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:
Just in case you aren't too French-proficient, "Activites Manuelles" loosely translates into 'handmade skills,' not "Manuel's Activities" as...*cough* some 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:
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.
A cool find!
Black and white illustrations in clip art form
for all your designing needs.
A few of my favorite are below:

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?
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.