Spring Delicate Paper Flowers

Kate's Paperie has some fantastic seasonal craft ideas. I found these beautiful delicate paper flowers DIY projects. For instructions to the orange Jonquil, click here. For the purple Gerbera Daisy, go here!

Free Handwritten Fonts

Here's 45+ fun handwritten fonts put together by TripWire Magazine. Enjoy!

Printable Hand-Finished Paper

I was flipping through my September 2009 issue of Martha Stewart and saw their highlight on this fantastic printer-friendly paper with a hand-finished edge. I guess the paper comes in 4 sizes and are great for invitations, business cards, fun notes or anything else you want to use it for. After you print your image you remove the perforated edges to reveal a special hand-finished edge. Fantastic.

You can get them here at orangeart.com and get templates and how to's here at Martha Stewart.

Free Party Invitations from Real Simple

Real Simple has some very simple and clever party invites you can print out for free.

{ birthday }
{ dessert party }
{ dinner party }
{ cheese party }
{ barbecue }

and....it's never too early to start planning for that:

{ new year's eve party invite } and
{ thanksgiving party invite }

Free Paper Toy Downloadables

As usual I stumbled upon this website called thetoymaker.com by Marilyn Scott Waters. She has graciously provided some very unique and fun diy paper toys that she has designed for all to use. Check them out here.

Fantastically Designed U.S. Stamps

Just found out that the U.S. Post Office finally has two fabulously designed "love" stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, and Jeanne Greco of New York, New York. I've honestly never been so excited about a design of a stamp before until now. Love it...and am rushing off to get some today. Check it out here at the USPS site here.

And to top it all off, Vale Design created some note flats and address labels that were inspired by the new stamp. You can download those on her site here.

Free Fonts at Font Squirrel

I came across another website with free fonts called Font Squirrel. I really like the layout of this site and the fonts are really nice. So if you are in need of some new free fonts, check them out!

Free Block Party Invite

I'm helping to organize a Block Party in a couple of weeks in my cul-de-sac and whipped up these summery invites to pass out to my neighbors. So feel free to use them for your next party! You can download a pdf file on the goodie page of my website here.

4th of July Crafts & Decorations

Here is a whole bunch of 4th of July crafts { here } and decorations from Disney Family Fun! This will sure keep you busy and make for a great day of festivities. Oh and here are some printables from Disney too! Click here for them.

4th of July Paper Airplane

Download this free patriotic paper airplane for the 4th festivities at Disney Family Fun.

Free Vector Birds

Here are some free vector black birds from a blog called, Designer Daily I just happened to find while Googling.

Father's Day gift, Stickers and Free Fun

For Father's Day, here's a last minute gift idea from Martha Stewart. This is a great little picture frame!



These are the cutest space stickers from Lotta Bruhn.



Disney Family Fun has a whole bunch of great stickers for the kids! Here are their 4th of July stickers which kids I know will have fun with. Click { here } for the whole list of stickers.



And Martha Stewart also has these fun free printable stickers for kids! Absolutely fabulous.

Here's free printable popcorn bags from Mushy! Too cute for words.



Every once in a while The Container Store offers free things, craft project instructions or things like free printable labels! Gotta love it!

Aviary.com Image Editor

I'm very intrigued by Aviary; a free online image editor. Looks like they are offering a very simplfied Adobe Illustrator (which they call Raven), Adobe Photoshop (called Phoenix) a filter and effects creator (called Peacock) and a color generator (called Toucan).

Their mission is "to make creation accessible to artists of all genres". Very interesting idea. It also looks as though they have a ton more things in the works, including a place to edit audio which will be callled Roc. Can't decide whether to take the time to try it out but I have enjoyed it for fun inspiration.

I'll be watching this one.

Free Coloring Pages

My 20 month old absolutely loves to scribble! She is now just starting to enjoy scribbling on cartoon characters, so I decided to download some free coloring pages from the internet. Well I soon found myself a bit annoyed at the pixelation of the pictures when I tried downloading the ones I found. So being a perfectionist, I created some of my own coloring sheets and wanted to share them.

Just go to my goodie page { here } at my website to download.

Free Stationary Printables

Here at Stationary Style they have provided some free stationary {click here} that can be downloaded. Seems like something for every occasion.

Free Downloadable Stationary

Ez who has the blog Creature Comforts has some very cute free stationary you can download at her site here. Absolutely an adorable snail!

Delicious

Ok, I'm probably way behind on this, but I just discovered Delicious.com about a month or so ago. For those who don't know what it is, here is what they say on their site:

"Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet"

All in all it's another fun resource place. I'm always amazed at what I find. If you haven't checked it out, you must as you may find somethings of great interest to you. One of the bookmarks that fascinated me was 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory. It's always good to refresh myself and note it for new graphic designers that come my way.

Free Grunge Textures

I found another great place for free textures at Grunge Textures. This is a very well done site, and offers some really unique textures. Mud, machinery, aluminum and even rust textures. All great things for grunge projects.

Fun Candy Wrappers

Who would of thought that this would be on Rachel Ray's Everyday website. Free candy wrapper designs to download. Of course as a designer, I would most likely design one myself. But, when I'm in a pinch I don't have any guilt downloading free designs. Especially if it is a fun design and it involves chocolate! For candy wrapper free downloads, click here!

Free Ornaments

Here at Briar Press there is a great selection of free ornaments to download, gotta love free stuff. There is also a selection that you can purchase for a pretty inexpensive amount of money. Click here to download the ornaments and check out all the great resources at Briar Press.