Faith Graphic: Psalms 28:7

A second offering for today.

The artwork upon which this graphic has been built is already in the Public Domain. That being said, I'd prefer if if it would only be given or shared and never sold. This applies to any of my Faith graphics here at this blog. Thank you.

PPSFaithGraphic™: Psalms 28:7

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the above shown graphic.

Please do not sell any of my Faith Graphics.

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Antique Cornfield Graphic

Antique graphics are a lot of fun, aren't they?

This pretty farm graphic from (I am guessing) either the late Victorian or perhaps Edwardian era really caught my eye! I began with the enlarging process, as it wasn't too small a file. Next, I began to revive the colors till they could reveal some of their prior beauty. Other than that, I have left all of its luscious wrinkles and tattered edges.  Every sign of age can be beautiful. Sometimes it can be a little too easy to want to make something like this look too new.

This will be my second Public Domain post of the day.

Happy Creativity!

PPSHarvest™ Graphic:

Cornfield and Swallows

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Feather Your Nest with This New Spring Set

Mix and match as you play with my newest original set!

This all began as a new way to play with the alphabet. If enough people seem interested, I might end up by making a separate set of Egg numerals and punctuation marks. Please let me know what you think by leaving me a comment about it.
:)

Please note that there are 2 copyrights this time for you to consider. I will leave red letter Guidelines as a signpost for my guests here at the Studio beneath the images in this post, as per my usual habit. I ask that they please be read and observed for the sake of fairness. It would be illegal to do otherwise. Thank you.

This project all began last winter with a desire to refresh our spirits with a few spring-like things to play with during the final weeks of the winter. Some of the things shown below had to be thought about or reworked over the past two or so months. I hope my time and thought have been worth it.

My Egg Alphabet began with a few wild bird egg images, then gradually became the more cohesive, matching set shown below. It was a labor of love with learning every single step of the way. I had to change the entire thing 3 different ways before it would satisfy me LOL. But that's the way of these things, and it is more fun for me to continue learning with each new project, anyhow.

Once the Egg Alphabet was finally complete, I chose two colors to add along with a number of fun, playful accessories. The theme of birds and eggs and spring is so delightful that I may find myself inclined to play with it a second time very soon.
:)

The distressed polka dot pattern is my own, while the lacy pattern belongs to www.obsidiandawn.com. Please see the rules for use of their designs by visiting their website.

There are sure to be more fun things offered to work well enough with this new, big Bird Set in the near future. You see, I keep having new ideas! Hopefully by the weekend, there will be more.

You will note how the very fist thing to be shown below is my Egg Alphabet. Children might have fun playing with those on a card for someone special. My thoughts turn to a few themes for you to choose from, namely springtime and any special days connected with it, birthdays, or even a Mother's Day card might be nice.

I hope that you will find something here which can be used in a little gift giving or greeting card design. The pockets are perhaps a bit big for most cards, but they could work very nicely in other types of creative play, including most Book Arts projects.

Thanks for stopping over with your~
Happy Creativity!

PPS™ Spring Bird Collection

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Download Green Accessory Set HERE

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Download Blue Accessory Set HERE

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Download Green Lacy Background HERE

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Download Blue Lacy Background HERE

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Download Green Dotted Background HERE

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Download Blue Dotted Background HERE

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You are free to:

use items from this collection of sets

for personal or professional use

provided that you will

credit both www.obsidiandawn.com

and

www.plushpossumstudio.com

whenever sales are involved.

You are not free to:

ever repackage anything 

you see here for sale in separate sets,

even if you alter it.

Please give credit where credit is due.

Thank you.

Thanksgiving Ephemera Set for Digi & Print

While my hand's still a bit stiff, sore, and in need of a bit more rest, we do have a few images for you already on hand which we hope you'll enjoy, starting with today's. 
This one's all about the upcoming American tradition of Thanksgiving. Included in it, you will find two pretty autumn leaf embellishments, a hand painted watercolor turkey in a bower of red maple (?) leaves (he's a digi, btw), and 3 pretty post cards on our theme.
We hope you'll find lots of uses for this fun set, including backgrounds and anything else you can think of.
Happy Creativity!
Rose

PPSDigiScrap™ Set: Thanksgiving

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Download For Print Version HERE

Credits: Original antique images (prior to work by me) from

the New York Public Library at nypl.org

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craft with these images

although

never for sale.

These belong to the New York Public Library 

in a share-alike way

 that allows study and gift giving,

but 

no sales.

Thank you for helping me 

keep free things free!

Plush Page Frames: From "Punchkin" (see last post)

Good evening, everybody! It's time for the promised new Plush Page Frames to join their category.
And what a jewel toned gallery they make! The reigning fave here? That would have to be Turquoise, with Tiger Eye a close second.
Hope you'll enjoy them as much as this blog hostess!
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Plush Page Frames from Punchkin Illustration

Ruby

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Tiger Eye

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Peridot

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Emerald

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Turquoise

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Sapphire

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Amethyst

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Garnet

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Black & White

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Primary Imagery used (prior to much fiddling by us)

Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

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use the above images in artwork for fun or profit.

