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August 3, 2022 By Dru Cortez 4 Comments

Shabby Chic Rose Journaling Papers Printables

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Happy midweek! Today, I’m providing my latest vintage ephemera journaling papers printables. Here’s another flower and also, shabby chic themed set of journaling papers that were super fun to design.

I designed these images in Photoshop CC which is an awesome photo editing program and can handle these large image files quite easily. That’s part of the reason I subscribed to the CC version as soon as I was able as well as all the brushes you can load to the software.

Note: The jpegs for these files will be rather hefty averaging at the largest 7 MB . Your printing results will vary depending on the type of printer you have. You can always take them to the nearest Office Depot or Staples (here in the US) to get higher quality printing if you are using these for a special journaling project.

Design Inspiration

I hope this freebie inspires you in your crafting, art journaling, junk journaling and/or scrapbooking time with today’s vintage freebie. I have been watching a lot of junk journaling videos on Youtube to get an idea on what types of papers might interest you and junk journalers.

I am totally enjoying designing these projects. I am always excited to develop new ideas for tags and now papers with a vintage ephemera theme for either scrapbooking, art journaling, junk journaling and other paper crafting uses.

If you are not into junk or art journaling, you can also 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 vintage Photoshop brushes (many that I am designing), vintage ledger script entries, vintage botanical images that 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 for many graphics) has ended their July sale but they have great freebies to offer for this month.

Facts about the Vintage Ephemera Journaling Papers Freebie

As for the details about the freebie, there are 5 junk journaling pages in this blog post printables offer. You can use these elements for journaling in your traveler’s notebook projects, smashbooks, junk journals or other types of memory keeping.

This free printable has five journaling pages at 8.5″ by 11″, stay tuned for the add-on kits I will be posting in the near future. 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, Southmore Linen paper 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, if that is your preference. This process 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 subtle, aged and worn 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 Journaling Papers Printable

Print and cut out the papers and use them as pages 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 active 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 these pages or digital items to POD sites such as Zazzle, Redbubble, Cafepress, etc. Also, do not upload/post to fabric design sites. (i.e. Spoonflower). The copyright remains with Vintageglamstudio.

These printables are designed for your own personal crafting use for most physical/tangible items.

*If you post your creations or this resource 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, Instagram 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 digitals are intended for personal printable (physical/tangible) projects only.

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

Freebie #1 – Shabby Chic Rose Journaling Page 1

Freebie #2 – Shabby Chic Rose Journaling Page 2

Freebie #3 – Shabby Chic Rose Collage Journaling Page 3

Freebie #4 – Shabby Chic Rose Journaling Page 4

Freebie #5 – Shabby Chic Rose Pattern Journaling Page 5

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. Roses image from Unsplash.

July 22, 2022 By Dru Cortez 2 Comments

Free Blue Hydrangea Journaling Papers Add-On Printables

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Happy Friday! Today, I’m providing the latest vintage ephemera journaling papers printables add- on I had hinted about in my most recent post.

I designed these images in Photoshop CC which is an awesome photo editing program and can handle these large image files quite easily. (That’s part of the reason I subscribed to the CC version as soon as I was able.) The jpegs for these files will be rather hefty averaging around 2 MB each and the reduced papers at 6.5 MB. Your printing results will vary depending on the type of printer you have. You can always take them to the nearest Office Depot or Staples (here in the US) to get higher quality printing if you are using these for a special journaling project.

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

Blue Hydrangea Journaling Add Ons Design Inspiration

I am totally enjoying 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.

If you are not into junk or art journaling, you can also pop these into the pockets of A5 planners or Traveler’s Notebooks if you enjoy a vintage aesthetic, as I do. The add-ons I added today have alot more options for traditional planners since the images are at a smaller scale.

Today’s freebie has a lot of source vintage ephemera images from vintage Photoshop brushes (many that I am designing), round hand script, music sheets, vintage botanical images I have scanned and other sources of vintage ephemera digital items, some sourced from books published in the 1800s! I have also added one of my favorite design elements–vintage baroque scrolls to the design. In addition, I created a journaling cards size daguerrotype photo of lovely blue hydrangeas taken by talented photographers on one of my fav free photo sites, Unsplash!

I also would like to mention that Creative Fabrica (a great graphic resource site and my go to site for many graphics) is having an awesome “Christmas in July” sale throughout July, check out their daily freebies and giveaways, yesterday was a Silhouette Portrait! These are legitimate offers and giveaways but the goodies and discounts end on July 30th, 2022.

Facts about the Vintage Ephemera Journaling Add Ons Freebie

As for the details about the freebie, there are 4 journaling options in this printable. 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 crafts but, of course, can be used in your journals.

This free printable has four journaling printables at 8.5″ by 11″ with assorted add-ons to coordinate or match with the original papers I released. 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. You don’t absolutely need a digital cutter to print, cut and assemble your projects but they’re great tools!

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. You might consider white matte photo paper as I have included photo images in the journaling cards printable.

*Vintage inks, such as Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads, to give the edges a worn, tinted or aged look, if that is your preference. This process 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 subtle,aged and worn 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 Journaling Papers Printable

Print and cut out the papers and use them as add on items 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

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

*Please do not post these pages or digital item to POD sites such as Zazzle, Redbubble, Cafepress, etc. These printables are designed for your own personal crafting use for most physical/tangible items.

*Digital items are not meant for digital website use, these are for personal printable (physical/tangible) projects only.

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

Freebie #1 – Blue Hydrangea Journaling 2 per page

Freebie #2 – Blue Hydrangea -Large Tags – Set 1

Freebie #3 – Blue Hydrangea Journaling Tags – Set 2

Freebie #4 – Blue Hydrangea Journaling Cards

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June 23, 2022 By Dru Cortez Leave a Comment

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!

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY or other use when designated.
*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. Not for resale on POD sites such as Zazzle, Redbubble, Cafe Press, 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 or legit mention that can be a problem.

You can access the jpeg file, Vintage Sewing Journaling Tags Printable.

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

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 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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