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More Free Clipart - Vintage Frames Borders & Ornaments

I've got another batch of free vintage clipart - Borders Frames & Ornaments. I hope you like them! They are commercial use (CU4CU) with the exception of making brushes and custom shapes with them. You can make digital scrapbooking resources for sale or use them in a photography backgrounds project. Just *do* something with them like add a background or whatever. Read more »

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Google Docs Template for Freelance - Data & Project Management

Freelance project management can get a person lost in the sea of email correspondence from time to time. I've tried several time tracking applications and various sorts of free productivity tools for keeping things in order. The drawback of taking this route is that you are running several apps to get the job done. I'm sharing something that I started out with as a starting point for data management with client projects.Read more »

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Free Clipart - Vintage Decorative Frame Borders & Feather Quill Pen

This post is a tribute to some beautiful ladies I've had the pleasure to work with over the past few days. Below you'll find some free vintage graphics that are in PNG format and you can download right from this post. They are commercial use with the exception of making brushes and custom shapes with them. You can make digital scrapbooking resources for sale or use them in a photography backgrounds project. Just *do* something with them like add a background or whatever. Read more »

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Tutorials: How to Add Text to an Etsy Banner, Blog Header or Blog Button

I've had a lot of requests lately regarding how to add text to a blog banner or Etsy banner . Instead of reinventing the wheel, I thought I'd share some tutorials that I've found online instead. Below are tuts using both online apps and the free and open source downloadable Gimp image editor. Each editor has a link to the application in the title. I have also posted a link at the bottom to my favorite online editing tools, Aviary. Read more »

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Freebie Clipart & Brushes - Domestic Sewing Elements CU4CU

Up for grabs today is a sweet vintage clipart & brush set containing an ornament divider, embroidery design borders/corners, vintage sewing machine advertisements & images. The brushes and PNG clipart are commercial use (cu4cu). Read more »

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How to Minimize Skype and Windows Live Messenger to the System Tray in Windows 7

Have you ever wondered how to close Windows Live Messenger or Skype but still leave it running so you can only have it in your task bar when you need it? I have, and it was driving me nuts! Yes you can close these apps without exiting out of them completely!Read more »

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Lovely Blog Designs - A Time Capsule

There are so many cute blogs out on the web! Some of you may know these well. Blog designs do change over time, so I though it would be fun to do a little time capsule with a roundup of a few that I think are pretty. Read more »

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Codeanywhere Announces Drop Box Integration

Codeanywhere has formally announced dropbox integration, woot! Both have have an iPhone, iPad & Android app. So you really *can* code anywhere. Read more »

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Rafflecopter Launch Party Giveaway - Win an iPad or Kindle Fire!

Many of you may have noticed Rafflecopter on my $100 digital goods giveaway. When I first signed up with this app it was beta, which required approval to get a membership. Well, Rafflecopter is going live and they have a great giveaway going on for the launch party! The prizes are an iPad and a Kindle Fire You can enter the giveaway right from this post. Cheers & good luck! Read more »

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Super Cute Blog Backgrounds, Buttons, Headers & Patterns for Creative Inspiration

The new year is a time for new beginnings. I've been considering re-designing this blog for some time now. I've hunted some design resources and thought you might like a share of what I've found so far. Read more »

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$100 Digital Design Goods Giveaway

I can't believe it's Friday already. This week really flew by! I'm running on a high speed wobble again here, lol! This is a short but sweet post to announce a giveaway in thanks for all of the folks who've commented, thanked me and last but not least, bought things from me on Etsy and in my shop! Thank you so much. ::cheers:: Sü Read more »

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Elegant Premium Blogger Templates for Portfolio and Photo Galleries

Templates for blogspot in the premium realm are a coveted commodity. Today I've hand picked a few premium blogger templates, great for portfolio and photography galleries. Enjoy! Read more »

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Free CU4CU Antique Digiscrap Kit

Yet another great digiscrap freebie! This one is commercial use as well. The elements I did not make. If you would like to see where I got them, check out Bluesse on Deviantart. She has some great PNG files!! The alphabet came from here. See more of Jovan Cormac's Typography work.Read more »

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Free Vintage Decorative Frame Borders and Photoshop Custom Shapes - CU4CU

Here's another great freebie for you all. With this one you get custom shapes PNG and the finished frame borders. Read more »

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Free CU4CU Card Stock Paper Textures for Photo Shop and Gimp

Up for grabs today is a sweet set of 8 paper textures that may be used in Photo Shop, Gimp and also as a seamless tile for web and blog backgrounds. Each pattern is 1000x1000px and high resolution. Read more »

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Tragic! Do Some People Have No Conscience?

