How To Use Vintage Flashcards in Your Home -

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I want to share how to use vintage flashcards in your home – how to use them in all your decorating! I love to scatter them throughout vignettes (or displays), on my table, in centerpieces and more. The vintage look flashcards I carry in Twigs & Fluff are so easy to print, cut out, and round the corners you’ll wonder why you didn’t use them before!

Prepare Printable Vintage Flashcards

Supplies –

Paper Trimmer
Corner Rounder
Cardstock
Printable Vintage Flash Cards from Twigs & Fluff

Directions – Using the paper trimmer cut the flashcards out along the edges. Use the corner rounder on each corner of the flashcard. So simple!

Using Vintage Flashcards in Your Home – On The Table

In The Centerpieces –

You “gnome” you want to check out this under $5 Halloween Gnome project! The Hocus Pocus Flashcards sit in a flower frog and a place card holder in this adorable Halloween centerpiece.

make an adorable DIY Halloween Gnome that is no sew

This is double vintage printable situation. Using cash register flags I created to mimic antique ones and our Freedom Rings Vintage Flashcards this patriotic centerpiece is a perfect addition to your holiday.

Patriotic centerpiece showing recreated vintage cash register flags

At Each Place Setting –

The Fall and Autumn Fun Flashcards are in place card holders on each plate on this fall table where I repurposed a popcorn bucket into a firkin.

Using Vintage Flashcards in Your Home – On The Mantel

Use vintage flashcards to help bring your theme to life or draw attention to certain parts. These metal buckets would have just been buckets in our back to school theme mantel but with the addition of the Schoolhouse Rocks flashcards they became a lunch pail which totally fits in with our theme.

vintage flashcard printable for back to school

The red, white and blue flashcards from the Freedom Rings set of flashcards helps with the theme of our fireplace and setting the patriotic tone with our repurposed spindle flags.

Patriotic Farmhouse Look using Repurposed Vintage Items

Using Vintage Flashcards in Your Home – On A Tiered Tray

Combining sets of vintage flashcards to draw attention to parts of our blueberry themed tiered tray was a great way to add signage to our tiered tray without making more then the one sign we did create. The Farmhouse Love vintage flashcards and the Summer At The Shore vintage flashcards were both used to invoke summer, the bring your own bucket memories of being in a blueberry patch.

The vintage flashcards on this monster tiered tray do two things … continue the color scheme of the tiered tray and identify the little bucket as a candy bucket. I used the Hocus Pocus vintage flashcard set and the Summer at the Shore sets to combine into candy bucket.

Halloween Tiered Tray using DIY monsters from repurposed ornaments

Using Vintage Flashcards in Your Home – As A Banner

Using string and clothespins the Hocus Pocus vintage flashcards were hung with these DIY spiders (you won’t believe what I repurposed to make these!) as part of my Halloween mantel. This idea would also be super fun for a party table!

Easy DIY to create spiders from repurposed Halloween Trees

On this mantel I used the Schoolhouse Rocks set of flashcards to create a banner for celebrating back to school. You can see all those fun projects here!