The Complete Design Toolkit to Master the Coveted Handmade Style

Hand-drawn design could not be more in demand.

However, a lot of us designers are struggling to master the handmade style. We may be experts in Photoshop and Illustrator, but unless we invest years in learning calligraphy, sketching or any other type of craft, it’s hard for us to produce the hand-drawn style work that our clients are demanding. Handmade design has gone beyond just being a trend, it’s now a necessity.

We’ve listened to our community. We created this bundle to equip you with the tools needed to perfect the handmade style in your work. This collection features your favourite designers including Make Media Co, Lisa Glanz, Retro Supply Co, Creative Couture, Vintage Design Co and more – ensuring exceptional quality. The products in this bundle are the result of hundreds of hours of meticulous, lovingly crafted work. By getting your hands on this collection, you’ll have the best resources from top designers entirely at your disposal.

Here’s why we think you’ll love this bundle:

• These are the best handmade tools that our team has ever worked with. These resources took hundreds of hours to source and capture, from historically accurate brush markings, to authentically captured gold leaf surfaces. Each pack relied on the expertise and experience of the designer, and every item was carefully scanned, captured and recreated into an easy to use, digital format. The result is that you get professional grade design tools right out of the box, backed up by expert pdf guides, support and functionality.
• This collection is a complete creative toolkit for any designer looking to nail the handmade aesthetic. It features 13 hand-drawn fonts, vectors, backgrounds, patterns, brushes, graphics and more. Included also are several extensive effects packs featuring watercolours, gold leaf and felt. Whether you are looking to complete a handmade project on a tight deadline or spend time exploring the possibilities of mixed media design, these ready-to-use resources have you covered.
• This bundle includes our extended license, making it even more valuable for you. You’re able to use these resources in wider, original designs available for resale, as well as personal and commercial projects (full deals further down this page).

This bundle is huge, and you can see an overview of all the incredible handmade resources below. We definitely recommend scrolling down this entire page, as it’s the best way to see the vast collection of resources on offer.

Lisa Glanz

Sketched Toolkit

With over 380 hand drawn elements, this little gem will speed up your workflow and make a great addition to your design resources! It’s jam-packed full of versatile illustrations all lovingly created for that authentic hand drawn look.

This toolkit is fantastic for a huge variety of projects, logo and branding design, posters, blog posts, invitations, stationery, a quick flyer, endless background enhancements – the possibilities are endless.

Included in this set:

• 52 x Arrows – always come in handy!
• 52 x Borders – just step and repeat to create your desired length
• 52 x Objects – this-and-that to add a quick hand drawn illustration to your work
• 52 x Floral & Decorative elements – can never have enough of those!
• 52 x Shapes – pick your shape, add some text and voila!
• 40 x Patterns & 12 x Textures – spice up your design backgrounds
• 75 x hand drawn Words – quickly create a hand lettered look

Software compatibility: – VECTOR: Adobe Illustrator CS3 and newer
– .PNG: Adobe Photoshop recommended

Make Media Co.

Thriftshop Hand Lettering Collection

Presenting the Thriftshop Hand-Lettering Collection – an adorable, hand drawn and hand painted font family, designed to give your projects an authentic, hand lettered look.
Perfect for: Typography projects, branding, apparel, greeting cards, coffee mugs, tote bags and so much more.

Included in this set:

• Thriftshop Sans Light
• Thriftshop Sans Regular
• Thriftshop Sans Upright Light
• Thriftshop Sans Upright Regular
• Thriftshop Monoline Script
• Thriftshop Brush Script
• Thriftshop Brush Serif
• Thriftshop Brush Serif Shadow
• Thriftshop Extras

Language Support: English

This font includes web versions

Software compatibility: Any Adobe Software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Elements, InDesign, Etc.), GIMP, Corel Draw, Inkscape or comparable vector-editing software.

Vintage Design Co.

PitStop – Subtle Texture Effects

PitStop is kit to help you get those cool effects easily. It features 33 handmade vector textures. 10 of which are made by vector texture tutor Ben Stafford.

What’s even better is that PitStop comes in two flavours. PitStop for Photoshop and PitStop for Illustrator.

PitStop for Photoshop: Open up the .PSD and drop your work into the smart object and get access to all 33 vector textures instantly, split into 3 different groups which can be easily colored. It also adds rough edges to your work, that can be adjusted to suit your style.

