Vintage tutorial by Camilla

Hi, I am Camilla, the Norwegian DT-member of this wonderful DT! Today I will try to explain how I make a vintage-looking Christmas card like the one you can see above:)

The vintage style is very popular, and it is simply to make your card or project look old. You can often find distressed & inked edges, laces, roses, notepapers ect. on a vintage project.

Under here I have placed the most of the supplies for my vintage card. You can also find the recipe list at the end of this post.

First I start with colouring the image with Distress Ink, refillers.
I ink the edges, and use my distressing tool to give it an older look.
Then I have put Crackle accents on the image. Now it can lay and dry while I work with the papers.
I have punched scallops to the botton of the papers.

Then I gave them the older look with Distress Ink, vintage photo and ColorBox, dark brown.

And I use my Distressing tool.

Now the papers look like this:

Here is the notepaper. But I want it to look old!

So I curl up the paper:

Then I use a lot of ink on it!

Since it is a Christmas card, I want to have some gold on it. And use gold embossing on the edges.

With my heating tool:

Here are the embossed papers:

I use the stapling machine to fasten the lace.

Then I use my sewing machine to fasten the papers.

A peek on the card, when I am finished sewing:

Here I add some crackle paint on the image, just to make an old feeling, and a "snowy" look.

Now the card is almost finished, I just have to put on the embellishes like roses, feather and so on. Take a look under:)

Isn't the image just super cute!?!

Some closeups:

I have put vintage photo on the roses, then sprayed them with glimmer mist.

I have rolled up some of the notepapers aswell, and placed them together with the roses.

Under you may see the crackle accents on the image.

Hope you got inspired!!:)

Card Recipe
Stamp: Whiff of Joy-Uru with bird by Norma Fickel.

Papers: Bazzill, red, brown.
Patterned Paper: Maja Design.
Colouring: Distress Ink, refillers.
Punch: Border punch from Stampin' Up.
Embellishments: lace, feather, metal-flowers under the red roses.

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts.
Techniques: Sewing with sewing machine, distressing edges with Tim Holtz distressing tool.
Other: Adding brown colour to the edges with ColorBox- Dark Brown, Distress Ink -vintage photo, Crackle accents, Crackle paint-picket fence, Glimmer Mist, staples.
The frames on my photos are made by Xtina.