Nerd DIY // My favorite free handwritten cursive fonts

There is so many beautiful free fonts to choose from these days, we’re really spoiled! My favorite sites to look for inspiration & new fonts are dafont.com and fontsquirrel.com. And when I’m designing a site I almost always use fonts from Google Web Fonts to customize the body & title text.

But for graphics I like to mix it up… my favorites to use as handwriting in a banner or header are:

barthandschriftfont sacramentofont prayingangelfont lydiapuentefont jellykawesternprincessfont dorisdayfont

BART Handschrift, Sacramento, Praying Angel, Lydia Puente, Jellyka Western Princess, Doris Day

What are your favorites?

Nerd DIY // Free Social Media Icons updated!

free social media icons

faqs:

Each set includes an icon for: Blank, BlogLovin’, Chictopia, Etsy, Facebook, Email, Instragram, LinkedIn, Hello Cotton, Google+, Flickr, Pinterest, RSS, Society+, Stumble Upon, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo & YouTube. That’s 7 new icons, plus 5 updated for a grand total of 19 icons!

And, there are 30 colors, that’s 14 more than before. With new colors like Pantone’s Spring 2013 collection of 10, and 4 Glitter sets! Each icon is 72×72 and in .png file format.

colors:

30 social media icon colors 2012

installation:

Need to learn how to install the icons on your blog? Here’s a great tutorial from Eli Rose.

Another great tutorial for adding icons to Blogger from Beautiful Dawn Designs.

Want to add a hover effect? I have a tutorial here.

resizing:

These icons are on the ‘large’ size of things 72px x 72px, if you want to make them smaller – just include width=”##px” in your image’s code:

example: <img src=”yourimageurl(dot)com” width=”40px”>

macs (apple)

For all of you wonderful Mac users who get a .cpgz file – I’ve been informed Springy (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/springy.html) fixes this problem.

downloads

African Violet (Pantone) Apple Black
Boysenberry Bubble Gum Confetti
Dusk Blue (Pantone) Emerald (Pantone) Fire
Glitter – Black Glitter – Gold Glitter – Red
Glitter – Silver Grape Grayed Jade (Pantone)
Lemon Zest (Pantone) Lilac Linen (Pantone)
Mint Monaco Blue (Pantone) Mouse
Nectarine (Pantone) Ocean Poppy Red (Pantone)
Shadow Tangerine Tender Shoots (Pantone)
Turquoise Violet Warm Mint

enjoy!

Please consider following me on twitter, tweeting about this freebie @carrieloves, or liking my facebook page.

I hope you love these icons & leave a comment to let me know if you put them on your blog… I’d love to see them in action!

awesome things // Free Printable Gift Tags

These are some of the cutest gift tags available right now, and they just so happen to be free. Kelli over at Kelli Murray’s blog is a talented artist / illustrator. She has an Etsy store full of lovely art, including a matching set of Christmas Cards that coordinates with this free set of gift tags.

Be sure to check out Kelli’s blog, her Etsy store and what the heck … go ahead and like her on Facebook! I did!

Nerd DIY // Handwritten Free Fonts

Mixtape Mike, Serial Sue, Just Skinny, Sweetly Broken, Amatic SC, CK Ali’s Hand, Garden, Jane Austen, Indie Star BB, Hyrule

I love using fonts that look like you scratched them out on a piece a paper. I just found Mixtape Mike today and I have a feeling that font author is (quite successfully) going to capitalize on the Magic Mike frenzy that’ll be hitting us at the end of this week.

(Are you going to see Magic Mike on Friday?)

Nerd DIY // Free social media icons

Updated social media icons can be found on this new post Free Social Media Icons (updated!)