Way back at the beginning of June I created an e-vitation for my little one’s first birthday. Yeah ok, I am making up words here, but an E-vitation is an invitation made especially to email. A custom designed image with basic animation to help get your message across…

These are a bit of fun, easy to send and environmentally friendly!

If you’d like an e-vitation to send out for you next party let me know via the contact page. I charge my regular $30 design fee plus an extra $10 for basic animation.

I’ve been practising my blog design skills, working on tweaking Blogger templates and creating headers and side bar buttons and the gorgeous ‘Sister Suffragette’ over at You’ll Eat it and Like It was kind enough to be my guinea pig!

I designed a blog header and matching footer using photos and quotes that Sister Suffragette supplied. I also whipped up some matching side bar headings and tweaked the template a little to make it all fit nicely.

It’s been a while since I have played with a blogger template and I have learnt a lot of CSS since then (thought I still have a LOT to learn!) so I found it quite fun playing around. I had such great ideas and images to work with on this blog too which made it all the more enjoyable.

Would you like a bit of a blog makeover? Perhaps just a new header or maybe you want the whole shebang?  I can makeover wordpress or  blogger blogs. A custom designed blog header (with or without your own photos) costs $30. A Basic Blog Makeover including custom designed header, side bar headings and minimal template tweaking costs $50. The whole shebang blog makeover including custom header and footer images, side bar headings and extra side bar images as needed, template tweaking including background image costs $70.

Use my contact form to get in touch and we can work out what you need and get started!

I’ve been playing with alphas a bit lately, which is really not like me because I don’t really like alphas, but I’ve actually quite enjoyed it! So this is the latest alpha in store at PBP now.

My Lolly Bag from PBP’s 2nd birthday celebrations is unpacked and is now in store as individual items. I’ve marked them all at 25% off for the week, so if you didn’t get them in the Lolly Bag you should grab them now while they are on sale.

I am contemplating adding a newsletter subscription to the blog so I can send out quick updates to everyone now and then. I already edit the newsletter at PBP so I don’t have time for anything big and fancy but I’d like to have a way to share the odd freebie, coupon or gift with people who were interested in my designs. I need to find the time to work out the newsletter addon which might just make my head explode and I am not sure the world needs yet another digi scrap newsletter… so please let me know if you think it is worth the brain strain - would you sign up?

After all the craziness of PBP’s birthday I took a bit of time out to create something fun and I thought I’d share it here as a freebie. As you can see I have been having a play with my preview design - yet again! I just can’t seem to find a preview style that I like now and will still like in a month’s time! What do you think of this one?

You can download it here via 4shared and please leave me a comment here and let me know if you liked it, if you’d like to see more freebies and most importantly if you could be bothered to sign up to yet another newsletter!

A very special little girl is turning one and I had the pleasure of creating her invitation. When her Mum told me she had written a very cool poem for the inside of the card all about how Willow was a ‘hippy chick’ and that her party would be ‘a little bit green and a little bit hippy’ I knew I had to dig out this little birdy I had drawn a while back to use it somewhere. We went with rainbow colours to match Willow’s leg-warmers and this is how it turned out…

I had them printed on photopaper and then attached them to white bifold cards with the awesome poem on the inside and they ended up looking pretty great!

Pickleberrypop is celebrating it’s 2nd birthday with lots of great things going on - a sale, a contest and LOLLY BAGS!

My Lolly bag is up in the shop right now for only $3.. but if that low low price didn’t convince you to buy it I am going to show all my loyal blog readers (all three of you) what’s inside!

It’s only on sale until August 5th - after that all these items will go into the shop at full price so grab it now!