Blog Banners and Backgrounds – Laycock Designs

Write Stuff Specialty paper? Or not?

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Cindy Coutts likes "The Write Stuff" designer paper on page 163 of the catalog. She asked me if I could make her a design in that style.

So I did!

Visit Cindy here to take a look! I didn't use any MDS images for her design. (I don't own any MDS images). Pretty cool, huh? All the designer paper was created by hand, by me.

Here is Cindy's blog banner:

Cindy's full layout with background:

Cindy's sidebar buttons and headers:

Cindy's blinkies:

Cindy's siggy and watermark:

Cindy's full Twitter design:

Cindy's Facebook:

Cindy's Ning design:

Cindy's Splitcoaststampers banner ad:

Cindy's labels and business card:

Posted on : Mar 19 2010
Posted under Advertisement Design, Background Designs to match banners, Blog Banners, Business Cards, Business Related Items, Buttons for Clients, Ning Designs, Signatures for the end of posts, Watermarks |

Flutter into Spring with Dawn Dapsas new UStamp design!

Artist Jackie Steffen recently completed this beautiful spring UStamp design for Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Dawn Rapsas!

Isn't it just breathtaking? I want my real garden to look this good! Maybe if I hire the garden fairy to come and work her magic. lol

Visit Dawn's UStamp page here!

Jackie did an awesome job! WOW!!!

Dawn's full blog design with background:

Dawn's matching blinkies:

Dawn's Banner ads for her Spring Soiree!!! If you are doing an online event, remember to advertise!!!

Posted on : Mar 12 2010
Posted under Advertisement Design, Background Designs to match banners, Blog Banners, Buttons for Clients |

Time to post misc. finished graphics!

Once in awhile I need to post misc. graphics I make. Today is one of those days!

Here is an Ad I made for Splitcoaststampers for Our Daily Bread Designs. This is a Front page ad for the upper right corner ad space:

Ad for a website for Alison Monk:

Here are some graphics I made for Melissa and Gayla:

Etsy banner:

MeGa Stampin' Studio fan blinkie:

Here are some sidebar buttons I made for Katie Brooks:

Here are some sidebar buttons I made for Fairle Carroll:

Posted on : Mar 06 2010
Posted under Advertisement Design, Blog Banners, Buttons for Clients |

New ads designed for I Brake for Stamps!

Well, looks like I forgot to post some finished designs yesterday.

I was knee-deep in a Wordpress installation/design and concentrating on what I was doing and it must have slipped my mind to post! lol

oh well…

Here are some ads I created recently for I Brake for Stamps.

This one will be appearing in Just Cards magazine:

Here is an ad for an upcoming edition of Technique Junkies newsletter:

Posted on : Mar 06 2010
Posted under Advertisement Design |

Congratulations to ODBD!

Our Daily Bread Designs has been chosen to be a member company at Splitcoaststampers! They have their own forum at SCS. Go over to the forum and check it out! I'd like to post a few things I made for them recently.

I really enjoy working with Kelley Holland and her design team coordinator Grace Nywening. Kelly has an awesome design team. I think she must have the top designers on her team because I subscribe to Kelley's ODBD blog and every night I get some gorgeous cards in my inbox.

Every time Kelley emails me a card picture to make into an ad for a magazine, I have more fun just looking at all the details in it. She has clearly been blessed… not only by friendship, but by talent as well!

Here is their SCS forum banner (it isn't "live" yet)":

Here is the banner Kelley asked me to make for the private Design Team blog:

Click Here to see this banner in greater detail.

And a Challenge Winner button:

Posted on : Jan 02 2010
Posted under Advertisement Design, Blog Banners, Buttons for Clients |

Assorted items I’ve recently made

Hi,

This morning I'm posting some assorted items I've recently made.

Here is an ad I made for Stamp and Scrap Arts Magazine:

Here are two sidebar badges I made for Our Daily Bread Designs:

and

Here are some new graphics I recently made for Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Ann Clemmer.

Ann's end-of-post siggy:

Ann's new sidebar buttons:

Here are some new graphics I recently made for Monica Weaver.

This button is for the Metal Sheets that she sells (they work in the Big Shot!)

