Clean, bright and simple - The Photoblog Layout

This was the week of challenges! Apart from Kimla being an super talented designer she also loves to Photograph and has a Photoblog. A Photoblog needs different things than a "normal" blog. You want to show your pictures, this is the main focus therefore the main section has to be big and wide. To match Kimlas design blog I created a Photoblog template for her.

All is white and we just have a few tiny borders and some underlined titles. I again added a linkbar. The post section is as wide as the blog, so there is no space for a sidebar.

I moved all the sidebar content in the footer, where I created more space.

We have no 3 Footer Columns which gives more space and looks more organized.

Clean, bright and simple - Custom Layout

This here is a Layout I did for Kimla's blog. She wanted something clean, simple and organized. So that is what I did for her blog. We stayed with a white background so that her Layouts and kits shine in the best way:) We added a horizontal Linkbar for easy navigation. I made the borders super thin so that they are just for an organized feeling but nothing too prominent.

The colors we choose for borders, Linkbar background and sidebar title backgrounds are all matching her newest kit: Sweet little world. I kit full of soft pastel colors in pink and blue.

Since this kind of Layout is new and special, I'll still have to add this to my packages.

I'll sell this kind of Layout for 15$ including:

• color adjustment of borders backgrounds etc.
• your choice of font
• Linkbar (including the installation of your personal links)
• Installation on your blog

There is no header in this package, if you want a header tell me and we discuss the details!

Aqua Love - Custom Layout

Here is my latest layout I did for Donna who is running a Rob blog called "it's Roblated". She choose this beautiful kit from Catherine Designs called "Guy things" because she loves the color combinations in the kit (So do I..).

She wanted a 2 column layout with a white post section background. So we made a black outer background and a lime sidebar background while the rest stayed white. Beautiful contrast! Luckily the kit came with this awesome alpha set which we used then for the blog title together with some Rob pics to pretty it up.... She also got a Linkbar to clean up the sidebar and 4 sidebar title images..

what makes this layout special:

- the wonderful Color combination with dark grey, aqua and lime.

- the cool alpha we used for the blog title

- a clean but pretty Linkbar

- Donna who is Scrapper herself made it super easy to work with!!!

Go and see her blog live!

New beautiful designkits!

I wanted to share the newest kits I found around in the shops. Apparently the girls have been super creative this month since I found so incredibly wonderful kits!

Links to all the designers you find here: "Designkits"

The first one is called Purple Love from Karina Designs. I always looked for a nice purple kit, but this one is not just nice, it's so beautiful!!

Lily finally made a new kit and look at it! She called it "Painted" and it's so great! Specially with a white background this kit will look fantastic!

KStudio made a kit called "Dazzled" and girls, I don't have to tell you why I needed to share this kit with you:)

Nikki's new kit consists of a great light green/yellow/brown color combination. I love this composition!

Holly made a new Collaboration kit together with Vera Lim and since they both have such fancy unique styles the kit they made together is fabulous! Love the combination of brown/orange/pink.

MK designs made a kit which is extremely cute!!! It's called "Wetterfrosch" loosely translated that means "weather frog" which is what we here in Germany say for weathermen, in a cute way. It comes from the idea that a frog could forecast the weather by climbing a ladder :)

They all have many many more wonderful designs, just go to the shop and look around:

Link to the after five shop

Link to Shabby Pickle Designs

New Face - New Look!!

Did you notice the change? My blog got an makeover!

But you might say that the whimsy blue layout wasn't that old and where is the sweet blond girl?

Well, the blue layout was one of the first layouts I did in my bloggy live and it was really cute and I love it a lot! But during the last month I learned so much about blogging and designs that I feelt like I need a new skin for my blog! I redesigned already my beloved Twilight blog and now it was time for an change also here.

Last week I browsed through one of my favorite sites : iStock Photo - I adore this site, I could look around for hours just because of the pretty pictures and graphics. And out of a habit I visited one of the most wonderful designers for those pretty sweet Comic girls you see here and probably on many other blogs too.

You can visit his Portfolio here , he creates such a large number of cute pretty girls woman and men... I digress..

Because the suddenly I found her: He called this girl "Chic Blogger"and she smiled at me and I was in love! I really didn't think and just clicked "buy". I realized that she was super new in his portfolio and I was actually the 2nd one who bought her...

I *cough* dyed my hair to brunette so I though it's appropriate to change my Comic Me girl from a blond one into a Brunette.. and well you know: Edward prefers Brunette! Just saying...

Ok enough about my chic blogger girly!

The kit which always was in the back of my mind was a Collab kit from Holly (from whom also the Whimsy blue design was) and MK - Designs ( she is my newest designer addition and I'm so grateful she allowed me to use her kits!)

