Cyber Monday Deals

Pink Crown Compact Mirror

I hope that your having a fabulous Monday!

I just wanted to let everyone know that on this wonderful Cyber Monday, you should stop by Pinky Creations and take advantage of my deal today which is FREE SHIPPING TO ANYWHERE!

There are plenty of items available and I'm re-stocking throughout the day.

Happy Shopping!

Simple Pleasures

Pink Saturday November 28

Pink and Cream Mitten Garland

Well I am participating in Pink Saturday. I love pink and it's also my daughter's favorite color! I hope that she will appove of my post today as it incorporates a few shades of pink and it looks fabulous hanging from our mantle. You can find more information about Pink Saturday here http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Thansgiving FREE SHIPPING WEEKEND!

That's right folks, I'm offering FREE SHIPPING to any and everywhere today thru til November 30th!

I'll also be stocking my shop with some new items so don't be shy and head on over to www.pinkycreations.etsy.com to get some great holiday items at a fabulous price!

Happy Shopping!

Evolution of Tools-Corners

Well it seems like corners are my thing! I like the rounded corners on my greeting and note cards, it just gives them a bit of an edge that I love! Well my trusty corner rounder has been with me for years and years and it's never let me down. It's small and effective and I love it!

BEFORE: Creative Memories Corner Rounder

Well now it seems like my volume of cards and notecards has increased ten fold (yeah!) and I am in need of an "evolution" tool. The topic of corner rounders was brought up by my EtsyGreetings members and I now have a new tool which I must own!

NOW: Paper Gator

I am able to round paper, chipboard, cork board, foam and more. I can cut the corners of up to 100 sheets of #20 paper!!!!! (That's right I said 100!) And there's extra blades to adjust the corner size, how cool is that!

I don't yet own this tool yet as I am trying to hunt it down at my local crafts shops before I need to turn my sights online! I've only heard excellent things about this item and I look forward to owning it soon!

Happy Shopping!

Evolution of Tools-Folds

When I first starting having to fold my cardstock by hand I could not figure out how to make a crisp crease! This boggled my mind for a long while until I was introduced to this miraculous tool

BEFORE: Bone Folder

This was my saviour, my folds were crisp and clean, my only problem was setting the paper up properly inorder to score it hmmm. Now enter

NOW: Score-It

This fantastic item comes in 4 different sizes and is able to clearly mark the center of your paper in order to acheive a perfect center score each and every time. There is also little to no cracking of heavier cardstock. This was by far one of my favorite "evolution" purchases to date.

Happy Shopping!

Evolution of Tools-Adhesive

I love tools! I love what I have and I love learning about new ones! It seems like there is something for everyone and if your lukcy, your favorite tool may have evolved and be easier to use. I will be showcasing some of my favorite tools over the next couple of days and the evolution.
I'm starting out today with an oldie but a goodie!

Well it's funny how times have changed, everything has gotten bigger and I think better, and a tad bit easier, Oh and did I mention bigger!

When I was creating greeing cards for my family and friends I would buy these at my local craft store two at a time because I was going through a TON of them. Now that I have entered the online selling world, I heard the whispers about a tool that no respectible crafter could live without! This is definatly an investment tool as the price tag is a bit steep ($45.00apprx.) but once you get the hang of installing the tape, it's a tool that is well worth the money.

BEFORE: Tombow Mono Adhesive Permanent Dispenser

NOW: ATG 714 Gun

BTW, mine is pink!!!!

Happy Shopping!

HUGE PINKY SALE

I like to go big or go home!

That's why my sale is off the hook! I'm offering FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE, this weekend only!

Be sure to check out my shop! I'm listing new items daily! Lot's of Holiday items so you can stock up early!

Happy Shopping!

Week of Hope!

I heard about this wonderful promotion through my fabulous member of my Etsygreetings Team and thought what a great way to get involved! So many people have fallen on hard times and I know that every little bit helps. This week I am participating in The Week of Hope. This event is when retailers across America and abroad are coming together to bring HOPE, one card or letter at a time. You can read more about it at the Hope is in the Cards Website In honor of this event I am offering free postage for every individual card ordered at my Etsy shop this week.

Happy Shopping and let's try to make a difference!

Giveaway

This is something that I have never done before, althought I've always wanted to!

I am giving away a set of 3 notecards of my Red Chair Greetings!

All you need to do is head on over to the EtsyGreetings blog and leave a comment about what your favorite color is! Easy Peasy!

I'm very excited about this giveaway and I wish everyone the best of luck!

Happy Shopping!

August Team Challenge Mellow Yellow!

Pic courtesy of Paper Fairy

There's a new fabulous EtsyGreetings Team Challenge entitled Mellow Yellow. You guessed it, it's all about the color yellow. I can't wait to see all the sunny creations.

