Mina's Journal

Vintage kids images for your projects.

For the longest time, I have been wanting colouring pages to suit me - the adult lady. Pages that weren't just abstract. Pages of a girly nature - Princess type pages for women, Mums, Aunts - Nannas. I wanted pages that were nostalgic of my youth - stuff I could relate to. Good old retro stuff. I decided to make some. Click on the pic to go get them. I am actually making a heap more - this is just the start. Well, what can you do with these pages? Any dang thing that captures your fancy! There's plenty of space for text - and adding your own colour if you wanted to. Anyone who's lived a bit of life could relate them to their own life stories - how about a new journal of your own memories? Use them for: Journaling Writing prompts - creative and personal Diary Collage Scrapbooking Cards Framed prints Wall decor Posters Memories/memoirs notes There are plenty more things I'm sure you creative types could think of! Have fun :) xxx...

I told myself I was going to slow down - and then didn't listen to myself. I can't believe how the time has got away from me. Was kind of burnt out at the end of last year -so thought I should take it easy a bit. Hmmmmffff! Since I last posted - Took on another year of study. Took on Editing tasks. Became a Nan to two more boys. Recently did a website for a Motivational speaker. Business cards for people in Oz, and a doctor in the city. Worked on graphics galore to try and stay ahead with posting on Craft Found. Had a birthday and made myself worse for wear. Went into hospital twice.  Got crazy mad about getting broken vintage and retro sewing machines and making them work. I have a journal (of sorts) to try and keep on top of things - often I'll make graphics and 'lose' them in a myriad of file folders. With that I made a half-hearted attempt at computer organisation, which ended up just plonking 95GB of files from the laptop onto an external ha...

Made some printable Large Vine Frames Could use them for picture frames (resized of course!) Five colours. You can go grab them here .

Edit these in 'Word'. Just open the file and change the text. Just click on the pic to go get them. :)

Printable over at Craft Found Kitchen themed: so good for home tips, favourite old recipes handed down, or new recipes your kids like. Anything to do with the home really. Go get 'em . :)

I thought the French Ladies in the preceding post would make a great set of posters, so I'm in the process of redrawing them so they'll print well... Making a Printable Halloween Pop Up Book ... Making a C ardboard Castle - inspired by the grandsons play at the moment. The guy who has just turned four no longer wants to wreck everything he gets his hands on - he knows when to play gentle... People have asked how I make a printable so I put down the basics. I'll go into more detail on this soon... I finished making a Halloween table setting, a set of stand up spooky houses... Halloween Table Setting  :)

Just had the most fun time with these ladies from an old French magazine. Thought they'd make great journal pages. Get yours . :) Methinks they'd make great posters too, and scrap tags.

Funky up your Halloween with wild coloured stationery, posters, flags and skeleton template for this seasons craft activities. Lined Skull and Floral Halloween Stationery Frontview Skull Posters Skull Flags Sideview Skull Posters Halloween Skeleton Template :)

Printable paper piecing for Halloween - A4 pages. Easy, colourful project. Scissors and glue - that's you! Halloween Cat Paper Piecing Project Halloween Cat Paper Piecing Project Cut out bits and bobs to build your Halloween poster. Choose your kind of starry skies, chimneys and buildings. Bats for Halloween - Paper Piecing Project Bats for Halloween - Paper Piecing Project :)

Some pumpkin-ny printables for Halloween Halloween Pumpkin Discs Largish sticker type things for journals, envelope seals and the like. Halloween Pumpkin Printables Black pumpkins - colourful clipart Halloween Pumpkin Tags Go grab 'em. :)

Latest printables by request - four sheets of Bear or Rabbit Stickers to Print You can go grab 'em here: Bear or Rabbit Stickers to Print Had fun with these...if you think you want to have a go at drawing these yourself, go see the tutorial: Draw a Bear and Mouse in MS Paint The tutorial is an easy step-by-step show through... a start to digital graphics, computer illustration... take five minutes for yourself and give it a go! :)

In the middle of the 'move'. Boxes everywhere... a happy jumbly mess. Have not found the wireless modem...but must have the net, so clunking about 'til I find it. Have not found the kitchen gear, but two pots and a pan will suffice. The cat didn't run away. All this work to do and all I can think is that the baking tins are empty. So hot, so the baking will have to wait 'til the cooler hours. Have some projects up my sleeve...camera is broken, got to get a new one. So I'm working on stuff anyway...things in different stages waiting to be photographed. (More mess). I have decided to only buy necessary basic craft stuff for a while...must use the stuff I already have. There's quite a bit of it. On the other hand, it's so good having a choice of stuff when you're creating. Also going to re-purpose stuff...crappy test prints and other crappy bits of pretty paper. My problem is I get this stuff and just look at it, because it's too pretty /good ...

Here are some romantic tiles to use in your projects. They will fit a Window Card project I did elsewhere.   Essentially the cards were made from office paper, folded horizontally then vertically to make an A6 sized card. A window was to be cut through the front and inside left pages and an image was to be stuck to the inside right page, so you could see it from the front. Well, these images fit those. I'm sure you creative types will find other uses for them. Click the pic to go grab them. Password is 'love' (no apostrophes!) :)

It is some time since I did a digital scrapbooking layout. I was inspired by a freebie kit. My newest grandson, Jace. About eight weeks old here. Daughter came over and wasn't very happy because I snapped a pic when she wasn't ready, (tired Mum and all that). I was in hospital when word came Jace was on his way (he lives in another town). They unhooked me, plugged the lines and told me to go at something like three in the morning (but come back, Doctor's rounds in the mornings). He was born moments before I got in there, but I got to dress him. My camera had died, so I was unable to take any pics at the time. I think she forgives me for taking the pics, she likes how these layouts came out. Kit: Natural Breeze by DigiDesignResort Collab Team Designers kleopatra Affair of the Heart Designs Carena Mistica Designs

Doodle tags. These are kind of fun and will fit with a multitude of projects. Whimsy tags created with my doodle brushes. Get them here . Download password is 'doodles' (without the apostrophes). :)