Friday, February 20, 2009

Blog headers...a retrospective

I decided to chronicle the changing headers I use on the blog. I wish I had started right away, because there were some funny ones at first (funny, as in dumb and ugly.)

The new one today is "Newspaper Flourish." The workers are pulling out old insulation on the house and brought me in a piece. It is essentially two pieces of kraft paper with a newspaper sewn inside. The paper is the Minneapolis Star Journal from April 11, 1940. The flourish on the header is digitally cut from a photo I took of a page full of "women's interest" articles and ads! Bridal monograms, fashion, cleaning tips, etc. Ironic since that is soooooo not my life! The word art is made from the font, "James Fajardo."

Dandelion Header lasted about 15 hours. 3 of which I spent trying to size the graphic to fit correctly into the template. Without success. I did re-use the font, "James Fajardo," though.
Tatoo Header stuck around for quite a while and will probably come back from time to time (in some form.) The main font is "Oklahoma" and the smaller one is, "My Old Remington."

1 comment:

Kristi said...

I have no idea how to make headers. Do you have software that you use?