Don’t know about you but I like to recycle. I strongly believe that we could recycle at least 80% of the stuff instead of throwing them away every day.
So, here’s a little preview what I’ve done with, for instance, old glass jars, mostly from my favorite products by Saclà Italia :)
The image below shows, for instance, glass jars filled with soil and plants. I got my hubby to drill in some holes and put them on the wall. They are hanging on the driftwood I collect (what? you don’t collect driftwood? of course you do! everyone does that …) every spring. So, finally, here is what my bathroom wall looks like today, everything recycled:

Image below: sample of colored glass jar hanging on some old cable – the candle holder:

Handmade pencil shelf (detail from the wall in my room), combination of glass jars and driftwood

Here’s what the wall in my working room looks like:

As you can see, I am using glass jars as simple candle holders too… I color them, decorate them with leaves or stripes… or whatever I can recycle. Finally, I print out a paper candle shades and put them around the jars:

As you probably guessed, to create candle shades, I use my Photoshop brushes.
So, if you like these candle shades, this is the place to get them!
I hope you will maybe find some of these ideas inspirational and maybe you will find some stuff at home that doesn’t need to be thrown away but can be used to create a decoration or something useful for your household.
Have fun creating,
Silvia
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I don’t know about you, but I just love the element of surprise. Especially when it comes to gifts. And since I strongly believe in “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” philosophy – every now and then I prepare a small surprise gifts for all of you who purchased at least one of my PREMIUM Photoshop brushes sets.
As most of you probably already know, while ago I upgraded Tattoo Designs Photoshop brushes set with (1) Tattoo Designs PNG files and (2) New brush sizes. So this set gained new, added value for the same price. EMail with download links was sent to buyers and, well, I don’t have to tell you how pleasantly surprised they were. The response was so positive and overwhelming that, of course, it did not take me long before I made another upgrade.
And this is the day.
Ladies and gentleman, tonight, it is my pleasure to present you with another free upgrade! This time I upgraded Swirls Floral brushes set (42)!
[PREVIEW OF THE SWIRLS FLORAL PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET 42+42 - SE]
Now, this new free upgrade brings new dimensions of Swirls Floral Photoshop brushes and I just can’t emphasize enough how good it is to have brushes in two dimensions.
Why, you will ask?
Because, Photoshop brushes are still bitmap images. We all know how bitmap images don’t like to be stretched-out because when they are stretched out – they lose their quality. Well, believe it or not, same can happen when you re-size the Photoshop brush to a smaller dimension. OK, you can always safely decrease the size of Photoshop brush by 25%-30% but if you make it smaller than that – again, it might easily lose it’s quality.
And that’s where this new brush dimension comes in. Instead of decreasing the size of the big brush, you will now just use the smaller version of the same brush. Or should I say, small hi quality version of the same brush. This way you will avoid the risk of losing the quality of the brush by scaling it down.
So, all of you who bought Swirls Floral brushes set should have receive an email with the download link by now. I hope you will enjoy 42 Swirls Floral brushes in smaller size, ideal for web, video or other digital production.
And for those of you who don’t know what does this set looks like – here is the:
[PREVIEW OF THE SWIRLS FLORAL PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET 42+42 - SE - upgraded version]
and if you like what you see
[BUY SWIRLS FLORAL PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES SET 42 + 42 - SE - upgraded version]
OK. That’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed the post, maybe learned something new and, as always, never forget to have fun creating.
Love ya all,
Silvia
P.S. Surprise!!! Get one nice Swirls Floral PNG (2500×2500 px at 300 dpi, digital stencil or digital stamp) from this Second Edition set here [DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK]–>

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Guys,
Here is the idea on how to get (for free)
1. Commercial scrapbook kit Grunge Love (BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET): $4.99
15 elements (JPG and PNG), high resolution 12×12 inch scrapbook page kit
4 custom background papers in red hues
3 frames, two Swirled and one with Hearts
1 wire / swirl
1 gold Heart with flowers and Swirls
1 brown-glass Heart with Swirls
1 brown Heart with Wings
1 aged Tag with Swirls
2 big Hearts with Swirls
1 “LOVE” sign: Grunge Letters with Swirls
Click here for preview:

2. Commercial Photoshop brushes – Photo Corners (20+20) (BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET): $9.99
- Set contains 20 HiRes Photoshop brushes + another 20 inversed
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
Click here for preview:

3. Commercial Photo frames PREMIUM Photoshop Special Edition brushes set (2×9) – NEW BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET! Not for sale!

