Vintage Wallpaper Available on Etsy

As most of my fellow paper fanatics know, vintage wallpaper is getting harder and harder to find. I recently came across three rolls of this beautiful pink roses and ribbon striped vintage wallpaper, circa 1976. I'm selling it for $5.00 a yard on Etsy (see link in sidebar).





Charity

My Book House

When our local antique store was going out of business, I picked up a very sweet volume from the vintage My Book House series. It was the first in the series and contains the sweetest illustrations of nursery rhymes around the world. The colors and detail of the artwork are exquisite. I have been having a great deal of fun crafting from this book. Here are some tags I just completed this morning. They can be found here on Etsy.

An Easy Fun Craft

Here's a fun idea to do with your kids or just for your own paper-crafting pleasure...



To make these:

CUT:

a circle from cardstock about 2 inches in diameter
6 hearts from vintage illustrations - I used a 2 inch punch
two leaf shapes

MARK:

the center of your two inch circle with a dot

GLUE:

Put glue in the center of your circle, but not all the way to the edges
Put a dot of glue on the wrong side of each heart's point

PLACE:

Place the heart's points over the center dot of the circle
Overlap each heart equally
I like to alternate between graphics and text hearts or the graphics get kind of lost

CREATE STEM:

Push a wood skewer, dowel, thin branch or whatever under the circle at the back of the flower. You may need to put a dot of glue on each side of the stem under the circle edge and then use a clothespin to hold until dry. Glue leaves.

EMBELLISH:

Embellish the center of your flowers with further paper cut-outs, silk flowers, vintage buttons, poker chips, bit of jewelry, glitter, whatever you wish!



Don't feel like crafting, but still want some pretties posies?? The ones pictured are available on Etsy with more coming.