Be sure to check out the EtsyGreetings blog for more details.

Happy Shopping!

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 10

Today is the last day of the challenge and I must say that it was a lot of fun getting to know my fellow participants but it was also a lot of hard work. Keeping up my blog, posting a listing everyday, working on new creations, looking after my family and running my household is a lot of work. I really would not change a thing!

Today I am featuring myself, so I hope you enjoy my new Halloween Characters Stickers Galore!

Happy Shopping.

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 9

I love stripes and circles and these are the latest addition to my shop. Multi Stripped Gift Tags

Today I am featuring The Paper Flower Shop!

This pretty bouquet is in my favorite color, PINK and it's so darn cute. This would look perfect in a vase in any room in my home.

Pom Pom bouquet

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 8

Here is the ever cute Pink Fairy Greeting Card making another appearance!

Today my feature is NYPaperCrafter!

These note cards are simple and elegant and just my style! These are a fantastic price and there are plenty of other great items in this shop.

A Note for You Flat Cards

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 7

Fall Vine Tags

Today we braved the weather and headed down to the Jazz festival! The day was threatening rain all day and thankfully it rained on our way down to the event, but once we got there the skies opened up and we had a few blue skies and dry weather. There was a few drizzles here and there but nothing that made us run for the hills.

We had a great time listening to music, enjoying some local food as well as walking around and seeing the sites.

There was a lot of really good local talent there. Shakura S'Aida really caught our attention and we ended up purchasing her CD Blueprint. I listened to it in the car and I really like her music. I'm already thinking of having a dinner party and having this great CD playing in the background.

Today I am featuring Lavender Greetings

There is an array of fabulous cards and tags in this shop and what's best is there is always free shipping. This beauty caught my eye!

Glittery Sweet and Simple- New Baby or Other Card

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 6

US Map Stickers Galore

Here's a quick blog as I'm out for the day with the family! I'm hoping the rain holds off so that we can enjoy the outdoors.

Today I am featuring L7Designs

I love the look of this card! It's colorful, simple and has glitter on it. A pefect card for any occassion.

Hi Card with Glitter

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 5

Blue Crowns Gift Tags Set of 8

We are half way through the challenge which I find amazing!

I'm not sure where the time is going. It might be because I've been super busy this week that I've really not had a chance to breath, but the weekend is upon us and I have no plans, as yet, so hopefully I can get to work on a few ideas that I have. I have re-listed my Blue Crown Gift Tags, they are super cute for your little Prince.

Today I am featuring JEmily

Her cards are beautiful and creative! I really like this baby girl card. I love the colors and the layout, now I just need to know someone who is having a little girl so that I can give this card to them.

It's a Girl Card

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 4

Red and Blue Star Gift Tags

Today is the last day of camp for the week and I'm sortof glad that it's over!

I will not miss the early morning wake-up, getting two kids dressed and out the door in less than 5 min!, the traffic I loathe traffic!!!!!

I will miss getting my work-out done and out of the way by 10:30am. This is a big plus as I'm still trying to loose that last 10 pounds! I can't keep blaming the baby for my weight, she's 14 months now!

Today I re-listed my Red and Blue Star Gift Tags, I showed a picture of my new packaging of my gift tags and they also falls in line with my stickers.

Today I am featuring Harmonia30

Her cards are beautiful and so well photographed! This was a tough choice because all of her cards are so beautiful! I love the way how her cards are labelled by names, I was hoping to find a card with my girls name but I had no such luck but I did really like the Ella card

Ella Card

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 3

Pink Flamingo Gift Tags

Today is hump day and I'm feeling like a lump! I had a great work out today but I'm really tired from having to out the door before 8:30am inorder to drop my daughter off at camp. Today I am really dragging my feet. You would hope that I would get used to the routine by now, but tomorrow is the last day of camp so I'll have a bit of a relief until I have to do it all over again next week.

Today for my Challenge I am featuring Crickleberry Cottage

I love the feel of this shop, it is very cottagey and vintagey (for lack of a better word). I love the look of these gift tags! They are pink, girly and oh so pretty.

Tea Time at Nana's house Set of 5 Yummy Gift Tags

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 2

blue and brown graphic tags

Today again I have decided to re-list an item. I'm proving a bit busier than I though and I have many balls up in the air that are on the verge of falling if I don't catch them soon.

There is my studio make-over that I still need to complete, I have quite a few items that need to be photographed, of course I have a ton of new ideas in my head that I need to complete, as well there is the buzz about Christams, that's right you heard me correctly Christmas! I'm still in camp mode. I just need to take a deep breath and get cracking!

