Angels rejoice through the ages

Welcome!

A wreath made with all hand cut recycled greeting cards

By inkspired 

Today I have been looking at some beautiful

Vintage nativity scenes,

especially ones with angels.

A French 1893 nativity illustration

Through the ages artists have painted angels very differently.

How fascinating!
👼

Here is another nativity with angels -
I’m guessing it is from the 1970’s.

(Unknown artist)

This next one looks older -

Unknown artist


The next nativity is what I call classic European.
Baby Jesus is blonde and white,
His parents are often blonde and white also.
The angels are child-like with rosy cheeks
and blonde curls.

Vintage Christmas card

Here are a few more:

Artist Eve Rockwell

Artist H. Thiel 

 Unknown artist

Angels come in as many shapes, colors and forms 

as we can imagine.

How about we make some of our own?

A simple accordion folded paper angel.

A simple cut paper angel that you form into a cone.

A folded page book angel, with embellishments.

I found angels made from all sorts of things,

such as shells, ribbon and macaroni!

Found these on Pinterest from a craft article.

 From Sea Things Ventura

Ribbon and bead angels

From AlaskaCrochet.com

 Found on Pinterest

Found on Pinterest, but I believe it is from a shop on Etsy.com

Try out your own style and make a few angels

to give away or decorate with.

Have fun!

‘Til next time,

inkspired

Truth (from experience, usually before 10 am)

Some things are best left to do

After Coffee.

Such as putting on makeup,

Tying shoes,

Or writing out bills...

Artist unknown

I do love the more accurate depiction of an older Joseph however.

❤️

a crafty Christmas for kids

Ayubowan

How to say 'peace' in Sri Lankan

celebrating Christmas in Chennai, Sri Lanka

www.asiantribune.com

an iris folded angel design card by inkspired

www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com

Let's get ready for the Christmas holidays

with some fun things for you and the kids to make!

Here are some tags for the kids to color and cut out:

www.haciendolindio.bigcartel.com

Or here they are, already colored and ready to print and cut:

These gift cards are in Spanish:

Get out the scissors, and let's cut some paper dolls!

'Holly' by Bette Wells, 1988

Here are three pages of paper dolls from

Pat Stall

Pat always does such a nice job with her paper dolls!

Here is a nice nativity that the kids can cut out,

and then fold to make a 3-dimensional creche scene.

vintage Jack and Jill magazine, December, 1965

Now that you know how to put one together,

why not make one with old Christmas cards that you cut up?

Here are some vintage Christmas card images 

to get you started:

vintage 1910 Christmas card

www.rubylane.com

www.theten0clockscholar.blogspot.com

vintage card

www.imagessaintes.canalblog.com

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Let's have a card-making party!

Things to set out:

scissors

glue sticks

double side tape

blank card stock, cut into both 1/2, and 1/4 sheets

lots of old Christmas cards

plain white paper

paper to cover your table surface

coloring things:

markers, pens, pencils, crayons, etc.

add some fun embellishments like:

glitter glue

glitter gel pens

cotton balls

confetti

stick-on stars

stickers

puffy paint with drawing tips

Here is a simple mitten pattern to get you started:

courtesy Jan Brett

Turn the mitten upside down.

Color, embellish.

Glue JUST THE SIDES AND BOTTOM of the mitten 

to a card front. Leave the top (wrist) part open.

After the glue is dry, fill the mitten with cut-out shapes 

as a surprise for the card receiver!

You could tuck in 

* a school picture,

* parts to make a paper snow man

*a simple picture cut into 1/8 to make a puzzle

*paper snowflakes

*a puzzle or maze for the card receiver

or....?!?

Give a mouse a Merry Christmas Muffin Gift

courtesy Dover

build-your-own snowman card

sorry, I'm not sure where I found this

visual illusions coloring page courtesy Dover

This is a card I made using circle stickers, 

and a stick-on rhinestone!

I ran the background red card stock through a corrugator.

Don't forget to drag out those old magazines.

They have wonderful images and colors to cut out and embellish your cards with!

www.MontseRubioArt.etsy.com

You can do some gift wrapping while the kids are busy too!

That's it for today!

Don't forget to stop and have a cup of tea

and do some deep breathing!

:0)

inkspired

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and on pinterest:  kkloberdans

one of the tea cups that I collect