Free Anne of Green Gables Ephemera

Today is the anniversary of the birth of the author of the Anne of Green Gables series of books, Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Having read nearly every one of the Anne series of books, I know that I have always been a big fan of Montgomery's work. Her understanding of the ways girls think and feel was well ahead of its time. She had insight to offer in each and every chapter that she wrote about Anne, her "bosom friend," Diana Berry, and (of course) Anne's very own Gilbert.

In honor of the heroine of the books, I am calling her Anne with an "e".
:)
I think that she would be pleased by this, don't you?

Gilbert Rescues Anne

Anne's Puff Sleeve Dress

Below are 3 separate downloads in honor of the day, all of which are in the Public Domain. (Yes, even the Museum photo of Anne's pretty little room is in the Public Domain) The sheet music cover and the two old photos are from the 1919 silent motion picture version of Anne's story. That, I suppose, would account for the costumes being a little too modern for Anne's actual era. I still thought they might be fun to use , and so they were included in the set.

Happy Green Gables Creativity!

PPSEphemeraSet™: Anne of Green Gables

Download 1919 Sheet Music Cover HERE

Display version

(lower quality than the download)

Download Anne's Room HERE

Display version

(lower quality than the download)

Anne with Gilbert 1919 silent film photo HERE

Display version 

(lower quality than the download)

You are free to:

(in this case)

use the above images in any way you please.

All are within the bounds of copyright law

for free use!

:)

Let's Play Ball !

Women's Pro Baseball Blog Button

Recently, here at the Studio, a button was offered which reads, "Art is a manly sport." (which see in our right hand column)

The fact that it is, of course, is obvious to anybody with sense, as both women and men do enjoy getting creative with color or objects, etc.

Women, likewise, can enjoy playing or watching sports, just like men. To even the odds, or to bring things into balance again, the new button is all about women playing pro sports.

In this country, from 1943 to 1954, a few rare women played a form of supported major league baseball that has yet to be repeated. For more information on the subject, you can go HERE and HERE. (I like the second link the best) Though they got called girls, and even were sometimes jeered at from the stands for not being male players, they were women playing hard and fast ballgames.

In honor of the feminine sport enthusiasts among us, the Studio is now prepared to offer you a new button. It is a sort of answer to the prior button about art being manly as well as being feminine.

The photo being used in the button offered below, is of pro player, Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder. You can find out more about her HERE, and a little bit in the video above.

Attribution for the Public Domain photo may be found beneath her photo HERE. According to her bio, she played for the full 12 seasons--and was singular in having done so.

So, let's do what Dottie was saying in her photograph and "Play Ball!" with our
Happy Creativity!

Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder Baseball Blog Button

(It is best to use the "shrink to fit" portion of your blog button gadget window for this 96px PNG)

Download HERE

(below is our display copy)

You are free to:

use this button at your blog for the fun of it, or to celebrate the womanly art of sports.

You are not free to:

repackage it in any way, for sale or for your own offering elsewhere.

Please respect our gifts for the public's use.

Thank you.

"Magnificent" Flying Machines Set for Digi & Print

The Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk anniversary is soon to occur, and with that in mind, we are posting a fun set of flying machine images for you to play with.

Included here are two technical images in black and white which we removed all background from for our Digi crowd. Print -style artists will still find the same quality available for use, as we always post both versions at the same resolution here.

I'm fondest of all of that propeller. I can see many possibilities for that one image! ;)

For more info on the Wright Brothers, their aircraft, or the history of flight in general, please go HERE.

Hope you'll enjoy all our collage sets here at PPS as much as we do creating each one for you.

Happy Creativity!

Rose

NOTE:

This set was not pre-packaged when we found it. In fact, it took weeks of searching and then processing and cleaning up to make this set a finished product.

We would never sell anything which you, our guests, had not given us permission to sell, and we ask that that same courtesy be given to us in return.

Otherwise, a theft would occur, or friends part ways. This may not seem all that valuable an item, but it does belong to our Studio, in that it was processed for months before being offered for your use.

Free of charge.

Please be mindful of others' copyrights.

Thank you.