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repackage any of them in any way for sale.

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Happy Birthday Dear Amy!!!!!

I do hope my friend's birthday has been better for her than it was for me -- and that it's been a truly wonderful day for her. 
Almost wasn't able to post this while it's still her birthday! Problems scanning, thunder showers cutting down on computer's use, and that Google Docs problem of today's earlier post to finish resolving at last.
Whew!
But here it is, and it's a dilly! Scanned this one at 720dpi for the Download, in honor of Amy's day. This is so that it could be blown up to much larger than original dimensions and then mounted if one so desires. :)
The wordless version has been made into a page frame, also below, plus a bonus Digi version that has no background.
For right now, tho', it's time to say Happy Happy Birthday to one lovely, lovely lady who is not only fun to know, but who has a graceful way of sharing her lovely self with others.
Tho' it's almost time to call it a day,


Happy Birthday, Amy!!
This one's for you!
So sorry it took so long to accomplish. I almost did not meet my objective!
xo
Rose


7/20/11 P.S.:
I'm adding the frame from this image in two ways today. Both are in the 720 dpi size used for this special surprise, but one has a special purpose. It is in a png format for those whose creative arsenals include the ability to manipulate imagery via digital means. This is a first here. I do hope the visitor may make use of all of the versions supplied in this post.
It may become a tradition here--who knows?
Also, please excuse the gaps which Blogger chooses to add between items. I have yet to figure out when this happens or how. Go figure!
;)
Rose

Amy Jo's Antique Birthday Card

720dpi (special size) Downloadable Version HERE

720dpi Page Frame

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Special 720 dpi png for our Digi Artist Friends

(This means there is transparency surrounding and inside of the emptied area where words were)

Download through HERE



Special Scanning Courtesy PPS Archives
(aka my personal collection)

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use the above images for fun or profit in your own personal artwork.
You are not free to:
repackage them in their present form in any way for sale.
Thank you for helping me
to keep free things free!

Circus Boy Printable: A Farm Boy's Dream

This is such a fun little bit of ephemera. Look at the boy's eyes, how they are full of mischief, good tricks, and silliness--even pride, a little bit.
We love it so much, we decided it must be done both ways for you, with brighter colors for those with an eye to the modern design value inherent in such a piece, and with the original coloring for those who prefer that "well loved" look. :)
Its size is set to fit a standard 81/2" by 11" sheet of printer paper, with some leeway.
So here it is, and we hope our visitors will find plenty of uses for it.
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Circus Loving Farmboy Printable Miniposter

Brighter Version

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Original Look

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Scanned Imagery courtesy PPS Archives

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We would like attribution, yet know we can't insist upon it.

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Plush Page Frames c. 1908: In Time for Father's Day

These more masculine offerings had been left waiting before, just for the right moment. With Father's Day (here in the U.S.) only a short while away, we thought we'd bring on the testosterone just for those readers ready to create their dad's gift or gift wrap projects.
Here we have one fine example of why this work is so appealing. Where can we find this sort of imagery other than among those older pages of long ago?
Things today seem too slick and fancy at times. These frames manage to look both formal and casual at the same time, a rarity by today's standards.
This time, instead of going for those jewel bright tones you all seem to favor, we thought we'd tone down the colorway a tad bit until it would fit a father's choices for colors in apparel or for his favorite hangout.
We hope to be able to supply our readers with a few more items that are Father's Day related later on in the weeks to come. Suffice it to say, we all love to honor those that gave their better intentions towards our lives as young people.
So here's to the dads of America.
Happy Creativity!
Rose & Studio

Outdoorsy Page Frames

Wild Berry

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Concord

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Dark Denim

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Mallard

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Forest Glade

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Coffee

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And Original Black & White

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Scanned Imagery courtesy PPS Archives

Free for Public Domain Use

Wild Bird Eggs of North America

This is out of an old book, circa 1908. I love the patina, so am including it here along with its cleaned up version. I colorized it only slightly, as the white seemed too stark or modern, and any other color looked less attractive than the pale yellow chosen.  We could see this framed on a wall, or in someone's daily journal. The truth is, the sky's the limit on such an image. It really cries out to be re-utilized from project to project. We love it for its truthful rendering of what a wild bird's egg really does look like. But then, naturalist art can really say so much more besides "egg" and "bird," don't you agree?
We hope you'll find many uses for our offerings here, and would enjoy it very much if some of you wished to share your work including any of the images we post here.
Happy Creativity from all of us here the Studio!
Rose

Wild Bird Eggs

Original Patina

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Refined 

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Scanned Imagery courtesy PPS Archives

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Easter Postcard #4: Fuzzy Ducklings At Play

I happen to really like this one. I guess I'd have to say it is my favorite out of any so far in its theme group. The charm of it is obvious, but what matters to me is all that attention to detail. Each little duck seems to have its own personality. What better way to say that spring's arrived than a bundle of these happy little guys?
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Easter Ducklings Postcard Front

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Postcard Reverse

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Scanned Imagery courtesy PPS Archives

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use the above images in artwork for fun or profit.

