Our AVATAR's NEW Look for March :) & TECHNICAL TROUBLE :(

We've been experiencing a heavy technical difficulty with our main office war horse of a computer. There's diagnostic work to be finished, among other things. But mostly, it's about trying to work out the kinks. We hope to be back in our regular rounds here shortly. Do wish us luck!

Meanwhile, our group's rallying around our new design concept, which isn't a breeze, but entails much experimentation that is loads of fun. Our new fun look is still in the process of being created, and as we work on it, we are noticing how fun it can be to try and create a brand new feeling here.

So lots of news here, but still no new ephemera/clip art. Our apologies. Things should get straightened up shortly.

Now, here's that avatar--just for fun, of course! :)

Happy Creating!

Rose & Friends

March PPS Avatar

TESTING SOME NEW LOOKS FOR OUR HOME BLOGGING GROUNDS

If you see things kind of looking wonky or off kilter over the next few days (or even a week or two), please be aware those bugs will get worked out before long. We are taking a kind of extensive break from keeping our blog's update a daily practice in order that we might focus more together on its look. We may even require some further time to iron out any wrinkles, so to speak.

We appreciate your coming by, and hope this won't spoil your viewing fun.

We figure our look's just too washed out, and we are anxious to try on what's available a new way. Any ideas you might have would be most welcome, so do leave us a comment if you can see where we might benefit by some other choices than those we may try on.

This may take some tweaking. Rest assured, our efforts revolve around this and this alone where this blog is concerned while going ahead on our mission for the best look possible. And our resolve is to please you with our best of the best design concepts that are currently available online. It may take some experimenting, but that's all a part of this process.

Our thanks to you for your patient forbearance during our transitioning to this new look. We appreciate all our readers, and would love your feedback throughout our new changes. We will thankfully accept all comers on this one. And who knows? Just the right look may come out of a suggestion left through a comment from you!

We'll look forward to having your feedback in future as well, something we hope sincerely you'll take us up on.

So, have fun watching all the changes with us as they go by. We'll be sure to keep you updated as things begin to settle.
Happy Creating!
Rose & Friends

St. Paddy's Day (Sorry--Digital only-not suited for home printing) Collage Sheet

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selections, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give you our best. 

We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to do better in future.

Thank You

The Studio
For today's post, our design team came together with our thoughts on all things green! The Emerald Isle inspires me particularly, due to family background (on my mother's side, mostly). Don't you just love all those lovely greens? Can't wait to use this one for a gift to an old friend.

We hope you'll enjoy our latest offering, made by us exclusively for you. We ask that you please honor the copyright we hold on these designs we offer. In other words, they are here to be used for free, never sold by you nor claimed as one of your own designs. Thank You.

Happy Creating!

Rose & Friends

PPS Collage Printable
St. Patrick's Day Collage Sheet

Celtic Vector Digital Brushes by ObsidianDawn.com

A Victorian Illustration

This is from an 1892 American edition of Thomas Hardy's famed novel, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," a tragedy of the mid-Victorian era. Here we have our heroine's dignity undermined by the low behavior of someone not trustworthy to her. Her appalled expression says it all. I could see parts of this used in a new way, for collage purposes.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Tess 

And in Modern Standard Black & White

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Celtic Twilight: an Irish Journey for ATC Originals Sunday

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selectios, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? DO be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to do better in future.

Thank You

The Studio
Our eyes are smiling today here at the Studio. I'm part Irish in background, and so is one other member of our gathering. We get a charge out of green in general, and out of things Irish overall. So, here to get our St. Patrick's Day mood going is an offering for your use. We hope you'll enjoy our little taste of Ireland, and find a different way of expressing yourself via our ATC backgrounds, free for your use. ATC heritage would dictate free trade, never sale of any of those designs we've put together. Our copyright laws today also dictate our right to exclude all sale of such items. We are the sole proprietor here, along with our design team's work having been responsible for making these available for your use. Please abide by the wishes and wisdom of the copyright laws now in place here and abroad. We thank you.
Happy Sunday!
Rose McGuinn & Friends

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PPSATC#6

Celtic Twilight Six Pack

Those Background Titles for You

Top Line: Winged Friends Aloft ; Faerie Forest; Wayside Shrine

Bottom Line: Moonlit Walk; Reverie In Emerald; Newgrange Memories

                                               

All Digital Brushes used for this project are by
ObsidianDawn

Free Collage Printable: PPS #2 "Ageing Gracefully"

Life gives us wrinkles. It can also give us spots. I think we are all lovely to look at even in our elderly years. The same can be said for the collection below. In it, we've included a few creases, some signs of age from wear and tear, all in the varying hues which paper can glow with after a hundred or so years.
This is another of our exclusives here, and you'll note it has its own copyright mark. We have taken the time to go through our collected ephemera, and to make everything a little clearer for you and ready for use. Please refrain from violating copyright law by either reproducing anything created by our team or by taking the credit where credit isn't due. Thank You.
Happy Creating!
Plush Possum Studio

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Another Plush Possum Exclusive: ATC Backgrounds New Orleans Style

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selections, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.

