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Freebies on Friday: Brushes
Can you ever have too many brushes? I say not really. When you see beautiful Photoshop brushes like the ones shown above in Shiny Flower Brushes by Heygrey, it’s hard not to say ‘I want those brushes.’ It really makes you smile when the brushes are free.
I was checking out Brush Lovers earlier today and could not believe the beautiful free Photoshop brushes available there. Besides Shiny Flower Brushes, my other favorites were Rosy Watercolor by Heygrey and Flowers & Fruits Old Postcards by PinkOnHead shown below.
Brush Lovers has an amazing selection of Photoshop brushes and they’re all free. Check them out. While you’re there, take a moment and let them know which are your favorites. You’re gonna love these brushes. Enjoy!
Laura Coyle and Kim Kight on ReneeTV
If you happened to miss this most informative and fun Live video chat on Wednesday night, you can watch it here.
It was a fun time here this past Wednesday as Laura Coyle discussed designing for fabric with our special guest Kim Kight. Kim answered attendee questions and shared her insights with a very excited group of attendees. A great time was had by all!
There was a give-away of classes, and Kim awarded a lucky attendee a signed copy of her new book, A Field Guide to Fabric Design. Near the end, Kim gave a demonstration on using the Adobe Illustrator Recolor Artwork feature to mix up your color palettes and incorporate the Spoonflower Color Guide colors into your design.
A link to this recording can also be found on the ReneeTV page. If you missed this live chat, you’ll want to check it out.
Join Our Adobe Illustrator Community
We’re really excited about what’s going on in our illustrator community. There’s an ever-growing number of self-paced Adobe Illustrator Workshops available from our resident Illustrator Diva Laura Coyle. As an added benefit for her students, Laura conducts regularly scheduled monthly Illustrator live video chats.
These monthly hour-long chats, affectionately called “Laura Time,” are full of Adobe Illustrator demonstrations and tips. They give her students the chance to interact, ask questions, and to stay inspired and engaged in the learning process. As a registered student of any Adobe Illustrator class at ReneePearson.com, you can attend the chats live or watch the recordings later. There’s also a lively Adobe Illustrator forum at ReneePearson.com where you can suggest topics you’d like Laura to cover in the live chats.
Laura has just posted a video of her time-lapse Adobe Illustrator drawing of a Siamese Fighting Fish, condensed from March’s live chat demonstration. This video will give you a feel for her live chat demonstrations. You can watch it and other Illustrator themed videos on Laura’s YouTube channel at YouTube.com/coyleart.
We have a growing community of Adobe Illustrator enthusiasts. Sign up for an Illustrator class and join us! We’d love to have you.
It’s Elemental with Tiffany Tillman starts today!
Class starts today!
But it’s not too late to register for It’s Elemental, Embellishing strategies for digital scrapbookers, with Tiffany Tillman
It’s Elemental is like a roadmap for embellishing. You’ll move past filling up space with neat little pieces and actually use elements with purpose.
Join Tiffany and the rest of the class today!
The winners of the “Tweet for a Seat” contest for seats in It’s Elemental with Tiffany Tillman are:
@ysbgo1
@editorialdragon
@eyetalgal
Winners should check their Twitter direct messages for instructions on how to claim their prizes.
Meet the Pros is back on ReneeTV
Join us this week for two great “Meet the Pros” live segments at ReneeTV:
Cilenia Curtis
Digital Artist, Painter & Color Expert
Monday, Mar 5 at 9pm EST
Cilenia Curtis will bring you up-to-date about her latest class, “Building Color Confidence.” After that, she’ll give a sneak peak at a little of what’s in-store for you in her class and take your questions live.
Chari Pack
Print Mastermind, Persnickety Prints
Wednesday, Mar 7 at 10:00pm EST
Print diva Chari Pack brings her Persnickety All-Stars to ReneeTV to discuss the latest and greatest approaches to getting the best possible prints of your scrapbook pages and digital art. They will also help you to understand and unlock the mystery of why print process does make a differncce.