Look at this pretty designkit:

I saw the colors and just love it, together with my Chic Bloggers brown hair.... I simply couldn't resist doing a new design..

And while redesigning I also wanted to make my Linkbar smaller, I hope you all can read it well enough and then I tried to make this cool scribble hover effect and squeed like a girl when I finally managed! Apart from the fancy Linkbar I also rearranged my Footer section so that the sidebar isn't so crowded anymore.

I also modified the green package and added something that is called Sidebar title images. Those are images which can pimp your sidebar quite a bit. To see what I mean scroll down here and look out for the Button "Follow Me" ( and since you are already there you can also follow me if you didn't do it yet *blows a kiss) and you know what the best thing is? I didn't increase the price:)

Wooohhooo so many words for one layout! Sorry girls, I get easily carried away when talking about designs! It's like when I'm talking about Twilight - it's passion.

So if you want take my new Buttons and replace my old one.

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Thanks so much for reading my rumbling post! Love you!

Hope you like my new design....

And the winners are...

Hey girls, here are the lucky winners I 've picked randomly from your entrys:

OliO

KG

erikasbuddy

I hope you'll have a lot of fun with this gorgeous kit.

Please email me to get the code,

the code is valid until the 20th of January!

Go and shop here!

Kimla's new Twispired kit - Forever - Giveaway !

I'm extremely excited to present Kimla's newest kit. Some time ago I asked her to do a kit for the Twilight fans among us, since I knew when Kimla makes a kit it will be nothing else than truly wonderful! I'm so excited when she told me that she also loves Twilight and was willing to do a kit. And here it is: The Forever kit. Isn't it gorgeous!?!? I can tell you I was extremely excited when she finally showed me the kit beginning of the week

Only a Twilight fan could create something like this with all those tiny details which warms my heart. The pillows, the feathers (I especially love the red feathers!!) the music notes - wonderful!

Here you can see what I created with this kit. I couldn't resist and tried myself to scrape a page with the wonderful elements:

This one here is special: It's a desktop wallpaper and you You can download it from here. I have it as well on my computer and I love starring at it! Feel free to grab and take it:)

And I have one more special thing for you:

Kimla gave me 3 Coupons to giveaway for YOU. Just leave a comment and I'll pick 3 random winner on Sunday!

You can create wonderful things with it,

from Twitter backgrounds

FanFiction Banner

or

beautiful layouts to post on your blog!

Just never forget to credit Kimla!

All you need are simple Photo editing programs,

like GIMP which you can freely download here

or for sure Photoshop if you have it.

Start today and create something beautiful, I'm sure you will have tons

of fun just like I have :)

Make sure to leave a comment for the giveaway

and show Kimla some love because

she truly is such a wonderful person!

You will also find some gorgeous layout

which could inspire you.

And I can proudly say

also my page is featured in her post!

And if you want a blog designed with this kit,

go ahead choose a package and email me!

New designkit - Kimla 4U

I just wanted to show you the new kit from Kimla. Apart from the fact that she is a wonderful person herself her kit's are always so stunning and beautiful! I did already a layout for Kimla's blog with this kit and I know it looks stunning!

Visit Kimla's blog and her shop to get more impressions from this wonderful kit!

Want a blog layout designed with this kit?

Select a package here and email me!

Truth from a girl - Custom Layout

I'm especially happy to show you this layout I made for one of my longest bloggy friends Annie, who wanted me to design a layout for her personal blog. "I blog therefore I am " After searching forever she finally found this kit Truth from Falsehood from bisontine and said This is it and nothing else!

This kit is rich of wonderful and truly unique elements so that we had tons to choose from. We took a green background with music notes. Annie choose two fonts from Kevin and Amanda who are provide free fronts , including some truly cool handwriting fonts.

What makes this layout special:

- the header was really a lot of work for Annie and me to figure out how to make it perfect and I think we managed quite well

- the fonts Annie choose for header, sidebar images and Linkbar

- Annie who had a vision about her blog and I'm truly glad I was able to give her this :)

Go and see Annies Layout live!

Sweet Love - Custom Layout

Look at this sweetness. This is the layout Peace Love Twilight won in my giveaway I hold beginning of this month. She was immediately in love with Joifa's Sweet Melody kit and I was so happy she choose it since I really adore this kit!

Working with the kit was easy, so we soon had the first outline and Ana was just happy with it. She then send me pics she wanted to have in the header and she choose the most perfect pics for this layout!

What makes this layout special:

- the overal loveliness from this layout which really fit's to the blog title.

- the cute little hearts!

- the pics which really fit naturally into the header and the design.

- Ana who was so easy going and choose the perfect design for her blog!

Go and see it live!

Hot Pink, Why Not? - Custom Layout

This is a Layout I made for Amcas from Why Not? She came to me and wanted a layout for her blog and looked for black white and pink colors. When I showed her this kit her from Camila Designs called "Max" she said this is it!

