Showing posts with label freebies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freebies. Show all posts

Monday, December 1

Free DIY Printable Nautical Gift Tags Featuring a Lobster, Fish, Cuttlefish and a Fiddler Crab

Free printable nautical gift tags with sea creatures - by Concertina Press - crab, fish, lobster and cuttlefish

Ok friends! Here are some more free printables for you - these DIY printable nautical gift tags would be really cute printed on aqua or yellow cardstock, then tied with baker's twine onto a package wrapped in brown kraft paper - you can write the "to" and "from" part on the back side of the tag. The tags have faint gray lines showing you were to cut, but I didn't put any mark to show where to punch the hole, because it will probably change depending on the size of the holepunch you're using.

You can also print them on white cardstock and then color them in with colored pencils or crayons for a nice handmade touch!

Including a fiddler crab, cuttlefish (or maybe an octopus?), a fish and a lobster.

You're welcome to print as many as you like and package all of your gifts with them, but please do not sell them, claim them as your own or remove my web address from the design. You are more than welcome to share them with your friends online - especially through Pinterest and Facebook!

Directions for downloading your free DIY nautical gift tags:


1. Click here to download the free printable nautical gift tag PDF file
2. You can either print it directly from Google docs, or download it to your computer
3. click "Print"and make sure that "scaling" is turned off, or that "do not scale" is selected - this keeps the design from shrinking on the page
4. Print on colorful cardstock at a high quality setting for best results

Tips:
- if your printer is cutting off the edges because the margins are too narrow, try clicking "Scale to fit" or "Scale to fit page" in the print menu - you may have to trim the edges
- You can change the print settings to be high quality - for cardstock look for settings like "best print" "high quality" or "premium presentation paper matte"

To see more of my designs including nautical thank you notes and beach wedding invitations visit www.concertinapress.com





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Saturday, September 17

Free Victorian Printable Labels


Can you beleive these gorgeous labels are available totally for free for printing & download? I saw them on Pinterest first - there are SO many - go check them out and thanks to Worldlabel.com and Suzee Q on flickr for making them available for personal use!

Monday, July 4

Free Antique Moth Clipart - Part 2



Happy 4th of July! Here's a present for you!

If you haven't already seen it here, last month I released a page of free moth clipart, and promised you a few more pages! Well here's one of European butterflies, and I've already cut out the cute little catterpillar above, click on him to get a full size 300 dpi image that you can save to your computer (after clicking on him, right click and select "save image as" or drag it to your desktop). He'd be perfect for a little notecard.

I didn't cut out the rest, so you'll have to do that using photoshop magic, OR simply print out the entire sheet (I like to print using my printer's "best" setting, or "presentation paper matte" setting, on regular paper - you'll see what a difference it makes) and cut them out for collage or notecards. Watch out if you're glueing them though, because if you use an inkjet to print them they'll probably smear. They'll smear less if you let the page dry overnight.

You're welcome to link to it on your blog or facebook or wherever - I'd love a link back if you do. follow my blog to see the other plates I have, that I'll be posting soon!

to download: click on the image above, then right click on the full sized image
and select "save image as" or drag and drop it to your desktop.


Here are all of the other moth names typed out for your enjoyment.

1. Birkenspanner (Geometra Papilionaria)
2. Zierspanner (Acidalia Decorata)
3. Purpurstrich (Pellonia Vibicaria)
4. Stachelbeerspanner (Abraxas Grossulariata)
4.a. Raupe (caterpillar)
5. Ulmenspanner (A. Sylvata)
6. Randspanner (A. Marginata)
7. Fliederspanner (Pericallia Syringaria)
8. Geissblattspanner (Crocallis Elinguaria)
9. Pflaumenspanner (Angerona Prunaria)
10. Holunderspanner (Urapteryx Sambucaria)
11. Zitronen-spanner (Rumia Luteolata)
12. Fleckenspanner (Venilia Macularia)

Wednesday, June 1

It's my first Giveaway! {closed}


Aren't these little bird notes so cute? I don't even have them for sale yet in my shop, so this is a doubly special giveaway because no one else has these notes!

This is my first giveaway, but if this goes well, I will definitely have more in the future - including *drumroll please* wedding invitations! so keep your eyes peeled.

To Enter (mandatory):

1. "Like" my page on Facebook
2. Visit my online shop OR my etsy store and tell me which item is your favorite by commenting below

Bonus Entries:

1. Share this giveaway on Facebook with your friends (+1 each time)*
2. Tweet about the giveaway (+1 each time)**
3. Add ConcertinaPress to your Etsy circle (+1)
4. Post the photo above on your own blog with a link back to this post (+2)

*on facebook, tag me by typing "@Concertina Press" so I know that you've shared my link
**on twitter, tag me by typing "@RuthBleakley" in your tweet

The final drawing will be held Friday June 10th!

Monday, May 30

Free Antique Moth clipart images!



"Zickzackspinner" (Notodona Ziczac)

Lots of people ask me where my imagery comes from - while I'd love to say I drew it all, in fact most of my imagery comes from antique botanical or biological drawings. These are gorgeous images that have been hiding out inside of field guides and scientific journals for a hundred  fifty years, and now thanks to the ability to scan files, can now be unearthed and given new life!

I found several gorgeous plates of butterflies and moths from a German field guide and I want to share them with you (yes, for FREE)! I cut out the one above using photoshop magic (Click here to see it full size), unfortunately you'll have to do that for yourself on the moths below, but you could also print out the page and cut them out by hand for handmade cards, scrapbooking or multimedia projects.

You're welcome to link to it on your blog or facebook or wherever - I'd love a link back if you do. follow my blog to see the other plates I have, that I'll be posting next week!

to download: click on the image above, then right click on the full sized image
and select "save image as" or drag and drop it to your desktop.

Here are all of the other moth names typed out for your enjoyment.

1. Kleines Nachtpfauenauge (Saturnia Pavonia) male
1a. Kleines Nachtpfauenauge (Saturnia Pavonia) female
1b. same moth above as a caterpillar
2. Nagelfleck (Aglia Tau)
3. Schelflugel (Drepana Falcataria)
4. Schlehendornspinnerchen (Cilix Glaucata)
5. Gabelschwanz (Harpyia Vinula)
5a. Raupe (caterpillar of #5)
6. Zickzackspinner (Notodonta Ziczac)
7. Mondvogel (Phalera Bucephala)
8. Rosenvogel (Thyatira Batis)
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