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My name is Clare & welcome to my me page

Have you heard the saying "Jack of all trades & master of none."? Well think of me...

In my life I do pretty much anything to everything from scrapbooking to card making to cooking to baking to sewing to quilting to fundraising. Let's not forget about running an eBay store, housework, yard work & raising my daughter.

I spent 16 years selling insurance & when it became work... I quit. I then took a few dead end jobs through the years following & felt it just was not me so decided to go back to college as a single mom to become someone.

I graduated from school in 4 1/2 years with 2 degrees, top in my class, on deans list, with the 2003 academic achievement award beating out 1700 other students & finished $43,000 in debt.

Through my years educating myself I made literally 1000's & 1000's of chocolate covered caramel pretzels selling them to anyone to pay my household bills. In between dips I scrapbooked & gathered friends together to share in my passions. We scraped till wee hours of the morning. I literally had no furniture in my living room so that we could line up 6-foot & 8-foot tables to scrapbook & create our memory masterpieces.

When I discovered scrapbooking I, like many became addicted to the creativity. I found myself having crops & going to crops & attachimg myself to anything that would give me a new idea.

A few years ago I discover the sizzix diecut machine... I fell in love. I walked into every craft store I passed & purchased every diecut they sold. I then eBayed to find the ones I could not find in the stores. Who needs a living room? Most people have trinkets to dust, I have diecuts to dust.

I then discovered the sizzlit... Here I go again. I needed to sell more pretzels to afford my habit. I then found out about the cuttlebug, cricut & now the cricut expression.

I happened to graduate in business & liberal studies & still could not find that job I wanted to wake up to everyday. As I sat in my living room overwhelmed with all my ProvoCraft stock listening to my phone ring for people needing a diecut for their project, I came up with a brainstorm. I said Clare...You are a business major. What can you do with all these tool you have accumulated? I sure can't pay the bills selling a few here & there out of my living room. I have over 1500 diecuts & they are still growing. I need to make these tools work for me. I have my college bills along with all the others & now my daughters college bills. Thank God she is smart & has many scholarships.

I thought scrapbooking & cardmaking is booming business. What I have, people want. This is when I decided to opened up craftyclarescreations on eBay. What I wanted to do is offer a quality product. I wanted to give people want they wanted & needed. I am able to cut every diecut ordered to order. I cut them in whatever color you need, weather it is in card stock, designer paper, foam & vinyls. If there is a specific color you need for your layout you can send your paper stock to me & I will cut them for you.

What is most important to me is customer service. I love to get positive feedback & little notes from my customers telling me how happy they were when their little package arrived.

By viewing my feedback you will see I am a silver power seller & have become a sucessful eBayer because of you.

I was once able to say. I am like no other on ebay. You could purchase one diecut if this is all you need for your project or order as many as you need. An example would be, you might need a few100 maple leaf to use as place cards for the wedding tables. You might want them in your wedding colors. I aim to please. I will get your colors as close as possible for you.

When you search ebay other sellers offer you diecuts by the dozens all one cut usually all one color. You won't get them personalize for your project & anyways you probably don't need the dozens they offer. What will you do with all the extra? I have noticed other sellers do not cut from acid free/lignin free photo safe material, I do.

With the new eBay rules, as of 2/26/2008 I am no longer allowed to sell anything under $1.00 so I am now offering you 4-5-6 diecuts for a $1.00 or so. I am sorry I am not longer able to sell you that one diecut needed but I give you a wide variety to choose from on your $1.00+ choice. I hope you like the changes.

I also have put together kits of different items relating to the same subject for your projects with new ones added all the time. There is no way I could possible put all the diecuts up on eBay that I have in stock so please let me know if you are looking for something specific. Just email me.

NOTE: My P & H is very respectable not taking advantage of my customers. I cut & ship within 24 hours of payment confirmation. If your purchase is $20.00 or more in diecuts & stickers I waive your P & H.  

My items no longer start at .10 but note, I am keeping my prices at the minimums eBay allows.

Note: My shipping is very reasonable have listing costs, selling costs, paypal fees, cost to print your invoice, the cost of the envelope, cost of the plastic bag they go in & not to mention my time & the gas to go to the P.O. So you can see I do offer an exceptional service. Customer service is very important to craftyclarescreations. I hope I become one of your favorite sellers.

Whatever you need weather it is the diecuts or the diecut tools I am able to help you. In fact if there is any products ProvoCraft carries & you need, please email me & ask. I maight be able to just help you out.

I love my sizzix ~ sizzlits ~ cuttlebug ~ cricut & the cricut expression

I want to share them with you. I want to help you beautify your crafting projects.

Stop in craftyclarescreations.com & also a chat group I just started called Scrapbooking & Cardmaking. Come share your thoughts, ideas & good conversations with me.

Please put my store in your favorites & sign up for the newsletter. I run sales from time to time that I am sure you would like to know about. I am open 24/7 so stop in anytime.
 
 Look forward to getting to know you... Crafty Clare~