Where for goodness' sake have I been? Maddeningly busy, I'm afraid. I've got a few layouts in the works, but, in a fit of inspiration tonight, I whipped up a few banners from images I love, and thought I'd share. You can find ten of them beneath the cut. But first, a few ground rules.

GROUND RULES >>>
- no hotlinking! the bandwidth will go out and then no one, not even you, will get a banner.
- please credit! same as layouts, it would be so nice for other people to be able to find these.
- no editing! this is mostly so that i don't see these floating around saved as shoddy .jpgs. if you want text added, just pick a font and let me know! i can do that in two seconds flat.
- most images found at the beautiful forestfamily

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I am so undeniably proud of this layout, I cannot even lie. I'm so proud I'm even using it on my personal journal, which makes it the first layout I ever made and used myself.

I highly recommend taking a peek at the live preview instead of the image, because there's a really neat trick to the scrolling that I love.


image preview ~ live preview

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Nothing too intricate this time, this layout's just the product of some afternoon inspiration. I adore the color scheme.


image preview ~ live preview

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I came up with something a little more minimalistic and less image-based over the holidays. I'm actually really fond of it. I love playing with the kerning on georgia bold italic.


with sidebar
image preview ~ live preview


without sidebar
image preview ~ live preview

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Second (released) layout! I couldn't decide which background image I like best, so I went ahead and made three variations. (Get it? Get it? Okay I'm done.) The live previews are all at scribbld.net this time, because I made these layouts to be used for a game I co-mod there. I'll probably be writing a tutorial on how to upload flexible squares layouts there and at inksome sometime soon. If you want real livejournal live previews though, go ahead and look at the post for these at mintyapple.

Also, does anyone just flip for the sidebar calendar? I don't like it, so I usually disable it, but if a lot of people do like it I guess I'll start including it. Let me know.


fortissimo
image preview ~ live preview


allegro
image preview ~ live preview


scherzo
image preview ~ live preview

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It's a very dear friend of mine's eighteenth birthday soon and she requested a layout as her present. Of course I couldn't say no! She supplied the picture and this is what I came up with! Unfortunately, since it was made special just for her, I'm not giving out all the details or the codes, which is why this is only layout 1.5 instead of 2. Still, I thought I'd show it off.


preview

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