a newbie crafter's fun and creative journey..
Our cupboard is crammed full of coffee mugs. I love them with passion. And I could never get enough of photo coffee mugs. I’m a coffee and tea lover so this might explain the obsession but you must admit there are just some so quirky and unique mugs out there that its hard for me to resist them.
Take for instance, I went window surf shopping awhile ago and saw this: We Are Godesses Mug. I WANT! And this would make a perfect gift for girlfriends. This one’s available here.
It’s been a crazy little while since I last posted a freebie. Not that I wasn’t making any more freebies and digi scrapping stuff, I was simply distracted with life. How I wish I could say I’ve been learning how to play BBE Guitars but that would be a bit of a stretch since I don’t really have much of a musical aptitude. I was simply swept with life and chores.
A mom and home-maker is one really tough job. The toughest one I had/have ever. Hmm, its also stressful and every so often I find myself frustrated that I cannot do this and that, but then that’s only for a while. I realize I’m lucky and I think feeling like that is normal. Thankfully, I have several hobbies like digi scrapping that keeps me calm and relieves stress.
Right now I’m still digging vintage-y and grunge-y effects. And I made a few buttons (with no holes), I keep thinking of those fabric embossed buttons. My mom used to have dresses before with buttons with floral fabric designs.
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This is for Personal Use only (PU only). I was thinking of making it available for any use, but I made use of Crazy-Alice Vintage Floral Patterns on some of the buttons and she only allows Personal Use, so let’s abide with that. Credits also to Ars Grafik for some text brushes used.
Here’s what I had been working on for sometime and I’m quite shamefaced to admit that this has been stalled for sometime already. Put on the backburner so to speak coz my plate is quite full right now. I know sometimes I feel like I’m suffering from apidexin side effects but I’ve trying little by little to finish this and it looks like I’m making some progress.
I’m making a kit based on cherry blossoms. I love these blooms, and I can’t help but think pink, romance, warmth, love and friendship when I see colors associated with this.
I will be releasing this exclusively for Artscow Free of charge. So Artscow members can add this kit to their accounts and use it on their personalized photo project free of charge. I’m still thinking if I’ll release this here as a kit, but if I do this, I’ll be adding more elements and backgrounds for more flexibility.
Till then and till I can finish the whole set, I’m just posting a preview of the kit:
This resource is simply awesome. It’s one of my favorite resources for commercial and unlimited use scrapbooking and graphic elements. Granny is one awesome digital art maker. I keep imagining her wearing prescription sunglasses and having the time of her life creating fabulous digital art. And what makes her even more awesome is her generosity in sharing her artwork to the community.
The artist behind GrannyArt is really a granny. And I was totally surprised when I read on her ‘About Page that she in fact has 5 children, 17 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. How cool is that.
She has lots of freebies available, scrapping elements like flowers, baskets, and she has some totally adorable characters. Check out her blog site.
It’s been like eons since I last designed for Artscow and I’ve been browsing my shared templates there to check out what I’ve done last time. I think I had been fixated on cosmetic bags and cushion pillow cases and of course no yomega yoyo or any other gift stuff. I made a lot of cosmetic cases mostly because I was ordering a few for Christmas and I also made pillow cases just coz I like them. Lol. And I was pleasantly surprised to see that my pillow case designs attracted a lot of copies. Yay! Somebody else must have liked em.
Anyway, I’ll be sharing them here. Some sort of teaser/preview. If you want some personalized pillow cases, you can order these from Artscow. Use of the template is free, you just need to pay for the pillow (about $13.99 each) and the shipping.
Now this is what I love about Artscow! Freebies and giveaways!!! And here a very very generous one worth $300! You simply need to register at Artscow.com, and on your credit & discount area, validate the giveaway code and you’ll get more than 35 products free! While it may not include an outrageous personalized indoor tv antennas, it does include a lot of cutesy, personalized gift items you can tweak to your heart’s content.
Here’s a screenshot of my credit page and the freebies I got!
I feel like its Christmas in April. Just hurry and grab this springtime giveaway.
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This isn’t strictly a graphic design or digiscrapping resource but designers would surely find this very useful. When I started playing around with graphic designing, I had just the basic fonts. But as you go along you tend to accumulate a lot of resources, like textures, images, vectors etc etc. And one way to enhance a design or to make it standout is to use a well suited and unique font. So as time goes, you also accumulate hundreds if not thousands of fonts.
It works the same way as you thinking you don’t need any Tube Bending but end up with thousands of it. After a while I just noticed, I had thousands of fonts and I seriously can’t keep track of it. Also, if you install all these fonts, well for sure your computer system is bound to slow down.
The best solution now is to have a font manager where you can keep all your font collection in one folder and be able to preview each font to see if its suitable for each project. Now there are loads of font managers, paid or free out there, check out Smashing Magazine’s list of 25 Font Management Tools for various OS/platforms to check out what is most suitable for you.
As for myself, I found a good match and I would highly recommend this free Font Manager called NexusFont.
There are several things I love about this font manager..
Ola! I’m back with a freebie! And I hope with this freebie offering, I’ll be forgiven for leaving digi scrapbooking for awhile and getting seriously sidetracked with crocheting. Hmm, I know this would be much appreciated than say a snark tuner at GC? Anyway, I have Photoshop brush pack for today. I picked out high [...]
Here’s a belated New Year’s gift to everyone. And since I can’t possibly afford to give all my blog readers avo cigar so I made a brand new freebie pack for download. I was making a background pattern for one of my blogs and I wanted a floral background. I was experimenting with various color [...]
It’s freebie time! Sorry it took me over a week to post another one. I was actually scrambling to put this together since these are some stuff I made a few months back. Seriously, my graphic design files are in need of symbol barcode scanner just for me to keep track. Oftentimes, I would make [...]
Here’s something nice (i hope!!) for everyone. Halloween is coming up and I know some of you are looking to make some Halloween home decor, scrapbooks and whatnots, so I made this. I actually made this coz I was planning on making some trick or treat bag tags and wanted a unique background, but as [...]
Freebie time! And I have a ‘new’ something for everyone. Well, new for me at least. It’s been awhile since I gave out a freebie for Photoshop and this time I have Free Photoshop Action set. I love photography and I love photo manipulation. I have a crazy love affair going on with photo editing [...]
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