Spring Cleaning Free Printable

I have been working hard on my studio redo but I have a confession... I am so awful when it comes to painting a room. My hubby just cringes when I say lets go to the paint store. I will choose a color and hubby will say "are you sure"??? and I will say "Oh yes... this is it" Then I will run home, paint the room, look at it for a few days, hate it and do it all over again : / But once I finally settle on a color, I love it and if I need to repaint, I choose the same color or near the same color again.

A few years back I painted our bathroom 5 times but it was a small room...lol. Then a couple years ago I painted the other bathroom, free handed scroll work on it and then painted it over with the left over wall paint from the living room because company was coming and I could not decide... lol.

When I first moved into my studio, I did not paint. It was the color the contractor painted the whole house...white : /. Having said that maybe you can understand the delay in posting pictures on my new space. While hubby has been working on the pieces for the room, I have been painting and repainting and painting again :)) So while I am painting walls maybe you can make some beautiful "spring cleaning" art with this little cutie.

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St Patrick's Coleen Free Printabe

She's a bit of a flirt, is this Colleen,

With her roguish eyes and bouquets of green,

The sight of this maid so blithe and so gay

Cheers all Irish hearts on St Patrick's Day.

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Tattered Lighting

Although I have not been blogging much and I had a ton of junk going on, I still somehow found time to do a few creative things around the house and I thought I would share one of them with you today.

I finally got hubby to run the electricity for the wall sconce I picked up on ebay. The shade it came with looked ridiculous. It was an oval but it hit the wall and was obviously too large. I wish I had taken a picture of it before...

So I picked up a round shade at the thrift shop and removed the paper from the wires. Then I cut a third off the back and straightened the wire that I removed, resoldered it back on so that it now had a flat side to go against the wall. Then I wrapped the entire frame with strips of torn muslin.

I sewed on sections of fabric and lace from my scrap bin, added some kewl buttons and...

I ended up with this... I was pretty happy with the outcome.

This is from the side. I wanted you to see how I sewed some of the scraps inside the frame and some on the outside of the frame... it really worked for that tattered effect I was after.

I have been up to a few more projects too! I think I mentioned I was working on a major redo of my studio so here is a sneek peek.

and this is a peek and one of the projects that I am working on too. This is a before glimpse however. I will be posting the before and after of all the projects soon!

Punk Angle A Free Steampunk Printable

Isn't this little guy cute! I am just loving Steampunk at the moment and he just fits right in with my love of winged cherubs and fairies too... I suppose you could say he was either!

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Valentines Pharmacy Doctor Love Pharmaceutical Label Free Printable

Enough wallowing in self pity... lol I do want to thank everyone for all the sweet posts and emails. I really am feeling rather good about most things now. I have just been wrapped up in my latest projects. I am working on a total redo of my studio. So many projects and once and yes I will be sharing them :)) Soon too!

Valentines day has really snuck up on me :/ So I did this little label. I thought it would be so cute on a bottle of red hots for all of my loves... hubby, kids and grandkid. I don't have them done yet to get a picture and as time is short I wanted to get the label posted so you can get yours done as well.

So click on the images above to go to the larger printables.

Enjoy!

Inka

Not Everyone Plays Nice

I can’t believe how long it has been since I have bloged but I have been so distracted. Due to several things, Moving my mom’s things from California, the holidays with a house over full with family, finding them a home here and getting them moved in. In the midst of it all I ran into another artist that just doesn’t play nice. She was selling collage sheets with my images (not just vintage images but some I had made) on etsy and was quite nasty with me about it. I think she thought they were just vintage images. Anyway, it just kinda burned me out on sharing to find someone like that. Not only that but someone else accused me of blogging just to sell my images.

I guess I just have to face that fact that every once in a while there is a charlatan in our midst. Having said all that I do have to admit over the years I have met so many wonderful artist. There is something about creating art that draws a certain type of person… my type of person :)) So I came to the mindset that I do want to continue sharing images with all the wonderful artists out there. I started this blog a long time back… well before I started selling my digital artwork. I wanted it to be a place to share my artwork, little snippets of my life and home much as many of you do. The collage sheets were born out of my love for art. As I created images for my own projects I copied them to sheets and shared them with my friends. Several of them pressed me to sell them as well so I gave it a try and found it was a great way to feed my insatiable appetite for art supplies :)) But for me it is not about the money but creating art, as I hope it is for you too. I do try to keep them inexpensive and post lots free images too. That way everyone can play :)

I know that a few of my images are totally vintage images but most of my artwork just looks to be vintage. Most I have created or I have major changes and have been changed enough to retain there own new copyright. For instance, I have used vintage image parts to build my images...a person from one image a background from another, changed faces, changed colors, changed clothing, bodies, arms and legs. If you noticed, unless it is a holiday postcard, most of my "vintage postcards" have no greeting as well. I have done this so that the artist can add their own greetings to fit the piece they are working on. Below is a vintage image that I reworked. The top image can be printed rather large without distortion. However I would not try it with the bottom image.