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repackage them in any way for sale.

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Easter Postcard #2: Taking his downy friends out walking

Dear Visitors to Plush Possum Studio:
Thank you for stopping by here. 
I so appreciate the many visits that have been made by all of you over the years since I first began this Free Graphics blog. Most visits here have not involved your commenting, and I do not mind that at all. Guests here might like to know that as of April of 2016, there have been well over 1,000 comments left here by guests for over 500 posts, not counting my own responses. A number of these still really do make me smile. 
The top 2 posts of all time have so far had well over 34,000 Pageviews between the 2 combined--and that excludes my own visits here. And even when I was away from blogging for several years, and could provide no new content, guests still visited here fairly often.
By your coming here, you have shown me that you have trusted that I could provide you with something useful to you toward the creation of something that I might never get any chances to see, but which I know must have occurred. And this, too, makes me smile. That is my entire purpose in keeping this blog, so naturally I am smiling. (Imagine providing a coloring page for children to use on rainy days, and knowing some moms have been able to use them!)
:)
This blog was created so that some free things can be kept free to the public, and ready to use, as well as for as long as possible. I wanted to give images as it is best to receive them: a cleaned up and ready-to-use collection of usable, free images made for those without much time for bother. What I find is that many free images online tend to be of very poor quality. Of course, not all of the ones here are very good, either. That is because this is also a blog about learning how to become acquainted with the uses of Photoshop products. The quality here did grow over time, but not without a few hiccups or mistakes along the way.

About this post:
This particular post has been a fairly popular one for years. I loved this postcard once. When I first saw it in the Antique shop, I thought of it as charming or cute. Today, although I like pretty pictures and find old correspondence art fascinating (anything sent in the mail a long time ago is of interest among history nerds LOL), the real history of the celebration of certain spring or seasonal holidays has begun to trouble me.
This is because some further study has taught me that not every Easter tradition fits with how I practice my beliefs. The same would apply to Christmas, that I do not see as having been Jesus' birthday after all, even though I once saw it that way.
Now, some traditions are different, and I mean no one any disrespect through saying so. I like my readers to be at ease with me, after all. Growing up, it seemed perfectly natural to celebrate both Easter and Christmas. In my family, we kept both holidays for many years with much eager enthusiasm.
Today, however, I find that I must ask myself, "What is it that I am actually celebrating here?"
Lately, as I keep learning new things about certain old practices, I have found out much that really does trouble me. 
It isn't always easy to see how certain cultural ideals have crossed paths and been combined in ways that won't really fit with what I do believe. For some people, there would be no real problem, as they are at ease at all times with all traditional belief systems, and find combining fun. I am uneasy with the idea of Easter now based upon some of the things that I've learned.
Today, both Easter and Christmas do make me rather uneasy. 
Again, I mean nobody any disrespect. I am simply reassessing my own life, including certain beliefs. So this pair of images may well soon be removed for that very reason. I thought that it would be more fair to give fair warning than to just suddenly remove some things without any reasonable explanation for doing so.
Today, and for me personally,  the enjoyment of spring is not an Easter-y thing at all. Spring offers all sorts of fun things such as young animals and birds nesting. To enjoy such a refreshing start to another season seems only natural, but I will not call it Easter myself at all. I now observe Christ's Passover, and I take it seriously. What others choose will, of course, be a matter of decision for them.
In other words, I won't have any qualms offering my wild bird eggs or my Spring Garden Sets, as per usual, whereas my ideas have changed about both Easter and Christmas, in general. Enjoying the changes in weather or season is a part of the enjoyment of life, isn't it?
Please forgive me for being so blunt. I like openminded company, and prefer to be at ease being myself, and so I would never judge or put down anyone else for doing the same. 
And yet. Easter, for me, is not really faithful to the way I practice my faith today.
Please forgive me while I pause to reassess.

Thank you for your understanding.

With Easter on its way, we thought we'd post a few more of those images we collected here recently while out and about. This 1907 stamped and postmarked postcard is a favorite of ours due to its playful subject matter, along with its colorful look. You'll notice it has a very funny handwritten message on the postage side. Here's hoping you'll find lots of ways of using it for your Easter fun!
Happy Creating!
Rose McGuinn

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Easter Boy "Babysitter" Postcard

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Postage Side

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Scanned Imagery courtesy PPS Archives

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