PitStop for Illustrator – Install the 33 graphic styles and the vectorize action and you can add subtle textures to every part of your artwork. Because these are subtle textures then you can add them to shapes as well as text without your computer coming to a complete stop. Make sure you have a copy of your work next to the one your working on for color reference as the effect has to be applied in black & white.

33 Vector Textures – If you don’t need any of the above, then all 33 vector textures are supplied as individual .AI files saved down to CS3.

Instructions – You’ll get separate .PDFs for each PitStop walking you through the process of how to place your work and edit the effect.

Software compatibility: CS3 to CC 2015 PitStop for Illustrator – CS6 to CC 2015

Design Spoon

Photoshop Texture Brushes

This is a set of 46 high quality texture brushes for Adobe Photoshop.

These brushes are very versatile. They can be used for: editing photos, making photo collages, creating your own custom background textures, spicing up your typography and digital paintings and illustrations.

Included in this set:

• 46 high quality texture brushes for Adobe Photoshop in an .ABR file
• Bonus Goodies:
• 2 handcrafted grunge textures
• 2 halftone textures
• 2 grunge frames

Each bonus texture comes in two formats: transparent .PNG (more detailed, 600 ppi) and .EPS (easily re-sizable).

Software compatibility: Photoshop CS4 and newer

40 Vintage Overlays

Vintage Overlays is a set of 40 transparent .PNG textures that can be used in a variety of projects such as posters, photos, illustrations, typography art, postcards, flyers, T-shirts and many, many more.

If you want to give your design that perfect vintage look, Vintage Overlays are exactly what you’re looking for.

Included in this set:

• 40 transparent .PNG files a.k.a. Vintage Overlays
• 6 Bonus Photoshop texture brushes* perfect for masking the overlays and creating textures
• The Manual .PDF including tips and tricks for beginners to get the most out of this set

Software compatibility: Photoshop CS3and newer. PNG files will work with any graphic software.

Textile Textures Pack

This is a set of 32 handmade textile textures that can be used in a variety of projects such as posters, photos, postcards, flyers, T-shirts, typography and many, many more.

Included in this set:

• 32 transparent .PNG files (600 ppi, 5100 x 7020 px)
• A cheat-sheet .PDF to help you browse through textures quickly

Transparent backgrounds allow for quick and easy change of color and application.

Software compatibility: PNG files will work with any graphic software.

Creators Couture

PsAi Combo: 24 Karat Gold Collection

24 Karat Gold Timeless Collection for both Photoshop AND Illustrator

I had a lot of designers loving the InstaGlam styles, but wanted some smoother and less patterned styles. After much hard work and careful tweaking, I’m proud to introduce the all new 24 Karat Gold Timeless Collection.

What makes this style collection unique and special?

• Super creamy refined styles that look amazing for very large backgrounds as well as intricate designs
• Carefully painted gold luxury styles expertly adjusted for the perfect gold color with no tints of green
• Designed with maximum versatility, apply them at 100, 50 or 25% scale for ultimate refinement!

93 1-CLICK Photoshop (ASL) Layer Styles for print and 93 for WEB:

• I took all of the delicious patterns and created a one-click layer style for them
• Full seamless pattern source collection
• No Smart Objects: Work within your OWN document size and resolution!
• Style resize action: Resize the pattern style up or down with a click

93 Amazing 1-click pattern swatches for Adobe Illustrator:

• I took all of the delicious patterns and created a one-click pattern swatch
• Raster pattern swatches allow for brilliant effects without bogging Illustrator down
• Your text stays LIVE with effects applied!
• Style resize action: Resize the pattern style up or down with a click

Software compatibility: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 and newer

Swedish Points

The Ultimate Halftone Collection

Very large collection of 80 rough halftone textures in different shapes and sizes such as corners, edges, gradients, pages and stains. Raster and vector format included.

Included in this set:

• A .PDF document with thumbnails and file names of all the objects.
• 10 corners
• 16 edges
• 10 frames
• 8 gradients
• 18 pages
• 19 stains

File formats:

• The vector files are in .AI format which can be opened in Illustrator CS1 or newer.
• The raster files are transparent .PNG files. The smallest objects have a resolution of about 2400×250 pixels and the largest ones are about 6000×4650 pixels.

Software compatibility: Ai files for Illustrator CS1 and newer. PNG files will work with any graphic software.

