vintage song sheets graphics - flowers and cottages

Hello!

Today I will just be sharing pictures with you of vintage song sheet covers.
I think I slept on my hand wrong, and my wrist is hurting.
I use my wrist/hand when typing.
So, less typing today!

c.1911

I have chosen pretty scenes with flowers and cottages mostly.
I hope you enjoy them.

c.1912

c.1897

c.1921

c.1906

You may be wondering - so here are some vintage pictures. What can I do with them? Check out my past blogs for things like decoupage and budget crafts. You will find some ideas there.

c.1909

c.1908

If you 'copy' and 'save picture as', there may be many things you can do with programs already on your computer to manipulate colors, cropping,etc. I am NOT a computer savvy person, so I let my beloved husband set those things up for me. He then patiently shows me the basics, and I go from there! I always make a copy of the picture first, and work on the copy. That way if I make BIG mistakes, I haven't lost my original.

c.1903

c.1899

c.1893

Perhaps you have been wondering what the "c.date" means?

That is the date that this song, with this cover, was published.

Some songs may have been written previously, or the music had been published, but with a different cover. That means that sometimes you will have a song (music and song writer) that may have different publishing dates, or the same cover, only the picture added is of different current and popular singers of the day.

These next song sheet covers are of the same song, published in the same year.

Each is different!

c.1917

and here are two more, same singers, only different pictures of her!

You can print or in your editing program cut out just the photos. You have some wonderful vintage people then to use in your altered art, etc.!

Just think, you could find an entire photo album of your long lost 'relatives'!

:0)

c.1902

c.1906

c.1920

And just a reminder - you can find these song sheet covers at the Indiana Library of Music. The address is on the right of my blog, up at the top, under my favorites. They must have thousands of original copies. They have many that do not have the graphics, just the music. Some of the graphics/song sheets are still copyrighted, so you can look at them but you can't copy or paste them.

Have fun!

c.1902

After giving my hand a rest today, I should be back and running (typing that is) tomorrow!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

YELLOW!

sanibonani

(Zulu for hello, to multiple people)

translates to mean 'we see you',

and your response should be

"yebo", meaning 'yes'.

kirigami with stamped/colored flower by inkspired

So happy you stopped by!

Today is simply a

YELLOW DAY!!

I think yellow is so cheerful and happy.

Too bad I can't type in yellow,

but you would be grumpy with me at the end of the blog if I did.

Instead, I will share yellow in photos,

paintings, rubber stamped cards, drawings...you get the idea!

Now yellow comes in many different shades.

And some unexpected things are shades of yellow,

like mermaids.

Who knew?

pitchmom from etsy

and mermaid hair -

and rubber duckies

There's yellow shoes -

 http://www.poordogfarm.etsy/

original Collage Art Doll

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

and yellow curtains -

yellow skies and yellow pirates -

The blue fairy book,

painting by Frank Godwin, 1931

paper cutting, unknown artist

recycled bottlecap magnets, http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

We have yellow letters:

recycled bottlecaps

with hand colored Art Nouveau Alphabet letters

recycled bottlecap with junk mail paper scrap

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

There's yellow fruit, and of course yellow flowers

some perhaps not as well known:

 vintage fruit crate label

 yellow sea flowers

yellow tulip stamped with cut kirigami background by inkspired

'Fairy with Golden Flower', original Collage Art Doll by inkspired

Yellow fluttering things

stamped card with kirigami background, inkspired

vintage illustration from "The Turned Into's"

Yellow things that

peep,

skitter,

and woof:

 kirigami and stamped card by inkspired

hand painted and stamped domino magnet by inkspired

and some that even roar!!!

hand stamped tri-fold card, unknown artist

Did you know that some rocks are yellow?

 rockin' art by inkspired

 custom order school bus, http://www.billierocks.etsy.com/

yellow turtle http://www.europeforcharity.etsy.com/

I have loved yellow dresses ever since I can remember,

so here are some fun ones:

 vintage dress patterns

 free paperdoll courtesy of OrigamiBears

vintage beverage poster

I couldn't possibly forget Liana's beautiful paper doll costumes -

from Liana's Paper Boutique line, from earlier in her artistic career

Next up I have yellow moons,

and a yellow flag

All of these scenery type cards can be found on stampscapes web site

I adore their stamps, and own a few myself.

Well, okay, maybe more than just a few....

Joan of Arc, painting by Frank Godwin

Next we have yellow scherensnitte,

yellow kirigami

and yellow cut paper art -

 kirigami cake doilies, and kirigmai decorating stencil

 http://www.yorokobinokatachi.come/

 kirigami made into a card, inkspired

decorated blown eggs, with paper cuttings

Well, it's that time again,

where I must say good bye,

until tomorrow.

Perhaps we will follow a path,

a yellow path,

and in time we will meet

to say hello!

 http://www.laybacklarry.com/

 yellow road markings, Maui, Hawaii

 http://www.miriadna.com/

'summer home cabin', by Cindy Smith; stampscapes

It's time for me to go eat....

some yellow food!!!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/