Tiny Ice Cream Keychain

If you need a fun, fast and FREE amigurumi pattern, I recommend this tiny Ice Cream Cone Keychain from @seynooodesign which I made in the old school flavor trio of Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry. I used Knit Picks' gorgeous Palette Yarn (which comes in more colors than any other variety I've seen!) in Cotton Candy, White, Bark and Doe on a C hook which... let me just say that 41 year old me had MUCH BETTER eyesight than 61 year old me has, so this is definitely as small as I'm ever going to be working anytime soon again! But... there's no denying that the small scale makes this especially cute and appealing. BTW, there is an entire Seynooo Design Etsy Shop full of beautiful patterns for other foods, adorable characters and even some beautiful realistic artist dolls like Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh; you should probably check it out! :)

Holiday Jumpstart: Winter Wonderland (NEW!)

CLICK HERE to visit the Holiday Jumpstart: Winter Wonderland page in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop

Holiday Jumpstart: Winter Wonderland is Paper Anthology's newest holiday card kit, which features peaceful winter woodland diecuts, serene color palette, and a vibe that perfectly fits any winter holiday your friends and family celebrate. Grab yours today in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Winter Wonderland” based on the sweet seasonal forest vignette.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive) to complete five bold, beautiful, colorful cards; including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

Check out the Holiday Jumpstart: Winter Wonderland page in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop

This kit contains:

Five embossed and scalloped periwinkle panels
Five pre-diecut tan forest squares
Five pre-diecut white birch tree squares
Five green shimmer pine boughs
Five large two-layer diecut pinecones
Five small two-layer diecut pinecones
Five pre-diecut "peace" sentiments
Fifteen clear dew drops
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Five white topfold A2 cards

Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Kit (w/Stamps!)

 Brand new in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop...

...it's Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Card Making Kit (with Stamps!) Paper Anthology's newest holiday card kit, which features (and includes!) Lawn Fawn's adorable "Joy to All" stamp set, featuring twenty-nine high quality photopolymer stamps. Use them to complete the five cards in the kit… then keep using them in your own designs for years to come.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except ink and adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Joy to All” based on the super-cute stamp set included in the kit.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except ink and adhesive) to complete five adorable Christmas morning scenes in card form. Kit includes complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains: Lawn Fawn's "Joy to All" stamp set; Five pre-diecut white woodgrain frames; Five red cherry background panels; Five festive plaid "wallpaper" panels; Five woodgrain "floor" pieces; Five tiny pre-diecut brown woodgrain frames; Five tiny pre-stamped Santa images to color; One 4.25 x 11" heavy cardstock panel for stamping characters and presents; One 3 x 3.75" white panel for stamping sentiments; Five red cherry mats for sentiments; Small piece of tan cardstock for stamping puppies; Panels of green, red and woodgrain for paper-piecing trees; Five pre-punched stars; Enough bauble, peppermint and heart embellies for five trees; Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo; Five white side-fold A2 cards. 

Visit the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop to purchase the Holiday Jumpstart: Joy to All Kit and check out the other Holiday, Birthday and Thank You Jumpstarts; plus three-card Class in a Kits and lots more!

New Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit: Christmas Roses

Holiday Jumpstart: Christmas Roses, now available in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop, is our newest holiday card kit, which features Hero Arts' Christmas Roses white embossed for you on white cardstock; pressure embossed Floral Vines panels; and a sleek "Happy Holidays" sentiment that's been diecut from gold cardstock. Five different color recipes using Ranger Distress Oxide shades have been provided or choose your own favorite ink combinations.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kits are our pre-packaged kits that include everything you need (except adhesive and blendable inks) to complete FIVE copies of an original holiday card design. This edition is called “Christmas Roses” based on the card's beautiful blooms.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesive and blendable inks) to complete five beautiful, detailed and colorful cards, including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) five unique color recipes and a nice big photo showing all five colorways for reference.

