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1916 Children & Lambs – DIY Easter Bell Pull

These precious Easter Children and little lambs were simply begging to become another Bell Pull for my sister: Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambs Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambs Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambs

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Print out and glue the 3 collage sheets to thin cardboard (cereal box) – I use spray glue for fast action
  • Punch holes in the corners of your images, you can skip the two bottom corners of the picture you want to be on the bottom of the Bell Pull.
  • Assemble the Bell Pull with string and beads
  • (Alternative: thread some pretty ribbon through the holes and tie a nice bow on top)
  • Hang, and TA-DAH: a lovely Vintage Easter Bell Pull 🙂
Wings of Whimsy: 1907 Joyeuses Paques - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #french #children
Back view of DIY Easter Bell Pull assembled with ribbon

Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambsWings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 - DIY Easter Bell Pull #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambs Here is a low resolution preview of the 3 collage sheets: Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 No1 #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambsWings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 No2 #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambsWings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 No3 #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambsI also created an extra collage sheet with my 4 favorite pictures from this set:

Wings of Whimsy: Children & Lambs 1916 #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #postcard #easter #children #lambs

You can use these to make little hangers, like I did with the French Chicks (click on the image below to see the whole post with instructions):Wings of Whimsy: 1912 French Chicks  #vintage #ephemera #freebie #printable #french #chicks Go to the folder below to download the high quality printable collage sheets, and to check out the Easter graphics I posted earlier years:

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Children & Lambs 1916 – Tuck DB

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18 thoughts on “1916 Children & Lambs – DIY Easter Bell Pull

  1. What a delightful project! I bet your sister is over the moon with it. Thank you so much for the beautiful images, not just today, but every day.

    1. Thank you Lululiz 🙂 She loved the Bell Pull, and all the other stuff I left for her yesterday. I will be posting a couple more of the projects I made for her, later today and tomorrow 🙂 Thank you also for the lovely comment about my work in general, I am very pleased to hear that you are enjoying my whimsies 🙂 I wish you a Happy Easter! xoxoxo

  2. I just love this! It’s darling. I just might make it too. That would be a first, as I’m so lazy! Is there a high resolution for pages 2 – 3? Thanks so much.

      1. Hehehe! I really hope you try this project, it is as simple as they get especially if you hang it with ribbon 😉 The wire and beads take a little more fiddling, but makes a cute result too 😉 I was at my sister’s house when I uploaded these yesterday, and she does not have the wifi-power I’m used to, so uploading was a lot slower. I think you first checked almost immediately after the post was released, and I was in the middle of uploading… lol I wish you a Happy Easter 🙂 xoxoxo

    1. Thank you Dear 🙂 I sometimes feel almost like “cheating” for simply presenting fabulous vintage art with my twist… but I hope the eye for finding good pieces and the little ideas I apply can count for something too…lol Have a lovely Easter! xoxoxo

  3. Inspired by you I made a project like this (but using your ribbon method) with some images from the French chicks and some from this collection. It makes me so happy to look at it. I had to make it fairly small, though, to fit the space where I could hang it. Can I ask what size of rectangles you used for your sister’s bell pull? I love the way it looks oh her wall.

    1. Dear Carol 🙂 I am so happy to hear that you were able to use some of my images 🙂 Both Bell Pulls I have shown were made printing the collage sheets in A4-size so each image is slightly smaller than a half A4 page (approx. 14x20cm). You can of course print them half the size too, with two sheets (4 images) per page, but I planned my Bell Pulls to be rather large decorations, and then I have used lots of the little Hangers everywhere else where space is more limited. 🙂 Happy Easter to you! xoxoxo

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