Giveaway: December Daily Album Kit

Shabby Chic Crafts specializes in designer, handmade, high quality, scrapbooking paper products. Their products include: journaling tags, journaling spots, and embellishments in a variety of themes including holidays, calendar, animals and kids. The company has a special vintage type twist which is very popular right now in scrapbooking. Shabby Chic Crafts is pleased to introduce their new Fall/Winter releases shown above and below. The company also has a blog, where you can get the latest news about their releases. Click here to visit the blog.

Vintage Artisan Notes

Vintage Lace Tags

And Shabby Chic wants to give a lucky person a free December Daily kit! This kit is perfect for making an album to record the holidays, as outlined by Ali Edwards. To enter the giveaway please leave a comment below, telling me if you plan to make a December Daily album. If not, what other project do you think you could use the kit for?

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1. Follow Craft Gossip on Twitter and tweet this: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on @CraftGossip http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs“. Then leave a link to your twitter profile in the comments for a second entry.

2. Join the Scrapbooking on Craft Gossip group on Facebook and then post this as your status update: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on Craft Gossip!! http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs” Then leave a link to your Facebook profile in the comments for a second entry.

Entries will close next Wednesday, September 23rd. Winner announced Thursday September 24th. Good luck to all! And if you’re not the lucky winner you can still grab one of these kits from the store for only $14.99!

If you love old needlework books with that charming “found in a dusty drawer” sort of feel, Early American Embroidery Designs has a lot going for it. This is not a trendy modern pattern book, and honestly, that is exactly why it stands out. It is based on an 1815 manuscript album and is packed with over 190 historical motifs, which gives it a lovely reference-book quality for stitchers who enjoy heritage designs.

What makes this one interesting is the sense of history behind it. Rather than feeling overly polished or modernised, it comes across as a genuine slice of early American needlework style, with floral, vine, basket, repeat, and spot motifs that would suit all sorts of decorative embroidery projects. That makes it especially appealing if you enjoy traditional embroidery, antique-inspired sewing, or adding old-fashioned detail to household linens and keepsake pieces.

It is also the sort of book that feels more like a design resource than a step-by-step project manual. So if you are the kind of stitcher who likes browsing motifs, adapting ideas, and pulling little elements into your own work, this could be a really fun one to have on the shelf. Sometimes those older reference-style books end up being the ones you reach for most, especially when you want inspiration that does not look like everything else on Pinterest.

For CraftGossip readers, this would suit anyone looking for vintage embroidery pattern books, historical embroidery motifs, or early American needlework inspiration. It has that quiet, useful, slightly scholarly feel, but still in a way that is very approachable for modern stitchers.

This is one for the crafter who loves history, traditional motifs, and embroidery books that feel like little archives of inspiration. Not flashy, but definitely the sort of book that could quietly become a favourite.

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