Need some spooky critters that just happen to be French and vintage (and FREE) for your journals and other work? Last year I was lucky enough to acquire a stash of animal and bird prints from 1820. They are from an early encyclopaedia called Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle and I had long fantasised about owning some but they were rarely in my budget, until I was an antique show in France and found a guy with a wrong-side-of-the-tracks kind of table (my favourite kind). He had hundreds of loose prints from the book and he generously let me cherry pick the ones I couldn’t live without and made me an offer I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) refuse for a job lot. That was a special day.

While I do not make seasonal work I bet a lot of you do so just in time for Halloween, I’ve put high-res printable scans of some of the prints I thought would make terrific additions to journals, collage, cards, and other mixed media projects that you might be coming up with for the season. Or maybe, like me, you can think of other ways to use them for mysterious pages all year long. [read more]

These high-res scans are from a distressed 19th century photo album. To print and use these images in your journal and mixed media projects, click on any image for a larger resolution. Then right click and copy and you are all set to copy into a photo editing programme such as PhotoShop or Paint. I sometimes use Word even those it isn’t a visual format because, well, I know how and it’s easy. So go get [read more]

To print this page just right click and copy then paste into your favourite photo editing programme such as Paint or Photoshop. (I use Word which is not for photos but it works for me so feel free to try that, too!)

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This page of vintage butterflies is from Natural History Illustrated, an encyclopedia of birds and insects from 1874. Feel free to use this image in your own work. Just click on image to enlarge then right click, copy, and paste into an editing programme such as Paint or Photoshop. (I use Word although it isn’t really for photos but it works for me.)  Happy making![read more]

Feel free to use these images in your own work. Just click on any image to enlarge then right click and that image, copy, and paste into an editing programme such as Paint or Photoshop. (I use Word although it isn’t really for photos but it works for me.)  Happy [read more]

Here you go! These birds are from the early 1800s and were from a French ornithology encyclopedia. Just click on image for larger version then right click, copy, and save into your favourite editing programme. Enjoy. [read more]

Here you go! Just click on the image for larger version then right click on image, copy and save into your favourite editing programme. Enjoy.

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Here you go! Just right click on any image for a larger view then right click and copy. Then save into your favourite editing programme and print. [read more]