As you browse through all our Embossed Victorian Scraps; still produced in Dresden, Germany, as in the 1800's. They became most popular when Queen Victoria took the crown. I tend to lean toward the 1890's as these chromolithographs had been perfected and even double embossed. Printed with bright inks into die cut pages, sporting a gloss finish, not matte as in the 1860's each individual scrap is only connected by tiny white strips of paper, called ladders, that only need clipped to free which ever scrap you wish to use to make a beautiful card, embellish a scrapbook page, make a lovely ornament, or whatever fancys you at the time. These scraps are free of harmful acidic glues, or chemicals that could harm your other collectibles or photos in your scrapbooks.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee, (as long as you return them the way you received them), in mint condition. There is no camera that can capture the opulence of these scraps.
Presented By Theme
Christmas
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#7040
#7050
#7170
#7151
#7160
#7194
#7195
#7208
#7218
#7219
I cannot stress enough how these photos hide the beauty, true richness of the colors, and of course the deep double embossing. You have a 100% guarantee, as long as you return them in the mint condition these scraps are in when sent to you!
Angels and Cherubs
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#7024
#7072
#7085
#7086
#7099
#7135
#7156.
#7158
#7164 SOLD OUT
#7179
#7191
#7193
#7198
#7216
#7217
#7228 SOLD OUT
Well, no sooner do I get the scraps in the mail, do I find out my sweet supplier has found more themes of Scraps. She has some very lovely scraps of fruit. It reminded me alot of the "Fruit" themed scrapbook and papers, stickers, die cuts, frames, etc from Kand Company. We will have this collection for you to choose from as the requests come. As we cannot purchase the entire catalog, as much as we would love to, the scrapbook collections will come as quickly as possible, but these scraps on this entire page would look wonderful with many of Kand Company's Collections. Who knows, some day you might just find a page of Victorian Scraps in one of your theme kits we put together!
Animals
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You may think some of these Scraps may better fit into a different theme. I must keep them in the same themed group as my supplier, as does she. I wouldn't want you to get the wrong sheet of scraps because I moved some of them into different themes.
#7066
#7067
#7069
#7070
#7092
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#7094
#7120
#7121
More Animals
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#7143
#7174
#7187
#7199
#7207
#7212
This Valentine Day Card is an antique that is made with nothing but brown paper wich is about 7-1/4x4" wide. When folded up to put into a envelope it looks like this. When opened, the flap on the front plus the stand you unfold on the back help it to stand erect. Scraps from "Flowers" and "Children" plus a paper doily could reproduce this old card. I will be making plenty of cards, and my price for this one will be a tad higher than Hallmark, and you won't ever see one like this at Hallmark, so choose your poison! Lacey Vellum Envelope included $8.50 SALE $6.00
Not one card looks exactly like another
Babies & Children
#7061
#7062
#7060
Isn't it lovely? This card measures 7-1/4x4"wide.
This paper eyelet basket is full of a cute little Victorian girl, lots of Victorian Scraps of roses and other flowers. Some of the flowers are embelleshed with glitter as fine as talc! As you open the card the lacey bouquet opens up into a three dimentional keepsake for Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, a Special treasure for a loved ones birthday. Copied from an antique card from 1863, but not exact enough to break copyright laws! (We try very hard to do that, and to those of you who have stolen designers from me and my customers, we will let the Great Judge reside over YOUR case). This card comes with a delicate vellum envelope, too $8.35
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#7071
#7087
#7091
#7095
#7096
#7103
#7108
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More Babies and Children
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#7019
#7015
#7016
#7018
#7041
These pages of scraps are absolutely great for making pop up cards for children, or baby shower or Baby Is Here, cards. Do you know how to make pop ups in your scrapbook? The same way you make pop ups in a card. Just make 2 slits in the cardstock that you are going to glue into the inside of the card. These slits should be about 3/4" or maybe an inch apart and I would say about 2" long. Now as you close the card the cut part will begin to buckle, so you make a fold in the middle of the piece of cardstock that has been cut loose. Attach the Scrap to the front of the folded piece (it should look like a stair step). As you open the card the scrap will stand out, and as you close the card, the folded piece will lay flat. Just make sure the piece of cardstock that has been cut loose folds like a fan. OH, this is so easy to do, more difficult to explain.
The pictures of cards that I have on this page of scraps are both pop up cards.
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#7109
#7131 SOLD OUT
#7161.
#7180
#7184
#7185
#7201
Flowers- all but 1st 3 are down to only one!
