The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

Flapper era lovers and readers, I have been so greatly impressed with some of the pages  of the book "The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt". I really enjoy scrapbooking but now this is a fiction novel made as a scrapbooking book and it is amazing. A great idea that... I am sure some others will take as a possible future novel as well. I would love to do this to a book I write about my own life, there is so much to say and lots of travel too.

Here are some examples of the pages that appear in the book and I am sure it is going to become a huge success!

You can visit Caroline Preston's website at www.carolinepreston.com


The book can be found on Amazon and many independent bookstores.

Greatest Collection of Amazing Vintage Textures

Which one is the best? I really can’t tell, but I think I will get all of them for my graphics and scrapbooking designs!

Check the LINK

Some examples:

 

What an incredible collection!

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Fabulous Vintage Fonts

This is a very long list of fonts on the web. But they are all Vintage, old scripture, old fashion… some at reasonable prices.  Lucky to know that some of them I already have them. I personally like by order of appearance:

Garamond

 

 

Ollivette

 

 

Mr Leopolde

 

 

Londonderry Air

 

 

Simpathique

 

 

Too long to show here. More than 300 vintage fonts.

Check out MyFonts.Com

Vintage–Turorial Adobe CS5

How can you transform this:

 

 

into this:

I have to say, I was amazed at the well explained tutorial for this effect.

You can check it at AdobeTutorialz

My only problem is that I have cs4 so I don’t know if I will be able to make it.

Textures–Vintage Paper

I used to keep a blog dedicated to scrapbooking. Due to family issues I didn’t have much time to dedicate to it. But I really enjoyed it, took some lessons from great people who master this subject so very well, giving me advice regarding techniques, the way I should save up time doing image skills, creating papers, what kind of program to use on occasion.. It’s an activity so creative and which makes one want to become more and more perfectionist and professional. So my blog is still waiting for me to do something about it. Perhaps I will add it here, since this blog is about Everything Vintage!

Here I found some interesting textures that you could use for your scrapbooking or maybe for your blogs or websites. I find them very nice, especially the second one:

Textures - Vintage Paper
10 JPEG | ~ 2400x3500 | 52 MB

You can download the folder

at hotfile

and filesonic

Source:FreshWapnet

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Vintage and Retro Fonts

I love adding new fonts to my folder. Needless to say, they are “vintage” style all of them. Normally I save them to an external drive and use them when needed, but sometimes I forget it as I see a list of fonts appearing right in front of my very eyes whenever I use Adobe Photoshop, Essentials or Paint Shop Pro X2.

I also save them on two websites “just in case” but at times they are so beautiful I can’t help to add them directly to my hard drive and keep the folder as clean as possible, right now occupying just 477Mb, which is all a success.

Nevertheless, these that follow I have added them to the hard drive as well, as they look so nice and special.

These are:

Campanille

Fortuna’s Wein

Herald Square

Matchbox

Parisian

Here is how they look:

These fonts are free to download and the page has many more that might be of interest to you.

Here is the link:

44 Splendid Free Fonts for Vintage and Retro Designing

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Busi Art Deco Lady PSP Tube and Brush

 

In this post I have included a psp tube and a brush that you can use for your works. For non commercial use. Drop a note to comment if you like.

This is how the brush looks like in actual dimensions:

 

And here is how the PSP Tube appears looks like:

 

Busi Art Deco Lady Png Embellisment

 

Busi was an excellent artist. He is one of my favorites, along with Monestier, Henri Gerbault, Gordon, and so many others.

This is a png embellishment that you can use for your scraps. Its dimensions are 319 x 482 pixles, pixels per cm: 34,250.

Here is a preview of this embellishment:

 

 

To download this png embellishment click on the icon. Comments are always welcome.

Precious Stones PPS Tubes Embellishments

As indicated on a previous post, this time the elements I am presenting here are PPSImages Tubes. Their dimensions are the same: 259x309px.

I am using the last version of PSP – Paint Shop Pro Ultimate X2. I hope they will help you in your works.

 

 

Here is the series of colors. You can click on it to see it in bigger resolution:

To download this archive click on the icon below:

PICABOO

Just gave a try to Picaboo, made a card….and it is great.

The software download page, presentation… sounds to me like the same authors of Picasa. What do you think?

 

Misted Tube -Camden High School Drawing Woman

This misted tube comes from a 1910 original postcard found on the web.

I liked the pose and expression of the model and inspired me to create a misted tube. I do not own the rights for the drawing creation only the image manipulation I did with it. I hope you will enjoy this misted tube.

Its dimensions are 424x800 pixels, and it is in RGB/ 8 bits/channel.

 

 

You can  see here a preview of this mist here in smaller dimension:

To download this tube click on icon below:

Precious Stones Png Embellishments

These embellishments come in various colors. They represent precious stones and will help you add some extra beauty to your digital scrapbooking. The next set will be in PSPimage, so you can use them as tubes. These png files are 259x309px.

 

 

Here is the series of colors. You can click on it to see it in bigger resolution:

To download this archive click on the icon below:

 

Thanks for watching.

Deco Purple Flowers Jar PSP Tube and Png Embellishment

I made this tube embellishment using a Deco Postcard. You can use it for your personal use but credit back.

I have uploaded this deco embellishment as a PSPImage and Png Element and the dimensions are 276x460px.

 

 

 

This is how the deco element looks like:

 

To download, just click on the icon:

And the Png File: