Emilia Blom http://emiliablom.se Graphic designer • Illustrator • Sketchnoter • Singersong-writer Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:23:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Advent Calendar Giveaways Day 24 http://emiliablom.se/2012/12/24/advent-calendar-giveaways-day-24/ http://emiliablom.se/2012/12/24/advent-calendar-giveaways-day-24/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:23:20 +0000 Emilia Blom http://emiliablom.se/?p=1239 It’s Christmas eve and the final day of my advent calendar with design giveaways! Inspired by all the snow here in Stockholm I decided to make another Photoshop pattern just for this day. I imagined a big footer background image with snowy monochrome hills. So I made the image 1200 x 464 px to make it tileable only sideways (hence the footer context). It works on any kind of background color so you can easily customize appearance and transparency. Here’s a preview of how it looks on different colors:

SnowyHills_pattern_pic

It’s free to download and to use.

Enjoy!

And merry Christmas!

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Pattern_CrazyWorms_Pic

It’s free to download and to use (as long as you don’t sell it).

Enjoy!

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Icons_Sketchy_pic

Enjoy!

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Enjoy!

]]> http://emiliablom.se/2012/12/21/advent-calendar-giveaways-day-21/feed/ 0 Advent Calendar Giveaways Day 20 http://emiliablom.se/2012/12/20/advent-calendar-giveaways-day-20/ http://emiliablom.se/2012/12/20/advent-calendar-giveaways-day-20/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:44:44 +0000 Emilia Blom http://emiliablom.se/?p=1216 Here’s an old ink illustration I found in a box last week. I wanted to make something of it, so i took a photo of it, cleaned it up in Photoshop and traced it in Illustrator. The Ai-file is free to download and to use (just don’t sell it).

Here’s what the original looks like:

Tree_Preview_pic

Here’s an example of what you could do with it, just let your imagination flow:

Tree_Preview_pic2

Enjoy!

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