Free Vintage Christmas Scrapbooking Embellishment

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This free vintage Christmas scrapbooking embellishment can actually be used in several ways: as a frame or a journaling card. It has a  traditional holly design and nice straight lines made of gold in the center, so if you want to print it and cut out the center to frame a photo, you can do it with very little fuss. It would also work equally well as a journaling card containing your hand-written thoughts. If you know how to use graphics software, you can also turn it to form a vertical border instead of horizontal.

I can't believe it's time to think about Christmas already. But as happens every year, it will be here before we know it!

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Free Vintage Thanksgiving Turkey Scrapbook Paper

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This free vintage Thanksgiving turkey scrapbook paper actually combines three diverse pieces of vintage art clip art on a cream background: two different turkeys and a harvest scene featuring a pumpkin, various fruits, dry leaves and a fall scene in the background. I originally created those three clip art vignettes by isolating them from vintage cards. (Click the links in this sentence if you'd like to use the vintage Thanksgiving clip art or the original vintage Thanksgiving cards to accompany this paper design for a scrapbook or craft project. You might also enjoy these other fall and Thanksgiving scrapbook papers.

Now that I created this paper, I'm trying to think how I can use it on Thanksgiving. Last year, I used some of my clip art to make paper napkin rings embellished with glitter glue and many coats of Elmer's school glue gel to create a three-dimensional effect. I also made place cards using the same effect. Maybe I'll use this paper for the napkin rings this year. Whatever you do for Thanksgiving, I hope you and your family have a wonderful time.

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Free Sepia Tea Party Vintage Scrapbook Paper

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This free sepia-toned vintage scrapbook paper is the companion to the vintage tea party paper I posted a few weeks ago. The images are the same as on that design; they were just run through a process to make them look like faded newsprint. So they're basically authentic vintage images that have been digitally made to look even more vintage.

As with the other design I posted, this paper features a teapot, a teacup, and several bunches of fruit. It has a lovely, homey feel that I'm sure you'll find useful if you like vintage images -- which I assume you do!

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Free Tea Party Vintage Scrapbooking Paper

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This tea party-themed vintage scrapbooking paper is my favorite of all the papers I've ever designed. Not only does it have bright colors and the vintage look I love, but it features teapots and teacups -- a few of my favorite things.

My own collection of real teapots are in storage until we move, so I haven't seen them for a while. They used to line the tops of my kitchen cupboards, surrounded by flowering vines and antique knick-knacks, and always made the apartment kitchen of my single years look so homey. So I miss them. That probably accounts for my special affinity for this vintage tea party paper design.

Another thing I like about this scrapbook paper are the special touches on some of the pieces of vintage art used to create it. There's an ornate tea pot with gold accents and hand-painted flowers that was used as a printing sample for and/or a card sent by the Charles Brehm Printing Company. (Not to be confused, of course, with the Charles Brehm who witnessed the John F. Kennedy assassination. He was a carpet salesman for Montgomery Ward.) There's also a teacup filled with flowers that has "To Greet You" printed on it. Most mysteriously of all, one of the fruit clusters has two little tags jutting out of it. One reads "8 EB Co" and the other is a simple but mystifying "479." That piece was also used on my vintage fruit scrapbook paper, so you might like to mix and match that design and this one. There's nothing mysterious about the remaining piece of art, though, other than that the grapes look so shiny that they could be lit from within.

I find all the little quirky details about the vintage art just enhance my appreciation for the compilation that created the final design. I hope you feel the same and will enjoy using it!

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Free Vintage Scroll Work Scrapbook Paper

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This brown and tan vintage-look scroll work scrapbook paper matches the black scroll work scrapbook paper I just posted over the weekend on my Free Scrapbooking Supplies blog. They both use the same design but this version started with a white background and the other has a black background.

I created the vintage effect by using a number of editing processes in Picnik that made it easy to adjust the colors until they created a vintage vibe that also looks modern. It's always nice to have a classy neutral paper you can use to balance out brighter or stronger colors. I know I'll find this scrapbook paper useful and I hope you will too. Please see the sidebar for many more helpful free images.

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Free Vintage Angels Christmas Scrapbook Paper

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The other day I got the idea that vintage Christmas cards would look beautiful if they were incorporated into Christmas scrapbook paper. So I chose what I think is a particularly pretty vintage greeting card that features two angels, one reading a parchment scroll with golden filigree and the other holding an ornate golden harp. Naturally, they're floating in the clouds and they appear to be having a conference about some Christmas-related issue. The card itself reads "A Merry Christmas" and I added "Angels heard on high proclaim that Christmastime is here" for a little ambiance and extra Christmas cheer.