Thank You

Your Friends at The Studio
Our ATC "6-pack" this time features a Mardi Gras mood.We like to gear up for the celebration this time of year, and have done so ATC-style in time for others to join in the fun. From soft and formal to laid back and dirty, we cover the bases here for those in the mood for a deep fried Southern daydream. I know we had a good time putting everything together for you, and hope you'll enjoy our mixed musings on Louisiana's biggest hot spot.

As usual, we hold the exclusive rights on all you see here. Our readers may neither claim our designs as their own, nor sell anything we display by any means whatever. These are our gift to you, meant for trade as per ATC ruling. We mean that sincerely, and thank you for keeping our terms. 

Happy Creating!
--Oh, and pass the pralines!

Rose McGuinn & Friends

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PPSATC#5

New Orleans Mystique

PPSATC5: New Orleans Mystique

Digital Brush "Palette" for this set:

ObsidianDawn.com and JS Scully

For the Mechanically Inclined: Music Box Metal Parts Diagram

What fun it is to see the internal workings of small mechanisms such as our music box, here. Each part looks like a wonder to me, and how everything is made to work is truly fascinating. Here's hoping you'll take a fancy to them too.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

Music Box Medley

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Plush Page Ornaments: Art Nouveau Jewel Toned Colors

Today's offering is a favorite one of this Plush Possum Studio member. But then, the Art Nouveau movement is a main favorite here. This would make a good flourish for a blog or for stationary, book arts, mail-art, scrapping, you name it. It was found in a compendium of magazine pages from the turn of the last century.
The colors range through the color spectrum as close as we could get them to. Hope you'll find plenty of uses for at least one of our gems below.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Art Nouveau Page Ornaments In Jewel Toned Colors

Ruby

Sapphire

Emerald

Amethyst

Golden Topaz

Fire Opal

Garnet

Original

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Antique Botanical Art c. 1887

Aren't these beautiful? These are plants one might walk right by without really seeing them, and yet here they are, rendered as handsomely as if they themselves had been artfully crafted for all to see. In the details, there is much to praise. Several selections from various pages in the same volume were handpicked for your use, then brought together into one clip art page. I'm loving these. Hope you will too.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Our Selected Botanicals

Sheet

One Page in Its Entirety

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ATC Backgrounds: Urban & Grungy Green

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selectios, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.
Thank You
The Studio
Just for fun, a second offering of our Studio color splashing. This time, we offer you a bright, vivid approach in electrifying green. It's a Plush Possum exclusive, one we are tempted to think you'll find more than one way to go with. Personally, while I prefer the blue we posted in our latest ATC Backgrounds selection, I might go with that lamp post design. Thinking of ways to grunge it up even more, here's hoping you'll have fun too.
As usual, we ask you to recall our copyright still applies. The designs you see here may be used by you in creating your own ATCs for trade, and are neither to be reproduced nor packaged for sale, nor credited with any name other than our own. They are to be traded and/or given freely, much as we supply them for the public's use. We mean that sincerely. Thanks for understanding.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Our sheet below measures 8.5" by 11".

PPSATC#4

Urban Grunge Green

Our Brush Credits for this one:

ObsidianDawn.com and JS Scully

Free Antique Advertising: Ivory Soap c. 1907

It floats! Apparently, it can also induce a husband to help his dutiful and pretty young wife with the dishes. It's so much fun reading old fashioned ads. How they were worded says a lot of the times they come out of. Imagine being budget -minded over 3 pennies! But 'way back then, those pennies were usable, not just loose change. We've given our readers 3 ways to view our advert, one with nothing but the fun dish rack frame or border, one with only the illustration portion, and the other in both its reincarnated or black and white form, along with its actual look.
We hope you'll find lots of fun ways to use our free imagery.
And thanks for stopping by!
Happy Creating!
Your PPS Friends

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Antique Soap Advertisement

Detail

The Border Alone

Original Look

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ATC Originals Sunday

Here we have four of our favorites. We hope to post others of this same series here soon. Our color scheme this week: Distressed & Elegant, part of the Turquoise Blue craze our studio is going through right now.
Their Titles:
Top Left: "Ragtime Blues"
Top Right: "Distressing French Letter"
Bottom Right: "A Splash of Distress"
Bottom Left: "Distressed City Blues"
They will appear larger than normal on your screen but were created in regulation format.
As usual, you may utilize any one or all of our backgrounds as part of the ATC trading scene, and you may embellish and distress them further to your heart's content.
What you may not do, however, is ever sell them in part or as the set in any format existing. These are our designs exclusively. Please honor our wishes and please do credit our design team's hours of work via writing our blog's address on the reverse and/or linking back here.
Thank you.
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn & Friends

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PPSATC #3

Distressed & Elegant ATC Backgrounds

(Digital Brushes used in the process designed by Fox Orian, JS Scully and ObsidianDawn)

