After seeing all the “companioning” going on with stamps and embossing folders and stamps and punches and stamps and dies, I decided to make some digital stamps and backgrounds to go with tools I already have.
Archives for 2011
Free Moroccan Tile Vector
I’ve created a vector version of the digipaper in my previous post. Great for a 12 x 12 background or modify it to fit a card front, etc.
Free Morocco Tile digipaper
Like most of you, I’m busy working on Christmas presents and other holiday projects, but I have some freebies I want to share in the meantime.
How to save a wordle in high resolution on a PC
Over on the Wordle Yahoo Group folks are always asking how they can save a wordle to print at a large size so I wanted to make a short video to show how. The video demonstrates the “print to PDF” technique using a virtual print driver (CutePDF Writer in this case).
Another million view giveaway
Update: Random.org picked #8 and #28 so congratulations to sdybash and Marina, who I am contacting via email. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Cursives for Diecutters
New owners of digital diecutters often ask what are the best fonts for welding (or “connecting” if they haven’t been indoctrinated into our odd vernacular yet). We may give a few suggestions but usually brush them off with something about personal preference. It turns out that there are some fonts that are inherently weld-friendly thanks to their attentive typographers.
Cartridge winner
Congratulations to Teresa Turner, winner of the Forever Young cartridge!
Celebrating a million views
Yesterday I glanced at my blog stats page and was amazed to see this. Wow, it snuck up on me, but I think a celebration with some blog candy is in order, don’t you? First off, I’m gonna give away a Cricut Forever Young cartridge. Just make a comment in this thread (one per person, thanks) to qualify and I’ll pick one at random.
More free gel pen fonts
Now that the Silhouette SD has restored my faith in gel pen drawing with a digital diecutter, I’ve been testing various fonts for that single line look.
Printable seamless patterns with Repper
Update: Repper appears to be down, not sure if its permanent. And I’m sharing 6 free patterns I created using the techniques in the video.