blog love: more favourite freebies.

Okay, so this week I have shared all my secrets. Secrets of where I find all the awesome online graphic freebies, that is. I want to leave you with two sites that you probably already know and love, but if you don't know about them, you'll probably be happy I told you.

deviantART is a hub of artistry online. I like to use it for stock images but especially textures. You can spend hours searching around the site just admiring all the different graphics and textures that are offered. Have fun.

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The second site I want to share with you should be no stranger for those who love fonts. dafont.com has hundreds, if not thousands, of fonts that are available both for a cost and for free. These fonts are created by different individuals and are categorized, making it is easy to find the font you need for a specific project. Some of my favourite fonts right now are Jane Austen, Traveling Typewriter, Learning Curve, DJ Kitchen. Hope you enjoy browsing through the variety of fonts and looking for your own favourites.

What are your favourite places for freebies on the web? Any of your favourites I've missed? Please share your favourite freebie hide-outs by leaving a comment below.

And since it is Friday, I'll leave you for the weekend with a few different things that I liked or felt inspired by this week:

Beautiful wedding invitations by Betsywhite (via snippet & ink).

How to pick the right paint finish.

This Tennessee mountain wedding (via Style Me Pretty)

A stop motion save the date.

Colourful crochet craft.

Thift shop scrapbooking paper.

Have a great weekend!

blog love: clip art.

Keeping on theme with the graphics inspired favourite freebie websites from yesterday and the day before, today I want to share three great websites and blogs for free clip art online. This isn't your ordinary Microsoft-Word-from-the-90s clip art, mind you. Instead, this is a selection of unique graphics and vintage images that can be used for your own graphic designs or else printed out and framed as art in your home.

First up is the blog Vintage Printable. As I write this they're currently going through some reconstruction of their site, so you might not find it as interesting as you will in a few days. But trust me, when you do go visit and it is running at full capacity, the selection of images is broad and unique. You can find very specific images: from pathologies to botanical prints to blue prints to portraits to images from old books... You get the idea. I personally love the selection of maps and old community service announcement posters. You can literally spend hours searching through all the different images that they have. Enjoy yourself.

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Up next is Tack-O-Rama, a site that is full of 'retro resources for designers.' This site has clip art but also fonts, stock photography, tiles, and custom shapes. I haven't used it too much yet, but it is fun looking through all the images and graphics reminiscent of the 1950s.

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Lastly, I want to share with you the blog Graphics Fairy. Similar to Vintage Printable, this site has over 1,200 free clip art images available. She also uses her clip art finds in DIY crafts with tutorials. The Graphics Fairy uses images she finds or has at her home and posts new images every day (since 2007). That's a lot of images to browse through.

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So hopefully you'll find yourself with too many images to deal with after this post (a good thing), and that you'll be able to use these resources the next time you're looking for the perfect image for your project.

blog love: eat drink chic.

Today is the second post in a series cataloguing my favourite places on the web for amazing freebies. This time I want to introduce you to Amy Moss of Eat Drink Chic. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Amy is a graphic designer who focuses on design for parties, weddings, entertaining, home, and fashion on her blog and provides inspiration, DIY ideas, and free downloads of stationery printables for all sorts of events. See her whole selection here.

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I love her website because there is so much freebie selection and a wealth of creative ideas. I find her site encouraging in that I could throw a beautiful party while remaining on a budget by using her printables to join everything together (only using paper and my printer). I also am inspired to work at creating my own printables for events because I have learned so much from what she does.

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I hope you enjoy browsing through Amy's site and are equally inspired and enthralled by what you find. Thank you Amy for all the hard work you put into your designs and downloads - they're truly amazing.

blog love: pugly pixel.

Good morning! I hope you all had a nice weekend. Caleb and I spent it up at the cottage with some friends. It was a really nice time.

Last week I left you with a hint that I was doing something great this week at Brown Boots. Here it is: I love using Photoshop to create images and touch up photos and recently I have found different blogs that offer, very generously, free downloadable web graphics, clip art, and Photoshop actions. I just have to share them with you. So each day this week I will be sharing with you my favourite go-to places on the web to get such wonderful freebies.

First up is the wonderfully fun and creative Katrina over at Pugly Pixel. Her specialty is clip art. She has the best downloadable 'paper cafe' filled with a variety of paper products including kraft paper envelopes, air mail envelopes, recipe cards, vellum envelopes, and different sheets. She also has doilies, medallions, tags, masking tape, and even macarons for you to use. How kind!

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Not only are her downloads free but they are beautiful and oh so simple to use. She also makes some that are meant to be printed, so if you don't use Photoshop, I encourage you to hop on over to her site to check out the beautiful images anyway. You might find something you'd like to print out and use for a card or some other paper craft. See her whole collection here.

Thank you Katrina for all the hard work you put into creating such cute and versatile images for people like me who aren't quite that proficient with graphic design!

Check back tomorrow for the next awesome site for freebies on the web.