Little Pink Studio

Gifts for friends

 

I took a couple of hours to make some gifts for friends this weekend. I have had this idea vaguely in my head for a couple of weeks and then last night the idea pretty much took over and I couldn't do anything else. Seriously. We're leaving on vacation tomorrow so I knew I wanted to get something finished and in the mail for these girls, but I still had laundry going, and packing to do, and even some more shipping to do before we leave...so what do I do, obsess over these little things until about 5:00 am! Yep, I told you the idea totally took over. Anyway, I have to tell you how incredibly special to me that this image is. I was almost hesitant to use it, you see my Mom and I own the only image of this in all the world. My great, great aunt was an absolutely amazing artist and this was one of her paintings. All of her work was this beautiful, and we're lucky to have a few of her pieces, but this one is my absolute favorite. I'll tell you more about her tragic life and show you some of her other work another time.

 

My idea was to create this beautiful petitie paperie. I wanted to include some of my favorite bases for creating combined with some beautiful images and trims, but I wanted it all to be combined into a pretty folder.

 

 

 

 

So pretty much the entire thing is decorated with vintage papers, lace, and trims, and even hand glittered in spots.

 

 

This is what was inside the pocket and clipped to the folder. I love how this turned out. This one is for a dear friend  who has been through a lot lately and I just wanted to send her a little love. I hope she will love it and feel cheered a little.

 

While the last one was soft and more elegant, this one is a little brighter and playful. It's a belated birthday gift for another dear friend. Same concept, but different colors and images. I created this one using a vintage hankie and some vintage trims.

 

 

 

 

Love the adorable vintage coaster I clipped on here, it's just begging for all of these goodies to be played with!

 

The blank cards for playing with are pretty much the same as the other one, but I also included a little vintage flocked gingham fabric and a vintage posie.

 

And this is a little snippet of her birthday card that I need to get finished so I can get all of this in the mail in the morning. I really hope these sweet girls will enjoy their petite paperie folders and will have fun playing with them. My mind is spinning with other themes and colors I want to create these in so I definitely see those in my shops near future!

We're leaving tomorrow for a week in the mountains. I'm so looking forward to some play time with my family and yes, some uninterupted craft time for me. You can bet my sewing machine will be tucked away in my camper! LOL  Who does that, right?

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th filled with good times and family! Talk to you soon!

xoxo, Cerri

More recent finds....

 

We're still working on things here, but I thought I would show you a few more photos of some recent finds. In early June we took a long weekend and went to visit Washington DC. Along the way we stopped at a few antique shops and it turned out that I found quite a bit of millinery on this trip! Yeah! It's not always the easiest thing to find around here, so I'm always happy when I do find it. The basket in this photo is actually a vintage doll layette! The inside is lined with a wonderful pinky-taupe colored silk, and the bottom has a little stuffed pad also in the same silk. So sweet. I found this in Roanoke, VA. Whenever we travel through VA I always try to stop at the Roanoke Antique Mall. It is a large antique mall with some really lovely booths and I always find things I have to have there! 

  

This is a lovely hat I bought just for the roses and all of the white flowers are part of some kind of bridal head piece I'm sure. The roses will need a little steaming and then they will come back to life beautifully. The bridal headpiece is FULL of tiny white flowers.

 

 

This is a close up shot of another hat I found and will use only for the flowers. Lovely velvet, silk, and organza blooms cover this hat in the sweetest shade of faded lavender. I am not always a fan of lavender even though it was my favorite color when I was growing up, but this faded lavender color is one I just love.

 

The salmon pink flower is a vintage brooch I was lucky to find and the sheer pink underneath it is some kind of gauzy scarf with all of those little blooms attached. I've never really seen a scarf like this before, and I loved it right away, and for only $3, I think it was quite a bargain too!

 

All of these flowers (and more) came off of one ugly hat. My husband actually spotted this one for me and was so proud to find me a hat with lots of pretty flowers on it. What was especially great about this hat was that it had so many different kinds of flowers on it and each bloom came off like a tiny corsage.

