Friday, August 09, 2019

Free Photo Friday

Once a week I share an old timey photo from my personal collection. Feel free to use them in your mess making, art and crafting.

The images are not polished and left in their grungy, smudged and speckled glory. Just how I like 'em! Without further ado...

Do NOT sell, give, or distribute the images as your own, digitally or printed, alone or as part of a collection, collage sheet or group. BUT DO absolutely make stuff with them and sell the stuff you make. If you share your project, a link is appreciated.

Violators will be turned into toads, given warts, all the bad stuff... I mean it... It won't be pretty.

Friday, August 02, 2019

Free Photo Friday

Once a week I share an old timey photo from my personal collection. Feel free to use them in your mess making, art and crafting.

The images are not polished and left in their grungy, smudged and speckled glory. Just how I like 'em! Without further ado...

Violators will be turned into toads, given warts, all the bad stuff... I mean it... It won't be pretty.

Thursday, August 01, 2019

Words of wisdom freebie

It has been a rough, rough couple of months here. Death, death and death with a few dashes of stress and bullshit, and a handful of deadlines thrown in for good measure. I know a lot of people come to my page to escape all that sort of thing so I've been pretty mum about the misery. To be honest, I don't want to vent here... this is a nice safe place for me too.

Don't worry, I'm not about to start dumping on you.

It's just that all this crazy has put things into perspective. There are life lessons that as an adult I should know, but needed a kick in the pants to remember. I thought I'd make some little journals filled with those lessons, simple words of wisdom. Maybe make one for my kid, maybe abandon some for strangers to find.

I'm not done making my journals, but I thought I'd share my list with you in case you wanted to make your own (or perhaps to remind you to love yourself).

You should be able to download the full res image file above just using 'save image'. Download and feel free to use in your making.

Be good to yourself xo

Monday, July 29, 2019

Potages Cauldron Shop

I'm embracing my inner Potterhead once again. This time I've created a miniature version of "Potages" the cauldron shop located on the North Side, Diagon Alley, in the Harry Potter universe.

I've used a 7 by 7 Corner Room Box as the base for my little shop. I've also added a
Double Window Ornate on both the inside and exterior of the 'building'.

The signage are printouts pasted to thick board with small brad heads added to the corners.

Simple trims, which are just various sized strips of card cut from a cereal box, are a super easy way to create a finished custom look.

Wooden floor was created with coffee stir sticks, stained with washes of acrylic paint. And how perfect is that wallpaper with it's pattern of tiny spiders?! That's "It's Elementary" from Graphic 45s Master Detective Collection. Scrapbook paper makes excellent room box wallpaper.

To fill my shop, all sorts of little cauldrons. I even designed some products for proper cauldron upkeep like wax, cleaner and polish. To be honest, those little packages put me almost a whole day behind... totally worth it :P You can download the collage sheet to create these at the bottom of this post.

Want to create your own Potages? Or maybe a shop from your own imagination?! I have a video walk-through for creating the basics of this room that might help you in making your own masterpiece. You can find it HERE