CALL ME: NEW CALLING & BUSINESS CARDS

CALL ME, WHEN YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO!
New Write In Calling Cards and Business Cards by Gramkin Paper Studio, from our new Spring Line.
These cards are the best way to give your info, especially if it is ever changing. Just write your information down and hand them over. To see these and others please visit our shop.

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COMPANY FAVICONS:ADDING YOUR PERSONAL FAVICON TO YOUR BLOG

Blogger.com is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet, yet if you have a blog with them you are often stuck with the default Blogger.com favicon. Hard to brand your blog with your own personal touch when you have the Blogger.com favicon on the address bar. If people bookmark your blog they won’t see your favicon and might quickly forget about your website. There is no reason why you can’t change the favicon on your Blogger.com blog to one of your own design. There are a couple of good sites for favicon generator and etc. After your have your favicon, you just need to follow these easy steps and soon your Blogger.com blog will sport your great new custom made favicon.

{FAVICON GENERATOR}
These sites save your image (whether made or original pic) into ico format

Favicon Generator Gallery
Favicon.ICO
Favicon Maker
Dynamic Drive


*IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHAT TO USE AS YOUR PERSONAL FAVICON OR YOU ARE NOT THAT COMPUTER SAVVY THIS IS WHERE ICONS ARE HELPFUL.
Icons are the perfect size for favicons and we just happened to feature a bunch of different ones on one of our "Download Days". If you are still unsure about what to use, our suggestion is just your initials or company initials/simplified logo, since the size of favicon has to be small.
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The following link is great step by step instruction on installing your personal favicon:

CREATE YOUR OWN FAVICON

You can use other free hosting services to host your custom favicon, but you don’t want to use an image hosting service that deletes images after so many days. Using Blogger.com to host the images works well, but you could also use Google Page Creator, or even your Flickr account.

WE SUGGEST NAMING THE IMAGE "FAVICON FILE" TO EASILY RECOGNIZE
Just remember that adding your personal favicon to blogger is a bit of a hack

Have fun adding your custom favicon to your Blogger.com blog!

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NEW WEDDING INVITATIONS:ROMANTIC SCROLL

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
Romantic Scroll Wedding Invitation Suite by Gramkin Paper Studio, from our new Spring Line.
Inspired by vintage with a little twist of modern. For these and others in our line please take a look at our shop.

wedding dress : BluMarine

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CELEBRITIES ON ETSY?

We have all heard that celebrities shop on etsy, but some of them do sell. While looking for something specific I came across one that sells her craft wares and for a good cause....CHARITY!
Most people know that Rosie ODonnell loves crafting and have seen her huge "Craft Room" in her house, but she has a shop on Etsy.
All proceeds go the The Maravel Arts Center in New York as well as in conjunction with her own charity "Rosie's Broadway Kids" and she matches dollar for dollar what she raises on the site.

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Company Mini Booklet: A Tutorial

These Mini Booklets are a great way to company "freebie" or "marketing item" for your business. Made with household items ( white glue, clamps, and paper) they are easy to make and can be a one of a kind promotional tool....it is also a way to recycle and reuse all those sheets/scraps of paper that you have and hate to throw away. I suggest making them business card size, that way you can you one of your business cards as the cover and all your info is already on it.

a note: if you need the clamps, try your local Hardware store like Home Depot or Lowes and Walmart/Target has them as well in the mechanic section.

*photo courtesy of Art Mind*

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Download Day: 5 Ornaments

Today's freebie is brought to you by a designer by the name of IdealHut.This is a nice swirl and ornament in Illustrator AI as well as EPS format. If these formats are not compatible for you and you would like the pdf version, please leave me a comment and I will provide link. Please enjoy and send us a link of your finished project that you used these for!

DOWNLOAD LINK HERE

photo and file courtesy of Idealhut

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DESKTOP LOVE: A DOWNLOAD FREEBIE!

If you have never heard of a place called Always Mod, you have missed out.
Always Mod specializes in selling products from world-renowned Finnish textile and design company, Marimekko. Products that range from home goods to apparel in these lovely fresh patterns. They now have several desktop wallpapers available to use on your computer for free.
Just visit the site ( link below) and choose the size you need ( there are 4 sizes per design) and change your desktop wallpaper.

DOWNLOAD VARIETY OF WALLPAPERS HERE

For those of you who may not know how to change your computer desktop wallpaper, its easy, just read below!

{FOR PC/WINDOWS}
Go to your Start menu, click on Control Panel.
Go to Appearance and Personalization, then click on Change Desktop Background.
Click the picture or color you want for your desktop background.
If the picture you want to use is not in the list of desktop background pictures, click Browse to search for the picture on your computer. When you find the picture you want, double-click it. It will become your desktop background and appear in the list of desktop backgrounds.
Under "How should the picture be positioned," choose to have the picture fit the screen, tile or be centered on the screen, then click okay and your desktop image should be changed.

{FOR MAC}
Go to System Preferences
Then click on Desktop and Screen Saver
Then from there pick your Desktop

wallpaper pictured is Ihmemaa & Taikamylly(Left to Right)

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PRETTY PRETTY PACKAGING

This lovely set of packaging comes from Bloom Cosmetics, an Australian Beauty Brand .
Though the packaging is simplistic in it's design, the use of pattern and pastel make it very cohesive and just darn pretty.

This can be easily achieved in your own packaging, by just wrapping in pretty patterned paper and add your own custom label (company or personal)

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