Antique Paris Maps for the Digital World

Just thought I'd share one of my most favorite items in my shop.  Old maps are one of my most favorite things, I collect old maps from all over the world.  Whenever I go somewhere new, I hunt around until I find an old map as a perfect souvenir.
Sometimes these get buried in my listings, and then I sell one, and I remember all over again just how much I love them!  I rescued these maps from a wonderful antique discarded French map book from 1905.  I think what's so great about these is the wonderful colors.  You really get a great antique feel on these maps.  Plus, you can print them out on fabric, cardstock, kraft paper, etc. to get just the look you want!
You get 2 sheets of 300dpi French maps for only $4.00 to have and print again and again for use in your art projects.  (The sheets you get do not have the watermarks on them) 
Stop by my store and check them out, they are so much fun!  Antique French Maps

Etsy Craft Party

(Photo taken from Etsy blog)

Etsy is organizing a worldwide Craft Party! It's basically a day when people from all over the world can get together in their hometowns and have a group craft night.  I decided to organize a Craft Party in Tempe, AZ.  It will be on Friday, June 18th at 7pm.  I haven't worked out a location, but if you are interested, let me know.  You can visit the Craft Party site: http://www.meetup.com/Etsy-Craft-Party/5116/ and sign up that you are interested.  If you have any ideas for projects or locations, I'd love to talk with you.  This is not limited to people just in the Tempe, AZ area. 

Art, Craft, Vintage, and Antiques Show this Weekend - March 13, 2010

This coming weekend in Queen Creek, Arizona will be a Huge Arts and Crafts Festival!  I'm going to have a booth at this show, and I've been working very hard to put together some amazing goods for this event!  I have some very unique vintage paper items, some new mixed media paintings, and more!  I'm sharing my booth with my mom who creates fabulous jewelry http://vickisdesertjewels.etsy.com/.  So, come on out, it will be fun for the whole family, with live music, bull riding, food, and more!

My kind of Christmas Tree

As you know, I'm always looking for new ideas of how to use my huge stash of amazing vintage paper. I took on the project of creating a little Christmas tree from old sheet music a couple weekends ago. I cut tons of strips of paper, glued sparkly red glitter on each piece, and curled the ends up. I glued them all around a paper maiche tree form, starting from the bottom. It took in total about 7 hours to finish but I just LOVE it!

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STOCK UP & SAVE SALE!

It's that time of year when everyone is having sales, back to school, end of summer, yada yada. So, I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon and offer some pretty good sales as well!

From now until the end of August, Buy ANY 2 packs of vintage papers from my etsy store: And get ANY 1 pack FREE! It's your choice! Just let me know in the notes section when you check out which one you would like, and it's yours - FREE!

http://katieblue.etsy.com