Love VS. Design - free printable heaven!

This blog is so creative. If you do not know it, please visit their site!

The primary areas of focus on this website are weddings and parties, to put it simple. But they also offer gift tags and greeting cards for different occasions.

They offer the most beautiful design pieces that I have seen in a long time. This is exactly how I wanted my wedding invitations, programs, menus and place cards to look! I am sure my wedding would have been much more perfect if I had known this website existed then. Oh, who am I kidding? My - well, our - wedding party was perfect down to the last raindrop and I have never had a more wonderful day! It was off the chain, so to speak :) Also, I would have never been able to pick one single design out of this huge range of lovely and creative designs.

But the thing we are interested in is the freebies! So check out some of the cool free stuff they offer.

First up: The Ticket Line. I really like this concept. There is something very vintage about this. There is an invitation and place cards as a free download on the website. The third picture is a Valentines Day Coupon set that is also available at www.lovevsdesign.com. I thought that they complemented each other quite well. Personally, I absolutely adore the Valentines Day Coupon set, and it makes me hate that Valentines isn't such a big thing here in Denmark. At least not in our family -.- ! I am definitely making this for next years valentine, and then my husband will just have to put up with it! Oh my god, I have already found so many wonderful Valentines Day free downloads.. I'll have to start preparing them now if I want to get them in some kind of order for next year. There are so many!

Next: Mad Libs. I did not know what this was - Mad Libs. But of course I know the concept and these pre-printed templates are so cool and can be used in so many ways. Most of these are occasion specific, but who cares, right? The first photo is an Activity Sheet that matches the Confetti Line of the Bride&Groom Mad Libs in the second photo. The third photo is the Teepee Mad Libs part of love vs. designs children's line designed for baby showers and announcements. This is so cool and what a great thing to have from a baby shower to look back on. The same goes for the wedding edition, of course! Some of our family friends actually did something similar for us at our wedding. They had brought little pieces of paper, and told every guest to write something for us, and then they collected them in a lovely box and sealed it. We were then told to wait till our first anniversary to break the seal and read all the lovely notes from our friends and family. What a great idea, and let me tell you, someone was crying her eyes out! Not telling you who, though!

Now: Gift Tags. I am sucker for gift tags. There is nothing more satisfying for me than to wrap a gorgeous looking gift and give it to someone. The wrapping is half the gift, sometimes! This also means that I fall in love with everything gifty! Like these gift tags. Obviously, most of the gift tags in the world are designed for Christmas. The coolest of love vs. design's gift tags are also for Christmas. The first photo here is a children's one, which I will use on every gift the next couple of months, because they are not season specific. I love it, it's too cute. The second photo is of feather holiday gift tags. These are some of the coolest gift tags I have seen in forever. I love them. So different and cool. The third picture is also such a clever design. I mean, who hasn't at one point gotten a horrible sweater for Christmas that they hated? I know I have! And they make me think of the sweaters Ron and Harry got from Ron's mom in the first Harry Potter movie.
There are a few more gift tags in the free printable section, like the Simple Sweet Gift Tags, Holiday Gift Tags, Kraft Gift Tags, New Baby Gift Tags, and finally the Bright Holiday Gift Tags. Download them all and use them well!

Last: Recipe Cards. Last year I bought a traditional American recipe box with a few recipe cards and dividers for Baking, Salads, Meats, and so on. I'd post a photo if it wasn't packed away in moving-box-hell! I never cook. So I don't know why I wanted a recipe box, because I'll never use it. But it was just so cute and fits so well into my wannabe-vintage style home, and it had lovely colours and there is a singing bird on it and it has dots and the font is just right and the font is turquoise and, and, and... I am dumb! But! Me having a recipe box has made me look for recipe cards, and my, do I love them. The ones that love vs. design offer are great, and they recently added another one. Green. I love green! The first photo is of the green classic recipe cards and they are just lovely, and even feature a backside for further instructions. The second photo shows matching recipe cards and dividers. There is another version of these here. The last one is another cool favourite with a classic vintage font and a cool backside print that completes the vintage look. Had it been in a more vibrant colour, I would have been ecstatic. Still cool, though!

That was what I wanted to share today from the lovely website of www.lovevsdesign.com. Go there, buy stuff, support them, and print all the free downloads! There are many other free downloads, so go check them out!

Cheers!

Giveaways, freebies and DIY printables! Soon to come?

The bread and butter of blogging. If you want to guarantee a high pageview on your blog, one of the strategies to lure people in is to offer them free things!