Here is a fan button for her affiliate program:

Monica's husband Michael is now designing stamp art for Monica's site! She needed an end-of-post siggy with her husband's name as well:

And a watermark that includes her husband's name:

For Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Darlene McCallum, here are some graphics I made for her in the last few months for her Thriftystampers website.

Order Page button:

Videos button:

Here is Darlene's Eventbrite banner. Her Eventbrite pages have this banner on the top for branding!

Here is a new sidebar separator for the My Digital Studio:

New blog banner for her Downline blog:

And last, a new sidebar button that links to her Downline Ning site:

Posted on : Dec 11 2009
Posted under Advertisement Design, Blog Banners, Buttons for Clients, Eventbrite, Signatures for the end of posts, Watermarks |

Create with Connie and Julie has a new look!

Stampin' Up! Demonstrators Connie Babbert and Julie Dinn  are opening registration for their next session of Create with Connie and Julie. They asked for a new look for their next session so I worked up some pink and red floral designs in Illustrator for their new look. I'm kinda happy with how they turned out. The inner lines on the flowers are sort of rough, but over the pink background you can't tell!  I do the best I can… but I'm not perfect, lol. Visit them here!

I also created their holiday edition, which can be seen here.

Here is their banner advertisement for Splitcoaststampers:

Connie and Julie's blog banner:

Connie and Julie's full layout with background and footer:

Connie and Julie's Fan Badge:

Connie and Julie's "Creative Challenge Winner" badge:

Connie and Julie's "Team Member" badge:

Connie and Julie's "Guest Designer" badge:

Connie and Julie's Promotion badge:

Connie and Julie's "Email Us" button:

Julie's end-of-post siggy:

Connie's end-of-post siggy:

Connie's watermark:

Julie's watermark:

Siggies for Connie and Julie's Design Team members:

For Mary Brown:

For Monika Davis:

For Kerin Sylvester:

Watermarks for their Design Team members:

Posted on : Dec 07 2009
Posted under Advertisement Design, Background Designs to match banners, Blog Banners, Buttons for Clients, Signatures for the end of posts, Watermarks |

Aly’s got a Moroccan paradise!

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Aly Schilling has a brand new blog design that echos her love of Moroccan style! Aly is a Cruise Achiever, Demo of the Year, and has been on the Stampin' Up! Advisory Board.

Aly emailed me this past summer because she wanted a new blog and the design idea she had was to decorate it in the same style of her dining room in her home! She has an abundance of Moroccan accent pieces… from wall hangings to plates and tumblers… A hint of Morocco fills her home. She sent me some photos of her dining room and I designed her blog based on the photos! Take a look at her photos of her dining room by clicking here!

Aly's blog is hosted by Amy Celona at www.websbyamy.com

Aly loves the functionality and efficiency of file management in her new blog. A former Typepad users, she was able to get used to using Wordpress easily. Visit Aly here!

Aly's blog banner:

Aly's full layout with background:

Aly's business card:

Aly's return address label:

Aly's "Order Online" and "Email Me" buttons – Note… these hodgepodge hardware buttons were actually vanilla when I started with them. Aly wanted them an aged brass to go along with her Moroccan design. So… no problem! I digitally changed vanilla hardware to aged brass!!! Gee… I sure wish I could change vanilla into REAL Gold. That would be cool. But until I figure out how to do that, here are Aly's vanilla aged brass buttons!

Aly's aged brass sidebar separators/headers:

Aly's end-of-post siggy:

Aly's Facebook badge:

Aly's Twitter full layout:

Aly's matching watermarks:

Additional promotional graphics I designed for Aly include the Fall Frolic Event post header:

And her Breast Cancer event post header:

Remember… I can design event post headers in addition to blog graphics and print graphics… keep me in mind if you need a graphic or graphic ensemble to market your event! No job is too small.

As you can see… Aly ordered just about everything I offer! From print graphics to blog graphics, she has an entire business ensemble that defines her style and marketing needs!

That is one of the advantages of getting blog design and print graphics done by the same designer. You end up with an entire ensemble that matches and helps you market yourself to your customers. I offer everything you need… an entire portfolio full of graphics possibilities!

Posted on : Oct 22 2009
Posted under Advertisement Design, Background Designs to match banners, Blog Banners, Business Cards, Business Related Items, Buttons for Clients, Signatures for the end of posts, Social Networking, Watermarks |