Wanted New Cards: National Siblings Day / April 10
We have a new categorie that needs your attention:
At the moment there are 0 cards in this category.
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
BONUS for this week only: You may set these submissions for Fast Track review
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Font Frenzy: Flowers of Camelot
The Hungry JPEG has a lovely $1 deal on offer called Flowers of Camelot by Old Market.
Flowers of Camelot includes 100 floral elements and 30 background elements! Combine the flowers and backgrounds in endless combinations. These floral elements are perfect for merchandise design, invitations, weddings, apparel, websites, branding, packaging, banners, scrapbooking, digital art creations and much more! The possibilities are endless!
What You Get:
– 100 Floral Elements PNG, approx. 1800 at widest point – 300 dpi, transparent background
– 30 Background Elements, approx. 3000 at widest point – 300 dpi, transparent background
– 2 EPS Vector Files, includes all floral elements
– 2 AI Files, includes all floral elements
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Rainbow Connection: Creativecolorschemes
Pinterest is a great source to gather information on color trends. You can search for a particular color scheme, or look at a whole collection like the one from Creativecolorschemes.
There are a whole host of colorschemes to get inspired by. Don’t grab the same 5 colors you always use in your card designs but step outside the box for a change. Happy hunting!
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Dash of Inspiration: Great Tutorials
When working with ‘digital effects’ and layering textures, it’s important to vary the intensity of the effect within your image. For example, faces and eyes especially, whether human or animal, should have a very light touch, whereas you may wish to have a background show an extreme effect. Understanding how to work with these cool techniques, when and how to apply them is a learning process and these finds today will help you get started.
CoffeeShop Photoshop/PSE Tutorial: Fine Art Texture, Selective Removal
Painting Textures – Free for CU from the Coffee Shop Blog
Notice the eyes and nose have very little textured layer showing Doreen Erhardt©
CoffeeShop Tutorial: Flower Art – Editing with Textures
How to Apply a Texture to a Selection in Photoshop by ZaniuM
The lion was added the foliage on the right was layered in, then a colored texture layer was added and removed from the lion. Doreen Erhardt©
How to Add a Texture in Illustrator
Digital Painting 101: Using Texture Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
Flower photo, added the swirl decor on the corners, then began applying texture layers and slightly removing it from the flower offered a pleasing glow for a wedding image. Doreen Erhardt©
There are lots and lots of great textures out there to try and wonderful tutorials to show you how to create with them regardless of the software you use to create with. Just remember as with all digital ‘goodies’ – never use them full strength and paint them out of areas where they make the subject difficult to see.
So until next week … Learn … Create … Inspire!
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Nuts and Bolts: Inside Verse & Unsupported Characters
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Wanted New Cards: Congratulations Hajj / Umrah
We have a category that needs your attention:
At the moment there are only 3 cards in this category.
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Dash of Inspiration: Fonts & Freebies
This weeks’ Dash of Inspiration is short and very sweet. I found some wonderful specials on fonts and a few freebies too I wanted to share.
These fonts from Hungry JPEG are $1.00 right now and though they state they come with a Commercial Use License, but remember it’s YOUR JOB as the person paying for the font and using the font to make sure before sticking them in your shopping cart.
Also, be aware that you should read about each font, as some may require specific software and/or know how to access the swash and glyph additions.
Hedgehog By Pollem.Co
Image courtesy of The Hungry JPEG
Cinderella Script By Moriztype
Image courtesy of The Hungry JPEG
Reckless Brush By Spasibenko Art
Image courtesy of The Hungry JPEG
Khanza Script By Bonjour Type
Image courtesy of The Hungry JPEG
Matthew Jason By Decavantona
Image courtesy of The Hungry JPEG
WOW! What a great way to spend FIVE BUCKS!
Okay for those of you who want FREE fonts with a CU license, check out these:
BlowBrush Font Made by thizizraz
Genome Font Made by Hanken Design Co.
Please use the following font sparingly. This is an impact font and you should not use it to write more than one or two words in a design.
Laff Riot NF Font Made by Nick Curtis
So until next week … Learn … Create … Inspire!
Remember to get those March Dash of Inspiration Design Challenge entries in!
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Nuts and Bolts: Superscript & Ordinal Numbers
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Wanted New Cards: Letter of Recommendation / Reference
We have a category that needs your attention:
At the moment there are only 3 cards in this category.
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Font Frenzy: Anodyne Font Family
Designcuts offers very trendy font packages for a big discount in their Build a Bundle option. Check out there latest offers, like Anodyne – a warm and weathered all-caps font from Yellow Design Studio.
This font offers a hand-printed texture and unique shadow options. Features include four distress variations for each letter and at least two for every other character. Double-letter ligatures add realism by eliminating identical texture in adjacent characters.
Included in this set:
• Anodyne
• Anodyne Italic
• Anodyne Shadow
• Anodyne Shadow Italic
• Anodyne Combined
• Anodyne Combined Italic
The Anodyne Font Family has a 77% off Intro Special and costs $9 (This intro price is available until April 20th, 2016)
The fonts comes with extended product license.
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