Vintage Greeting Cards

Hi folks. I know I've been M.I.A. for a while.

However, it's time to share what has me 

virtually obsessed.

My aunt gave me an old album full

of vintage greeting cards.

I was able to carefully peel them off the glued pages.

Most were anniversary theme.  I found a few dated ones,

so I'm confident they're from the 1940's.  

Aren't they lovely???

I am smitten with each & every one!

So now I'm cutting bits & pieces out 

and creating new cards with old flair!

The images are dreamy art!  

A few added embellishments give them dimension.

Some old cards can make THREE new cards!

Look how they are folded...

The next three cards were made with one old card.

Aren't those tiny flowers & doves darling???!

I've had to work around lots of 

anniversary bells, but have been 

able to salvage flower borders.

These yellow rose borders make my heart sing!

Adding them to a heartfelt card 

is sure to brighten someones day.

I like to leave some cards blank, for any occasion.

The mother card has a dictionary page

for the background.

This card has sweet butterflies stamped on,

to help fill out the blank spaces.

I hope you've enjoyed my current craft projects!  

Let me know what you think of these cards. 

 Do you think YOU would ever buy some to send out?  

I need some junker friend feedback!

All stamps used are from

Unity Stamp Company.

Linking up to:

Mod Vintage Life

Tranformation

Hi junkers.

Another transformation

for you today....

Before:

This sturdy wood tray 

was transformed with

 a few coats of paint &

a stencil inside.

After:

Can you see the heavy distressing?

I think that is what made this tray

come to life!  This would be so cute

on a coffee table, holding a candle &

some TV remote.  

Linking up to:

My Romantic Home

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Ivy and Elephants

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Ugly Duckling #2

Here we are again, with another ugly duckling project!

This is a thrift store rescue.

I paid $4.50

Have you ever seen one of these???

It struck me as unique & so I took the plunge.

It's a great little office organizer!

Each end got stenciled.

I sanded the edges for a distressed look.

Little projects like this are so fun,

now that the weather here has

gotten BITTER cold.

This morning there was no mercury

even on the thermometer, so it was 

more than -15 degrees! Yikes

Linking up to:

Between Naps on the Porch

Handy Caddy

Toolbox sounds so manly. 

But caddy sounds way more darling.

These are special to me, since the red spindles

were from a tattered chair out of my daddy's 

pole shed.  I have memories of it sitting on the dirt 

floor with saw marks on the seat & various colors

of spray paint here and there.  He used it to death.

So naturally I offered my mom & sister 

first dibs on these caddies.

Sis took the big one.  She'll do something cute with it.

Here is the other caddy,

all dolled up for the holiday!

What would YOU store in this caddy???

Merry Christmas everyone.

Please remember, 

Jesus is the reason for the season!

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Ugly Duckling #1

You know you've seen heart items

while thrifting & passed them by.

The day I bought this one...

I must have been feeling pretty

confident.  Lets face it, this is ugly.

Before:

It's a boring pale green.

Can you believe I paid $4?

Lets just say it's very sturdy.

Nothing a little turquoise can't fix,

right???

After:

Usually I distress edges, but didn't want to 

distract people from the creative backdrop!

I glued old dictionary pages onto cardboard for a 

sassy cool mod-vintage look!

It was a breeze to decorate this shelf with

little berry baskets, candy, Kand-ice, and more!

This Kand-ice still works

& was a rare garage sale find!

My mother-in-law gave me this big Santa mug

to sell in a garage sale. Instead, I used some

Pinterest inspiration to make him

cute Christmas decor!

Well, what do you think?

Show me some love with comments!

~Merry Christmas~

Linking up to:

My Romantic Home

Mod Vintage Life

Ivy & Elephants

December

Hi folks, It's December now & time to set out

your unique junk decor for the holiday.

Have you started?

I added some red ribbon & evergreens to 

a pair of old skates.  You see these hung on

old wooden sleds quite a bit.

I opted to keep the dirty old look,

rather than paint them.

They have a date of 1943 stamped on them!

It was pretty gross, finding a mouse nest inside.

Once I got that cleaned out, 

I stuffed the toes with newspaper.

These certainly aren't stiff like the modern skates.

I found an old candle mold 

which was hard for me to use

 in any decorating situation.

So it seemed logical to just hang it with 

greens & a pretty bow for Christmas.

Alone it's pretty shabby, but looks

darling with that glitter bow.

The last item I'll share today, is an old

tall crate.  It was just begging

for some evergreen boughs & a 

flashy bow.

Now we just need more snow 

to really give it that magical 

winter look.

Linking up to:

My Romantic Home

UP north

I found an old kitchen cabinet door at a garage sale.

I just love them, they're like blank canvas for me!

Using my Cricut machine,  I cut adhesive vinyl stencils.

We have a lot of lakes here &

the cabin folks LOVE that style decor.

I'm a white-tailed deer fanatic,

so this craft had me smiling the whole time!

Check out the unique edging...

I used Stazon ink  & stamped

a map image all the way around!

The stamp is called Travel Notes,

from the Unity Stamp Company.

Can you believe this door cost me only a buck?

*giggle*

I'm linking up to Unity's Friends With Flair blog party.