Collage Packs - New Item in my Etsy Shop!

NEW to my Etsy Shop!

I opened VIDA DESIGNS, my online paper supply store more than three years ago! Time flies when you are having fun I guess! After years of buying, collecting, sorting and organizing paper I find I have so much stuff. Lots of what I have stashed away is just fantastic but severely random! I decided to start sharing some of my fantastic paper stash by putting together paper packs for collage artist and scrapbookers. I think I like picking out papers and making a "composition" from all the peices probably more than people like using them!! They are so beautiful they are hard to sell. I just want to look at them. Um - does that make me crazy?!! :)

Here are a few....... click on the title of each to view them in my shop.

"In the Garden"

 "Around the World"

"Natural Chic"

"Color is the Spice of Life!"

These packs are stuffed full of all types of wonderful papers!  Collage packs include some of the following:  book pages, wallpaper, cards, foreign language text, vintage textbook pages, magazine clippings, die cut shapes, vintage sheet music, tags, envelopes, maps, designer scrapbooking papers, cardstock, woven grass papers, fabric sample cards, handmade papers, photographs or chipboard.

Lorca Imperia - Handprinted Wallpapers by Osborne & Little

OSBORNE & LITTLE HAND-PRINTED PAPERS.
Many of these fabulous designs feature metallic details and flocking. Each design is available in many colors.

RAINFOREST PRINTS

I have been inspired by pattern design recently. Here is a grouping of some of my new favorite designs.


BAMBOO HANDPRINTED WALLCOVERING.

ANIMAL PRINT WALLCOVERING.


HANDPRINTED WALLCOVERING WITH A LILY FLOWER DESIGN.

I have been recycling and processing used wallpaper to make scrapbooking paper packs that are way more unique than what you can find in the craft store and the papers are 100% post consumed -- products otherwise headed for the landfill. I love opening up an old, used book and finding amazing patterns and colors like these!!

Inspirational and Rejuvenating Camping/Hiking Weekend

Solomon (he's my main man for those of you that don't know me yet!) and I took a super cool nature hike this past Sunday while we were camping at Yankee Springs Deep Lake Campground. I brought the camera. Our pace was drastically slowed because of my picture taking craze. I seemed to be called by all the plants and animals and couldn’t stop shooting pics.  Good thing we weren’t in a hurry.  

Before we went camping I had been inspired to start painting again.  I had put the brushes down and the paints on vacation while I have been working with some paper crafts for the last few months.  It seems like the painting bug has bitten again. It is never gone for long!  I am hoping that some of these new images will be a strong inspirational base for a new series of nature inspired abstract paintings I am planning to start soon.  

I will share more of my hike pictures and some new sketches for the paintings as am I able! 

Peace Friends!

- Rachel