Pink Persimmon

Vintage Valentine

Kristii Lockart designed this Valentine card using the Antiquated Collection Misses' Apron stamp set.  What a cute way to display this stamp!  Love the heart she added to the front and back. 

Kristii is so good at combining lots of layers and keeping the style vintage without going too far.  She strikes such a good balance of color, embellishments and distressing. 

Antiquated Christmas Ornament

Ronda Palazzari made this Christmas ornament with vintage book pages and the image from Stylish & Fashionable stamp set.  A sprinkle of glitter and this beautiful cameo girl is ready for display. 

Perfumery Tag Tutorial

Kate Yetter from The Scrap Yard is back again with a new tag using the Perfumery stamp set.  I love how she added the late collars to the bottles after she cut them out.  See below for the step-by-step from Kate. 

Supplies:
Antiquated Collection: Perfumery Stamp Set
Antiquated Collection: Stylish and Fashionable Stamp Set (bird)
Archival Sepia Ink
Distress Inks: Rusty Hinge, Black Soot, Iced Spruce
3 1/8 X 6 ¼ white cardstock tag

Directions:

• Use Chevron stencil and ink on tag in black soot distress ink.  Dry with heat tool. Line up chevron pattern and spray with various colors of mists. In sepia ink, stamp over background with text stamps from perfumery collection.
• On plain cardstock stamp text stamp and set aside.
• Distress edges of tag with distress tool and ink edges with black soot distress ink.
• On plain cardstock, stamp in sepia ink and fussy cut both perfume bottles. On complementary pattern paper, stamp both perfume bottles and cut out just the labels from each bottle. Ink edges of labels and bottles in rusty hinge distress ink. Layer pattern paper labels on top of plain cardstock perfume bottle and glue. Add vintage lace and bling to perfume bottles.
• Stamp and cut out bird from Stylish and Fashionable Stamp set. Ink in Iced Spruce distress ink.
• Spray various vintage laces in mists.
• Cut Fleur-de-lis border from plain cardstock and mist. Cut Fleur-de-lis motif from script or plain paper.
• Layer laces and glue down to right side of tag. Adhere pop dots to fleur-de-lis border and layer over lace. Glue Fleur-de-lis motif to top right border.
• Angle Jubilee die cut on top left of tag and adhere. Glue flower to right of die cut careful not to cover the image or border. Add a piece of lace to top right corner of die cut if desired.
• Add pop dots to large perfume bottle and a double layer of pop dots to small perfume bottle. Layer small bottle slightly over larger bottle and adhere to tag. Add pop dots to bird and adhere to bottom of small perfume bottle.
• Cut and ink in Rusty Hinge a portion of the perfume text. Glue leftover lace to left edge of text and glue down to tag above perfume bottles. 

 

Fine and Dandy Tag Tutorial

We have been having so much fun with the Fine and Dandy stamp set around here!  Kate Yetter of The Scrap Yard made this tag using the stamp set.

Kate was nice enough to include some instructions on how she made this tag.

Supplies:
Antiquated Collection: Fine and Dandy Stamp Set
Archival ink: Sepia and Black
Distress inks: Iced Spruce, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough, Rusty Hinge, Embossing Ink
3 1/8 X  6 ¼ inch white cardstock tag

Directions:

• Stamp in Sepia inkand fussy cut out the Gentleman, pocket watch, necktie and Fine and Dandy images from the stamp collection. Color in the images with the following distress inks.
  • Gentleman- iced spruce for his gown and festive berries for his necktie and skin toned marker for face and hands. Add silver stickles over swirl patterns in the dressing gown and allow to dry completely.
  • Pocket watch- rusty hinge; astamp hands and add copper brad to center of clock.
  • Necktie- festive berries and gold pen for metal tie tack
  • Fine and Dandy- ink edges with rusty hinge
• Cut seam binding to desired length for tie. Spritz with water and ink with iced spruce distress ink. Crumple into ball and dry with a heat tool.

• Stamp your border with embossing ink, add silver embossing powder and then heat until shiny. Fussy cut border.
• Blend together Evergreen Bough and Rusty Hinge distress inks on tag to create a background.  Stamp French Script in a random pattern over tag in black ink.
• Punch hole for ribbon tie in the top of the tag and add an eyelet.
• Glue embossed border on tag right under eyelet, centered.
• Place pop dots on back of Fine and Dandy text and adhere to embossed border  1/4th inch from the left. Adhere pop dots to necktie and place it to the right of the Fine and Dandy text with 1/4th inch space from end of the border.
• Glue pocket watch in lower right hand corner and layer the gentleman on top.
• Add gears, bling and beads in desired placement and tie ribbon onto top.

Kate is working on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas project too, so you'll get tons of ideas if you head over to her blog.  Thanks for sharing this beautiful tag Kate!  (We'll have another tag tutorial from Kate tomorrow!). 