This kit contains:

Five pre-stamped and white embossed Christmas Roses panels

Five pressure embossed Floral Vines panels

Five pre-diecut gold cardstock Happy Holidays sentiments

Five gold glitter cardstock panels

Fifteen golden half-pearl accents

Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo

Accent pictures showing detail of color blends and cutting

Five different color recipes using Ranger Distress Oxide or Distress Ink shades

Five white top-fold A2 cards

Get your copy of Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit: Christmas Roses, only available in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop. While you're there, check out our other kits for holidays, birthdays and occasions!

A Very Vintage Xmas

We're still celebrating a vintage/retro vibe at Jingle Belles and since there's a nice little prize of holiday vintage goodies from my Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff, you might like to join the fun.

This week my card is composed of nearly all genuine vintage and found papers, similar to those that are in the Deluxe Christmas Assortments in my Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff; in fact, the reason I started my shop was because I had collected such an extensive stash of goodies, it seemed like I should probably try to share a few of those, lol. For my card, I made a largely random collage of vintage text paper and sheet music, though I confess that I did take care to let the title of "The Holly and the Ivy" have a prominent position. A bit of foliage cut from a vintage illustration and some lovely torn Christmas seals from 1957 complete the background, which I lightly edged with Antique Linen Distress Ink and matted on both red and white cardstock before machine stitching around the perimeter. The handsome cardinal is from a piece of giftwrap I saved last December; I backed it with plain white cardstock before fussy-cutting, then popped it up on a bit of foam tape for extra dimension.

Pop over to Jingle Belles to see the gorgeous card Stephanie made, check out the Readers' Gallery and take a look at our fun prize, which will be awarded randomly. This challenge runs till next Wednesday evening, August 28th.

Plantastic!

Grow your card stash with the latest Class in a Kit Selection in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop: PLANTASTIC! In which you'll receive all the supplies, pre-cut and ready to assemble into a bloomin' beautiful trio of unbe-LEAF-able greetings! 

These cards are built around the lovely containers in Honeybee Stamps' Bud Vases die set, which have all been pre-cut for you from gold metallic and brushed silver cardstock as well as real wood veneer. Likewise, the pierced and embossed panels, diecut sentiments and pretty label shapes are all ready to roll; you can skip right to the FUN parts: arranging, assembling and attaching all the elements into some of the fastest greetings ever. 

This kit includes everything you need (except adhesive!) to create all three cards as pictured, as well as step-by-step instructions and a nice big color photo to help with placement. All the joy of a gorgeous garden, with no green thumb needed!

Visit the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design, to check out all of the fabulous kits available now; and stay tuned because we're coming up with new ideas all the time!

Here Be Monsters

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A monster, a panda and a dinosaur walk into a card kit… resulting in one of the cuuuuuuutest Paper Anthology Class-in-a-Kit selections ever: Here Be Monsters!

The monster, panda, dinosaur and sentiments are all from Spellbinders' Monster Birthday collection, but since it's a kit, all of the diecutting, stamping and pattern-combining has already been done; you can jump right to the assembling and sending. Each critter is adorably paper pieced and framed in his or her own little scene, with just the right embellishments, including various sizes of Googley eyes.  

This kit includes everything you need to make all three cards as pictured, just add adhesive! Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions are included, as well as a nice big color photograph to guide placement.

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Also new in our Etsy Shop, Cardmakers' Vintage and Found Paper Assortments; mini collections of curated backgrounds, perfectly sized for A2 cards.

The Here Be Monsters Class in a Kit and Cardmakers' Vintage and Found Paper Assortments are both available now in the Paper Anthology Etsy Shop, Paper Anthology Design; where you'll also find other Class in a Kit selections, Holiday Jumpstart kits and Birthday Jumpstarts, too!

The Spirit of Christmas Past

Our newest challenge at Jingle Belles is all about ringing in the OLD... which is to say, we're creating cards with a vintage or retro vibe. That could mean incorporating actual vintage elements, using new products that have a vintage style, or using stamps or images that convey a retro vibe; whatever says vintage to you.

