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June’s Challenge – Card Me!
Sharing some (ok lots of) layouts!
I thought I’d see when was the last time I showed you any of my layouts, and what did I find? I haven’t shared a layout with you since March! OMGosh am I ever a terrible blogger this year! So here are the layouts I’ve made since the last time I shared back in March:
For full credits please click on the images above! Some of the amazing KCB products used in the above layouts include:
- Artist’s Canvas by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
- My Happy Garden by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
- Scoop It Up by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Julie Billingsley
- Fresh Cut by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
- Seaside by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Also used were designs by Lauren Grier, Lliella Designs, Bren Boone & Kate Hadfield.
Blog makeover is… done!
So what do you think of the new look? In case you were wondering, here are the main steps I went through to makeover my blog!
- First I had to find a theme that I liked and could make changes to without too much difficulty. I wanted something different from what I had before so I found this one called Green Scrapbook Diary, when I first downloaded it it looked like this:
- Then I went into the Images folder and opened up the files I wanted to change.
- I picked a kit to use, I chose one of KCB’s newest kits called Blossom.
- I picked a solid coloured background, pasted it into the background file resizing it a bit. Then I used my program’s Tile Maker to create an image that was seamless and would work in a repeated blog background. I scrapped the banner as I would with anything else.
- Changed some other files like the section banners, between post border etc.
- Then came the hard part… coding. I had to go through the stylesheet file and play around with the colour codes until I had font colours that matched.
- Then I found that most of the font was done with one code, so I had to play around with my banner some more so that the font colour would work on the banner as well as in the post.
- That’s when I added the little paper strips that the pages are on. That took a while, I had to resize and move each one until it was centered under the text. I had to upload it over and over again to see where the text was on the banner and move those strips over and over again until it looked ok.
But it’s finally done, and I love it! If you’re reading this in a reader, here’s a screen shot of what my blog now looks like:
As I already said, the kit used is called Blossom by KCB. The pretty flower girl graphic is by Kate Harnovar, available in the To You From Me graphics set at PC Crafter. And the font used in my blog title is called DJB JACKED UP KINDA LUV by Lauren Grier and Darcy Baldwin.
So what do you think?
You might also have noticed that I removed the ads. I’ve had them on there for at least a year and haven’t made a dime from them, so I figured with my reduced blogging it was definitely time to remove all ads.
