Basic Pattern Overlays *Giveaway*

Today, I'm really thrilled to be taking part in the "Passion for Pattern" bloghop.  Welcome if you just arrived from the Colour Book Studio blog.  We all recently met through the fab e-course "Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design".  As you can imagine, we're passionate about pattern!

As a digital designer, I'm always looking for ways of smarter working.  My digital toolbox is a vital part of my creative process and is full of design staples.  These make my workflow smarter and a little faster.  For example, when I design a new pattern, I always keep the original Illustrator & Photoshop files in their full layer format.  Apart from proving a working timeline and good work practice to have your original files, it makes for easier editing if you decide to change a colour theme.  It can even make a great starting point for a brand new pattern.

For every new pattern I design, I always add some basic patterns to the set.  With each new basic pattern created, I've saved it in a folder in my "Digital Toolbox" folder as basic "go to" patterns.  I now have  a neat little time saving collection of everything from geometrics, florals to damask.

And so I decided it would be neat to do a special giveaway for this blog post to celebrate the "Passion for Pattern" bloghop.  I've put together a little set of basic pattern overlays that inlcude chevrons, dots, circles and stripes.  They are in transparent PNG file format, 12"x12" and 300dpi.  You can grab the giveaway HERE in my online store.  Hope they'll be of some use to you!

 

If you've never used pattern overlays, I've also got a great little tutorial, that'll show you ways to colour them.  Be sure to check it out as it shows you how to create a clipping path and how to use layer blend modes.  Enjoy!

Please be sure to leave a comment.  Let me know what other patterns you'd love to see as overlays.  Also, if you have any "working smarter" tips!  I'd love to hear them!

Be sure to jump ahead to the next gorgeous pattern blog, Leslie Doughty.

Freebie of Lack Thereof

I really don't know where these past months have gone. Where? My intention was to post a freebie - a little something - every month. But I haven't ugh! The last time I did was back in February.

Well hopefully this little kit will make up for the distinct lack of freebies. I made this kit quite a while back and it was on sale in my Scrap Girls store for a little while. However, it's no longer available and so I decided to re-package it and give it away. It's one of my all time fave things I've designed. I think because it's patriotic for me. It's English. I'm just a simple English gal living in the "Garden of England" ! ;)

Anyway, I hope someone will find use for this kit. There are 10 papers and a bunch of embellishments. All in red, white and shades of blue! Enjoy!

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Oh and for those of you that may have missed the Feb., you can find it here.

Faux Fimo Flowers - a fun digi download just for you!

Freebie for you! A couple of papers and some faux fimo flowers

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So I came across Kirsty's cool videos over at YooTube and loved her fimo flowers demonstration. As well as inspiring me to try and create some faux ones in Photoshop, it took me back years to when I did art/craft with my kiddos especially my twinnies and we used to do alsorts with fimo. I forgot how wonderful that stuff is and how much I loved doing art and craft with my kids. I do miss those days so much and can't wait til my granddaughter is old enough to play!

Anyway, I also did a couple of matching papers and put it altogether as a little freebie for my readers here and my fellow UKScrappers. Hope you find some use for them. I'm creating some more as buttons and doing lots of colours and patterns as a big embellishment kit which will be available on my site and at ScrapGirls in the next couple of weeks.

Creating those flowers and papers got me off my backside for finally creating a freebie for my blog/store each month. I've been designing and creating digital scrapbook products for just over 2 yrs now but had to shut down my website/business due to some serious personal issues in my life and moving home. I'm excited to be back up and running and will be launching my new store in a few weeks time. So this is the first of many freebies to come.