Geek girl chronicles of a blog design enthusiast.
Happy, Happy Festivus! As I was trying to make a festive tree using basic geometric shapes, I realized that the shapes alone had a charm of their own. Besides, the tree I made looked really corny, so instead of a tree, I created some “party confetti” backgrounds using squares, triangles, and circles in various color [...]
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textures from subtlepatterns.com I’ve mentioned Subtle Patterns in a Links Loved post before, but since I’ve been visiting the site a lot more lately, I feel that it deserves a post of its very own. The patterns are all on the quiet end of the spectrum, surely, but that’s what’s really nice about them. That, [...]
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Click here to see the actual CSS example In my previous post about box outlines in Photoshop, I mentioned that I would show you how to create them with CSS. The CSS term for a box outline is border (as opposed to stroke in Photoshop). CSS borders can be of any thickness and color. There [...]
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Louis Vuitton window display, downtown San Francisco I’ve been seeing a lot of polka dots lately. Kate Spade has been using them for her popular iPhone cases. J. Crew has a raft of polka dot items including this cute purse. And, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a pair of tapered polka dot pants [...]
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It’s great to get back in the groove. Today I had a chance to immerse myself in Photoshop for a change and I thought these mini vintage metal tags would make a nice freebie. I can see these little tags as labels on your blog photos or wishlist/product collages. Anyway, I hope you guys like [...]
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The Goodies As you may recall, I bought Eduardo Recife’s Handmade font earlier this year and recently, I downloaded some free resources from his site, Misprinted Type. There were some free fonts, an EPS sheet of decorative elements, and, my favorite, some collage brushes. You can use the brushes to give your graphics a “handled” [...]
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