Norwegian Nisse Milk Cartons & Tags

Since the early 1990ies, the Norwegian milk cartons from our main dairy company Tine has been decorated with Nisse illustrations (or 'Fjøsnisse' as they are also called). I realize this does not qualify neither as "vintage" nor as "retro" but it has still become a dear tradition for us. From late November until the New Year, the…

Vintage Milk Glass Jar Gift Bags

The last post with the Vintage Milk Glass Jar patterns is a set of little Gift Bags: The main pattern: The lid pattern:The lid border: Here are the 4 different Gift Bags for you to print and enjoy: Print sheets of tape and circle seals onto sticker paper, and use them to close the bags:…

Vintage Milk Glass Jar Wraps

I also used the pattern elements from yesterday to create two versions of wraps, for cans or jars: The main pattern: The lid pattern:The lid border: Wrap a few cans and insert baked treats or sweets wrapped in a little cellofane or other gifts wrapped in tissue paper, for small teacher gifts, or maybe for…

Vintage Milk Glass Jar Gift Wrap

I had fun "lifting" the various patterns from one of my Vintage Milk Glass Jars, and using them to design Vintage Folklore Gift Wrapping: The main pattern: The lid pattern:The lid border: I turned the 3 elements into a set of Milk Glas Jar Gift Wrapping! First there is 4 different wrapping papers, all in…

Vintage Secret Christmas Angels

My oldest daughter goes to keyboard classes, and her teacher is from Prague. When I was peaking in on them yesterday, he was teaching her a Christmas carol, and he referred to the "Norwegian Christmas Treasure". Apparently we are the only country with numerous carols especially for Christmas (I can think of near 40 Christmas carols just off…

Vintage Valentine Love Circus – DAY 13 – Mix & Match

After 2 weeks of  Valentine Crafting, we need to throw a Love Circus Party to really show off all the whimsical cuteness! So I designed a Love Circus Garland, and Paper Cup Wraps: The paper cups are filled with yummy Valentine Chocolate & Candy, and make fabulous Party favors 🙂 Of course you can stop…

Walter Crane Seahorse Printable Wraps & Tags

Did I mention how much I love Seahorses? Well, I do! I wish I could scuba dive so I could find them and watch them myself, but since I can't, I will at least enjoy them in art! And share the wonderful art of Seahorses with as many people as possible 🙂 So here are…

French Rose Soap Wraps – free printables

One can not be crafting only one thing at the time! So I'm itching to share other stuff with ya'll than just the Christmas Village, thus tonight I'm posting fabulous french soap labels, resized by me to fit large cans or jars 🙂 Print, cut and use your glue gun to revamp empty cans or…