Out with the old, and in with the new.
I thought it was about time to give this old blog a bit of a face lift...and hopefully with the face lift will come some more frequent blogs.
I did some searching on how to create my own blog background and found that digital scrapbooking materials do the job well. I found several sites, but liked the materials offered at ShabbyPrincess the best. ShabbyPrincess has some great scrapbooking collections that they offer as free downloads for personal use (even for use on personal, NON-commercial, blogs - check out their Terms). PowerPoint 2007 worked wonders for creating my background and made saving it as a .jpeg a breeze (just be cautious because not all of the older versions of PowerPoint have that nifty ability). I uploaded the background .jpeg and header .jpeg to PhotoBucket (but, again, I'm sure another site, such as Picasa, would have worked as well). A little fiddling with Blogger and I was done.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
If you get a chance, jump on over and check out Jolie's new blog background. She, too, is hoping to get some new blogs posted in the near future. She has already begun writing a new story to post.
2 comments:
We do have a name picked out...starts with an L. Love the blog layout...I change mine about every month (which I'm sure that you have noticed!)
But Chrissy, Jaynelle doesn't start with an "L". :) Can't wait for Little Bit to get here.
Where to you find all of your background stuff?
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