 

 

Love all of the pretty stamens that came off of this hat as well, and the centers of the flowers are velvet. Gotta love that.

 

Here they are all piled into that vintage basket, and you can see of glimpse of the silk lining here too.

 

One last hat was a recent find at my friend Kim's wonderful local shop, Cave Creek Antiques in Sweetwater, TN. This hat is really too pretty to to take apart.

 

But those flowers really are lovely, aren't they? It's so funny how so many of us adore vintage millinery, and you never really can have too much of it, can you?

Cerri xoxo

Some pretty new finds

 

I know you're waiting on my next June give away, and honestly, I had some grand plans for this week and last, but the truth of the matter is, right now my daughter is really struggling and I've had to just work on being Mom right now, and my shop owner and blog writer hats have had to be put on hold a little. So, just give me a little while longer, and we'll resume that schedule, ok? I'm not going to forget.  For today, let's just talk about pretty things. I haven't shown you any of my new pretties in a little while and I've been accumulating some!

 

It's funny, when I find new things they go into a pile and wait to be photographed. I don't put things away until I have had a chance to take their photo so that I can show all of you. Sometimes that pile gets rather large before I get to it! Do you do this, or am I the only loon? I adore the sweet crocheted wash cloth above, don't you? The one with the tiny rose and the pink scalloped edge? I love it that some lady wanted all of her things to be lovely, even down to the lowliest wash cloth. I seem to be drawn to fabric a lot these days and I love the fabrics I found here!

 

But more than anything, I have been drawn to vintage embroidered things, especially things that have been embroidered with a sweet southern belle.

 

Maybe it's simply because they are so dainty and sweet, or maybe it's because I'm southern, I don't know, but I'm just smitten with them.

 

I've been buying a lot of them, and if they are doubled, or there are 2 of them, I buy them for sure. This way, I can share them with my Mom.

 

And I posted all of these today hoping to entice my Mom into coming and having a much needed crafting slumber party. So Mom, I have doulbes of all of these except the first one. :0) Don't you want to come play?

Thanks for being patient with me. I'll be back to our June celebrations very soon. I promise!

xoxo, Cerri

Special One Day SALE!

Pssst...just for you, because I value each and every one of you that read my blog and comment, I have a special discount code for you to use between now and midnight tomorrow! The discount will allow you to purchase EVERY single item in the shop for 20% off! (code expires at midnight on the 24th)

http://www.thelittlepinkstudio.com?code=BLOGDISCOUNT

You will only be able to use this discount if you follow the link from the blog. :0)

THANK YOU!

xoxo, Cerri

Winner of the 4th June give away!

Here are your random numbers:

53

Timestamp: 2009-06-23 20:33:44 UTC

And lucky number 53 was Karen!

Oh my! Such wonderful giveaways! Count me in!
karen....

Posted by: karen | June 19, 2009 at 08:13 PM

Congrats Karen for winning the $25 gift certificate! Please email for your redemption code!

 

I am working on this weeks give away, so please check back with me in a day or so!

xoxo, Cerri

A tiny bit of creativity...

 

Other than the bags I made for my pattern girls pins, I didn't have time to be very creative this week! I wish I had more time, but I did grab a few minutes to make some tags using some of my favorite paper doll dress images. I like how they turned out even if they are simple, and honestly just getting to play with paint and glue for a little bit, always makes me happy.

 

Some of the tags I made were packed up into this Sampler and shipped off today. Lots of vintage goodness packed into that little box! I hope she enjoys it, I always love putting them together.

So, tutorials will have to wait for next week, but to hold you over here are a couple of vintage images you might like to use in your creativity. Just enlarge, and right click to save to your computer.

 

 

 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Cerri xoxo

PS, Don't forget to enter the drawing to win a gift certificate to the shoppe!

Our 4th June Give Away!