PPSDigiScrap™ Collage Set: Flying Machines

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

Download JPG Print Version HERE

Credits: Original 1890's image (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
also from Wiki Commons

Steampunk Mask Blanks

Well, you can never have too much Steampunk--not if you're this possum, anyway! Our thoughts have turned to travel lately, from a standpoint of our favorite theme. To add to our selection of masks for your use this time (or anytime) of year, the obvious conclusion was to think in terms of travels abroad, especially by air. 
For what Steampunker would be without her or his own flash airship? One certainly must be able to gauge where one is headed if aloft, then. And to add to the experience, we began to explore antique maps online for more inspiration.
Not only that, but one of our marble paper colors, sepia to be exact, looked so right in with these two sets, it was almost a given it belonged.
You'll note how, once again, we are relying on a large scale sheet as printing surface, that of 11" by 17", or standard Ledger Size in U.S. terms. Most U.S. printers may handle almost any format no broader than 11", so most of our visitors will find it easily printable, given the correct sheets of paper.
We also recommend that these be backed by either a stronger paper such as a semi flexible card stock, or with fabric of a smooth texture and fine grain prior to threading string/ribbons/yarn/what have you through the holes at either temple.
The possibilities here strike me. One might add, perhaps,  paper cogs or rusty metal machine parts , watch parts, little bits of ephemera or music box parts, then maybe add a few details from our cogged gems set, all to make a unique display of one's own.
Anyway, you get the intent with your--
Happy Creativity!
Rose

NOTE:

These masks are never to be repackaged for sale. 
You may use them, for free, but you must never sell 
any of them for any reason. 
I have exclusive copyrights to their final design. 
The same applies to all of my party accessories.

It's simply the LAW (that is a link).

In other words, my pre-packaged work, my Steampunk party accessories included, is not for sale, and is never meant to be, and this carries over into the choices which you, 
my guests here at PPS, are allowed to make by law.
All of the party accessories took many, many hours of painstaking work, so I would like it if you would only share and attribute 
(with links, please, back to the source, which is right here), 
and never repackage for sale, any of my work.

While parts of my work still come from copyright free sources, some do come with Licenses to copy and use, 
but never to sell for any reason, in any way, shape or form. 
I may be free to use them, but would never abuse that privilege.

Plush Possum Studio will continue 
to uphold the copyrights of others.

Thank you for joining me in doing so.

Steampunk Mask Blanks

Set One

Download JPG Print Version HERE

Set Two


Download JPG Print Version HERE

Credits: Original Antique imagery from
the New York Public Library digiatl collections
at nypl.org
Also, Wiki commons

Steampunk ATC Backgrounds: Town & Country

Who can ever have too much Steampunk? Not this possum! 
Included in our post for you today there are several city scenes, along with two country views. For our visitors with a yen for things French, you'll find two views on Paris. We also include one view on Berlin, along with two USA views.
These will hopefully lend themselves well to creating ATCs for trade or for keeps.
More than once, I've found myself wishing I had just the right outdoor view to build on, and I know I'm not alone in this. The Berlin one looks to me as if it might lend itself well to an aerial view, as in a dirigible or two, while our lovely view of the Rhein at Mainz in Germany gives oodles of room to play around in.
And I love the old Brownstone mansion with its wide boulevard--obviously in its brand new setting of Victorian elegance (a then new suburb of NYC, perhaps?). The Paris view above it is of a street scene adjacent to the Comédie Française. Perhaps they have a stage play by famous playwright Moliére running?
For more in our Steampunk Category, you can go HERE.
I love all these scenes, actually, and I hope you will too. Enjoy your weekend ahead and--
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Steampunk Town & Country ATC Six Pack

Downloadable Version HERE

CREDITS
All digital brushes used in the production of
this post come from Obsidian Dawn.


Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fixing) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Alos, WIki Commons

Our First Wallpapers--Steampunk Style!

Steampunk Wallpapers for your computer desktop!

Yesterday was a good day for me to hunker down, stay out of the sun (97 degrees!), and play around with a new idea: wallpaper!

Our stats show a number of you like Steampunk so well, you want to use it in new ways, including in wallpaper, stationary (we posted some a while ago HERE), photo frames--the list seems endless!

So here we have our first offering of wallpapers for your computer's screen, all credited to yours truly.  