I recently found a little stash of well-hoarded German Scrap that I had put aside, including these gorgeous Father Christmas images. I've made a distressed background from vintage sheet music, accented with red and green patterned papers, set off by a strip of Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape that features images of vintage postcards.

As an extra incentive to play along, one randomly selected cardmaker who links up with us this time will receive: A Deluxe Christmas Assortment of holiday-themed vintage and found papers from my Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff, plus a set of Christmas Word Art clear stamps, some very fun holiday Stickpins, and a collection of doilies in various shapes, sizes and colors. 

This challenge runs through 6pm on Wednesday, September 6th at Jingle Belles. 

Old Fashioned Christmas

Over at Jingle Belles, we're still celebrating cards made with vintage or vintage-style products, or even just themes that have a strong retro vibe. 

This week I've dipped into my stash of actual old stuff: I made a collage of torn sheet music, vintage book pages and Green Stamps; added some pretty Simple Stories washi on top, and framed part of an Authentique journal card with an ancient Tim Holtz Idea-ology Christmas Vignette Boxtop and sticker. I inked and machine-stitched around the edges, then mounted the whole thing on some Authentique brick-patterned paper and an A7 kraft card.

There's a little prize this fortnight, which comes from my own Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff, so if you've been wishing you had some older goodies to play with, you should definitely link up with us at Jingle Belles!

Since it's a week that happened to contain a fifth Monday, you can automatically link up your Jingle Belles card with the Double Trouble Challenge's SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing event, since we're on their list of Past Partners!

Bring on the Doilies!!! :)

We're celebrating "The Spirit of Christmas Past" this fortnight at Jingle Belles, which means we're creating cards with a vintage vibe. That might mean incorporating actual vintage items; OR using new papers, dies or stamps with an old-fashioned feeling. What do we mean by "vintage"? Pretty much any timeframe in history! Your "days of old" could be Regency England, Midcentury Palm Springs, or even just the fond days of your childhood Christmases. Just in case you have nothing that will suit, I've  scanned a few vintage postcards and some sheet music from my own collection and placed them in the Jingle Belles post for you to right-click and save to your computer, then print them out at whatever size you'd like.

Meanwhile, here's what I made this week:

Some of my all-time favorite items to use on vintage-style holiday cards are sheet music and doilies. There are lots of modern versions of both of those, and I love my music-inspired patterned paper and doily dies. But in this case, I went with actual OLD sheet music, paired with the highly textureal, but slightly yellowed doilies I found at a thrift shop over the weekend. The postcard image on my card is also vintage, but in this case I scanned the original and printed it slightly smaller, to be a better fit on my A7 card. Torn mats of patterned paper, machine stitching and a little bit of Eyelet Outlet washi tape add texture and interest. 

Be sure to visit Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card, grab scans of some fun vintage items from my own collection, and check out the sweet little prize that's on offer to one random cardmaker who links up with us this fortnight.

Old-Fashioned Fun

Over at Jingle Belles, we're still celebrating A Very Vintage Xmas with old or new elements that have some vintage charm. Here's what I made this week:

The robin postcard is from my own postcard collection, so rather than use the actual card, I scanned and reprinted. The other advantage of this method is that I could resize it just a bit smaller, so it fit more comfortably on my A7 card. The poinsettia illustration in the lower background is part of a page from an old Ideals Christmas Magazine. The rest of my elements are new (or at least newish, lol) from my lss Paper Anthology: the beautiful grey plaid Simple Stories paper, Petaloo burlap poinsettia and lovely realistic Prima holly leaves, not to mention the doilies and twill ribbon. I don't think I've ever made a holiday card with this much GREY on it, but I quite like the result!

Be sure to visit Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card and check out the fun little prize that's at stake this time. (Hint: it's vintage goodies from my own Etsy shop, Just Enough Stuff!)

