My Heart is Yours

Love in your heart
wasn't put there to stay.
Love isn't love
'til you give it away.

~ Oscar Hammerstein ~

 

This is a sweet c. 1910's postcard from my collection.

Here's a printable sheet of tags ~ enjoy!

Happy Valentine's day!
Thank you for stopping by!

A Sentimental Journey

"Winter, a lingering season,
is a time to gather golden moments,
embark upon a sentimental journey,
and enjoy every idle hour."

~ John Boswell ~

 

This is a c. 1902 postcard that I altered from black & white
to sepia tone and pastels. I just love her expression.  Below
is a printable sheet of tags or bookmarks for you ~ enjoy!

"By recollecting the pleasures
I have had formerly, I renew them,
I enjoy them a second time,
while I laugh at the remembrance
of troubles now passed, and which
I no longer feel."

~ Giacomo Casanova ~


Where would a sentimental journey
lead you today?

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In Full Bloom

"Life and love are very precious
when both are in full bloom."

~ Louisa May Alcott ~

Blue hydrangea tags approx. 2.5" x 4" each.
Postcard graphic approx. 3.5" x 5.3"

Printable sheet of 4 notepapers, 4" x 5" each.
Vintage blue hydrangea stationery 8.5" x 11"

Printable vintage music & hydrangea tags:

Here are the free graphics
& sources used in my artwork:

*The Graphics Fairy*
Blue hydrangea
Round frame

*TucksDB*
Postcard border

*Lost & Taken*
Grungy wallpaper texture

*Carol Anne's Boutique*
1908 French letter

*Shadowhouse Creations*
Softly aged sepia texture

*Lilac & Lavender*
Postcard back

The sheet music used in the last set of tags
is from my personal collection, c. 1940.


Thank you  for stopping by!

We Bring Roses...

"We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning, and coloured like the dawn."

~ Thomas Buchanan Read ~

 Gift tags printable ~ note the intertwining roses.
Printable 8.5" x 11" stationery with roses and handwriting, below.

I couldn't decide between postcard borders, so here are both versions.
The first postcard is approx. 5.3" x 3.5" and the second approx. 5.5" x 3.5"

Printable sheet of 4 notepapers or journal cards, 4" x 5" each.

Printable vintage roses ~ 8.5" x 11" image.

Printable featuring 2.7" x 3.2" notecards and approx. 2" x 3" tags.

Printable sheet of 12 tags, each approx. 2" x 3".

Here are the free graphics
& sources used in my artwork:

*TuckDB*
Bouquet of roses

*Carol Anne's Boutique*
1908 French letter

*Lost and Taken*
Grungy wallpaper texture

*Lilac & Lavender*
Postcard back
Postcard back, scalloped border


I also created a Facebook cover photo
which you are free to use.  It's available
on Lilac & Lavender's FB page.


Thank you for stopping by!

A Garden of Roses

"A garden of roses is
a fragrant piece of heaven."

~ Matthew A. R. Bassity ~

Here are the free graphics
& sources used in my artwork:


*FREE ViNTaGE DiGiTal STaMPS*
Polka dot scrapbook paper

*Lilac & Lavender*
"Antiqued" lined paper
Rose postcard
Sheet music cover "Because"
Post card with scalloped border
is from my personal collection.


Thanks for stopping by!

In a Winter-Wonderland

"Now we don hats and mittens;
take our loved ones by the hand,
as we all become children in
a winter-wonderland."
~ Janet Martin ~

3.5 inch round graphic
and printable with 6 (below).

Snowflakes are from this free font.

3x5 inch, postcard-size graphic
and 8.5x11 printable stationery, etc.

Tag with little girl on sled,
and printable sheet of 6 tags in 2 sizes:

 Original, unaltered Christmas postcard from my collection:

"Childhood Winters"

I sit and watch the white snow
Piled up outside my window.
And I see in my memory
Red mittened hands and rosy cheeks
Of the child of long ago.
Building snowmen and laughing
Against the wind.
Such simple pleasures
For a child to enjoy
Making snow her winter toy...

~ Rasma Raisters ~



Hello, and thank you
for stopping by!

In Dreamful Autumn

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees...
Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn?

~ Ernest Dowson ~

Here are the free graphics &
sources used in my artwork:


*Boston Public Library on Flickr*
Boston Brewery Poster c. 1880

*Lost and Taken*
Grungy wallpaper texture

*Old Design Shop*
Back of French postcard 

*MudBay Images*
1792 Farm sale document

*Lilac & Lavender*
"Antiqued" lined paper
Back of postcard

The sheet music is from
my personal collection, c. 1940.


"Catch a vista of maples
in that long light and you see Autumn
glowing through the leaves..."

~ Hal Borland ~

Autumn's Queen Chrysanthemum

Ah! She is not a "Summer Friend,"
She stays when all the rest have flown,
And left us flowerless and alone;
No singing birds, or blooms to lend
Their brightness to the autumn haze,
'Tis she who cheers the dreary days;
'Tis joy to know so sweet a friend;
No fairer flower blooms 'neath the sun
Than autumn's queen Chrysanthemum.

~ Hattie L. Knapp ~

Here are the free graphics
& sources used in my artwork:

*TuckDB*
Pink Chrysanthemums
Scalloped border

*Vintage Ephemera*
French script, 1816

*Lost and Taken*
Grungy wallpaper texture

*Lilac & Lavender*
"Antiqued" lined paper
Gift card envelope
Back of postcard

The sheet music is from
my personal collection, c. 1940.


Thanks for stopping by!!

Colorful Easter Eggs & Violets

Here are 4 printable sets of colorful
Easter egg postcards... see the bottom
for the one postcard that started it all.
What color do you think it is?


Peach, pink, and aqua theme:

 Purple, green, and aqua theme:

Here's the original,
with an orange ribbon & egg,
from my personal collection:

I made many more color combinations
with this image.  Look for them on my
Lilac & Lavender facebook page!


Thanks for stopping by...
if I don't get another chance to tell you:
 
Have a Happy Easter!

Children & Spring Chicks

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!

~ L.H. Bailey ~

Children & spring chicks stationery ~ 6.5 x 10 inches + pink border

Children & spring chicks stationery ~ 6.5 x 10 inches + green border

Printable with 2 images ~ 5.5 x 8.5 inches each

Original children & spring chicks, Easter postcard

from my personal collection.

Here are the other free graphics
sources used in my artwork:

*The Graphics Fairy*
Back of an old photograph

*Lilac & Lavender*
"Antiqued" lined stationery

Thank you for stopping by!!