For the Fine and Dandy Gentleman in your life.

Vintage stamps are perfect for Christmas themed cards or projects.  The new stamps from Lisa Pace's Antiquated Collection Fine and Dandy stamp set are perfect for a more masculine project or gift tag. 

Wendy Vecchi combined the Fine & Dandy gentleman with some of her Art Parts and they work perfectly with the stamp set!  Wendy inked the gentleman with Ranger Festive Berries Distress Ink, then she cut the color and pocket out of a second stamp and layered it on the larger image to give it a little more detail.

Lisa Pace made this beautiful ornament or gift tag using the gentleman's puff from the same Fine and Dandy stamp set. 

Lisa shares lots of details on how she made the gift tag on her blog here.  We are also sharing lots of project images over at the Antiquated Collection Facebook page, be sure to join us! 

Vintage Witch & Halloween Card

Lottie decided to dress up as a witch this Halloween with a lovely green tint on her skin. 

Something about this stamp set makes it so fun to dress her up for Halloween.  A few years ago I made a Lottie doll stamped on muslin.  You can see her in this post.  This year she is made entirely of paper, with a sweet vintage styled dress.  She still needs a cauldron and a broom, but we're working on that. 

The stamp set includes Lottie's face, arms and legs.  You can download a pdf pattern of her body and dress here to make the full doll. Doesn't she look ready for a Halloween party? 

My other Halloween endeavor this year was to make this book frame card.

The book frame inside is made by using an accordion fold for the frame pieces and then fitting them together with a bit of glue to hold it in place. 

The idea for the book frame came from this blog post:  Stamp til Dawn, Book Card Video Tutorial.  She does a great job explaining how to make the frame, so I will leave the details to her. 

Then I colored and cut out some of our Vintage Pumpkins to fit inside the folds of the book frame.  Makes it super easy to add depth to the card.  This one will definitely require some extra postage, but it was fun to make! 

Hope you enjoy your spooky holiday with fun little goblins and nothing but good witches. I'll be elbow deep in pumpkin goop today as we carve up the pumpkins. 

Happy Halloween from Pink Persimmon!

 

Halloween Gift Box

An adorable gift box created by Andrea Budjack is perfect to hold a special gift for the little goblins in your house or around your neighborhood. 

Andrea used the You're a Jewel stamp set to create the paper band, and then some of the paper rosettes from the Big Banner stamp set. There's a little chipboard bat inserted into the rosettes, which makes it perfect for Halloween, but a different little embellishment and this would be perfect for any holiday. 

Do you "boo" the other houses in your neighborhood?  This would be a perfect gift box to leave on someone's doorstep as their Boo Gift.  Don't know how to "boo" your neighbors?  Kierste over at Brown Paper Packages has a post that explains the process, along with some fun links to free boo printables that she found at various blogs. 

Happy Halloween!

Just calling to say.... Boo!

Andrea made this not too scary card with a combination of stamps that you would probably never choose for a halloween card. 

She used Flower Garden, Little Cuties, Carnival Alpha (small) (for BOO!)  and Vintage Girl (for the Just Calling To Say).  The pumpkins were created from the circle and stem image in Flower Garden, topped with a star from Little Cuties and then added the buttons.  Papers used was My Mind's Eye.

Have you used non-holiday themed stamps to make a halloween card? 

So Spooky!

Kristii used the Vintage Cupcake stamp to make a soft (and tasty) landing spot for this spooky spider.  She stamped the cupcake image on two different patterned papers, cut each one out and layered the cupcake wrapper on top of the orange polka pattern. 

Paper Pumpkins

These little adorable mini pumpkins were made by Laura Achilles.  She provided instructions on how to create these super easy paper pumpkins.
 
Trim a double sided 12x12 piece of pattern paper in ¾ inch length.  You’ll need about 4 or 5 strips.
Cut those strips in half so they’re 6 inches long.
Using a circle punch – 1 ¼ to 1 ½ whichever you have will be fine punch out two circles one for the top and one for the bottom.

Glue down your strips of paper on bottom circle overlapping until they are spread all the way around in a somewhat uniform circle.
Bring the ends of the strip papers together at the top and glue together.  Make sure you are using a quick dry glue like the Helmar 450 glue shown here. 
Place circle on top.
Punch a small hole on the top with a paper piercer or small sharp pin.  Make sure you go thru all the layers. 
 
Stamp your sentiment with the Carnival Alpha Large on plain paper and cut it out.  I made a bit of a banner on one end.  Your sentiment could be anything you want.  Maybe you’re having a fun dinner party you could stamp each guests name.
 
Glue the stamped sentiment to a toothpick and allow to dry.
 
Once dry stick the toothpick into the hole you made on the top of the pumpkin.