At the moment I’m really into vintage illustrated nature studies so for my living room I deciding on some fern prints, mainly because I think they’re cute though also because of their green foliage.
You see, to a fickle girl like me who can’t seem to commit to colour, green feels like a neutral. I always like to include some form of foliage in all of my spaces.
I found the illustrations on the NYPL Digital Gallery website, edited them in Photoshop then simply printed them off onto matte photo paper.
I really love the way they look though best of all they were virtually free!
If you’re interested in using the same fern illustrations as me, for your convenience I have included a link to download them below! I had to enlarge them slightly, so the image quality is not impeccable though I personally like them that way. The look genuinely old, faded and imperfect. These prints are designed to fit standard 11″ x 8.5″ certificate frames (this includes having a visible paper border as can be seen in mine). I bought my frames for just $2 each from a discount variety store.
I hope you like them!
SOURCES
Photo Paper (Kodak)
Picture Frames (21cm x 28cm/8.5″ x 11″ Certificate Frames)
CREDITS
NYPL Digital Gallery
FREE PRINTABLE!
Eight vintage fern studies.
Click here to view and download.
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This is so clever and something I never really thought about doing..printing the images myself I mean.
I always go looking for vintage postcards or images but I will definitely be trying this next time.
This looks so great! I love the proportions for the space. And thank you so much for sharing!
What a great idea! I’m off to check out the digital gallery now!
-Diana
i love your taste! so clean and fresh and still has to much character!
Julie :)
Looks great!
Those are so sweet!
~ Emily N. from “too Blessed to Stress”
Love love love your frames and fern prints. Which dollar store were the frames from?
I always enjoy your posts and am looking forward for the lounge room photo’s. I hope it’s soon.
xo
Kristine- What a beautiful job! It is just wonderful~ xo Diana
Giov, I found the frames at a random discount store in a local shopping complex near my home in Australia. I don’t think they have a chain of stores.
Kristine
I love fern- thanks for sharing this, it looks amazing! And thanks for conveniently linking the pictures, too, it’s appreciated!
Love these. thank you! What did you print them on? cardstock?
Just found your blog through Pinterest and I’m so happy I landed here. Love your decorating style. I’m now a follower.
Great inspiration and link. The ferns and frames are perfect. Thanks for doing the investigating for the rest of us. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
i love the idea of plant illustrations! thanks for sharing!
I never knew about the NYPL Digital Library…supercool resource! Your fern print set is just gorgeously pristine and striking. Thank you so much for sharing it and the link to the Library. :)
Arrived via Today’s Creative Blog…cheers!
AMAZING! Thanks so much, I just sent them to my husband to print to work, thank you!
What size did you print them?
they look great
Hi Gladys
They are printed onto standard size (A4) copier paper. The images themselves are around 17cm wide x 23cm long.
Cheers.
I see that you did this a few years ago but I just found it and I was so excited to see you had edited them for your viewers. Its really so nice of you, I just printed them off to go above my sofa like yours. And my middle name is Fern so it works out great for me. This really was so nice of you to do all this for us to use. Thank you!!!
It’s my pleasure Jen. Thanks for letting me know you appreciate it. I’m actually about to post a set of nine larger fern images (maybe next week) if you’re after more of a different size :-)
Hi Jen. Just a little update to let you know that the new larger high quality fern printables are now available for free download. Find them here: https://thepaintedhive.net/2014/05/free-fern-printables/
:-)
Love the way these turned out for my freshly painted gray powder room! Thanks so much for doing the leg work for me. Wish I could add a photo to show you
I would LOVE to see a photo Marla! Feel free to email me: thepaintedhive@gmail.com.
Kristine
Thanks for posting this! I am working on the background of the set for my upcoming photoshoot and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you, great post!
Thank you! Printed these and they look great!
Awesome Jennifer. That’s lovely to hear :)
I found these by chance and I think they’re AMAZING. If I find a spot for them I’ll definitely let you know!!
Thank you so much! I made three pressed ferns for my bathroom, but they faded to yellow. I was going to buy prints, but thought I would see if there were any that were printable. These are perfect and look so good!!!
Thanks Patty. So glad you’ve found them useful :)
If you’d ever like more, I do have some other free printable botanicals (https://thepaintedhive.net/free-printables/).
Cheers
Absolutely stunning!!!
Love everything that you did, great inspiration!!!
Thanks Bernadette :)
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