Free Digital Collage sheet - Commercial and Personal Use

Here's a freebie for you all - enjoy!

My first free digital collage kit :)

I've been writing letters again.  My spate of creating my own writing paper has encouraged me to start writing letters - and sending post-cards.  I signed up for Postcrossing and received my first post-card from Germany yesterday.  A lovely vintage style Peacock:

 

Advertising a store that the sender said is now defunct.

I also arrived home from a particularly shitty day at work last week to a surprise - someone had written to me from Flickr and wanted to swap mail art with me.  I promptly sent off a letter, a few sheets of my writing paper and this envelope to her:


I really enjoyed making the envelope but I think coupled with my writing paper it was a bit 'sensory overload'!  But I definitely think I might start making more envelopes and writing paper.  Perhaps even give-away some sets.

Click on image to read credits.

 Anyway - as always - let me know what you think?  Should I create my own writing paper and envelope sets?  Would someone like to try them out for me if I made a set of 3 sheets and envelopes?  I'll send it to you for free and you can let me know what needs changing or whether 'the girl done good' :)

If you want me to send you a set please email me at: fidgetrainbowtree@gmail.com

Finally - I've made a mini-digital collage kit that you can download for free from here. It's a set of postage marks, stamps and bits and bobs.  Usual TOU apply - enjoy.

End of March Freebie

So here's the freebie for this week - just for blog readers:

and another that's also on my Flickr account:

Enjoy using - but don't forget the terms of use!

More ephemera

Here's some more of my collection of vintage ephemera - enjoy using and if you do - make a comment or let me see how you've used it if you want?  That would be lovely!

Thursday Freebies

I have a ridiculous collection of ephemera - some of which is still hidden away in boxes from when I crumpled my life last year.  Slowly the bits and pieces are emerging. 

About 2 years ago I bought a job lot of ephemera when a local junk/ antique/ flea market was closing down.  The box contained many photos and memories from the same family and it's interesting to see the young boys grow up through the photographs.  Sad to as it seems that this box of memories was just left to a house clearance company.  Sometimes I'm not sure what to do with these photographs - afterall - these people are nothing to do with me.  But should I use the actual photographs in art?  Or just copies?  I've decided that copies (there are a few enlargements and copies) are ok to use in art.  I've still not decided what to do with the others - for now I'm going through them and copying them bit by bit.  Any Carte de Visites and backed photographs will be kept as is though.
Anyway - here's a random bunch of ephemera that I have for you to play with: