social

Facebook Twitter Blogger Pinterest Instagram YouTube

menu

About Us Contact Us News Faq Tutorials Our Shop

giveaways ad

Friday, March 29, 2013

Happy Half Off Friday!


 Hey there Create Kids Couture Fans! I don't know where the week has gone, but it sure flew by for me! Maybe because there's always so much going on around here! In case you missed it, here's a quick rundown of our news for the week:



Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Boutique Basics--Copyright: Mickey Is Making Me Money!!!

Copyright Violation has been a hot topic in our pattern group, whether we're talking about images and people stealing photos, or making clothes out of licensed fabric, or embroidery designs, every one's got something to say. A great site for future reference is Tabber's Temptations; bookmark it if you think you ever might need info about sewing and copyright issues. You'll find lots of great info there, and I promise you will discover that a lot of the things you think are true about copyright restrictions and sewing are, in fact, not true at all!!! 

Since this is such a huge topic, we're going to have to tackle it in baby steps, so today we invited Tina Lueders to drop by the blog with some of her expert advice about embroidery, a service many of our customers provide, and how they might be effected by copyright laws. Thanks, Tina!

Copyright - Mickey Is Making Me Money!!!

Well, not me personally, but he's helping many vendors on Etsy, Facebook, Ebay and other commerce sites. And probably the majority of the vendors are breaking the law, some by ignorance of the copyright laws and some by just ignoring the copyright laws.

Copyright - always a heated discussion. What can I sell as a small business or boutique owner. Hey I'm just trying to make a few bucks to help the family out in this downward economy. Right? Wrong!!!!

Monday, March 25, 2013

Kid's Fabrics in the Spotlight!


Hello everyone at Create Kids Couture! It's Kimberly from Fat Quarter Shop and I'm excited to share our newest crop of fabric offerings with you!
We have adorable lines perfect for children's apparel and projects coming in constantly. Today we are going to highlight a few new collections that we think you will love!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Weekly Wrap Up and Half off Friday

Happy Friday CKC Fans!

Have you been keeping up with us this week? We released 5 new patterns!






Plus, we released a new free pattern!!!


A sweet and simple Child's Ruffle Purse.


It's just what every little girl needs!


 And it can even double as an Easter basket!
You can find the free pattern HERE.

Time is running out to enter our Matchy Matchy Contest! Get your entries in... the prize is a one year subscription to the pattern of the month club!


Our Half off Pattern today is Harper's Top!



Harper's is a pillowcase style top with a little added pizazz, CKC ruffle style!


It comes in sizes 6 mo- 8 girls.


And it's a quick sew, so whip one up this weekend for your favorite little girl!
You can get it today for only $5.00 HERE.

Happy Sewing!


Friday, March 15, 2013

Weekly Wrap up and Half off Friday!

Hey CKC fans! My head is just spinning! There's so much going on, it's hard to keep up!

We have a site wide SALE going on!!! 
From now until Sunday evening, use code "BESTFANSEVER30" for a whopping 30% off your ENTIRE order on our website. We can't thank you guys enough for being so amazing and helping us get to where we are today. Please continue to share Create Kids Couture with all your friends and family! 

 Today we start our very first Sew-A-Long using Antoinette's Double Layer Twirly Skirt Pattern. Hopefully you picked it up last Friday for half off!


If you haven't joined us already and you'd like to join the sew-a-long, you can find us here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ckcsewalongs/

Friday, March 8, 2013

The Easter Bunny has arrived a little early!!!

We are so thrilled to have been invited to participate in Lilac Lane's Easter Bunny Blog Hop. Ummm, and we have to admit, we were even more excited when we found out we'd be getting some super cute fabric from Riley Blake Designs to work with! Any day that there is fabric in our mailbox is a good day, but this day...this was super sweet!

We received a charm pack of Happy Ever After  by Susan Workman for our project. We decided since Easter is just around the corner and we just debuted our new line of 18" Create Kids Couture Doll Patterns that now would be the perfect time to release a free doll size pattern for our fans! 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Boutique Basics: Product Packaging Tutorial

The tutorial I'd like to share with you is one for packaging your product for customers. I do not know about you but I get SO EXCITED about packages when they come in the mail. You will seriously hear me break out singing, "Brown paper packages, tied up with string, those are a few of my favorite things..." Every. Single. Time. 

Why not make your packages extra special? You are a boutique. You are charging (or SHOULD be charging) more than Walmart for your product. Why not package your product in a way that lets the customer know, right off the bat, that what I'm getting is special. What I'm getting is worth the money. What I'm getting was created with love and care and attention! Why not package your product in a way that makes your customers see packages from you as something special? 


Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Wildflower Child--March Boutique of the Month

Congratulations to our March Boutique of the Month, Wildflower Child Boutique! Bethany has been a regular on the CKC page for quite some time now and always impresses us with the gorgeous creations she makes and share. Bethany was sweet enough to write free tutorial on product packaging to share just with CKC fans and it is so good that I'll be posting it tomorrow because I didn't want it to steal the show today! Thank you Bethany for writing it, I know all the boutiques will appreciate it! Don't forget to check back tomorrow! And now, Bethany from Wildflower Child Boutique!!!



Hi, I'm Bethany from Wildflower Child Boutique!! I'm so incredibly honored to be the boutique of the month for one of my favorite pattern designing companies!! CKC really has some of the most amazing patterns with the most user friendly instructions out there!!

                          



Monday, March 4, 2013

Matchy Matchy March Easter Contest



We've been getting inspired by all the beautiful matching items our fans have been posting. Nothing makes us feel better about what we do than seeing our customers' gorgeous creations and hearing about all the compliments you get!