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Retro Christmas Embellishments – Free Printable

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Deck the halls with boughs of holly…Fa la la la…. I am posting this freebie on Monday since for the rest of the week,  I will be busy with family and all of Thanksgiving’s holiday festivities, as I hope you will be as well.   For today’s freebie,  I designed these retro gift tags that coordinate with the Retro Christmas tags that I released a few days ago. They have a vintage (mid-century) theme and my favorite retro color scheme for Christmas:  red, white and turquoise. I was just thinking fun, whimsical and vintage (at least harking back into the ’50s).

I created a lot of elements in this freebie, that are probably suitable as add-ons or gift card embellishments.  I’m sure you can find several other uses besides what I intended them for.  I have seen similar items in art journals, smashbooks and December daily journals. I hope you like them and find them useful for your crafting.

You will be seeing a few more Christmas freebies along this color scheme, but I will be mixing it up since I love  to use different color schemes with holiday decorating.  Well, what I mean is that  I vary or rotate color schemes every year from neutrals (black, white, silver), shabby chic (pink & turquoise), silver, white & blue and green & gold to name a few. And I am anxious to try different ideas, that I have written on my inspiration list.

Facts about the freebie:

  • This free printable was designed on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file. There are 21 elements.
  • The file size is  at 16.50 MB.
  • These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp.  I used several scanned images of vintage ephemera.
  • Printing tip:  Print on heavy white cardstock, matte or plain.
  • Color scheme: red, turquoise, white

Thank you for all your Pinterest and other social media pins…

I am so grateful for your interest and pinning activity.  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” .   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.

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.

I hope you don’t mind when I check out your Pinterest boards, and repin some of your pins to some of my Pinterest 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 and all this extra content might be a little tiresome (sorry, but we 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.

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

retro christmas elements

Image Credit:

The bingo card was courtesy of Sweetly Scrapped and a few Christmas doodles from ScrappinCop.

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.

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3 Online Sources for Vintage Patriotic Clip Art

 

vintage george washington patriotic card

What’s almost as hard to find as a needle in a haystack?  While vintage patriotic  or Independence Day clip art, of course.  So,I thought I would share some of the sources I go to in order to grab a few Independence Day related vintage images.  

I have narrowed it down to about 3 very good sources of where you can find vintage patriotic images that are at least free for personal use for your vintage crafting, but still may require a little time investment in actually searching through the choices.  In my opinion, they are as follows…

1. Pinterest

 Pinterest has become  a large search engine on its own.  With so many links to so many blogs, you can usually find what you are looking for by doing a keyword search to the specific item you are trying to find. 

In this case, I used the search terms “vintage patriotic clip art” and you can see the numerous results I was able to obtain.  You will have to check the TOU(terms of use) of the image’s original source post, but I would suggest you do that only for the images you really like and intend to use.

 

 2. Flickr

 The Creative Commons area of Flickr will usually provide you with a good source of vintage images that will usually require attribution if you use the product online and the restrictions  are a little more flexible if you are using the image for personal crafting.  However, the down side is that you will have to do a little more intensive searching on Flickr and come up with variations of search terms such as “july 4th clip art”, “Independence day” etc.

 3. Vintage Image Clip Art Reseller’s

 In this case, these are reseller’s of vintage images that the blog owner has collected, compiled and usually has either placed into a download, or a membership site for a small fee.  This option might be good for you , if you want access to several images that you will be using for your various projects and potentially for resale of limited craft items, etc.  However, this will cost you a fee and it usually scales up based on your final end use of the images.   The website I have included below, allows the use of low resolution images with flexible terms of use.  The following is an example of this type of website and links directly to it.

vintage betsy ross patriotic card

Well, that’s my little round up of a few good sources of vintage patriotic clip art.  Hope you find some great images for your vintage crafting…and have a Happy July 4th holiday!

Image Credit.

Images Courtesy of VintageHolidaycrafts.com

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Spring is on the Way!

Well, March has rolled in and with it of course, are all the the pleasant reminders of the season.  For me I have included a few pics of my favorite things, so this blog post is just a list of all my favorite things associated with spring.

Many Shabby Chic collectors tend to collect items associated with spring colors, pastel robin’s egg blue, pinks and buttercup yellows…And I can’t forget the soft spring green!  So this is a great time to bring out the decorative collectibles.

Here’s the list!

  • eggs
  • bunnies
  • chocolate bunnies (you’ll get to know my love for chocolate)
  • warmer weather
  • soft pastels
  • baby lambs
  • puffy clouds and blue skies
  • cherry blossoms
  • trees blooming
  • gardening

And of course, the warmer weather lends to ideal conditions to scout for vintage items, (although weather doesn’t tend to stop me from shopping altogether….a limited spending budget does). Living in California, the weather is generally pleasant but there are days in winter that get a little gloomy.

In any case, just wanted to celebrate the season with a tiny shout out.  Take some time and bring out your favorite vintage items, it will change your outlook and relieve the cabin fever!

How about this idea for spring or the Easter holiday! I just used to like looking at marshmallow peeps.