Frear’s Troy Bazaar Winter Children

Here is a set of Winter Children, they are Victorian trade cards by Frear's Troy Bazaar: I love the unusual colors on these cards and the birds accompanying each child 🙂 Although these have no Christmas message, I still think they fit very well for Christmas. The file is free for your personal use and…

Christmas Boys Large Tags

When I found this set of Victorian boys playing in the snow, I knew I had to make tags with them, and I decided these were perfect for extra large tags: If you think these tags are too large, you can always print to copies to an A4-page, for smaller tags 🙂 The file is…

Victorian Christmas Angels

I have cleaned up a set of Victorian Christmas Angels, for you to use with your projects: These can also be uses as tags. If you struggle with cutting the detailed frame, try cutting out just the ovals. The file is free for your personal use and enjoyment. Go to the download folder below to…

Clapsaddle Christmas Boys

I actually collected this set of charming Clapsaddle Christmas Boys last Christmas, but there was no time to share them with you, with all my various 2014 projects - so here they are now, still not in vain, I hope: Use these to make cards, as gift toppers or to decorate your vintage DIY Christmas…

A Glad Christmas Wreath

Here is a lovely Christmas Wreath, made out of holly with pretty red berries and red ribbon: I have removed the background: And added some extra gilding: Or just the wreath without the hanging ribbon: I hope you can use the wreath in your Christmas projects 🙂 The files are free for your personal use…

A Merry Christmas – Victorian Girl In The Snow

I have a few other treats for you for the Christmas Season, so I'm going to share more than one post, some days 🙂 Today I'm sharing this cute little Victorian Girl, out in the snow, in too few clothes, or at least it seems like that to me...: I have removed the background on…

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…

Reinvented 1909 Wood Carved Mirrors

From the 1909 "A Manual of Wood Carving" I bring you my reinvented Wood Carved Mirrors: They are real size paper mirrors 🙂 I printed my sheet of mirrors on Canon matte photo paper (160g), glued the sheet with spray glue to a piece of thin cardboard (cereal box) and cut out the mirrors. I inked the…

Antique Seed Catalog Reinvented – 1899 Henderson’s Back Cover Picture

The back cover of the same 1899 Henderson's Seed Catalog that I used yesterday, is equally fabulous, and simply had to become a garden picture: The genuine vintage harvest image is from the amazing Petrine Wiik Collection Click Petrine's badge below if you wish to download the harvest crew: To create the images for using outside, I…