Set Sail Studios

Retro Stamp Textures & Brush Pack

Give your design that retro finishing touch with these handmade stamp textures.

Included in this set:

• .PSD – Layered Photoshop file including 8 Light Textures, 8 Heavy Textures and 10 Brush Strokes with transparent backgrounds
• .PNG – Separate files of all 26 textures with transparent background
• .ABR – Photoshop brushes for the 10 brush strokes 2000px+

Software compatibility: Photoshop CS6 and newer

The Treasured Years Font Duo + Bonus

The Treasured Years is a set of 2 hand-painted fonts, designed to combine perfectly and allow you to create beautiful typography quickly and easily. With a very distinct bold dry-brush effect, this font set is perfect for creating hand-lettered quotes, logos and printed designs with a rustic & personal touch. Also included is a set of 24 bonus ornaments, designed to give your text that extra touch of detail & attention.

Included in this set:

• The Treasured Years Script is a set of lowercase characters which includes a large range of punctuation glyphs, numerals, and supports international languages. Stylistic alternates for several key characters are also available, you can access these simply by switching between upper & lower case glyphs within this font.
• The Treasured Years Display is a supporting set of upper-case characters which includes basic punctuation, numerals, and supports international languages.
• The Treasured Years Ornaments is a set of 24 hand-drawn elements including flourishes, swirls, stars, hearts, paint-splatters, underlines & arrows.
• TTF and OTF files are included for all 3 fonts.

Language Support: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norweigen, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish

This font includes web versions

Retro Supply Co.

VectorSketch – Charcoal Pencils for Illustrator

Traditionally, if you want to create authentic charcoal and pencil effects digitally, it happens in Photoshop.

The only problem is then you’re stuck with artwork that’s hard to resize. Or worse yet, you send it to the printers, and you get back fuzzy (or pixelated) work.

That’s why we created VectorSketch. It’s a deluxe package of 40 charcoal and graphite based brushes.

Now you can stay in your safe place and do all your work in Illustrator. And of course, get beautifully scalable results.

• 40 historically inspired charcoal pencil brushes.
• Beautiful .AI file reference sheet with samples of each brush (so nice looking you’ll want to print it and pin it on your wall)
• Includes soft charcoal pencils, compress charcoal, carpenter pencils, willow sticks and #2 pencils

Included in this set:

• 10 compressed charcoal sticks
• 10 willow sticks
• 10 carpenter pencils
• 10 No. 2 Pencils (just like you poked yourself with in grade school and wondered if you got lead poisoning)

Software compatibility: Compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS4 and above

VectorHero – Brushes for Illustrator

Create illustrations like 1950s commercial artists!

Have you ever wondered how some digital artists are able to create such realistic pen and ink illustrations?

Included in this set:

• 20 Clean Ink brushes (recreated from source material)
• 20 Dirty Ink brushes (created from scanned samples)
• Beautiful 8.5 x 35 inch reference chart (with brushes)
• Instructions included in reference chart
• Versions for CS4, CS5, CS6 and CC

You’d swear their work was created in a wood paneled commercial art office. India ink heavy in the air, piles of paper filled with sketches, and busy artists at sturdy wooden desks using ink brushes, rollerballs and nib pens.
So what’s the secret to creating authentic commercial art illustrations?

Here’s a hint: inconsistency and human imperfection.

Adobe Illustrator has given us the ability to create precision artwork. The problem is that it cost us the human touch that adds warmth to illustrations, for example expression filled ink strokes with varying weights and subtle imperfections.

We’ve recreated the feel of this era with the VectorHero Pen Pack for Illustrator. Here’s how we did it:

• Gathered a huge library of commercial art from the 1940s and 50s.
• Studied how these pens perform in the real world. We paid close attention to things like how the ink pools when a nib pen first touches the paper. How brush strokes widen as pressure increases and decreases. How the end of strokes terminate.
• Carefully recreated these characteristic in vector form. We used real commercial art samples, strokes we created with brush and nib pens and even created ink strokes with the pen tool using historical reference material.

The bottom line is we created the pen set that we’ve always dreamed of.

You see, most Adobe Illustrator brush packs are made by scanning pen strokes, auto tracing them and making them into brushes. The result is hard to use brushes that give less than stellar results. Scott Fuller and Dustin Lee spent over 40 hours compiling material, studying the best examples of commercial illustration work, recreating and refining brushes and then testing them by creating real artwork in the classic style of 1950s illustrations.

