Mother's Day Printable Ephemera

 

Hello everyone!  While thinking about to write about for today It crossed my mind that Mother's Day for the USA is May 9th! Almost a month from now.  So today I would like to show you a few items I have in my shop that may be just what you are looking for to create a cute gift for Mother's Day.

Printable Ephemera for Pendents

When I 1st started my Etsy digital download store in 2008 I specialized in images made specifically for pendents, earrings, and so on.  That is why you may have noticed so many small ephemera in my shop.  As the brilliant crafting minds who now use digitals for a lot more I started offering other sizes.  The talented crafters in the paper crafting community always surprise every time I check out Instagram!  Paper is by far the best crafting supply! Anyway, there I go getting off topic.

This collage sheet that I am wanting to show you was designed for crafters to create a pendent for mothers.

The Mother's Day digital collage sheet includes 24 unique images with a mix of sayings, flowers and vintage imagery of mothers.  

 
To turn theses images into a pendent is so easy.  With just a few items you can create a pendent that any mother will cherish.  I created a few image pendants a few years ago and whipped up a little tutorial, you can read it here.  How to Make an Image Pendant or How to Make a Bottle cap Charm.

But to sum it up, all you need is an image, a bezel, and some way to seal it and you are ready to go!

Grab these beautiful Mother's Day images here.

Once you have created your pendant a nice way to present it is to attach it to a pretty card, I have some lovely ephemera cards in that shop as well. In the example given on the 1st image of this post I used these.

Printable Ephemera for Junk Journals 

Next I would like to show you a sweet collection of mother themed ephemera cards.  These beautiful cards can be used for journal or to create a sweet collage. 

Grab the beautiful mother's day ephemera cards here.

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Beautiful Blue Winter Ephemera

 

Introducing Calico Collage's newest collection Winter Woodland! An adorable collection featuring sweet woodland animals such as deer, rabbits, squirrels, birds, and even a sly fox!

The main junk journal kit includes 15 high quality pages. 
10 Journal Pages, and 5 Fussy Cut Element Sheets

Grab the Winter Woodland Kit Here 

There are many other printables that can be mixed in with the main kit or use them on their own!

Seen here are the "Winter Mix" journal paper collection and the "Small Winter Labels"

The winter text is a vintage mix of winter themed book pages, some copied from 1800s books and some created originally by me.

and the small winter labels is a collection of 32 labels in a winter theme.

Grab the Winter Text Here
Grab the Small Winter Labels Here

Seen here are the highly requested blue butterflies and winter themed dictionary words!  

I created a set of Autumn butterflies a month or so back and they were such a big hit I was swamped with requests for blue butterflies for winter themed projects.

Another hot item are the winter dictionary words.  The dictionary words are great for so many different things.  Many times crafters use them to layer up the covers of their journals create new ephemera with them.  

Grab the Winter Blue Butterflies Here
Grab the Winter Dictionary Words Here

 

Check out all of Calico Collage's Winter Ephemera Here

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Patriotic Printables for Junk Journals, Embellishments, & Jewelry

Hello Crafty People!  Today I would like to show you some of the Patriotic Printables that Calico Collage has to offer.  These printables will be perfect for Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day or to create that special gift for someone who has or is serving in the Military. 

1st let's start with a set of printables that holds a little special spot in my heart.  The "American Pride" collection.  This collection includes 5 printable collage sheets.  The images in this set are small, perfect for pendants or maybe paper embellishments for your journal or planner.

The reason this collection is special to me is the military men that are featured in these printable collage sheets are family and close friends of my family.  Many of the soldiers here are defending our country during World War 2, there are a couple that is from the Korean War.  Other images in this collection are the American Flag, the P.O.W. Flag, The Declaration of Independence, and other Military & American Memorabilia. 

BUY THE AMERICAN PRIDE COLLECTION HERE

Next, I would like to show you the "Stars and Stripes" ephemera Pack.  This pack includes 3 printable ephemera filled pages with a total of 25 fussy cut ephemera in multiple sizes.  Perfect for elements in a Junk Journal, Glue Books, Planner, Scrapbooking, and other Paper Crafts.

