Tuesday Tutorial: Easter Pails

Looking for a cute idea for your kids Easter Baskets...look no farther!

These pails are so easy and so cute.
All you need is the vinyl and the buckets.

We now have these designs up in our shop.
You can find them here.

How cute would these little mushrooms look on a pail or
even this swirl with your kids names!

How about just their names!

You can have so much fun with these pails and personalize them just for you!

Saturday Spotlight

The etsy store spotlight for today is:
precocious

I ordered a headband from her store last week. The shipping was super fast. I am one who get headaches easily from headbands so I don't usually buy them, but when I saw these I had to give one a try.



I LOVE them. They aren't tight, but they stay put and they are reversible, so you get two designs in one - and they are so adorable.

Website Templates

We are super excited to be revamping our website and putting together our shopping cart for your shopping pleasure.
Help us choose our next website template.

If you vote on which template you like the best you will be entered into our Friday giveaway - which is a $25 gift certificate to our store:
Janey Mac

To vote simply leave us a comment with your choice!

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and
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Plain backgrounds:

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Friday Giveaway!!! Gift Certificate

This Friday's giveaway is a $25 gift certificate to our store:
Janey Mac


*Two ways to enter:

1. Become a follower of our blog and post a comment letting us know :)

2. Let us know which of our Website templates (in the post above) you like the best - (vote on the post above)

* Contest will be open until Midnight EST on Wednesday, March 17th. Contest is open to U.S. residents only!

* 1 winner will be randomly selected (from random.org) and announced on this site on Thursday, March 18th. Please check back to see if you won, or leave your email address with your comment. The winner will need to contact janeymacpress@gmail.com to provide name and shipping address.

Winner! Winner!

Congrats to Lauren from blog - Shooting Stars Mag
She is the winner of our Beatles giveaway.

Tuesday Tutorial: St Patricks Day Blocks

Hey everyone! This is Lisa and today is my first Tuesday Tutorial! Each Tuesday we will be showing a new way to use vinyl for decorating and organizing your home.

Today's project was inspired by St Patrick's Day which is just around the corner.


There are so many great patterns of Scrapbook paper out there and you can use them to make blocks for the Holidays.

To make these blocks you need:

• Scrap pieces of wood
• Scrapbook paper
• Modge Podge, matte finish
• Paint
• Sandpaper
• Sponge paint
• Vinyl

To assemble the blocks:

• First cut your wood to the sizes you want them to be. You can use any size of wood you have
• Sand down the edges so that they are smooth
• Paint the wood with your color choice. You can also sand the edges after painting them to give it a little bit of a distressed look.
  
• Cut your paper to size. I like to take an ink pad and gently brush the edges of the paper against it so it helps give it a finished or aged look. Just choose a color that compliments your project.
  
• With your foam brush cover the area where your scrapbook paper will be with a smooth medium layer of Modge Podge.
  
• Carefully center your paper and press down smoothing it so that there are no bubbles. Allow to sit for a few minutes while putting light pressure to make sure the paper sticks and wont bubble. Then take and brush an even layer of Modge Podge over the paper. Be very careful to not allow the paper to bubble. If it does gently try to press it down or smooth out. The paper becomes sticky so be sure not to rip it. If you mess the paper up you can always remove it and do a new paper.
• Allow to dry overnight and then gently apply the vinyl

You can even just do blocks without the scrapbook paper. Last year I made these Spring blocks using colored blocks and vinyl lettering.


Think of the cute blocks you could make with these farm animals or butterflies for a nursery. You could even use the farm animals to make some really cute Easter blocks.

There are so many possibilities!

Friday Giveaway!!! Beatlemania

Today's Friday Giveaway is inspired by a customers photo -
For all of us Beatles Freaks out there :)



One Abbey Road Decal - Approx. 22" in length
Color: Dark Brown (color shown is black)


and

One Beatles Faces Decal - Approx. 22" in length.
Color: Metallic Silver (color shown is black)



*Two ways to enter:

1. Post about this contest on your blog, facebook - or other social networking site and post a comment letting us know.

2. Become a follower of our blog and post a comment letting us know :)

* Contest will be open until Midnight EST on Wednesday, March 10th. Contest is open to U.S. residents only!

