Thursday 15 October 2015

A Vintage Christmas

The first time I used this image and paper, printed from Joanna Sheen's "Victorian Christmas Cards" CD, I remarked that despite the Christmas sentiment on the topper, it didn't look very Christmassy to me. A commenter explained that in the early days of Christmas cards, Christmas images weren't always used and flowers were very often used instead. So I feel a lot happier about using this design now!


I'm joining in with

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Vintage/Shabby Chic
Creative Card Crew - Ribbon  
Fab'n'Funky - Make it Square
Use Your Stuff - Ribbon (the ribbon and doyley have been in my stash for years, and even the topper and paper are left over from sheets I printed for one of last Christmas's cards)
CD Sundays - Bloomin Marvellous

9 comments:

Wynn said...

This is really pretty Jane and as you say unusual image for a Christmas card but it's adorable. I know a cat lover who would love this one. Thank you for sharing it with us at CD a Sunday. Fab bow too. Wynn DT

Carol said...

Some of the Victorian ones weren't Christmassy at all. I have some old ones left by my Grandmother and they even have spring flowers on.
This is a lovely card Jane.and the lace doily just adds to the period.
Thank you for sharing with us again.
Carol xx
CD Sunday DT

meg said...

Beautiful card the kittens are adorable the ribbon and doily really add to the vintage feel,the pansies are lovely so lots of flowers on both the paper and topper

meg said...

Beautiful card the kittens are adorable the ribbon and doily really add to the vintage feel,the pansies are lovely so lots of flowers on both the paper and topper

Majo said...

This is lovely! I love the use of ribbon on your card! Thanks for joining our challenge this week at Use Your Stuff!
Majo DT ♥

Monika Reeck said...

your DP is awesome
lovely add of that doily
and that cat image ooh soo cuuutee
Awesome and sweet card Jane

Jocelyn said...

A lovely card and nice to see something unusual for a Christmas card. I'm sure any cat lover would adore this.
Jocelyn x
CD Sunday DT

Julieanne..aka pinkjools said...

Beautiful card....love the cute kitty topper....Thank you for joining us @ Fun n Funky this week....Julieannex

cotnob said...

Hi Jane, thank you for sharing another gorgeous card with us at CD Sunday, such a cute image and pretty design.
Pauline GDT
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