Vintage Emporium is one of the new range of paper pads from Craft Consortium. Their Essential Paper Pads contain 40 sheets of high quality paper with fantastic designs and colours. Vintage Emporium is a collection of textures and images that would be perfect to use for backgrounds and accents in all your vintage style, shabby chic papercraft projects. The collection includes vintage maps, newsprint, graph paper, and old ledgers and invoices. One design is page of vintage postage stamps, and another fragments of hand written letters and postcards. Some of the designs are pages of textures in colours that co-ordinate perfectly with the other pages. As well as these sheets of a single design there are a number of pages that are divided into different images, one has eight different vintage photos of men, women and children in different poses, and another six vintage postcards, that can be cut out and used as card toppers or embellishments.
Here are some examples of the designs that are included.
This is a collection of clippings and pictures from a French ladies fashion newspaper.
This is a random patteren of postage franking marks from the UK and Europe, mainly France. These would co-ordinate beautifully with the vintage postcards pictured below or would be great with a travel themed card or layout.
A sheet of six vintage postcards which you could use as it is or cut out individual postcards to use as embellishments or toppers, again these would be perfect for themes of travel and correspondence.
The pad contains 40 sheets of premium quality, acid and lignin free, 180gsm patterned paper, there are 4 sheets each of 20 different designs. Combine these images with vintage lace, flowers and other ephemeria to create fabulous vintage style cards and scrapbook pages for a whole range of different occasions.