Brushes Away

Thursday already! Where do the days go to? I know some of you have been wondering about the Boys Toys Elements from the All At Sea kit that Sue Woods has done. They will be posted as soon as she is well enough. Poor Sue has been in bed with flu and a throat infection for over a week.



I am a hoarder you know. Especially of Photoshop brushes. I have several gigabytes of them on my hard drives and I cannot possibly have used a tenth of them! Yet I still collect them free or bought. Sound familiar?



So with brushes in mind, here is another little freebie for you all. Suitable for personal or commercial use - they are ideal for making textures or patterns on papers and small tag type elements.





Based on some very old French drawings, I scanned them as best I could given they are crumbling away and created some little brushes. Not big brushes, but pretty little florals that you can colour in and change the blend modes for a variety of looks. I have included them as a PNG for those who do not use Photoshop or where the brush won't work in your version. There is also a coloured version of one so you can see how they look filled in.



Find them bundled up in store in the $1 spot - never know what bargains you will find!

Monday Freebie

Well here is another freebie for you! This time it is a pack of 2 beautifully textured Easy Overlays. You may use these personally or commercially (provided you alter them in some way). Try different blending modes or play with the hue or saturation levels. Stack them up like pancakes!

They will be around for a while, then off to the store they go....

Thursday Birthday Thoughts

Well if you have been reading the homepage of ScrapStreet you will know that ScrapStreet is turning 3 on 15th September. A noteable date for me - it is my "ex" wedding anniversary, is the day before my son's 13th birthday, is the birthday of a dear "old" friend back in UK, is a couple of days away from my parents wedding anniversary and was the day of the Battle Of Britain. Oh and not forgetting it is our beloved Dora's birthday month as well!!

So to celebrate in style I am cooking up some sweet treats for you all. I don't tend to do Commercial Use stuff, but that is out of the window this month. Stay tuned to the blog as I will pop freebies here there and everywhere, all of them available for personal or commercial use! Just don't share the link please, come here for your goodies!


How's that for a great birthday celebration? To get us rolling along here is the first freebie, some cupcakes I did for a challenge in the ScrapStreet Anniversary party that is going on in the Town Square forum. Add colours, styles etc to these and you will have yourself a fun set of cupcakes!

I will leave these birthday goodies around for a while and then package them up to go into the digi $ spot in the ScrapStreet Store, so be sure to check back often this month if you want them for free.

Link has expired, but see them in the $1 spot in store!

New Vocabulary

Well maybe not new to everyone, but this is not something I had seen before so I thought I would share it! A collection of essential workplace (and elsewhere) words to add to your vocabulary this week from the Sayings blog.

BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

TERDBIRD : A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and peoples heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

SEAGULL SPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the sphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

404 : Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.

GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

So true aren't they?

Here is a little freebie for you this week. I had this done a while ago, but changed up the elements. A sweet and pretty mini kit aptly named BonBon (sweets in French).

As usual this is free for about a week or so and then moves into the Digi Dollar Spot in the ScrapStreet Store. Grab it here and enjoy!