Vintage

Trying not to be too late again, I'll be short today with introducing the current challenge at the Alphabet challenge blog: "Vintage". Show us your creations full of old charm, and play along for the top titles.

For my DT project, I wanted to create a card at first, but I opted for its counterpart instead - an envelope. I took an envelope from my stash, and embellished it with a sheet of patterned paper. I like the combination of pink and beige shades, and the random patterns that can be partially seen on the paper itself. In a fun twist, the sheet of paper even had an inscription from which I cut the words "Vintage Love" - simply perfect for the vintage theme of our challenge. I placed it on the front side of the envelope, and moved towards the back.

Here, the embellishing with paper was a bit more tricky due to the flap, but I still managed to create a continuous pattern. For that, I focused on the base, which means the lid was short of paper on its lid - to cover up the white envelope base here, I cut out a lovely motif of a rose and a bee from an old stationery set. Mom found it in one of those book exchange boxes one day, and by the looks of it, it might as well qualify for the "vintage" theme. 

Before I glued that circle onto the envelope, I made sure to embellish the border of the lid. I wanted to hide the white envelope here, and I think the strip of beige paper matches nicely with the overal colour scheme. I didn't even need to cut it out, as this awkwardly narrow piece of beige paper was lying in my stash forever. I just ran it through the border punch, and it turned out to be the perfect width - who would have believed it? 

Once that was done, I turned my focus back towards the front of the envelope. I figured it wouldn't be sent by mail, so I decided to place silver butterfly stickers over the part that would usually feature the adress. I thren added a few more butterflies, and it ended up looking like this. I'm not sure whether I went too far or not, but it seems somewhat acceptable - after all, butterflies are a recurrent motif on various vintage creations.

What do you think? Did I manage to inspire you for some vintage-themed crafting?

challenges:

- krafty chicks: birthday 

- 613 avenue create: ATG with optional twist "lots of love"
- a place to start: ATG with optional twist "things in the sky" (bee)

- allsorts challengeblog: ATG with optional twist "romance and/or music"

- C.R.A.F.T.: love/ATG

- card free zone: ATG but a card

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty catz: ATG

- creative inspirations: love is in the air

- critter crazy: ATG animals (bee)

- do-all kreatives: ATG with optional twist "things with wings" (bee)

- everybody art: punches (punched border on the flap)

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- lovethoseprettypapers: ATG patterned papers

- love to craft: ATG

- morgans artworld: ATG
- moving along with the times: things with wings (bee)

- path of positivity: ATG positive

- pearlysparkles: love is in the air
- pennys papertake: ATG paper

- try it on tuesday: romance

- wortartwednesday: ATG