Salute to Teachers Giveaway - Day 3

 You are really going to love today's freebie!

As part of our weekly salute to teachers today's freebie includes over 250 Premium Illustrations which we have included in high quality JPEG as well as fully editable.AI and .EPS formats.

With images of everything from seasons and cities to holidays and so much more these images will be a perfect perfect fit for everything from posters and newsletters to craft projects and making background or insert images for handouts and cardmaking.

Download

Enjoy the amazing illustrations!

Salute To Teachers Giveaway - Day 2

As part of our salute to Teachers here are today's FREE downloads.

I've already converted them to easy to use, high resolution PNG as well as .AI and .EPS files. separated by category.

262 Internation Flags of The World 

30 Weather Elements

70 Music Elements

50 Space Elements

50 Outdoor Elements

100 Sports Elements

50 Travel Elements

99 Miscellaneous Elements

Enjoy and check for tomorrow's downloads.

Teacher Contest Prize Bundle Part 1

Here is the first of the downloads from our Favorite Teacher Contest...

Enjoy!

294 Premium Fonts

4 Hi Resolution Back To School Backgrounds

This link and the rest of the links to the prize bundle will be available for a limited time! 

Check back tomorrow for another link. 

It seems that it is finally fall in the Lone Star State and to celebrate we are sharing a great resource for weekly freebies!

Every Monday Creative Market offers 6 FREEBIES for the week and they are typically pretty great!

You have to get them before the week is up because they are gone come the following Monday!
This week they are featuring Candy Font, a watercolor kit and some gorgeous Hi-res photos.

Check out the great artists and designers showcasing their stuff on Creative Market and get your weekly freebies here.

Don't forget to nominate your favorite teacher for our huge graphics bundle giveaway!
We will announce the 3 winners on Friday!
Just comment on our Best Teachers Giveaway on our  Facebook page.

In keeping with our salute to Teachers download and enjoy this free educational set of 15 icons!

Here are the download links:

(as always all links are clean, direct and safe!)

PSD and PNG Icons

PNG Icons

Don't forget to like us on Facebook and submit your favorite Teacher for our giveaway!

We are drawing 3 winners next week for asn awesome graphics, fonts and illustrations package worth over $8,000!

Favorite Teacher Contest

It's Back To School time and what better time to recognize our favorite teachers than right now?

We all have that special teacher that we remember as a great role model, one that spent extra time with us making us feel special and that remarkable teachers who made a big impact in our young lives that carried into adulthood.

Looking at my own favorite teachers through my school years, and now those in my own family that are working in such a noble profession, it seemed a great time to say thanks by holding a contest.

We are asking our readers to nominate their favorite teacher for a chance to win a fantastic graphics package worth over $8,000!*

Whether it be the unsung hero who coached your school or little league team, a tutor who helped you through algebra or the teacher who impacted and was the most influential to you or your child's life we want to give back to those teachers who have been a part of changing students for the better.

Our teacher contest is a great chance to say, "Thank you" to that special teacher that has meant so much to you and made such a big difference in your own or your child's life.

This huge bundle is chock-full of beautiful illustrations and infographics, editable and scalable vector graphics, premium icons, curated fonts a, eye-catching typefaces, dozens of vector characters and mascots and much more that would be a treasured resource for any teacher!

We will draw names and award a prize graphic bundle valued at over $8,000* to three entries!

Here are the details:

Simply send us your nomination by liking our Facebook Page and tag that special teacher in the comments section (or if you prefer send us a private message with your name and contact information and the name of the teacher you wish to nominate for the prize).

Please share this post and contest details with friends and family and subscribe to our blog for the announcement of the contest winners as well as new amazing resources and upcoming contests!

• Please limit entries to one entry per person.
• Be sure to tag the teacher in the comments section of the Facebook contest post.  

We will only contact the winning entries for the purpose of informing them of their prize and will not add them to any marketing list,

We do not sell, lease or exchange any personal or contact information to any other company, group or affiliate. Ever!

* Prize value is based on full market value of graphics if purchased separately.

*All resources, images, graphic and tools are copyright of and subject to the license terms of their respective owners. Items are not licensed for commercial sale, resale, file-sharing services or re-distribution.

Fantastic Free Design Resources from freedesignresources.net!

Some great design resources from   http://freedesignresources.net/

Free Design Resources is a site dedicated to help you find the high quality design resources for free. Crafted with love from amazing artists and professional designers around the world.

Free Fonts: http://freedesignresources.net/category/free-fonts/

Free Templates: http://freedesignresources.net/category/free-templates/

Free Graphics: http://freedesignresources.net/category/free-graphics/

Feee Add-ons: http://freedesignresources.net/category/free-add-ons/

This is a great resource for TRULY FREE fonts, templates, graphics and add-ons.

There is much more on the site, it's updated regularly and it's really quality stuff !!

Are you crazy about fonts?

Are you crazy about fonts?
This fantastic, huge bundle of 100 fonts will satisfy even the most font-obsessed creative!

With simple fonts like 'Luna' and 'Fenton'
to more artistic fonts like 'Blow Brush' and 'Playlist Script'
this bundle has 100 fonts in one simple download...
and the best part is it's FREE for both personal and commercial use!


This fantastic package of custom fonts from Deal Jumbo includes:

• 100 amazing custom fonts in 1 bundle

• Free for personal & commercial use!

