Rainy Day Spring Set

"April showers bring May flowers" is a very old rhyme which is the theme of this brand new Set.

The Set below is complete with matching Accessories such as Photo Corners and Button Alphabets in 2 colors. My next post will offer two further free downloads. These could be used in gifts or cards for Mother's Day as well as for year round creative fun.

For Personal Use Only: 
This is not a set to use in anything you make that is to be for sale. 
The reasons are as follows: 
Parts of this set must not be sold for certain legal reasons. Unless you have purchased a license from the digital brush designer, Mel Rodicq Creative, the Fancy Edges patterning used by me for this set may never be sold under any circumstances. (For more information, please follow the link, HERE) Those parts include the Trim (located at the top of the Download) and the Backgrounds (for those, please follow this link HERE) 
Everything else you see here is 100% mine, none of which I am offering to be used in items that are for sale. This is a Special Set. The digital brush designer whose free brushes I've used for this project has copyrights, too. Please respect all copyrights listed and follow the red letter Guidelines listed in this post. Thank you.

The illustration that inspired this new Set is from Victorian times when crinolines, petticoats and decorated bonnets were in fashion. The three girls are sheltering from a retreating rain storm under one very large umbrella. They seem happy in each others' company, don't they? I've chosen the three colors that were featured most often within the illustration in the other Downloads. Note how there are two colors of trim, along with their matching buckles, plus two 1 inch buttons and two 1/2 inch buttons in the first Download. The same buttons I've used in my new 1 inch Button Alphabets (same colors). 

For the Alphabets, you will need only a 1" diameter circular paper punch or cutter. For the rest, a 1/2" diameter one should be sufficient. As for the Bonnet Badge, it is 2 inches in width. Perhaps a circle cutter would work better for that item if hand snipping using your scissors wouldn't be your choice.

The entire Set is a PPS Exclusive, and that includes my new Bonnet Badge that can be made into a sticker or decal or else collaged as is onto your surface of choice. Everything has my copyrights, so you mustn't sell anything you see here, even if it is altered by you or someone else. This protects my copyrights and at the same time allows you to have my stock to use for free.

Posted below in order of appearance, is the first Download, followed by the Accessories. 

The matching Background Downloads, one in Pink and one in Blue, will be offered in the next post. You may follow the link HERE for both (Please see the red letter Guidelines and Credits there as the same rules apply to both the Backgrounds and this set. thank you).
:)

Happy Rainy Day Creativity!

PPS™Book Arts Set: Rainy Day

Download the Set HERE

Display version

(lower quality than the download)

Digital Brush Credits:

Fancy Edges and Flower pattern 

(used in ribbon trim shown at top in the picture above, along with the Backgrounds)

www.melsbrushes.co.uk

For Rules of Use and License Information, please go to:

http://melsbrushes.co.uk/terms-of-use

Display No. 2 in Blue

Download the Labels HERE

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(lower quality than the download)

Download Button Alphabet 1 HERE

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(lower quality than the download)

Download Button Alphabet 2 HERE

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(lower quality than the download)

Download Photo Corner Set HERE

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(lower quality than the download)

You are free to:

use any of the above items

shown here in artwork and/or crafting

that is to be either kept by you or given away freely.

Please credit me with a link to this particular post. 

Thank you.

You are not free to:

ever sell my designs in this set 

for any reason whatsoever,

even if they have been altered by you first.

Thank you

for helping me to

keep free things free!

Pretty Spring Tags

Matching Tags for my new Spring Garden Collection

Please see the red letter Guidelines at the foot of this post. Thank you.

The butterfly tag at center is not  a matching part of any sets to this time, but I liked its old freckled face and charming handwriting. Someone once took the time to pen those words for someone special. The phrase reads: "A token of love from me to thee." This would be fun in a birthday card design, perhaps, or all on its own.

All 3 tags are meant to be played with using whatever will strike a downloader's fancy. I'd like to suggest using white card stock when printing this new tag set, but regular printer paper might do very nicely, too.

My 2 last posts here have mix and match styles and color ways that could go with the tag set. The first of those 2 has a lovely green background download, while today's more recent one has a lilac colored one.

As an added little bonus, I've also included 3 cute little colorful wheelbarrows for you to play with.

Happy Creativity!

PPS™Spring Garden Collection Tag Set No. 1

Download HERE

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(lower quality than the download)

You are free to:

use the items in this set

in works of art or craft

that may be given, traded or sold.

Please attribute to me here, with links.

You are not free to:

sell any of the items included in this post

as they may be seen here

for any reason.

Thank you

for helping me to

keep free things free.

Free Paper Doll Party Card or Invitation

Why not have a Paper Doll Party?

UPDATE: This is the NEWER, much improved version. It has cleaner lines, a lot more lace, and the top looks more refined to me. Have fun decorating this fan your own way!

It occurred to me the other afternoon, while on a break, that there already has been for some while a stock of several fans available for free here at the Studio's blog.

{Please read and follow all Credits (in black) and Use Guidelines (in red) below. Thank you.}

The Idea
Then an even happier thought struck my brain: Why not make a Fan Invitation or Card for Victoria's fans (so to speak)? I have been finishing slight upgrades for several days, including making the doll look a little bit better. This was then followed by a set of 5 different hair color choices, so guests could begin choosing.