Outdoor Winter Fun

Is there anything more exhilarating when we're young than flying down a slope on a fast sled? I have some fond memories of that myself. The hot cocoa afterwards by a crackling fire on the hearth was a definite plus factor for me.
I like this cheerful picture with all its quaint fashion points, don't you? Imagine having to wear gaiters out in such weather because you aren't allowed to waer trousers or knickerbockers like your brother!
Where is that hot cocoa, anyhow? Brrrr!
Happy Creativity!
Rose

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Snowy Fun

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Old Stamp Album Cover with Vintage Clip Art Letters

A lucky find brought this venerable yet sturdy stamp album to our ephemera library. Few stamps, but a great cover! What stamps it does contain we are working on getting the best resolution for you. It may take a little while, but we'll get there. It took some work (well, a lot of work!) and some patience, yet here is that cover for you, along with the letters from it. Have fun! I myself can't wait to make a little collage using our letters. Such a fun font! It could give memory pages a truly unique look.
As usual, we are affirming our rights to publish anything we have created via whatever means used, whether for sale or otherwise, here or anywhere. You may neither sell these images nor claim they were manipulated by you. We hold some rights, then, to today's clip art page. You may use a portion of it only, in work you make for display online, or for art trading, even for sale--once it has been incorporated into your work.
We hope you'll find plenty of reasons to enjoy using the images displayed.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Happy Creating!
Your Friends at Plush Possum Studio

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Vintage Clip Art Letters

And here's one more for those 

with a use for the elegant "P"

(which needed tweaking for some reason)

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It's a Frame-Up!: Childhood Theme c. 1908

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selections, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to do better in future.

Thank You

The Studio
Our current selection of frames and other decorative flourishes is growing. Here today, we feature the same frame 4 ways. Colorizing designs of the sort below can add to the fun when collaging, scrapbooking, making cards, etc. Our current selection is actually from yesterday's post about a motor-car. We fell in love with the frame during our editing process of the last post, and decided on the spot it would be ideal as a decorative element for a child's scrapbook pages, or just for general use creatively. We start with our black and white version, graduating to the colors we were able to conjure for you.
Happy Creating!
Rose & Friends

Sweet Frame-Up

B&W

Blue Frame-Up

Burgundy Frame-Up

Green Frame-Up

Purple Frame-Up

Sepia Frame-Up

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Antique "Motor-car" Art

Here we have a great old 3 page portion of a children's reference library, all about the new wave of the future in cars. And aren't they great? Nowadays, our motoring ability has gone far beyond what  had been dreamed of by the year of our pictures below. For your pleasure, we include both versions, the black and white we recreated digitally, along with a cleaned-up one of the existing patina. We hope you'll find reasons to use either or both.
Happy Creating!
Your friends at Plush Possum Studio

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Motor-car Pages c. 1908

Page 1

Page 1

Original Patina

Page 2

Black and White

Page 2

Original Patina

Page 3

Black and White

Page 3

Original Patina

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NOW UPGRADED:Cocoons in Color

This came from the 1902 edition of a favorite of ours, W.J. Holland's The Butterfly Book. One of us ran across this weather beaten copy for sale at a library. Here's our cleaned up version for you.
Happy Creating!
PPS

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Cocoons in Color

With Upgrade

Downloadable Version HERE

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Peanuts! Get your (free clip art) peanuts here!

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selectios, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to bring you better product in future.

Thank You

Sincerely,

Your Friends at The Studio
I love old farming catalogs. They feature such nice artistry. I find the details in our peanut plant depiction, below, just delightful.  I may have to use this one in some of my Mail-Art this year! I am offering you two versions, one without the enhancement, and the other a cleared-up black and white version. Free for you to enjoy, of course!
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Old Farm Illustration of Peanut Plant

Original Patina

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Victorian (1892) Patterned Paper Gone Wild!

Dear Friends: We are just as happy as can be you like our designs here at PPS. There's just one thing, however, we would like to share before it is too late. The designs you see here, prior to our changeover to better settings for our scanner and equipment, programs, etc., may well have been faulty from the start. This error is now being corrected. However, it may not be correctable in all cases. This particular offering has been found to be faulty for printing. It may, however, still be used via digital art-making, just not as a print-worthy option. Please see our newest and upgraded selectios, all of which will be noticeable via the "Download HERE " or "Downloadable Version HERE" phrases. New to our site? Do be selective with your choices. As we are in the process of changing our lineup for you all, it may yet take some time to come full circle to give our best.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to do better in future.

Thank You
Sincerely,

Your Friends at The Studio
Yes, we've gone Retro today in our studio! Just look at all the colors you can choose from--like a regular smorgasbord! Like having a little bit of the 1970's right at the collector's finger tips!
Rock on!
Rose & Friends

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Victoriana Goes Funk Background Papers

Hot Magenta

Psychedelic Lime

Red Bandana

Vivid Haze

Denim Blues

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Vintage Shoe Styles for You

Today's post is a fun one for us. And we've offered more colors than before, a thing we hope you'll make use of.
So, without further ado, here are those shoes!
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Black

Red

Don't step on these Blue (suede) Shoes!

Purple (for the fun of it!)

Green (Who knew?)

And Brown for more practical purposes....

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