Thistle & Scottish Tartans Paintings & Ephemera

Am I Back?

Yes I am going to give it another go!!

After some trials and challenges in life, here I am back to resume finding Treasures for all of you. Anxious to create a renewed life and connection.  

New computer, and Blogger updates to learn so bare with me!

 This first post is dedicated to a certain 

gentleman and his wife 

who are ever so kind.

Welcome to July! Ruby Birthstone and Waterlily Free Graphics for Greeting Cards & Crafts ~ Victorian Calling Card ~ Stencil

Hi and welcome to my little blog! 

I am actually posting the birthstone and birth flower for July on time! Happy Birthday to all born in July! What a beautiful birthstone rubies are. These pictures have been fun to put together.  All very different pictures with the common thread of the month of July. July is a happy, relaxing month. In the middle of summer vacations and the best holiday on the 4th.  I hope your celebrations are full of friends, family and fun!

Much love to each and every one of you,

Louise

Printers page header.

Eugene Grasset calendar page.

Cover of water lily catalog.

Antique ladies calling card.

Stencil.

April Birthstone and Flower ~ Diamonds and Daisies ~ Antique Button Card~ Postcards

Hello and welcome! 

Already the start of a new month after March went by so quickly. I am pleased to be posting the month's birthstone and flower pictures on time! Finding pictures of daisys is fairly easy because there are lots of antique postcards that feature daisies. In my collection of printer's chapter headings and tail pieces there are plenty that feature daisies.  Still looking around for pictures of diamonds. A separate post is coming that features sweet peas. The United Kingdom birth or month's flower is the daisy while in the United States it is sweet peas. Hope you can use these pretty images in your journals and greeting card creations.

Much love to all of you, Louise

 A repost of a favorite Marjorie Mostyn postcard.

Antique button card.

From an 1880's scrapbook.

Printer's tail piece.

A Few Beautiful Paintings of Women in Pretty Edwardian White Dresses by Charles Courtney Curran

It is such a beautiful day! Only 3 days until I receive the second dose of vaccine! Super happy about that. Really looking forward to going out and doing some exploring. I found some paintings that reflect my mood. All are bright, breezing, and sunny. The paintings are by Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942).  He often painted women in lovely outdoor settings. The printers page decorations are the days free digital clipart.

 I also added a Victorian calling card just because it is pretty. 

 Hope the paintings make you happy also.

Much love to all of you!

Louise

Wind on the Cliff

Sunshine and Haze

Antique calling cards.

On the Cliffs.

Pretty dresses and thoughts of my little sisters.

On the Heights

 

Vibrant Antique Victorian Ephemera Free Clipart for Making Journals, Cards, Scrapbooking.

 Hi everyone! So glad you found my blog. I hope you like the pictures today. Lately I have been looking for old advertising trade cards online. Very happy that I continue to find libraries that have digitised old scrapbooks from the 1800's. Most are full of trade and greeting cards artfully arranged. There are visiting or calling cards plus lovely Victorian die-cut scraps scattered about. Can't help but wonder who the person was that made them. I am just a tad obsessed with finding and "collecting" these little digital treasures. Very grateful to the libraries who make the scrapbooks and collections available online for educational use. My only frustration is that only a small number of Victorian and Edwardian scrapbooks have been digitised. I love spending a ridiculous amount of time organising, cleaning and repairing any imperfections. So many people are making greeting cards, journals, family photo albums and other paper crafts now.  I hope you find todays images enjoyable, pretty and useful for your personal projects. Much love to each and everyone of you, Louise

Free Widgets, Publishing Charms, Tail Pieces and Chapter Headers ~ Featuring Bugs & Butterflies ~Free Clip Art Graphics

Hi everyone and welcome.  

Today I have a little selection of vintage and antique publishers page charms and decorations. When I go through old books looking for pictures I come across these little graphic treasures. They are small and simple but they might be just what you are looking for.

Hope you are all well and I am sending love to each and everyone of you.

Please use for your personal projects, art and enjoyment.

The prettiest cherubs and flower sprays Perfect for black and white French inspired designs

Hi everyone! Welcome to you all.

If my blog were a garden it would be over grown and needing water. This seems to be a pattern.  A flurry of pictures and posts and then... So after a week It is time to get back to blogging.  I also have to confess that I am an image hoarder! My computer keeps telling me the virtual memory is low and that some request will be slow. Sound familiar? My brain and body has the same thing going on! Whether it makes more room or not it seems logical to me that deleting files and folders will make room for new ones. That is what I have been doing  today. Kinda like cleaning out your closet by trying everything on before you toss it out. The fact that there are already plenty of images doesnt disuade me from looking for just a few more. And I found the best stuff! Antique children's books from an online library. There are almost 8,000 books to look thru.

One of the things I liked and thought you might too are from chapter endings and title pages little do-dads, thing-a-ma- jigs, fluerishes or what every you might call them.  I can just see them in your scrapbooks and crafts,altered art,invitations etc. . There are even two labels. Black and white and so French. Two of the cherubs have a pair of wedding rings.Hope you find them as lovely as I do.

Your comments have been incredible and very welcomed. Thank you for the comments regarding Sherry. It will be so nice to pass them on to her and the board. Hope we get her back somehow.

The number of followers continues to grow and there have been over 100,000 page views!! WOW!

Thank you so much for your positive support. I love you gals!!

A passion flower vine and hummingbirds!

Wedding cards or invitations?