It’s hard to ignore that Valentines Day is almost upon us. But even if you’re not into the romantic or commercial aspects of Valentines Day, it’s still a great day to celebrate and embrace one of our favorite symbols – the heart. The heart symbol always reminds us of the tender connection we have to [...]
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Update! I used to list my links here for hundreds of free purse patterns and tutorials, however you can now find them here on my Pinterest page so go check them out. I update frequently so make sure either “follow” me on Pinterest, or bookmark the site and check back often. And if you want [...]
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Week Nine of The Artist’s Way This week’s artist date involved spending several hours with my digital photography group out on a photo shoot at the beautiful Cranes Roost Park. I’m still not the world’s best photographer but I did manage to hold the camera still long enough to get some fairly decent texture shots [...]
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This project has been updated and is now available as a free download. You can find it here.
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I’ve been making a lot of textured backgrounds this last week or so to use as pages in my Image Transfer Art Journal which you can see here. Once I paint the backgrounds I scan them into photoshop and save them as high resolution digital images so I can re-use them in other projects – [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I seem to do a lot of internet travel during the course of a week. Some weeks it’s like visiting with your least favorite relative and you can’t wait to leave, but other weeks it’s like Christmas where you get to discover new and amazing wonders. I’ve founds lots [...]
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Every so often I come across a piece of free software that is *really* useful. It doesn’t happen too often, but I’m always eternally grateful when I find one. And recently I stumbled across a program called Calibre which is an ebook manager. I love signing up for newsletters from websites that interest me because [...]
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Today another free ebook found its way to me. I’m fairly discerning about the books I read these days, and find that lots of free ebooks are barely worth opening let alone reading. However this one is a little different, a little thoughtful and a little challenging. It’s a workbook that accompanies a “real” book [...]
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I’m always on the lookout for great textures to use when working with Photoshop Elements as I tend to use layers upon layers upon layers of different types of textures and images to create visual depth and complex texture when making my digital art. There are so many wonderful free texture downloads on the web [...]
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What’s better than fabric? Well, maybe not better, but certainly in the ball-park …. Fabric Textures of course! And high resolution fabric textures at that. The Thinkdesign Blog has kindly made available for free a fabulous high resolution “Fabric Fold” texture pack and you can download them here. Because these are high resolution images, this [...]
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