Pixels and Ice Cream is to thank for the brushes used in the new CB header and layout. I discovered Jen’s site via stumbleupon a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with her designs. If you’re interested in graphic design, Photoshop or digital scrap-booking then her blog is stuffed full of resources for both personal and commercial use. Even though Jen has only had the blog up for four months there’s a great range of photoshop brushes, patterns [...]

I am self taught at both image manipulation and sewing, but I like to think that I’m fairly proficient in both of them – at least I pretend to be! It wasn’t until this evening that I actually combined the two. A few weeks back I ordered some Hungry Caterpillar Fabric featuring the illustrations from the Eric Carle book (searching for “Hungry Caterpilar” at Fabric.com brings up the whole series for you to browse) with the intention of making some [...]

The sewing world has been buzzing with news about Spoonflower.com for a couple of months now. I’ve had an account and my design for a couple of weeks and have just got around to placing my first order, two yards of fabric with my own design should be heading my way soon! I won’t be able to give a full review until the fabric has arrived, but so far my experience with them has been awesome, the site is very [...]