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Free Printable Vintage Birthday Cards

Holiday Crafts — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:47:48 +0000

When it comes to honoring a birthday, you can’t beat these vintage free printable birthday cards. Not that there’s anything wrong with modern birthday card designs; they’re great. But sometimes it’s just nice to summon up the feeling of yesteryear.

These cards convey both an elegance and a sense of whimsy, which I’m sure will be appreciated by the recipients. And to make them even more special, try adding just a touch of glitter glue to embellish them. But don’t use a lot or the card stock might warp and the colors might run. You don’t need much to achieve a nice effect anyway. Just small dabs on highlighted areas can make a big difference.

However you embellish them, or even if you don’t, I hope you enjoy these free printable birthday cards. And if you’re in the market for birthday party favors and decorations to go along with a card, click the link in this sentence. They have some fun stuff, some of which can be incorporated into craft projects!

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Free Vintage Pink Rose Scrapbook Paper

Holiday Crafts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:28:21 +0000

Here are some old-timey-looking free vintage rose scrapbook papers and a coordinating stripe design that I hope you’ll enjoy using. The pink rose I used to create the designs (pictured at right) comes from Vintagerio, which has an insanely large collection of vintage roses and other flowers that I’ve featured on this site and some of the pages linked from the sidebars. By the way, if you click on the rose art to the right, you’ll find a lovely large-sized version you’re free to use.

Speaking of the the sidebars, you can see from looking at them that I’ve been playing with designing scrapbook papers for a while now. Creating them is the perfect hobby for me, since I love vintage art and clip art in general. Working on the designs has allowed me to justify spending hours looking at beautiful artwork and it’s definitely art therapy for me. I hope my therapy will benefit you as well when you make something pretty from these or my other vintage flower scrapbook papers!

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By the way, these vintage roses reminded me of wallpaper I once had. In fact, a lot of paper craft designs could translate well to walls. I wonder how many scrapbook paper designers actually move ontoÂ designing wallpaper — and vice versa. The scale may be different but the principles are the same: a repeat pattern is usually involved and the colors have to be easy on the eyes. That second aspect is obviously more important with wallpaper. You can always shut a scrapbook and put it in a drawer so no one sees it. But once a paper design is applied in the form ofÂ paper designs for walls, it’s there until you go through some considerable work to take it down. No one wants to look at obnoxious walls for years on end! That puts some pressure on the artists but even more so on the homeowner. I always used to get so stressed out when picking out wallpaper designs.Â As a result nowadays I just stick to painting the walls and playing with scrapbook paper designs on my computer! There’s much less margin for error.

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Free Vintage Scrapbooking Paper: Victorian Scroll Work and Stripes

Holiday Crafts — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:35:37 +0000

Although I don’t claim to be an expert on scrapbooking paper, I can pretty much guarantee you couldn’t actually find any Victorian scroll design scrapbook paper in the 1800s. So I made some myself, using Picnik, the free online graphics program.

These printable scrapbook pages in lovely soft shades of vintage pink, blue, brown and green are designed to mix and match and would be ideal for wedding scrapbooks or even as backgrounds for handmade wedding invitations or thank you cards. I personally plan to use them as components of handmade birthday cards to give to friends. They’re going to go great with Vintage Holiday Craft’s vintage flowers and roses, so I can’t wait to use them.

These are only the second set of scrapbooking papers I’ve designed — although I look forward to creating many more. The first set is a mix of contemporary and vintage-look St. Patrick’s Day scrapbook papers.

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Free Vintage Birthday Cards

Holiday Crafts — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:52:58 +0000

Many of these vintage birthday cards feature vintage roses, which never grow old as far as I’m concerned. Some of them also have other vintage flowers, as well as country scenes, lakes and more than a few well-wishing doves. As with many of the other vintage art images on this site, the workmanship is impeccable. (I can say that, because I didn’t paint them!) I’m sure any of your friends or family members would be delighted to receive one of these as a special birthday tribute.

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