 

So, it looks like you're enjoying these give aways! Yeah! This is the 3rd week of give aways, but actually our 4th give away. This week, you can enter to win a $25 gift certificate to The Little Pink Studio and purchase whatever you would like! (and yes, I know the certificate actually shows my etsy address, but it is for the web shoppe.) All you have to do is leave a comment, but this time, there is a little extra I'd like to hear from you. I would love to know what you would like to see at The Little Pink Studio? Would you like to see some gift lines? More kits? Different types of supplies? And also if there are things that you have a hard time finding on the internet or locally, would you please tell me what they are? I'm working on some new ideas for the shop and would love to hear from YOU, my valued friends and customers, so this is the perfect opportunity to tell me what you would love to see!

 

I've been working on a little project for the shop I thought I would share with you! You all know how much I love vintage pattern girls, right? Well I designed these little buttons from my collection of them! I am just smitten with how they turned out!

 

I loved them so much I wanted to create special packaging for them so I created these darling little muslin bags and covered them in the sweetest vintage flocked fabric. Love how they turned out too!

 

 

I divided them into two different sets and they will be available right here. They go really well with our vintage pattern girl collage packs too!

Ok, so leave your comments and enter to win the gift certificate, and I'll be back with a fun tutorial later this week!

Our 2nd and 3rd June Winners!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

33

85

Timestamp: 2009-06-15 22:25:38 UTC

Yeah! So our 2nd and 3rd June winners are:

Caleen and Lana

Great Giveaway!! I am working on my kids albums and learning photoshop and maybe some stitching work.. I am looking forward to some time to create.. Thanks for the generous giveaway..

Posted by: caleen | June 11, 2009 at 02:10 AM

and

I am working on a series of tags--trying out some new techniques and putting together some mini embellishment kits. Hope your Birthday is good to you :-) Thanks for the chance to win. Lana

Posted by: Lana  | June 12, 2009 at 03:20 PM

 

So ladies, please send me your address and I will get your prizes out to you!

Thanks to everyone for playing along! It was really a lot of fun to read about all of the different projects you all are creating this summer! Wow, so many different things!

I'll be back tomorrow with another give away so check back then! But for now there is also a Little Pink Studio give away going on over at Daily Diy if you'd like to enter that one!

I'll also be back this week with a fun tutorial!

Hope your weekend was wonderful! Cerri xoxo

Our 2nd June Giveaway!

Hello my friends! I have decided since this is the 2nd week of our giveaways this month and because it is my birthday week I'm going to do TWO prizes this week! Our first prize is a lovely little package of adhesives! That's right, you can win every adhesive that Little Pink Studio carries just by leaving a comment here. That is over a $30 value,  and you will get to try out all of our favorite glues! (and if you haven't used them all, you will find that you will LOVE them all!)

 

The 2nd prize this week is one of each of our prize ribbons! I adore prize ribbons and have quite a few vintage ones, but these are just so fun to play with and honestly they just make me happy pinned to about anything! You can win one of each design we have just by leaving a comment on this post! (a $22.50 value!)

Again, anyone can play along so please feel free to tell your friends! :0) And this time, tell me what sorts of crafting projects you have going this summer!

Good luck! xoxo, Cerri

Winner!

 Hello everyone! Turns out 13 is the lucky number for the Pink Studio Valise set!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

13

Timestamp: 2009-06-09 04:19:29 UTC

Lucky number 13 was April:

Love them! They would great for old cards, photos and paper misc...and I WILL have a real studio soon!

Posted by: April | June 03, 2009 at 08:23 AM

So Congrats April! Please send me an email with your address and I will get your cases out to you!

Thank you to everyone that played along! I'm working on visiting all of those blogs, but it will probably take me a bit! :0)

I will list the next giveaway on Wednesday this week instead of Tuesday as we've had a family emergency and I won't be able to get to my computer tomorrow. I'll see you then!

xoxo, Cerri