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July 3, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Vintage Ephemera Brads – Free Digital Embellishments

Here is the latest digital embellishment freebie, for your digital or hybrid crafting use. These brads were made from vintage ephemera available online.

If you have visited this blog before you will know that, I really like paper crafts with a vintage or retro theme, and…Voila!, this is my next installment of my digital embellishments on a vintage style button card. They are created at 300 dpi and measure approximately 1″ in diameter. They are created for personal use only.

I used a silver brad frame, scanned vintage ephemera images, and a couple of other elements. Just like the other embellishments I made, I got so excited that I went beyond creating the embellishments and created the packaging as well! It was just a lot of fun working on this mini project.

So, here they are for your digital or hybrid scrapbooking use. I hope you like them. Click on the images for the download.

Vintage Brad Embellishment #1

Vintage Brad Embellishment #2

Vintage Brad Embellishment #3

Vintage Brad Embellishment #4

Before you download, you might want to read the following TOU

Note About TOU:

As usual these are free for personal use, (check my full 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 before you access the printable.

*Previously “Vintage Glam Collectibles” or Vintage Glam Studio digital resources are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim them as your own.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way or use in any commercial scrapbooking kits. You are free to us for personal use.

*Copyright remains with Vintage Glam Studio – Dru Cortez
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Collectibles & link back to my blog.

Details About the images:

*All images are made at 300 dpi so the digital files will usually be very large.

*Most will be .png files (transparent backgrounds) so that you can layer them on to your scrapbooking backgrounds or photos.

*Most elements will not include a drop shadow, as I will leave that up to you to add one if you like. They are included only in the preview images.

*I will be providing these elements with the assumption that you know how to use either Photoshop Elements, the open source photo editing program GIMP, Photoshop, or other photo editing software. While I would like to offer support for these digital files, this is currently just a hobby and not my full time business.

*Most of my elements will be made from purchased commercial use or public domain resources, however if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon due to inappropriate final use, the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be available. (I try to be scrupulous about what resources I use, but I may miss some.)

Shabby Chic Floral Journaling Elements – Free Printable

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Hello peeps! Well, it’s more shabby chic for today… This freebie blends a lot of shabby chic colors; moss green, dusty rose, blush pink and creamy beige with vintage flowers and a distressed, worn look for some of the tags. These shabby chic floral labels can either be used for journaling in your project life projects or even as gift tags.

Facts about this Shabby Chic floral labels freebie:

This free printable has 15 elements on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file.
The file size is about 5.2 MB.
They were created at 300 dpi and the flowers are actual vintage Victorian scrap cutout images.

As usual these 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 before you access the printable.

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 here>>>>Shabby Chic Floral Journaling Elements .

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

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Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and under copyright with a few that are under commercial use or creative commons licensing.

June 13, 2013 By Dru Cortez

5 Tips to Look Out For When Shopping For Vintage Ephemera Online

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Online shopping has opened a whole new world of convenience and ease to shoppers and that includes vintage ephemera shoppers as well. There is a whole lot of shoppers that are looking for either mixed media collage kits for their personal art work or elements they can add to their hybrid scrapbooking kits.

Two of the great places that I really enjoy is Etsy and Ebay, for finding vintage paper ephemera that is not readily available in my local thrift stores ( or would take up too much of my time to find) or craft store. While all this is good news to both shoppers and sellers, there are a few caveats you should watch out for.

1. Know Your Purpose for Buying Vintage Paper Goods

If you are buying to collect actual vintage ephemera to add to your collection from an online seller, then you are going to want to check the authenticity of the item being sold and the reputation of the seller or online shop. Your reasons for buying will vastly differ from the vintage ephemera buyer that wants to use the items for collage, crafting or other personal use.

2. Check the Reputation of the Seller

In general, you can check the reputation of the seller by checking the feedback on either Etsy or Ebay online stores. A good seller usually has very good to excellent feedback. Try to discount that isolated negative buyer’s feedback, if the rest of the written feedback is consistently positive. Sometimes a lower number of feedback, means the person just started selling online and is working on their online reputation. Back to the super negative buyer, there are some buyers almost no one can please.

3. Buy One or Two items to Evaluate Your Buying Experience

As a rule, I don’t usually buy more than one or two items from some one I have not bought from before. Why? It’s just safer to make an initial smaller money investment and see how your seller is going to follow through on the whole transaction. If you are happy with the transaction experience and the product, chances are you will be a returning customer and that will make both you and the seller very happy!

4. Calculate the Difference Between Shipping Costs for A Similar Product

If you can buy an item from a local dealer, then you are more than likely to save a substantial amount of money in shipping costs. You can narrow down your searches on both Etsy and Ebay to check for items from local or at least in-state vendors. If you do buy something from another country, then make sure you spend the little extra for insurance on anything over the amount you can’t tolerate to lose. Your threshold may vary but get that insurance, you will not regret it.

5. Buy Items Off Season

Just like brick and mortar stores, online sellers want to move their seasonal merchandise. Try to get a portion of your money and allocate it for off season items, this is where you can get enormous savings on online items as you are buying winter items when everyone else is thinking sunglasses, and shorts! It’s a tip I shared in a previous post and to show you I follow my own tips, I have a few vintage items and their images I would like to share with my readers!

I purchased a couple of vintage mixed media ephemera packs from an online seller on Etsy. One was a French ephemera pack and another was a Christmas pack.

Here’s the French mini-packet…

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Here are some of the contents of the French packet… It included a music sheet, dictionary page, alphabet card, an engraved illustration, French Dennison stickers, a piece of Victorian rose paper scrap and a few newer or reproduction items that the seller included in the pack…

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Here’s a close-up picture of some of the elements…

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Woo-hoo! Wasn’t that awesome? There were 17 items in the total packet. I didn’t include all of the items in the picture. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I like looking at the products as much as I like buying them and using them. They are like virtual eye candy!

But wait…there’s more (don’t I sound like a commercial?). Here is the Christmas packet…

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This was a larger mixed media kit, with 36 elements in all and both packages were shipped in 8.5″ by 11″ mailers. I call these packages “happy mail” because that is what they do is make me all warm and fuzzy inside. The following pictures are the various elements that were included in the kit:

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Here is a picture of several of the number elements that I had been looking for, there was a combination of actual vintage items (they are the ones that show a patina of age and wear) and it seems newer or reproduction items…

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And the following picture includes several of the vintage amusement park tickets and store elements, I had been searching for as well …for example, vintage milk caps.

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All in all, it was a teeny mini-haul.

I didn’t mean to rhyme, but as you can imagine I am getting a little giddy writing about these items. As for their intended purpose, well I will be revealing that in a future blog post as a new blog feature!

I hope you enjoyed the eye candy and check back as I share more fun vintage ephemera items as I find them.

Please don’t hesitate to leave me a comment about the items that I bought…do any of them bring back memories? And if you like, answer the question in the poll and I will reveal what I paid in US dollars after we get in a few results. Thanks so much!