Etsy Texas Crafters has Secrets!!

5th Monday of the Month means it's time for Etsy Texas Crafters Has Secrets Promotional Event!!

All participating team members have Armadillo Tex hiding in their shops listings! Find Ol' Tex and purchase the item he's hiding in and receive a free gift. There are two secrets in my shop!!! Find the secrets and receive the free matching pair of earrings that are described in the listing!!

Today only - Monday June 30th from midnight to midnight!!

Click here to find all the participating shops secrets!! We aren't making this easy for you though. Some of the search results aren't secrets but you have to look through them anyway to find the ones that are!!

Go straight to Handmade Whimzy by clicking here.

Find out more about Etsy Texas Crafters by clicking onto our website here.

Etsy Texas Crafters Design Challenge Day!

It's Monday again and time for another Etsy Texas Crafters Event! This week is our design challenge which is themed "All things Texas".

To find our Design Challenge Items, change the default search to "All Items: tags, titles" and search on "TeamEtsyTx DesignChallenge" or click on the following link: http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title_all&search_query=teametsytx+designchallenge

Etsy Texas Crafters Gives to Autism Awareness!

Etsy Texas Crafters (ETC), the street team known for First Mondays, is now celebrating Third Mondays by giving back to our community.

Each month, participating team members will donate a percentage of their sales for that day to a charity selected by the team. Please help support this worthy cause by shopping the participating stores!

For June, ETC members will donate to the Austin, TX chapter of the Autism Society of America. Please see their website for more information on this worthy organization --
http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer
Our Third Monday ETC Cares promotion will begin at 12:01am Monday, June 16th, and end at 12:00 midnight the same day (Central Time — that’s 1:01am Monday to 1:00am Tuesday, Etsy time!).

For a list of participating shops please click here!

You shop and Etsy Texas Crafters Donates!!

Etsy Texas Crafters Featured Member and 1st Monday Sale!

This weeks featured member is:

In appreciation for all that she does to support our team and our team members, this week’s Featured Member is Connie of ReFabulous.

Connie lives in Melissa, TX (North Texas), and enjoys taking something old and giving it new life as a useful, beautiful, one-of-a-kind treasure. She blends recycled materials with new to create unique handmade wallets, pincushions, pouches, and more! Her latest creations are eco-friendly dryer sachets, made with reclaimed fabrics and filled with lavender buds from PoPkO (not an ETC member, but an awesome Etsian!).
Thank you, Connie, for all that you do!

Etsy Texas Crafters First Monday Sale!!!!

Monday, June 2nd from 12 am to 12 midnight!

It's time again for our great monthly sale! My shop, Handmade Whimzy, will be having a 20% off sale on everything listed in my shop, tomorrow - June 2nd! (Excludes custom orders, shipping charges and discount can not be combined with any other discount)

So get ready to start shopping at midnight! Check out the blog on our team website for all the participating shops. You can get some really good deals on some really great stuff.

Trying something new!

I have never been into making scrapbooks but I do love all the great scrapbooking papers and accessories that you can buy. During Christmas, I made some hang tags for my jewelry that was displayed at the Plantation Pines Christmas Tree Farm gift shop. That was fun and pretty easy, so when I needed some thank you cards for the mom's in my son's class who helped with parties all year, I thought I would try my hand at making them.

I already had white card stock so I wanted paper that would coordinate. I ended up getting a pink stripe paper that was full of summer colors and combined that with a pink floral with coordinating colors. I found a "thank you" stamp at Michaels in the $1 bin and used black ink to stamp my thank yous onto pink vellum. I cut the thank yous out with my crafty decorative scissors, glued them to the floral paper which was then glued to the striped paper then to the card stock. WHEW!

Then I decorated the cards with little colored metal flower brads. I'm sure there is a scrappy way of making the holes for the brads but I didn't know what it was. So I just used my ice pick. All in all though, I think they turned out nice, especially for my first time. I mailed them out today so we shall see. One of the mom's is a crafty scrapper so I'm sure she will have some pointers for me on how I can improve - and maybe even tell me the secret to making the brad holes so that I don't have to use the ice pick! LOL Here are my pics!



Not bad for a first try huh????

Etsy Texas Crafters Featured Team Member

In appreciation for all that she does to support our team and our team members, this week’s Featured Member is Liz of LavenderLizard. Liz lives in San Antonio, TX, and creates fabulous crocheted apparel, accessories, scrubbies, supplies, and gifts!
Liz is a very active member of the ETC Team! Until recently, she was our ETC Cares Coordinator, and she is now creating amazing treasuries for our team (see our ETC Spotlight Treasuries posts).
Thanks, Liz, for all that you do!

View Liz's shop here:
http://lavenderlizard.etsy.com

Etsy Texas Crafters Featured Member of the Week!

This week the Etsy Texas Crafters featured member is Cyn of http://simplycynful.etsy.com.
Read all about her here: http://www.etsytx.org/wordpress/
in the Etsy Texas Crafters blog!

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A quick shout out to Milly, our awesome team leader who works really hard for Texas crafters! Thanks Milly!