Yes, there is a free download offered in this blog post of mine and is right there below.
So, if you don’t feel like reading the rest of my regular funny article (which is close to impossible), you may go right down this page and get a beautiful (and I am not just saying this because it was me who I made it) vector set
Damask Frames
The download link is just down below. And it’s free.
Now, for the rest of you who want to find out whether I will manage to be funny again – read on.
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I don’t know. It’s not coming out. Just a sec …
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No. Nothing.
I guess no funny article today. Sorry guys. Funny muse is sitting on someone else’s shoulder this morning. So, you’ll have to settle with the free download today. Which is not bad, eh?
Free Damask Frames, Vector Set
This set includes the following file formats: EPS, AI, CDR, SVG, PNG and PSD!

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And if you are interested in more freebies for designers without having to read my funny articles (there are some funny articles on this blog, I tell ya, don’t judge the blog by only one post :)) you might as well join GBG (Green Bulb Gang Creative Community, or at least the plan is that it should be creative community. It’s loads of downloads for the time being.)
Now, finally, I can not stress enough how thankful I am to my sponsors:
These are invaluable packages in the times of the creative block. At least when it comes to graphic design projects. Check them out, they could make a big difference in your projects too.
OK. That’s it for today. I hope you will like the freebie of the day. Stay tuned as there is more coming on
Graphics-Illustrations.Com – your shoulder to cry
featuring,
Silvia
P.S.
GUY FROM THE ELECTRIC COMPANY
Some suggested that I should remove the Google ads from my blog since they might be disturbing for readers.
Well, you have no idea how much I’d like to be able to do that. But, you see, there is this guy from the electric company, waving his pointing finger and holding scissors in another hand, threatening to cut down my electricity unless I gave him money.
So, what can I do?
I mean, he looks pretty serious to me. Duh! How much nicer would life be if we did not need the money? Maybe I ask him if he wants my 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET in exchange for electricity? Maybe … or if I get myself one of those free energy devices ->
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Gang!
A big SORRY goes to all of you Illustrator fans. Why? You know why! Because it’s been too long since I posted a Illustrator freebie on my blog.
Anyways, this day has come and today I am proud and happy to offer you my latest creation Adobe Illustrator Christmas & New Year Symbols set. These symbols are compatibile with: Adobe Illustrator CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
This is what the symbols you are about to download look like:

Then, here is a short video on how to use Illustrator symbols:
Here is the download link:
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And here is the message from our sponsor (and that would be me) and a great discount too:
(I’ve said so much about this set in my previous posts that all know what a great deal this is set is!)
Now, what else is going on?
Very IMPORTANT (even if it is at the end of the post it is still very important:
Don’t forget – our Christmas Graphics Contest is still open!
So, if you have a good Christmas graphics idea – don’t just let it hang out in your head doing nothing!
Put it on your digital canvas and send it over! Or even if you think that your idea is not so good – send it anyway. I bet it’s good!
Also, you just might be the lucky winner of our brand new product – Video Photo Album!
And even if you don’t win, you still won! You won the fun of creating graphics (and that’s what we’re here for in’nit?) and you won the attention and the hearts of thousands of visitors of our Facebook fan page and this blog who will enjoy your work!
P.S.:
Christmas & New Year Card Design Template created with these Illustrator symbols is available for download at my blogffiliate.com (dimensions are 5×7 inches at 300 dpi – print ready) –> DOWNLOAD HERE
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Gang,
Summer’s almost here, innit?
And no matter how cheese some of you might think it is, somewhere deep inside we all actually love the sunsets in the summertime.
And why is that? I’d say it’s quite simple. On summer, when we were teenagers, there was no school and, one way or another, it was the time to do what we want to do, time to experience freedom, new friendships and more often then not – our first kisses happened exactly in the summertime while the sun was “settling” down.
For photographers, sunset is the best time to take pictures. Due to the sharp angle of sunlight as it hits the earth, colors become more vivid, more “reddish”, colors slightly shift from “normal” to “romantic”. But if you are passionate photographer in love, here goes the trouble :) Kiss or shoot? ;) Just kidding, of course, the choice is obvious, no? I know, it depends on who you ask and what kind of camera you hold. I tell ‘ya, one Hasselblad would surely make me think twice (or once) :))
And, then, once the summer is gone, we all end up with a bunch of photographs, that many of us just love to organize in scrap books. We might even want to prepare a video, a DVD with menus that have backgrounds, many of us are in wedding photography business or just graphic design business, no matter what it is, ladies and gentleman, it is my pleasure tonight to proudly present you the latest Graphics-Illustrations product:
Summertime Sunset Backgrounds
Yes, and they come in high resolution so you can even print posters without any fear for the quality of the printout, we’re talkin’ 16×11 inches at 300 dpi (5000×3500 pixels) resolution!
It is 5 of them, backgrounds and I prepared them as a combination of photos and illustrations to awake that warm summertime sunset emotion :)
As usual – commercial license is included and they’re jpgs.
I made this little picture down there using one of the Summertime Sunset Backgrounds AND Photoshop Brushes: Birds (45+45) (dark trees and birds silhouettes) AND Floral Signs Photoshop Brushes set (20) (this little number five in floral shapes).