BUY THE STARS AND STRIPES EPHEMERA PACK HERE

Are you looking to create a patriotic themed journal?  Calico Collage has a collection of journaling pages decorated in a vintage red, white, and blue with a hint of the Deceleration of Independence & the Constitution of the United States of America.  The "Americana" junk journal page pack includes 14 printable pages.  The "Stars and Stripes" ephemera pack would be a great pair with these Junk Journal Pages

BUY THE AMERICANA JUNK JOURNAL PAGES HERE

Last but not least, the "Patriotic Words" digital collage sheet.  This printable collage sheet includes 43 words and phrases along with 2 vintage images of the American Eagle with the Flag.  Words are in a variety of sizes.

BUY "PATRIOTIC WORDS" PRINTABLE COLLAGE SHEET HERE

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Free Floral Stripes Junk Journal Printables

This morning I listed a new freebie on my website that is made to match my newest collection of Journaling Pages and Ephemera, Floral Stripes.

This freebie includes 6 journaling cards/tags.  The complete printed page is made to print out at 8.5x11 inches.

You can download this freebie here

The "Floral Stripes" collection has a strong vintage feel with muted colors, flowers, and grunge stripes.

Let me tell you a little secret, the Floral Stripe collection is actually a little mistake.  I was sitting at my computer the other morning, sleepy and waiting for my coffee to kick in when somehow I changed a setting on a few layers of Photoshop. I still don't know how I did it.  The settings didn't work for the kit I was currently working on but I really like how the faded grunge looked so I just went with it.  I added pretty flowers, funky text, grunge stripes and called it perfect!  I feel this kit is pretty versatile - add some coffee or tea dyed papers, lace, buttons, more ephemera from your personal collection and you could have a perfect vintage styled junk journal.

The Floral Stripes journaling page collection includes 14 journaling pages.  You can buy the journaling pages here.

The Floral Stripes journaling cards includes 5 printable pages, each page includes four 3.5x5 inch journal cards, there are a total of 20 journaling cards.  These journaling cards can be bought here.

The matching ephemera pack for "Floral Stripes" includes 3 printable pages with a total of 34 fussy cut elements.  You can buy this ephemera pack here.

The last part of this collection is a set of vintage styled tickets.  There are a total of 22 tickets.  The tickets are in 2 different sizes.  You can buy them here.

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St. Patrick's Day Loaded Envelope

Hello everyone, Linda Israel here today.  I would like to share with you a little project a did a few years ago.  I was seeing lots of loaded envelopes on the web and wanted to give it a try.  So here is my St. Patricks's Day Loaded Envelope that I created using Calico Collage's unique "Green Ladies" digital collage sheet.

Here are some of the supplies used in the St Patrick’s Loaded Envelope
ATC Size "Green Ladies" from Calico Collage
Rinea Foil – Gold
Brutus Monroe Jurassic Ink
Large Shamrock Cut on Silhouette Cameo 3
Cricut Explore Air – on Amazon
Cricut Cuts: Circle – Basic Shapes, Flower – Home Decor, Bottom of ribbon from 1st Place Ribbon – Locker Talk. Shamrock was an image I drew the Shamrock and used the Cricut software to convert it to a cut file.
Green card stock – On Amazon
Dymo Label maker with Black Label
Xyron – on Amazon
Ranger Blending Tool – on Amazon
Punch Bunch Flower Punch
McGill Stylus – on Amazon
Fun Foam – on Amazon
Aleene’s Tacky White Glue
Mini Clothes Pins: 7gypsies
Green Seam Binding – on Amazon

Cut the Shamrock Envelope with the Silhouette. For this project, I cut one with the hearts cut out in the front and cut a second Shamrock for the back. Use the Brutus Monroe Jurassic Ink and a Tim Holtz Blending tool to add color around the edges.

