Welcome to the Scarlet Lime Newsletter

 

It's Midway into September, September kits have shipped and now it's time to start thinking about Fall! As you know.. its my favorite time of the year.. so Octobers' kits are full of fall inspirations!  In this issue of the Scarlet Lime Newsletter we have a new Card Sketch for you by Sonda.. PLUS I actually created something this past weekend.. and just had to share!  In this newsletter we also have sneak peaks of what's in store for October.. and three Fun Halloween Giveaways!

Also a quick note to all of you who are current subscribers.. I will be sending out a note this later this week with some updates on October and November kits.. so watch for that in your inbox later this week (hoping to get it to you by Thursday night!) it's an important update you won't want to miss.. so if you don't see it in  your inbox let me know! I will be out of town mid Thursday through Saturday afternoon.. so will re-send it to you Saturday night if you don't get it.. It's something you won't want to miss!

Have a wonderful week!

Christy

 

September Card SKETCH!

This month,   Cassonda Tadlock has done a really simple card sketch for us.. which I think is perfect for the start of a busy school year! Plus the design is so versatile as far as what products you could use for the circles coming down the side of the card (buttons, brads, rhinestones, chipboard shapes, you  name it!).. lots of possibilities here! Thanks girl for this fun inspiration! .

  Remember to post your cards using her sketch in our NEW gallery! Yeah! I am so excited to finally have a members gallery.. so lets see your past and present cards from her sketches! See you over there :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so.. I don't know if you remember or not.. but a few newsletters back I mentioned I was going to make a Halloween Photo Carousel.. using the Photo Carousel Rounders from 7Gypsies (on that particular day my Sister in Law's website  www.peachycheap.com was having it as their one day item.. for only $19.99 and it normally retails for $40.00!  so  I purchased one of course! LOL ) and .. I had shared this idea to create a Halloween rounder, that included all of the past pictures from my children's Halloween .(and even old photos of my husband and I before we were married)...  along with stories of past memories and also fun tidbits about Halloween and scary Halloween ghost stories! I wanted it to be something just fun for them to look at through the month of October.. and just remember the holiday.. as the month went by..

So this past weekend.. I attended a local crop we had here in Idaho Falls, at I Scrap,  for all of our local Scarlet Lime subscribers (BIG shout out to all of you who came.. and made it a WONDERFUL time for me!!!).. and the project I worked on was the Halloween Rounder!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wasn't quite sure how to go about tackling it at first.. as I had over 100 photos that I wanted to use.... so I decided to first take each photo and paste it (along with a little bit of patterned paper) onto each index card (just photos and paper, no embellishments)..  I thought this would be easier, so I wouldn't have all of my embellishments and papers out at the same time.. and it seemed to work out great! I used papers from the new Chatterbox Artsylicious line, the  Cosmo Cricket Halloween line, and Teresa Collins new Halloween line (all so perfect for this!)   After I got that step done, I put away the papers and started working on embellishing each  photo card..
 

 

 

 

I had been searching the internet for the last couple of weeks trying to find the perfect products to use on this project, as I wanted a very "vintage" feel to it.. and so I was SO happy a couple of weeks ago,  when my SIL, Brooke,  at peachycheap posted this all in one Halloween kit .. which included ribbons, stickers, buttons, chipboard alphas, and more from Daisy's D's Vintage Harvest Halloween line.. it was their one day item and all for only $14.99! (the picture is at right).. of course I jumped on it before it sold out    and it ended up being PERFECT to use for the project! It had so much stuff in it! Plus it had the very vintage feel I wanted but some color as well..   I also mixed in more of the Artsylicious line from Chatterbox (that line is seriously so delicious! LOL).. and some "bling" from Heidi Swap.. and I love how the pages I finished turned out! Here are just a few of the ones I finished..  Colorful but still with a vintage feel..

 

 

 

 

 

I still have so much to do, I have only about 15 of the 100 photo index cards completely embellished.. and I also found these cute little vintage postcards from Daisy D's, as well as journaling cards from Teresa Collins and 7gyipes.. (you can see the picture down below at the right)..   I plan to use these cards to  journal on and place intermixing throughout the rounder between the photo cards.. I wanted the project to have a very mixed media feeling, with pictures, stories, journaling.. and more (I even have pocket folders, I plan to put recipe cards in with fun Halloween goodie recipes).. I hope to have it done by the first part of October.. I will keep you posted on my progress! 