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Of course, for those of you who can not afford, as usual, I prepared a little something for free.
Here is one Summertime Sunset Background at the smaller size but still very good quality- 2500×1750 pix at 300 dpi (8,3×5,8 inches – print ready):

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So, I hope you liked them because I know, they like you. I know, I made them :) Like Gepetto! (I hope you know about Pinocchio ->)
By the way, Pinocchio was one of my favorite stories when I was just a small little kid (as if I am much different now :)). Actually, my mother bought it on a vinyl record and I listened to it on the gramophone over and over again. For younger visitors, I suggest looking up gramophone and vinyl records in Wikipedia.
Anyways, I’m not gonna bother you with my memories any more (sometimes I got really sad listening to that story though …).
I hope you will like the free download.
I would be hilarious if you decided to buy the pack and I would go totally EUPHORIC if you decided that you want to have this 5-pack for free by buying 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET by 10th June 2009.!
Love ‘ya all!
Silvia & the “hilarious hoping to become Euphoric”
:)
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Just to keep my promise: since a lot of you were asking for older version of my CS3 brushes and symbols here’s the update on Adobe Illustrator Symbols (floral), Adobe Illustrator Floral Brushes (I don’t know why I named those brushes “floral”…) and Adobe Illustrator Swirls symbols
See you soon :)
Love,
S*
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Sticky note:
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My dear visitors: I’m very very very tired. I’ve got a lot of things and projects to work on and this post will be short.
For today I prepared a set of pretty simple snowflakes symbols for download. They are in Adobe Illustrator symbols format. I created them myself (without any help from third party specialized software), so subscribe to my newsletter – download for them free - and enjoy!

Love,
S
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I assume that you worked on your swirls creation technique with a little help of my previous tutorial (How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, Part One).
Now, let’s make a little case study. To make a Swirl Illustrations that looks like the one in the header of graphics-illustrations blog, we need:
- Swirls symbols set, Adobe Illustrator
- Ink Splatter symobls set, Adobe Illustrator
- Classic artist brush set or Classic Artist brush symbols set
- Adobe Illustrator Floral Brushes set
Determine the size and shape of the blank space. We will now use simple quadrant shape.
Create a new layer bellow. Use the simple artist brush symbol below the layer that contains the quadrant to create an “outline”

Again, create a new layer. Now add some ink splatters around, on that layer.
Add some swirls on the layer above the layer that contains ink splatters (but bellow the layer with the shape and layer with it’s outline)
Add some more swirls, and also add some swirls on the new layer on the top.
In the end, add some stars… and that’s it.
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© Photographer: Bsilvia | Agency: Dreamstime.com
If you’re wondering how to colorize the symbols or even change their shapes: select all symbols and use the “Break Link to Symbol” – now you can manipulate shapes and colors until the dawn breaks or until you’re happy with the results – whatever comes first
:)
Hugs!
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Latest news: yesterday I bought 2 domain names, one is my “user name”- bsilvia (bsilvia.com) and the other is “blogffiliate.com”. Webhosting at siteground.com as usual, I’ve been their customer for 6 years and never had any problems or issues. So I’m sticking with them.
** // UPDATE ON WEB HOSTING: Unfortunately, in the meantime I had issues with Siteground. HUGE ISSUES. At some point they decided that my site is taking up too much of their resources and that I should go for $97 dollars hosting plan instead of $4.50/month. I had something like 24 hours to convert to ueber-expensive hosting. Non-negotiable. I was desperate. Checked on my statistics, they did not show any changes, same traffic as always. They refused to provide any kind of technical assistance or explanation. I had to convert to $97 – immediately. So, I paid. I kept on paying until I moved to Hostgator which is now my host of choice. ** //
Maybe I’ll transfer this one to new domain “bsilvia.com”, so wish me luck with my new blogs (I’m gonna need it)!
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Thanks!

Love,
S :)
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UPDATE January 28th 2008: Illustrator CS version “Floral brushes” available for download! Yet another addition to Illustrator freebies section :)
Greetings from Rovinj!
That’s funny, because here, in this beautiful Mediterranean city in Croatia is the home of the biggest tobacco company in this part of Europe and guess what: “Pozdrav iz Rovinja” (translation: “Greetings from Rovinj”) is their well known slogan…
Living here is not a simple task (like living anywhere is… ), I’m on a slowest GPRS wireless connection ever! Thanks to my provider and former employer company VIP (Vodafone). I literally have to open the window and put the notebook there in order to get G3 connection, but hey – only for a few minutes. Then it breaks and it takes me five to ten minutes to get the connection again.

Anyway, for today we have an Adobe Illustrator floral brushes for download, and the correct path where the file should be saved is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Brushes

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UPDATE January 28th 2008: Illustrator CS version “Leaves and flowers symbols” available for download! Yet another addition to Illustrator freebies section :)
For today I wanted to create a Photoshop custom shape. So, I drew some flowers and leaves in Illustrator… Big mistake.
If you want to create Photoshop custom shape, you have to do it in Photoshop using path tool. Oh, yes. I didn’t draw custom shapes in Photoshop for a long time – so I forgot about this little step. Of course, you can use Magic tool and then create path from the selection… but the results will be awful.
So, instead of Photoshop custom shape for today I offer Adobe Illustrator symbols for download, and the correct path where it should be saved is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Symbols

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