Click image to download alphabet file
Today's freebie is a page of black and white damask alphabet letters. Print them and use on your papercraft, scrapbooking or decoupage projects.
This freebie is non-commercial and for personal use only. Feel free to link back to this post, but please do not post the letters for download elsewhere. Merci.
I'd love to see how you use them. Send a photo of your project and I'll post it!
My new cuffs arrived today. Hooray! I'm attending a "Black & White" party next month and was having trouble finding accessories to go with my rather plain black dress. I wanted something with a little edge to it and Christina at Last Minute Clothing on Etsy saved the day. These hand-made black & white cuffs are perfect. The inset photos on the bottom feature a sampling of her other designs.
Lost & Taken - textures and the pursuit of happiness
If you aren't aware of Lost & Taken you should be. Created by designer Caleb Kimbrough, this site offers free digital textures for download. They are high resolution and high quality and free for personal and commercial use. The above collage is composed of three of my favorites from his vintage wallpaper textures collection.
Please respect his hard work by not hosting the textures elsewhere or redistributing them in their original format, if you would like to share with others direct them back to Lost & Taken.
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The new Freebies blog section is finally up! The first freebie are these gift tags that you can download and print to adorn your packages for the upcoming holidays. I think they'd look really cute with a hole punched in the upper left-hand corner and some red twine to attach to your gifts.
These tags are non-commercial and for personal use only. Feel free to link back to this post, but please do not post the tags for download elsewhere. Merci.
If you've been wanting to do custom greeting cards for the holidays—now's your chance. Zazzle is offering 50% off all greeting cards, invitations, flat cards and photo cards today only (November 16, 2010)—plus FREE shipping. There are thousands of styles to choose from and you can create your own design if you don't find an existing design you like. The above two-sided card is my design for our holiday cards. So handy to have a pre-printed signature if your penmanship isn't the best in world which mine isn't.
To get the discount enter ZAZZLECARD50 during the checkout process.
I'm all about some good coffee and supporting smaller, locally owned businesses. On a recent trip to Portland, OR I discovered Stumptown Coffee Roasters. They make a dizzying array of coffee beverages and as their name indicates, they do all the roasting themselves. You can even see it person at their Division Street location.
I'm also a fan of their business card design. I love way the stack of cups resembles a rough woodcut print and the rounded corners and textured paper are just the type of careful attention to detail I respect. Even the cappuccino is a mini work of art. I mean just look at that heart in the foam. I heart Stumptown.
I liked the retro feel of the vibrant gold and bronze tones with the super-saturated turquoise. I've also been fascinated later with Moorish patterns and designs so I decided to combine the colors and pattern inspiration into a very modern calling card. It's oversized and two-sided to stand out from the crowd of regular business cards.
I also decided to have minimal contact info on the back. Just a mobile number and e-mail instead of the old school street address, land line, mobile and fax. Those are really the two most common pieces of info most people now use to communicate.
I've only been using those two bits of info for my personal business cards for the past year now and I haven't run into any problems yet.
What's your experience with this? Do you have tons of information on your business cards or just the bare bones? I'd love to hear your experiences.