* 1 winner will be randomly selected (from random.org) and announced on this site on Thursday, March 11th. Please check back to see if you won, or leave your email address with your comment. The winner will need to contact janeymacpress@gmail.com to provide name and shipping address.

Design Style Guide

Our modern tree vinyl decal was featured in the Spring article on Color Trends at Design Style Guide.
Check it out here:

Color Trends 2010

And this You Tube video:

Color Trends You Tube

How fun!! We have never had anything on You Tube before.

Deal of the Day

We are starting a new thing on our blog - Every Thursday we will post a 'Deal of the Day'.
The deal or discount is good only for that day and you must enter the promo code in the 'message to seller' box at checkout at our etsy store Janey Mac (www.janeymacpress.etsy.com)

Today's Deal of the Day is:
Buy two get on (of equal or lesser value) Free

Promo code to enter: BTGOF3-4

This deal expires at Midnight 3/4/2010 :)

New Employees

So I have a couple of people helping me out (pics to come soon)

My friend Lisa has taken over our marketing/advertising division - Or I should say, she is creating our marketing/advertising division. And helps out with other odds and ends of the operation.

Tomi - a local high school student comes over a couple days a week and helps with the kids, errands, packaging - really whatever scatter brained thing I need done at the moment.

Thank you to both ladies for making my life that much more peaceful :)

Busy Busy

So I have been too busy to keep up with my blogging - but I do have a customer photo to share - I love this nursery, so cute :)

Girly Swirl

I was sent this customer photo - This is our Girly Swirl decal with custom name.

Adorable Baby Bow Holder

I got this in the mail yesterday, I was SOOO excited.
The most adorable bow holder from - Persnickety Baby


The perfect piece to finish off my bookcase in the nursery.
I love the bright pinks and greens and all the little bling embellishments inside the flowers.

Vinyl Tree Wall Decals

So I just got my 48" cutter, which I LOVE. Now I can cut really large pieces, all in one piece, instead of them having to be pieced together. So I designed a few new tree sticker decals this weekend.

I still have a lot of requests for owls, so I thought the owl in this tree added that cutesy touch.


Blowing trees are always popular :)

This one I call my cutesy tree - I think it would look adorable in a nursery.


And this is my version of a blowing tree made cute with lots of cherry blossoms.

DIY projects

If you are into DIY projects then I have a great blog for you.
Best DIY blog - Green Submarine
They featured one of our decals on their diy under $40 post and sent me the link, I am so happy they did b/c I love their blog :)

Here are some projects from her blog:

Love Covered Chocolates
Padded Headboard

Ikea Lamp Makeovers

Yummy Treats for Valentine's Day

Check out the
Whipped Bake Shop

Look at these adorable and yummy treats for Valentine's Day :)

I wish my Sugar Cookies were this pretty.

YUM!!!!! I could eat a dozen of these. My son would eat cake for breakfast, dinner and lunch if he could. He is definitely his mother's son :)

New Damask Vinyl Sticker Wall Art

I just designed these damask patterns for a client last night, based on a design she really liked. I love the way they turned out - I can't wait to list them in our shop this weekend :)

Free Printable Valentine's Cards and Purse Tutorial

My S.I.L is one of those amazing people that know how to do everything - I wanted to direct you to a couple of things on her blog.
Her Blog is Modest Maven
First
These absolutely adorable Free Printable Valentine's Day Cards:


and
This tutorial to make this cute pleated purse:

Cake for Breakfast :)

My vinyl cutter broke this weekend. I was already backed up on orders b/c my vinyl supplier had some colors on back order, I go my shipment on Friday and went to cut orders, got a couple done a poof - the machine is blinking and clunking, and NOT working. So I am spending all morning today emailing customers about the problem. I am so frustrated and embarrassed by the whole situation. So I under stress, I ate Cake for breakfast. Yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting and sprinkles on top. That made me feel better, until I calculated the calories :)