The result is a pack of brushes that we love using in our work. We think you’ll love them too.

Software compatibility: Compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS4 and above

Pattern Pop

Bold Stripes Pattern

A beautifully, colourful, hand drawn set of bold tripe papers and seamless tiles, perfect to be used as backgrounds, overlays or in your web design projects.

Included in this set:

• 10 – 12” x 12” high resolution papers (300 ppi) .JPG files
• 10 – seamless web tiles (72ppi) .JPG files
• 10 – seamless .AI tiles

Software compatibility: .AI files work in Illustrator CS2 and newer. JPG files will work with any graphic software.

Flavor Type

Carneval & Extra

Most of us have fond memories of visiting carnivals during our childhoods, and even now we still love the fun and magic any carnival visit brings.

Let us Introduce Carneval – A double cheerful font, inspired by the carnival atmosphere. It comes with 2 styles that complement each other wonderfully, and help you create amazing carnival themed designs.

Included in this set:

• Carneval Layer – created with 3 layered fonts, Carneval Bold, Carneval Shadow, and Carneval Dot
• Carneval Normal/Regular with a shorter, chubbier font
• Huge carnival themes vector set

Language Support: Baltic Windows, Windows Vietnamese, Eastern Europe, English, US, German, Swedish, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, French, Filipino, Dutch, Romanian, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan and countries that use the Latin alphabet.

This font includes web versions

BLKBK

Flash Back

A fluid, handwritten typeface that gives your designs a personalised feel. Perfect for invitations, posters, social media graphics and many more.

Product specifications:

• Uppercase & lowercase
• Punctuation & numerals
• .TTF file
• 200+ Glyphs

Language Support: English, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, French, German, Icelandic, Swedish

This font includes web versions

HEJ!

Real Red Marker Textures

Add some real red markers to your designs!

These textures were scanned in at 2400 ppi, then cleaned and gently sharpened. I then erased the boring white pixels, separated the layers and resized to 300 ppi. And that’s how Hej! was born.

Software compatibility: Photoshop CS1 and newer

The Artifex Forge

Felt Craft – Stitches Styles & More

Felt is no longer just for kids –  it’s for designers too!

This massive pack of felt styles and stitch effects is the first and only one available for Photoshop. No longer will you have to spend hours working to achieve that perfect look. With the help of the Artifex Forge this is now all only a few clicks away!

This pack is hugely versatile and can be used to enhance any of your design themes – Christmas, Valentines, arts & crafts, nursery and many, many more. Plus, with its eye-catching and realistic hand-crafted finish, it’ll make any design stand out and just look plain awesome.

Included in this set:

• 32 Felt Layer Styles:

These work with one easy click. You can apply them to text as well as bitmap and vector shapes. They can be used for backgrounds too. The shadows, gradients and depth can be adjusted individually after application. They are supplied in 32 colors. To create your own colors, apply an adjustment layer.

In addition to the styles I’ve included an optional blur action. You can use this to give an even more realistic edge to your felt object. This comes with three levels of blur.

• Stitching Effect:

This combines a set of 10 stitch brushes and a layer style, which adds the realistic texture and depth. To use, simply apply the style to a layer, select a brush, adjust its size and draw! You can change the color, depth and shadowing after application. Supplying the stitch effect this way makes it super-flexible for the user.

• Repeat Patterns:

These can be seen in action in the styles but I’ve also supplied them separately so you can use them to fill areas independently. They are 2000 x 2000 pixels in size and I’ve also included a download link to a larger 4000 x 4000 pixel set. You’ll find this link included in the easy-to-follow instruction guide.

• Bonus High Resolution Felt Texture:

A 5472 x 3647 pixel piece of felt texture in .TIFF format. This offers a great background for you to start your design.

• Example Files:

Pages one, two, three and four of the previews are included.

• Instructions:

A very thorough guide on how to load, apply and then edit the effects is supplied.

Software compatibility: Photoshop CS5, CS6 and CC only.

Antipixel

LeOsler Complete Family

LeOsler is a decorative, fun, handwritten font that includes the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, and can be used in a wide range of languages. Its OpenType features include ligatures for all repeated characters in upper & lowercase, contextual alternates for all supported alphabets, 4 ampersand alternates, scientific superior/inferior figures, fractions, etc.

