Sherry West Art for Stamp Addicts on Hochanda TV!

Sarah Bewick of Stamp Addicts presented their all-new line-up of seasonal stamps just in time to craft and create for Easter!

I always enjoy watching Sarah and the lovely Hochanda TV hosts interact during each new episode. Sarah does a wonderful job of teaching new craft concepts and always has something interesting like the shrink eggs and butterflies!

She was wearing a darling fuschia flower ring made from shrink plastic! What a novel idea! I’m totally going to do this! I love making jewelry, and even more so from novel materials and concepts. Perfect for Spring!

The metallic shrink eggs would have made fun necklaces, earrings, bracelets and pins! What a great family craft to do with the kids!

To watch the show rewind or purchase these stamps:

https://hochanda.com/product/97592/stamp-addicts-cling-mounted-rubber-stamp-set-easter-friends-3-stamps/346508

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Free St. Patrick’s Day Images for DIY Arts and Crafts

Image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy

St. Paddy’s Day is almost here! Time to get your Irish on with some thrifty fun.

Crafting is pricey. And I’m guessing that if you are reading this, you probably have a veritable dragon’s lair, and horde, of arting and crafting supplies of all types, shapes and sizes…definitely enough to make a dragon jealous.

So, for those of us who are insatiable crafters and seem to always be putting out large sums of money on new supplies, it’s always nice to be able to get our crafty hands on freebies to help give our favorite projects just the right touch. With that in mind, I’ve compiled a handy-dandy all-in-one list of sites where you can find FREE public domain images for use in your St. Paddy’s projects.

This list includes vintage images, photographs, line art, book illustrations and more. Any and every subject and holiday you can possible imagine is there just waiting for you to dive in and explore! On your mark, get set, GO!

https://thegraphicsfairy.com

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Where to Download Free Vintage Images

https://pixabay.com/images/search/decoupage/

https://www.kerrymaymakes.com/blog/art-journal-and-planner-ephemera-10-free-digital-sites

https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/british-library-over-million-free-vintage-images-download/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

http://budgetstockphoto.com/publicdomain.html

Image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy

Be sure to read the policy of the site you get your images from. Some sites have a limitation on how many images which can be reused from their site and how. This is important.

Don’t forget about old books, magazines, postcards and other paper ephemera that can be purchased on sites like eBay! These can be scanned in, saved, digitally manipulated, cleaned up and printed off for favorite projects, too! If you plan on reselling something with one of these images on it, make sure to read up on copyright laws. Anything pre-1923 in the U.S. is generally safe to use, but copyright law is tricky, so please read and research carefully to be sure.

Image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy