I was going to photograph some glitter to use as a texture but I found this nifty tutorial from ScrapbookBytes . Here are ...

There's a few reasons for changing CMYK colors to Pantone. Sometimes you are given a color and need to know the Pantone equivalent or ...

I recently was looking through a magazine and saw a pretty black and white fashion photo with a pink gradient and I had to try to duplicat...

You can download high resolution art from the Rijks Studio for your own personal use and commercial use is negotiable. I had to take t...

Botanical crossbreeding. This is what happens when watermelon and sunflowers are planted in the same field.

Vintage pictorial maps are so much fun, I wish people still did them more. The oddest cartoon is of a criminal in Stillwater State Priso...

Now this would be a fun career day; Saturn off in the distance while a space ship rockets over the Ve...

If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be a 100 minus 1 day so I never have to live without you. ...

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This wonderful vintage illustration came from the Graphics Fairy . It was black and white so I did ...

My daughter received an anime style pencil sketch of herself from a friend. I redid the drawing for her ...

Some days it's really grand to be an early riser. Available on Etsy   

I took my digital photo from Huatulco, Mexico and applied Photoshop filters to make it resemble Lomog...

I have been very fortunate about getting window seats on planes; it saves me from having to arm wrestle passeng...

I used to have a huge rubber band ball on my desk. I started it after visiting the twine ball museum ...

I love the sentiment, and the trip to Huatulco, Mexico where I took the photo was definitely smile worthy. Available on Etsy  

Early Sunday morning is the best time to go to Itasca State Park, you have the park all to yourself. I plan to do a ...

The images are from Huatulco, Mexico and include sea gull footprints on the beach and a palm tree with shadow. In addition to the original i...

Over Memorial weekend we had numerous gorgeous birds at the cabin but the most vivid were the orioles. It was fortunate I brought up a b...

Place a background image or photo in a new document in illustrator. Type over the photo. If you want the letters to touch. T...

Ahoy! I took this photo aboard a pirate ship sailing along the the shores of Cabo San Lucas. The capt...

A walk in the woods helps me relax and release tension. The fact that I'm dragging a body is totally ...

Start a new file in Photoshop with a white background. Channels Palette. Click the Create New Channel icon to add...

Wouldn't be nice to gently bob along to the ocean? I put a paper boat in the Mississippi River yesterday; it s...

I've been a little busy with my new blog, 365 Projects , but I wanted to share this sweet vintage package label. You can get a high re...

Last night I went to a college friend's book launch party. The soiree was held in a gorgeous old library. I ...

March will be full of creatures at my blog 365 Projects and I've been scheduling posts in advance so I'm not tied to the computer...

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes of bad judgement. You may run into  problems but the...

I heard a stick of butter fall off a shelf inside the frig and ricochet downward. I thought, wouldn't it be great if your food coul...

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as warning to others. It's good to give people a heads up. I particular...

I fight the impulse to do stupid things. Sometimes I give in but so far I've manged to stay in one piece. Every once in a while you ...