Feb 01

Free Seamless Grunge Heart Backgrounds

What would February be like without pretty hearts everywhere? Why not add a few to your blog or website using these FREE seamless heart backgrounds!

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As you can see, the backgrounds come in red and pink colors along with a few additional colors including yellow, blue and green.

Here is an example of what a Grunge Heart Background may look like on your site:

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Need help adding this background to your blog? Read this post for detailed directions about How to Add a Background to your Blog.

To receive this free download, just enter your name and email address and the file will be automatically sent to you. Please refer to the FAQ page for downloading help.

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These free grunge heart backgrounds were handmade by June Lily. Please remember, these are for Personal Use Only. Please do not sell, or redistribute these free background designs. All Freebies listed on June Lily are protected by U.S. Copyright law. Credit is always appreciated. Thank You!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Oh, and if you also want adorable (free) printable Valentine’s Day cards, visit this post HERE.

2012 Planner by Crystal Wilkerson

Last, but not least, I wanted to tell you about a sweet planner discount!

My awesome friend Crystal recently designed a beautiful planner and organizer for 2012 and was so generous with helping my family when we found out that my husband had brain cancer last year.

I couldn’t end this post just yet without letting you know about her and her planner. Her work is excellent, her blog inspiring and if you’re still looking for a planner and need help staying organized (like me), this is THE planner to have.  Really! Please check it out on her website HERE. You can also save 30% (almost $9) on the planner when you use the code: GIVEME30

Jan 04

Super Cute Free Blogger Template

A few weeks ago I made the decision to build an online shop for June Lily that will include cute printables, premade logos and premade templates for Blogger and WordPress. It’s still under construction, but once it’s ready in a few weeks I think it’s going to be pretty amazing. I can’t wait to launch it.

Meanwhile, to celebrate the New Year and the New June Lily Shop coming soon, I’ve decided to make one of the Blogger templates available for FREE!

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Let me introduce you to “Hello Cupcake” – I’m pretty sure this Blogger template is perfect inside and out, seriously. I’ve spent a few weeks perfecting it and am very happy with how it turned out. Just a few of the obvious features:

  • It has a seamless grunge heart background
  • Super cute cupcakes in the header
  • Heart shortcut icon for your browser (this feature is only available in a few browsers)
  • Hidden Navigation bar (Blogger Admin Bar at the top of the page)
  • Comment Numbers
  • Matching social media icons for Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and RSS
  • It has a standard (optional) menu for your pages
  • It’s fully integrated with the Template Designer so that you can change your post, footer and sidebar layout and width as much as you want, without affecting the overall design! Want a sidebar on the left or right? Easy. Want a photo blog layout instead? No problem. Done with the click of a button.
  • I’ve set up default colors, fonts and sizes, but the template is very easy to customize and you can easily change most of these features in the template designer if you would like.
  • It’s been browser checked in over 10 browsers – including the latest in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer
  • Installation takes less than 10 seconds

How’s that for super cool and amazing?

An example of what a single post with comment numbers looks like:

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Just a few examples of the many template designer capabilities that work with this design:

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An example of what a full width layout (photo blog) may look like:

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Check it out here:

Before you download this template, there are a few little items to mention.

The Navigation Bar

There may be a few of you who like the top navigation bar visible… So, if you want to put the “navigation bar” back into your site, or if you are looking to remove it again, we’ve got a tutorial for that HERE.

Installation Instructions

  1. Download the free blog file to your computer – unzip the folder and find the file: hellocupcake.xml (don’t open this file)
  2. Sign into your Blogger Account
  3. If you are using the “old” Blogger interface:
    1. Click on “Design” and then click on “Edit HTML”
    2. Then under “Backup and Restore” click “browse” and find the hellocupcake.xml file
    3. Click “upload”
    4. Make sure that you click “Keep Widgets” if it asks you about it
    5. Then save
  4. If you are using the “new” Blogger interface:
    1. Click on “Template”
    2. Then find  “Backup/Restore” in the top right corner and click on it
    3. Click “choose a file” and find the hellocupcake.xml file
    4. Click “upload”
    5. Then save

Free Blog Template Terms and Conditions

This cute free blog template was handmade by June Lily. Please remember, it is for Personal Use Only.  By downloading this template you agree to use it on your personal blog only. Please do not sell, redistribute or repackage this template file in any way. Since this template is free, you also agree to leave all design credits to June Lily in place. All Freebies listed on June Lily are protected by U.S. Copyright law.

Finally, since this template is free, we are not providing any support with it at this time. But, if you do notice something worth mentioning or have feedback on the template, please let us know and we’ll look into it.

Thank You for stopping by and please tell others to come by and check it out!

To receive this free download, just enter your name and email address and the file will be automatically sent to you. Please refer to the FAQ page if you need downloading help.

Name:

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Jan 04

How to Remove the Blogger Navigation Bar

The Blogger navigation bar.

Why keep it? It helps make editing your Blogger posts a little easier and you may get a little traffic from the “next blog” link. But without it, it gives your blog a more professional look, it frees up unnecessary distraction and it adds a little more space to the top of your blog.

If you’re like me and want to remove it, that is easy to do:

  1. First sign into your Blogger account.
  2. Then click on the “Template Designer” link in the “Design” tab or if you are in the new Blogger interface, click “Customize” to access the Template Designer.
  3. Then once you’re in the Template Designer, click on the “Advanced” link in the left menu.
  4. Finally scroll down to the link that says “Add CSS” and then in that section add this code to remove your navigation bar:

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px !important;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

It should look like this:

If you later decide that you miss having the navigation bar on your blog, you can simply remove this code from the HTML and the navigation bar should show up once again. In your Blogger HTML, search for “#navbar-iframe” with ctrl + f or command + f and once you find it, just delete the same code listed above.