New in my Shop: Leathercrafter’s Studio

The final installment of the latest multi-release in my shop is a huge collection of my best digital leatherworking goods. Leathercrafter’s Studio is the definitive, comprehensive leather texture collection, including all you need for a rugged, realistic leather design. It’s a bundle of all of my shop’s leather goods, including all the leather textures, stitching brushes, grommets and rivets, and the latest Leathercrafter effects. If you like leather, you’ll love this! Check it out in my shop.

New in my Shop: The Leathercrafter

As part two of my Ornaments of Grace leather mega-release, I give you The Leathercrafter, a smart PSD using style effects to transform your vector-based shapes and text to tooling, branding or stamping. It’s a perfect companion to any leather texture! (And it’s a great companion to Leather Library, also just released in my shop!)

For tips, tricks, and tutorials, see the user guide.

New in my Shop: Leather Library: 100 Textures

Okay, we’re into leather around here, and if you like leather, you’ll love what I’ve just released in my shop today. You’ve probably already seen The Full-Grain Leather Collection and Leather Love. Well, this is bigger and better!

I’ve had a whole bunch of new leather textures sitting around, and I’ve finally put them all together to create one last huge collection of high-quality textures. I’m pretty excited to finally introduce Leather Library, 100 high-quality leather textures made from high-resolution scans of full-grain, top grain, bonded, and faux leather.

The Making of a Texture Series – Part 1

I’ve been meaning to take a Country Tour for a while. In the area where I live, the houses, landscape, and other various farm-related buildings make up a veritable treasure-trove of rustic textures. I personally can never get enough wood textures and other vintage, distressed backgrounds for my designs. I’ve also discovered, with my other texture collections, that the process of creating a texture from a three-dimensional item is a whole lot of fun, start to finish. It seems that in a fairly short amount of time, I can make something very useful for design projects. The effort that goes into it is hands-on, adventurous, and rewarding. Today I’ll be re-exploring my texture-making process, and you’re invited along for the ride. Please forgive the technical geekery. I hope my process gives you a few ideas!

Freebies + A Country Tour Volume 1 Textures Released

In the past few weeks, I’ve been on my own little adventure cooking up a new texture series. My family and I live in the farmland of Wayne County, Ohio, so I felt it was time to take a little country tour and make some rustic textures. Armed with my camera, tripod, scanner, laptop, and extension cord/surge protector, I started the tour around our house. Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder, and while not many people might find much to look at in old wood with peeling paint, or might wrinkle their nose at a deck that needs a coat of paint, a designer knows full well that these rustic surfaces are super useful for design projects, especially when translated from 3D to digital. So begins our little country tour.

Freebie! Chalkboard Texture and Chalk Design Inspiration

Chalk lettering is so popular today, thanks to the beautiful artwork being created by talented chalk designers for companies, stores, restaurants, events, and even home decorations. It’s definitely been added to the list of my new favorite design styles.

Chalkboard Artist Dana Tanamachi’s Signature Piece

A chalkboard advertisement also by Dana Tanamachi

Check out my Pinterest Board, Typography & Lettering, for more hand lettering and chalk-lettered inspiration.

Freebie! Vintage Scrapbooking Textures

Today I’ve got something fun for everyone- some free textures for you to use in your personal and commercial designs!

This distressed set of textures, available in 12 vintage colors, is a perfect background or texture for greeting cards, scrapbooks, digital albums, banners, and more. Two different sizes and orientations make it great for any project. The 12×12 size makes it a perfect fit for digital scrapbooks.

ABOUT THE TEXTURES

• 12 Vintage Colors
• File Format: jpg
• Resolution: 300 dpi
• Two Sizes: 10″ x 8″ (3000px by 2400px) and 12″ x 12″ (3600px by 3600px) – a perfect size for digital scrapbook papers
• Covered under the Basic License
• Colors include: Scarlet, Earth, Treasure Map, Parchment, Sepia, Winter Forest, Sage, Aqua, Oasis, Blue Smoke, Royalty, and Marble. All the colors are shown here: