Free Five Friday

What would summer be without a few wildlife adventures while out camping or hiking. Seeing an animal in the wild can be the highlight of a summer trip. Here is a small selection of critters that would be great in a nature or animal themed journal. Happy crafting! 🐦🐻🐺🐾✂📚

July comes in with a bang. Independence Day. The day we of the USA celebrate our freedom as a nation. This is a day that should never be forgotten or be taken lightly. Also in July: school's out, it's hot, and it's time for vacations. Trips to the beach, baking in the sun. Going to the mountains, camping, staying out late and catching fireflies. 

No, not a song from the 80's! 😉 Rather, a few rain-inspired vintage illustrations of people out and about in the pouring rain. Springtime is the time for rain, and we are getting our share right now! Hope these can work in your projects. Happy crafting! ☁☂☔⛈🌂✂✏💌

With cooler weather coming, and winter just around the corner, I thought it was a great theme for this post. I love the vintage, outdoor activity greeting and post cards. They would make great journaling cards, tags, and a host of other ephemera. 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!! 📋📌📎📏📖🔖✂✏  

So earlier this week I went into the local Goodwill on their last day open til ?whenever? and found a well used vintage suitcase that would perfect as a photo prop. I have to make a new handle, which I will hopefully do this weekend. But, sitting next to my dress form with the burgundy lace dress, vintage flapper hat and hatboxes, it looked a little bare. So, I delved into my 60,000+ public domain repository I have been building for the last 3 years, and found some great images to use as travel labels and spruce it up a little. I have decided to share those curated labels with all you crafters out there who scour the internet looking for quality vintage images.  ~This post marks the first edition of sharing five free images every Friday. This post has a few extras!~ Please subscribe to get free, public domain image files in your inbox every Friday. ~~~