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First image above found via MartinKlasch. All other images found via the always-inspiring WeLoveTypography.com.

The collage maker on Picasa has quickly become my new best friend.

Vintage International Travel Posters

I’m not sure I could be any more in love with these vintage posters over at GrainEdit today (especially the Swiss one):

More HERE. GrainEdit rules, huh? I pretty much swoon over everything posted on their blog.

Holiday Items!

or some reason, I have only just now discovered how to make photo collages (via Picasa). I feel extremely slow. This whole time, I’ve felt like I’ve been uninvited to some exclusive photography party. Anyway, I’m excited. So, I just made a few collages of pages from my newly listed Holiday Paper Clips Journal on Etsy. I had way too much fun making this, and I’d love to have a ton of fun making more, so please order!

Lots of pages to keep track of gifts you’re giving, gifts you want to receive, gifts that totally elude you…whatever! And I make sure to include lots of usable gift tags, decorative pages, stickers, envelopes, and some vintage items too (including an addressed/stamped Christmas postcard from the 1910s! I have a handful of them, and they’re so fun to look at!).

Each holiday journal will also include one of my hand-sewn, hand-stamped “fa la la” button gift tags.

Check out my entire collection of holiday items and their descriptions in my Etsy shop HERE. And stay tuned for more! I’m planning on creating a couple kid-centric holiday listings soon…

French Friday: Le roi du tabac

Disclaimer: I generally abhor tobacco and cigarettes as lethal weapons that have contributed to way too much illness among family and friends. That being said: come on, these vintage tobacco labels from Agence Eureka are pretty stellar.

Stupidly, I never considered that French playing cards wouldn’t have the J, Q, K, A categories. Umm, yeah. So, below, you’ll see that French playing cards have the following categories: V(alet), D(ame), R(oi), A(s). Unfortunately, I don’t have any A examples below.

The Swell Season: poster designs

I love these poster designs ALMOST as much as I love Glen and Marketa.

(All images below borrowed from TheSwellSeason.com, except for the autographed red lighthouse poster, found HERE)

Holiday gift tags

I’ve been busy the past couple of days getting some gift tags made for holiday listings in my Etsy shop. So far, I’ve been focusing on buttons, baker’s twine, ephemera, and stamped greetings. Soon I’ll be making more tags that involve vintage international stamps in holiday colors. What do you think?

Check out more images in my Etsy shop HERE.

Red & green international stamps, ready to go to town on some new gift tags…

Stay tuned!

Russian children’s book covers

All images from A Journey Round My Skull:

1971

The year Jim Morrison passed away (this time of the semester, my course on the Tortured Poet leads me to a Jim Morrison-induced haze).

1971 prints from ISO50:

{All images above from ISO50 except for the last image, which is from Designage}