And to top it off, Chari and her All-Stars will give us a live video tour of Persnickety Prints. Prizes will be awarded to lucky chat participants.
Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with these “pros.”
New from Tiffany Tillman: It’s Elemental
Embellishing strategies for digital scrapbookers
Elements are the single component that sets our scrapbooking albums apart from photo albums and journals. We fill-up our pages with neat little pieces, which highlight our unique personality and creativity.
It’s Elemental with Tiffany Tillman is the roadmap for successful embellishing on a digital scrapbook page. You’ll learn Tiffany’s secrets for building rich element clusters, producing scenic, embellishment-heavy layouts, and everything in between using goodies by popular digital designer, Creashens.
Tiffany will discuss her new class during a live video chat on ReneeTV at 10pm ET Thursday, Feb 16th. Pop in to learn more and ask questions you may have about the class. We’d love to see you there!
Tales of a Scrapbooking Groupie: The Great Adventure Part 2.1
It’s kind of odd to tell the story of this adventure in parts. However, in this case it feels better that way. As I mentioned in part 1 of my story of this great adventure, there was just too much that took place to tell the story in one post. For me traveling to Africa for the first time and visiting the continent from which the human race evolved was an amazing opportunity. Added to that was the powerful thought of setting foot on the continent from which so many of my ancestors were spirited away into slavery centuries ago. I knew that questions would be answered for me, but I wasn’t sure of what those questions were.
I must put the picture above at the beginning of this part of the story. Our very first tour in S. Africa was to Robben Island. During the tour we took a moment to speak one on one with the guide leading our group. His name was Thabo. His question to us was very simple … Is this your first trip to Africa? When we responded that it was, he looked at us, smiled, and simply said ‘Welcome Home.’ Whew!! Words cannot express my feelings at that moment. The cork was off of the champagne. Now for the rest of the story. (more…)
Tales of a Scrapbooking Groupie: The First Big Adventure
By the time 2006 arrived, scrapbooking related activities were almost non-stop. I’d been fortunate enough to travel around the country to many exciting events with Renee. During that time I’d gotten to meet and spend time with many talented industry personalities. It seemed that scrapbooking was booming everywhere. Imagine my feeling of total amazement and glee when Renee was invited to demonstrate digital techniques at the Scrapbook Expo during the Scrapbook Convention in Johannesburg, South Africa. From what I could gather, Scrapbook Convention was one of the most high energy shows anywhere, but for sure on the African continent. We would certainly find out, but for me what kept running through my mind was that “Renee was going international.” (more…)
Friday’s Freebies: Just in time for the Holdays
If you have ever thought that Christmas shapes are great Photoshop resources for creating ecards for the winter season, psd-dude.com is way ahead of us. They know that by having the right shapes, brushes or patterns available anyone can create great designs in Photoshop in just a few minutes. In fact they have put together a set of vector Christmas shapes, Snow Brushes for Photoshop, and Christmas Wallpapers for just that purpose. Here’s the fun part, they’re all free.
Check out psd-dude.com and these great freebies. You’ll be glad you did.
Tales of a Scrapbooking Groupie: Sorting Things Out
In the last installment of Scrapbooking Groupie, Renee had begun working as a contributing Editor for Simple Scrapbooks Magazine, and discussions were underway for a ‘How To’ book on digital scrapbooking, I was extremely pumped. Stacy Julian and the staff at Simple were totally supportive and very encouraging. The vibes were off the chart. The future was looking very bright.
Just when I thought it could not get any better, Renee was invited to go to Minneapolis be a part of something called Creating Keepsakes University (CKU). I was told that these events were a lot of fun, but I had no idea what we were in for. Once we entered the event hotel, it was clear that CKU took the spirit and passion I had observed at CHA to a totally new level. (more…)