Hi,
I'm lucky enough to be a retired grandma who spends her day baby sitting grandkids and working with my vintage card collection. My husband and I have shared 34 years together and we have 2 sons and a daughter and 2 glorious grandkids that turn 2 and 5 in May.
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I started collecting Vintage Greeting Cards quite by accident. I was helping with an Aunt's estate sale and ran across her Vintage Greeting Card collection. The images on the Vintage Cards were so bright and cheerful that I just fell in love with them. I was completely hooked. I'm particularly fond of the old scrapbooks. Some of them contain some truly inspiring stories. I love reading the old letters and the notes written on the backs of the cards.
As my collection grew and provided such joy and entertainment for me, I knew that others would get as much out of them as I did. So I decided I'd share my collection thus, the birth of PeggyLovesVintage.
Each card is carefully scanned at a 600 dpi resolution and saved in .jpg format. All the images as well as the sentiment are scanned. Some of the cards have to be cleaned up because of aging marks. I try to keep this at a minimum because it takes a lot of time to complete plus the aging adds to the vintage feel of the graphic.
I only scan cards that are free of copyright restrictions. I keep each and every card, so if any question ever arises I can provide documentation that this is truly the case.
Special software is not required to use my CD’s. If you’ve ever printed out a picture from a digital camera, it’s pretty much the same concept and just as easy. Just pop the CD into the drive, select an image, print it out, cut it out and attach it to your card, scrapbook page or whatever kind of project you’re working on. Of course if you’re so inclined, and if you do have imaging software, you can clone, cut and paste and even change the colors on the image.
The possibilities are endless, so please take a moment and visit my web site by clicking below or copy and paste the link into your browser. So sit back, relax and enjoy your journey back in time.
http://www.PeggyLovesVintage.com
Peggy
We will have 2 prize winners this time....Each winner will be able to choose 1 cd from her awesome cd Vintage collection.
Okay first off if you haven't had a chance to take a look at what the design team did with her stunning images, you can check that out here.....so much talented I tell ya.....
Here are the details for the contest...Peggy has generously allowed all of the BBTB readers to use either of the two images in a project for the contest...All you have to do is copy and paste the image into one of your graphics programs and it will print out perfect....the images currently are sized at approx. 3.5 by 3 inches...so they are at a good size already...but you can make them smaller or bigger if needed....
DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS:
1. You must use one of the images in a project along with at least ONE or more cuts from ANY of the cricut cartridges....
2. All previous bbtb winners are welcome to enter the contest.
3. This contest is open to everyone....international...etc....
4. Please add your name and link to the MISTER LINKY below...if you do not have a blog or gallery to put your post your project to, you may email your project to me at: fabriccutups@prodgy.net (regina)..............also make sure that the link you put in the MISTER LINKY below GOES DIRECTLY to your project...if it doesn't, your entry will not count.
5. Contest will go through until May 6th (at midnight)....
6. Please only 2 entries per person.
TOTAL FUN
24 comments:
Darling creations from the DT !!!! You gals are truly creative! I really hope I can participate this week!!! ♥♥ Kay
Fun! Ohhh...I can't wait to get started!
These images are so cute and a blast to work with...This will be a great prize...Krista
Hi Regina...this is going to be a fun challenge, love the vintage cards. Just one question, I guess I thought the contest entries were judged, but I saw on your blog yesterday (somewhere LOL) that the winner(s) is a random pick. Can you clarify? thanks, Kathy
Hi Kathy, yes that has been changed back to being judge, but we will from time to time in the future have just fun challenges where random org will be used....hugs
Oh goodie!!! I like the judged ones better, makes me work harder ;) thanks for the quick answer!!
Just beautiful! The DT is amazing. Just a quick question. We may enter the contest 2 times, may we use each of the vintage cards, or do they need to be the same. Thanks so much! ~Sharon
hi sharon, yes you can use each of the images or even do two different projects using the same image...have fun...
Wonderful! Thanks for the quick answer Regina. Can't wait to get started!
I loved working with the image from Peggy! So cute! First timer for the BBTB challenge here. I had a blast. Thanks for the opportunity :)
I am posting again cause at 3am I don't make a lot of sense!! I have uploaded (I hope) my finished version of my diaper Cake entry. I haven't quite got how I can link to my blog but if anyone would like to see all the scrapin I have been doing go to my blog at http://flos-a-scrapin.blogspot.com and take a look.
My appologies to Regina and others I have finally worked out how to link to a photo instead of the whole folder. Everyone is welcome to look at the folder but if you just want to see the finished product the link is finally there.
The bbtb team are so talented.I like all the thing they design
Can I just tell you? I had such a great time working with this image. i guess I really like vintage more than I even knew! I had a lot of thoughts going through my head and I think I must have changed the plan at least 5 times. I hope you like what I finally posted as my take on the Vintage Baby. OOh I just love the challenges. Thanks for keeping em coming! Jenn
WOW all the creations you guys have made are just fabulous......
I am loving Peggy's images they are so super.
Thanks for the wonderful challenge
Hugs
Lana x
Help!!! What happened to Mister Linky???
hi kathy, try refreshing your page for the mister linky, it shows up one minute and then the next it's gone, it is an error on their side...sorry about that...regina
Regina,
I was wondering if I did something wrong with Mr. Linky. My link did not work for me when I clicked on it. Does it bring you to my vintage baby project(my blog)? I don't know maybe it was just a glitch? Can you let me know if it works for you? Sorry to bother you.
Thanks,
Jenn
Hi Regina
I'm having a problem with Mr Linky! Thanks for another wonderful contest my entry is at the top of my blog
Juliexx
Had great fun working with the images. They are so cute.
On the 2nd link I left I thought I had it going direct to my blog page where the photo is but it has diverteed to the same link as the first one. Mr Linky does not seem to want to change my link. My entry is at the top of my blog at flos-a-scrapin.blogspot.com
Amazing! The graphics are all so adorable. Can't wait to do similar projects with my Cricut cartridges.
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