More outfits have been added recently, including a new favorite of mine, the Geography Lesson outfit. Believe me, this was a labor of love. I really do enjoy history, including what people wore once upon a time.

The Details
The flowered border at the top is from an old illustration of  forget-me-not flowers. The tiny mother-of-pearl buttons which border the soft central oval frame are from my own collection. I believe that they are either blouse or sleeve buttons. They may have been used on a child's outfit once. (It's actually one button which I duplicated once for a different project, but never mind all of that now! LOL)

All brushes used to embellish this fan are from brusheezy.com (as I recall), and are designed by obsidiandawn.com.


So without further ado, here is that Paper Doll Party Fan Card/Invitation. I suppose it also might be fun to use as an ornamental object of some sort.

More Paper Doll Party Supplies have already been dreamed up by yours truly! I suppose that I am paper doll crazy this month!
:)

PPSPlaytime™: Paper Doll Fan Card Invitation

Download HERE

Display version

(lower quality than the download)

Credits:

nypl.org

Wikimedia Commons

obsidiandawn.com

You are free to:

Have a Party or simply to play with

this set of images.

Due to copyrights, however,

You are not free to:

ever sell these images, either separately

or in a set.

The copyrights do not belong to me.

Only the rights to the design work belong 

to the Studio's blog.

Thank you for helping me to

keep free things free for the public!

Steampunk Style Fan Invitation/Ornament

Today's post is all about gears and bolts and Victorian style mixed together with a fan's design.
I've taken the previously shown holiday fan and changed out its shape, narrowing it so that more sections may be joined together, creating a variety of possibilities for you.
I've also left the message frames blank, so that you can add your own hand lettering or rubber stamped letters, expressing your own choice of sentiment, such as "Happy Birthday" or "It's a Tea Party!" or, as illustrated below, "Steampunk Tea Party," even.
This has been made to accompany a brand new set of travels for our Steam Tea Travels sister blog. This time, we are heading for Cairo, Egypt where adventures abound!
Each sheet contains 18 fan sections, more than enough to create a variety of expressions.
I suppose you could also take your original down to your local copy center or extension and enlarge this one. And, as it was produced at 300dpi, it should look okay, provided you don't go overboard with the enlarging.  
There is a lot of fussy cutting involved in this project, I know, but it will have a lot of character at the end for all the work involved.
But. If you would rather keep it stylish and simpler, you could always simply cut the base gear bits away as you go, making a refined circle.
I'd like to recommend using card stock for this project, along with a fetching grommet for the holes, or a bit of thin metallic braid. A bit of metallic super fine glitter might also go over well with your guests.
The 4:00 teatime could also be covered over with a different clock face with hands set for a different time (before you head for your copy center might be best here), but I'm awfully fond of my regular teatime, and thought it would be fun to include the teatime clock in this design.
No matter where we may roam during our Steam Tea Travels, for example, there is always time for a cup of tea at around 4:00 in the afternoon (or, 16:00 for our friends in the EU).  :)
I do hope you'll enjoy the entire Steampunk Theme Party product line, which you may find more items for in the PPSPartyGear™ category.
Also, for my complete Steampunk-themed Category, you can go HERE.
Happy Steam-themed Creativity!
Rose

NOTE:

This product is never to be repackaged for sale. You may use it, for free, but you may never sell it--not even if you repackage it or alter it somehow. We have exclusive copyrights to the final design. However, the design includes certain elements and Digital Brushes (not owned by us) that we have pledged never to sell in any form, no matter how updated, re-made or altered our design team may make them.

It's simply the LAW (that is a link).

In other words, some parts of my work, my Steampunk party accessories included, are not completely mine.

While parts of them come from copyright free sources, some come with Licenses to copy and use, but never to sell for any reason, in any way, shape or form.

I am free to use them, but would not abuse that privilege.
Plush Possum Studio will uphold the copyrights of others 
wherever possible

Thank you for joining me in doing so.

Steampunk Style Fan Party Invitation/Ornament

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

Download For Print Version HERE

EXAMPLE

Antique Happy Birthday Bicycle Postcard

Today's offering is a front side-only image of a young boy riding a colorfully decorated bicycle. It's a Happy Birthday greeting card with a lot of charm, one we've held back on posting for a while. The truth is, we would normally have posted both sides of this card, except the reverse is pretty blah, with no redeeming value as far as looks go. It's even a bit too damaged to clean up for you.
But its front is certainly a different story!
We truly love every bright feature of this little boy's cheering message, right down to his polka dotted uniform.
He looks like he could be riding in a his home town May Day parade, doesn't he? Too charming to be missed out on!
One more feature of note: We are offering this card at a slightly higher resolution than our usual 300dpi. This one was actually scanned in at a resolution of 400dpi, a factor we hope to enlarge on in our future scannings for you. 
We ask that you will please credit us wherever applicable with having supplied our time and effort, along with any of the Studio's private ephemera collection, by mentioning us in your posts and/or in the written materials lists for any art made using our stock. And Thank You!
Happy Creativity!
Rose

Happy Birthday Postcard Front 

Download 400dpi Version HERE

You are free to:
use this image however you choose!
Attribution would be nice, although not necessary.
:)
Please do not repackage it for sale anywhere, as our work is what made it look nice again.
Thank you.

