Free Five Friday

Today I am sharing some vintage floral illustrations and the back covers of a couple of seed catalogs. It doesn't matter what time of year it is, flowers are always a bright spot in any craft project. These are especially pretty with their Victorian styling and typography. Hope you all enjoy these! Happy crafting! Remember to stop by The Repository for more free goodies. 👀❤💙💚💛💜✂✉✏🎁  

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!! 📋📌📎📏📖🔖✂✏  

Here is a beautiful pastoral scene with a lovely house in the background. Will make for a unique book page or tag in a journal, or plenty of other paper craft uses! I am still working on a group to share digital goods, but it will not be on fb. This is for both personal and professional reasons. By the next blog post, I plan to have it up and going. Stay tuned! ⏰⏳✂💻📖📎🔍👀

This week has been different than any I have experienced in a long time. My husband was on vacation and, instead of going someplace where we would be restricted, we decided to do a 'stay-cation' and spend our money in local antique stores and thrift stores. We believe in helping the 'mom&pop' businesses. And we collected some amazing finds while we were at it! 😁📕📷🔑🔍🏡🚙

Another week has passed. The heat keeps rising, and my project list keeps getting longer! I am toying with creating an fb group to share digital files, both free and available for purchase, for buyers and sellers. I have just under 100,000 files in my repository that I have been collecting for over four years now, and I add more almost weekly. I love searching for vintage treasures, both physical and digital! 🕓✒🎁💻📜📕 

Last week was such a hit with the garden catalog covers that I thought I would add one to every post until I have finished curating all I have found thus far. Also, I want to add that all the images I share are in the public domain, so they can be used both for personal and commercial projects. I just clean them up and make them suitable to print. Have a great weekend, everyone, and happy crafting! ✂📎📏📐📖

In the spirit of giving is receiving, I am sharing 8 garden catalog covers from 100+ years ago to celebrate my birthday this year. I have edited them into three color schemes: bright, faded, and sepia. Have a great weekend everyone, and happy crafting!