Two New Release

Princess Kailee and Ballet Slippers Digital Stamps are both now available in our Etsy Store. They both come with word art sentiments for your card making.

Princess Kailee:

Ballet Slippers:

Watch for the full color clip art of the Ballet Slippers. It will be in our Etsy Store as soon as I get done painting it.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms! I hope that you have a wonderful Mother's day with your family.

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Fae, Faery or Fairy?

No matter how you spell it,  this is one sweet little fae that the mom who loves magical fantasy will love to receive as an embellishment on Mother's Day crafts.

Flower Fae Digital Stamp:

New to Digi Stamps? Here is some good information about how to use them even if you don't have a fancy schmancy graphic program...

• Digital Stamp Guide
• Using Microsoft Word to resize and print Digi Stamps
• Using Microsoft Paint (comes on all PCs) to resize and print Digi Stamps
• Recoloring black line art in Microsoft Word

If you are a rubber stamper you already know about coloring stamped images with watercolors, colored pencils, chalk and Markers. Did you know that you can do the same with Digi Stamp images?

Watch the video below by video by Cindy Lawrence for a wonderful demo on coloring stamps with Copics:

A special gift for your Mother's Day crafting:

Go to the Freebies Page to download one or all three sentiments. Click Here or on the Tab at the top of the page.

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Cottage Rose Digital Stamp and Clip Art

Today we have just released a new design, "Cottage Rose". It is available as both a digi stamp and as  clip art. This would be the perfect start for your own Mother's Day creations, or bithday, or perhaps a thank you card.

Digital Stamp:

Clip Art:

Both of these new items come with word art sentiments.

The word art sentiments actually come in black and dark grey rather than the green as pictured above. I have an easy step-by-step tutorial on how to change the color of digital stamps using Microsoft Word. Click Here for the tutorial.
Now go and make something pretty for mom to show her how much care for her and appreciate all that she has done for you.

Shop for other Digital Stamps, Clip Art and Background papers at our Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/SpectacularPrintable

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Diamond Pop-up Easel Card

I was on a Blog Hop by “DigitalStamps 4 Joy” when I came across this wonderful Diamond Pop-up Easel Card on Desire Fourine's blog "Doing Life". It is just too good not to pass on to you!

Desire has a tutorial on making the delightful folded flower embellishment that her card features on the front of the card, and a link to the complete Diamond Pop-up Easel Card making tutorial on Yvonne’s blog called “Card Art Tutorials”.

  

 

Yvonne's card had a completely different look/style. The personality of the artist really shows through in both creations! Here is what Yvonne’s finished card looked like...

Click Here for the tutorial on making the folded flower embellishment.

Click Here for the tutorial on making the Diampnd Pop-up Easel Card.

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CDAC Digi Challenge Entries

Tonight at midnight (PST) is the dead line for entries to CDAC Digi Challenge. Here are our last minute entries:

1. Ballet Shoes esecially designed for the little ballerina's birthday or congratulations:

2. Princess Kailee. I will be adding sentiments to this digital stamp before I put it into our Etsy Shop. I have run out of time for now:

We would really love it if you would surf on over to CDAC and vote for our entries! Please click here and the CDAC Challenge page will open in another window.







These digi stamps will not be available at Spectacular Printable until after the voting is finished next week, but please visit our Etsy Shop.

Win Our Give Away

We will be giving away a $25.00 gift certificate from your choice of either Starbucks, Panera or your choice of printable products from our Etsy Shop on Monday, April 23, 2012; assuming that we have at least 25 entries by that date.

No purchase is necessary! You must use at least one of our digital stamps (a freebie is acceptable) to be eligible for the drawing; you may use a combination of materials from various sources.

Increase your chances of winning by posting your entry (picture of your creation) to both our blog and our Facebook Page. You score extra entry points for every action you make so you’ll be more likely to be picked as the winner! These actions include liking posts, making comments on our blog and/or our Facebook Wall.

Are you new to digital stamps?

Would you like to try a Free Digital Stamp before you buy... Well, do I have a deal for you!

Go to the "Freebies" page and download a free digital stamp for your own personal use. We would really be blessed if you would post a comment and a picture of your creation made with our digi stamp. You may also post it to our Facebook Page (while you're there please click the "Like" button).

Digital Tutorials

We have easy tutorials on how to use digital stamps even if you don't have a fancy graphics program on your computer. Check out the tabs at the top of the page or click the links below for these tutorials:

• MS Word for Digital Stamps - Tutorial. A tutorial on how to use Microsoft Word to easily resize and print digital stamps.
• MS Paint for Digital Stamps - Tutorial. Microsoft Paint is not the most flexible graphics program available, but it is a program that comes with the PC's operating system. It has its advantages; it is free and you don't have to download it from the internet.
• Coloring of Digital Stamps - Tutorial. Digi Stamps come as black outlines, but you canchange the color of your digital stamp in Microsoft Word. This tutorial shows you how to do it.

  



Rainbow Bath Paint - DIY

I know that this post has nothing to do with printables, spectacular or otherwise, but I just thought that it was such a fun, low cost idea that I just had to share it!

Bath time should be a fun time and so much better if you can make it creative as well as clean. So take a look at the picture and then click here to go to the Dubien family's site for the easy tutorial.