I am so dang excited!!  I am offering a brand new class.  It’s called Stencil and Ink for Art Journaling.  This is my newest obsession and I just want to share it with everyone!  You aren’t going to believe how verstaile and fun spray inks are!!  The class begins Sept 1st, so if you’d like a chance to win, please share a link to the class information page.  Then come back here and leave a comment telling me where you share the link and you’ll be entered in a drawing!!  Here is the link you need to share:  http://creativeclown.com/classes/stencils

I really think this class is going to be a lot of fun.  If nothing else, my passion should rub off on you at least a little bit.  I love this technique as much as I love gesso!  Those of you who know me very well know that’s saying a LOT!!  Read all about the class  here and then share the link so you’ll have a chance to take the class for free!!  But if you don’t win – please join me in this fun class!

These are images from old books.  I like using this type of image on my journal pages. They make good background images.  Or you can use them as transparent images by printing them onto tshirt transfer paper.  Click on each small image to go to the larger size and download.

Here are some images you are free do download.  It is my belief that all these images are free of copyright.  If I am mistaken please let me know and I will remove them.

To download the large size, click the image and you’ll be taken to the larger image.

I made these tonight for our Christmas presents and thought I’d share them with you.

If you want to download the large size click here. When the large size opens, RIGHT click it and choose “save image as”.

I printed mine on cream colored card stock to make them look vintage.

For years I have searched and found copyright free images on the internet.  Now there are so many blogs that offer free downloads, that the search is made much easier.  I’ve found some blogs that offer wonderful, high quality images and want to share them with you.

Grenouilee lots of games and book illustrations.  Mostly French

Living Locurto Cards, labels, templates, mostly new (not vintage)

Bibliodessey hi res scans from books.  Not all are copyright free, so check before using.

Just Something I Made Graphic designer that shares her finds, as well as many of her own designs.  She offers blog graphics, labels, all sorts of wonderful things.

Meggie Cat Images, templates, all sorts of things

Vintage Printables great selection of vintage images, cards, etc

The Vintage Moth Vintage images as well as newer designs for web and print

Graphics Fairy Tons of vintage images.  Some days she posts more than one download.

In the spirit of giving, I’ve scanned some of my own ephemera to share with you.  Click the images below to open up the larger, high resolution image to download.

When I was growing up, once a week at school, we had the opportunity to buy war bonds.
We would take a dime to school and buy and stamp and put it in our little books.
I’m sorry to say that I don’t really know what the purpose in these was.
I just thought it was cool to get stamps and put them in the book.
This particular book was my first husband’s when he was a kid.

This is a book I bought at an estate sale.  I can just imagine young women
in school to learn to be stenos or secretaries, so proud of their
typing book.   Can’t you just see their prettily manicured fingers
type- type- typing away to get faster and faster?

I have several classes starting up this month, and I’m going to give a class to one lucky winner!  All you have to do to be entered in the drawing is leave a comment on this blog post before midnight on July 14th.   I will randomly draw a name from all the commenters.  To leave a comment just click the comment link just below this post’s title.

Good luck!

EDIT:  I forgot to say that in the comment, tell me which of my classes you want to take.  Select from all classes on this page.

I have offered this before, but I have some new readers that my not have heard it, and if you’ve heard it before, maybe it will spark some ideas for your art journaling. It’s from a telecalss I did about 3 years ago called Creative Journaling Jems. It’s an hour long. Hope you enjoy it!

Today’s free download is a couple of digital collage sheets.  These are just like regular collage sheets – ‘cept better!

They are high resolution so you can print them out as is and they will be high quality.  Or you can open them in your image editing software and change the sizes or colors.  If you do print them, you can print on fabric, transparencies, white paper, colored paper or whatever you like.

The images below are links to the full size image.  Click on the images below and then right click on the full size image to save it to your computer.

These fonts were made by a man named Klein.  He offers his fonts for free for personal as well as commercial use.  He asks if you use them to make money that you make a donation to a charity.  In the image above I have typed the lower case alphabet of each font.

They are ttf fonts.  They work on windows, but I don’t know if they work on Macs or not.

Download the files by right clicking the links below and save the files (for Windows users) in C:\Windows\Fonts

Angelinos.ttf
Tribal M-K.ttf
TypoBackgrounds.ttf

This week’s free download is a 24 page book of quotations about creativity.  It is filled with inspiring quotes as beautiful art.  To download your free book, RIGHT click the link below and save to your computer.

Creativity Quotation Book