Vintage Mushroom Ephemera
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Do you remember these botanical picture atlas collage sheets? Well, that 1911 atlas also had a section on mushrooms with these lovely pages of illustrations.
Scroll down, and you’ll find three different sheets of vintage mushroom illustrations for you to cut up and add to your journal spreads and other artwork and crafts, or use the whole sheet as a background in your junk journal, scrapbook, etc.
If you enjoy these sheets, you may also want to check out my other mushroom collage sheets. Hands down, one of my most popular free printables is this mushrooms collage sheet.
I know I post a lot of mushroom collage sheets, but they are always very popular, and there are a lot of great reasons to use mushrooms in journaling. Mushroom illustrations often possess a whimsical and enchanting quality that appeals to many artists and journalers. The intricate details, vibrant colors, and unique shapes of mushrooms make them visually captivating and lend themselves well to creative compositions.
Mushroom illustrations align with nature-inspired themes that are commonly explored in art journaling and junk journaling. They evoke a sense of the natural world, forests, and the beauty of the outdoors, allowing artists to create pages that reflect their love for nature and its elements.
Mushrooms hold symbolic meanings and metaphors that can be incorporated into journaling. For example, mushrooms are often associated with growth, transformation, and the cycle of life due to their rapid and ephemeral growth patterns. Artists may use mushroom illustrations to explore these themes or convey personal narratives and emotions.
Vintage mushroom illustrations from the 19th and early 20th centuries like these possess a nostalgic and timeless quality. They can add a vintage touch to art journaling and junk journaling projects, giving them a unique and antique aesthetic that appeals to those who appreciate the beauty of vintage artwork.
Mushroom illustrations offer versatility in terms of their placement and usage in journaling. They can be used as standalone focal points, background elements, or incorporated into collages, providing artists with various options for incorporating them into their journaling pages.
Many artists and journalers have a genuine fascination with mushrooms. They may find joy in collecting and studying mushroom illustrations, incorporating them into their creative projects as a way to express their personal interests and passions.
I hope you’ll add these to your supplies for art journaling, junk journaling, bullet journaling, scrapbooking, collage, artist trading cards (ATCs) and other mixed media artwork and crafts.
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You may also enjoy these free collage sheets.
Terms of use:
Free to use for personal or commercial projects. You may print the collage sheets as many times as you wish for your personal crafts or in your projects to sell, including: art journals, scrapbooks, junk journals, collage art, etc. You may not redistribute or sell the collage sheets “as is" in either print or digital form.
If you wish to share the files on your own website, please do not make the files available for download directly from your site. Instead, include an image with a link back to this site.
To the best of my knowledge, these are all royalty free images that are in the Public Domain in the US. However, you should always do your own research if you plan to use them commercially.
