Red Rose Wine Gift Bag | Zazzle

Size: Gift Bag – Wine

Package your presents perfectly with fully personalized gift bags! Design them with favorite photos or messages for any occasion, including birthdays and weddings. These gift bags are made with premium quality paper and printed with vivid ink to make your gift giving truly special.

• Dimensions: 4.75” l x 4” w x 13” h
• Perfect size for a wine bottle
• Made with premium quality paper for extra durability
• Choice of matte or glossy finish
• Available in 3 additional sizes

Source: Red Rose Wine Gift Bag | Zazzle

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The Albatross Did Follow Throw Pillow | Zazzle

Size: Throw Pillow 16″ x 16″

Accent your home with custom pillows from Zazzle and make yourself the envy of the neighbourhood. Made from high-quality Simplex knit fabric, these 100% polyester pillows are soft and wrinkle-free. The heavyweight stretch material provides beautiful color definition for your design while also being the perfect complement to your couch!

• Dimensions: 16″ x 16″ (square)
• Simplex knit fabric; 100% polyester; wrinkle-free
• Hidden zipper enclosure; synthetic-filled insert included
• Machine washable
• Made in the USA

Source: The Albatross Did Follow Throw Pillow | Zazzle

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First Night Design | I’m going to have to treat myself! #watches

Green Leaf Watch from Zazzle © Sarah Vernon

Yesterday I added my Green Leaf design to all the products I sell at my Zazzle stores. Would you forgive me for being immoderately pleased with myself? It looks excellent on all the products and that’s not the case for every design. I’m highlighting the watch because I think I’m going to have to treat myself! There are several styles for women, men and children available.

All Green Leaf products:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

All watches:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

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First Night Design | ‘This is what it is to be happy’ #Art

Buy framed print of Green Leaf © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America

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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
― George Carlin

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Available at the following galleries:

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Zazzle UK
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art

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First Night Design | A Côté de la Mer or a Jolly Time was had by All!

FROM THE ARCHIVE March 2015.
This is an adaptation of an old photochrom postcard circa 1895 from Wikimedia showing the beach at Ostend, Belgium. I have used textures from 2 Lil’ Owls to age it further, along with a French document, also from 2 Lil’ Owls, to add ‘a little something extra’…

Source: First Night Design | A Côté de la Mer or a Jolly Time was had by All!

First Night Design | A Côté de la Mer or a Jolly Time was had by All!

A Côté de la Mer Hip Flask

This is an adaptation of an old photochrom postcard circa 1895 from Wikimedia showing the beach at Ostend, Belgium. I have used textures from 2 Lil’ Owls to age it further, along with a French document, also from 2 Lil’ Owls, to add ‘a little something extra’.

A Côté de la Mer Throw Pillows

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‘A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.’
Henry Grunwald

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A Côté de la Mer Greeting Cards

Buy a poster of A Côte de la Mer © Sarah Vernon at Crated

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“…vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. (“Expiation”)”
― E.F. Benson, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

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Available at the following galleries:
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Zazzle US
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art

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First Night Design | ‘I would like my roses to see you’

Red Rose © Sarah Vernon [Crated]

As it’s been a while since I’ve shown the layers that go into creating a particular image, I thought I’d give you the three pieces that make up Red Rose.

I started with the back of a vintage advertising card from The Old Design Shop.

But no matter what I tried, it would not gel with this rose from The Graphics Fairy.

I discarded it and went in search of a background with reddish tones from 2 Lil’ Owls’ Effervescent collection and decided upon this number.

The effect created by blending the rose in ‘multiply’ mode over the top was very pleasing but there was something missing.

I searched through 2 Lil’ Owls‘ French Brocante collection and my first choice proved the perfect addition when blended in ‘colour burn’ mode and sandwiched between the rose and the ‘effervescent’ background.

Et voilà!

As I’ve often said, there’s many a tweak and a twist in the process before I’m happy but if you are expecting me to write it all out in this post, you’ve got another think coming! As Shirley Conran so memorably once said, life’s too short to stuff a mushroom, and it’s certainly too short to detail each tweak. Pay me and I might!

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‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.’
Oscar Levant

‘Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.’
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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First Night Design | The Albatross Did Follow

The Albatross Did Follow © First Night Design

Albatross from The Graphics Fairy. French script from 2 Lil’ Owls.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge [extract]

At length did cross an Albatross,

Thorough the fog it came;

As if it had been a Christian soul,

We hailed it in God’s name.

It ate the food it ne’er had eat,

And round and round it flew.

The ice did split with a thunder-fit;

The helmsman steered us through!

And a good south wind sprung up behind;

The Albatross did follow,

And every day, for food or play,

Came to the mariner’s hollo!

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First Night Design | Remembrance of Times Past

Remembrance of Times Past © First Night Design

I created this collage with a postcard of actress Pauline Chase [1885-1962] from my theatre collection. When I was in my early teens, if not younger, I was obsessed with spending my pocket money on vintage theatrical postcards and used to spend hours browsing round a magical second-hand bookshop on Richmond Hill in Richmond, Surrey, where I was brought up. The old gentleman who ran the shop was quite fierce or, perhaps, simply wary of children like me ruining his stock. For some reason, he had more postcards of Miss Chase than anyone else.

Pauline Chase was actually an American, born in Washington DC in 1885, but having begun as a child actress in her homeland, she ultimately settled in the UK. If she is known at all these days, it would be for her association with Peter Pan, in which she started in a lesser role for the first production in 1904, graduating to the title role in 1906 when that year’s Peter, Cissie Loftus, was taken ill. J M Barrie was so taken with her performance that she then played Peter until she retired from the stage in 1913. A contemporary review (Daily Mail) for the 1907 productions states that ‘Miss Pauline Chase has improved greatly in her acting…’!

The French script background is from 2 Lil’ Owls.

Related

• Stage Beauty

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First Night Design | The Swan Also Rises

The Swan Also Rises © First Night Design

What does a girl, a plate of food, and a handwritten French document from 2 Lil’ Owls have in common? Nothing. Except all these elements have been combined, believe it or not, to create this piece. It’s astonishing what different shapes and colours can do when blended together. Throw in three different textural backgrounds, also from 2 Lil’ Owls and bought as a bundle from Design Cuts, and a beautiful swan from The Graphics Fairy and you have The Swan Also Rises. Yes, the title tickled me when I thought of it!

Related

• The Swan Sanctuary

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