More gorgeous journals designed by Linda Cain have arrived over at Vintaj Earth - where Jeanne, Wendy and Jess are caught holding up their favorites.  We love her work so much, she has such a great eye for color and placement and incorporates Vintaj brass flawlessly into her designs.  Thanks Linda for stopping  by the shop!

Check out Linda’s blog  for jewelry creations, colorful photography and more Vintaj Earth journal designs!

The Simply Willow blog featured a nice post on Wednesday where Ms. Jodi announced her love for Vintaj natural brass! Jodi Cartwright, designer of Etsy shop Simply Willow, has used everything from Green Girl pewter to semi-precious stones and now finds brass to be the focal of her simply willow line. Check out her post to read more about her love for brass.

“Who knows what tomorrow will bring. But, I can honestly say that each Simply Willow piece is made with love….love of beads, love of brass, love of creating…” - Jodi

Order today to receive free jewelry kits!

• The first 10 orders after August 15th over $250- will receive 1 FREE jewelry kit of their choice.
• The first 10 orders after August 15th over $500- will receive 2 FREE jewelry kits of their choice.
• The first 10 orders after August 15th over $1000- will receive 5 FREE jewelry kits of their choice.

(Please indicate your choice of kit(s) in the comments field during check out.)
Vintaj jewelry kits are perfect for display and for re-sale!

Metal Working Awl: Use this awl for enlarging chain links, as a beading awl, and for opening filigree (it is perfect for making filigree spacing larger to accept a jump ring of your desired gauge).

Metal Working File Set: Use this file set to smooth edges after cutting filigree or when creating your own style of creative setting.

Wooden Ring Mandrel: This wooden mandrel is perfect for shaping filigree, coiling wire, shaping bales and shaping & polishing rings.

Five beautiful new kits are now available. Two simple and fun necklaces named Sunflower Swirls & Eternal Sunset. Two bracelets including Nature’s Trail & Green Garnet Bangle, and some fabulous Flying in Circles earrings. All the kits are perfect for display & resale or keep them for yourself adding to your Vintaj jewelry stash!

Send us a sampling of beads you sell in your store and we’ll send you customized jewelry designed with your beads & Vintaj for FREE! We want you to be very successful. We’ve discovered that our most successful stores have multiple store displays. We have a staff of designers to make this happen! Very soon you’ll have store display models in hand and your Vintaj findings will fly off the shelves.

Email info@vintaj.com for further details.

“Oh, the summer night has a smile of light and she sits on a sapphire throne.” ~B.Cornwall

For our second challenge we are asking for jewelry inspired by summer’s warm nights! All designs must incorporate stars, moons, and or suns. These earrings & necklace set are some great examples, but browse through our project gallery for even more ideas! The winner of the challenge will be determined by viewer votes and will receive their choice of 2 FREE sampler packs, a posting on our blog with a link to their site or blog, their winning design posted in our Project Gallery and entered into a year end Challenge contest!

To enter:

• Submissions must be your own original work and incorporate Vintaj Natural Brass findings
• Make sure your design follows the challenge requirements.
• Next, simply email a good quality photo of the piece you wish to submit (preferably photographed on a neutral background) along with your name and title of the piece.
• Email submissions to blog@vintaj.com and include the challenge name in the email title.

*only one submission & vote per person

Please have your submission in by Friday August 22. Voting will be open from August 23 - midnight August 30, with the challenge winner posted on September 1. We can’t wait to see your designs!!

Vintaj Earth, located here in Galena on 214 N. Main, is having a Summer Sidewalk Sale this Friday and Saturday only, Aug. 8 & 9! Why should shoppers in Galena have all the fun? We’re having the same sales here in our Etsy shop as we are in our Bricks & Mortar store!

* 50% off selected Vintaj Earth jewelry lines - find them in the section to the right of shop! (price on listing does not reflect 50% off)

* Buy any 2 regularly priced jewelry items & get the 3rd FREE – (of equal or lesser value)

* With any purchase over $30.00, get a 4 oz Revitalizing Body Spray FREE!

Make your purchases, but don’t pay yet… we’ll send you a new invoice! Happy Shopping!!

As many of you may have noticed, every month we have a new home page jewelry theme and colors. It is very important to us that we showcase fresh ideas every month and the task of always coming up with something new can sometimes finds us at an “artists block”. Drawing inspiration from Mother Nature’s palette is a great way to get that spark back, keep things natural and allows our monthly colors to coincide with the season. This months theme was inspired by two photos of Marigolds, taken by Vintaj Lady Jeanne Holland. What do you think? Does our photo draw inspiration for you too?

We randomly drew names and Lisa, Marla De Armond, Leslie Strout, Vicki g “sweet clover” designs, and Suzanne Molsen are the five lucky winners of a Just Believe It Bracelet Kit! Congratulations ladies! We had 79 comments last month… so many kind words - thank you, you guys rock. With such a good response to the kit giveaway we decided to do it again. Check out our August Giveaway and keep posting, we love reading your comments!