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Desktop Wallpapers, Freebies, Hand Lettering, Personal

Freebie: November 2016 Desktop Wallpapers

Today’s the last Thursday in October, so it’s time for your free November 2016 desktop wallpapers! This month’s wallpaper was hand lettered on an iPad Pro using an Apple pencil. Here are a few more details: the glitter texture is from the Procreate Metallic Texture Kit. The brushes used were a slightly modified (default) studio pen and brush pen in Procreate. This download includes the wallpapers in two common resolutions: 1280x1024px and 1920x1080px, with and without dates. I’ve left the year off of the ‘no-dates’ versions, so you can use it for any November in the future, too!

October 27, 2016

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Desktop Wallpapers, Freebies, Hand Lettering, Personal

Freebie: October 2016 Desktop Wallpapers

Today’s the last Thursday in September, so it’s time for your free October 2016 desktop wallpapers! This month’s wallpaper was hand lettered with the super-fun-to-play-with FineTec metallic watercolors. The paper is Neenah Astrobrights Eclipse Black, which actually holds up perfectly with the metallics. FineTecs are naturally on the thicker side, so they sit right on top of cardstock like they were meant to be together 🙂 . This download includes the wallpapers in two common resolutions: 1280x1024px and 1920x1080px, with and without dates. I’ve left ‘2016’ off of the ‘no-dates’ jpgs, so you can use this for any October in the future, too!

September 29, 2016

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Desktop Wallpapers, Freebies, Personal

Freebie: September 2016 Desktop Wallpapers

Today’s the last Thursday in August, so it’s time for your free September 2016 desktop wallpapers! This month’s wallpaper is another doodle explosion (hopefully in a good way!) brought to you via an iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Procreate app. This download includes the wallpapers in two common resolutions: 1280x1024px and 1920x1080px, with and without dates. I’ve left ‘2016’ off of the ‘no-dates’ jpgs, so you can use this for any September in the future, too!

August 25, 2016

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Hand Lettering, Resources, Roundups, Typography

6 Stunning Typographic Layouts (+ what we can learn from them!)

This coming Monday, I’ll be publishing my next Skillshare class, Lettering Layouts. Since we went over typing on a path in Illustrator on Tuesday, I thought it’d be fun to mix the concept of custom baselines with purely typographic layouts. The results are pretty incredible and can for sure seem intimidating to try yourself. This week, on top of a roundup of 6 stunning typographic layouts, I’m breaking each layout down. By doing this, it’s far easier to see how each layout was achieved and how you can begin incorporating similar methods, techniques and design elements into your own layouts moving forward. If you’ll be joining me in Monday’s class, this post is a big head start. Read on for more!

August 11, 2016

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Freebies, Hand Drawn, Illustrator

5 free vector leaves and flourishes preview

Freebie: 5 Vector Leaves and Flourishes

I have been working well into the wee morning hours this past week preparing for my new Skillshare class coming early next week. I don’t want to give it entirely away, but there are some pretty vector elements + watercolor textures involved! I’m sooo excited about the class I wanted to give a tiny sneak peek of what I’ve been spending all that time on! Since vector elements play a big role in the class, I created a monster set of over 100 hand drawn vector leaves and flourishes. This set was created for people who may not want to spend as many hours as I did making them 🙂 Today I want to give away 5 of them for free!

July 2, 2015

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Freebies, Hand Lettering, Illustrator

Freebie: Subscriber Goodie Pack

If you’ve been here earlier in the week, you’ve probably noticed a little popup on the site advertising a new free subscriber goodie pack. Today, I wanted to go over everything that’s inside and talk about the perks that will come along with being a free subscriber.

April 9, 2015

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Freebies, Illustrator, Personal

Freebie: Vector Flourishes + Frame Elements

As Spence and I continue brainstorming our wedding invites, I’ve had flourishes and frame elements on the brain a lot lately. It’s so much harder (but so rewarding!) when you’re designing something for yourself! This past weekend I designed a whole set of flourishes + frames in my pursuit to exhaust every option. 🙂

My flourish extravaganza has led to this week’s freebie: a set of vector flourishes and frame elements for Illustrator, CS3 or newer.

January 20, 2015

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Freebies, Holiday, Printables

Freebie: Birthday Card Printable

Happy Tuesday! Now that we’re halfway through the year, it was about time to make a birthday card freebie! Save a little dough this year and show you care by going diy. 😉 This week’s freebie comes in 3 color schemes: red-orange, plumb + gold. Once folded, the card measures 6″x4″ and can be printed on any home printer using A4 or 8.5″x11″ cardstock or paper. Want a different size? Just change the scale percentage in your print menu. 😉

June 24, 2014

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Tutorials

How to Create a Wedding Invitation in Illustrator

Now that we’re in wedding season, it felt fitting to make a wedding themed tutorial! So! In this week’s tutorial, we’ll create a fairytale themed wedding invitation from scratch using Illustrator. We’ll create the decorative flourishes using a wacom tablet, then typeset and organize our final, print ready file. Let’s get started!

June 19, 2014

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Tutorials, Typography

How to Hand Letter ‘Father’ in Illustrator

In this week’s tutorial, we’ll hand letter the word ‘Father’ in Adobe Illustrator in honor of Father’s Day. We’ll use a wacom tablet to draw the letterforms, then clean up our points using our direct select tool.

June 12, 2014

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Tutorials, Typography

How to Hand Letter 'Father' in Illustrator

June 12, 2014

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Freebies

Freebie: 3 Vector Decorative Frames

Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a 3 pack of hand drawn decorative vector frames – perfect for invitations, fancy names + information, table numbers and seating cards. Download includes the three pictured below as an ai + eps file for versions of Illustrator, CS3 or newer, as well as a psd file with each frame as a separate smart object, also for CS3 or newer.

May 27, 2014

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