Celebrating Jane Austen All Weekend!

For those of you used to PPS's posting an item or two each time, this will be a departure from the usual.

Please observe the red letter Guidelines located at the foot of this post. Thank you.

Today, American time, is Jane Austen's Birthday, and we'd like to do her world honor by adding a full range of fun images for kids and adults alike to "fussy cut" and play with much like we use paper dolls, but without dressing.
That's right! We have a cast of characters in various outfits, along with a selection of backgrounds (both public and not so public) to add to the fun.
Also expect to see a lovely Regency style lady of some distinction toasting her toes next to a hearth.
I can see dioramas, tableaus, and various fun ways with collage out of this set!
It's taken us a long while to process it, which is why we've not been online as much here of late. We do hope the wait has been worth it for our friends here and abroad.
Not everything has the same format, although we offer several items in our popular Digi PNG format as well as in print style.
So, here they are, our cast of characters, along with a few fun ways of displaying them!
Happy Birthday to Jane Austen!
And Happy Creativity to all our blogosphere friends
Rose

A Refined Regency Lady

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Our Main Cast of Players

The Ladies

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

For Print Version HERE

Our Regency "Bucks"

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

Download For Print Version HERE

A Few More Figures for Fun

Download 300dpi Version HERE

A Few More Ladies, etc.

Download Digi PNG Version HERE

Download For Print Version HERE

(Altho' this Christmas tune had not yet been written, the instrument it's played on is very much period)
(Enjoy!)

My Lady's Boudoir

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Regency Buck's Regal Bedchamber

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Regency Family Life

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Regency Era Home Office

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Regency Era Shopping

Download 300dpi Version HERE

Credits: Original 1890's image (prior to our fiddling) from

the New York Public Library at nypl.org

also from Wiki Commons

These we had to take especial care with. Numerous hours were put into our Jane Austen event.

You can imagine, then, why we would like you to credit us for that process in your art, whether for sale or for art-play.

You are not free to repackage our work for sale as such, either singly or in sets, unless you have completely remade them into something else, as in a real art collage with other elements used.

Thank you for cooperating in this matter.

Steampunk Party Invitations

This evening's post is all about your Steampunk party and how to start it. We have your ideal invitation set below, including a special insertion designed to please prospective guests.
Meanwhile, I've been hard at work creating a new set of simpler party masks for you in this same design mode which anyone might enjoy wearing but which say "Steampunk" through and through, so you can hopefully look for those to appear here within the next few days.
Our Insert printable below is a simple bi-foldable once cut away from its margin. It's pretty self-explanatory, so I won't go into it here, but if there are any questions, just leave me a comment, and I'll email you in response. Once folded, you have only to swipe a glue stick in a few places and/or to pierce and sew (like you would a simple booklet) for the desired effect. I myself like the finished look hand stitching brings, but we don't always have the time for such tedious processes, now do we? ;)
The whole affair was designed to fit with your standard A2 sized envelope, which you may find online or at your local copy center.
I recommend pre-printing for best results, as a test of your printer's response to this design.
Also, it's naturally best to print your cover onto white card stock, and your Insert on standard white print or copy paper. Just a hint.
For the rest of our party wear in this theme, you can explore our Steampunk category HERE.
We hope to have you stop by again shortly for more party fun here at PPS, as we intend growing our collection all through this party season.
Happy Creativity!
Rose

NOTE:
This invitation was not pre-packaged when we found it. In fact, it took weeks of searching and then processing and cleaning up to make it into a finished product for your personal or private use.

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.

Steampunk Invitation + Insert

Download 300ppi Version HERE

Insert

Download 300ppi Version HERE

Digital Brush Credits: Obsidian Dawn, nadine pau.
Font  Credit: Dieter Steffmann.


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

Antique Birthday Greetings: For the Musically Inclined

Good Morning, all! It is heading for 8:00 Studio time, and it's a bright day out. The sun was hidden behind a few clouds on and off over the past 24 hours, now showing its bold self on a new school day. I had a chance to watch a whole parade of young people head up the hill with their new attire and books yesterday morning. Guess our new fall season is well on its way in now! And it's a great time of year to have a birthday as well.
Tucked away in the archives here at the Studio is a miniature treasure trove of fun ways to send our best to those we love at birthday time.
Today's is dedicated to my oldest and closest friend of many years, whose birthday was celebrated earlier this month, and who just happens to be musically gifted. Happiest of Birthdays, my friend! May you have many, many more to come! :)
And Happy Creativity!
Rose

Birthday Greetings Post Card

Updated Look

Downloadable 600dpi Version HERE

Old Look

Downloadable 600dpi Version HERE

Scanned imagery Courtesy PPS Archives

You are free to:

use the above images in artwork for fun or profit.

You are not free to:

repackage our images for sale in any way.