Everyone loves a Freebie!

This week, I’m turning from supplies toward TOOLS for you!  By “tools” I mean things that you can use over and over again in your scrapping.  They aren’t kit specific, but useful tools – like fonts, brushes, textures, styles, etc.

First the fonts:

The Awesome font is free for personal use at dafont.com.  I thought it was awfully cute and perfect for a pre-teen slumber party page!

Ursula Handschrift looks like a nice bold handwriting font for journaling.  Sometimes I find script style fonts are too delicate to hold their own on a patterned paper, so this looks like a good option.

Don’t know why this appeals to me, but Gothical looks like fun.  Maybe save it for Halloween, it would make great titles!

I love the free font Biscuit Tin.  Wouldn’t it look cute colored in and made into stickers?

Here are some great free texture images.  These would make great alphas, or blended into papers, or however they strike your imagination!

This series of wood textures is very well photographed and 2500 pixels wide so they will size up well.

This set of free grungy film textures is great for ‘aging’ your photos – they are free for personal or commercial use, but only about 500 pixels wide.  So they’d be good for smaller images, but be wary of sizing them up too much, check your image at 100% zoom to make sure it doesn’t look blurry.

And lastly, here are some groovy – commercial use! – paisley brushes for you.  They look very spring-like to me!

If you need ideas on how to use these tools, join us on Thursday nights for our Tutorial Crops!  We have a blast chatting, and I always provide you a tutorial and goodies from our sponsors!

Over the next few months we’ll spend some time looking at how to use your brushes in creative ways, how to use textures and fun with fonts!

Next Thursday we have one of my favorite designers sponsoring us, and she’s sent me some wonderful gifts for all of you!  Watch for my post Wednesday with a sneak preview and link to find the crop.

Happy Scrapping!

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