All were done in a scaled down way, at 72 dpi rather than our for-print and Digi 300-720 dpi offerings. If these had been made for your use with digital means or to be print-worthy, I'd have given them the same treatment, but trust me, they would only end up looking messy or grainy on your monitor otherwise (there are only 72 pixels per square inch to most monitors, not including medical and other industrial style new tech advances which most people will never see, let alone handle).

I had a lot of fun playing with this one, so I hope you won't mind how many versions of the same theme, colorway, and so on, are posted here! Just call me wallpaper crazy!--and Steampunk theme crazy too! :)

To see the entirety of our currently posted Steampunk stock, go HERE, where you'll find even a background or two, along with clip art, including some Digi style items for you to use--all free of course! That's the PPS way.

Happy Creativity!

Rose

P.S. Please note I have copyrighted each of these. Which means, though they are available to be used by others, you may not sell them or repackage them in any way, much less claim them to be your own work. 
Furthermore, the artists of the digital brushes used for these items have their own rights to consider. They were the ones who offered free use of their brush packs, but only after much work by them.
The rights to use their brushes freely, and for any purpose, is for a price.
As we intend our studio to remain a free graphics site, we ask that you obey copyright or intellectual property rights laws, when consider how to use our items.
This is the right of any artist, no matter their position in the arts.

We respect the rights of others, and hope you'll do the same.

Thank You

Steampunk Wallpapers for Computer Desktops

(for monitors displaying at 1280 by 1024 pixels per inch)

Click to Enlarge

"French Steam"

"Airship Graffito"

"Paris Street Scene"

"Old Brick Wall"

"Paris View Deluxe"

"Old Plaster"

CREDITS

Digital Stamps Used in this Project by:

nadinepau, hilla29, Obsidian Dawn, latebreaking.


Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Also, Wikimedia Commons

Summer Holidays Collage Printable

Today's post is all about the many ways we humans might have recreated our summers away in past centuries.
Selected images in the collage set below include camping (shown two ways), sports such as swimming, and a bit of fashionable apparel, among other things.
And what have you done with your summer fun time? Did you find a great read for your enjoyment? Or did you, perhaps, add to your art skills? Were you able to get out more often? And when you were, where did you stay?
My favorite images below would have to be the woman in her corseted "bathing costume" descending the steps to her "bathing engine," and the deluxe camper car--altho' sleeping outdoors would be preferable to breathing oil and gas fumes all night long! ;)
Hope you're enjoying what's left of the summertime fun!
Rose

Summertime Collage Printable

Downloadable Version HERE

Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Also, Wikimedia Commons

Seeing Double: A Young Musicians Club Rehearses

Hi, all. This time, we thought there should be a departure from the past month's activity here at PPS, and so it has been decided to post our stereoscopic photo of our young gentlemen below. The details are so much fun!
This particular offering came by way of the local Antiques Mall where they offer loads of yummy, fun things crying out to be posted for your use. Despite its beat up condition, I love this one especially. I found the subject matter irresistible!
I know of not one young fellow their age today who'd be willing to wear those striped stockings with short trousers! LOL I think most of us would agree that had to be less than comfy, certainly less than fun to knock about the old schoolyard in. Dollars to donuts, their clothes were predominantly made of woolen fabric. In those days, often this would have been the case--for stockings as well!
Anyway, I hope you'll find this fun new doubletake easy to use in a wide variety of projects.
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Stereoscopic Photo: "The Band Rehearsal"

Downloadable 400dpi Version HERE

Primary Scanned Image

Courtesy PPS Archives

Free for Public Domain Use

Final Post for Steampunk Month!

Hi, all. It's about 11:30 here on a Sunday morning, and I'm relaxing and thinking about our new month just around the corner.
In our final tribute to this month's theme over at Gingersnap Creations, we offer 3 different sets with an edge on travel, steam style.
It's been a lot of fun, following along and keeping with our theme. I'm almost sad to let it go for a while. But, with so many new ideas, themes and fun projects to inspire me always coming to the fore in our blogosphere, I'm guaranteed of a good time year round even without Steampunking it up.
Time to bid adieu to Mona and her fab getup. We may see her lurking here a time or three before the year's end, just maybe not attired in so steam powered a manner. I love goofing on Mona! Hope you do too. ;)
Below, you'll note that, as before in our series, we've included more than one format to choose from. Our PNG sets are for strictly digital use (although they may still print, who can say), while our JPG Downloads are more easily accessed for hands-on style uses. 
Those of you who are new to us may wish to note here how our display versions (the ones you see here) are not only inferior to those Downloads available, but they aren't even print-worthy. We like to urge our readers always to choose for the higher quality versions we offer. This means you'll not only get the clarity of our best versions, but you hopefully won't be disappointed, either.
We generally set to scan at 300dpi, while the display versions on our blog are generally set at 96dpi (or our shorthand for it, "96PX"). This is calculated to make certain we aren't using too many KBs of our online storage.  Just a general heads-up so everyone will be on the same page.
Hope you're having a grand time Steampunking it with us. I've personally had enough fun to want to play with our Steampunk style all year long.
Happy Creativity!
Rose

