Easy Book Page Flower Tutorial

You can use book pages to make any style or kind of paper flower. There are hundreds of tutorials online that you can use, just search for different styles or invent your own! You can use flower shaped craft punches, or craft them using traditional paper flower making techniques.

Here is a look at how I cut out the flower using a two pages from an old book. You can layer more pages to give your flower more depth and fullness. You simply cut a spiral shape and then twist to create a flower. Then glue down to a backing.

Once you have mastered the art of these easy flowers, you can combine a bunch of them to make a wreath or hanging wall decor. Just choose a background, whether it be cardboard, cardstock, foam wreath form, or basically anything else you can think of, and hot glue your flowers until they suit your needs. I used an old CD that was too scratched to play anymore and made this small circular wall art. You could even go a step further and use paint or ink to color or distress the edges of your rosettes to create a different look.

An up close look at the finished flowers. The text on the book page adds a nice texture and the faded paper give it a vintage look.

Free 2017 Printable Calendar – Paris Edition

Did you know that there are over 35 cities called Paris across the world? But there is only one Paris, France and we love it! There is so much history in that beautiful city, and with good reason – it was founded all the way back in the 3rd century BC (though it was called Lutetia back then).

Each year, Call Me Victorian releases a new full year vintage Eiffel Tower calendar for you to enjoy – and now it is here! Get ready for 2017 by downloading this beautiful and easy to ready calendar – you can print it out and display it at your desk, or simply use it as the desktop wallpaper of your computer so that you have the year at your fingertips. You won’t miss any birthdays or holidays with this handy calendar to keep you on task.

Download calendar PDF here: 2017 Printable Calendar

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New Years Resolution Free Printable Cards 2017

As the end of December fast approaches, it is once again time to think about things we would like to change and do better in the upcoming year. What a better way to plan your resolutions than to use these beautiful 2017 New Year Resolution cards. With lots of space to write and a lovely vintage-style font, these cards are a great place to record your goals. The easy to use PDF download includes four cards to a page, so you can put each goal on a different card or perhaps give them to friends so that they can also start looking forward into the next year. Then, later, you’ll have a wonderful memento you can use to look back on 2017 and see where you were successful and where you still have room for improvement.

Click here for PDF: 2017 New Years Resolutions Free Printable

Makes 4 cards per Letter Size paper or card stock. Print and cut page into 4th, in half in each direction.

Grunge Papers 4×6 Digital Collage Sheets

Grunge Papers 4×6 Inch Digital Collage Sheets

Shabby grunge digital scrapbook textures in the size 4×6 and various neutral colors for free download. The images include a newsprint paper, burlap, gold book cover, old grungy leather, kraft paper and an old book page. Images can be printed directly onto 4×6 photo paper to make it easy to use in scrapbook layouts or for the backgrounds of cards or your craft projects. These can also be used as background images to fill full boxes and make planner stickers for Erin Condren spreads if you want to make your own layouts.

Grunge decor is a style of interior design that incorporates elements of grunge music and fashion, typically characterized by a rebellious, underground aesthetic. This style often features a mix of vintage and modern elements, with a focus on comfort and functionality. Grunge decor often incorporates distressed or worn-out furniture, muted colors, and natural materials, as well as personal items and artwork that reflect the individual taste of the homeowner.

Download the Free Backgrounds

There are 6 files total click the images below to open at full size and save to your computer, all sized 1200×1800 pixels, 4″x6″at 300 dpi.

Grunge brown leather:

Kraft Brown Paper

Vintage gold book cover:

Burlap texture:

Newprint:

Book Page:

Vintage Halloween Party Games and Halloween Scavenger Hunt Card

Holidays come and go, but Halloween is vested with the charm of all that is magical and mystical. This page features ideas of vintage Halloween party games. Including a free printable Halloween scavenger hunt game card. Witches and black cats prowl playing mischief and wicked jokes on Halloween night. A witch stopped by this page on Call Me Victorian to share her favorite ideas for classic Halloween party games. What better way to celebrate the final day of October when the air is crisp and the autumn leaves blow around like dancing fairies in the night. Some classic party games have been around for decades and are always fun to play at any get together.

Race for the treat

Tie a treat in the center of a string about 3 feet long. Have two people (preferable a couple) with the string in their mouth at each end. Using only their mouths, they must eat the string until the first one who reaches the treat in the center wins. They can then eat the treat, or they win a kiss from the loser.

Spooky Item Pass Around

Let your imagination do the rest. Sit around a table with guests and the host will pass around prepared items to blind folded guests, they will only be able to feel the items and they won’t know what they are. Use items that are squishy, furry or have lots of texture. Each guest will then have to guess what items were passed around and the person who can name the most correct, wins! Some good suggestions are cooked noodles, skinned grapes as eyeballs, gummy worms, feathered items, rabbits foot key chain, gel filled stress balls, bags of beans.

Snapdragon

Fill a punch bowl with half an inch of brandy and light it on fire. Put out the lights so only the blazing fire lights the room. Handfuls of raisins or candied fruits and placed in the flaming bowl and players must then reach in and pull out raisins or other food that is in the flaming bowl. Players get a SNAP from burning fingers. I heard about this one from Agatha Christie’s Halloween Party novel. Whoever retrieves the most amount of fruits from the fire is the winner. This game is not for the faint of heart as you can get burned, but it was played by children in days past.

Shadow Game

Stretch a sheet across a doorway or in the center of the room. Place a lamp behind the sheet and put out all the lights in the room. People can take turns acting out behind the sheet and you can play a game like charades guessing what they are acting out. The dark and spooky lighting ads the Halloween touch to the game making it more ghostly behind the sheet as a shadow game.

Fortune Telling by Witches

Witches hold the treads of fate in their power on Halloween Night. One popular halloween party game for young girls was fortune telling. Have the girls burn a candle and drop some of the wax in a bowl, read fortunes based on the shape of the wax. Girls can also gaze into looking glasses to see their future husbands.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt – Free Printable Game Card

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This vintage inspired printable Halloween game card template can be used to play your own chilling Halloween night scavenger hunt. Party Guests can use their cell phones to take selfies with items or just that photos of items that meet the requirements. Please use for Personal use ONLY – it can be printed on letter sized paper and cut into 4th to make 4 cards per page. Or use the digital image to play online. You can also print onto color paper or cardstock. Click to open and save or print Adobe PDF

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Easy Hoop Art Tutorial

In this easy hoop art tutorial, you will learn how to make DIY fabric wall art using a craft hoop and pattern fabrics. I love the colors and vintage inspired patterns of many available fabrics. Hoop art is often used to create wall hangings, ornaments, and other decorative items. I purchased all the supplies for this tutorial very inexpensively at Jo-Ann Fabric, including the hoop, glue dots and designer fabric shown.

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