Free Five Friday

Today wraps up this month's theme of 'time.' Here are some beautiful clock designs from yesteryear to use in your vintage inspired journals and ephemera. Be on the lookout next week for the beginning of a new theme, with some awesome illustrations for the month of April. Happy crafting! 💚💗⌚⌛⏰⏳✂✉ 

For those of you that like Asian themes and illustrations, this post is for you! These particular illustrations come from vintage ship menus and hotel brochures. They are perfect for tags, journaling cards, pages, and a host of other ephemera. Please visit The Repository to get more goodies. (Please answer all required questions to join.) Have fun!! 📋📌📎📏📖🔖✂✏  

I find that I really enjoy looking for patterned papers. All the different designs and colors are unique, one-of-a-kind ephemera. These would make great writing pages for journals, base images to build mixed media on, cutouts, pockets, tucks, and tags of all shapes. The ideas are endless! I share these files and more in The Repository  so take a look for other files I share there Monday thru Friday. Happy crafting!! ⏳✂✏📕📖📜  

In my ramblings this week, I found these gorgeous patterned papers that I just had to share. I know, technically, the first two are book covers, but it's the pattern that is so unique. These would make great tags, backgrounds for mixed media, pockets - you name it! Have fun with these patterns, and create something beautiful! Don't forget to hop over to The Repository for more free goodies, or join to get a notification when new things are added. I add new files almost every week day! ⏳✂✉✏🎁💡📂📃📖📎📏📜  

I, for one, am a great fan of vintage advertising. Not only are they an interesting read (like why some contraptions are not made anymore) but they have some unique illustrations to help sell their product. So, I decided to share another five of these double paged ads, since the response was so good last week. Enjoy!

This week I have found some double-page adverts from a late 1800's catalog. I have made them to print out a full 8.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches tall. So, they would be great as signature centers, or smaller pages within a signature. Or they can be cut in two to make tags, pockets, or a host of other ephemera. Be sure to hop over to  The Repository  for more freebies. In addition to the free five on Friday, I am now sharing 3 png (transparent stamp) files each Monday. They live on a page of the blog called  The Stamp Stockroom . Plus, I am sharing some of my free textures, backgrounds, and ephemera I have designed on the other days. Happy crafting! 💚💛💡📁📕📖📜🎨✀📏

Today's post is part one of two on sharing the remainder of files that I selected for freebies over a month ago. So, a mixture of fruit and a frame is on the menu for today. Enjoy these simple illustrations, and make some great ephemera for your journals!

Another busy week has come and gone. So busy, in fact, that I almost forgot to post this blog! This week, I am sharing some botanical plates. Not the breakable kind, lol! Enjoy these in your paper craft projects!

This has been a super-busy week, so I haven't worked on digitals much.  I have begun a sewing project, so my time is going to be taken up with that for a little bit. But, don't worry! I'll be back next week with some goodies!