My wonderful year and a half living in Pennsylvania massively rekindled my love for the outdoors and I have to admit I was gutted to move back to the Chicago […]
Graphic Design
Free Prime Number Birthday Cards
I celebrated a birthday last week and on waking up that morning, I rolled over and told Mr Chicago “I am in my prime!” This was a serious “geek alert” […]
Pinterest Tip – How to Animate your Pins
Dear Chicago House, Hands up if you spend way too much time on Pinterest?…me! I have found that Pinterest is the best social network for driving traffic to this site […]
Free Printable Valentine Cards
Dear Chicago House, My most downloaded freebie here at creativeinchicago.com is this birthday card. I think the reason it is so successful is it’s simplistic design and the fact it […]
Contemporary Circle Fabric Collection
Dear Chicago House, Buying and selling houses is such hard work. Just four weeks after the sale of the sibling house and after many, many hours trawling through realtor.com, I […]
A Free Printable Greetings Card: Abstract Triangles
Dear Chicago House, I had a sudden desire to create a graphic with triangles this week and after 20 minutes on Adobe Illustrator I had designed this. It is the […]
Abstract Art and Photoshop Filters: Arty Farty Friday #35
Dear Chicago House, The abstract pencil art I shared with you last week actually got finished and just in time for Arty Farty Friday today. I am really quite pleased […]
A Unique Christmas Card to Make
Dear Chicago House, Remember those little felt birds I shared with you last week? …I mentioned I had further plans for them. When I started making them I thought they […]
Getting creative with secrets
Dear Chicago House, Who doesn’t love a secret? So take a look at this …can you read it? Do you have what it takes to crack it? Here is a […]
Free Greetings Card: Hedge Hog
Dear Chicago House, Remember when I shared a page from my sketch book and how I turned one of my idle animal scribbles into a greeting card? Skinny cat was […]