Dotty Dot Dot FREE Blogger Backgrounds, Reviews & Giveaways: August 2009

Daisy Retro Ric Rac, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/a410a7b1.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements from Cuddlebeez Scraps

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Flower Scroll, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/3f4fcf5e.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements from Cuddlebeez Scraps

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Sssssssscalloped, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/e90cdfa9.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements from Cuddlebeez Scraps

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Time for a GIVEAWAY! {CLOSED}

Win a FREE personalized header to match any FREE Background!

Personalized Header design is usually $5, but get one for FREE! WAHOO! Like these examples.

I'll pick a winner next Monday [8/31/09] by putting all the entries (including multiple entries) into Random.org.

To enter, leave me one comment for each thing you do:

Post on your site about the contest. (Link back to http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/).
Use a Dotty Dot Dot background on your blog! Open to new or existing users. Leave a link to your site in your comment so I can see it!
Become a follower of this blog. If you're an existing follower, let me know and I'll count it! Comment me to let me know how long you've been following.
Join the Dotty Dot Dot group on Facebook.
Post my URL (http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/) on your Facebook status.
Tweet my URL.

LEAVE COMMENTS HERE! :D

Personlized Blinkie:

I had an opportunity to design a grab button blinkie for a couple who are hoping to adopt. It was fun to do and I hope everything works out for them!

Let me design something for you! ashblog (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Retro Yellow

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/c48971c9.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Kit elements from: SARAH MORGAN DESIGNS

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Tidal Wave

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/7178d605.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Kit elements from: SARAH MORGAN DESIGNS

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How to Get and Add a New Font

My Mac-user sister was using (*gasp*) a PC when she called asking me how to add a font in a Windows based program. Knowing that she's very visual (she's a photographer), I made up this tutorial for her:

(click on it to make it big and readable)

*If for some reason the picture is not pulling up big enough to read, here are the written directions:

Download a font (.ttf is a True Type Font)
Go to "My Computer"
Go to "Change A Setting"
Find the "Fonts" Folder
Drag and Drop your new Font into the "Fonts" Folder!

And here's where to get some new fonts!
Kevin & Amanda: Free Fonts!
1001 Free Fonts (I've been getting fonts from them for YEARS.)
DaFont
Abstract Fonts
Urban Fonts
Font Garden
Font Garden's HUGE List of Font Sites

And make fonts out of your own handwriting:
FontCreator from High Logic ($)
YourFonts ($)
Fontifier ($)
InteractImage (kind of lame)

Kindergarten Art, 3-Column

*Page elements by Digital Craft Cottage

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An Apple for the Teacher, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8d4aed20.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements by Digital Craft Cottage

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Everything I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/e27fcc22.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements by PinkPeacock Designs

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Art 101, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/b3fc1e4f.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements by Digital Craft Cottage

The Teacher's Desk, 3-Column

This one looks fantastic on a 2-Column layout as well (truthfully, all the 3-Columns fit 2-Column layouts just fine).

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/066f5b50.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Page elements by PinkPeacock Designs

...People Are Talking...

Cilla linked to me from a post on her blog 'Go That Way Really Fast'. She names me as one of the background sites she's stalking to fulfill her ever-changing background needs. Thanks for the link, Cilla!

Flower Spritz

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/e2dd8606.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />

*Papers and Elements from SandraMilie

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Sack Lunch in the Meadow, 3-Column

<br /><br /><style type="text/css">body {background-image:url("http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/cbb5b556.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; z-index:50; width:150px; height:45px;"><a href="http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l185/ajojo00/8f9ee4d2.jpg" /></a></div><br/><br />