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We hope you will enjoy your visit with us as you "scroll and click" to view...
- our products for sewing and embroidery
- our "HOW-TO" learning projects
- our expanding list of freebies
We have products and projects for just about anyone who enjoys:
- smocking
- machine embroidery
- quilting for babies and children
- sewing for babies, children or adults
Please browse our catalog and view all of our smocking design plates, smocking patterns, baby quilt patterns, machine embroidery and books for creating accessories (hairbows, totebags, etc.) to complement your children's smocked clothing.
 To ensure all of your credit card orders are secure when sent via the Internet, we offer online purchasing through PayPal. If you wish to order by mail, fax or telephone, you can use the printable order form.
Our selection of "free stuff" from smocking designer, Diane Bruce continues to expand. Click on the underlined links below to open and print any of the following freebies:
- free Beginners Guide to Smocking
- free patterns for easy "learn to smock" projects
- free adaptation sheets (on our Free Downloads page) that include new ideas for many of our most popular smocking patterns
- free machine embroidery items (coming soon) to coordinate with smocking and sewing projects
- our section of "smocking freebies". (The emphasis of these new freebies will be on special "beginning smocking" helps through detailed graphs, tips and instructions as well as picture smocking designs.) Scroll down to view samples.
FREE BEES and other Freebies!
Diane Bruce is creating more free items for your enjoyment.
- free smocking designs
- free "learn to smock" directions (with an emphasis on stacking cables to create picture smocking.)
- free machine embroidery designs to coordinate with your smocking design
Click on the bee image below to view instructions for receiving our current free smocking design.
Our next free smocking designs (available in August, 2010) include:
- Mary-Claire's Cupcakes (scroll down to view)
- Pleaterless Smocking, Lesson #1, The Cable*
- Pleaterless Smocking, Lesson #2, Trellis Travels (coming in September)
*Some samples of this first "Pleaterless Smocking" design can be viewed on the Jiffy Jumper photos shown on right.
Our Freebie Pages will be updated frequently. We are currently testing directions for:
- Lilly's Ladybugs (smocking)
- Beetle Boys (smocking)
- Baby Bugs (machine embroidery)
 Click cupcake dress to view larger image of the bishop variation of Mary-Claire's Cupcakes.
Your privacy is very important to us. We will never share your email address without permission from you.
DISCOUNTS and DOWNLOADS
Currently we are offering out-of-print smocking design plates (and new designs as they are created) for purchase as downloads. 
This is a nice opportunity for all of us to save money and to "save some trees" as these designs will only be printed when they are purchased.
Discount prices for these downloads are 40% to 50% below our printed copy prices and of course, there are no shipping cost.
Hannah Marie, download, $2.50
(Printed copy was $4.50)
Click smocking image to view ordering info.
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Creative Keepsakes, Inc. ~ 2315 Lakeshore Drive, H-3 ~ Hot Springs, AR 71913 ~ Phone 501.760.1922
Click here to email Diane Bruce
Site last updated on
July 28, 2010
All designs provided herein, as well the content and images on this web site are copyrighted material of Creative Keepsakes, Inc.
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Keep scrolling to view even more pattern samples . . . AND VIEW. . .
Some wonderful fabrics that will work great with our next free smocking design. |
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We have shopped for (and will have available for purchase in August) fabrics that help make the upcoming easy smocking designs even easier. These easy (also free) new designs are:
- Pleaterless Smocking, Lesson #1, The Cable
- Pleaterless Smocking, Lesson #2, Trellis Travels
Many of the fabrics shown below are in limited supply (no longer available anywhere after we sell our inventory), but we will continue to shop for fabics that help make these "Pleaterless" smocking designs an easy creation for you. |
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