Free Spooky Brushes by Scrappin Cop on deviantART
Free Halloween Cat’s Brush by Altergromit on deviantART
Free Halloween Brushes by by ~MorfineDoll-stock on deviantART
More Free cool Halloween brushes by ~XxMortanixX at deviantART
Free wound brushes by ~nemo-stock at deviantART
Free Creepy Tree Brushes by ~deathoflight at deviantART
Design Fruit: Stitchy Circles
Over at Design Freebies, they have a fantastic collection of resources for Halloween that include fonts, icon sets, and Photoshop brushes.
Urban Scrawl by Tamsin Baker, she is just fantastic. Check out her stuff here. You can also download it from Tamsins deviantART page here.
Another great Halloween Set by AJK Original Stock
I don’t know if i have mentioned deviantART before but its a fantastic resource and showcase for artists and designers. You can browse through hundreds of original artworks or download free fonts, brushes, vectors etc so check it out here
BEST IPHONE APP EVER!!!!!!
Get your color inspiration and create your color scheme from these PANTONE color system libraries:
PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® (coated, uncoated and matte)
PANTONE Goe™ (coated and uncoated)
PANTONE Pastels (coated and uncoated)
PANTONE FASHION + HOME (paper and cotton)
Includes sRGB, HTML and L*a*b* for all colorsYou can capture and extract colors from photos and snap to the closest PANTONE Color:
Images loaded on your iPhone
Directly from images taken by your iPhone camera
Automatically generates harmonious color combinationsCross-reference PANTONE colors to other PANTONE color libraries
Once you have created your color palettes you can then share them in a variety of ways:
E-mail an HTML image of your palette
E-mail color palettes that can be used in the Adobe® Creative Suite® (.ase files), QuarkXPress® and CorelDraw®
Upload to the myPANTONE.com palette sharing web site
Other features include:Text and voice annotation of palettes
Post notifications of new palettes to Twitter and Facebook
GPS tagging of palettes
OK, well maybe not the greatest iPhone app ever but Isnt it fantastic! I have to admit, it is a little on the expensive side at AU$12.99, and to be perfectly honest I have a rule that I never spend more that AU$2.99 on an app, but for designers this app is worth a million bucks.
YES YES YES, it can be done. Orgasmic no, cheap yes! I created these invitations for under $1.
BACKGROUND:
Background vector came from Design Fruit. Just ungroup in illustrator and then change colour to the light green: #a3c813. I printed this background on a borderless A4 sheet of paper, then divided and cut into three equal pieces.
COLOURS:
Light green: #a3c813
Dark green: #768f1d
Brown: #603814
FONTS:
Pea Missy Cursive: Available here
Goudy Oldstyle Std
BRUSHES:
BIRDS, TREE BRANCH: brushes are available from here Design Shoot.
STALKS: Vector style stalk Brushes (shown in brown behind green bird in lower right hand corner): From Mels Brushes
HEARTS: I am unsure where they came from but if you search for “hearts” over at DeviantART under Resources & Stock Images> Application Resources> Photoshop Brushes you should be able to find something similar.
PAPER:
The paper was from Amazing Paper. And they are just that, AMAZING! I ordered on a Wednesday and my order was here on Friday morning. Now that’s service!
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BRUSHES:
Bird & tree branch brushes are available from here Design Shoot.
COLOURS:
The light green is #a3c813. The dark green is #768f1d
BAGS:
The bags I was able to get from eBay for less than 5c each. Just do a search for “bags” under “Jewellery > Jewellery Boxes, Supplies” and there will be a huge amount of styles in a ginormous big sticky lollypop vomit of colours.
PAPER:
Paper tags I cut out my self. The paper was from Amazing Paper. And they are just that, AMAZING! I ordered on a Wednesday and my order was here on Friday morning. Now that’s service!
CONFECTIONERY:
The sugared almonds were from Tom’s Confectionery Warehouse here in Brisbane, but they deliver Australia wide. Again, I placed an order and it was delivered the next day.
How hard is it to find really good design resources for my new blog? Its VF hard. Trust me, I have no hair left from being so frustrated so I have a plan to make it easier for you guys. I am going to post some awesome design resources that I have come across during my travels. Its just my way of giving a little bit back to my community…..{insert mushy vomit here}.
COLOUR LOVERS
This site is great for matching colours to graphics or just creating your own palettes. It allows you to search colours and palettes and download them for use with photoshop, illustrator etc.
BLUE VERTIGO
This site has a huge list of resources such as fonts, sounds, textures, stock pics etc. Most of them are free but be warned some arent. They are great quality too.
BEST WEB GALLERY
This site showcases some great designs for inspiration.
