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September 8, 2022 By Dru Cortez 2 Comments

Free William Morris Vintage Journaling Papers and Index Cards

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William Morris journaling printables on desktop

Happy Thursday! Today, I’m providing my latest vintage ephemera junk journaling printable. I have noticed a lot of traffic on these blog posts and I’d like to acknowledge and appreciate the support and referral traffic. Today, I am providing you a set using William Morris ( a famous British 19th century textile and wallpaper artist’s) wallpaper images combined with vintage ephemera. The color theme is filled with rich golds and black that suggest the upcoming fall season. And, of course, my regular readers know I like the contrast of black.

In any case, I hope this freebie inspires you in your crafting, art journaling, junk journaling and/or scrapbooking time with today’s vintage freebie.

I so enjoy designing these projects. I am always excited to develop new ideas for tags and now papers with a vintage ephemera look for either scrapbooking, art journaling, junk journaling and other paper crafting uses. I am trying to provide a few of these vintage printables more frequently. I mentioned previously about how many crafting/junk journaling Youtube videos I am watching for inspiration and ideas. It has inspired me to actually tea and coffee dye some of my own paper copy paper. The coffee dyed paper below is a scan of an actual coffee dyed paper that I created using a modified technique of actually immersing the paper in a tea bath; I also added a rose repeat pattern and it shows up within the coffee wash! I hope you like it!

These jpegs are created at the highest quality, so some of the files may be large at approximately 5 MB. If you are not into junk or art journaling, you can also resize some of these images and pop these into the pockets of A5 planners or Traveler’s Notebooks if you enjoy a vintage aesthetic, as I do.

Today’s freebie has a lot of source vintage ephemera images from ledger script, vintage botanical images I have scanned and other sources of vintage ephemera digital items, some sourced from books published in the 1800s. I also would like to mention that Creative Fabrica (a great graphic resource site and my go to site) is having an awesome sale throughout this month as we get ready for fall crafting, be sure to check out their daily freebies and giveaways. Also, I obtained these William Morris images from another great graphic website, Rawpixel which is loaded with a slew of public domain images and artwork.

Facts about the Vintage Ephemera Junk Journaling Freebie

As for the details about the freebie, there are 4 printables provided today. You can use these elements for journaling in your traveler’s notebook projects, smashbooks, junk journals or other types of memory keeping. This printable is for diy paper crafts but, of course, can be used in your journals.

This freebie has two journaling pages at 8.5″ by 11″ and two add on pages of large tags and a newly designed printable of 3″ x 5″ tabbed index cards. These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be clear and sharp. They can be used in either the Silhouette Cameo or Cricut digital cutters to cut them out or you can use scissors and a slide cutter.

The materials I used were vintage ephemera scanned at a very high resolution and other high quality vintage digital resources.

**Please note, although I used public domain resources to create this design, the design is under my copyright.**

Materials Needed

*White cardstock or white sticker paper, depending on your final use.

*Vintage inks, such as Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads, to give the edges a worn, tinted or aged look. Takes off the white edge of the journaling cards and journaling spots if you are using them for junk journaling and gives the paper an aged look. With these inks you control the amount of tinting and color you prefer on your edges.

*Scissors or slide cutter

*Photo editing software (i.e., Photoshop Elements) for jpeg files or Silhouette or other digital cutters.

How to Use this Vintage Ephemera Junk Journaling Printable

Print and cut out the papers and use them as pages or pockets for your junk journals, traveler’s notebooks and other planners. Watermark is removed on actual downloads.

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Thanks for Your Social Media Repins

I’d like to say thanks to all those taking the time to comment, I sure appreciate the gracious “thank yous” and the legitimate “link love”. Thank you for your pins on Pinterest as well as Instagram links, although it’s been awhile since I have been actively posting on the platform. I also appreciate mentions in your blogs with appropriate link backs and active links.

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. If not, you might want to read the quick TOU below before you access the printable.

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.

*Please do not post to POD sites such as Zazzle, Redbubble, Cafepress, etc. These printables are designed for your own personal crafting use.

*If you post this on the internet, I would appreciate it if you 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.

*Digital items are not meant for digital website use, these are for personal printable (physical/tangible) projects only for yourself or gifts to family and friends.

Click on the picture below for the download. Hope you like them!

Freebie #1 – Vintage Ephemera Junk Journaling Page 1

Freebie #2 – Vintage Junk Journaling Page 2

Freebie #3 – Vintage Ephemera Index Cards

Freebie #4 – Vintage Ephemera Large Tags

Image Credit:

Most of my vintage ephemera printables are made from Commercial use or public domain sources, including from my own personal vintage ephemera collection. Free vintage images from other websites will be credited when used. Vintage garden seed ad from The Old Design Shop website. Vintage album image from Unsplash.

