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June 25, 2022 By Dru Cortez

Free Vintage Farmhouse Journal Bits and Labels

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vintage farmhouse labels

Hello, I hope you are all doing fine mid-week and are looking forward to a great weekend. As you can see, today’s freebie ( a set of farm tags and vintage labels) is made with vintage farm ephemera and a chicken theme and my favorite, red, cream and black color scheme.

I really had a lot of fun designing these tags even though finding and collecting the vintage images was a a challenge.

Design Inspiration

The background was a great find on the interwebs, where I found a vintage farm almanac page from the turn of the century, including vintage poultry ads. I love the color red for these type of labels, I guess it might be influenced by the red embroidery work I used to watch my Mom make for kitchen towels. According to Wikipedia, here’s a fun fact! “Redwork is a form of American embroidery, also called art needlework, that developed in the 19th century and was particularly popular between 1855 and 1925. It traditionally used red thread, chosen because red dyes were the first commercially available colorfast dyes, in the form of Turkey red embroidery floss.”

As for the details about the freebie, there are 28 elements in all. The tags measure approximately 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ and the red gingham labels are approximately 2.5″ x 1″. I used an actual vintage paper label for the red gingham labels.

Although these tags were made specifically as journal bits, as always, they can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, art journals or other types of memory keeping.

They can also be used in your kitchen/ household labeling.

Facts about the farmhouse freebie:

This free printable has 28 elements on two 5 1/2″ by 8.5″ jpeg files. (Half US letter)
The file size is 3.4 MB. Second pdf file is 2.2MB.
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 white sticker paper to use the labels as stickers.
Color theme: red, cream, black

Thank you for all your Pinterest and other social media pins…

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” , you guys made October my biggest web traffic month yet, hopefully, it can be repeated in November. I know you don’t always have time to leave a comment because you are busy, so I really appreciate it when blog visitors take the time to either like or comment.

Thank you for your single pins and for some of you, multiple pins of my various designs on Pinterest as well as Facebook links. 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. 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.

vintage farmhouse labels

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* 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>>> Vintage Farmhouse Journal Bits and Labels.

Or if you like, click on the picture below for the download.

Freebie #2 – Red Check Farmhouse Labels

You can access the pdf file>>> Red Check Farmhouse Labels. Or if you like, click on the picture below for the download.

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. Original blank red labels found on this website, Knick of Time, a great resource for free vintage items.

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June 23, 2022 By Dru Cortez

Free Vintage Sewing Journaling Tags Printable

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vintage journaling tags

Hello peeps! When I shared that I have been experimenting with some of my “new” vintage brushes, overlay blends, and vintage images , I was serious. So, to make up for not publishing earlier in the week I am providing this set of journaling tags for your crafting and journaling pleasure.

The journaling tags are in six different colors and in three different sepia tones. There are two variations of the same image for you to use ” as is” or so that you can embellish for your art journals or art/bullet journals. I think they might serve as a good background or base for your designs and add a pop of color.

I added a linen texture which you can see clearly when you view the cards up close. These vintage journaling tags also have several sewing themed vintage elements that add additional interest. My sisters are the expert seamstresses in my family and my Mom still knows how to use her “serger” when she helps my sister make drapes or furniture coverings. I sew well enough for crafting and getting myself into trouble.

This is another example of my dabbling into “digital” mixed media and junk journaling.

Facts about the Journaling Tags

As for the details about the freebie, there are 9 different journaling tags measuring 2.5″ by 3.5″ , about the size of your standard baseball card.

As always, they can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, art journaling, junk journaling or other types of memory keeping.

This free printable has 9 elements on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ jpeg file. This freebie’s file size is rather large at approximately 8.4 MB. The elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp. The paper texture at 100% detail and the images are taken from vintage ephemera digital files scanned at a high dpi and Photoshop brushes that I have created. Hope you like them! 🙂

vintage journaling tags flatlay

How to Use this “Journaling Tags” 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 such as the Cricut Maker or Explore you can cut out or planner stickers using their designer software. ( **Please note: You must have the Silhouette Designer Edition software upgrade to open pdfs in your Silhouette.

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 rather 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.

Thank you for all your Pinterest re-pins and Social Media mentions

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 a few Facebook links. I am especially happy that very often you have pinned multiple pins of my design freebies on your boards and I sure do appreciate it.

I also appreciate mentions in your blogs with appropriate link backs and active links. My traffic keeps increasing from visitors from all over the world. I hope you don’t mind when I check out your Pinterest boards, and repin some of your pins to my Pinterest boards, these pins usually provide inspiration for new designs of my own!

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.