I find the pale aqua color of the background, which I pulled from the cloud color, quite soothing. And to give it just that little extra bit of flair, I added an ivory-colored scroll work design between each card. I'm actually quite happy with the results. To me it's a bonus that it works for both secular and religious audiences. I've received requests to provide more spiritual and religious images, and this one has a little something for everyone. I hope you find lots of uses for it! You might even want to try using it as wrapping paper for small Christmas gifts.

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Free Vintage World War I Photo Scrapbook Embellishment

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I fell in love with this vintage black and white World War I photo before I even knew what was written on the sign above the barrel. When I blew it up and read it, I liked it even more.

Apparently, ground-up peach stones were turned into charcoal dust that was used to filter poison gas fired at our soldiers during the war. It looks like these two fashionably dressed women posed while doing their civic duty and donated peach pits.

The sign on top of the barrel reads:

Throw Peach Stones in this Barrel

The U. S. Government Needs Them

Reduced to a Charcoal Powder

They Filter the Poison Out of Gas and Save Our Soldiers' Lives

Weren't they clever back then? And who do you think first came up with the idea to grind up peach pits to filter poison gas? I wouldn't be surprised if today we use all synthetic materials that filter out poisons but generate toxins as they're manufactured. Oh, the irony. Maybe that's a little cynical but I think in some ways we've actually gone backwards as we've moved forward.

Anyway, I hope you can find some fun uses for this photo as a scrapbook embellishment or to make handmade cards. It came from Vintagerio, which has plenty more wonderful images you can play with. If you'd like to have fun browsing Vintagerio's giant collection of vintage art, click the ad in the sidebar.

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Free Vintage Halloween Scrapbook Embellishment

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This free vintage Halloween card scrapbook embellishment features the lighter, cuter side of Halloween. I'm not certain of the age of the card but if my eyes aren't deceiving me, it was signed by Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle, the most prolific greeting card artist ever. She began painting greeting cards in approximately 1906. I'm not sure when she stopped painting but I know she was incapacitated and admitted to the Peabody Home in 1932. I think she stopped painting years before that, so that places the age of this card sometime between 1906 and let's say 1930.

You can usually tell an Ellen Clapsaddle painting because of the innocence of the subjects. She often painted children, and they always were at their cutest when she wielded her brush. This card is no exception. Instead of ghouls and goblins, witches and bats, Ellen chose to interpret Halloween through this sweet boy carving a happy-looking pumpkin. The text reads:

It's Halloween, when little boys
Are frightened by the slightest noise,
And little girls run off to bed,
And climb in quick, and hide their head.

If you prefer a little tamer view of Halloween, I'm sure you'll find lots of uses for this image on Halloween cards and invitations and, of course, in scrapbooks!

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Free Vintage Flowers Border Scrapbook Embellishment

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This vintage flower border may look small and unassuming, but if you click on it you'll see the artwork is quite large, which makes it very versatile. I just love this border, because it has a beautiful assortment of vintage flowers that include red, white and yellow roses, white rosebuds, something that looks like white bluebells, some unidentified red flowers and plenty of green leaves.

You can use this vintage flower border embellishment to separate items on a scrapbook page vertically or horizontally, or you can use four of them to form a box. I'm thinking of using it to separate two different patterns and colors of scrapbook paper on the front of a handmade thank you card I need to make. It should be pretty!

I hope you find a lot of fun uses for this high resolution vintage flower border embellishment. It came from Vintagerio, which offers access to 15,000 other vintage images for one low price -- most of them large-sized. You can visit them by clicking on the sidebar ad. You can also find a few Victorian fruit and flower borders on one of my hubs.

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Free Vintage Rose Journaling Card Embellishment

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This gorgeous red rose scrapbook journaling card started out its life as a birthday card, but with a little judicious deletion of text it became a blank slate for you to express yourself in your scrapbook.

Although roses are forever, I would date this card's origin to the Art Nouveau era, based on the flourish in the border. The gold background probably was quite elegant when this card was new and would now be an ideal candidate for just a bit of gold glitter glue to make it sparkle. As always, you don't want to use too much; just enough to give it a sheen. One technique I like to use with glitter glue is to put small highlights on the rose (or any flower) and then use several thin coats of Elmer's School Glue Gel on top of them to create dew drops. This works especially well if you print the art on card stock or thick photo paper, as opposed to on regular paper. The glue will create a shiny casing around the glitter, making it look almost as if it were wet.

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