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Free Download: Baker's Twine Vector Brush + Digital Images--Now In All Colors!

I am excited to offer you this free download for your personal design needs: Baker's Twine Vector Brush!
{Commercial License also available}


Downloading Instructions: To use this vector brush, you will need Adobe Illustrator CS or up, and all you have to do is download the .zip file, extract its contents, and open the .eps file, which will open automatically into Illustrator.

**New! A Commercial License is now available for purchase in my Etsy shop for only $5.00 USD! Click Here to go to my Shop, Paradis Designs and to read more about the License.**

But, my non-illustrator-owning friends, do not fear, for I made a freebie for you, too!
The Twine Digital Image Pack.
Since the holidays are around the corner, here are some twine-errific {sorry, it's late and I want to go home} sentiments and accessories you can add to your Christmas cards, blog posts, digital scrapbook, or print them out and glue them to a tag for your gifts!

Click on each link below to download these freebies:


new year, new desktop background.


Happy new year!

Simplify your desktop.

Agence Eureka: Activites Manuelles scanned images

Just in case you aren't too French-proficient, "Activites Manuelles" loosely translates into 'handmade skills,' not "Manuel's Activities" as...*coughsome people...may think. I love these scanned images from Agence Eureka's treasure chest of vintage European images. I think they'd look lovely in a simple frame and hung in a baby or toddler nursery, or perched on top of a shelf or a wooden dresser.


I'm working on a fun freebie for you so check back soon! Here's a little preview:

Best Kept Secret: Summertime Designs

I don't know if it's really a secret or not, but I like to think that it is because I've managed to keep it to myself for the past year since I discovered it! Here it is:

Have you heard of the blog Summertime Designs? Summer Driggs is a fabulous web and graphic designer who offers free digital scrapbooking kits every couple of months. And these are jam-packed, well-designed kits full of textured backgrounds, clip art images, "ribbons", quotes, and so much more. I am constantly amazed at her talent and creativity, and generosity, because most of her kits are free! And she just started a blog called Two Bucks That's All!, and if you ask me, $2 for all these digital goodies is an incredible deal.


My favorite kits are:





{how does she come up with these names? haha =}


These are just a few. She even has a couple Halloween-themed kits that I love.
I've used them for church handouts, fliers, advertising posters, greeting cards, my own blog headers in the past, so many uses! 
Thank you for sharing, Summer.

Picnik Collages

Last summer I put together these collages of pictures of my family.
I then printed them out onto 8 1/2'' by 11'' photo paper for my mom to take them as gifts for our family in Mexico.
I was surprised at how easy it is to make digital scrapbookpages with picnik. Too easy!
Click here to make your own awesome collages.
Try their Christmas collages, too, and make your own personalized Christmas photo card.
It's just as fun as making a real paper collage, I promise.

teacher clip art

A cool find!
Black and white illustrations in clip art form
for all your designing needs.
See the site here.
A few of my favorite are below:

Pattern Inspiration

This site provides hundreds of patterns for inspiration--in any color, shape, and form you can imagine! Aren't they beautiful?

digital design essentials: free fonts!

I love these fonts from digital design essentials.

yesterday...

...my incredibly wonderful husband bought me the production premium adobe creative suite cs4! They are having amazing sales for students. Will you believe it's 80% off? With free shipping?? They're practically giving it away! hooray! only until September 30, though...hurry! :}

august free printables: feed your soul






Just a peek of the free printable art this month at Feed Your Soul.

another picnik







I'm loving the cross-process & 1960's effects at picnik.com.

have a picnik


Pictures from camp 2009, edited & compiled using picnik
When I don't want to use the very complex photoshop program to quickly touch up images, I sometimes use picnik because it's easy {and free} to use. I originally found this photo-editing site through creature comforts. Pretty cool, no?

inspiration

I want to frame some of these free downloads. Yes, you read right. Free downloads.
Download beautiful, unique art for free at Feed Your Soul. They are an inspiration to me.

photofunia

Ever done this? Upload your photo to photofunia and make yourself a convicted felon.

Vector Brushes

I had mentioned before that I love using photoshop brushes {it's kind of like cheating...but not really}. Now I find that I can cheat on Illustrator! I'm way excited. My work just got easier.

Free Vector graphics on www.keepdesigning.com, via How About Orange. {thank you!}

Typography Newbie

Any graphic designer will tell you how important typography is in a design.
{No, it doesn't mean the study of how many typos you make...}

Wikki says:
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and (kerning) adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

I love the words leading, tracking, kerning. I am an aspiring typographer. I love words and fonts and designing with them. I'll show you what I mean when I finally finish my portfolio website~ it's on the cusp of completion!

In the meantime, this website has a list of the top 10 fonts used in 2008. I never buy fonts, though. I download them from dafont.com or fontgarden.com. You can too! They just opened the design world to me and I haven't been able to close my eyes since.