Vintage Street Market Easter Bunny Blog “HOP”!

Hello, my friends!  We’ve got some Easter Bunny fun for you today!

What is the Easter Bunny Blog Hop? It’s a fun GIVEAWAY going on at Vintage Street Market! "Hop" around the Design Team's blogs and gather their favorite color eggs. Fill your basket with these answers and enter to win a fun prize! Details can be found at www.vintagestreetmarket.com.

Here’s my favorite Easter egg color…

…and here’s your HOPping route:

Vicki Chrisman

Anabelle O'Malley

Candy Rosenberg

Melissa Phillips

Julie Campbell—You are here!

Nathalie Kalbach

Leica Forrest

Jamie Dougherty

If you’d like even MORE chances to win, the wonderful ladies of Vintage Street Market are also giving away a fabulous collection of Vintage Street Market goodies…

…that you can win just by heading over to their Facebook Page and liking it—easy peasy!

Thanks for stopping by today…now what are you waiting for? Have some fun and get hoppin'!

See you soon with something new…

 

Julie

 

LiveJournal Tags: Vintage Street Market,Easter Blog Hop

Love & Fairies

Hello, my friends!

Just a quick post today…

I’ve been working at the park all week (I’m a naturalist/docent/field trip lady)…

{My office!}

…and haven’t had much time to create--but snuck in just a little time this afternoon…

Another 3D Shadowbox card--the fabulous design of Vicki Chrisman—available through Crafty Secrets, here…

{Sorry for all the shadowy Shadowbox photos…getting late in the day!}

All the images used are from Crafty Secrets’ “Love Mail” and “Altered Fairies” Creative Scraps…some of my very favorites…

Here’s a close-up of the first panel:

A sweet little letter-carrying cherub… “You make my heart smile”, he says…

The center panel:

A lovely flower fairy sits popped up on the outside of the frame here…peeking at the glittery roses within… “Love makes the world a beautiful place”…

And the last panel:

A pretty little vintage fairy declares, “I love you with all my heart and soul”…so sweet!

Gatherings of the softest pink muslin edged in pearl halves…pretty pink seam binding bows finish off each panel…

Glitter, lace, Platinum Stickles  & my new favorite “Crushed Shells” Glimmer Mist finish it off…I always just kinda get lost in these shadowboxes while I’m working on them…so much fun!

I hope your day is wonderful—and don’t forget to leave your heart open to fairies………………………………………..

See you soon with something new.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: Crafty Secrets,love,fairies,Shadowbox

Beauty Shared

  

Hello, dear friends!

I’ve been so excited to share the most beautiful packages I received this last week…yes, PACKAGES!…can’t even tell you how filled they were with amazing vintage goodness!

I was the lucky winner of the Junkin’ Gypsies Giveaway, launching their beautiful new shop…

Things packaged so carefully…with so much thought to presentation…

This beautiful wooden box held most of the loveliness…

I unwrapped and unwrapped…gift after fabulous gift…

Luscious seam binding, velvet bags, wooden bobbins wound with lovely lace…

…vintage jewelry…

…silverware, keys, tassels, vintage French books…a wonderfully tarnished silver pin cushion…

bottles of beads…charming ephemera…a gorgeous Russian scarf in deep purples, turquoises & pinks…

…a delicate old teacup, pearls & crystals…

…beautifully packaged glitters of all kinds…lace pieces…vintage mother-of-pearl buttons (my favorites!)…old coins..

Can you believe it all???  I know I’ve forgotten things…..every single bit of it made this Vintage Chic’s heart go pitter-patter!

{I used many of their photos, as they looked so much better than mine…!}

Please go and visit the ladies in their online shop…I know you’ll find some beauty there that you’ll love!

A little card I made to thank the Junkin’ Gypsies…Jill and Lemay…for this extraordinarily fabulous gift…

Another cloudy day today…there’s been far too many of them lately…makes for tough picture-taking!  Oh, well…

   

One of my favorite images from Crafty Secrets’ “Girlfriends” Creative Scraps…

…the sentiment typed by me in a beautiful vintage-style font…exactly what I kept saying as I looked at the chest full of goodies!

My favorite type of ribbon—lovely, creamy seam binding—looped and typed in a billowy bow, topped with sweet vintage millinery flowers…

A piece of white lace colored to match, using “Crushed Shells” Glimmer Mist, and a background script stamp from Crafty Secrets’ “Artsy Banners” stamp set…another of my favorite things…

Layers and layers…just the way I like it!  A bit wavy in spots, as I got just a BIT carried away spraying it all over with Glimmer Mist… “Crushed Shells”, once again…all the ripples just gives it more of a distressed, vintage look, right?!

Thank-you for visiting me today…and thank-you, Junkin’ Gypsies, for sharing such beauty with me…

See you soon with something new.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: Crafty Secrets,Junkin' Gypsies,Glimmer Mist,Girlfriends Creative Scraps,Thank-you