 

 

Okay.. so the gals at the crop on Saturday night.. were SO jealous of the fun little Vintage Halloween Kit I bought from www.peachycheap.com  that when I was up at my SIL's house a couple of nights ago for my nephews birthday party, . I asked her if by ANY chance she had any of them left or could order more of them.. because I wanted to give one of them away in my newsletter tonight.. . I also told her there were several girls at the crop Saturday night that wanted some.. and so begged her to try and order some more.. well.. Being the WONDERFUL Sister in Law that she is.. she of course said she would get right on it.. but since their website only offers products once.. she said she would do a special listing of the vintage kits (as well as some of the 7 Gypsies Carousel Rounders) on her Etsy site.. www.tatteredtags.etsy.com .. she JUST listed them tonight.. and only you guys know about them.. but they are limited.. so make sure you jump right over and get them before they are out!  Remember, they won't be listed on her peachy cheap website.. ONLY her Etsy site.. which is www.tatteredtags.com .  Also.. normally they don't ship internationally.. but she said she gets so many request from our Scarlet Lime Customers to ship international as well,  that for this week only,  they are going to offer these (plus  some of their past peacycheap deals.. from the past month) to all my Scarlet Lime international customers.. PLUS  combined shipping...  So for international customers who want to view the past products you can purchase.. here  is the link

www.peachycheap.com/rss.builder.php

 They will combine shipping on any of these products, so to find out prices and combined shipping totals,   e-mail them at support@peachycheap.com .

 

Thanks Brooke for doing this! YOU ROCK!

 

 

 

 So are you ready for Fall yet? We have already started getting colder weather here which makes me excited for the fall season! October's main kit is FULL of fall colors as well as embellishments that will remind you of the cozy season! We also have a cute month stamp the was created by Jayla Campbell (another one of my talented sister in law's).. for our main kit stamp this month! 

This kit includes papers and products from GCD Studios, Basic Grey, Crate Paper, Dream Street, Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon, SEI, 7Gypsies, Luxe and MORE (lots more! LOL).. this kit is a ton of fun!

If you aren't a current Scarlet Lime Subscriber and would like to start a subscription to Scarlet Lime starting with our October kit... you can do so by following the link below! As a new subscriber you will also receive our special preview link to the add-on kits, and purchase those early, before they go live on the 1st!


(this is for new Subscribers only.. not one one time purchases. those will be available on our website on the 1st of October).

New Scarlet Lime Subscription starting with October Kit click here

Our project kit this month reminds me of vintage fall blues and greens.. and is full of little this and that products that will bring a smile to your face for sure! Did you know before Scarlet Lime my husband used to make handmade furniture? Well this month, I talked him into create handcrafted frames out of molding, for our  vintage project kit, and I will tea-dying shipping tags for each kit,  that will be strung on wire with beads and charms....  to hang inside the frame!.. This is ONE project kit, you won't want to miss! Greta Hammond is going to create this project for us.. and if you happened to be at CHA this past summer and saw her beautiful work in the Chatterbox CHA booth.. it was simply amazing.. you will love what she does with this kit!

This kit includes papers and products from the New K&Company Amy Butler Line, Crate Paper, American Crafts, My Minds Eye, October Afternoon, Adorn It and MORE! Plus the vintage journaling stamp designed exclusively for this kit by Jayla..  Since these kits have a lot of handmade items from Ben and I, they will be limited this month.. so make sure you get them early!

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

I have had a lot of request for more boyish kits.. and of course you know Fall is my favorite time of year.. so I thought maybe I should do a fun, mostly boyish fall kit! (Notice I only included ONE floral in the mix? LOL).. This kit also includes a fun stamp from Jayla Campbell as well..

It actually matches well with alot of the papers from our main kit, and the products in this kit do as well, so you can mix the two to create alot of great fall layouts!

It includes products from Kaiser Crafts, Amy Butler, Sassafras lass, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Grey, Making Memories, Adorn It, October Afternoon and more! This is one of my favorite mini kits ever!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

So of course we have to do a giveaway.. This week we will give away 3 fun prizes all  perfect for Halloween!

 like I mentioned early.. one of the prizes we will giveaway is the fun Halloween kits from www.peachycheap.com! Another winner will receive one of the 7Gypsies Photo Rounders.. (plus some fun little this and that goodies perfect for Halloween).. And a third winner will receive one of the Halloween goodie bags we gave away at our crop this past weekend (I put together this fun Halloween bags that had vintage papers from Teresa Collins, Making Memories, and more! Plus stickers from the New Making Memories Halloween line, Chatterbox Artsylicious line and more. it's really a fun little kit!

 All you have to do is post on today's blog post to get entered to win and we will announce the winners on our blog this coming Monday, the 22rd of September..

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hugs!
Christy