Hemlock Lace is a set of 30 purple floral background papers in mulberry, plum and soft grey. Foxglove spires, berry sprays and fine leaf stems drift over clouded washes of cream and stone, with gold flecks caught in the mist. It is the third kit in The Poison Garden series from Artful Safari, and the quieter, lighter end of the set.
The 30 sheets were drawn as one collection, so any two of them layer together without the colours arguing. Use them for a scrapbook page, a dark cottagecore album, a junk journal spread or a moody card.
What is in this purple floral background kit
30 papers, each a finished 12 x 12 inch page design rather than a repeating tile:
- 14 allover botanical papers, plum and grey flowers, berries and leaves covering the sheet corner to corner, from dense and dark to fine and scattered
- 6 open-centre papers, botanicals gathered around the edges and corners with the middle left as plain wash, so a photo or a block of writing sits straight on top
- 6 trailing spire papers, foxglove spires and hanging stems running the full height of the page over a pale ground
- 4 wash blender papers, clouded mulberry, grey and cream with gold flecks and no botanicals at all
File formats and sizes
- 30 high-resolution JPG files
- 12 x 12 inches, 3600 x 3600 pixels
- 300 DPI, ready for print or screen
- Instant digital download. The pack is too large to attach directly, so you receive a PDF of download links
Works with
Any app that opens a JPG. That includes Procreate, Photoshop, Affinity, Canva, GoodNotes, and digital scrapbooking software such as Artisan. Nothing has to be unlocked or converted first. You can print a sheet at home, though at 12 x 12 it will be reduced or cropped to fit US Letter or A4.
How to use Hemlock Lace on a page
Start with an open-centre sheet and drop the photo or the journaling into the plain wash in the middle. The border does the decorating, so nothing else is needed to finish the page.
Across a spread, pair one allover botanical with a wash blender rather than running two busy sheets side by side. The spire papers read as vertical lines, which is usually enough contrast to carry the second page on its own.
Styling ideas
For a soft gothic look, cut a narrow band off a trailing spire sheet and lay it down one edge of a blender. For a fuller junk journal page, tear the edge of an allover botanical over a pale wash and let the gold flecks catch along the seam. Same purple floral background papers, different spacing.
What you can make with this purple floral background paper
Scrapbook and memory-keeping pages, junk journal spreads and signatures, wedding and anniversary albums, greeting cards, invitations, tags, book covers, planner decoration, collage, and printed backgrounds for quotes or lettering. The licence covers small-business use, so the papers can also sit behind a product line you sell.
Why this purple floral background set works
Dark floral paper usually leaves you nowhere to put the words. Hemlock Lace is the pale end of The Poison Garden: six of the thirty sheets are built with an open middle, four more are plain washes, and most of the rest keep a misted centre, so dark ink and photographs still read on top. The dense botanical sheets are there for the pages that want to be loud.
Licence
For personal and small-business use. You can sell finished products made with the papers, such as cards, prints, printables and journals. You cannot resell, share or redistribute the paper files themselves, and they cannot be sold on as a digital product.
Instant download
Your files are ready the moment you check out. The link is on the order confirmation and in your account, so you can come back for it later. Nothing is posted to you.
Frequently asked questions
What size are the papers?
12 x 12 inches at 300 DPI, which is 3600 x 3600 pixels, saved as JPG.
Are these seamless repeating tiles?
No. Each one is a finished 12 x 12 page design. They sit beside each other well, but they will not tile edge to edge with themselves.
Can I print them on Letter or A4?
Yes, at a reduced size or cropped to the part you want. If you need pages that print edge to edge on Letter, the junk journal kits in the shop are the ones built for that.
How dark are they really?
Lighter than the rest of The Poison Garden. Most sheets keep a pale centre or a misted ground, so a photograph or handwriting on top of them still shows.
Can I use them on things I sell?
Yes. Finished pages, cards and printables you make with the papers are fine to sell. The paper files themselves are not.
