Freebie Finds - Free Graphics and Fonts

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Welcome to my weekly(ish) round-up of font and graphic freebies floating around the web right now.  If you're into digital crafting or creating digital art then these free resources are worth seeking out.  Most come with commercial licences so that you can create products to sell, whether they be print-on-demand patterns and designs or to create physical craft products, but be quick as they are generally only available for a limited time.


Creative Fabrica have just released a brand new free graphic bundle*, featuring 16 graphic packs including watercolour florals, cute cat illustrations, various SVG cutting files and more.  It's definitely worth taking a look at.  

Free Graphic Bundle Vol 5 | creativefabrica.com

This Street Scene Builder* would be perfect for 'New Home' greeting cards.  Adjust the scale and colours to create your own unique urban landscape artwork.

Street Scene Builder | creativefabrica.com

Over at Creative Market I'm loving 'Contemporary Graphic Huge Set Vol.1'.  It's a bumper set of 100 graphic elements that can be combined in any way you like to create abstract designs that could be used to create framed artwork, greetings cards, background papers, t-shirt designs and so on.  

Contemporary Graphic Huge Set Vol 1 | creativemarket.com

At Design Cuts you can download 'Watercolor and Chalkboard Patterns, Vintage Papers and Textures' a set consisting of watercolour patterns, a chalkboard pattern, a marble pattern, vintage paper and a texture.  The great thing about the Design Cuts website is that they also provide a tutorial to give you some ideas about how to use the free designs.  

Redbubble Round-Up: Inspired by Spanish Tiles

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So it's been a minute! After a longer-than-I-realised break I'm back for another Redbubble Round-Up.  I just uploaded a brand new design inspired by the intricate designs found on Spanish tiles, so this week's round-up features my new design and other Spanish tile inspired artwork.

So, here it is - "ST Entwined" by Merry Makewell Designs.  It's a gorgeous seamless pattern in teal and white that looks great on pretty much everything!  The photo shows the design on a floor pillow.

ST Entwined floor pillow

"Traditional Portuguese glazed tiles" is an actual reproduction of a traditional Portuguese tile pattern.  As the tiles form a repeating pattern it works really well with fabric items, like the tote bag.  I find this particular shade of blue very calming.

Traditional Portuguese glazed tiles Tote Bag

I like the use of two tones of blue, plus a tiny splash of colour in "Portuguese Tiles Quatrefoil Pattern".

Portuguese Tiles Quatrefoil Pattern Duvet Cover

From a tiny splash of colour to this lovely combination of pink, blue and yellow in "Old Floral Tiles":

Old Floral Tiles spiral-bound notebook

And finally, I like the combination of coral, orange and turquoise "Spanish Tile Vivaciouse".  The majority of Spanish/Portuguese style tiles that I have seen have been in blue and white.  The vibrant pops of colour really lift the whole design.

Spanish Tile Vivaciouse iPad Case

Redbubble Round-Up: Geometric

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So, it's time for another Redbubble round-up.  I'll be looking at GEOMETRIC designs on home decor products.

First up is my design "Octagonal".  There's something about this design that reminds me of a swimming pool and the acrylic block really helps to accentuate that effect.  I think that it would look doubly good on a windowsill or somewhere where it would catch the sun.

"Octagonal" Acrylic Blocks by Merry Makewell Designs

Next up, "Pink, Grey & Gold Geo" Throw Pillow by Blue Banana,  This style of design is very popular right now. I love the mixture of muted pinks and greys with gold.  It would definitely suit a clean, minimalist setting.

"Pink, Grey & Gold Geo" Throw Pillow by Blue Banana

This "Kilim In Summer Shades..." design is in my favourite colour combination of pink and aqua/teal and the design is visually striking.  It's gorgeous!  It looks great on a duvet cover and could easily be teamed with pink or teal pillowcases for a more cohesive look.

"Kilim In Summer Shades..." Duvet Cover by MagentaRose

I really like this style of geometric landscapes.  Despite being very simple, the colours and shapes and the interplay between the different layers give an interesting and playful result.  This "Native Lands" throw pillow would be great in a kid's room.

"Native Lands" Throw Pillow by Jenny Tiffany

Finally, another one of my designs.  I love, love, love the "Geo Wheels - Red" surface pattern.   Here it is looking great on the tall mug.  It also comes in mint, white, mustard, lilac and teal.

Check out these and many more designs over on Redbubble.

Digital Geometric Shards

Remember the geometric pattern card that I created a few posts ago?  Well, I liked it so much that I decided to create a digital version of it using the CraftArtist2 Professional software.  I love the idea of creating products using my own designs so on a whim last year I opened up a shop on Society6 (it's called Merry Makewell Designs) and uploaded my digital rendition of the card design.  I originally tried to reproduce the card faithfully, but the combination of teal and purple didn't really work digitally for some reason, so I used a grey outline instead.  I also made a pastel version using a white outline.

Here they are as notebooks:

Purple Shards notebook

Pastel Shards - Notebook

 I've also added the design to a whole range of other products, like tote bags, phone cases, laptop sleeves, pouches, mugs, wall hangings and even shower curtains.  I think that they look pretty good.

If you have a chance go and take a closer look.

Geometric Shards

A little while ago I was helping my mum to clean out her garage and I came across a load of my old school books and folders.  One of the things that I used to love to do was to decorate the insides of the folders by sectioning the space into squares or triangles and then colouring them in.  I made this card shortly afterwards, inspired by that memory.

How are You? geometric pattern card

I used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers; BT5 using the chisel tip to create the outline and PL2, PL4, PL5, LV1 and LV3 to colour in the triangles.  I happened to have some card that matched the turquoise marker colour almost perfectly, which I used for the card base.  The sentiment is from an old sticker collection by American Crafts which has been in my stash for years!  I added the faux stitching around the perimeter to help it stand out more.  It just goes to show that you don't always need stamps, patterned papers and fancy dies to create a striking card.