Hello everyone!  Valentines is only a month away and I thought I would share these cute little retro valentines day ephemera cards with you.  

Free Valentines Ephemera

When I first saw these adorable little characters, my attention was drawn to the flowers, and I knew I had to have more of them.  So I changed the background in both designs to a pattern effect created with the flowers. 

This single digital download include 2 designs, 1 bear & 1 fairy, and is repeated for a total of six 3x4 inch cards.

Download Free Valentines Junk Journal Ephemera Cards

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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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Free Ephemera Flowers & Ladies Ephemera Tags

The freebies in this collage sheet were inspired by the beautiful woman of color in the picture above.
She radiates an air of authority, and her features are stunning.  I paired her with another woman from the same era who seemed to fit her aesthetic. 

Free Flowers & Ladies Ephemera Tags

 Also included in this freebie is 3 matching flower tags.  The vintage images used to great this beautiful collage sheet were vintage papers from the 1800s, news papers, & bingo cards.  Then adorned with beautiful flowers and roses.

Download Free Ephemera Flowers & Ladies Ephemera Tags

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Hello everyone.  It has been a very busy past few weeks, so many ideas and so little time.  Who can relate.  I know you can.

So I would like to share what I have been working on.  The shabby chic bug has bitten me and I'm seeing pinks & blues!

New Collage Sheet & A Freebie for You!

Here is the newest collage sheet, Shabby Marie. These artistic printable Shabby Chic Marie Antoinette ephemera cards will be the perfect addition to any feminine junk journal or paper craft. These unique printables would be perfect for many different paper crafts such as physical ephemera, mixed media, junk journals, bullet journals, vintage journals, hang tags and so much more! Let your awe-inspiring imagination play!

 

✂️What's Included:
2 Digital Paper in JPG format.
Total of 27 ephemera cards in 2 sizes.
Full Page Prints at 8.5x11 inches.

Grab the Shabby Marie Digital Collage Sheet

Free Digital Collage Sheet

Now onto something for you!  Feel free to download this free .pdf collage sheet for your next work of art!!

Download Free Collage Sheet

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Love those Roses

Hello everyone,
I can't believe how long I stayed on here yesterday tweaking my blog and other things.
I am so grateful that there are generous people willing to provide free backgrounds for blogs and other websites.  I wasn't impressed with Blogger's default settings.  This shabby chic background suits me perfectly.  I even made a banner to go with it.

In admiration of all those who are willing to give, I thought I would do the same. 
Here's a blog banner you can use for your site.  All you have to do is click on it and save it.  Once saved you can load in into a graphic program and add your blog name.
This banner was created with vintage 1850 music sheets and some lovely roses.

If you like roses, I have some lovely rose junk journal papers in my Etsy shop.
These lovely journaling papers are embellished with vintage seed catalogs from the 1800s.
This set is called "Floral Gems" because the roses resemble mother nature's living gemstones.
Don't you think so?

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