Vintage Vine papers & overlay (free digital set)

This "collection" is the first set of a whole whack of matching paper freebies
that I've made to share with You. (Been a little obsessed lately!) :-)

These Vintage Vines are the fanciest of the patterns, so I thought they'd be a good place to start (the rest of the papers to come are mostly geometric patterns: hearts, chevrons, quatrefoil, Moroccan tiles, diamonds, dots, stripes and so on...)  


Here's a card I made with the lime paper
and a chubby little bird I doodled:
 


The distressing around the edges is done with white paint:
I just smudged the paint on using my finger to get a dry-brush effect
(without ending up with a brush to clean).


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(measurements etc.)

These coloured papers are:

• High resolution: 350 dpi (dots per inch)
• 12.5 inches square - or 31.8 cm square
• Matching: Other patterns will all be in the same colours,
  in case you want to print them & use them together or mix & match them digitally.

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You can see the wholeset here on Flickr
(except for overlays which are linked below to go straight to PNGs)
...or...
Click individual pattern images (below) to go download JPGs at Flickr.


Clicking the photos will take you to the JPGs (in my flickr gallery)

It will look something like this:




The colour print-test strip is here,
if you want to try the colours out with your printer first:

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(free patterns)


Bright Vintage Vine:

Rainbow with WHITE :

Rainbow :

1- Pomegranate:


2- Strawberry:
 

3- Papaya:
 

4- Tangerine:


5- Mango:


6- Lemon:


7- Lime:


8- Green Apple:
 

9- Blue Raspberry:


10- Blueberry:
 

11- Plum:


12- Grape:


13- Dragon Fruit:


14- Cherry:


15- Pink Grapefruit:


16- Pink Lemonade:

Overlays:

My ultimate favourite part of these paper sets are the overlays
(which are patterns in PNG format so that they have transparency
that will let you change up your patterned papers or add any colour)
You can read more about overlays here, if you're curious.

WHITE overlay PNG

(Note: please be sure to use this as a PNG so it will work)

To save one of these overlay files (directly from my blog):

In Firefox/Chrome: right click on the image & choose "save link as"

In Explorer: right click on the image & choose "save target as"

or You can find the white Vintage Vine overlay here on flickr
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the WHITE & BLACK DISTRESS overlay PNG


(Note: please be sure to use this as a PNG so it will work)

or You can find the white Vintage Vine (with black distress) here on flickr.



This is just an example of
 how the overlay works:

You can go from this...
(before Overlay):

This digital paper is from Jodie Lee's Summer Of Love Papers
From Jessica Sprague. I just desaturated it to make it grey.

To this...
(after Overlay):


It lets you get a lot more life from your digital files
and you can create any colour or texture you can imagine.

I used it to take these solid colours...


...and turn them all of the vine papers in this post


A Little Note: If you want to use the overlays you will need
software with layers (like Photoshop or GIMP which is free here)

...use these overlays:

There's a tutorial here for how to use them in GIMP:



or one here showing how to use overlays two ways
and with Photoshop:

Please read

(guidelines for use)

Please link if you use it: melstampz.blogspot.ca/

Hope you can have some fun with these,

P.S. The label shape (on the paper preview and on the card) is thanks to the lovely Karen/The Graphics Fairy. You can read more & get the link here, if you like.

Thank You so much! (and some colour therapy printables)

Thank you Thank You THANK YOU for
your sweet words & lovely advice.
You are the best readers anyone could ever hope for.

Since I'm not the only one with Winter depression, I thought
I'd share a bit of colour with you all to perk us up. :-D



edited to add:
You can find the finished vine papers in all
these colours in this blog post:


It's not all ready yet, but here's a mish-mash look at
some free printable patterns I'm working on to share with you...

1- Pomegranate:


2- Strawberry:


3- Papaya:


4- Tangerine:


5- Mango:


6- Lemon:


7- Lime:


8- Green Apple:


9- Blue Raspberry:


10- Blueberry:


11- Plum:


12- Grape:


13- Dragon fruit:


14- Cherry:


15- Pink Grapefruit:


16- Pink Lemonade:



With any luck, I hope to have 16 colours of each pattern...
(and matching overlays for you to make your
own custom papers, if you want)
....done and uploaded in a week or two.

They are 350 DPI (and 12.5 inches square)
for printing quality.



If you want to use any of these right now,
you can download the original size on Flickr this way:

1) Click the image you like (to go to Flickr)
2) Right click on the image once you are there.
3) Click the photo to pull up a menu
4) Select "original" from the view all sizes menu
5) Finally, right click and hit save as.

Hope these fruity shades make you smile!

Love,

P.S. I did a print test (of the PNG) out of Photoshop & I was really happy with the way these
custom colours came out. If you want to test it out, a JPG print test sheet is here:

(not sure how JPG will print, but when I upload to acrobat.com, I'll include
PNGs so you have a choice.)

Hiding away with the Blues

I'm so sorry for being gone so long.
Anyone else feeling those Winter blues?

I've been taking a beating from the relentless migraine-beast

lately (and to be honest) quite a bad case of depression
that has had me feeling extremely tongue-tied in life & online,
so I've been hiding away...



(I normally have a dash of melancholy in my constitution
but not as much as recently. Winter has really konked
me over the head this year, I tell ya!)

But...
And I am working on getting ready to poke
my head out into the world again:



(and I've been pinning to try &
stay in the creative mindset)

Just wanted to stop in to say sorry for my absence &
Thank You so much for your patience. I hope you have been very
well lately & that your days are filled with creativity and happiness.

much love,


(and love from Mouse too--who is just wonderful and much healthier than
usual, lately ...knock on wood!)