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Art, craft and inspirational blog of Cathe Holden. Professional Graphic Designer, wife of a fireman and mother of 3.
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Vintage Printers Cuts and Frames
A little Christmas present for you- free vintage printers cuts, frames & ornament. Various images scanned from one of my rare printing press source books and modified for your craft and design use. Use now or tuck away in your JSIM clip-art file!...
Simple Leather iPod Touch/iPhone Case
Can you keep a secret? Santa’s been shopping at the Apple store. So I thought I’d help out with a few handmade stocking stuffers- iPod Touch cases. (My daughters are forbidden to look at my blog until after Christmas, so Shhh!) I searched online ...
Tea Towel Calendar
Blog friends. They are real friends. And I have been blessed to make a few very special ones. One of my blog friends, Heather Mann of Dollar Store Crafts, had this beyond-fantastic collaboration idea: 2010 calendar towels with exclusive graphics, dol...
Free French Postal Graphics
Why, as creative types, are we always drawn to so many things French and all things postal? Likely because both are known for dynamic graphic design. So, enjoy this collection of vintage French stamp cancellation marks that I put together for collage...
Leather Mounting Plaques
I bought some small, 3" leather furniture swatches at the thrift store recently and came up with a fun way to repurpose them. Mounting plaques for jewelry! These little swatches can often be found on ebay, or, if you don’t have leather to work with...
Ornamental Freebies
I think my all-time favorite collection of anything is my library of rare commercial art books, which include such things as early 1900s jewelry engraving instructional guides.From them I pulled some fantastic ornamental illustrations and Alphabets o...
Blogging With SC Johnson
Last year I was hired by SC Johnson to create a series of blog posts for their Right@Home website. (You can find links to those posts over in my left sidebar.) It was a really fun gig and I was so happy that they would contact me again to blog for th...
Three Word Thursday
vintage deer silhouetteIllustration from 1887 A Yankee Almanac,Worcester County Hand Book, Worcester, Mass.Who doesn’t love deer? What will you make with this free PDF illustration?Here is the cover of the almanac as well the original black and whi...