September 6, 2022 By Dru Cortez 2 Comments

Fall Leaves Weekly Kit Planner Stickers Printables

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planner stickers printables on desktop

Hello peeps… I hope you had a great long weekend. It’s Tuesday and the start of another new work week, I thought I would follow up with this new set of Happy Planner planner stickers (weekly layout) using digi papers from a lovely set of pumpkin themed digital paper.

As for the printable, I love these paper designs that I often get at Creative Fabrica. I actually do a search on the website’s search bar to select the latest designer’s digital papers. Each season there are new patterns and designs to select.

We are now in a new month, and you can see more halloween goodies and a few fall goodies available in the stores; and fall weather is creeping in some areas of the US. So, with that in mind that’s why I chose these lovely warm colors for today’s printable . However, here in So Cal, we are experiencing a dramatic heatwave that is breaking long held records, it makes me look forward to the fall season’s cooler weather!

Info about the Classic Happy Planner

Me and my Big Ideas, the manufacturer of the Happy Planner has expanded their interior layouts to weekly, timeline, Memory Keeper and dashboard views. They come in different sizes; Big, Classic, Mini and Skinny. They keep updating what they offer every year.

These planner stickers are specifically designed for fans of the “Classic” MAMBI Happy Planner (vertical layout) or similar Week At A Glance Planners or other vertical weekly planners. If you resize them, of course, you can use them in whatever type of planner you own!

The functional planner stickers, especially the full box stickers, are sized to fit within the vertical columns and boxes specifically for the Classic Happy Planner. Keep in mind that the full boxes are now sized at approximately 2.5″ by 1.5″ .

They are almost 1/2″ taller than your vertical boxes for the Erin Condren Planner (1.9″). Sometimes the designs can not be scaled down for your Erin Condren, so expect some distortion to occur. However, you are free to mix and match as you are inspired.

color theme

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The following are planner stickers made with soft, muted color themes for the Classic Happy Planner…

Midsummer Bloom Planner Stickers

Muted Berries Planner Stickers

Sweet Honey Bee Planner Stickers

fall printables on desktop

Find me on Pinterest

Also, if you are new to this site, I wanted to let you know that I have a board on Pinterest that you might want to follow that has several pins (ideas) by other planner designers, stationery, home office decor, office supplies and planner freebies pins that are mostly planner related. You can view that board and/or follow here, Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

There are 130+ planner stickers or elements total in today’s release. As always, these stickers and elements can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, art journals or other types of memory keeping and papercrafting but these were made specifically for you Happy Planner and Erin Condren fans.

Note**Please see my Terms of Use below before downloading if you have not to been to this site before.**

How to Use this “Planner Stickers” Printable:

There are several ways you can use this printable to create your stickers and I have included a few in the following instructions:

1) The easiest way to use this printout is to print it out on a full sheet of white sticker paper and if you own a Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette Portrait or other digital cutter, (i.e. Cricut Explore) you can cut out the to-do lists or planner stickers using their designer software.

2) Also another method, would be to use heavy bond printer paper or you can use 65 lb. white cardstock depending on how thick you want your sticker and then place adhesive via a snail tape runner or with a Xyron sticker tool or machine.

3) The most time consuming way is to print out the planner stickers on sticker paper and “fussy cut” out by hand, I have spaced the elements so that you can use a pair of good craft scissors to get a clean cut and handle the fussy cutting. In addition, don’t forget a paper trimmer which helps with the straight cuts.

You should probably use punches for the circle stickers. I try to design the circle stickers at standard punch sizes. For hand cutting, a new tool I highly recommend is the Gyro-tool. It’s rotating blade allows you to cut around curvy shapes and is especially good around script stickers. Reader Tip: A reader noted that she fussy cuts her stickers while watching TV!

Facts about the freebie:

*A set of 130+ planner stickers on two 8 1/2″ by 11″ jpeg files.
*These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp with a smooth lay down of the ink color. The preview pictures both on the blog and on Google are at 72 dpi, so you often can not see all the detail accurately or colors are sometimes distorted.
*Color scheme: olive green, dark green, mustard yellow, light orange, dark orange

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. If not, you might want to read the quick TOU below before you access the printable.

Terms of Use for this Printable

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You MAY NOT RESELL, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative (redesigned from the original) designs as your own. That includes redesigned as a free printable for distribution.
*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. If you use this printable on Instagram or other social media platform, tag me with #vintageglamstudio or @vintageglamstudio. Thanks!

