Easter!

Here's a quick post on Easter activities:
1. Download Easter Icons
2. Make Easter Card
3. Make some Easter Eggs
4. Create Easter Gift Tags
5. Coloring Printables for Kids
6. Send Easter E-cards

And to end off this entry, here's a cute vintage Easter cartoon for all.

Happy Easter Day!

Vintage Vector Art

With the advent of technology, emails, sms-es, online chats and what not are now the common tools of communication around the world. While snail mail has taken a back seat, it has never been forgotten, especially with a group of letterpress enthusiasts who have formed an online community of members to share the rich collection of art work preserved from the past.

At Bria Press, you will find yourself fall in love with the intricate and vintage ornaments that are great to be used in your letterpress, or any other kind of artwork.

I'm totally in love with the bird ornaments.

Design Your Own Pattern!

Ever wanted to create a pattern for your blogskin, poster, or whatever art project you're doing? I always face the problem of changing the colors of those great patterns found on various sites to suit my own artwork. I bet many others out there too.

At COLOURlovers, we won't face this issue anymore. They have a page dedicated for patterns and allow users to change the various colors on the pattern to their preferences.

Here's the original pattern:

Here's what I've re-created:

There are tons of other original and re-created patterns developed by the community members. Have fun on creating your personalised pattern!

Candy Hearts

With all the love that's in the air (yea, sounds cliché I know)...I'm gonna do just another post just in time for Valentine's Day!

Brighten up the day of your lover, colleagues and friends with this cute little hearts!

Personalize them with your own message, save the image and viola, you've got your own heart candy!

It's simple, there's even a gothic version!

Have yours now here.

Valentine's Day Ideas

Cracking your brain for some Valentine's Day ideas?

What better ways are there to surprise your love ones by making them stuff with your own hands?

Martha Stewart has just some of the best V'day ideas on her site.

One very cute one is the Valentine's Wheel which I think we can reinvent the selections ourselves.

All you need to do is to download the template below and print it on an art paper.

And follow the instructions here.

There are many other craft work available too. Visit Martha Stewart's site and have fun browsing. Trying making some of them yourself even!

Stitch Up!

Loves sewing?

Now you can get free downloads of patterns for your next stitching project.

Check out Floresita's blog.

In her latest post, she offered a pattern download of angels.





Makes your hand itch for some sewing eh?

Vectorize Your Image!

Trouble with using some of the low res images you've googled?

Try vectorizing them at Vector Magic, a site that allows you to upload your blurry image and sharpens it for you in just a few steps.

I've used it a couple of times and found it really helpful.

Say goodbye to blurry clip arts!

Hello there.

18 days have passed after 2008 bids us goodbye.

I'm glad I didn't procrastinate too long to fulfill one of my new year resolutions - to set up a blog on patterns, shapes, craft work and everything relating to design.

I decided this will also be a channel where I live my passion and a personal realm where I unwind from the troubles of the world.

The next step will be giving this blog a unique look of its own.