Journal with 1960s Vintage Valentines

This ring-bound journal is full of vintage early 1960s Valentines--the kind you would get in your carefully decorated shoe-box-turned-Valentine-box at school. I know these cards are the real deal, because my friend Jane actually received them in the early 1960s, they are addressed to "Jane" on the back, and the sack she gave them to me in was marked "1963."

Here's the front cover. I added lots of ribbons, glitter, Nuvo drops, and tags throughout the book.

This page has a "new ephemera" bottle cap attached to it.

This page has a lot of room for journaling.

A little tag with a heart pull tucks behind the "Dolly" Valentine.

This side pocket has a tag for either journaling or a small photo.

This "tub-e" page is one of my favorites. I think the ribbon on the inserts makes them kind of look like curtains.

This small folding piece tucks behind the tail and hearts in the upper picture.

A tag with another Valentines and a charm embellishment pulls from behind the bear Valentine.

The girl with the flower hat tucks behind the envelope, which has a tag that pulls out of it. The three hearts also pull out from the "heart" card.

1960s sexism shown here. The boy is the snake charmer, and the girl is hanging Valentines on a clothes line. Both have journaling papers slipped behind them.

These pages have four more Valentines and some Tim Holtz photo booth pictures.  In total, I think I used 16 vintage Valentines. My friend Jane must have been a popular gal!

This book is in my Etsy Shop: GoodGollyMsMolly If you're interested, please go take a look at it and the other handmade items I have for sale there.

Vintage Valentine Accordion Junk Journal

This is a little accordion Valentine journal I made using vintage Valentines and ephemera, mixed with some new ephemera that looks old. It has a string closure in the front.

These pictures show the album opened from both sides. Each "page" or panel is about 4x4 and is decorated separately, but they all have the same vintage feel, so they go together well.

This panel used all new ephemera and has a pocket for a tag for a little love note or photo.

I used a vintage BINGO card here and drew a heart over No. 14. The flowers are early 1900s ephemera, and the stamp & postmark are from an antique postcard. I added little dimensional elements like the hearts and the Nuvo drops throughout the journal.

I make another pocket here and added some vintage-look paper in it for journaling. The pocket is embellished with more antique ephemera.

The panel on the left as a to/from space for gifting, and there are two tiny paper tags tucked into vintage ephemera in the middle.

The left shows a page with vintage ephemera and vintage sheet music. On the right is an antique Valentine, which opens up to show the sentiment.

This shows the open Valentine.

On the right is a page with new ephemera: two photo booth reproductions from Tim Holtz, some stamping, and "LOVE" spelled with Scrabble tile stickers.

Here's the last page I have a photo of. It's a vintage Valentine with a stamped sentiment on dimensional adhesive. I added a little tag to the page with the numbers 14 on one side and a heart on the other. 

Thanks for taking the time to look at my art. This journal is in my Etsy shop: GoodGollyMsMolly Please visit the shop and take a look at all the items for sale there.

Wendy Vecchi Inspired Vintage Card

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"Her domestic skills were quite limited,

but she sure knew how to shop."

 



The background of this card is stamped, sprayed, dripped, and adhered to black cs. it's hard to tell, but the background shimmers with the bronze Perfect Pearls Mist spray I used. Then I added the ribbon and the CTMH pin. The lady and the sentiment are both from Wendy Vecchi's "A Flair for Art" stamp set. I colored the dress with Copic marked #R37 Carmine. The branches are from the tree on WV's "Mail Art" stamp set. The larger mat has red spray around the edges--I used a mask to only get the edges. Both of the mats are adhered with dimensional adhesive. All of the black embellishments are from CTMH's mini-medley black accent.



Vintage Valentines

We're expecting some significant snow in Iowa tonight and tomorrow, so I'm declaring it a creative weekend.  First up, I needed to make some Valentines and cards for a new shop I'm selling in: Spring City Vintage in Colfax.  It's an occasional store, meaning it's only open one Saturday per month and by appointment.  We have more and more of these types of shops opening up.  It keeps overhead low for a specialty shop, and customers really pour in on those days the stores are open.  Anyway, Spring City Vintage's date this month happens to coincide with Valentine's Day, so I made some vintage Valentines:

 

And some close-up shots.  The Valentines are from around 1963 and belonged to a friend of mine. 

 

 

These cards, and more, will be on sale at Spring City Village on February 14.

 

Vintage Cards and Avonlea

I was in the mood to make some vintage (or vintage looking at least) cards today.  I used CTMH's Avonlea papers for all these cards.  Avonlea was new in the last CTMH Idea Book, but it was popular enough to be carried into the new Spring/Summer catty available Feb 1 as well.  I used it for a vintage look with these cards, but I just used it on my New Year's Eve layout, and it looks completely different--not vintage at all.  To purchase the Avonlea paper pack or any other CTMH products, go HERE to my CTMH website or click on the link in the right column.

Here are some close ups:

This is a copy of an original postcard I have with this little girl on it.  I think she's really cute, and I've used this image before.  The flowers, leaves, and flower centers are all CTMH embellishments. 

I love this card.  The picture is a copy, but it's the first time I've used it.  I printed the sentiment and punched it out.  The flowers are from Recollections, and the black gems are from CTMH.

My friend Jane gave me a bunch of her childhood Valentines from the 1960s.  Isn't it cute?  All these cards are different, but I think the Avonlea paper works well on all of them.  The flowers are from Recollections, and the small red hearts are from a punch.

This time I used a piece cut from an actual early 1900s postcard.  I wove the papers for a little interest and added some Recollections flowers and CTMH mini pearls.  All the edges have been distressed with brown ink.

"Vintage" Valentines

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     I made these four Valentines using pieces of antique valentines that were no longer worth anything due to their poor condition.  I used bits and pieces of embellishments, and the stamped sentiments are from the January Stamp of the Month "True Friends."  I love recycling vintage valentines and postcards into new cards, and I'm lucky my mother is an antique dealer who gives me all the damaged, unsellable paper goods I can use.  [If you have antique postcards, valentines, magazines, blotters, etc. you want to sell, contact me, my mom just might buy them from you.]