Mels Brushes

Free – High res Swirly Cloud

Posted by Mel on July 7, 2010  |  No Comments

This freebie co-ordinates with my Jack and the Beanstalk set. It’s free to use for your personal projects, for scrapbooking and crafts! It comes in a zip file containing a transparent high res PNG and also a JPEG.

Digital Scrapbooking sites – Mega List of links

Posted by Mel on February 22, 2010  |  12 Comments

For all you fans of digital scrapbooking, I have put together this huge list of sites and stores online in alphabetical order. It’s completely amazing how many are out there! If your favourite digital scrapbook site isn’t here, please comment below with your link.

Picture created with images from Peaceful Mountain, Autumn Garden and Bedouin Circus

3Scrapateers

A Cherry on Top Digital Shoppe

After Five Designs

Aimee Asher Elite Studios

Atomic Cupcake

Bello Scarto

Bits ‘N’ Bobs

Blue Bazaar

Blushbutter digital scrapbooking and printed papers

Bon Scrapatit Designs

CatScrap

CraftCrave and DigiFree Scrapbooking Freebies

Cute Creations Design

Keep reading..!

Shabby Flower Stamps

Posted by Mel on January 18, 2010  |  No Comments

A pretty set of 9 shabby flower stamps, available from my shop for £3.00

WHAT FILE FORMATS DO I GET?
Vector EPS 8 – fully editable in any vector software
PNGs at 300dpi (they print out at 2 – 3 inches)
High quality JPEGS

LICENSE INFO – TERMS OF USE
Use these designs for non-profit or commercial use with no extra credit required. A standard commercial license is included

How to make a digital stamp from a colour vector illustration

Posted by Mel on January 15, 2010  |  No Comments

Digital stamps, used in crafting, stamping, card making and scrapbooking are black and white outlined digital images printed onto paper from your printer. If you are an Adobe Illustrator user, here’s how to turn a colour vector image into a stamp.

First download the tutorial source file (Or you can use any colour vector image)

Open MakingStampsTutorial.ai in Illustrator

Select the whole image

Change the fill colour to white, and make the stroke colour black

Leave it all selected, Go to Object > Expand (uncheck expand fill but leave the stroke as it is) click ok. Leave it all selected.

Open the pathfinder tool (Window > Pathfinder (choose merge (the light square over the dark circle on the bottom row). At this stage the image will have white fills, which you can leave as they are or continue
to the next step to remove them

Deselect the image

Using the eyedropper, click on a white fill from anywhere inside the image

Go to select > same > fill colour. All the white fills will now be selected

Now delete all the white fills, and you’re done.

Free – Dotted tree PNGs

Posted by Mel on August 8, 2008  |  No Comments

2 patterned tree images with transparent backgrounds to use on your personal projects. High res files. created using the Dotted Tree premium brush set.

Download here

Free – Ruby Moon Embellishments

Posted by Mel on August 8, 2008  |  No Comments

2 richly decorative PNG images.

These were created with the premium ‘Swirls and Seeds‘ brush set (with added jewels and pattern!). High resolution for print or digital scrapbooking. Free for personal use, though you can use them commercially (for scrapbooking kits too!) if you buy a license for £2.50.

Download the free zipped 1.4mb file here