Project Girlie Vintage Postcard Day 1 (Freebie)

I woke up at 5:30 am and must have been dreaming in pink! Good morning, Project Girlie! I felt inspired to create a vintage looking piece of art from some cute stock photos that I had started working on.

Check back after a few cups pots of coffee for what I’ve whipped up at Kokabella for you to snag this morning…

12:40 pm: Okay, after a busy morning with Sophia, I managed to brew this one up. Needless to say, I was feeling very PINK!

Click on the image below to download a 4″ x 6″ copy that can be printed and used for personal use. I will be adding this to my store in various colors and styles as a high quality print.

P.S. Not that into pink, hmm? Watch tomorrow, I’ll cook up a less “girlie” version for you to download! Pssst, now would be a great time to subscribe to my updates feed!

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Sophia’s Circle Art Part 2

I cannot stop playing around with this! Yesterday I had as much fun letting Sophia pick the little punch outs to glue on the paper as I am today with Photoshop!

It started out as a bunch of circle punched scrap paper pieces (see yesterday’s post) and turned into some fabulous works of art:

I am thinking of offering the high resolution versions (commercial use ok) for a donation towards something for Sophia. She loves the zoo and I know she’d love going to the San Antonio Zoo.

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Sophia’s Circle Art Part 1

Today, my 18-month old and I decided to create something to matte & frame for her wall. We used a circle punch to make a lot of colorful circles from scrap paper, glued them on a piece of heavy card stock, scanned it and using Photoshop, created a few variations to start our design process with.

We will finish our project tomorrow and send it to the printer, then matte and frame it for her room. Check back tomorrow night for the final artwork!

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Bid4Assets: Recent Addition to My Fave Websites

I take trips around the web frequently and today, this site caught my attention. It’s a definite must for anyone with a taste for the finer things!

Bid4Assets is an online auction marketplace for high value assets like jewelry, real estate, collectibles, cars and more. Items come from seizures from the U.S. Marshals Service, state and county governments and private sellers.

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Free Commercial Use Stock Photo Sites

There are many stock photography websites to find a great shot for your website or print media. Here’s the ones I like most. As always, be sure to check on the photographer’s terms for use. Have fun!

Image Search Engines:

Creative Commons Search offers search by use for commercial purposes or images that can be modified, adapted or built upon.

EveryStockPhoto searches across multiple sources of almost 5 million images.

Flickr: Creative Commons Search also offers a search of content uploaded by Flickr members based on the type of Creative Commons licensing you are looking for.

Search Royalty Free stock images on Dreamstime:

Websites:

AboutPixel requires you to register to get free photographs. It is not an English website.

ADigitalDreamer has a small but well organized collection.

Cromavista offers a small collection, mostly scenic. It is not an English website. No attribution required as stated at bottom of page.

Deviantart has stock images of all kinds by many members. Terms of use vary. Excellent website.

DHD Multimedia Gallery offers wide range of photos. Navigation is not the greatest. Requests a link back if using their stock.

Flickr Creative Commons shows images with attribution requirements.

FontPlay Free Photos offers 10,000+ free, high resolution photos without restriction.

Fotolia offers stock starting at $0.14. Although not free, it’s a great source for high rez images.

Freemediagoo offers free photos, no credit required.

Royalty Free Images

FreePhotos offers free use of their 3000+ photographs. Link back required.

FreePhotos.se has a small but nice collection of free use photographs by non-professionals. Link back requested but not required.

FreeRangeStock is an awesome website full of high resolution photographs for personal or commercial use.

FromOldBooks has over 2800 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books.

ImageAfter is a terrific website for free high resolution photographs although most are raw and unprofessionally shot. Great for modifying and enhancing though.

Imagebase offers some great stock photography without any restrictions other than the obvious; no porn use or resale of original images.

IronOrchid has to be mentioned here as there are some original and unique photographs for web use with attribution. Print quality available for a fee.

Mayang has 3400+ photographs of textures and architecture that can be used freely. Link back requested but not required.

Microshots has a cool collection of 600+ closeup shots available for personal and commercial use.

National Digital Library allows use of their photographs freely. Requests credit to be given to photographer.

Photo Laboratory has free stock that they claim exists nowhere else. Definitely worth a look. I did not see anything written in their legal jargon stating that use of their photos requires attribution.

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