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An easy way to make a pop up card with 3-D effects, is to accordian fold a separate piece of cardstock, the same color as the cardstock you are using to make your card with. Be sure and fold and extra edge, about 1/2 the size of the accordian folds, then glue these edges onto the side of the card you wish the pop ups to pop up from. Check a few times before glueing the front flap down to make sure that closing the card makes the accordian closeup on itself before glueing it in place. Then attach you scraps to each fold, (4 folds looks the best). Fold up the bottom of the card which will close the scraps into each other to place into an envelope. Don't forget to decorate the bottom flap with rubber stamps on white paper and color them in, or cut out extra scraps and write decoratively the message for the lucky receiver! Use "Babies and Children", "More Babies and Children" and "Flowers", for the best Victorian Pop Up Cards!
When these are gone, I will be selling only vintage scraps, and if I run across any by the intact page, they could be so expensive I would just stand there like an idiot and smile. Secret: A very small "few" of the scraps that are up for sale,now, ARE vintage, all pick by a third person.
#7001
#7006
#7021
#7039
#7052
#7098
#7132
Perfect for Valentines!
.#7133
#7134
#7157
#7162
#7166
#7173
This scrap has room on the hearts to write a sweethearts name or words of love..
#7176-too bad only 1 of each are left!
This scrap and the rest that follow in the Flower catagory, are exquisite. The flowers, especially the roses look as if were painted maticulously by Rembrant, (in style).
#7181
#7182 SOLD OUT
#7183
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#7186
#7200
Well, we have just about covered everything that the Victorians were obsessed with except the most important aspect of their lives. That would be:
Young Love
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For a reason unknown to me, the creator of these lovely Victorian Scraps has separated this group into two: 1) Babies and Children and 2) More Babies and Children. Maybe it was for us, the ones that hunt and hunt until we find the best Victorian Scraps for you at remarkably low prices. I plan to keep an entire set of them in page protectors (because you can never collect enough Victorian stuff)! Then I have to have enough of them AGAIN for making those darling pop up cards, and to transform our Family scrapbook and the scrapbooks of our two girls lives. Will there be any left for you? Not if others buy them all up before you. Again, can't get these prices again!
#7074
#7075
#7104
#7137.
#7175
#7177
#7178
#7189
If you couldn't see the details in any page of scraps, click on the image and it will enlarge for you. Remember if you purchase any 5 pages of scraps you get a page of your choice for free, no strings! These are chromolithographs of old scraps but the scraps themselves are not antiques. If you call in your order or fax it to me and use your Visa, Master card or Discover card, if you have a Visa or MasterCard Check card, my credit card terminal accepts them as well. I don't use PayPal because of the increase in what they charge me. This increase would force me to raise my prices on everything. I have spent alot of time looking for the best of everything, as part of my promise to you.
These scraps are printed on the same weight paper that they used in Victorian times and obviously a little later. I love to just look at them, as they tell me a story of historical relevance. These scraps tell of their favorite pets, past times, holidays, attire, and much more. I, myself, can't wait to put together my own scrap collection in a lovely scrapbook with embossed roses, sprinkled with photos of my own two girls in their Victorian frills I created myself. Just for entertainment, those shots of "mudhole days" just have to go in there, as well! Have fun with them and I hope to get some sample pages posted after I finish "playing" with these papers I got in the mail from our friends that make their living by kindly asking us for almost half of what we make. You know, the IRS.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee IF you return them in the mint condition you got them in. I do not wish any confusion, as to how you will receive your scraps. When I stated they would be stored in page protectors, I did not mean to imply you would receive them in this way. I would have to raise the price of the scraps if I sent out page protectors with each order of scraps.
3 ways to order: use order form on Shopping Cart Link, Call in order and get a free gift--don't forget for every 5 pages ordered, a free page of scraps is yours, just let us know which ones you would like! You can safely FAX a credit number, name on card, billing address and your expiration date, I need the 3 numbers at the end of the signature space on the back of the card. I have to have a "real address" the place you live, NO PO BOX, not MY rules, so please there is no reason to be nasty to me. The CC companies are protecting your identity and credit. It makes me sick that things have come to this, but, don't forget your email address, and phone for day and evening! your order! Type in which free sheets of scraps your want per 5 sheets you buy. If I have a problem, I need to get ahold of you.
I can only sell you what I have, yes, and I have a lot! She flew the coup, so I am working on finding someone I can count on, so YOU can count on me, we will do it, as the Lord is great at righting a wrong,
Dresden Ornament
Ornament Embellishments
Trims, beads, tinsels, pearls
Vintage Papers
and Fabrics
.These 100 year old ornaments are made with Victorian scraps, much like the ones I have on this page. (The white cat in the hot-air balloon looks very familiar). Do you have any old hand-blown ball-type ornaments? If so, you could make any of these ornaments. I have all colors of tinsel on the Scrapbook link, and the backgrounds of these 3-D ornaments are small pleated or folded peices of vellum. Sometimes they make the ornaments the same on each side and then stuff with cotton batting, NOT polyester fiber fill, as it is not acid free.