A Very Vintage Christmas

This fortnight at Jingle Belles, we're asking you to create a card with a vintage or retro vibe… either by using new products that are vintage-in-style OR by incorporating actual vintage items into your design... or heck, really go for it and use both! 

I went with mostly real vintage because it's sorta my thang, lol! I went collage-y for the same reason. But of course there are loads of fabulous brand new stamps and paper lines that will get you a similar effect; for that matter you could use vintage elements in a CAS card! There are lots of ways to go with this! I've combined a poinsettia fussycut from a vintage Ideals Magazine, a collage of sheet music and text papers overlaid with some fun Red Stamps and at the end I added ancient lace and brand new, but I've had them awhile 7Gypsies velvetty leaves for texture! 

Just in case you have NOTHING at all to use for this challenge, hop over to Jingle Belles where I've added a few scans of vintage items from my own hoard/collection; also there's a chance for one lucky random cardmaker to win a fun prize of older goodies from my Etsy Shop, Just Enough Stuff! ♥

it's a very vintage holiday

we're still celebrating "an old fashioned christmas" over at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and you still have plenty of time to link up with us... in fact there's even a little prize this fortnight, from my etsy shop, just enough stuff! here's what i made this week:

i was in a collagey kind of mood this time, so i made a background with torn bits of holiday sheet music and book paper, then added some old xmas postage randomly on top. finally i added this glorious vintage santa, from an old children's book, to be my focal point. weirdly enough, the beautiful santa was actually my second choice; i had started out building the whole thing around an adorable reindeer i snipped from a piece of authentique's "nostalgia" line. but in the end, i felt like he was a bit undersized for the background. rather than trim off a bunch of those lovely old stamps, i went and found the santa, then made the reindeer a card of his own:

because, afterall, december will be here faster than we can possibly imagine. and the phrase, "darn, i wish i didn't have so many EXTRA handmade holiday cards" has never, ever, been uttered by any cardmaker in any language. fact.

hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and see stephanie's gorgeous card, then start planning your own vintage --or vintage inspired--  masterpiece!

Old-Fashioned Xmas

This fortnight at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ we're celebrating the look and feel of Christmas long ago by making cards with an old fashioned feel. You might incorporate actual vintage paper or lace, or use any of the many beautiful vintage-inspired papers and embellishments on the market; even a stamp or illustration with an old-fashioned vibe as your focal point will work ... whatever feels like vintage to you! Here's what I made:

vintage bits: jingle bells sheet music from an old songbook, german scrap bells; plus a red doily that may have once been my mom's so shhhhh don't tell her lol; patterned paper: authentique, basic grey; kraft cardstock: the paper co; flowers: prima; velvet leaves: 7 gypsies; inks for edges: ranger distress in old paper, antique linen and frayed burlap; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, scotch gluestick, gluedots, sewing machine 

It's no secret that I love --and tend to acquire-- plenty of genuinely older vintage paper and illustrations. In fact, I started my Etsy shop, Just Enough Stuff, partially as an outlet for all of my *extra* bits and bobs. So this week I'm super happy and proud to be offering a little prize from my shop to a randomly chosen cardmaker who links up with us this week! (Hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ for details.)

Meanwhile, about my card: I was inspired by this week's Sketch Saturday (#562) because that funky-cool angle is just so intriguing! It took me a couple of tries and a bit of trimming to get the right shape, but once I did, I loved how it looked! 

My top tip for working with flimsy or fragile vintage paper is to stabilize and strengthen it before I start, by backing it with some thin cardstock. My favorite adhesive to use directly on vintage paper is a Scotch Create Gluestick, which I apply plentifully to the whole entire surface, especially around the edges. I place an old catalog or some scrap paper UNDER the paper to which I'm applying the gluestick, so that I can run the stick out over the edge, ensuring that there is plenty of glue at the very very edge. Trust me, this is crucial. If you want to use a more modern adhesive like a taperunner or Xyron, apply it to the modern paper, NOT your flimsy vintage sheet music! (A tape runner used directly on old, lignin-full paper will often lift a layer of paper, rather than apply a layer of adhesive. Ask me how I know...) Once your vintage paper is backed with cardstock, however, you can pretty much treat it exactly like modern cardstock... so go ahead and diecut, punch, glue, etc with abandon! Alternately, you can scan your vintage goodies and print them out on modern paper. This gives you the advantage of being able to use them again and again, plus... you can re-size them to fit whatever project you're working on. Because it's nice to have options, right?

