Vintage inspired scrapbook kits

It's been a cold, wet week so far, with nothing much to do but stay indoors.
Which leads to a busy bee creating all kinds of things.
Normally this entails a messy craft room, with things strewn about all over the place, resembling nothing short of a mini tornado having been in here.
Lot's of coffee, an over-active brain, cutting and sewing.

I am still waiting for the words "step away from the scissors"...

New stuff just uploaded into my Etsy shop.

My very own scrapbooking kits!
These are totally unique as almost everything in the kit is digitally designed by me using Photoshop and then printed out.

1) Bird set.
Available here



The Bird set contains:
9 papers which have printed onto high quality card and measure 20x20cm (8" x 8").
2 little cards,
4 journal cards,
5 tickets,
and 5 transparent cards
9 Birds are various vintage images printed onto card and hand cut.


2.) Rose set
available here

The rose set contains:
8 papers which have printed onto high quality card and measure 20x20cm (8" x 8").
7 labels,
4 journal cards,
7 tickets,
6 yoyo's and fabric flowers
4 little transparent cards




And some fun little sets, transparent envelope pockets.
With wording.
Some without wording.

And some with journal cards included.




Anyway I have a sick little girl at home too :( so it's back to playing Doctor!

Weekend activities.

{the beautiful orchid my hubby bought me!}

You know the weekend has been good when you can check off "things-have-been-meaning to-do-but-haven't-gotten-around-to-doing" list.

So this is what I accomplished:

*glued in the mountain of recipes to my book that was threatening to take over the kitchen
*Glued in all the pictures I have cut out of magazines into my inspiration book
*started the "I've-been-meaning-to" book for my daughter. It's a book full of 'How-to ' things and advice that I will give to her one day when she leaves home. (oh gosh, that just formed a lump in my throat!)
*did some more crochet for the surprise I am making my son.

*sat in the first bit of sun I have seen all week, crocheting, drinking tea and watching my daughter play. (bliss) and the cat soaking up the sun.
*took off all the bedding to wash and hung up (only to have it all dripping wet from the rain today!)
*made us all pancakes and we played scrabble. (I won! hee hee)
*uploaded a new product to my Etsy store-embellished pink paper bags.


Limited time only: all packergy gift sets 15% off.
Use code: PACKERGY6 upon checkout!

Hope you had a good weekend!

Inspire me Monday- Blogs

From time to time I stumble upon a real find in the blogging world.
A blog I want to spend all day viewing, reading and absorbing.
It might be for the brilliant way it's written, or for it's beautiful photographs, it might just be because I enjoy the content.

So let me share with you my recent finds....

Michelle Alynn Clement -
A fun blog about all craft things.

JmpGirl- Jamie {on Today}.
I love her ideas, she creates beautiful things and also like me, loves vintage things.

Trisha Brink
Love her soft, vintage photography


I still have some more Vintage postcards to share from my trip to Paris....here is another one for you! Enjoy!

PS I am aware that my label cloud has expanded to gigantic proportions! I am trying to fix it :)

Creative things

Hey, Hey, It's Friday! *whew*.
So this is how I am dressed today...Sort of a mustard girl today, all knitted out and cozy.



I am off to see a good friend of mine, to drink coffee, catch up on things and admire her new stylish craft room. I go bearing gifts for her *cos that's how I roll*.

Some crochet bunting for her new studio aka craft room...



Three bunting pieces which is adding to some she and her mom have made....



I have to just mention that my dear sweet hubby came home with a gift I have been hinting at for ages!! He bought me a white Orchid!!! A real one!! I LOVE them....It has two beautiful blooms on and two more waiting to open! I was so happy! I will have to post a photo of it soon!

Have a GREAT weekend, whatever you do, do it with heart and soul and find time to do something creative, it's good for the soul!!!

Another Vintage image for you...(see previous posts for more).

{right click and save as, for personal use}

Etsy shop update: packery set for Friendship

Last night I stayed up waaaaay longer than I should have, but I got so engrossed with a Gift I am busy with for a friend of mine, that I decided to make some goodies based on what I was doing for my Etsy shop.

It is a Friendship set. The idea is that you have all the packagery (that SHOULD be a word!) you would need to make a little gift for a friend. There is fabric, paper, vintage music paper(one of the best finds!) tags, brown paper bags, trim etc etc. You could make a card, another tag and some pretty fabric embellishments to give to her. Or you could just use all the supplies as the pretty packaging you wrap her gift in. Either way....

One of the already made ideas is a little brown paper bag with a paper doily and butterfly negative sewn onto it, with a ticket stamped with "to and From" slotted into the negative. The sides of the envelope then stitched by machine.
another already done thing are two sweet, tiny tags with butterflies stitched on.
And an already made friendship tag complete with stamped "Cherished Friend", fabric ribbon, and stringed button.

Another idea is simply to use it for card making or scrap booking. There really are a lot of possibilities.

Here I made a tag from the goodies in the set and pasted it onto a card.

The paper is made from the 6x6 paper included in the set, and ribbon trim. I used the fabric to made a little embellishment and paper flower with a button center.By the way did you see my new easy-to-locate pages at the top of my blog? This is to make things a bit easier when searching for my digital kits, craft and tutorials which I will be continuously adding to. Is there a particular stand-alone page you would like to see listed at the top?

Anyhooo....here are two more vintage postcards from you.
You can see more of them here and here.
Isn't this baby so sweet??

Please check back tomorrow and next week, I still have about 9 postcards.

It's Here!!! Winners of Giveaways announced!!

It's the big Ta-Da moment!

The announcement of the giveaways!
This was no easy task people!! I had to get the names of my 94 Followers, plus the 155 subscribers to my newsletter plus all the enterants on the blog. Then it was duplicating the followers and subscribers for each giveaway (cos they each got one free givaway entry without having to do anything!) And then it was putting them into two groups. One group for giveaway 1 and one group for giveaway 2. And then duplicating the blog enteries accordingly, and sorting out of those that only wanted to enter EITHER giveaway one or two....

So plus/minus 270 entrants for EACH giveaway...and lots of cutting later....we have our winners!!

Giveaway One-the hamper pack of luscious embellies (hee hee) goes to.....

sticking all the itty-bitty printed out names in a tin. (blurred it a bit cos there are some email addy's on them and don't want to publicize them!)


The hand goes in...
The hand picks one...

*drum roll*



Congrats to you, if your email address starts with "ttimes33" !!!! (sorry don't know your name!) I will email you to get your postal address!
This person is a newsletter subscriber!
(PS For any reason, should the chosen winner not want the prize, I have chosen a back up for each giveaway!)

Giveaway 2....

Again...cutting out the printed entrants...

mixing it up...
And the winner of Giveaway two goes to.....



*Big drum roll*



*wait for it*.....



Congrats to Terry!! Terry entered on the blog. I will email you Terry!!

Thanks again to everyone that entered!! It was fun!


Before I go, I wanted to show you these lovely vintage finds I found...
A beautiful little side plate...It was a bit worn and faded but I just LOVED the color (matches my kitchen!) and the pretty little edging detail. And some crocheted dollies!! (****squeal!!!!****)
Sigh...so pretty...the rose pattern in the center must of been beautiful "back in its day" when it shone in all its glory!


And of course....now I MUST go and eat a muffin as all that cutting and then trying to take photographs with one hand while mixing papers and trying to focus on such a tiny piece of paper, has made me hungry...




I will leave you with some more of the lovely Vintage postcards I picked up at a flea market in Paris...right click and save as to use in your personal art projects. The first installment in this set is in this post!


Now Excuse me while I go and eat my blueberry muffin!