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Vintage Button and Sewing Notion Collection From Leaping Frog Designs

Sometime in early October

as I was sifting  through

eBay one evening

I came  across a button

that intrigued me.

Rather large, made of metal

it was part of a larger lot.

I placed a bid and went 

along my merry way.

7 days later in my inbox

the message that I had "Won"

my lovely button and

her sisters.

I have plans for that button...It is going to 

be my master for one done

in silver with tiny fresh water

pearls from the Willamette River

But....

Was I ever surprised by what came with it.

Beautiful beautiful buttons

Glass, lovely Victorians, Bakelite and

Mother of Pearl.

Rhinestones, Silver, Brass, Gold

Sigh

Button heaven

Buckles of several eras and

types

Some beautiful packages

of needles

I love the wood needle case and

when I slip my fingers into

the thimbles I can just

imagine the hours and hours

of mending or dress making

they had helped make.

There are many more items

that I did not take pictures of

Tiny perfume boxes filled with little

shell buttons, another filled with

needles and pins.

A true treasure trove.

Some of these pieces may

make it into other projects.

For now they have found a new

home with me. I will cherish them

for years to come.

Beautiful Frames Free Vintage Images From Leaping Frog Designs

It seems I can never have enough

frames in my digital goody bag

I found this one a few days ago.

It is from an old card

I have removed the saying and

left it empty for you 

to fill in with your own

words or image.

Enjoy!!

Pink Heart Frame Free PNG Image From Leaping Frog Designs

Lovely heart frame

from one of my vintage

Valentine post cards

Enjoy!!

Free PNG Image Cupid With Heart Vintage Valentine Post Card

Sweet cupid from one of my vintage post cards

He/she was climbing into a window

if you are wondering what happened to 

the rest of his foot.

Enjoy!!

Vintage Image To Greet My Love Cupids With Heart Frame PNG Images

If I did this right you should have 4 cupid frames

two of each style.

In both a small and large format.

(Fingers crossed)

This sweet set is from one of my

lovely vintage post cards.

Enjoy!!

Vintage Christmas Gift Tags Free Collage Sheet Art Deco Style

You will have to excuse me.

The holidays have me going a little 

bonkers.  I can not remember if 

I have posted these wonderful

vintage Christmas Gift tags.

So...

I put them all on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet

and put them all on at once.

These beautiful gift tags

all came from the same 

estate find. 

I hope you enjoy them.

More Vintage Frames For Embroidery and Ribbon Work

Three more frames from

my book on lace making.

I love the basket piece on the bottom.

Enjoy!!

Frames From Vintage Lace Making Book Great Patterns

From a recent find

These lovely little frames are

patterns from a vintage pamphlet

on making lace

I thought they would make great

embroidery patterns for little

sachets or pin cushions.

I have several more I will be

posting for you.  

Vintage Christmas Post Card Ornaments

Oh boy...I have been wanting to get started

on my Christmas ornaments and decorations

for months..At last this week I decided

to just jump in and get started.

One of the tutorials I bought earlier this year

was a sweet set from Dawn over at

Sew Many Roses

Here is a link to her

Etsy store

http://www.etsy.com/shop/sewmanyroses?ref=seller_info

I have a huge vintage

Christmas Post Card Collection

and that is what I decided I was going to use

for this project.

Before making the commitment of 

my old cards I thought it would be

best to make a prototype set.

(and just fun)

The set in these pictures are

the prototypes

First I gathered all my supplies

Dawn has provided a large selection

of vintage images from

her collection in her tutorial.  So I started

with them because they are just the right

size and I had purchased them.

Something new I tried this time is using

a spray adhesive.  I chose the Elmers Craft Adhesive.

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and it seems to work great (except if you get it on your hands

and then pet the cat) 

I do advise using a flat box to spray into 

(not your hand

and do not pet the cat )

Wow!! Now I have a new addition to 

my magic craft kit

I love this stuff 

Why haven't I ever used it?

Anyway

I started out by cutting  pieces of 

heavy chipboard

spraying  it with adhesive

and  covered it with a beautiful

Christmas paper.  Father Christmas Berries

from BoBunny

The backs are vintage music paper

Next I used Ranger Distress Ink

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Old Photo to shade  both sides of the base

to give it a vintage feel.

  I cut another piece of chipboard and

applied it to the back of the post cards to raise

them from the base.  Then added grommets so

the holes looked finished.

I decorated the post cards with Stickles

then dusted with a fine glass glitter.

I usually do a prototype set with newer materials

before jumping in with my vintage papers.

The tutorial called for extra fine glitter 

and honestly that is the only thing I would 

change on this project.

The fine glitter is just

not fine enough but it 

is what  I had on hand

So...Extra fine glitter is

on my shopping list for my next

craft store visit.

My next sets will be more

embellished with tiny mercury glass

beads and rhinestones and old buttons.

These have been a real pleasure

to put together and I am already

itching to start the next one's