- 2×9 Photoshop brushes
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
Click here for preview:

4. Commercial PREMIUM Photoshop brushes set Calendar 2010 – NEW BONUS w/800+ MEGA SET: $9.99
- 36 brushes in 1673-2473px + 36 in 980-1500px
- 36 transparent PNG files
- all PNGs are in 300dpi (3500×3500 pix)
- compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5
- easy to import to Paint Shop PRO, GIMP and into just about any image editing software on the market!
- Mac and PC compatible
- commercial license
Click here for preview:

I guess you know everything about how to use Calendar Photoshop Brushes, but here is one sample on how to use Photo frames Photoshop brushes

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Why?
- Because it will bring you 800+ PREMIUM Photoshop brushes for 1/2 price
- Because this set just got richer for two bonuses (Calendar 2010 and Photo Frames PS brushes)
- It will also give you the option to buy all other brushes (present and future brushes) for 1/2 price
- Because it is an ultimate solution for your commercial projects too
- Because so many people liked it that you just can’t go wrong with that one, here are the TESTIMONIALS ->
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Wouldn’t it be cool if we had some kind of magic desktop wallpaper that will trigger the emotion of happiness every time we look at it? Hmmmm …. that’s a thought.
So, while you download this prototype, I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on happiness with you and I hope you’ll find them inspiring.
This post is about our pursuit of happiness.
Even the Declaration of Independence states that everyone has inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. Only some US states included this right into their Constitutions, but I believe that it should be included in all constitutions of all countries in the world.
Why?
Because, from the moment we wake up and open our eyes in the morning – until we fall asleep in the night, all we do is pursuit of happiness. Of course, we don’t define our actions that way. We have breakfast (or at least some of us lucky enough) and everything else we do for the rest of the day is we try to create environment and the conditions that will help us experience the emotion or feeling of happiness.
Unfortunately, we can not provoke that feeling ourselves. The best we can do ourselves is try to think about the times when we were happy, but for many of us even that could invoke the feeling of sadness instead.
Remembering the good times is just not enough.
What we strive to do is create the conditions and the environment that will trigger the events that will then trigger the feeling of happiness. That’s what we do at all times. But, to be happy, we need the “co-operation” of other people. For instance, when we love someone. We do our best to appeal to that someone so that our love is returned to us. And if we find out that we are loved by that someone then we feel true happiness and that’s the feeling we’re all looking for.
As you can see, we need somebody’s help to reach that emotion.
Or, another example, we feel happy when something we do is recognized and liked or loved by someone else or by many. The recognition of our work will also trigger the emotion of happiness, but again, we need other people to help us reach the emotion of happiness.
Now, here the thought. WE ARE that “other people” for the rest of the world. Aren’t we? Now, just think about it for a second. We are the only ones who can help other people reach that emotion, we are the other people and others depend on us. How about that?
So, in my mind, it is all about giving and receiving. It is a “dual channel” process. Once, when all people become aware of this, this world will be crowded with happy people.
In the meantime, in our pursuit of happiness we can do two things:
- make other people happy (as there is no happiness without giving)
- create environment where other people will also be given a chance to make us happy
Giving and receiving. Can not have one without the other.
The more we give - the more we will receive. And receiving then gives us me more energy to give back again.
Unfortunately, many of us still have problems with the “giving” part. That’s because we tend to believe that we are limited with the resources and the more we give the less we have. I think that is one of the the main reasons for the existence of unhappiness in this world.
So, inspired by these thoughts I thought I’d make this wallpaper on the topic of happiness. I hope you will like it.

