Spring Thoughts Craft with a Vintage Touch

 

SPRING THOUGHTS ☀️ 

I have often loved sharing a recipe or craft post on Thursdays. I haven't shared a crafting post in ages so I thought I would share this one today. Since I'm still looking at snow outside, not to mention more in the forecast (please hold me while I weep silently) I thought I would bring more warmth and Spring/Summer vibes indoors with this little craft I completed. 

I have been going down the cross stitch wormhole lately, and I haven't done as much scrapbooking in a while. I have a spare room that needs to be cleaned out as some of my daughter's old things are in there (she changed bedrooms in our home). The closet especially needs to be dealt with in there. I have my scrapbooking work desk located there now - but I plan to put my materials and tools in the closet next to the desk to have it as a fully functional work space. 

However, I still have a lot of my scrapbooking papers, stickers and some tools handy yet so I gathered some things and put this picture together to display.  

As many of you friends know from following here, I love vintage things. I have a fun collection of vintage pottery, linens, seasonal things, etc But also some vintage jewelry....specifically pins. I just have a thing for them. Not as much to wear, although that's fun too. But more so to use in crafting. If you click on the "scraptastic saturday" word prompt in the right hand column you can read back to several posts showing my work with vintage pins in the past. 

The other day I came across this sweet vintage bicycle pin I had picked up a few years ago in an antique store.  It inspired me to create this piece. I cleaned up an old frame and took out the glass. I then went through scrapbook papers to see what would give me the feeling I wanted for this sweet scene. 

I found this deep blue paper and it had the red swirl to it - which I like - as if bits of a sunset starting to form. I liked the neutral gold tone of this geometric paper as a grounding place for the sweet sticker tree to live. And the cute cloud sticker in the sky makes me smile. Before I assembled everything I pinned the bike to the blue paper where I wanted the bike to sit on the ground right under the tree. I picture that someone was biking on the beautiful bright day and then rested their bicycle in the shade under the tree to walk down the hill to take pictures of the upcoming sunset. 

But that's just my imagination. ;) 

I hope this little piece sparks some of your own.

Think Spring Friends! 🌳 🚲 🌸 

I'm sharing this with my friend Cecilia and Vintage Charm Party