Blog Decorating....

I guess that is what you can call it! The program on my computer that I use is Jasc Paint Shop Pro. At first it was just a free trial I messed around with, but by the time free trial was up, I decided that even though it could be frustrating, I loved it. So we purchased it.

Over the summer I came across the site Shabby Princess which is a digital scrapbook shop. However, she does let you use her free kits and other kits to make templates (backgrounds) for personal blogs. I have used free kits and a couple that I have purchased to make the header, background, and buttons. For example the Halloween template I had was from this kit. But she also offers BLOGwear on her site and it isn't that expensive. And they are super easy to work with because all you do is add text or pictures to the header and buttons, upload them, and then you are done. I just recently purchased the BLOGwear~XL Assortment and back in August I bought the BLOGwear-Season's Collection.

My buttons, header, and background were created from BLOGwear-Valentines and the freebie 2006 Seasonal Sampler. The font on the header is SP Totally Doodle Font (capital letters) and the SP Double Doodle Font (lowercase letters). I think the font I used on the buttons was Kristen ITC (already on my computer). I use photobucket to upload the buttons and background.

I have looked at other digital scrapbook sites and some allow you to use the kits to decorate your blog and others don't. My only advice is that you read the terms of use before you purchase it.

By playing and messing around with all of this stuff the past few months, I am really interested in doing digital scrapbooking. I plan to start once I get a new digital camera. Anyway, I hope this helps. If you need any help with html or anything like that I would be glad to help out! The best way is just to send me an email!