Graphic Design Resource: Font Squirrel

November 27, 2012 By 1 Comment

Here’s another one to add to my list of favorite design resources. I love free design resources and you can see I have a blog category here called Scrapbooking Resources where I feature design resources, freebie sites, font sites and so on.

Whenever I have some free time, I am usually on the prowl for design inspirations and resources. So while others perhaps find joy in browsing 99perfume.com for joop perfume, I am usually on a creative site hunt.

Anyhow, one of my favorite places for font resources is Font Squirrel.

It’s a free font repository, you can download lots of fonts there. While their selections are not as extensive as big font sites, I love how clean, structures and easily navigated the site is. They also make it doubly easier for web designer to make use of the fonts with their Font Face Generators. Also, their fonts are 100% free for commercial use.

Retro Fonts at Font Squirrel

Comic Fonts at Font Squirrel

They have an awesome collection of comic and retro fonts, which are really great if you are making scrapbook pages. Check them out.

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Graphic Design Resource: Wood Workshop

October 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Hi guys! How are things?

I’m supposed to post my latest freebie and my first Photoshop Action but its not ready yet. Well, its almost ready, I just need to make the samples etc. I intended to do it yesterday, but I was sent on an errand to buy knee walkers. And therefore got badly distracted. But do expect that freebie PS Action to be posted soon here.

For now, I’d like to share this really nice graphic design resource called Wood Workshop. It’s a free software where you can create seamless wood textures.

Wood Works Seamless Pattern Generator

Here’s a sample texture I generated using a plain beige texture. It’s so easy to make and the combinations you can play with it just amazing! Well worth downloading.

Wood Works Seamless Texture Generator

This is really a great help. Creating seamless textures can be time consuming and this little free software makes things really fast and easy.

Filed Under: Scrapbooking resources, Software~Web Talk

Design Resource: Shizoo Design

May 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Before you check out this design resource I’m featuring, make sure your laptop batteries are fully charged or plugged in. Lol. You’ll be going gaga downloading cute stuff. Whenever I venture on this resource site, I always prepare myself for a downloading frenzy.

Trust me they have super cute stuff!

I found this site via Deviant Art and now they have their own website where your can get your fill of cute graphic goodness. I LOVE their brushes (especially those that look watercolored, text and grunge brushes). It’s also a must to check out their pattern and texture page. They are awesome, especially if you are looking for some cute background textures for a web or any graphic design projects.

In fact, this is where I get the backgrounds I use for my personal blogs.

The resource site I am raving about is Shizoo Design - your daily websource drug. You can also check out their Deviant Art page.

Shizoo Design Free Brushes Page

brushes, and more brushes!

Shizoo Design Free Textures Page

just gorgeous textures..

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking resources

Scrapping Resource: GrannyArt

April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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.

Scrapping Freebies at GrannyArt.Blogspot.com

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.

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking resources

Scrapping Freebie: Subtly Spring Tags

February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Here’s our freebie for today. Some tag elements for your scrapping projects. I was actually thinking of making some steel rings rimmed buttons as freebies but I saw this color scheme and I loved it to bits. It’s a bit like spring, and makes me think of fresh breeze, flowers and such. I like the subtle pale-ish colors so I ended up making a couple of tags for everyone.

Scrapping Freebie: Subtly Spring Tags

~ Download ~

 

These are in.png format and no shadowing yet so you can customize it for your projects. Slap in some text or graphics and it’ll be cute. I used some of Gunhild‘s string freebies as I was too lazy to make some of my own. Hahaha..

Please read my TOU’s included in the zip file.

Filed Under: Commercial Use (CU), Personal Use Only (PU), Scrapbooking resources

Design Resource: Color Blendy Google Chrome App

February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

There are just days you need to have a few colors handy, or a color scheme for  a web tweaking project and you don’t want to fire up Adobe Photoshop. I get those days, often. Photoshop can be quite heavy and slows down the machine and this is would be a bit like pounding your head on hard laminate flooring specially when you need to have several apps running for work.

Color Blendy Chrome Extension

If you’re just in need of some colors and want to blend it without opening up a bulky graphic software, then Color Blendy App for Google Chrome Browser might just save you. I find this specially useful when tweaking or coding CSS and I want different color variations. The biggest plus would be the color codes, different modes like multiply, screen, dogde, burn etc.

Color Blendy Chrome Extension

The biggest draw would be: it works offline! It’s a native app not a bookmark so you can use it even without net connection. How cool is that?

Filed Under: Scrapbooking resources, Software~Web Talk

Design Resource: Web Treats ETC

October 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’m currently working on something nice for digital scrapbookers and will be posting it on my Tuesday Freebie next week. Yesterday, I had been browsing around for nice patterns, while I’m supposed to be looking for flexible metal hose! Sigh. No wonder I could never get anything finished on time, I get easily distracted. Anyway, while I was looking for seamless patterns I came across a website offering freebies – icons, textures, wallpapers, patterns, and even wordpress themes.

I downloaded a few of their patterns and I love it! Good quality patterns and especially if you love ‘vintage’ themed designs you’d love this site. And the best thing is that their freebies are free for personal or commercial work. The site is called Web Treats ETC and its worth bookmarking if you are a designing or scrapping enthusiast.

WebTreats ETC

Filed Under: Scrapbooking resources, Software~Web Talk
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