I did that one using the following:
- Swirls Floral LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Grunge floral shapes LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Photoshop Brushes – Floral Shapes (37) – PREMIUM (There is an extra promo gift that comes with this set!)
- Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32) - PREMIUM
Download the wallpaper in following sizes:
Love, give and thau shall receive.
Silvia from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
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Gang,
I got so excited when I received that email from Vivayne! And If you check on her web you will know why.
Vivayne is one extraordinary scrapbook artist and she always amazes me with her new creations.
So, when she told me she made a brand new scrapbooking kit with my “Finest Floral Photoshop brushes set” I just knew we’re onto something real good! And boy was I right!
She prepared new digital scrapbooking kit called Island Paradise. Perfect kit for this summer time!
But, then things got even better. Here is what she said:
“I have made a kit called Island Paradise with your floral brushes. I just love how the papers turned out! It’s a full size digital scrapbooking kit :)
This kit will only be free for something like 48 hours. If you would like to blog/post it – It will be released on June 12 (friday) for free and moved for sale on June 14th (sunday) at 11 am US central time…“
So, I think this post comes just in time. If you are quick enough, you can get this digital scapbooking kit for FREE!
As we said, in this kit she also used “Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop brushes set (120)” – which is available in Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop.
So, in my oppinion this is one great example of perfect Photoshop brushes usage.
As always, thank you Vivayne for sharing your talent with us and I wish you many many new scrapbooking kits in a time to come.
Love you all,
Silvia
P.S.
If you used the opportunity to peek into my shop and found out that you like many of the brushes there (they all come with commercial license), here is your chance to get Photoshop brushes w/commercial license at 1/2 the price.
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Hi Gang!
Ii this post we will present one quick page sample from Carolyn.
She used 5 different Photoshop Brushes sets:
1. Borders stencils set (Free LITE edition),
2. Negative Films and slides (Free LITE edition),
3. Photo Masks (Free LITE edition) – free download available after the GBG subscription. Rest of the brushes were newsletter edition Photoshop Brushes sets and were available only for GBG members:
4. Swirled Birds and
5. Floral Branches.
Floral Branches set is very very similar to the bonus set which comes with the Ultimate Wedding Photography PS Brushes Pack (158)!
We are publishing our Newsletter twice a month now, and in the next issue you will get links to all Newsletter only Photoshop Brushes sets!

Also, one more announcement: If you are looking for specific brushes which are not available on the net. Let me know and we’ll see what can be done. You can do that on Graphics-Illustrations Facebook page.
Love,
Silvia
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I got this idea – to make a redesign of Google’s check using my Photoshop brushes. I thought it would be cool to receive my next Google check in this new design, four actually, one for each season. First one is called “winter edition”:

No, I do not earn any significant money from Google! It’s really something like $100 in three months. Not nearly enough to pay for my hosting service… :( (which I have to change, and I have to do it fast because they are unfair). Now, let’s see spring check edition:

As you can see, here I used green colors. Bankers like green. I wonder way? :P Now let’s look the summer check edition:

It’s hot, just like the summer! And if you are receiving any check for them the amount should be hot too… Then we have autumn edition, in brown tones:

That’s all for now. Maybe someday someone important in Google will stumble upon this site, discover these great designs and contact me. Who knows?
In order to redesign Google check I used my:
Floral Shapes Photoshop Brushes set (37) and Floral DUO Photoshop Brushes set (62) – both available for Adobe Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5!
Have fun! I wish you a happy and joyful weekend!
PS: If you like this site you can Link to us or even Advertise with us or get the famous 800+ MEGA PS Brushes Set here ->!
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Hello everyone!
I know, I’ve been away for, probably, too long. This is like, only the second post in 2009. Snow is pretty high here, streets are frozen but your graphics-illustrations.com team is on the heat. And for a reason. We are preparing something AWESOME for you guys! All we need from at this stage is a little patience.
What we are preparing for you guys is probably the most complex brushes set ever published on this blog (and there has been like probably a hundred of them so far). But, those new ones are something special. I mean, if those were simple, straight-forward brushes, they’d be completed and published a long time ago. But not these ones.
So, together with Poofitzah (see below) we are working hard to get you the brand new, Finest Floral Swirls Photoshop brushes set.

We know that will be around 16 brushes in this new set, every brush will be 2400 pixels (almost maximum) and all of them will be more complex than any other brush so far.
In this post I bring you a taste of this new set that will to be published by the end of this month.

