Scrapping Freebie: Coffee Stickies

At least this freebie made it on a Tuesday! Hahaha. I’m just awfully busy most of the time and  I tend to miss my freebie postings. Right now I’m on vacation and tomorrow I’m traveling back to Phnom Penh. I know I should not feel obligated to come up with freebies weekly, and no it doesn’t make me feel like I’m being hounded by collection agencies whenever I miss posting, but still I wanna strive to post at least one freebie per week. Even if its not on Tuesday. But the ‘tuesday freebie’ title would stay coz I’m just too lazy to think up another title hehe..

Anyhow, I got some vacation lowdown a few days ago, and my mother’s cup collection inspired me to come up with some sticker like wordart for scrappers. I’m sure coffee lovers and digital scrapbookers would love this..

Coffee Stickers Freebie

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Enjoy! This download is ok for PU and CU.

Tuesday Freebie: 10 Pattern Embossed Frames

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Better late than never! I don’t have any excuse for this late posting except that I was having lots of fun tweaking around this freebie. The most important reason why I like posting freebies here is that I am forced to learn more and more about graphic design. I read a lot of tutorials and apply what I learned. Most of my experiments are then posted here. They are freebies coz I’m hoping somebody else could make use of them instead of them just rotting away on my hard drive.

I always feel giddy whenever I learn something new. It’s the same exact feeling whenever you just had a sinfully delicious Shari’s Berries cupcakes. This time I had been trying to learn how make embossed effects on pattern. There’s just a whole new world opening up whenever one takes the chance to tweak hues, saturation, curves etc or whatever image attributes you can tweak on Photoshop. I found a super awesome tutorial by PSHero on how to do embossed textures and using it for frames and I followed some of his tweaks then I also added some tweaks since what I wanted were just frames that can be used by anybody, and voila! I have these gorgeous patterned and embossed frames!

10 Colors: Black, White, Black-Red, Green, Gold, Peach, Pink, Purple, Red and Royal Blue.

10 Free Pattern Embossed Frames

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Of course, this is free for everyone Personal or Commercial Use. As long as you don’t claim this as your own work.

Here’s a little preview. I loved this so I got giddy and made a preview for each frame..

Red-Black Patterned & Embossed Frame

Gold-Brown Patterned Embossed Frame

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Design Resource: Web Treats ETC

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

A Few Days Off..

Yup! I took a few days off. We had a week-long holiday here in Phnom Penh and we thought its high time we get out of the city. We haven’t gone anywhere for a month or so, and I was getting antsy. The best thing about living here in Phnom Penh is that, its easy to go to some of the greatest Asian cities and destinations. Everyone wanted someplace that is near and where we didn’t have to take a plane and with some great sights, great food and some shopping. We all then settled on… Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

A few hours bus ride from Phnom Penh and we were there. Spent a whole day touring some of the city sights and a night and a day doing some shopping. Of course, Vietnamese food is just soo delicious, and a bit familiar since I’ve been used to Cambodian cuisine already. There was no danger for me to watch out for food allergies austin, so it was a food fest for us too.

My favorite place to visit in Ho Chi Minh? The General Post Office! I feel like I went on time travel whenever I visit this place…

Ho Chi Minh - General Post Office

...lovely French Colonial architecture..Ho Chi Minh City General Post Office

After all these, I’m all rested and revved up. And inspired too, to get working on some crafting freebies soon :) )

On the Drawing Board..

My!  The freebie for this week is coming in late. I did try to get it in time for Tuesday but I was not feeling well the past few days. I wish I could say its just a simple side effect of apidexin but its not. I was nauseous the whole time, hubby thinks I might be having a little one. Were crossing our fingers, but I’m not really putting up too much hope coz this has happened in the past and we ended up being disappointed..Anyway, it’ll come when it comes. I do hope to be blessed with a little boy soon.

Back to the crafting stuff, what’s on my drawing board? Patterned alphabet stickers for scrapbookers! I have several sets currently being made and I’ll giving that out as freebies. Watch out for it, soon!

Tuesday Freebie: 6 Business Card Templates

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Hi! I’ve been busy! My fascination with Photoshop and Illustrator was at its peak this past week. Lol! I was hanging about reading tutorials and how to’s. Right now, I’m pretty much obsessed with making light effects and bokeh effects. This is what I love doing, you know I feel like the things to learn and know is never ending. I could never get to the end my list coz there’s always something interesting around the corner.

I was also busy having out printer repaired. Hubby has some receipts to print but I think he should just buy receipt printer for that. Anyway, the printer is well and fine now so I could print stuff I make. Yay to that!

Here’s what I have for you this Tuesday.. Business Card Templates! Somebody asked me to make a business card and I ended up making several. This is okay for personal use only. This is in PSD format and I made them using Photoshop CS4.

Free Business Card Template PSD

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Tuesday Freebie: 2 Quote Wallpapers

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Hurray to me! I have finally gotten around to resuming blog posting here. Heh. At least now I’m not too preoccupied with life, I’m done with my quest to find find personalized hoodies online and doing a whole lot of other stuff. Sigh. I really had to push myself to get back to work and resume my web maintenance activities as well as blog writing. It was actually looking at my Google Adsense earnings that pushed me. Hahaha. It’s pitiful, compared to the previous months that I was religiously updating my sites.

Anyway, here’s two wallpapers I made from two quotes I really like. I have also been experimenting with brushes and came up with these. These are free for everyone to use. Hope you guys like it. Size is 1280×1024.

Here’s one about motherhood:

Mother  Quote - Free Wallpaper

And another one about life:

Life Quote - Free Wallpaper

Floating in Music

When I’m working on something creative, I like listening to music. Classics, instrumentals are usually my staple music to lull me into a really creative mood. When I was not home for a few months, hubby prepared a really nice surprise for me. He bought me surround speakers!! Yay! for me coz now I feel like I’m floating in music. The downside though is that instead of working I find myself getting sleepy.

I guess I haven’t really adjusted back to my old working schedule. This would take a bit of time. I have actually done installing all the programs I need so I could get back into my graphic designing and digi scrapbooking hobby but I have yet to start a single project. Sigh. A really big sigh. I’m still catching up with a lot of chores around the house. Its really not the same as when I was home and doing the chores myself. I’m still doing spot cleaning and thank God I have my music with me.

Anyway, hopefully I could come up with new scrapping kits and of course freebies for my Tuesday Freebies project. Wish me lots of luck!