LeOsler also offers a set of icons that will provide a much more personal look to your work! Available in Regular and Light weights, and Rough and Stamp styles, for a perfect match with the font styles.

Language Support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa (Nyanja), Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, German, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibanag, Iloko (Ilokano), Indonesian, Interglossa (Glosa), Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Islandic, Istro-Romanian, Italian, JËrriais, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Megleno-Romanian, MÌkmaq, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Northern Sotho (Pedi), Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh (Rumantsch), Rotokas, Sami, Samoan, Sardinian (Sardu), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian, Seychellois Creole (Seselwa), Shona, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovenian (Slovene), Somali, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho (Sesotho), Spanish, Swahili, Swati/Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino/Pilipino), Tahitian, Tausug, Tetum (Tetun), Tok Pisin, Tongan (Faka-Tonga), Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuva

This font includes web versions

Octopus Artis

Gold Passion. Floral collection

This set of high quality, hand painted watercolor floral graphics is perfect for wedding invitations, greeting cards, photos, posters, quotes and more.

Included in this set:

• 31 x Floral Elements in .PNG with transparent backgrounds. Size approx.: 10-6in (25-17cm), 3000-2000px
• 6 x Bouquets in .PNG with transparent backgrounds and .JPG (white backgrounds). Bouquet sizes approx.: 12-11in (30-28cm), 3600-3300px.
• 3 x Wreaths in .PNG with transparent backgrounds and .JPG. Size approx.: 12×11 in(30x28cm), 3600x3300px

Software compatibility: PNG files will work with any graphic software

Tropical watercolor leaves

This set of 12 high quality hand-painted watercolor floral elements (leaves, grass, herb, foliage etc) and floral arrangement in hires. Perfect for wedding invitations, greeting cards, photos, posters, quotes and more.

Included in this set:

• 11 x Floral elements in .PNG (transparent background) size (larger side) approx.: 11,6 – 11 in (30 – 28cm), 3500 – 3300px
• 1 x Floral arrangement in .PNG (transparent background) size: 12x15in (30x38cm), 3600x4533px

Software compatibility: .PNG files will work with any graphic software

Forest watercolor leaves

This set of 18 high quality hand painted watercolor floral elements (leaves, grass, herb, foliage etc) in hires. Perfect for wedding invitations, greeting cards, photos, posters, quotes and more.

Included in this set:

• 18 x Floral elements in .PNG (transparent background)
• Elements size (larger side) approx.: 11,6 – 7,6 in (30 – 20cm), 3500 – 2300px, 300ppi

Software compatibility: .PNG files will work with any graphic software

Mint & Gold Flowers

This is a set of 37 high quality hand painted watercolor floral cliparts. Mint and gold color palette. Perfect for wedding invitations, blogs, greeting cards, photos, posters, quotes and more.

Included in this set:

• 4 x floral bouquets in .PNG (transparent background). Size wide approx.: 11,6-10,6 in, 3500-3200px
• 1 x floral arrangement in .PNG (transparent background). Size approx.: 10×7 in, 3300x2100px
• 32 x separate floral elements in .PNG (transparent background). Size (larger side) approx.: 9-6 in (23-15cm), 2800-1800px

Software compatibility: .PNG files will work with any graphic software

Full Deal Terms & Licensing:

This deal includes extended licensing. This means that as well as using these products within personal and commercial projects, you can also use them in designs/products that you resell. Here is some further clarification:

You can:

• Use these resources within personal and commercial projects, as well as items for sale. The resources must be used within a wider design though, and not comprise the entire design. This can include, but is not limited to posters, t-shirt designs, digital goods, merchandise etc…

You can’t:

• Resell these files directly, or within items/goods where they can be extracted in their original form.
• Sell a finished design where these resources comprise the entirety or vast majority of the design (i.e.: they’re used in a stand-alone fashion.) They should be used within a wider, original design.
• Share these resources with others.
• This is a single user license. Please contact us to enquire about multi-user licenses.

Here’s another look at some of the awesome resources included in this bundle:

Includes Our New and Improved Bundle Browsing Guides

We’re so pleased to announce that after listening hard to our community, we’ve upgraded our bundle browsing guides. These now feature an updated PDF guide, and a brand new Image Gallery guide. These let you easily browse every designer and item within your bundle, using a handy table of contents, and search functionality. We hope that they will be a huge time saver for Design Cutters everywhere.