Victorian Family Heirloom & Heritage Scrapbooking, Scrapbook Supplies

50 Assorted Scrapbook
Die-cuts

50 Die-cuts: $14.95

Different designs & sizes with some being embossed.....all-occasion, Easter, Wedding, Christmas, Halloween, flowers, Valentines, Cherubs & Angels. .......may include different designs from what is pictured above as manufacturer packs them according to availability

Bookmarkers

Heritage & Heirloom
................In the 1880's, women collected pretty colorful pictures and pasted them in scrapbooks. When the Christmas tree became more popular in the homes, the women used these pictures from their books to decorate the trees, thereby the term "Scraps". In the 1890's, the German printers added tinsel, angel hair and glitter to the scraps creating the first "Victorian Scraps Ornaments"--known today as die-cuts.

History of Die-Cut Scraps & Prints
For a hundred years, the brilliantly colored images have been tucked away, forgotten or preserved in private collections. Scraps, as they were called in Victorian times, leap from the page and stretch across the century to connect us with a golden time, a gentler time, a time spangled with beauty and innocence, the time of our great-grandmothers. Today these images, still as fresh and immediate as gossip over the backyard fence, are called antique paper ephemera. Originally, they were reproduced by the early painstaking process of chromolithography, which simply means PRINTING IN COLORS.

After centuries of black ink on white paper, chromolithography intoxicated the world with its lush printed hues, transforming the look of trade and calling cards, valentines, wedding and birth announcements, cigar box labels, calendars, certificates, and chromos - pretty scenes meant to be hung on the wall. Chromolithography had a dazzling, meteoric life, appearing on the American scene about 1840 and vanishing during the third decade of the twentieth century.

Old Fashioned Sunbonnets, Aprons & Baby Bonnets

My inspiration for Creating this Web Site

Museum of old Original Certificates of Marriage