You'll have to sign up for an account with them to get the download, but for 100 fonts with commercial licensing it is definitely worth it (and you can easily unsubscribe at any time). Click this link to go directly to the download and check out Deal Jumbo for more awesome bundles, freebies and more!http://dealjumbo.com/

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Discounted design bundles with extended license!

What is so great about my soup!

I  recently was looking back at the time when I started my small business, at both the successes and the challenges I faced as a small business owner and entrepreneur, but also as one who had no startup capital, no loans, no savings... Nada! ....Zero!...Zilch!

I only had the desire to work for myself, and frankly I was at a time in my life where I had little left to lose. I figured it was as good a time as any to try something different, follow my dreams and take a risk I probably would not have taken under any other circumstances.

I had a wealth of two resources - ample time on my hands (to do research, plan, dream and brainstorm) and the desire to not take another job I hated going to everyday. 

So, I researched. 
Day in and day out for months. I researched how to open a small business and the necessary paperwork and forms to legally do so, wholesalers, how to build a website, (I couldn't afford to hire a designer or consultant) and how to do all of the things I didn't know how to do. From website design and submitting my site to search engines to everything about e-commerce and of course where to find resources I needed like graphics, tools and resources and I needed them to be CHEAP! 

I stumbled upon various sources of free graphics and templates, tutorials, vector art and stock images and through the course of this I grew increasingly frustrated by sites that said "free", but really weren't! Following endless blind and invalid links, being redirected, and scrolling endlessly through cyberspace when all I really wanted was a link that led me to the resources it claimed so I could get the information I wanted and download the items I sought. 

Sounds simple, right ?

It was anything but simple and more often than not, I grew frustrated to the point of logging off, closing my laptop and just about throwing it across the room on more than one occasion!

I began to compile a personal list of website URL's , sources and download links to use as a handy reference for myself and sites that I frequented often had the same qualities: their ease of use, clean links, clear information and, of course, their great resources.

This is a pattern I use in many aspects of my life, not only for the resources I use for my business, but also in where I choose to shop, what places I frequent, things I read and refer to and what I recommend to friends, associates and clients.

I like shopping at places that I am familiar with, that are easy to navigate, have products I like regularly use and I'm loyal to the businesses I buy from for that reason.
I like 'getting in and getting out'. Easy. Peasy. 

If I get frustrated with a website's design or navigation I am done with it pretty quickly. Same thing for a store I shop from or a service that I use: if it is pleasant, easy to use and navigate and gives me what I want, than I am loyal and visit often. It is something I would recommend to friends and generally am a happy camper. 

If not, I search for a new service, shop around and then settle in with what gives me the satisfaction and comfort that I expect and desire. 

I will even pay (a reasonable amount - because I am frugal!) for the services  and resources I want if it is a good value and appeases my sometimes difficult to please nature, doesn't change it's ease of use and stays appealing to me. 

As my personal list of resources grew and time passed I felt a desire to share these resources with others.....

 That is what I want for Cre8ive Soup to be for you. A great resource for the information, tools and resources that are my favorite, that I have found helpful, and that have great and value - in my opinion, and in a clean, clear and easy to use way.

I hope that you find these resources as great as I have, that they prove useful and valuable to you as they have to me, whether you use them in your personal, school or community projects and day to day life, or as a small business owner, entrepreneur, a creative or a designer and anything in between.

It is my goal that we provide clean, easy to use and easy to navigate information, that the resources we provide meet your expectation and satisfaction and help in your project or venture. It is my hope that Cre8ive Soup continue to stay fresh by adding new resources and updating often. 

You can keep up to date with us by subscribing and following this blog, or via Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter!

Please let us know what you think and help us by sharing your favorite and most valued resources. If you are able, support us by subscribing to the blog, purchasing some of our premium resources (at amazing prices!) and sharing with friends, family and associates.

Cre8ive Soup 

What the heck is Cre8ive Soup?

You may be asking yourself  "What the heck is Cre8ive Soup?! Is it food and what does that have to do with about being creative?"

Perhaps you're thinking the author of this blog must be just a tad daft, or maybe it's you, the reader, and somehow you're just missing the reference and that's why you're a little lost in the understanding of what this blog is about and why it has such a funny name.

Well, for starters, it isn't just you and as for the muddled name that seems a mishmash of two completely unrelated words, that is exactly the point!

Cre8ive Soup is a melange of ideas and resources written by a frugal small business owner with a creative mind (and the attention span of a breadbox mixed with the excitement of a sugared-up child with A.D.H.D.).

This blog about being creative, which if you are one of the 'chosen' you already know (by all the half-finished art projects in your closet, the never realized "Grand Ideas" or the lists of things you really, REALLY want to try and focus on .....until the next idea comes along anyway...) that we creatives are a rare breed and some people just don't "get" us. 

Heck, even we sometimes don't get ourselves, but no-one has to! 

Others just have to accept all of the things that fall by the wayside in lieu of our latest craze, the general and complete disaster of our creative spaces (and any other flat surface that is to us, at least, organized and acceptable as part of our creative process) and find a way to deal with our mountain of half finished craft projects and listen as we drone on about our latest ideas with frenzied excitement.

It is my hope that Cre8ive Soup prove a valuable resource, not only designers and small business owners, but that we also inspire entrepreneurial spirits, artists and creatives. 

Our mission is simple: 

To be not only a resource of great tools, tips and information for the novice and the professional alike, but also to showcase products and ideas that lead others to create; whether it be a personal blog, small business website, community newsletter or school project to the creative transformation of an idea into something beyond what one believed one could do.

I hope you enjoy and please check back often!