NOTE:
These sets was not pre-packaged when we found them. In fact, it took weeks of searching and then processing and cleaning up to make of these sets our finished products.
We would never sell anything which you, our guests, had not given us permission to sell, and we ask that that same courtesy be given to us in return.
Otherwise, a theft would occur, or friends part ways. These sets may not seem all that valuable, but they do belong to our Studio, in that they were processed for months before being offered here for your use.
Free of charge.
Please be mindful of others' copyrights.
Thank you.


Steampunk Travel Sets

Set One

Download PPSDigiScrap™ 12" by 12" PNG Version HERE

Download Regular Set in JPG format HERE

Set 2

Download Digital PNG Format Version HERE

Download Print Version JPG HERE

Set Three

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

Download Print Version JPG HERE

Credits: Images--Public Domain
Altering of same--PPS



Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Also, Wikimedia Commons

Final Three Days For the Gingersnap Creations Steampunk Express! (with correction for download Set 3)

Our post today is all about inventors of the past and those inventions they offered the world. Included are some hopefully new ways for us to play around in this month's theme of Steampunk.  Also, those with digi capabilities may want to look for a few digi stamps in some places on the sheets below. Our inspiration started with  Gingersnap Creations designating all of the month of July as steam powered by design. This got followed by some fun over at The Three Muses, and with us discovering the wonderful land of Dezinaworld.
Needless to say, it's been a busy month, packed with so many creative new ideas coming to us from friends, it's enough to get me going all year long!
This weekend will be our last chance for the month long celebrating we've come to enjoy. So we're pulling out all the stops through the weekend with more Steampunk fun than you can shake a stick at.
Our readers will find at least two more offerings in the next two days. Hope you all will like what you see!
Meanwhile, as plans are going forward for the many holidays upcoming, along with school being in session in most places once more, there'll be more non-steamy additions to this collection here shortly.
For more in our Steampunk collection of imagery, you can go HERE.
Let's make it a Steam Powered weekend!
Happy Creativity!
Rose

NOTE:
The following sets were not pre-packaged when we found them. In fact, it took weeks of searching and then processing and cleaning up to make of these sets our finished products for your use.
Our sources are many and varied. It takes time to do just the right searching for just the right item, while making certain that each item is in the Public Domain, or legally free to be used.
Sometimes, our researches take us into dangerous areas, where we find our laws confusing, to say the very least.
that being said---
we would never sell anything which you, our guests, had not given us permission to sell, and we ask that that same courtesy be given to us in return.
Otherwise, a theft would occur, or friends part ways. This may not seem all that valuable an item, but it does belong to our Studio, in that it was processed for months before being offered for your use.
Free of charge.
Let's keep it free.
(This would not apply to any use of a single item or several scattered items form these particular sets. Please do not re-package anything you find here as your own kind of set.)
Please be mindful of others' copyrights.
Thank you.


Steampunk Inventions Sets

Set 1

Download 12" by 12" PNG Digi Version HERE

Download 12" by 12" Print Version (for those with that capability) HERE

Set 2

Download Digital PNG Version HERE

Download Print Version HERE

Set 3

Download Digital PNG Version HERE

Download Print Version HERE

Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Also, Wikimedia Commons

Steampunk Extravaganza Part 2: "Gents"

