About this bundle
Dusty Blue Boys Nursery Prints, Set of 155
The story
Why does a dinosaur end up asleep on the moon instead of stomping through it?
Dusty Blue Boys keeps its loudest animal quiet. The one dinosaur in the set isn't mid-roar or mid-stomp; he's curled asleep on a crescent moon, a small gold star for company, dressed the same soft way as everything else in the bundle, because this is a set built around bedtime rather than adventure. An owl wears aviator goggles like he's about to fly somewhere and reconsidered. A dog has already reconsidered and gone back to sleep. A giraffe reads in a pair of round glasses that keep sliding down his nose, and a goose wears sunglasses and a cap with the unbothered confidence of someone who has never once been told to take them off.
The soft outfits do the same job across all 140 single-animal portraits: caps, bows and little jumpers turn a lion into someone's baby rather than the jungle's, and a monkey and an elephant get the same gentle treatment, dressed rather than posed. A bunny steps up to bat mid-swing, and a drummer dog keeps time on his own small kit, two of the more active moments in a set that otherwise prefers a nap to a chase. Dusty blue, sage-olive green, cream and warm sand hold every one of them to the same soft register, so a wall of 140 animals still reads as one calm room instead of a zoo.
More of the story
And what happens once the wall turns to lettering?
15 of the 155 designs step away from the animal portraits, and nine of those are lettering rather than scene. Long Live Boyhood repeats across four different colourways, so the same phrase can run through a room without ever printing the exact same file twice, and Cool Kids Club gets two colourways of its own for the same reason. Play All Day and Boys Rules each get one design apiece, and a Boyhood pennant-flag print sits over a checkerboard ground, the one place in the set where pattern gets to compete with the animals for attention.
The other six stay scenes rather than words: a moon, a leopard cub, a sleepy dachshund, a race car and two separate train designs — and every one of those except the moon is landscape, wide enough to fill the gap above a headboard that a stack of portrait prints usually leaves empty. Because 145 of the 155 are portrait and only 10 are landscape, most of a Dusty Blue Boys wall reads as a gallery of individual characters, with the landscape pieces working as punctuation rather than the main event — a Long Live Boyhood banner over the bed, a train along a shelf, and 140 animals filling in everything around them.
Inside the set
What's inside the 155 dusty blue boys nursery prints?
155 designs split 145 portrait and 10 landscape, organised by ratio in a numbered File Guide so any favourite can be found again.
- Single-animal portraits (140) — an owl in aviator goggles, a sleepy dog, a dinosaur asleep on the moon, a lion, a giraffe in glasses, a goose in sunglasses and a cap, a monkey, an elephant, a bunny at bat, a drummer dog and more, every animal dressed in a soft outfit, cap or bow
- Scene prints (6) — a moon, a leopard cub, a dachshund, a race car and two train designs; the five besides the moon are landscape, built for the wide space above a bed or dresser
- Lettering (9) — Long Live Boyhood in 4 colourways, Cool Kids Club in 2 colourways, Play All Day, Boys Rules, and a Boyhood pennant-flag design on checkerboard
- Format — 145 portrait and 10 landscape designs (the landscapes are #146–155 in the File Guide), each supplied in five ratios at 300 DPI
- No learning charts in this set — Dusty Blue Boys is animal portraits, scenes and lettering only
A closer look
A walk through the 155
Paging through the File Guide in order, the softness runs consistently: the aviator-goggled owl sits a few pages from the bat-ready bunny, and the drummer dog keeps company with a giraffe whose glasses have slipped halfway down his nose, each one dressed rather than posed for action. The dinosaur's nap under a gold star turns up roughly two-thirds of the way through the portraits, easy to miss moving fast and easy to love once found. Near the back, the four Long Live Boyhood colourways and the two Cool Kids Club versions sit interleaved rather than banked together, so a lettering print can be chosen by comparing colourways side by side rather than picking blind. The set closes on the five landscape scenes — leopard cub, dachshund, race car and twin trains — the wide pieces that give a nursery wall its horizon line, with the sleeping moon a portrait print a little earlier.
The facts
At a glance
| Prints | 155 |
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| Orientation | 145 portrait, 10 landscape |
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| Print ratios | 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, ISO A-series, 11x14 in |
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| Resolution | 300 DPI print-ready JPG |
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| Delivery | instant download at checkout, nothing shipped |
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| Licence | personal use |
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| Price | $7.99 |
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The palette
What colours does Dusty Blue Boys use?
