April 6, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Spring Cleaning: 3 Ideas for Craft Storage and Organization

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Well, this has been a busy week with the Easter holiday having passed just short of a week ago and all the hustle and bustle of spending time with family and friends.

With the rapidly improving sunny weather, here in Southern California, I have also spent a lot of my spare time this week doing a few “spring cleaning” activities.

I began organizing my craft tools and supplies (the physical and tangible ones) and shopping for either new tools or filling in what was missing or on my wish list.

While I don’t have a huge amount of craft supplies or a dedicated room for crafting, it just seems that once you start acquiring more than a few tools that you’ll need to find ways to organize them.

I have a board on Pinterest dedicated to just this purpose and I enjoy finding pins that showcase craft rooms or craft organizing ideas that incorporate a vintage touch.

However, creative vintage inspired craft storage and organization pins, just like many vintage items themselves, are a little more difficult to find.

The following are a few of my favorite pins. Hopefully, they inspire you to organize your craft tools and supplies and get encouraged to do some spring cleaning. (Clicking on the links will take you directly to my Pinterest account’s pin. Click on it to go to the original blog post.)

Shabby Chic Book Print or Antique Map Crafting Boxes With Bookplates

Chipboard Dress Forms for Organizing Ribbon or Twine

Wire Baskets For Frequently Used Rubber Stamp and Ink Pad Storage

Hopefully , in the near future, I’ll be able to create a blog post that showcases some of the great craft finds I found this week (for awesome prices as well) following a tip I have always used when I shop for other household goods and that is to shop off season for huge discounts.

March 22, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Free Printable Download – Easter Tags

It’s pretty amazing that Easter is just around the corner, time seems to have been flying by fast. Well, now that we have set up our first vintage freebie download, here’s this blog’s first vintage freebie printable. The six tags are approximately, 3.5″ by 2″ and the pdf file will print out on 8 1/2″ by 11″ cardstock. Of course, for all you savvy downloaders, you already know the drill, but just wanted to give you an idea as to what to expect and avoid surprises, images tend to vary when printed.

Please read my TOU (terms of use), if you haven’t before.

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading: (updated 10/26/13)

* 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.
*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.

The following is a thumbnail of the actual image you will be able to access for download. Click on the image below to get access to the pdf download.

I hope you like it and can use it with any easter baskets or other gifts you might be thinking of giving this spring season. Vintage Glam Studio is also a part of this blog’s domain, so hope I don’t get anybody confused. 🙂 …and have a Happy Easter!

This is the second set of easter gift tags that I created. It follows a grey neutral color scheme that I am fond of,so I hope you find this option to your liking. Click on the image below to get access to the link.

Just a little reminder: The downloadable pdfs in this article (and across my entire site) are free for personal use only. They are not for commercial use. If you wish to incorporate any of my designs or reference them in your own personal projects or blog, please attribute it to me by linking to my site. As a courtesy, if you wish to link to anything on this article, please link to this page and not directly to a downloadable file.

Thanks for your cooperation.

March 18, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Free Vintage Graphic – Rooster and Chicken

It’s a long story as to why I like chickens and roosters, and a kind of quaint one; however, the relative who used to raise them wouldn’t appreciate my sharing all the details of the story, so until I get clearance from that corner I’ll just keep it at that.

I found this following vintage graphic image as a public domain item, digitally cropped it and cleaned it up. It is saved as a .png file ( I know all you savvy digital scrappers know that a .png file is an image file with a transparent background).

Unfortunately, the chickens were standing in grass so their feet look a little rough and I didn’t have time to crop out the feet and/or add fake grass. And the rooster’s comb and wattle (actually had to look those up) are more of a brighter red. The preview pic is only at 72 dpi!

The actual image is 709 px by 535 px and once you click on the image another tab will open on your browser in order to download it from my ~~Photobucket~~ Google Drive storage. The image will display and you can pretty much save the file, by using the “Save As” function in Microsoft Windows.

Please read my TOU (terms of use) page before downloading. Disregard the white background in the screenshot, that’s just the way ~~Photobucket~~ Google Drive displays their images.

If you notice the screenshot shows the dialog box showing the .png extension. I hope that that clears up any confusion.

While I am still debating as to where to set up my image downloads in order to make it the most accessible to those who are interested, I’m going to test this on my ~~Photobucket~~ account for now. In the near future, I plan to upload larger files elsewhere. I hope you enjoy it!