At least, that is how I find many of the blogs I ended up loving. To begin with I stumbled over my all-time favourite blog, www.howaboutorange.blogspot.com. I can't remember how I found Jessica Jones' blog, but I have not stopped loving it ever since.
I know that it was in 2011, because it was while I was doing research for starting up my own blog. She is such an inspiration to me! Her graphic illustrations on her fabric, wallpaper and custom cases for iPhone and iPad are just amazing. I love the colour schemes, I love the patterns and the shapes. She finds the most exciting projects and new DIY things to make online and as a good blogger, she shares them with her readers. I want to be her! I want to be able to do all the stuff she does. She creates her own things, and I am just a mere copier and follower.

Right now I do not possess the originality to dream up something cool or try to change methods for doing one thing that then leads to a whole different result. One of the things I am very impressed with right now is her latest fabric-dye project using self-made photo negatives of printed photos. She used Inkodye and started using regular objects like safety pins, and cut out forms like clouds and doilies. Then she moved on to using photo negatives and even made the coolest little pouch - which I am very good at making, so this project is screaming my name! How amazing is that?! I am so trying this when I have the money to buy all the supplies and once we get settled in our new apartment. Oh, and I just realised I now have the most perfect little balcony where I can put the fabric out in the sun! I am so trying this!

Anyway, this was so not the point I was trying to make! Where was I? Freebies, right! Maybe I should try that. It would mean that I would have to get a bit more organised when it comes to seasons, events, holidays and special days. Not to mention I would have to spend a lot of time just surfing the web for cool websites that offer their stuff for free - while being cool and awesome!

I will start finding cool free printables, DIY stuff for you to get inspiration from and for you to use. But please pay attention to any disclaimer the original producers of what ever I will post have written and respect that! I will post to their sites for you to download from there. Most of them normally say that the printables are for personal use only, so please respect that :)

Decorating a new place - the real reason for moving!

We are moving. Up until now we have lived in my aunt's house while she has been working in Norway as a nurse. Now she has announced her "home-coming" and we have to find a new place to stay.

Luckily, we found a lovely little flat not far from both of our parents and some of our friends. The only reason I say "luckily" is because we have sold our car (!). If we live close to either of our parents we have easy access to a car whenever we feel too bound down and bored of things within "walking distance". Of course, it is not the only reason!! It also means that my mum won't have to walk that far to come and do the cleaning and general house keeping while we are out driving in her car... haha, I only write this because I know my mum isn't reading this :) :)

One of the absolute pleasures of moving into a new place is the chance to decorate completely empty rooms! Over the past few months we have changed our interior decorating style. We have always had second-hand furniture, mix-matched tree sorts, all kinds of colours and it has all been a bit messy and old-fashioned. Now we are streamlining the style to being more of the same basic colours which I can then spruce up by adding cool, homemade pillows or hanging colourful posters in my black frames.

I can't wait to get a more classic look in my home. Lots of white furniture, preferably old, quirky drawers or cabinets with cool designer items on top with magnificent colours. This also means that I get to go antiquing so I can look for a new cabinet for my dinnerware and Royal Copenhagen collection. Yes!

One of my ideas is also to get some vintage looking art on the walls. I found these free printables via howaboutorange.blogspot.com - originally from designeditor.typepad.com, and I just love them!

Cool, vintage cameras put in a classic, black frame. It doesn't get much better than that! All you have to do is download the files, take them to your local copy-store and they can make it any size you want. I still need to get my copies printed, but it will be done! I'll be sure to post pictures of the finished results in the new flat.


I have also been on the look-out for pillows, so I have an actual excuse/reason to make new pillows cases. I have so much cool fabric tucked away in my craft boxes and it need to be used! Well, I might forget about the fabric I already have and then pay fabricrehab.co.uk another visit to order some of their cool, vintage fabrics. There are some of the retro fabrics they stock that I find it hard to live without - especially the Geekly Chic line. They got me hooked and I am a true fabric addict. Oh my goodness, I am getting extra excited about the prospect of all this work!

It is going to be so great to live a place, where we are not living there on borrowed time. Don't get me wrong, it has been absolutely lovely living in my aunt's house, but there has always been a deadline over our heads. It will be great to not have that. Even if Lady Luck blesses us with a child at some point we can still stay in the flat if we need to. It is big enough for that. So we are set for the next couple of years!

I'll post pictures of the sewing projects I will embark on when we move. And most likely, I'll also post updates on the interior decoration, because I am getting oddly excited by that prospect right now. Maybe because we have been living in someone else's furniture for a 1½, and it is going to be so great to see our own stuff again outside of a storage box!

July 1st, please come now!