I have also relisted a few more items, but you'll have to head on over to my shop to see what they are!

Today I am featuring the works of AJK Artistry

This is a beautiful card which has just what I like, a bit of color and bling! This is a beautiful card and the best part is that it is on sale!

Mandala Card on Sale!

Happy Shopping!

July 10/10/10 Challenge Day 1

I've had a super busy weekend and today I needed to get my daughter off to camp so I really had no time to post a new listing, but I do love what I have re-listed.  These red and black umbrella note cards are simple, whimsical and just plain cute!  You will receive 6 3x3 note cards as well as 6 matching stickers/seals!  These would be really cute to give to someone at a, you guessed it, shower!

Today I am featuring 1 Card Creator

I really like the color of this card, all of the butterflies as well as the design!  This is a beautiful embossed card and it looks so well made!  Be sure to head on over to http//:www.1cardcreator.etsy.com for this card and many more!

New Challenge Set to Start

Well it's time to start another challenge!  I had such a great time doing it last time that I have decided to facilitate another round.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with this I'll explain what this is.  It's called the 

10/10/10 Challenge and was the brain child of Amanda aka little b bunny!

10 people will list an item for 10 days and offer 10% off items in their shop!

Simple!

The guidelines are as follows:

List an item each day for 10 days

Offer 10% off on those items or on your entire shop

Blog, Tweet, Facebook, Forum about the listing

Blog owners are encouraged to post their entry daily and feature another participant.

This challenge offers some great exposure , accountablility for updating your shop and blog as well as meeting some really great people!

So please be sure to check back everyday for my new postings, and I'm offering 10% off all items in my shop starting July 21st to the end of the month!

Happy Shopping!

Vacation

I love going on vacation, it's so nice to get away and I love being able to focus all my attention on my family.  We went up North to cottage country for a week and we stayed at a resort with plenty of kid activites.  We had a fabulous time playing in the park, swimming in the pools and of course enjoying the great food.  We really did nothing for the week other than lounge around and we started to feel guily about that but it only lasted for a moment and then we went back to lounging by the pool.  The week went by way to fast,  I'm already planning on where we'll go on our next vacation which I'm hoping will be before the end of the year.

Crafty Space Good Will Find

                         
                                                 
I'm still scared!

I have not had a lot of time to get down and organize my mess in the basement, but I hope to be able to tackle it today!

I have been keeping up with Molly Lee's progress on her blog http://mollyleecards.blogspot.com and she has some found some really fabulous storage ideas from all places Good Will!

As you may know I don't have a budget for this makeover/cleanup but I love her Portable Crafting Kit!  This would work wonders for me as my crafting stoarge area is dark, and in the basement, I'm always carrying everything that I need up to the kitchen to work.  I went in search of a beautiful tray but I could not find one, but I did pick up this table top wooden storage rack.  I've got a few ideas of what to do with it, but first I need to paint it out.  It only cost me $$5 so I don't feel too guilty for breaking my non budget!

I hope to roll up my sleeves and start sorting and organizing so I can get back to what I love, crafting!

Happy Shopping! 

I'm scared!

I did not realize how much cr%$ one can accumulate over time!

I don't know how I'm going to get everything sorted in a couple of days!!!!  It seems to be all the little things.

I need a rest!!!

In the words of Scarlett O'Hara, tomorrow is another day!

1 Room Down, 1 To Go!!!

Well after a couple of hours of sorting and with the help of my 4 year old DD I was able to clear out most of the crap from the library/office and it looks great!  There are still a few problem areas but overall I'm so pleased with the work that we have accomplished!  It was very important for me to get the stuff off the floor so there is less worry for my 1 year old.  I've decided not to do anything more until I tackle the basement, which is frightful!

I never thought that I would say this, but I really hope I don't sell anything for a couple of days as I really need to sort out the mess in the basement!

Crafty Room Challenge/Clean Up

Well I've been inspired yet again by my lovely Team!  This room which is more of a library than a studio has been a sore spot in my house for almost 4 years! It was suppose to be my creative room but oh so quickly it has become my dumping ground!  Anything business related that I would buy would litteraly get dumped in this room.  Now this room was right off my side door(which is used as the front door) and I would always keep the door closed as well as the windows because I was too embarrased to have anyone see what a mess I was keeping.

Well after reading MollyLee's blog, I decided to do something about it!  This challenge is on for 4 weeks but to be honest I need this done ASAP!  I have a 1 year old that is getting into everything. I am going to set up shop in the basement which I'm not thrilled about but it has the most space to house everything.  Once this room is cleared the real work will begin!  I allowed myself a budget of $0 as I know underneath all this crap is storage containers and baskets which I've bought but could not find!  I'm excited to finally get this room back!