Vintage Talcum Tags No 6

For the 6th set of Vintage Talcum Tin Bottles I give you lovely ladies and a butterfly: I have envisioned the Talcum Bottles used as tags, but I'm sure you crafty peeps can find  many other uses for them too 🙂 INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAGS: Print the tag sheet on cardstock, I use Canon Matte photopaper (170g). Then…

Liebig Fairies

Today I'm sharing  a set of gorgeous Liebig Fairies: Liebig Company was the first company to issue colorful, highly collectable trade cards, in the early 1870-ies. We all know how that marked bloomed in the next 50 years, until other sources of advertising replaced the trade cards, more or less. I have enhanced and enlarged the…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part X

I also have Sweetheart Cherubs at home, this is my oldest daughter Guro as a baby: I am adding my photos digitally, then printing the finished image on matte photo paper (Canon 170g matte photo paper). I then glue the image onto thin cardboard (cereal box) with spray glue, before I cut it out. After…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part IX

When my grandparents at Bakke got married, they had already had a prolonged engagement. My Grandmother bore her first child some time in the years to follow. The child was a boy, and he did not survive being born. They named him Nils, and nearly never talked about him again. Their second son was born…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part VIII

My Grandfather Kåre was born to my Great-Grandparents Peggy Eugenie and Adolf Margido in 1925. He married my Grandmother Gunvor in 1948: Kåre was 23 and Gunvor was 21 when they got married. Gunvor was only 43 years old when her first grandchild (me) was born, younger than I am now!!! They were later divorced,…

French Book Cover Fold & Mail Stationery

I found such a gorgeous 1885 French Book Cover on Vintage Ephemera! Look at the wonderful typography, the soft colors, those little butterflies and pretty pink flowers. I can't determine what flowers they are, please help if you think you know? And it had just enough room for writing an address, I simply had to use it…

Die Cut Heart & “Love And Esteem” Poem

Cherubs where not only used for postcards, they were also popular with other types of cards. This die cut card is in fact a little booklet, the beautiful heart framed student up front, then the poem when you open up the card. The die cut front page is a PNG file (transparent background): Are you looking to…