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Hello peeps, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!  Today, I am releasing a new design that I have been working on: a set of Retro or vintage book cover printables.    I used vintage St. Patrick’s day images from retro postcards to recreate these little albums or booklets which I hope you can use in your paper crafting. 

The larger image at 5″ x 7″ (closed) can be used as an album cover, card or junk journal insert.  The medium image at 3″ x 4″ can be used as a pocket scrapbooking element or in junk journals.  The tiny size at 1.75″ by 2.5″ can be used as cupcake toppers, paper bunting or gift tags.

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.

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 features with AI features.  I have taken advantage of this and created several new fonts.  I have included one in the mini books I created for you today!  I will be discussing this in future posts, as I get ahead of  new design opportunities coming my way and I share them with you!

In addition,  another one  of my favorite design sites, Rawpixel,  this site has a great assortment of public domain vintage images!   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 for a specific style of  vintage items and they are hard to come by in a variety of colors.  I had already created other  books for like these for  Valentine’s but didn’t get the opportunity to publish in February.

As for the details about the freebie, there are three jpegs in all.  The elements are all designed and saved  as jpeg files.   These are approximate measurements for these elements.

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

Facts about the vintage Saint Patrick’s Day  freebie:

• There are three free printables;  three  jpeg files
• 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: green, ivory, gold,   black

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.

Terms of Use

* 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>>> Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Mini Book Covers

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

Freebie #2 –  Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Mini Book Covers

Freebie #3 –  Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Mini Book Covers

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.