MYGRAFICO CRAFTS BLOG

Everyone needs a little elegance and whimsy, right? That’s what I thought.

For our inspiration, we used a  paper pack from Dotted Daisy Designs and a brush set by Mel’s Brushes for sale here at MyGrafico. We made a couple of designs (seen below), but the possibilites are endless.

For fun, we made a sample blog header.  We used Photoshop and opened a file in the size of 669 x 250.

We chose one of the papers from the paper pack shown above and used it to cover our header canvas.  We added a rounded rectangle to the middle and chose a color that coordinated with the background.  Then, we changed the opacity to 75% , so that you could see the fun polka dots beneath it.  Next, we chose one of the .png files in the brush set (instead of using a brush) and positioned it on our canvas, showing only a portion of it, to enhance our header.  We then added our text and here we have a brand new header.

Then, we moved on to make a fun note card design in Photoshop. We used the same dotted paper and dropped it onto our notecard canvas.  Next, we used the rectangle tool and made a black rectangle to stretch across the notecard.  Separately, we opened the round brush design you see on the card in photoshop from a png file.  We added a black circle to this file and merged down the visible layers.  From there, we dropped ito onto the notecard and then put initials on there as an additional text layer.

There are so many possibilities with the brushes and png files and the digital paper files in these two packs.  I could have gone on and on and made diaper bag tags, business cards, designed websites, greeting cards and so much more.  We hope this provides a little inspiration for your own projects.