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Clip art Easter bunny and squirrel from the book and CD Design Parts Sourcebook: Romantic

With Easter fast approaching, I am having too much fun decorating and crafting! Today, I have both original and modified bits of clip art from one of my favorite books and CDs Design Parts Sourcebook: Romantic to share with you for your Easter crafting.

Here is the original squirrel clip art as it appears in the book and on the included CD of images from Design Parts Sourcebook: Romantic. When I spotted this I thought it was a bunny and then I realized it wasn't. Easy fix though! I brought it into Photoshop and with a few swipes of the erasure tool and passes of the paint brush I had a bunny!

If you like this clip art and want more, then grab yourself a copy of the book and CD:

Design Parts Sourcebook: Romantic
A Collection of Images for Artists and Designers
By
MdN Designs

This book is a useful and inspirational collection of romantically inspired images to use, modify, and customize for your own art and design projects. It provides a printed catalog of all the images and the companion CD-ROM provides all the image files in both JPEG and PNG data files for Photoshop and MS Word users. This beautiful collection is a fantastic resource for a wide range of visual artists including art journalers, scrapbookers, cardmakers, collage artists, graphic designers, and fine artists.

MdN Design is the designers’ section of MdN Corporation, Inc., which was established in 1989 and has published magazines and books on graphic design, web design, DTP, art and printing in Japan.

 

Vintage style octopus image from the book Marine Animals Book and CD

With it pouring rain here I thought I'd share this cool vintage style octopus clip art with you today from Marine Animals Book and CD: Make Thousands of Customized Graphics from Hundreds of Image Templates. Click on it to download and use it to make something fabulous!

If you like working with all sorts of different styles of marine-themed clip art, you will love all the images in the book and CD:

Marine Animals Book and CD:

Make Thousands of Customized Graphics from Hundreds of Image Templates

By

ricorico

A collection of usable artwork for designers and artists featuring 100 thematic illustrations in popular categories to use freely and to manipulate or enhance and supplement their own work. The original artwork and the popular themes are perfect for non-designers and amateur artists who want professional looking artwork but cannot create the artwork themselves. This book offers modern and unique illustrations in themes that are current for today’s artists. It is the perfect book for artists, crafters, designers, and laypeople wanting imagery for cards, t-shirts, journals arts, posters, advertisements, party decorations, and more.

ricorico is a Tokyo-based book packaging company established in 2009. They have been actively producing books in the area of graphic design, photography, craft, pop culture, and manga, including two titles that they also authored.

 

Two free graphic patterns from the book and CD Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 4

I "heart" you readers! And in honor of all the love I have two free patterns from the book and CD  Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 4 for you to download and use to make your Valentines or whatever you like. In addition to these prints, I have another twofer giveaway!

Here's how it works: Leave your answer to the question,

"Are you making Valentines this year? If so, what is your medium of choice?"

To be entered a second time pop on over to the Craftside Facebook page and leave your answer there too! This will double your chances of winning! And the prize you ask?

Your choice of ANY BOOK from the Qbookshop!!! You pick!!! Answers must be posted both here and on Craftside Facebook Page by midnight ET Wednesday February 16th, 2011. CLOSED!!!

Here are two of the copyright-free patterns included in the book and CD  Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 4 that I thought would be fun to work with when making Valentines and other project meant to share the love.

More about:

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 4:

A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design

By

Kathie Alexander

and

Harvey Rayner

This is a new volume in Rockport’s desktop library of color and pattern. The book and enclosed CD provides professional designers with seamless geometric patterns in a variety of color palettes to address the specific design needs of designers, art directors, and students working in textile design, product design, graphic print and website design, and advertising and corporate design. The enclosed CD contains interactive vector files to allow readers to resize motifs and patterns and change colorways to suit their own design purposes.

Kathie Alexander is a freelance designer based in Peoria, Il. Prior to her freelance career, Alexander was employed by Dynamic Graphics/JupiterMedia for nine years, were she worked in the Marketing and Publishing departments. Her latest role was art director of Dynamic Graphics magazine, which she designed for six years.

 

Harvey Rayner is a graphic and web designer in Suffolk, England, and creator of the website root2art (http://www.root2art.co.uk/CV/index.php) and patterncooler.com, a library database of more than 11,000 seamless patterns. In addition to the enclosed CD, the author will create a dedicated web page for this book with an interactive online component on that site.

 

Free CD envelope with windows pattern from the book The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2 by Luke Herriott

The idea of making an envelope so that you can spin the disk inside and little bits of info will appear is so cute and kinda retro. This free CD envelope pattern is from the book (and CD) The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2. I think it would be cute to make this envelope for a mixed CD. Maybe for your "Valentine"? And write little Q & A's on the disk? Just a thought.

This pattern is designed by Brad Kayal.

Click on the CD envelope template to download and then print out.

If you like this one, there is a first book in the series (as implied by the "2" hehe):

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook

More about:

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2

See inside peeks and some of the free templates here.

More about the fabulous follow up:

 

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2

By

Luke Herriott

This is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook. With 100% new content, The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2 is guaranteed to repeat the runaway success of the original volume. This indispensable sourcebook features 100 new, innovative, and classic packaging and paper engineering ideas across a variety of end uses, with detailed templates showing how to copy, fold, construct, and complete them from widely available materials. The accompanying CD features all of the templates as copyright-free, editable EPS files making The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2 an invaluable resource for designer, design students, and crafters.

Luke Herriott has been art directing, designing, and managing book projects for over 15 years, and is the director of book design and packaging company, Studio Ink. He is the author and designer of a number of books, including Instant Graphics, Art Directing Projects for Print, and The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook, published by RotoVision, as well as 1000 Restaurant, Bar, and Cafe Graphics published by Rockport Publishers. He lives in Hastings, UK.

There are 99 more!!!!!!!! (They are all included on the accompanying CD.)

A heart made from two skulls from Bones and Skulls Book and DVD: Make Thousands of Customized Graphics from 100 Image Templates

If you "heart" off-beat types of Valentines, then I bet you will love today's free graphic downloads from the book Bones and Skulls Book and DVD: Make Thousands of Customized Graphics from 100 Image Templates. These books are not just your average royalty free clip art books; they include designs using several of the elements combined as well as the individual files.

This heart made from two skulls is the design.I have to say it makes me smile!

Here is the skull it's made with.

And here is the word "skull" in a blood drip style. So if these types of images are what you like to work with in your art and design, you will definitely love this book and DVD:

Bones and Skulls Book and DVD

Make Thousands of Customized Graphics from 100 Image Templates

By

ricorico

A collection of usable artwork for designers and artists featuring 100 thematic illustrations in popular categories to use freely and to manipulate or enhance and supplement their own work. The original artwork and the popular themes are perfect for non-designers and amateur artists who want professional looking artwork but cannot create the artwork themselves. This book offers modern and unique illustrations in themes that are current for today’s artists. It is the perfect book for artists, crafters, designers, and laypeople wanting imagery for cards, t-shirts, journals arts, posters, advertisements, party decorations, and more.

ricorico is a Tokyo-based book packaging company established in 2009. They have been actively producing books in the area of graphic design, photography, craft, pop culture, and manga, including two titles that they also authored.