Saturday, May 12, 2012

CU OK Pressed Flowers

I purchased these lovely pressed flowers to use in my jewelry pendants that I sell on Etsy and thought that they would also be very pretty for digiscrapping.  So I scanned and extracted them for that very purpose.  Just in time for the Mother’s Day layouts!  I hope you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day!

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Download the CU OK Pressed Flowers HERE (Direct Link)

or HERE (Minus)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

CU OK Vintage Postcard Collage Background Papers

I’m back with another vintage freebie with the postcard theme.  These 5 background papers finish off the postcard/stamp series.  You can desaturate them for a cool overlay or use them as they are.  Perfect for the travel related layouts and kits!  Also, I posted a few more items today on Etsy, some finished resin pendants that I had fun making.  Hit up the widget on the right to take a look!

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Download the CU OK Vintage Postcard Collage Sheets HERE (Direct)

or HERE (Minus)

Friday, April 20, 2012

CU OK Vintage Bicycles and Human Powered Oddities Photoshop Brushes and Image Pack

I have been pouring over some great public domain books I’ve stumbled across on archive.org in search of some vintage “Steampunky” images for my resin jewelry pieces and found a great volume titled “Cycling art, energy and locomotion” by Robert P. Scott.  In it there are a bunch of illustrations of old bicycles and other contraptions from the 1800’s.  I have spent hours extracting, cleaning up, and enhancing the drawings to create a set of brushes for Photoshop/PSE.  They are much larger than the preview, averaging about 1200-2200 px each.  If you guys like these maybe I’ll make more vintage brush sets from some of the other great books I’ve found. 

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Download the CU OK Vintage Bicycle Brushes and .pngs HERE (Direct)

or HERE (Minus)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Vintage Postcard Backs Set #2

As promised, here are more vintage postcard freebies.  I scanned each of them in and used the beta download of CS6 to clone out all of the writing on the backs.  I am very impressed with CS6 and will surely be buying it when it becomes available.  The content aware features are awesome!  If you haven’t tried it out, you can download the free trial version HERE and play with it.  I really like the darker UI too. 

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Download the CU OK Vintage Postcard Back Set #2 HERE (Direct Link)

or HERE (Minus)

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Here’s what I’ve been up to… and a new freebie.

Hello, remember me?  I know that it has been awhile.  I seem to do things in spurts and I do have several new freebies that I am going to post in the next week or so.  Some of you may have noticed that I added a new widget to my blog over here ---------------------------->  

I have been messing with resin all winter and making some fun jewelry pieces for friends and relatives.  I’ve just started selling the findings that I make out of upcycled copper tubing and I created a tutorial on how to use the bezels with resin.  The free tutorial, if anyone is interested, is posted in my etsy shop and you can view it by clicking HERE.

I’m also getting very excited for the digiscrap retreat in two weeks!  I’m bumming a ride from Hummie and can’t wait to see and chat with her again.

And now for the freebie.  I finally had a chance to play with all the old vintage post cards I bought when I purchased the stamps a few months ago.  I scanned them in and made some goodies.  The first in the series is a set of brushes for Photoshop/PSE and individual .png files of the backs of some of the postcards.  I just love the fonts and elaborate designs on some of them and hope you can find some use for them!  There are 13 different brushes/.pngs and the preview shows their size on a 3600 x 3600 document.

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Download the CUOK Postcard Digital Stamps HERE (.abr and .pngs)

or HERE

Sunday, March 18, 2012

CU OK Vintage Postcard Backs

I’m back with some more postage related stuff I bought at the antique store.  I thought these postcard backs would be fun for travel related layouts and kits. 

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Download the CU OK Postcards HERE (Direct Link)

or HERE (Minus)

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

CU OK World Stamps #4

Here are the last of the World Stamps.  Thanks for all your positive comments about them!

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Download the CU OK World Stamp Set #4 (Direct Link) HERE

or HERE