I'm essentially done creating new blog designs for my friends -- whew! I still spend time scoping out new blog backgrounds for future use, however, since I'm not presently creating anything for anyone, I've been having Scrapblog withdrawals. Until I'm ready to rework my own layout, I've been getting my fix creating pretty little quote boxes to coordinate with some headers I designed.
The green one is mine...
...while the flowery one is Marcie's.
Posted by Amanda at 2:09 AM
I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand,
hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand,
hardly anything could be more important.
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows,
but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are
you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,
of these stories of who we are and where we have come from
and the people we have met along the way
because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity,
as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known
to each of us most powerfully and personally.
-- Frederick Buechner
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Hi Amanda, Did you and Marcie, created the quote boxes in Scrapblog too? I'm just curious.
Those are so cute!
Hi Carlos -- I created both quote boxes using Scrapblog. Since I designed both of our blog headers using Scrapblog, I just made coodinating boxes with the same patterned paper/embellishments.
The same could be done with pictures, favorite scriptures, other images. The possibilities really are endless.
Be aware that quotes really aren't available in Scrapblog (scriptures, literary quotes, etc.), so come prepared with one found elsewhere. Also, serious cropping will be in order to make a box narrow enough to fit into a sidebar. Making a quote box is a process, but an enjoyable one.
Gorgeous quotes!
Hi Amanda,
Wow, that's a very crafty use of Scrapblog. Thanks for sharing the details on how to create buttons.
Amanda!!! You've heard of John Piper, right? Pastor in Minneapolis? I just stumbled upon his daughter-in-law's blog. Jeromy actually bumped into Pastor Piper and his son Abraham on the MSP airport tram one time. How funny!
I just thought I'd pass along her link because they too can empathize with the loss of a child.
Plus, I mean come on, what a great family! Amazing writers, thinkers, and believers.
http://thepipers.wordpress.com/
BEEEE-U-TIFUL!