Why not hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and see Stephanie's card plus... details of the *prize* (if you like that sorta thing, lol?) and start planning your own version of "An Old-Fashioned Christmas"! 

Little Journals, Everywhere

It’s a merchandising Mandala Monday on which I’ve just added sixteen brand new 6x6” spiral bound journals to my Etsy shop, Just Enough Stuff. Each has a handpainted, ColorBurst mandala (by me) and 20-40 pages, depending on paper style. Choose from sketchbook paper, watercolor paper or a mix of new and vintage pages. Something for everyone! (at least... everyone who likes little journals, lol...) ♥

ye olde xmasse carde

we're still celebrating all things vintage and/or vintage-inspired at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and you still have plenty of time to join us, which we hope you will! (did i mention there's a prize? you know, if you like that sorta thing...) here's what i made this week:

vintage: partial postcard, sheet music, red doilies and scraps of pages from old ideals magazines; patterned paper: basic grey; cardstock: bazzill; washi tape: eyelet outlet; ink: colorbox; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

i've had these vintage red doilies in my stash for quite some time, and i thought it was about time i used them. torn layers are always a fun way to combine a few different papers, especially if you only have small scraps of them, as i did in this case. the santa image is from a little stack of antique postcards i scooped up last year for a verrrrrrry discounted price, mostly because they were not at all in good condition. whereas that would be off-putting to a collector, if you'd actually like to use them in cards or collages, it's kind of nice to have something you don't feel is "too nice to use" lol! i backed the trimmed down card with red cardstock to frame it out AND frankly to reinforce it, because the crease across santa's face is on the verge of splitting in two. here's a second shot, where you can see that i don't always like to glue all the way out to the edges, i like the look of them being sort of loose and fluttery. (they are actually well attached UNDER each successive layer, tho!)

be sure to check out stephanie's card and link up your own masterpiece at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥!

an old fashioned xmas

time for another new prompt at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and this time we're celebrating "an old fashioned christmas" so we'd love to see cards that reflect that. whether it's done by incorporating actual vintage items or any of the beautiful brand new products with a luscious vintage vibe is 100% up to you! i went with a bit of both:

vintage lace and sheet music from my stash; vintage postcard scanned, reduced slightly, and printed on kodak premium glossy photo paper, then distressed with ranger ink and a tonic edging tool; patterned paper: basic grey; doily from paper anthology; cardstock: staples; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

i've got some actual vintage sheet music and lace from my stash, but the doily paper and doily scrap are new. the angel image kind of splits the difference: i scanned an actual vintage postcard from my collection, reduced it slightly in size to fit my not-quite-A7 card, and hit the edges with a bit of antique paper ink and a distressing tool.

stephanie also has a beautiful card to show you AND you can read about the prize that's up for grabs to one lucky random cardmaker who links up with us this fortnight. (hint: it's from my etsy shop, just enough stuff!) hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ for all the details!

(not quite) mandala monday

technically speaking, it won't be mandala monday for almost another twelve hours, but i just finished listing some fun mini sketchbooks and watercolor sketchbooks that i made. they're in my etsy shop, just enough stuff, and i really couldn't wait to show them off!

the books are different sizes, shapes and have various paper types, so click the caption beneath each photo to read the complete details in the listing!

orangeade mandala journal

this one is just over 4x6", has blank, white, light-cardstock pages, and a hand-drawn, ink-colored mandala split between the front and back covers

blueberry mandala mini sketchbook

a smaller book, just about 5" square, this one's pages are made of canson mixed media sketchbook paper, which is my favorite type of general-use paper and it's great for collage, sketching, etc; you can even do a bit of watercoloring if you don't get too very watery, lol

