Here are sites and/or users I've stumbled upon and I have used their brushes, textures, gradients, etc for my icon making:

Brushes/Textures/Gradients:
_chocobox
_joni
_twilighticons_
bombayicons
canadianclearly
chouchoune
crumblingwalls
elli
grrliz_icons
how_iconic
teh_indy
1GREENEYE
Carton
Hybrid-Genesis
Trex-tures

Caps:
Numerous caps used from:
teh_indy and thephotobox.

Veronica Mars caps used from:
_jems_
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THANK YOU SO MUCH TO thephotobox. I use most of Mary's pictures ( Read more... )