Showing posts with label scrapbook embellishments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrapbook embellishments. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Vintage for the Graduate (a.k.a. messing around with old, falling apart yearbooks!)



Old yearbooks are very collectible, and so usually pretty pricy, but not if you can find one that's falling apart. Use the images (usually hilarious!) to make cards, banners, cupcake toppers, and scrapbook embellishments, something I started doing last year since my firstborn was graduating. So go dig through the junky antique store boxes and shelves and see what you can find. (Or you can just buy mine! VintageScraps.etsy.com)




That's my "little" girl on the left. She's just finishing her fist year at UNC, and since they won the national championship and all, we feel like we got our money's worth!

Friday, April 17, 2009

A Vintage Hello for Mom



One of my favorite finds ever was a 1890's scrapbook filled with advertising art! So I copied some of the fragile images to use in making collage Mother's Day Cards. They are pictured here, along with a 1940's cereal ad card, and a journal crafted from The Farmer's Wife graphic. Very fun for a mom!



Saturday, February 28, 2009

Vintage Storybook Paper Crafts

Give new life to abandoned, unreadable children's books! Paper wreaths, scrapbook embellishments, Easter ornaments, and collage art make use of beautiful, vintage images. So go rescue castoffs at second hand bookstores and library sales, and have some fun!