Grunge Papers 4×6 Digital Collage Sheets

Grunge Papers 4×6 Inch Digital Collage Sheets

Shabby grunge digital scrapbook textures in the size 4×6 and various neutral colors for free download. The images include a newsprint paper, burlap, gold book cover, old grungy leather, kraft paper and an old book page. Images can be printed directly onto 4×6 photo paper to make it easy to use in scrapbook layouts or for the backgrounds of cards or your craft projects. These can also be used as background images to fill full boxes and make planner stickers for Erin Condren spreads if you want to make your own layouts.

Grunge decor is a style of interior design that incorporates elements of grunge music and fashion, typically characterized by a rebellious, underground aesthetic. This style often features a mix of vintage and modern elements, with a focus on comfort and functionality. Grunge decor often incorporates distressed or worn-out furniture, muted colors, and natural materials, as well as personal items and artwork that reflect the individual taste of the homeowner.

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There are 6 files total click the images below to open at full size and save to your computer, all sized 1200×1800 pixels, 4″x6″at 300 dpi.

Grunge brown leather:

Kraft Brown Paper

Vintage gold book cover:

Burlap texture:

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Vintage Halloween Party Games and Halloween Scavenger Hunt Card

Holidays come and go, but Halloween is vested with the charm of all that is magical and mystical. This page features ideas of vintage Halloween party games. Including a free printable Halloween scavenger hunt game card. Witches and black cats prowl playing mischief and wicked jokes on Halloween night. A witch stopped by this page on Call Me Victorian to share her favorite ideas for classic Halloween party games. What better way to celebrate the final day of October when the air is crisp and the autumn leaves blow around like dancing fairies in the night. Some classic party games have been around for decades and are always fun to play at any get together.

Race for the treat

Tie a treat in the center of a string about 3 feet long. Have two people (preferable a couple) with the string in their mouth at each end. Using only their mouths, they must eat the string until the first one who reaches the treat in the center wins. They can then eat the treat, or they win a kiss from the loser.

Spooky Item Pass Around

Let your imagination do the rest. Sit around a table with guests and the host will pass around prepared items to blind folded guests, they will only be able to feel the items and they won’t know what they are. Use items that are squishy, furry or have lots of texture. Each guest will then have to guess what items were passed around and the person who can name the most correct, wins! Some good suggestions are cooked noodles, skinned grapes as eyeballs, gummy worms, feathered items, rabbits foot key chain, gel filled stress balls, bags of beans.

Snapdragon

Fill a punch bowl with half an inch of brandy and light it on fire. Put out the lights so only the blazing fire lights the room. Handfuls of raisins or candied fruits and placed in the flaming bowl and players must then reach in and pull out raisins or other food that is in the flaming bowl. Players get a SNAP from burning fingers. I heard about this one from Agatha Christie’s Halloween Party novel. Whoever retrieves the most amount of fruits from the fire is the winner. This game is not for the faint of heart as you can get burned, but it was played by children in days past.

Shadow Game

Stretch a sheet across a doorway or in the center of the room. Place a lamp behind the sheet and put out all the lights in the room. People can take turns acting out behind the sheet and you can play a game like charades guessing what they are acting out. The dark and spooky lighting ads the Halloween touch to the game making it more ghostly behind the sheet as a shadow game.

Fortune Telling by Witches

Witches hold the treads of fate in their power on Halloween Night. One popular halloween party game for young girls was fortune telling. Have the girls burn a candle and drop some of the wax in a bowl, read fortunes based on the shape of the wax. Girls can also gaze into looking glasses to see their future husbands.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt – Free Printable Game Card

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This vintage inspired printable Halloween game card template can be used to play your own chilling Halloween night scavenger hunt. Party Guests can use their cell phones to take selfies with items or just that photos of items that meet the requirements. Please use for Personal use ONLY – it can be printed on letter sized paper and cut into 4th to make 4 cards per page. Or use the digital image to play online. You can also print onto color paper or cardstock. Click to open and save or print Adobe PDF

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Easy Hoop Art Tutorial

In this easy hoop art tutorial, you will learn how to make DIY fabric wall art using a craft hoop and pattern fabrics. I love the colors and vintage inspired patterns of many available fabrics. Hoop art is often used to create wall hangings, ornaments, and other decorative items. I purchased all the supplies for this tutorial very inexpensively at Jo-Ann Fabric, including the hoop, glue dots and designer fabric shown.

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Where to Find Daguerreotype Photos Online

Are you looking for historical daguerreotype plates for your vintage photography collection? Do you want the look of heirloom family portraits to use for digital art, mixed media or unique wall decorations. There are several places to look online for ancestral portraits.

Old photographs capture history and also let us glimpse into the past. It is quaint seeing how styles have changed and people looked over 100 years ago.

These type of images date back to 1839 when the inventors Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre made a photo using silver iodide-treated copper plates. The image is transferred directly to a plate and negatives do not exist for this type of photography. You will see many of the photos framed and matted and decorative brass pieces and beading appliqué as embellishments.

Daguerreotype Family Portraits

I think it’s fascinating to see how people’s looks have changed from 100 years ago. Looking at portraits you can see vintage fashions, hair styles, the woman did not wear makeup like they do today and the men have lots of character.

Five Clark sisters circa 1840-1860

Most daguerreotypes are still portrait images of individuals or family groups. It was never in fashion to smile while having your photo taken because a straight face is easier to hold for a minute or longer that the exposure took to produce. People did not smile in portraits until about the 1930′s and these daguerreotype photos are some of the first photographs.

The Library of Congress has a selection of over 700 images. These are in the public domain and you can reproduce or print the images if you don’t mind framing and hanging reproduction images. Another online source is Harvard’s Photographic Collection hosting more than 3,500 images.

To purchase authentic antique photo daguerreotypes you can check local antique dealers, vintage listings on Etsy or auctions on eBay for a wide selection of historic photos.

All daguerreotypes are original one of a kind images, because the photo was captured directly onto a thin piece of silver plated copper they could not be reproduced or copied like photos taken on film negatives. This was the first popular form of photography used between 1839-1855.

Photographing History

Many historically important photo exist in the daguerreotype format and these images can sell for thousands of dollars. If you are a civil war history collector, you may want to buy images of soldiers and generals. A museum quality half plate sized example of the earliest photographic process can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. The price depends mostly on the historical importance of the person in the image such as that of a president or civil war military soldier or rarity of the subject matter in the image. Also it’s quality and sharpness and how well the image is still present on the plate over time must be taken into consideration.

Free Kraft Digital Paper

A Free digital paper pack of kraft brown backgrounds. These scans of various cardboard and brown grocery bag papers can be used in digital scrapbooking and printables.

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2016 Free Printable New Years Resolution Cards

Happy 2016! These free printable New Years Resolution cards will help you and your party guests record your goals for twenty sixteen.

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