Glue the bottom half of the Shamrock but not up into the center just around the lower half with white glue. Don’t use tape, if you do your items will stick to the tape.

Tie a bow with green seam binding. Glue in the center of the shamrock to represent a stem.

Add St Patrick’s Day Altered Paperclips to either side of the St Patrick’s Loaded Envelope.

Pin St Patrick’s Day Lady ATC to the front of the St Patrick’s Loaded Envelope.

Fill the inside of the Shamrock Envelope with Calico Collage St Patrick’s images. Some of the images were mounted on Silhouette Lace Tags and scraps of paper.

Extra Shamrocks were placed inside a green envelope.

Have fun adding other items to fill the St Patricks Loaded Envelope. I even added stickers, some seam binding and extra pieces of paper.

I hope you enjoyed this post on the St Patricks Loaded Envelope!
 
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Spring and Easter Printables

March 19th is the 1st day of Spring.  Are you thinking about Spring themed craft projects?  Calico Collage offers a wide variety of different Spring and Easter printables that would be perfect for your next project.  I would love to show you a few of them now.

The first set of printables are perfect for pendant images (as shown above) & paper embellishments.  The collection, Storybook Bunnies, includes 5 printable collage sheets.  The images are small and perfect for many different papercraft projects.  The collection includes over 100 small images.

Buy Storybook Bunnies Here

Next, I would like to show you these wonderful and versatile Spring Words printable ephemera.  These printable dictionary styled images are fabulous for ephemera clusters or junk journal embellishments.  

The ephemera clusters shown above were created by talented junk journal artist, Xenia Woinerowsk.  She is the owner of the "Green Adventurine Shop" on Etsy.   

Buy Spring Themed Words Here

 Next, I would like to show you these cute "Funny Bunny" digital collage sheets.  This collection also includes many different sizes that are perfect for Jewelry (as shown above) and many other papercrafts such as Junk Journal Embellishments.

This collection includes 4 printable collage sheets with more than 80 small images.  Images included are 1-inch circles, 1-inch squares, 1.5-inch squares & 1x2 Inch domino size.

Buy Funny Bunny Collage Sheet Collection Here

And lastly, I would like to show you the Blooming Spring Junk Journal Kit.  This bright kit is full of beautiful colored flowers, bunnies, sheep & birds.  The kit includes 12 printable pages: 8 Full-Size Journal Pages & 4 Fussy Cut Element Sheets.  This journal is designed to make an approx 5.5x8.5 Journal. Each page sets print full size.

 Buy Blooming Spring Junk Journal Kit Here


Click Here to see ALL of Calico Collage Spring printables

Click Here to see ALL of Calico Collage Easter printables


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St. Patricks Day Printables Ephemera

St. Patricks day isn't too far away!  I offer a few printables that may be just what you are looking for that next awesome St. Patricks Day papercraft.

First, let me show you this awesome collection of small image ephemera digital collage sheets that would be perfect for bottlecap jewelry or paper embellishments for Scrapbook pages & Junk Journals.

This collection includes 4 Printable Collage Sheets
There are over 80 small images.
Images are a mixture of sizes: 1 Inch Circles, 1 Inch Squares, 1.5 Inch Squares & 1x2 Domino Size
Complete printed page size is 8.5x11 inches (A4)
High-quality resolution 300DPI in JPG format.

Buy This Digital Collage Sheet Collection Here

Next, this is for those that are looking for more authentic ephemera, this pack of vintage St. Patricks Day postcards may be just what you are looking for.  This collection is scanned from my own personal collection of Postcards

Scanning St. Patricks Day postcards

Once I scanned in the postcards I did edit some of them to look older, It's a well known fact that most crafter dont want mint looking ephemera. 😉

This St. Patricks Day Postcard collection includes a total of 12 Printable Pages (Digital Collage Sheets)
9 Digital Collage Sheet includes 3 Images per page.
3 Digital Collage Sheets include 1 Image per page.
30 images in total
Each digital collage sheet will print out on an 8.5x11 inches (A4) page
High-quality resolution 300DPI in JPG format.

