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Hello Peeps! As you can see, today’s freebie ( a set of retro Letter to Santa and ephemera printables) was created on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CC as reproduction Christmas journaling cards, labels with the cutest retro Santa image I obtained from The Graphic Fairy’s site who has lots of the loveliest free vintage and retro images available. I recommend you visit her site, if you haven’t already.
I really had a lot of fun ( thinking of all those Mommies out there) designing these elements even though getting the authentic feel and wear for these vintage images was a challenge. In any case, I hope you enjoy them!
Popular Graphic Sites
I really appreciate all of you who have visited this blog and also checked out Creative Fabrica and Rawpixel and signed up for their design graphics and vintage freebies! Your generous support helps me with providing additional freebies. Since I started recommending both of these sites, they are both incorporating powerful AI tools that makes any kind of designing and crafting much easier, so check them out if you so choose.
In addition, another one of my favorite design sites, Rawpixel, has a great assortment of public domain vintage images! Create a free account using my link, if you like.
And for a slew of great vintage and whimsical fonts and lots of crafting svgs, (including new AI tools) don’t forget to try Creative Fabrica. I have a subscription and use a lot of their graphic resources for my designs.
Design Inspiration
I developed the inspiration for these printables because I have been looking on Etsy for these vintage items and they are hard to come by or the exact design I am looking for.
As for the details about the freebie, there are three freebies in all. The journaling cards measure approximately 3″ x 4″ and the Christmas Letter to Santa is approximately US letter size ( 8 1/2 by 11″). These are approximate measurements for these elements.
Although these products were made specifically as junk journal or for pocket scrapbooking, as always, they can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, December Dailies, art journals or other types of memory keeping.
Facts about the vintage Christmas freebie:
- There are three free printables; two US letter jpeg file + half letter jpeg file
- These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp. (The preview pictures on the blog and at Google are at 72 dpi, the actual download’s color is actually much smoother and softer.)
- Printing tip: I would advise that you print on heavy white cardstock, plain or matte to use as die cuts or on white sticker paper to use the labels as stickers.
- Color theme: green, ivory, red, black, white
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As usual these freebies are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.) If you have been here before, you know the drill. All this extra content might be a little tiresome (sorry, but I want newcomers to get a hang of what needs to be done to access their freebie!).
If not, you might want to read the quick TOU below before you access the printable.
Terms of Use
* Vintage Glam Studio printables (formerly under the name Vintage Glam Collectibles) are for PERSONAL USE ONLY. (I own the domains for both names and will be dedicating this blog to more design related articles and printables.)
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own.
*Not to be resold on POD sites such as Redbubble, Zazzle, Cafe Press, etc.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Studio & link back to my blog, so others can obtain the resources. Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook are great social media sharing platforms, it’s the sharing without a link back that can be a problem.
You can access the pdf file>>> Letter to Santa
Or if you like, click on the picture below for the download.
Freebie #2 – Peppermint Striped Blank US Letter
Freebie #3 – Retro Letter to Santa Ephemera
Image Credit:
Most of my elements are made from commercial use, public domain pictures and scanned vintage ephemera sources; however. if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be made available. Designers vary in their restrictions for their terms of use (even for CU items), so although I try to be scrupulous, I may miss some. Vintage Santa image from Rawpixel.
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