For anyone who is looking for text to use on a embroidery or crazy quilted project, designing a needlework sampler, or simply looking for some fresh ideas to spice up Christmas cards and gift tags fonts are a great source of inspiration. Changing fonts in visual journal apart from training …
The last few evenings have been spent poking about the net looking at various Photoshop brushes mainly because I have been designing my own. I found some more great Photoshop brushes online and thought I may as well share the links. Most people require a link back to their site …
This is really a resource for those who own Photoshop. Kelly Gammons of opera floozy has designed and offered free some fantastic Photoshop brushes which you can download, unzip and drop the .abr file in the …/presets/brushes folder of in your Adobe directory. Only your imagination can limit you. Brushes …
Some people get muddled when talking about colour. For instance hue and tone get mixed up. Do you know what chromaticity or luminance is? Here is a Colour Glossary which is fully illustrated explaining the terms used by artists and desoigners when speaking about with colour.
For font freaks I have just found these free Art Nouveau and Art Deco Fonts. There is a caveat on the site stating that they are possibly not up to professional standards but for anyone designing a sampler, wanting text that can be used on an embroidery or crazy quilted …
Unfortunately in the online craft community copyright infringement of patterns and designs is a widespread problem. Around the globe everyday illegal copying is going on. Copyscape is an interesting search engine for anyone wanting to find out if any of their work has been plagiarized. Enter a URL of a …
Anyone who has ever done any sort of creative activity has had times when their mind just goes blank – nothing comes or worse what does develop is like thick peanut butter on the kitchen bench. A globby mess! This is when it is handy to have a few tricks …
