Wednesday, March 10, 2010

2Peas Digital Challenge: Inspired by Pop Art

Last week's digital challenge at 2Peas was to create a layout inspired by Pop Art, using halftones (fill patterns made of tiny dots)
The challenge included a halftone tutorial for Photoshop, but since there's a halftone effect in PaintShopPro, I didn't do that.

I studied art history and always loved Pop Art, especially Andy Warhol's work with the colourful repeated photos, so that's where I got the inspiration for my layout:


The White Foundation - Papers 01, Changes - Digikit, He's Royalty - Digikit, Placid - Elements, Flutter Fresh - Digikit, 1000 Miles - Digikit, Your Heart - Blog Freebie,

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Creative Team Call by Vinnie Pearce Design!!

Whoohoo... I just read that Vinnie Pearce is having a CT-Call and I'm SO going to apply for the job!!
My 6 month term being part of the Digital Elite Team at DSP is coming to an end and I have decided not to go for a second term... but I simply can not pass on the opportunity to be on Vinnie's CT!
She has been my favorite designer since she started sharing her beautiful designs on her blog and I have followed her ever since... guess I'm a Vinnie stalker, lol.
I LOVE (and own most of) her designs and I always get inspired by her fabulous layouts, her challenges and other fun projects, she's such an artist and a really nice person too! :) It would be an absolute honour to be on her CT!
I'm off to send my application now, the call closes tomorrow.. talk about last minute ;)

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved"
Supplies used: Changes - Full Kit by Vinnie Pearce Design, Give Me Simple - Template Pack 02 by Vinnie Pearce Design

Monday, March 8, 2010

Fabulous Fonts!

I have always loved fonts and I'm looking for new fonts all the time. Most of the fonts I collected I never used, so today I did some MAJOR spring cleaning in my fonts folder and now I only have about 600 fonts left. I organized them all by type in my Linotype Fontexplorer. It was a lot of work but I'm happy I finally did it!!

I figured I'd share some of my favorites -- I linked the previews to where you can download them.

A Bite

Adler

Batik Regular

Carbonated Gothic

CK Cursive

Daisy Wheel

DSP Henrietta ($1.99)

Geo Sans Light

Hobbes

Jellyka, Saint-Andrew's Queen

Kingthings Trypewriter 2

Men In Black Credits

Primer Apples

SNF Georgiana ($3.00)

Splendid 66

SS Whimsy

VT Bulletin


Happy downloading :)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

First Post & Freebie Template

I kept a Dutch blog for years but decided to start a new one on blogger, since this is where most of the scrappers are :)
I'm still figuring out how everything works around here and I'm writing this test-blog to see how it looks and decide wich colors etc. to use.
I created a template yesterday for a layout I did and decided to share it with you.


Here's the template:


You can download it HERE

I would love to see what you do with it so please leave a comment with a link so I can admire it and leave some love!