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Shabby Chic Journaling Elements – Free Printable

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Here’s another freebie!  This freebie”Shabby Chic Journaling Elements” blends a lot of shabby chic design elements such as roses,  soft colors of teal blue and pink  and  other floral patterns in  a great printout to honor all of our great Moms!

As usual these are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.)   In the future, you will notice that my freebie design images will follow these themes:  vintage, retro/minimalist  and whimsical.

How to Use this “Journaling Cards” Printable:

There are a few ways you can use this printable to create your journaling cards and elements and I have included a few in the following instructions:

  1. The easiest way to use this printable is to print it out on a full sheet of white cardstock and if you own a Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette Portrait or other digital cutter you can cut out the journaling cards and journaling elements using their designer software. ( **Please note: You must have the Silhouette Designer Edition software upgrade to open pdfs in your Silhouette. There are several pdf to jpg converters online if your software just can’t open a pdf. You will have to spend some time creating the cutlines for the silhouette but this should make creating the cutfile and cutting it out a lot easier.)
  2. The most labor intensive (or time consuming) way is to print out the journaling cards or journaling elements on 65 lb. white cardstock and “fussy cut” out by hand, I have spaced the elements so that you can use a pair of good craft scissors or a slide paper trimmer  to get a clean cut and handle the fussy cutting.

Terms of Use

Some things you should know before downloading: (updated 10.28.13)

* 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.

You can access the pdf file>>>> Shabby Chic Journaling Elements

Or if you like click on the picture below for the download. The pdf sheet is 8 1/2″ by 11″.  There are 12 elements in all.  Hope you like them! 🙂

Shabby Chic Journaling Cards

Update:

Do you have a lousy printer that can’t print high resolution printables?  In the following video tutorial, which was posted on Youtube’s channel owner MichLxo, the crafter gives great information as to how your nearest Staples can be a great resource as a quality and low cost printer for free color printables.  Her video showcases (your’s truly’s) printable as well as other free printables by other websites and designers.

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.

The background digital paper used for this freebie are the Kath Floral background papers and can be obtained from Mel’s Brushes.

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5 Great Sites for Free Vintage Ephemera and Downloadable Images

If the search for good quality vintage decorative collectibles and other items is difficult,   it can be just as or even  more difficult to find high quality, free vintage ephemera images to use for your digital scrapbooking or DIY craft projects.   

You can find yourself spending hours searching on Google, Flickr or Bing, just to find a good quality image and then to find out that the terms of use (TOU) limits you solely to your own personal  DIY crafts or the image can not be used for commercial purposes at all which includes, using the image online or on your web page or blog designs.

Vintage Online Resources

To some degree, I can understand the blog owner’s restrictions, too often unscrupulous blog visitors will download images and then repackage them as downloadable images, post them for resale on CDs, on their own websites, or sell them as digital collage sheets sold on Etsy or other online sites.  This is the dark side of having access to free authentic , vintage downloadable images. 

For the most part, what these visitors fail to understand is that there are copyright laws that protect blog site owners and their  scanned photos or images. 

On the bright side though, most vintage ephemera blog site owner’s  usually provide generous terms of use to their readers  because they know it improves web traffic and increased visits to their sites.  So there usually is a generous, kind community that develops around these blogs and sites.

I expect that this blog’s readers are above these concerns or practices, but even so that doesn’t change the fact that it is still difficult finding these images and blog owners with generous terms of use.

I just wanted to let you know about some of the better, free high quality vintage image resources that are available and I have found online.  

By high quality images, I mean either downloadable images  saved as .jpegs or .png files at 72 dpi for use on the web or images at 300 dpi as pdf files which are suitable for printing.

 Very often you might find free images but either the download sites are filled with computer bugs or excessive ads or the images are low resolution quality and require a lot of digital cleanup work.

So I compiled these sites as sites that provide great images and have generous terms of use.   At least a couple of these sites are owned by professional graphic designers, and they provide high resolution images in zipped files and downloadable sites that are safe and bug free.

Great Vintage Image  Sites Online

graphic's fairy website

 

Graphics Fairy– this site has numerous , high-quality vintage images, digital papers, textures, and other embellishments often saved as either .jpg or .png files. According to her blog intro she has over 3,500 images and according to her own description she is a self-proclaimed Franco-phile.   So, if you are interested in French vintage images as well as other vintage images, this is the place to go.

Those marked as .png files are digital files that show the image with a transparent background so that you can overlay them on your digital projects.  She provides images as pdf files as well.  On occasion, she includes reverse images that are suitable for iron-on transfer.  She also has her own boards on Pinterest with free downloadable vintage resources that you can follow to access even more vintage images.

website screenshot

 

Just Something I Made – A professional graphic designer, and often featured in Country Living and other magazines, her website has a host of vintage ephemera freebies as well as links to label companies who host her kitchen and home label design templates on pdf.  You can find a host of high-quality, vintage labels designed by Cathe Holden on Worldlabel and made available for free.

Vintage Moth website screenshot

 

The Vintage Moth– this site has an eclectic mixture of vintage ephemera and images. By eclectic, I mean the type of images that are not solely geared to home decor or Etsy syle type of images for tags and party decor.  The images are accessed via the right-click feature if you are using a PC or via your mouse if you are using a MAC.

Sweetly Scrapped website screenshot

 

Sweetly Scrapped –  A blog with an eclectic mixture of vintage items, from postcards, photographs, vintage advertising, etc.  The navigation on this blog is a little difficult but there are a host of vintage images to select.

fuzzimo website

 

Fuzzimo – a professional graphic designer who provides high-quality images of frames, backgrounds, etc., notebook paper and other vintage elements.  He provides an assortment of vintage items for professional graphic designers.   His site is not geared to vintage ephemera but he has elements that can work with digital scrapbooking designs or blog images.  He also has a flexible terms of use policy.  However, some of his free downloads to have commercial use restrictions.

Well, that’s the round-up.  I hope you enjoy these sites and they help you in your search for high quality vintage images for your DIY crafts or digital scrapbooking projects.

That’s the roundup of blogs or website, but I do want to mention that you don’t forget Flickr’s Creative Commons website or their Vintage Ephemera Swap Group.

However, if you want vintage ephemera images from this site you will need to pay attention to the license posted by each account as the licenses  vary per image.

 

This also is not a permanent list, I’ll be adding new resources as I find them in my constant search for vintage images to use in my crafting projects.

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Easy and Inexpensive Party Decor Idea for Your Valentine Get Together

Remember making tissue Pom poms in elementary school or middle school art class?  Well, the following party decor idea video takes these simple projects to  a new level of sophistication.

This is one of the easiest and greatest  party decor ideas I have found on Youtube and it involves step by step instructions for creating great party decor using inexpensive tissue paper and ribbon which you can buy at any Michael’s, JoAnns or other craft store .

I think the crafter in this video gives great ideas on how this simple technique can be varied so you get a variety of tissue pomanders in different sizes and therefore bring more pizzazz into your party decor. And it helps that the whole decor ideas, won’t put a huge dent in your wallet as well.

Of course, as Valentine’s Day is approaching you can use a variation of reds and pinks if you want to go with the traditional color that is associated with this holiday.  But you can be as creative as you want to be.  And the huge benefit, is once you learn this technique, you can vary the colors for whatever holiday or special occasion you are celebrating.