French Botanical Ephemera Scrapbook Paper

Scrapbooking paper featuring a **romantic vintage botanical collage** blending antique French ephemera, floral illustrations, handwritten correspondence, butterflies, and faded ledger pages with a shabby chic, French country aesthetic. **Composition:** Overlapping antique documents, ledger sheets, handwritten letters, and manuscript pages form the background, with a lightly distressed, linen like texture, faded ink, worn edges, and subtle stains. Floral clusters are evenly scattered for a seamless repeating layout. **Florals:** Richly detailed bouquets featuring deep burgundy/plum peonies or garden roses, wine colored buds, white outline style botanical roses, olive/green leaves, branching stems, and tiny seed heads. One larger central arrangement with smaller surrounding ones. **Butterflies:** Cream and beige wings, fine black line details, naturalistic engraving style, various flight positions. **Background documents:** Ledger sheets, elegant cursive correspondence, French headings, invoices, postal/administrative records, printed numbers - softly layered beneath florals. **French typography:** Cursive handwriting, decorative script, antique serif type, French names, signatures, and annotations at varying opacities. **Decorative details:** Botanical line drawings, ink splatters, watercolor washes, paint smudges, distressed printing, faded flourishes. **Color palette:** Ivory, cream, antique white, soft beige, pale gray, dusty lavender, plum, burgundy, deep wine, mauve, olive green, sage green, warm brown, charcoal, black. **Style:** French vintage ephemera + Victorian botanical illustration + antique documents + watercolor florals. Ideal for scrapbooking, junk journals, decoupage, card making, altered books, and wedding projects. --hd --profile 6mnkwzi