What is it with some people? There are people who do things like grab some free resources they like and then post them to their galleries on DeviantArt. This story is even worse. Read more »

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Beautiful Gimp and Web Patterns

My gimp patterns folder has been in need of some organization in relation to usage terms. I think that I've used some patterns here and there and not given credit where credit is due. It's easy when you have a folder with everything dropped in. So this post started a while ago is for you, but also for me - complete with usage info - so I can remember where everything came from in my own stash! I still have some unidentified items, but this is a good start.Read more »

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Free CU Doodle Frame, Border Template and Paper Textures

Up for grabs today is a set of CU4CU papers/textures nd a border frame template to go with it. I've also added a png clipart doodle frame to go with the papers. Read more »

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Free Etsy Banners - Vintage Design

Happy Day! I'm so *excited* to be having a featured post over at ♥ ♥ Free Pretty Things For You! ♥ ♥. Up for grabs today is a set of 4 free Etsy banner sets containing matching avatars, custom order, reserved and "thank you" customer appreciation photo blocks. There are blanks included so you can add your own text/fonts. Thank you so much Keren for featuring me! Here's the post on Free Pretty Things For You!Read more »

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Free Paper Patterns for Photoshop and Gimp

Up for grabs this week is a set of 24 cu4cu graph paper grid patterns for photoshop & gimp. There are 2 transparent patterns included so you can use them to add your own colors. Images are included so they can be used as a pattern overlay in gimp or other graphic design programs. They may be used for website and blog backgrounds, digital scrapbooking background patterns or design templates and just about anything else design related. Read more »

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Free Fonts I'm Into Right Now

Oh for the love of free fonts! Fonts can really make or break a design. Sometimes they can bring about inspiration to help the creativity flow in a website design project. I literally experienced such a situation this week, and actually lol'd for real when reading the description for Rancho. You can see it in action as a web font here. (Quick rush job for a press release, I still need to set up media queries for smaller screen resolutions on that one). Read more »

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Free Photoshop Custom Shapes - Tags 3

Up for grabs today is a sweet mixed set of 5 free photo shop custom shapes. (PNG are included for those who are running gimp or PSP). I really lucked out with the poll results last week because I happened to have some created shapes stocked up to deliver to you! If you don't know how to install PS custom shapes you can follow the instructions here: How to install Photoshop ShapesRead more »

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How to Install Photoshop Shapes

Depending on your operating system the path where your default Photo Shop custom shapes may differ. Please keep in mind that you don't have to install your presets in this directory (folder). PS just defaults to it by nature, but will remember the path you browse to when loading resources from within PS. Read more »

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How to add your Domain Email to Gmail

Do you have a domain name but are still using the same old email address? Do you have a pop account but use your host's webmail to check your email? This tutorial will help you learn to back up your email into gmail's email service, and also "send as" you@yourdomain.com. If you already have a gmail account, you will be able to use both email addies from the same account. You can even add multiple email addresses from different domains. This tutorial is also useful for retaining your email when moving to a new server (if you don't have any other way to transfer email over via server control panels). Hey, did I mention Gmail's great spam blocking?Read more »

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Cute Blog Graphics Freebies Roundup

This week's post features a compiled list of some super cute graphics resources from around the web. I've been sort of wrapped up with web projects lately, so I haven't had a chance to make any freebies. I'm also at a bit of a blank in regards to what I should make next. Any ideas? I've attached a poll to the bottom of this post. Whatever item gets the most votes will win!Read more »

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