As I make these adorable ornamentation for your Christmas tree, I will put the instructions on the website. Or if YOU figure one of them out, share with us, and I will send you a page of scraps, one catch; you must send it to our Victorian Garden, so I can compare it with the others coming in and make sure it just isn't a picture! hee hee
hee hee, hey I'm a girl, too and SNEAKY, or I was. Now I am just the sweetest thing that every lived. (AND, I Love YOU)!
We will be making beautiful ornaments which are reproductions of old Victorian ornaments that were first made in Germany around 1880 to 1910 or maybe even later, but their popularity was the biggest from 1880 to around 1904. I will put up a picture of the ornament and dimensions, what is needed to create your Dresden Beauty. Soon you will have a huge collection to hang on your tree, and people will think you spent about $125 to $250 a peice for them!
We just might have a swap around Christmas, I don't know, because if someone didn't send an ornament to the name of another customer of mine, well, things just wouldn't be pretty! In the meantime, I only will be selling scraps and a few pop up cards when I get these TAX pages finished.......anyone know Greek?
How many times have you purchased embossed (3D & embossed), envelopes with cards from a national card store?
Are they signed, dated,
and numbered? What a wonder card to include in a gift enclosure for that special person--Maybe a breath-taking hat box!
Wedding cards made from scraps lace, glitter, embossing powder are exquisite, under construction! So exciting! You'll not find them anywhere else..
Tinsel is attached to wire, gold wings and star are c/s wt. paper, and frosted berries all attached to a scrap with cotton batting between a double faced ornament of an old blown glass ball ornament.
I can't see this "old blown glass ornament" to save my soul, unless the strange looking head is sitting inside the ornament! Yes, I love them, but they can be very weird looking, HA!
I have many of the very old ornaments that have insets on the front that were hand blown in Germany, and lots of colors of wired tinsel, and cotton batting. My tinsel is then braided around the wire, then fluffed up, (I disassembled a pc. of it to see how they attached it to the wire). The wire is very brittle! I am going to try and make some Victorian period ornaments for those of you that would prefer to just buy the ornaments instead of pulling your hair out making them. Just remember, not all of their parts will be antique. There will be NO scraps that are "barely torn, or stained, or damaged or discolored" in any way. It destroys the value! Apparently those who are selling them in such a state do not know it depleats the value to about 50 cents for the scrap.
It would be difficult for me to give an across the board price of the ornaments that will be for sale. I have some paper lace doilys that were my grandmothers when she was a young wife of 16 yr. old, funny how that rag based paper does not turn dark brown like the later, post 1900, wood pulp paper does! The hardest for me to find is the wired tinsel that looks like very small Fir or other types of short-needled conifer tree branches, but in many colors. One cannot buy this tinsel, new, that I know of. Some of it is flat on one side, some isn't. I do not know if it was made flat to put on the original ornaments, which would be dated around the 1940-1950's. Victorians made everything they decorated their trees with. If these ornaments were actually around in the 1860's, I would lean more toward table decor, a gift for a special friend or parent, or maybe one attached to a stocking. Christmas brought out the decor throughout the house. It was not uncommon to see boughs tied to the great and majestic stairway handrails with big red or even a richer burgundy velvet fabric bow, and maybe the little scrap ornaments hanging on the center of the large bows where its beauty would draw the eyes of a visitor bearing gifts to stack under the tree. Could these lovely little tokens of peace, love and joy have been left for each child himself?
If you have any old glass balls with flocked scenes or "Merry Christmas", HANG ON to them, they are getting more expensive than the "dresdan stars". Add ribbons, tiny bells, what you wish, just do not cover up any of the flocking, if it is the real things, you will know it if your memory serves you well. If you just have to sell it, I will give you the best price. They came out in the early 1950's, the few that started their debut in the 1930's were sold very cheaply in the 5 and Dime's. And the glass wasso thin, if you still have one, unbroken, I am afraid you will not find a soul to buy it, as they do not believe they could have lasted this long and consider them to be fakes!
At this time, I will only be selling these items to my best customers, who are really into Victoriana. Sure, I could just sell these old "parts" to anyone if money were the only object. I have to know they are going to a "good home", not eBay, or some other auction house. It takes alot of sweat equity just to find these precious jewels in the desert!
Sometimes the pleated back ground is vellum-like paper or it could be old chiffon or orandy, or organza, I have heard silks and lace are used. I use vellum c/s, a bit heavier than vellum.
I do not own these Dresden Stars, found them on Yahoo, but I will try to teach you to make them! Start with the scraps, any will do.