Well, as promised, here are those gents and their fun bits of ephemera for you to reassemble at will.
I have a special fondness for our fellow with his arms crossed, looking so stern! He deserves to get himself a new  steam powered 'do, wouldn't you agree? We offer him both ways: rough cut or refined--take your pick! ;)
And dig those racy Steampunk "rollerblades"!!!!! Ahead of their time or what?
And, as was mentioned here previously, we've begun factoring in a few PNG format pics for the Digi crowd, along with our usual Hands-On print versions in JPG format. You can look for us to continue in the same vein whenever time allows.
Digiscrappers, you get one whole set to yourselves. But I think you may find our other PNG offerings to be just as diverting and easy to use.
We'd like to thank our inspiration for this month's theme, the wonderfully talented people of Gingersnap Creations, along with our equally creative friends over at The Three Muses for starting us on our month-long (but near at an end!) journey through the fascinatingly funky world of Steampunk!
Please do remember to give us credit when using any of our offerings. Thank You.
Also, do let us know what you are doing with those items offered--we might post a few words about your work here and link with you in our shared effort. Remember--it's all Free here at PPS!
For more Steampunk items, please check out our Steampunk Category HERE. And thanks for stopping by!
Happy Steampunk creativity, all!
Rose

NOTE:
These sets were not pre-packaged when we found them. In fact, it took weeks of searching (also scanning) and then processing and cleaning up to make these sets our finished products for your use.
We already did the work for you, taking time to painstakingly research copyrights and processes first.
We would never sell anything which you, our guests, had not given us permission to sell, and we ask that that same courtesy be given to us in return.
Otherwise, a theft would occur, or friends part ways. This may not seem all that valuable an item, but it does belong to our Studio, in that it was processed for months before being offered for your use.
Free of charge.
Let's keep these sets free.
Please be mindful of others' copyrights.
Thank you.


Steampunkery Gents Sets

PPSDigiScrapPak™ Set

Download the 12" by 12" Digital PNG HERE

Download 12" by 12" JPG Printable (for those with that print capability) HERE

Set 2

Download Digital PNG Version HERE

Download JPG Printable Version HERE

Set 3

THIS SET PULLED FOR REPAIR

We hope to repost it after the first of the year.

Thank You for your patience. 

Download Digital PNG Version 

Download JPG Print Version 

Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from
the New york Public Library at nypl.org
Also, Wikimedia Commons

It's a Steampunk Digiscrap Extravaganza!

Have you been "Steampunked" like our Mona Lisa? If not, you're in very good company, as you can see by our new sets below.
You know how much I dearly love my Steampunk. And this month's fun theme, provided by Gingersnap Creations, followed by us here along with all our good friends over at The Three Muses, has given us such a grand time of it, it's hard to stop!
This afternoon's post is all about our theme, and it's jam packed with sprockets/cogs, ladies and their "unmentionables" plus footwear (as with Steampunk fun, a girl can never have enough pairs of shoes!). And all our elements are ready to be played with in Steampunk style!
We plan an alternate route for the Gents next time, but today it's Ladies Only! ;)
Digi artists will find plenty to do, while our Hands-On crowd will likewise find a whole host of things worth playing with. For Digi, you can download any of the PNG files offered. For Hands-On product, please make certain to download only a JPG version of each of your choices. 
If you happen to be a new visitor, we highly recommend visiting our entire Steampunk category, found HERE.
Look out! Because from now until month's end, we intend playing with this theme each day. Hopefully, we'll have time for a regular post or two. But for now, we'll call it good while it's all about the steam! (And doesn't the lady with the feather boa look pretty much like a deer caught in the headlights?LOL)
:)
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Steampunk Ladies Sets

Download Sheet One PNG HERE

Download Sheet One JPG HERE

PPSDigiScrapPak™ "Steampunkery Ladies" 12" by 12"

Download PPSDigiScrapPak™ PNG (for Digi artists) HERE

Download 12" by 12" (for those with that printer format capability) Print Version HERE

Set 3

Download Digi Version (no background) PNG HERE

Download Collage Printable Version HERE

Extra Image Pair

(Sorry-No PNG to this one)

Downloadable Print Version HERE

Credits: Original Antique imagery (prior to our fiddling) from

the New York Public Library at nypl.org

Also, Wikimedia Commons

You are free to:

use the above images in artwork for fun or profit.

You are not free to:

repackage them in any way for sale.

Please respect our gift for the public's use, including the time, money and effort that went into making these images available and ready for use.

Thank you.