Antique Seed Catalogs Reinvented: 1901 Burpee’s Cottages

How about combining two of my passions: Reinventing Antique Seed Catalogs and Little Cottages, into little 1901 Burpee's Cottages: The little cottages are very easy to make with a hot glue gun: INSTRUCTIONS: Print on cardstock (I use Canon Matte Photo paper (160g) Cut out the cottage (all the solid lines) Score on the dotted lines…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Tab Dividers

What do you know, it turns out the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog back cover also makes pretty Tab Dividers: Printed the sheet on A4 sticker paper, score the middle lines, cut them out and they are ready to use wherever you need a little dividing 😀 The Tab Dividers may certainly be…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1921 Henderson’s Red Swirl Labels

By the 1920ies, the seed catalogs have ceased to be colorful works of art, depicting the various flowers. Instead they now feature black and white photograpies, surely a marvel to the readers of the time, but for us, these catalogs are sadly boring. However, some fun artwork can still be found, and reinvented, like this red…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Rose Clocks 2,5″ Tags

Since I ended up with 12 different Rose Clocks, I could not resist gathering them all as 2,5" tags on a sheet:    Another idea is using the pretty vintage rose page from the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog "as is"! Just print it out and cut it into strips to make tape…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Rose Clocks No 4 of 4

And finally, the fourth set of 3 Rose Clocks is also based on the same page of vintage roses from the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog: If your printer can handle printing all the way to the edges, this sheet at 100% will come out with a perfect size to fit on CD's (120mm).…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Rose Clocks No 3 of 4

For the third set of 3 Rose Clocks I also used the same page of vintage roses from the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog: If your printer can handle printing all the way to the edges, this sheet at 100% will come out with a perfect size to fit on CD's (120mm). Meaning…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Rose Clocks No 2 of 4

The second set of 3 Rose Clocks comes from the same page of vintage roses from the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog: If your printer can handle printing all the way to the edges, this sheet at 100% will come out with a perfect size to fit on CD's (120mm). Meaning you can…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented: 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Rose Clocks No 1 of 4

I used an amazing page of vintage roses from the 1914 Miss Ella V. Baines Seed Catalog to design a series of 12 Rose Clocks, here is the first set of 3: If your printer can handle printing all the way to the edges, this sheet at 100% will come out with a perfect size…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented – 1918 Dingee Guide to Rose Culture

Here is a second Dingee Guide to Rose Culture design I created, with the 1918 Seed Catalog back cover: The stunning Black Beauty in my rose frame is from The Hugh Magnum Photography Collection at Duke University, another fabulous source for black portraits! And here is the frame as a PNG-file too (transparent background), for you…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented – 1915 Dingee Guide to Rose Culture

I shared a few reinvented antique Seed Catalogs with you this summer, but truth be told, they were only the tip of the iceberg... I reinvented MANY of those Antique Seed Catalogs...:-P I'm not sure I will bore you with all of them, but I might be sharing a few every now and then... lol! So…