Amcas said she wanted to have a plain white background since she always posts so many picture, so I offered her to just add some color to the sidebar and the rest will remain white. I choose a black background with text for the main background and added a pink background to the sidebars, the rest stayed white.

The first header I did was not like she had envisioned so I made a new try and this one she said was perfect! After some small changes to the rest was done, and all went super smooth and easy.

What makes this layout special:

- different background for the sidebars and different colors for the border to make it all matching.

- the header, because she wanted me to have Mr.Pretty Face into Polaroid frames, which really looks cool.

- the torned papers for the title

- Amcas because she was super easy to work with and I'm glad I made this header so that she was happy with it.

Go and see this layout live!

Bewitched - Custom Layout

This is the Layout for my giveaway winner on my Twilight blog last week. Poptarts was one of the lucky winner and it was so damn easy to work with her! She choose a kit from Krista called Bewitching and I love the color combinations in this kit!

So what did we do for her layout? Poptarts was super easy and just told me : Go ahead.

Ohh Ok! So I did. I took the nice swirl and added it as a sidebar image. Since this looked so naked I changed to font from the sidebar titles and posttitles to a font I found here:

For the header: Poptarts just wanted to have her blogtitle and no pics so I created this header you see here. Well, and lovely Poptarts just liked all I did which was amazing since we really didn't changed anything.

What makes this layout special:

- The swirls

- The font we uploaded for the sidebar titles

- The header since the goal was just to create a header with a title!

-Poptart which her trust in me and enthusiasm!

Now, go and visit her and see the layout live

New designer available!

I'm happy to tell that I have two new designer who gave me their permission to work with their design kits! It's so wonderful to be able to work with so many different designers and people on a blog layout.

The first designer I'm happy to add is bisontine who also sells her stuff at the after five shop. She has very special, unique and wonderful designs, go and look what she does! I have a sample for you:

The other one is Krista designs who sells at own shop. She has tons of beautiful kits witch wonderful color combinations. I think I saw over 50 kits? I'm sure there is one kit which screams "mine" when you look at it. Here is one of her kits :

The dreamy Vanquish - Custom Layout

I finally did it and created a blog layout for myself. My old layout was from a super creative designer and I felt super bad replacing it, but I needed some fresh air. I searched forever for a suitable kit which included my beloved colors: black white and red. I knew Lily's Little Red Bird kit but it just clicked when I looked at it for the 100th time and suddenly I had a vision.

The kit was super dreamy and wonderful, so I started working on a layout for my blog with it.

I took a plain white background for the main section, I love working on white one can do such wonderful things on a white background, so it had to be white. Since I have green in my header pushy suggested to take add also some green in the background. I took a simple red flower as a sidebar image but the white background made it easy to play with shadows.

I stayed with the Papyrus font and Script tina for the header and took also this font to do the Linkbar Buttons. I added a mouseover effect with a bird and some flowers that appear whenever you hover over a Linkbar Button.

With those two fonts I also created some nice sidebar headers, including some for Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

The header completed the dreamy look for this layout and while creating it I suddenly knew the perfect quote...

Look to see it live!

Meilenfuchs - Custom Layout

This is a layout I did for my hubs.

Yes, my hubs let me do a blog layout for his blog! It's a blog about his passion: flying and collecting miles. :)

What I did: I took an airplane from iStock Photos and created a header with this image.

For the background I found this cool image which I uploaded as a background image.

For the postdivider and the sidebar image I took those pretty cool globe shiny vectors:)

See the final result her, I was happy when finally hubs was happy with his layout. For my readers who are not able to read German:

Meilenfuchs = Milage fox or mile fox

Mobility zum fuchsigen Preis = Mobility for a foxy price

Robmusement - Custom Layout

It's been a while now since I finished this layout here but it has been some busy days over Christmas and New Year so... This Layout here is special since it was Part of my Secret Santa gift we did with the Lemon Sisters. This was a wonderful idea to bring us all closer together. Anyway, I got itsjustme from RobMusement and she already told me that she'd love to switch from wordpress to blogger and showed me also the kit she'd love. This kit is from Holly and is called Playground, what could have been a better kit for her blog?

It was difficult, because I since this was supposed to be a gift I couldn't work on this layout together with her, I only showed her the final product. But I had Betti my beloved friend who is an Art Director and always know who I can improve my layouts, Thanks Honey for your help and support!

I really worked hard on this layout and just hoped desperately that itsjustme likes it..

What makes this Layout special ?

- The Rob Postdivider with the words saying : Smile, the world is your playground with included Rob pics.

- The header: I love this header full of Rob pics.

- Betti with her input which made this layout much better!

click her so see it live !