The generous folks over at Smashing Magazine and Iconeden have released a free yummy icon set! Best of all, you can use it for all of your personal and commercial projects absolutely free. Here’s a sample of some of the graphics included:
Head on over to Smashing Magazine and download these tasty graphics by clicking here!
Edited: December 29th, 2009
Yup, you heard that right, I’m hosting a giveaway for one yard of fabric, either custom printed with the design of your choice, or choose any one of the fabrics for sale in the store or my Etsy! You also have your choice of cotton broadcloth or heavyweight cotton duckcloth. What could be better?
How do I win this lovely prize you may ask? Easy – just sign up for my newsletter by clicking here and you’re in for the drawing! Winner will be randomly drawn on New Years Day, so the last day for entry is 11:59 p.m. eastern on December 31, 2009. Winner will be announced here as well as via email so look out on New Years day!
Edited: December 28th, 2009
Yes, my loyal readers – I am a confirmed bookworm. Always have been, always will be I suspect. While all my friends are watching the latest and greatest in sitcoms and reality TV, I’ve got my nose buried deep in my latest literary addiction. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ll take a break every now and then for the Food Network, or anything that vaguely resembles a football game, but given the choice, usually I’d rather be readin’. Now that I mention it, that does present a quandry – If I had to make a choice between Books or Football which would I choose? Hmmm, couldn’t give up either one of them, so I’ll watch the game and read the book during the commercials! (Actually, I do this rather frequently and then complain that people are talking too loud during the commercials!)
My current favorites are historical romances by Diana Gabaldon, Phillippa Gregory, and Allison Weir. Any other heavy readers out there (sounds kinda pervy doesn’t it?) What are you guys reading right now?
Edited: December 22nd, 2009
So, a while back a lightbulb went off in my head when it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps, just perhaps, some of you would prefer to use your crafty talents to print your own fabric, wall decals, and prints. Now, if this were to be true, I feel that it’s my duty and priviledge to make these supplies available to you. And thus, Craft Candey was born!
Craft Candey is my newest etsy shop, and you can check it out here . You can find vinyl sheets which are great for creating your own wall decals with your Cricut, Sizzix, Wishblade and other craft cutters, or any commercial plotter (or hand cutting of course!). There are also blank adhesive fabric paper sheets to print your own wall decals and art prints, paper backed cotton broadcloth & duckcloth, applique sheets and more. So head on over and get crafting!
Edited: December 18th, 2009
I happen to be a member of an awesome Etsy Street Team that goes by the name of Team FEST – The Florida Etsy Street Team. Our group is made up of some extremely talented and generous crafters from the Florida area, and I’d like to share a treasury of their work with you today! Here’s some of the featured items:
Head on over to Etsy and check it out before it expires!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=100505
Edited: December 17th, 2009
Doesn’t this look good! It’s a chorizo, potato and onion tortilla, and it’s making me hungry! I have been so kind as to include a link to the recipe for those of you who thinks this looks as good as I do!
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Edited: December 16th, 2009
Tutorial time! I’m going to give everyone a step-by-step pictorial on how you can take one of our ready made designs and turn it into a completely new and different work of art by changing colors, adding text, uploading photos and using some of the advanced features of the designer to dress things up! Ready – here we go!
1. Choose a design. You can do this by either clicking one of the popular designs listed on the right side bar which will open up the graphic in the product designer:
or clicking the graphics link in the top menu bar:
The graphics link will take you to a page which lists all of our designs by category, or you can just look through them all page by page:
If you click on a design that you like, it will open up the graphic in the product designer, just like first option above.
2. So, now you’ve found a design you like. You can try it out on all of the different products that we carry by using the dropdown in the designer
Then you can resize it by dragging the handles in the four corners shown above until it fits/looks how you like. Please keep in mind that all of the graphics in the designer are not the same size so the designer will let you know if you’re stretching/expanding a graphic too large for it to be printed correctly.
3. Once we have our design set up on a product, now we can make some changes! Whenver you want to edit a design, click on the design name to open up the options available:
Now we have options! Want to change the colors in the design? To the right is a color bar which shows all of the colors that make up your graphic. By clicking on the color you want to change a box opens – click the print colors button and a color palette opens up letting you choose what new color you’d like to change to – see:
I want to change all of the pinks in this image to blues. Look what happens when I choose blue from the color palette ( I selected each of the pink shades in the graphic and changed them blue):
You can also add text to your design, just click the add printing text button and type your words into the box and click ok. Then you can move the text around, change colors and fonts!
Just make sure that you click on the box for the text or image you want to edit and you can go back and make changes as often as you like!
Now wasn’t that easy! Let’s try some other options in the designer. Clicking on the advanced link in the designer will open a box with more effects for your design – you can change tones, turn your graphic black & white, give it a look like an oil painting, or charcoal sketch, whatever you choose. There’s a small preview of what the image will look like on the right – click the green checkmark to accept or the red x to delete. You can also remove your changes.
Lastly, lets take a look at the options under borders in the designer, you can find them under the advanced settings as well. Click the borders tab as seen below:
In the picture below I chose to add a TV border to my image:
And in this one I chose a flower border:
See – now wasn’t that fun? When you’re all done with your design, simply add it to your cart, or you can save and come back to it later!
And thats it! See you for the next tutorial!
Edited: December 14th, 2009
Well, I ain’t got no lights, but what I do have is new custom fabric designs – yay! These designs are available through our etsy shop only, so head on over and check them out in person. Then get yourself some and create some unique crafty goodness that no one else will have. WARNING – Yes, you will impress your friends. Yes, you will be mobbed with questions about where you got that delicious fabric. Yes, you will be considered the most creative crafter around. See – I’m always looking out for your best interests!
Edited: December 11th, 2009
Okay, it’s true – I’ve been seriously slacking on the blogging. But I have vowed to do better! I had made a resolution to get back on track in the New Year – but that’s just my excuse to go a while longer without blogging so I’m starting right now. Coming up look out for lots of content, new product announcements, tutorials, indie shop features, jokes, whatever I come up with to keep you entertained! If you’ve got some ideas for things you’d like to see on the blog just let me know. I’ll be talking to you soon!
Edited: December 10th, 2009
