Vintage Shabby Chic Thank You Card

Hello Friends! Well, I had an opportunity to make a card yesterday. The fun thing about it is I was able to work with images that I didn't need to color. Online there are a lot of blogs and web sites that share "vintage" images and ephemera for free. For those not familiar with ephemera, they're basically vintage or antique collectibles primarily photos, post cards, letters, images, etc. Artist and crafters use them to create various projects such as cards, ATC collages, decoupage, scrapbooking, altered art and other crafty items.

Way back when I first started rubber stamping, I did primarily collage artsy fartsy type of handmade cards until I sort of entered into the mainstream rubber stamping world and started creating a more mainstream style of card designs. . .basically, whatever is popular at the moment. Well, I decided to return to creating the style of cards that I started off with. . .I guess you can say I'm returning to my roots. LOL!

Back then, I would order the ephemera from Ebay. There were sellers that sold the images in CDs or actual photos and postcards but now that blogging is popular, sharing of images have become wide spread and much more accessible which is WONDERFUL. Below I shared a few links to blogs and websites that provide free ephemera images. There are tons of them and I can't wait to discover more of them.

I had created the background using images shared by Vintage Catnip and E-vint.com
and overlapped the script design over the floral design to create a scripted floral background. I posted the modified images below if you want to use them.

I also created a ticket tag and added the word "thank you". I couldn't find a ticket that had the sentiment thank you so I created my own. Again, I shared the image below.

The floral image is an image from Vintage Holiday Craft. They have a ton of free images. I altered the flower by cutting it out and adding glitter to the image.


With the flower, I altered it a little by adding glitter. When using clip art images for card making, to make it your own rather than just printing and pasting an image on to a card stock, alter it by adding glitter, embossing it, add embellishments and other elements to make them original otherwise, it won't feel like you made the card. Well, that's my view anyway. . .:) With the image already colored and all you need to do is print it, you have more time to jazz up the image as opposed to when you color an image yourself. . .because it takes so much time to color it, adding more elements to it just feels like a lot of work so there is a benefit to using colored images.

Here is the image that I altered. Like I said, I used a floral background and overlaid a scripted image over it to create a scripted floral back ground. Click on the image and "save" the image to your computer

This one is vertical.

Here is the thank you ticket I created. I just realized it's a little crooked but it's still useable.

Here are a bunch of websites and blogs that I found that share vintage images for free. Go check it out. . .I spent almost an hour downloading images yesterday. I can't wait to create more vintage shabby chic cards!!!!

Marie's Freebies

Artist Freebies
E-vint
The Graphics Fairy
Magic Moonlight Studio
Victorian Vignette
Carol Anne's Boutique
The Tattered Chic
Green Paper
Feathered Nest
Scrapologie
Antique Images
Vintage Moth
Freebie Fun by Cemerony
Vintage Catnip
My Desert Cottage
Vintage Stampers Freebies

Keeper of the Nest

Vintage Holiday Crafts
Antique Clipart
Sugar Moon

Anyway, that's it for today. If you're not familiar with shabby chic vintage style cards. .. try it out. It's fun to create them and I think they're really pretty.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!!!