Vintage Wedding Cards

For most of my adult life, I have loved vintage graphics. I am especially fond of vintage wedding cards. Their pastel beauty is beyond compare from the cards of today!

In celebration of having achieved more than 100 precious followers last week, I have brought out a few of my dreamy wedding cards from my special drawer I label "Antiques." Thank you so much for your friendship and interest in my creative journey! I sometimes stroke the cards from this drawer, and think of those gals of long ago that treasured these aging paper goods and how they were definitely held close to their hearts. I am sure that some of these women have passed, but I still keep these cards as if they were really my own wedding cards! Here are a few of my favorites.

I have yet to use them in any of my personal art projects, but someday soon I hope to. You are welcome to use these digital images of my cards as you please. I have scanned them at a higher resolution, so they should be beautiful for all your altered art projects.

Enjoy these FREEBIES,

and come back again!

P. S. If you have any problems with the digital

quality of these images, please

email me at ncvanhoose@comcast.net.

Magical Halloween Celebration is Today!

I am probably one of the biggest fans of Outsider Artists. As a tribute to their talent and generosity in sharing their amazing images, I have lovingly created these "Twilight Journals" to share during Vanessa's "Hauntingly Magical Halloween Celebration" today.

The stunning blue "Bella Vision" portrait was created by Becky Loyall of Whymsical Musings. She has generously shared this 300 dpi picture on her blog. The other three brilliant images were digitally created by Deborah Bohm of Outsider Artists and can be purchased through Deborah Dare Art by email.

I printed all of these images on matte photo paper for sturdiness, a sharper image, and then covered my composition book. I was imagining all the wonderful things I could create with these special photos. Thank you so much, Becky and Deborah. I have become quite attached to the Twilight saga, and am visualizing other magical projects using them.

Tomorrow Never Knows

Turn off your mind relax and float

down-stream.

It is not dying, it is not dying,

lay down all thought surrender to the void,

It is shining, it is shining.

That you may see the meaning of within,

It is speaking, it is speaking,

that love is all and love is everyone,

It is knowing, it is knowing.

When ignorance and haste may mourn

the dead,

It is believing, it is believing.

But listen to the color of your dreams,

It is not living, it is not living.

Or play the game existence to the end.

Of the beginning, of the beginning.

Of the beginning, of the beginning.

~The Beatles "Songbook"

1969

Thank you, Vanessa, for hosting this simply amazing Halloween extravaganza!!

Happy Haunting,
Nance

Collage Sheets to Share

It is a true honor to have fifty (yes, fifty) followers for my humble blog. Who would have thought I would have an audience for some of my projects and photos! I thank you for your continued support, which motivates me daily.

As a thank you to all of you, here are some terrific "vintage-inspired" seed packet images that I purchased and scanned from the late 1970's. Feel free to download them and use for your personal spring and summer projects. I just love these!




I have recently cut these out and pasted on huge glass jars in my pantry, and they look very nostalgic.

Hugs to all of you,

Nancy