 

rainbow mandala sketchbook

the biggest book of this lot, it's nearly 5x7" and has pages of the same mixed media sketchbook paper as above

pink lemonade mandala watercolor sketchbook

just about 5" square, this one is filled with strathmore cold press watercolor paper, which is a really nice, middle quality choice-- sturdy enough to stand up to real watercolor painting, but not so fancy that you can't just play without feeling guilty

sunflower mandala watercolor sketchbook

very similar to the one above, but a slightly more rectangular page. both of the last two are top-bound because i find that sometimes i'm fighting the binding when it's on the side, so i thought i'd see if this helps (and i think it really does!)

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i do hope you're having a wonderful day and that you'll get to spend at least part of it doing something creative and FUN, darlings!

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little books in all shapes and sizes

i've just listed a bunch of handmade, spiral-bound blank books in my etsy shop, just enough stuff. they are all different sizes and shapes and have different types of paper inside. something for everybody... or at least, something for everybody who likes funky little books that incorporate vintage game boards, old boxes and illustrations, lol!

 the one with the flower cover 

is 5 x 3.5", top bound, and has lined notebook paper inside

the kismet book

is about 4.75 x 7.5", has 15 sheets of strathmore cold press watercolor paper, and the covers are made from the box of a 1964 edition of the game "kismet".  

the mixed paper book

is so-called because there's a little bit of everything from cardstock, graph paper, tracing paper, kraft paper, vintage text and illustrations. it measures 6.25 x 4.5" and has covers from the super-cute box of a 1970's game called "rose petal place".

 

the what's for dinner book

is just about 5" square, and has blank cardstock pages and covers made from game cards from a 1980's game called, "what's for dinner".

the trabant book

...miiiiiiight be my favorite, but don't tell the others, k? it's 3.25 x 3.5" and has super-fun collaged covers over blank cardstock pages. the gallant and adorable 1959 trabant sedan is the perfect companion for all of your adventures!

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there are also paper packs, travel books, junk journal assortments and a few december journal kits left, so check out just enough stuff!

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a very vintage xmas

we are still celebrating "the spirits of christmas past" at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ by making holiday cards that use vintage-style ingredients-- whether they are actually old, or beautiful reproductions-- or otherwise evoke the feeling of an old fashioned christmas. and yes, there is even a little prize this time, in fact its a christmas ephemera pack from my very own etsy shop, just enough stuff. so you know i had to use one or two things like you might find in one of my packs!

vintage goodies: snowy cabin illustration and snow trees illustration, both from old copies of "christmas ideals" magazine; glitter paper: american crafts pow; glossy white cardstock: the paper cut; florals and leaves: petaloo, prima; sticky back pearls: eyelet outlet; ink: colorbox; adhesives elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, gluedots, sewing machine

one of the things i keep an eagle eye out for at book sales and rummage sales are copies of the old christmas ideals magazines, because they have the best photos and illustrations! they seem to be getting harder to find these days, but one way in which i have an advantage is that i don't need to find pristine, perfect copies. in fact i quite like the ones that are a bit wrinkly, or missing their front cover, or in which one of the original owner's grandchildren decided to do a bit of (presumably unauthorized, lol) coloring with crayons! people often ask if i scan the pages and use copies in my cards and occasionally, i do; especially when i want to re-size the item because it's too big or too small. but really, i love the originals... they have a patina and a vibe to them that is one-of-a-kind, which i find precious and beautiful.

something else that is both of those things is this week's atlantic hearts sketch, which was EXACTLY the right way for me to showcase a portion of one sweet blue ideals landscape illustration framed up in a second beautiful snowscape! i've added loads of textural and glittery flowers as a finishing touch.

stephanie has also made a second vintage-inspired card to help inspire you, why not hop over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ and check that out, ASAP?!