You can buy this St. Patricks Day Postcard Collection here


Lastly, this one is for the Junk Journal artist out there!  Here is "Lucky Little Clover"

This kit was so much fun to create.  Many of the elements you see in the kit design such as the wood coins & "Celtic Book of Days" was digitally created by myself.  You can see the before and after of the book seen above here on my Instagram account - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4WX7_BC1d/

The "Lucky Little Clover" printable junk journal kit includes 11 printable pages.
7 Full Page Sets
4 Element Sheets
This journal is designed to make a 5.5x8.5 Journal. Each page sets print full size.
Each digital collage sheet will print out on an 8.5x11 inches (A4) page
High-quality resolution 300DPI in JPG format.

You can buy the "Lucky Little Clover" junk journal kit here



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Faux Button Card Ephemera

Button! Button! Who's got the button?  Hello everyone!  Thank you for stopping by.  I'm here today to share with you my latest printable, Faux Button Cards!   

Linda Israel sent me a message a month or so ago asking if I would be interested in making some button cards & I was happy to oblige.

I first searched the web for some inspiration.  Old button cards were very simple in design & normally the main focus of the art were people & the occasional bird.  Not many had flowers.  So I knew I wanted to make sure I had some cards that showcased roses and other flowers.

Another thing I wanted to focus on was creating my own logos for the button companies that would be displayed on my button cards. I didn't want to use a company name that could still be trademarked or copyrighted.  I think this was my favorite part of creating these button cards was creating the logos.

This collection of button cards include 12 printable cards.  Each card is approx 3x4 inches.  This size would be perfect for scrapbooking, junk journaling and of course decoratively storing your vintage buttons.

You can buy these button cards here

Linda also created a cute and fun way to use these cards.  I love how she made the cards a little more 3d.  I hope that you will take a moment and check out her tutorial.  

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New Breast Cancer Digital Collage Sheet

I had a request from one of my customers for a new breast cancer awareness digital collage sheet in 1x2 inch Domino size.  She wanted something a little different from what other Etsy shops had to offer.  Her specific request was for images that had the word "Survivor" on them.  A friend of hers will be 5 years cancer free this April.  I couldn't say no.

This digital collage sheet features 24 1x2 inch domino size images.  Each image is unique to Calico Collage and will not found on any other shop.  It features the classic pink ribbon along with quotes and words of hope & love. 

You Can Buy This Digital Collage Sheet Here

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Trying Something New

With all the new changes with Etsy the new algorithm, I've decided to try another other way to get my Etsy Shop out there for more to find me.  So I've decided to give Youtube a try.   This whole idea is completely trial and error.    Hopefully it will pay off as time goes on. 

Here is the latest video I have placed on Youtube.

 

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Behind the Scenes

3D work is another kind of medium that I enjoy working with.  I've incorporated many of my different images into my collage sheets over the years.

In my Fairy Forest Collection, all the fairy images were created by myself using a 3d program.

Another collection that features my personal 3D works is this fan favorite, Wild Horses, the single horses in this digital collage sheet were also created by me using the same 3d Program that I used for the fairies in the above collection.

Now today I'm going to give you a little sneak peak of what I'm working on right now that deals with 3D.  I'm creating a  romantic ballet digital collage sheet that will feature my own personal ballerinas.

I create all my 3D elements in another program called Poser.  Within this program I start out with a blank canvas that include this mannequin.

Once I have an idea of what I plan on creating I dive in and start morphing, texturing, dressing and perfecting all the little details to create that final product. 

Once I have the element the way I want, it is now ready to save and be incorporated into my digital collage sheet where I will add all sorts of vintage elements and other digital magic to get it ready for you to create your next masterpiece with.

Here is a little animation that shows you all the step that I did to create this little ballerina.

  

I hope you enjoyed this little behind the scenes.  My new Ballet digital collage sheet should be ready soon, be watching!

Have a great day & stay crafty

~Norella

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