Simply Amusing Designs

When Stephanie from Keeper of the Home contacted me about doing a business card, blog button and banner ads for her site, I was happy to pull the elements out of her beautiful blog design to create her very first business/blog card. She was so pleased and excited about the results – she stated that she felt “all grown up now” since she had real business cards: Read more.. »

Unfortunately, “build it and they will come” doesn’t apply to blogging, as you have probably already noticed. If you want people to come, you have to create some buzz and excitement surrounding your blog.

One great way to get your blog noticed is by using a graphic link via an ad, button or contest promotion. Read more.. »

When Cyn from Knightly Chats hired me to do her header, I loved her immediately. She had a fun, outgoing personality and a quirky sense of humor — much like me. Thank goodness she was so easygoing and friendly — because her WordPress.com design presented to be a little bit more of a design challenge than I thought it was going to be (I actually had mistaken the “.com” for “.org” and thought it was self-hosted – which would have made all of this a moot point). Read more.. »

When Kendra from The Adventures of the Headless Family originally contacted me about doing her blog, she told me she liked the idea of a very simple layout with a photo in the header and gave me two blogs that she liked as a reference. When I asked her to pick out a few stock photos for me to choose from, one of the ones that really stood out for me was the hand with the heart for some reason. Read more.. »

When Megan of Fried Okra first contacted me about her upcoming blog anniversary, I was positively estatic about redesigning her blog for her.

She said that she wanted something that spoke “welcome” to her readers and suggested a porch swing or something of that nature. So, I commenced to look for a porch swing or something of that nature. (I’m so complicated, no?) However, finding a porch swing in stock photos that either did not have people already in it, or was large enough (as in wide) proved to be quite a challenge. Read more.. »