. lol... Poor tote! One more thing, if you're printing text remember to change the print to mirror. Otherwise it will be backward on your item. Mirror print is usually found in your print window. If it's not listed on the main window, check in the advanced area for it.

I can't make something like this for Jordan without also doing one for Kaiden so check back next week to see what his Easter Egg Hunting outfit looks like. His has a cutie Duck image.

So now if you haven't visited the other projects from the DT, DeeDee, Donna, Julie, and Sherri take a minute and see what they've created.



Have a great week full of smiles!
Peggy

Collection of Cuties Vol 1 Announcement and Blog Candy

Wow... another week's gone by! Boy that was fast! Especially if you were late doing your last post! LOL.

Anyway, I promised you some exciting news. I've been working very hard on a new CD and have finally finished it. It's taken over a month to get it all together and ready to show. It's called a Collection of Cuties Vol 1 (thanks sis). It has over 400 images, that are sentiment and verse free and ready to use in any kind of paper or craft project. Most of the images are from the Children's Birthday CDs but I've also included images from other CDs as well. It has tons of cutie patootie images.

The video contains ALL the images on the CD. The video images are displayed at a much smaller resolution then the actual images. It's priced at 19.99 and will be listed in the stores later this week. So take a peak at the video and tell me what you think.



Are you ready for more exciting news. Take a look at this blog candy.



It includes:
So-So-Sweet 75 Paper Pack with glitter
Spare Parts designer silk flower brads
Soft Spoken Leaf embellishments
Package of silk roses
Package of Sticky Doos
Package of Paper Studio Self-Adhesive Gemstones
Package of Wiggle Eyes
Container of Fairy Dust Fine Glitter
2 Rolls of ribbon
An Easter Egg stamp from Stampabilities
5 Packages of Charms
and
Any 2 PeggyLovesVintage CDs (except the Collection of Cuties)

Wow! What a stash! Want to know how you can win this Blog Candy, well come back next Sunday and get all the details (smile).


Till then have a great week full of smiles!
Peggy

Free Vintage Easter Image and Shadowing Text on Images

Oh my! I'm still way behind, here it is Wednesday and I'm just now getting to my Sunday post - last Sunday that is... lol. Maybe I should try doing next Sunday's now so that I'll have it done on time (smile).

The punnies have been making their rounds here. Seems like we just go from one thing to another. The family's had the whole gammit with colds and stomach flu and the like, but I think we're on the mend... fingers and toes are all crossed!

Enough of that, have you ever had one of those DUH! moments. You know, where you've been struggling with something and you just know that you're making it harder than it is. Well, I have to admit that just recently, I had one of those DUH moments. You all know that images are pretty much my passion. I probably spend 12 hours a day working on them, loving them, creating in some way shape or form with them. And of course a big part of that process is text based, either adding sentiments or phrases to images. I've always struggled with how on earth do they get the shadowing for the text. Oh, I tried adding shadows with brushes and although it looked ok, I was never happy with it. I didn't think it looked crisp or neat. Now here comes my DUH! moment.
The other day I was working in Photo Shop and by mistake created a duplicate of a text box. Then as I was getting ready to delete it, I wound up moving it just a tad. I noticed that I could see both sets of text. DUH! So I changed the color of the text in one box and OMG! I had perfect shadows! Now how simple is that! I've been so tickled with my discovery that I've been using it like crazy. Here's one image that I've been working on for my Spring Gift Tags. You might have to click on the image to see the shadowing. Now how cool is that?



I'm not sure if this will work in all image editors but I tried it in Photo Explosion and Print Shop and it works in them as well. So, if you've been struggling with this, give it a try, just add the same text box twice and move one of them just a little. Now, if I could just figure out that other issue I'd be in seventh heaven. Maybe another happy mistake will occur!

Ok, I have another Easter image for you. This image is from the New Baby Vol 1 CD But I thought it would make an adorable First Easter card. Have you seen Donna's and Julie's blogs? Both of them have created some awesome cards also from the New Baby Vol 1 CD.



Now, I have one last thing to share with you. I've been so far behind that I'm ashamed of myself. I was visiting one of my favorite blogs and found this wonderful project which she used for Valentine's Day. But, it could also be used to create a precious Easter basket. So take a moment and visit for the love of laundry She has an awesome tutorial on how to complete the project.

I'm so excited, I have some awesome news for you. But I have to keep something for Sunday's (maybe Weds. lol) post but be sure and check back.



Have a great week (what's left of it that is) plumb full of smiles!
Peggy