After and before :))

Click to see the difference... and to save it!

To elaborate, even on the few that are vintage as the image above, I have spent many hours digitally rebuilding the images. I am sure you would agree a vintage post card with the printing techniques available then would never have the clarity or the ability to print as large as my images do. Many also required extensive repair of any creases, tears scratches and even replacing any missing parts, clarifying them to better than original as I am sure you can see. Many hours have gone into producing them, these images are my own so I do have to maintain my copyright rights. As a fellow artists I do hope you can respect that.

Have No Fear!

I don't want you to have any reservations about using my images either. So I thought I would go over my copyright with you again :) My copyright states it these images are for hand made items only... So if you are printing the image and incorporating it into your artwork then that artwork is yours to sell. You can photograph that item and blog it as well :) However the copyright does not apply to any mass produced printed products or digital reproductions large enough for printing. It may not be included in any digital download of any kind. They my not be shared with friends or sold to a third party. You can link to them and send your friend here to get them. As I said, I have spent many hours scanning and creating or digitally enhancing each one and I now leave them in your charge please protect them.

I guess I just needed to take a break and get my focus back on the main thing… creating and sharing art. My life got busy and maybe I did get to far off with just posting free images but it really was not just to sell a collage sheet. I did it because I felt a lot of good artists out there looked forward to getting fun images to create with. So I am back :) I am sorry I missed posting all the holiday images that I normally do but maybe I can make up for that these next few weeks :)

Enjoy!

Inka

More Free Vintage Halloween Printables

My little grandson has been keeping me pretty busy. I know this picture is a little fuzzy but it was so cute I had to share it. It is pretty hard to get computer time because this little guy always wants to play on the computer but the time I have had has been spent scanning some of my recently acquired collectables to reproduce them.

We have been busy making lots of faux vintage stuff for our Halloween party too. This yeas as always our theme will be "Vintage Halloween" All of my actual vintage collectables are placed on display but I do my best to reproduce everything I can to actually use. I just won an auction for some crazy awesome vintage Halloween collectables too! I am a frenzied mess waiting for them to arrive.

I know that I just posted an invitation but I could not help but post this one as well. When opened the witch will pop up!



I am offering it in color or in black and white. I just printed the black and white version on orange office paper. Just fold it up as pictured!




Be sure to click on the little thumbs to go to the larger printable version.

Are we ready for Halloween Projects! Free Vintage Halloween Invitation Printable

I am! so I am posting this free little Halloween party invitation! I just printed it on brochure paper. It is thin paper but has a matt photo finish so it looks like the professionally printed orignals...then I glued it to orange card stock and scored the fold lines... easy peasy! I just listed a little sheet of matching vintage repro fortune game place cards in my little etsy store too.

Morning Doll Free Printable

I have had several requests for a caped morning doll for the Counts Castle Theater so here she is!



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I'm Backkkkk ....... is anyone still out there???? Oh and Baby printable

Where the heck have I been!... I know, I know! When I went to California to move my mom and sister to Idaho I thought I could get them packed and ready to go in two or three weeks... and I had this stupid idea that I was going to be able to post from there. Little did I know that they had turned into HOARDERS! Not the filthy type you see on TV but the pack rat type that has stuff everywhere. When I was growing up my sisters room was always decorated very minimal, neat as a pin. Mine was the huge mess... boy have times changed. I have tried to stay close over the years but a lot of day to day life is missed over the phone. I think they had at least 5 of everything and my sister did not want to let go of anything. We just could not move all that stuff! It was like pulling teeth to get her to put just one of each 5 into the donation box. I worked from the time I got up until the time I went to bed. The only breaks I took were to fill orders for my little etsy store. I even ate most meals as I packed. After about 5 weeks we were ready for the movers. When I got home I slept for about a week... literately :)) When I finally woke up I discovered while I was gone my computer mysteriously defunked. I had all my graphics saved to flash drives but I did not have my programs to work with them.... I got that fixed and then life got in the way once again.... baby watch! However things are coming together now... my mom and sister are here in Idaho, my computer is working and my grand baby was born today. Of course I had to post a picture of our new little JJ!



So I am back and I will try to make up for being gone over the next few weeks!

To start with I am posting this darling little baby graphic to celebrate the newest little member of our family.

Be sure to click on the little thumb to go to the larger printable... Enjoy!