Freebie #1 [jpeg file] >>> Fall Leaves Planner Stickers

Freebie #2 [jpeg file] >>> Fall Leaves Planner Stickers – Pge 2

Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and under copyright. Other images are under commercial use license. Digital Paper at CreativeFabrica.

September 1, 2022 By Dru Cortez Leave a Comment

September Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

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monthly layout printable on desktop

Hello peeps! Here we are in the month of September and I thought I would get this monthly layout for you today. I liked these muted fall themed graphics and thought they were great as we enter into late summer and are entering the early fall season! Although we are having a heat wave in So Cal up into Labor Day and I’m thinking cool, refreshing lemonade!

Regardless of the graphics used, the good thing is that there is an undated option, so that you can use the planner stickers for another month. I used this set of muted fall digital paper from Creative Fabrica for today’s blog post freebie. It’s still summer and the weather here in So Cal is still very hot, so I thought these graphics fit with the month of September where it might be cooler in other parts of the US.

Monthly Layout Planner Stickers Specs

These planner stickers are specifically designed for fans of the Classic Happy Planner by Mambi or similar Week At A Glance Planners or other weekly planners such as the Plum Paper Planner that have wider boxes for the monthly spread.

The functional planner stickers, especially the box stickers, are sized to fit within the monthly calendar boxes specifically for the monthly spread of the Classic Happy Planner.

However, there are several resizing instructions on Pinterest on what percent to print this printable in order to resize the printable for personal planners with smaller dimensions.

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If you would like to see the past month’s “monthly layout” planner stickers, these layouts are for last year. They also include part of last year’s published posts or at least when I began to provide the “No Header” option, so you will have flexibility with what month or year you use them.

You can find the past year’s monthly layouts here:

August Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

July Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

June Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

May Monthly Layout -Classic Happy Planner

April Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

March Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

February Monthly Layout – Happy Planner

January Monthly Layout – Happy Planner

December Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

November Monthly Layout- Classic Happy Planner

October Monthly Layout – Classic Happy Planner

Save this for later. Pin this…

Find Me on Social Media

Also, if you are new to this site, I wanted to let you know that I have a board on Pinterest that you might want to follow that has several pins (ideas) by other planner designers, stationery, home office decor, office supplies and planner freebies that are mostly planner related, you can view that board and/or follow here, Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

There are more than 90+ planner stickers or elements total in today’s release. As always, these stickers and elements can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, art journals or other types of memory keeping and paper crafting but these were made specifically for you Happy Planner and Filofax fans.

Note ***Please see my Terms of Use below before downloading if you have not to been to this site before.***

How to Use this “ Monthly Layout Stickers” Printable:

There are several ways you can use this printable to create your stickers and I have included a few in the following instructions:

1) The easiest way to use this printout is to print it out on a full sheet of white sticker paper and if you own a Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette Portrait or other digital cutter, you can cut out the to-do lists or planner stickers using their designer software.

2) Also another method, would be to use heavy bond printer paper or you can use 65 lb. white cardstock depending on how thick you want your sticker and then place adhesive via a snail tape runner or with a Xyron sticker tool or machine.

3) The most labor intensive (or time consuming) way is to print out the planner stickers on sticker paper and “fussy cut” out by hand, I have spaced the elements so that you can use a pair of good craft scissors to get a clean cut and handle the fussy cutting. Another handy tool to have for the straight cuts is a slide or rotary paper trimmer which will reduce cutting around the stickers. Reader tip: Cut them while watching TV.

Facts about the freebie:

One set of HP functional planner stickers on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ jpg file. I’ve changed from pdfs to high resolution jpegs in order to keep the file sizes much smaller. (1 MB each)
These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp with a smooth lay down of the ink color. The preview pictures both on the blog and on Google are at 72 dpi, so you often can not see all the detail accurately or colors are sometimes distorted.
Color scheme: rust, olive green, light teal, orange

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You MAY NOT RESELL, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative (redesigned from the original) designs as your own.
*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 (www.vintageglamstudio.com), 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. If you use this printable on Instagram, tag me with #vintageglamstudio or @vintageglamstudio. Thanks!

Freebie # 1 – September Monthly Layout Planner Stickers – Header [JPEG]

Helpful Tip: To write on black or dark stickers you might want to check out Sakura Gelly Roll (White) in three pen sizes .05, .08, and 1.0.

Freebie #2 – September Monthly Layout Planner Stickers -No Header [JPEG]

Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and under copyright with a few that are under commercial use or creative commons licensing. Digital paper from CreativeFabrica.