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March 27, 2025 By Dru Cortez 2 Comments

Free Retro Easter ATC Journaling Cards Printable

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retro easter ATC printables on desktop

Today, I am releasing a new design as part of a series of related printables that I have been working on: a set of Retro or vintage journaling cards printables and elements.

I designed these ATC journaling cards (they are the size of standard playing cards) in Adobe illustrator with retro images from Raw Pixel for your spring and Easter paper crafting. These ATC journaling cards have a chick, a lamb and a bunny. I have been working on a few spring junk journals and wanted some spring ephemera! The playing cards are my original design and I am working on more designs. I haven’t completed all 52, yet: but I am working on it.

I really had a lot of fun designing these elements even though getting the authentic feel and worn look for these vintage images is a challenge. I’m still working on perfecting these images to make them look even more realistic and time worn.

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.

Creative Fabrica is coming out with new tools all the time, and the latest is their Font Generator as they develop their studio design applications that use AI features. I have taken advantage of this and created several new fonts.

In addition, another one of my favorite design sites, Rawpixel, this site has a great assortment of public domain vintage images and other AI tools! Create a free account using my link, if you so choose.

Design Inspiration

I developed the inspiration for these printables because I have been looking on Etsy and Ebay for a specific style of vintage items and they are hard to come by in a variety of colors.

As for the details about the freebie, there are 7 ATC journaling cards in all. The elements are all designed and saved as a jpeg file on a US letter layout. The approximate measurements for these elements; the cards are 2.5″ x 3.5″. The postcards were originally sourced from a great site of vintage ATC cards and digital printables, The Art Scavenger. This site has a large amount of vintage themed printables for your junk journaling and paper crafting use.

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

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Facts about the vintage freebie:

There is one free printable; one US 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 use white sticker paper to use as stickers.
Color theme: pastel, yellow, pink, light blue, spring green

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” , and thanks to those of you who are following me on my Instagram account. 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 on any of my platforms.

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.

retro easter ATC printables

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>>> Retro Easter ATC Journaling Cards Printable

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.

These retro farm animal images were sourced from Raw Pixel… they are AI generated.

September 8, 2023 By Dru Cortez

Free Fall Junk Journaling ATC Printables

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Hello peeps! Well, today I am providing an addition to my latest vintage junk journaling mini kit printables! This set has a variety of fall florals and birds on ATC cards that were designed in full color, vintage faded and sepia color themes. I also included a set of coordinated labels and a Fall Floral A5 planner weekly insert. You can use this kit to jump start your crafting, art and junk journaling, and/or scrapbooking time with today’s freebie download.

Most of the lovely vintage images are public domain images and come from a wonderful website called Rawpixel, they offer unlimited downloads on public domain images for free with a free sign up to their website. You can download up to five images per day on their other free images. They offer different high quality sizes of these graphics, some at resolutions suitable for professional printing. I like this graphic website because they provide a lot of high quality png files as well as gorgeous vintage and vintage style images.

Many of the vintage style fonts were sourced from another of my favorite graphic design sites, Creative Fabrica. The lovely fall watercolor florals were obtained from this site. I would also like to mention that I sourced the postcard backgrounds from a great site of vintage ephemera called, The Art Scavenger.

I didn’t add distressing shades or brushes on the individual images, because what I have seen is that different diy crafters have different preferences to the amount of distressing they prefer on their journal items, I will suggest that you take a look at Tim Holtz, distressing inks, if you are interested in what “distressing” with ink is all about.

Facts about the Vintage Junk Journal Kit Freebie

As for the details about the freebie, there are 16 elements varying from journaling cards, tickets, tabs and a single isolated butterfly image. As always, they can either be used for journaling in your project life projects or other types of memory keeping.

This free junk journaling mini kit includes: 1) a set of ATC cards on US letter size jpeg 2) A second set of bird ATC cards on a 8 1/2″ by 11″ jpeg file and 3) A set of labels on a half US letter page and 4) a fall floral A5 weekly planner . I didn’t bundle these files, so you will have to download them individually. The watermark (if any) will NOT appear on your junk journal page.

These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be clear and sharp.

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 you’s” and the legitimate “link love”. Thank you for your pins on Pinterest as well as a few Facebook links. 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, thank goodness for Google translate! I hope you don’t mind when I check out your Pinterest boards, and repin some of your pins to my 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.

How to Use these ATC Junk Journal Kit Printables:

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 Explore or Maker you can cut out the journal kit using their designer software.

2) Also another method, would be to use heavy bond printer paper or you can use 65 lb. white cardstock or heavy white printer paper 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) Another way, (albeit a little 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 straight sides of stickers. A gracious reader told me she does her fussy cutting while watching TV! Great tip!

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables 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. Don’t be concerned if you have posted it under the previous name, my traffic boost and other factors are contributing to the name change.)
*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.

*Papers are not to be used or sold on Print on Demand sites such as Zazzle, Redbubble, etc.
*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, Junk Journal Mini Kit, Vintage Junk Journaling ATCs

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

Freebie #2 – Vintage Junk Journaling ATC cards 2

Freebie #3 – Vintage Fall Labels

Freebie #4 – Vintage Fall Floral A5 Calendar Page

Image Credit:

Most of my elements are made from Commercial use or public domain sources. However, if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and will no longer be 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.

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October 4, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Vintage ATC Cards – Free Printable

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vintage atc cards

Well, I have gone back to my vintage theme with today’s freebie. I have been experimenting with some of my brushes, overlay blends, vintage images and vintage ephemera and came up with these designs.

I decided to combine two different styles, an art journaling doodled style on some of the vintage ATC cards and vintage images of paper ephemera on the others.

I selected butterflies with a blue color theme in the wings, I guess I felt it coordinated well with the soft browns and creamy color of the paper. Just my little dabbling into “digital” mixed media.

Facts about the ATC Cards

As for the details about the freebie, there are 8 different ATC cards measuring 2.5″ by 3.5″ some with butterflies and others with doodles and quotes that I liked.

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

This free printable has 8 elements on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file. This freebie’s file size is rather large at approximately 11.5 MB. The elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp. The paper texture at 100% detail are taken from vintage ephemera digital files scanned at a high dpi. Hope you like them! 🙂

vintage atc cards

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

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 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!

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. Don’t be concerned if you have posted it under the previous name, my traffic boost and other factors are contributing to the name change.)
*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.

You can access the pdf file, Vintage Ephemera ATC Cards Printable.

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

Image Credit:

The doodled frames graphics are courtesy of Scrappin’ Cop who has a load of resources available on her website for personal and commercial use.

Most of my elements are made from commercial use or public domain 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 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.

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