[ DOWNLOAD THIS PHOTOSHOP BRUSH - Floral ]
So, this one is free and it comes with a commercial license for all of you who make money creating scrap books, wedding invitations, photo albums and all kind of designs. You will agree that we are talking about real complex brush here. That is why it is taking so long to produce the whole set of 16 + over 100 elements. But, don’t worry, once it’s out (by 26th of January) the price of the full set will be the same as usual: $9.99.
Oh, and one more thing (important!): many of you ask about compatibility with Photoshop CS4! All Photoshop brushes in graphics-illustrations.com shop are compatible with Photoshop 7.0 and upwards: you can use them in CS, CS2, CS3 and of course in new CS4 version. Every new software version supports older version of plug-ins or similar. In Adobe case, every new version of Photoshop supports brushes down to Photosop 7.0. So, no worries for you lucky Photoshop CS4 owners.
Do I need to remind you of my sooper-dooper (I came up with it) deal on the 800+ PS brushes MEGA SET? You can get 24 PREMIUM PRO Photoshop brushes Sets (800+ HiRes PRO brushes with commercial license) for 1/2 the price NOW!!! (see all the brushes here) ->
And to make this offer a REAL GOOD DEAL here is what’s in the package:
- You will get 25th set (40 more brushes): Photo Corners Photoshop Brushes set (20+20) for FREE!
- You will also get an extra promo gift that comes with it: Scrapbook kit Grunge Love!
- And aside from these 800+ brushes … you will get the special 50% discount coupon code that will be valid for ALL OTHER PS Brushes sets that I ever made (Including the FLORAL ones that are in production now). How about that?!?!
- OK. I have some more happy surprises for the buyers of the 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA Set, but if I tell you about it now, then there would be no happy surprise, now, would it :))
Love you all guys, and don’t feel bad about the economy and stuff, use your imagination, many of my buyers started are real good businesses with my brushes (it wouldn’t be fair if I told you about them, but I’m kinda confident about your imagination. Also, please refer to some of my previous posts about business opportunities that open up when you buy HiRes PS brushes with commercial license).
Don’t forget, where there is a will there is a way!
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I was minding my own business the other day, just working on some new brushes for you guys when suddenly, out of the blue, this idea just landed on my shoulder!
“Dual! Dual brushes! Combine two different brush shapes to get a third one!”
Now that would be something!
I said to my self,
“That’s, like … I haven’t seen anything like this before. So, that makes me a pioneer! Great! I love it! Let’s get on to it!“
So, after some doodling (as you can see at the left) I set down by my good old PC (still can’t afford Mac) and started to work. And I worked, and worked, and worked until it was dawn and it was all done and brushes were ready and VOILA:
Floral Brushes Duo!
First set of the new Photoshop Brushes patent invented by graphics-illustrations.com.
So, what is this all about?
Each of the brushes in this set can be paired with another brush from the same set and two of them together create a third brush. Each of the brushes can be used individually. And that’s not all, different flower stalks and leaves are also included in the set so you finally get to create your perfect floral shape.
Now, how cool is that!
Simple, no? Like all the greatest innovations in the world, it had to be simple.
OK, I’m patting my own shoulder a bit, but I can’t help it. I’m just happy to come out with this and I’m sure many of you will benefit from this new Photoshop brushes system.
So, why wait, Floral Duo Brushes are here, all yours, ready to be deployed in your current and future graphic design projects!
As usual there is a free download available after the subscription (5 days subscription-free offer is over) [preview free download] version with 4 brushes available and the real deal! 62 brushes in Floral Brushes Duo set, with commercial license included. [preview PREMIUM EDITION] | [Add to cart]
All of the brushes that are offered here are unique and available only here. As for now, this blog is the only blog that offers “Dual” system brushes. And if you get to see others in the future – know that I came up with it :) Now, that really makes me proud.
Application? You name it: print design, wedding invitations, all kind of invitations, scrap booking, web design, business card design ….
The beauty is that the price of this set is just the same as any other set, $9.99 with commercial license included.
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I prepared another brand new, fresh Swirls Floral Photoshop Brushes set – Join GBG here and download the Swirls Floral LITE Edition (10) Photoshop Brushes set for free!

There are two versions, one is for free and this one contains 10 brushes, BUT if you decide that 10 is just not enough for your present of future needs and you decide to really make my day and you decide that you want to support the work I’m doing here, then you will opt for full 42 Swirls Photoshop brushes set.
PayPal and Credit Card payments accepted!
Commercial license included! Now, that’s a fair deal I think.
Bye for now, I’m onto new brushes for tomorrow guys. See you later!
P.S.
And write.
I will answer, let’s talk!
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