Like I said, first you must pick out the scrap that you can build around, then you will need the wired tinsel. Your chances of finding it at all in the Antique Malls are 2: slim and none. So we will be making our own. Get your tinsel right here, 6 colors in 2 groups. Darks, and lights. You will need wire, I use 24 ga. (just got the wholesale contract, so until I can get that initial order in, you may have to grab just a single spool is all you need. Wrap Scrappy Tape around the wire then do the same with lengths of tinsel. (Hint; short pcs. twisted and fluffed looks much nicer, takes more time). Lay aside and work on embellishing your glass ball. Use more tinsel, silk ribbon roses, anything! Paint little 1" flower pots with a few holly leaves, or decopauge scraps to it. Emboss Gold paper, cut out the embossed decor with a craft knife, use the gold strips on your ornaments or wings on angels. Questions? Email me.
Teresa Sirmon--Director of Art Design
Some of the Dresden's (the area
in Germany they came from), had "floating" decor, but the ones that had a scrap sitting inside
one of the blown ornaments that have the one side of the ball, or in some cases an oblong ornament with alot of color, glitter and maybe even a tinsel tassel hanging from the bottom. It is perfectly fine to use one those old metal wire hooks on these ornaments, or whatever you wish to use to hang your ornament from your "feather" tree. One thing, VERY important: Please do not copy these exactly as they do belong to our friends, in fellowship of artisans, who made these "Dresden Star" Ornaments for our enjoyment, and they ARE copyrighted! Respect them.
Exquisitely Victorian!
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Scrap Books and Albums date back to the 18th century and contain a wide variety of printed material, as well as, drawings and watercolors done right on the page.
With its elaborate embossing, the scrap album was an object of admiration, giving endless hours of recreation to the young lady who owned it, usually of social standing, or so it was believed. Many scrap albums pasted up by slaves have been found in hidden compartments in run down "quarters".
In the mid 1860's Valentines and Christmas cards with their paper lace, decoration, and embossed scraps provided a popular theme for pasteing into scrap books. These lovingly preserved as momentoes have survived into the 21st century to delight our senses. Will your scrapbooks do the same?
Watch for steps on making pop-up cards and simple to advanced ornaments, (lists for "needs" will be posted). When there are a fair amount of those of you wishing help with these items, as it Is a lot of work just for a small few, those might just get a copy in the mail. Leave your address in a guestbook or via email. After the SALE.
"Victoriana Under Glass"
The typical dressing table top of a young Victorian girl, yes they had rubber stamps on wooden blocks. Sometimes they pasted their items to the wall around the mirror of the dressing table. Find the scrap I have for sale in this photo, I will send you a page of scraps with the one in this photo, no shipping charge!
PH. 1-918-341-5819, we take Discover, Visa, MC, and Visa, MC Debit Cards. address. We do not keep ANY receipt with your CC or debit #. It is too dangerous, and easy to steal!
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Victorian sketches, borders, and messages, (as you see in the 1st picture). Pix 2, opened, with flaps in place with 3-4 layers of lacy Victorian Scraps, doilies & more. All scraps are vintage. Lovely envelope, all at.....$13.95/ea
They say: (whoever they are) if you love what you do, the better the product you will turn out.
I was so amazed to learn this to be true, after I had begun making padded upholsteryed furniture when I was 9 years old. Of course, it was for my little dolls. We had the cash, I just prefered to create my little lovelies.
I am NOT dissing eBay, either, I bought a leg brace from them, and saved hundreds, it helped to straighten my contracture in the right knee, for $25 BUCKS! It won't fit in the scrapbook! There's got to be a way.....
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Only 1 left of the next 6 pages.
except #7184, which I never received from the supplier. I got a bunch of Horse Scraps I didn't order, and several Victorians I ordered and never received. I get ticked when it effects an order to a customer of mine, and it has, today! Please be careful who you send money to, especially if they INSIST on a money order!
I found your scraps and stickers One problem, some scraps are vintage & antique, but mint and are going to cost a bit more, $3 to $13.50, antique and vintage mostly. Newer scraps that are very cheap are at auction sites, owners are very tight lipped! The antique scraps are beginning to come in and they are lovely and what a feeling to hold something in my hand that someone else held over 100 years ago! These new scraps are 1.05each. Buy 10 sheets, get one free. Only one free sheet of scraps as they are going fast and we want everyone to get a chance at their freebie too.
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I am so excited I can't see straight, but I couldn't before. I have found some old store stock of all types of old Victorian items. Even decorations never used, and things still in original boxes, like tinsels, steel, painted two colors, then twisted. How about mesh, cotton and metallic, cotton batting, YES, you name it, I have found it. Many different varieties of scraps, so you don't have to look at these everywhere, hee hee. They look great when decoupaged! It is just a flood on the market by 2 women, I only have a tad compared to them. They are very nice scraps!
Sale price at top of page
Scraps that sell out are replaced with vintage or antiques originals, as my supplier is not around any more, selling copies as antiques, shame! I have all scraps verified by an appraisal co./antiques.
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