Dusty, powder blue carries most of the set, warmed by sage-olive green, cream and ivory, with warm sand and tan filling in the rest. Small stars in gold and dusty blue turn up across several prints, a quiet repeating detail rather than a pattern of their own. The whole palette reads calm rather than babyish, which is why it suits natural wood furniture, cream walls and a plain white or wood frame equally well, and why it doesn't ask to be repainted the day the cot becomes a bed.
Where it belongs
Which rooms is it best for?
- Best for a boy's nursery that should still look right once the cot becomes a bed.
- Best for parents who want lettering options: four Long Live Boyhood colourways mean the phrase never repeats the exact same file twice on one wall.
- Best for the wide space above a bed or dresser, where 10 of the 155 designs are landscape format.
- Best for a family that wants one purchase to cover a nursery gallery wall now and a big-kid bedroom refresh later.
- Prefer bolder colour and vintage sports over soft dusty blue? Retro Boys runs 110 prints in sage, navy and rust instead.
Gifting
A gift that arrives tonight
Dusty Blue Boys is built for the baby shower table: a soft, dusty-blue nursery gift that arrives the same evening, with 155 designs to choose nine or twelve favourites from rather than a fixed set. It works equally well as a grandparent's gift, printed the night before a visit, or as the big-kid-room refresh when a cot comes down for a new sibling and the same palette simply moves rooms. Because the File Guide numbers every design, a gift bought for a newborn and a gift bought for his fourth birthday can both pull favourites from the same bundle. And because delivery is instant, it also covers the shower invitation remembered four days out: pay, download, print before the guests arrive.
Questions
Questions parents ask
What's inside the Dusty Blue Boys bundle?
155 designs: 140 single-animal portraits in soft outfits, caps and bows, plus 15 lettering and scene designs. Those 15 split into 6 scenes — a moon, a leopard cub, a dachshund, a race car and two trains — and 9 lettering prints, including four colourways of Long Live Boyhood and two of Cool Kids Club. Ten of the 155 are landscape format, #146–155 in the File Guide; the other 145 are portrait. There are no learning charts in this set.
How many colourways does Long Live Boyhood come in?
Four. Long Live Boyhood is one of the nine lettering prints in the set, and it repeats across four separate colourways, so the same phrase can be hung without printing the identical file twice. Cool Kids Club gets two colourways of its own, for the same reason.
Is there a dinosaur print in this set?
Yes, one. Among the 140 single-animal portraits sits a dinosaur asleep on the moon, dressed in the same soft style as the rest of the bundle rather than mid-roar. It's a single design within a much wider cast of owls, lions, giraffes and more, not the bundle's main theme.
Will this still suit his room once he's out of the cot?
Yes, that's the palette's whole job. Dusty blue, sage-olive green, cream and warm sand read as a considered, colour-matched room rather than a nursery scheme, so nothing needs repainting when the cot becomes a bed. None of the 155 designs are licensed characters with an age limit to outgrow.
What sizes can I print these in?
Every one of the 155 Dusty Blue Boys designs comes in five ratios at 300 DPI: 2:3 up to 24×36 inches, 3:4 up to 24×32 inches, 4:5 up to 24×30 inches, ISO A5 to A2 (A1 for a statement wall), and 11×14 inch up to about 16×21 inches. Match the ratio to your frame before you print.
What paper should I print on?
Matte photo paper gives the cleanest finish on the dusty blue and sage palette, since it avoids the glare a glossy sheet throws back in a nursery. A smooth 200gsm-plus card stock works as the budget alternative. Print at 100 percent or actual size rather than fit to page, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Can I print more than one copy?
Yes. The personal-use licence on Dusty Blue Boys covers unlimited reprints of any of the 155 files, for your own home and for gifts, at home or at a print shop. The only line the licence draws is against reselling or redistributing the files themselves.
How much does each print work out to?
$7.99 across 155 designs works out to roughly 5 cents a print, covering every ratio and every future reprint, not just one size or one copy. That makes a nursery gallery wall, a hallway print and a birthday gift for a friend's son all payable from the same purchase.
Keep building the room
Pairs well with
Retro Boys (bolder vintage sports palette for when he outgrows soft blue) · Boys Playroom 2 (dinosaur-led sage and mustard for the next stage up)
