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December 20, 2014 By Dru Cortez

Blog Announcement – Handmade Greeting Cards Now on my Etsy Store

Hello blog visitors and followers. Well, I imagine you are busy with all you last minute shopping, wrapping, crafting and all the last minute activities that can occupy your time in this holiday season.

I just wanted to share that I am beginning to post tangible papercraft products in my Etsy Store apart from the digital graphics. As we ahead into the new year,( imagine 2015 already?), I will be posting additional papercraft products handmade by moi!

I wanted to show you the detail on some of the recent limited greeting cards that I created and made available for sale on Etsy.

Greeting Card #1

I had holiday baking in mind when I created this card. I loaded it with a lot of embellishments including a clothespin, handcrafted flair and silhouette diecuts as well as a diecut banner made with my Sissix machine.

Greeting Card #2

I was thinking “vintage” with this card and wanted it decorated with snow mittens and a lot of feminine details, such as stitched scalloped borders. I even added the vintage sentiment because I thought it was so cute and of course, for more bling… pink glitter snowflakes and rhinestones.

Greeting Card #3

I was thinking of a “blue Christmas” with this card. I love all the light blue elements and especially enjoyed creating the woodgrain background for the card.

Greeting Card #4

Now what is Christmas crafting without a little gold and another favorite woodland animal…a deer. This card was so fun to craft. I added a lot of details including an embossed piece and white ink stamped piece of acetate to simulate viewing the snow through a window.

Greeting Card #5

This card was so much fun to handcraft. I used premade Jolee’s Boutique embellishments and placed it on an embossed backing designed by Anna Griffin. A little more formal. (This card is no longer available on Etsy and has been sold.)

Well, that’s the round up of cards I handcrafted and actually have made available on my Etsy Store. You will be seeing more papercraft items in the future as I coordinate my time for these handcrafted items. I hope you like my creations! 🙂

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December 16, 2014 By Dru Cortez

Kraft Christmas Tags – Free Printable Download

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Hello…blog followers and visitors! Today, I am releasing another holiday freebie with a set of coordinating kraft christmas tags for project life or other types of pocket scrapbooking. I also included some coordinating red distressed-texture tags as well.

Many of you are planning your December Daily smashbooks or journals, so I wanted to create something that you could use for these types of projects. I have a board on Pinterest you might want to follow that has several ideas by other designers for December daily, ( you can view that here), DIY Crafts | December Daily & Mini Books.

kraft gift tags

Facts about the freebie:

13 elements on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file.
Large File size – 6.79 MB
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: red, white, kraft texture, ledger paper texture

Terms of Use:

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.

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.
*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.

You can access the pdf file here>>> Kraft Christmas Tags .

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

So, enjoy!

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.

December 13, 2014 By Dru Cortez

Holiday Crafting – Blog Update!

Hello Peeps…Just wanted to give you an update on what’s going on behind the scenes for the holidays here at VintageglamStudio. I have been doing a little retooling of my activities and boosting a presence in other Social Media locations…such as Google+, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. I sure would like to welcome all the new visitors coming from Pinterest!

In addition, I am also actually spending most of my holiday crafting time not only designing but actually creating in hardcopy most of the freebie printables I do design. The image below has a sample of several of the products I have created and crafted. Some of these holiday items, I will soon be making available at my Etsy Store.

So, all to say, I am still here and will continue posting freebies in the near future, but currently (or at least this week) I have been busy creating hard copy items to either post on social media or some hard copy items to feature in my Etsy Store. Stay tuned for more freebies that I will be posting!

Thanks for everyone that is stopping by to visit and I encourage you to subscribe to my blog if you would like to receive the freebie goodies and news I do post when I am on a regular schedule.