Urban Debris Artlog

Free Valentine's Day printables

Get a head start on your valentine's day art. Here are two vintage-y printable collage sheets for non-commercial, personal use.

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Sepia Tone Collage Sheet

Vintage Valentines

 

Here is to a seedy New Year....

Well not really, just wanted to give you a free collage sheet to start the new year. This one features seed packets.

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Here are some ideas for using the images.

Cafe Press tote bag

Image from Cafe Press

Framed art from Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel

Tags from etsy

Handmade Gift Ideas | Skip To My Lou

Never too early to start on the holidays.Especially handmade. Check out the list of make-ables at skip to my lou

via www.skiptomylou.org

Old Photo Fun

I love old photos. We recently found a falling apart scrapbook of photos from the 1920s-1950s at my MIL house. We peoceeded to scan all 400 pictures! Whew!

You can create interesting artistic compositions with old photos by cropping them or adding elements in unusual, unexpected ways.

Favorite sites to look for images:

Lost and Found Photos

Ceremony Share

The Vintage Moth

Snow day, power outage and wild attic animals

Today is the second snow day here in Texas in the DFW area. Keep in mind I lived in New Hampshire for a few years, so this:

does not really qualify as a reason to panic.

But, unusual enough for Texas. Even better the power compant decided to go on emergency status and do what is called "rolling blackouts." If you live north of here that may be business as usual, but not for Texas. And thank you very much, power company for letting us know in advance. I am trying to type this post before my next 15 minute outage arrives!

When the power did come back on, the heater started and I noticed this on the bathroom tile:

Ew. Unexpected. Weird. WTH did that come from?? I checked my dog and myself carefully. No wounds. Now I am totally freaked  out. I wiped up the blood but when I came back a couple of minutes later there was more! I realized - WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE HOUSE. Could it be one of these injured?

(It is groundhog day after all).

So me and my flashlight are looking around on the floor, in cabinets, under stuff. No more blood in any other rooms. I decide to look up at the ceiling in case it is creepily dripping blood like a B horror flick. There is a vent right above the area. Then I hear a chittering noise. So, I do what every dumb girl does in the just mentioned slasher movie - I go to the attic to investigate.

I am really hoping to find these (I love them, whole nother story)

But what I have found is.......

nothing...that I can see...but it's there...and it's hiding.

I will continue the investigation between outages and keep you updated. In the meantime if you have any ideas or ways to protect myself from cannibal, zombie, blood dripping bunnies please comment beacuse I am convinced there is one in my attic.

Quote of the day

Another gratuitous cute animal photo

 
Did someone lose a cat?

A few Valentine's Day crafts

"JOY" blocks from Crafty Girls Workshop
http://lvcraftygirls.blogspot.com/2011/01/love-is-in-air.html

30 min scrapbook wreath Lemon Tree Creations
http://lemontreecreations.blogspot.com/2011/01/30-minute-scrapbook-paper-wreath.html

Valentine's Day Decor Forever decorating
http://foreverdecorating.blogspot.com/2011/01/valentines-day-decor.html

Thrifty 101 VD Candy Wreath
http://thrifty101.blogspot.com/2011/01/valentines-wreath.html

Modigan Made Doily Wreath http://madiganmade.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-free-heart-shaped-doily-wreath.html

You are so loved printanble Diary of Dave's Wife
http://daveandkristycall.blogspot.com/2011/01/you-are-so-loved.html

VD Specimen Racks and Mooby http://racksandmooby.blogspot.com/2011/01/valentine-specimen-art-shortcut-style.html

Mini Felted Heart Wreath
http://fivewhites.blogspot.com/2011/01/mini-felted-heart-wreath.html

A Little Lovely printable visit http://www.alittlelovelyblog.blogspot.com/

Alphastamps Valentine's Day Swap - next steps

Here are my next steps for the Alphastamps. I am using their chipboard hearts and the Birds Collage sheets.

Here are the hearts with tea stains and glitter spray.

The tea spray and glitter spray

Here are the collage sheets (in sticker format.)

A start.

What I am going to use to embellish the hearts.

Gratuitous cute puppy kitty animal effect...

There is research showing that if you add a cute animal to an advertising it increases sales. Warning, cute overload follows.

How I Spent Christmas or Escape from New York or Happy to be Home Giveaway

You may have heard about the blizzard that hit the east coast on Dec 26. We did, but figured it would be like any other storm - snow, and we might have to add an extra day to our itinerary. Since E is from New York and I lived in New Hampshire for several years, neither of us was thinking an worse than a typical snowstorm in December. "Noreaster" or "Blue Norther" did not enter my mind.

A slight miscalculation on our part. Did you know it takes 12 hours to drive from Queens to Nashville? Did you know there is something called "snow thunder"??

E has out together a mini-blog called "Escape from New York" with some of the highlights.

A couple of inside shots before the storm

For the Happy to be Home part of this post, here is a giveaway:

An Advent Calendar

and a mini-calendar kit for 2011

To enter:

Explore my blog (you are here) and leave a comment with your e-mail address and your favorite post topic from my postings.

For an extra entry:

Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/urbandebris. Come back here and post with your  @twitterid and e-mail address

For one more entry:

Explore my etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/urbandebris

Come back here and tell me what your favorite kinds of things to buy from etsy are (does not have to be in my shop) Be sure and leave your e-mail address and a link to your etsy shop if you have one!

Giveaway ends Jan 7. I will e-mail the winner.