Paranormal Premade Template

Paranormal Template For Sale

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This is the paranormal template. It is highly customizable and ready for your dark blog. It is designed for Blogger platform and you are able to enter into the Template Designer to make changes to fonts and link colors, along with layout size and column layout.

In the downloadable package you will receive and XML file to upload, the graphics that you see in this template, a rater file, instructions and a twitter avi to match.

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Wastelandz

Imagery for new blog design @ The Wastelandz

Client asked for specific dystopian looking imagery, sepia and grayscale tones and destroyed text.

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Avatar Goodness...Reader & Writer

Marisa, my latest client wanted two custom avatars for use on her blog, business cards, you name it. She specified custom designs (not stock) with an Asian look, one as a writer, one as a reader. The reader was to be more alternative looking.

Being custom designs they were sketched out beforehand and then brought into Illustrator to be traced as a vector. After their bones were laid in Illustrator the images were brought into Photoshop to be shaded and some real photography added.

The Process:

The Paper Sketch

The sketch was placed in Illustrator and "drawn" over to be made into a vector.

The backgrounds are real images.

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Beachy Fun

Darlene wanted her blog to be like a vacation -- I think we might have accomplished that!

http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com

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Photoshop Animal Print Patterns with Neon ...

I've also been dying to use this magic swirls technique that I found online... does it work with the image?

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Photoshop Work

I found some great animal print patterns from a Smashing Magazine article and decided to experiment with some stock images I have in my library. What do you think?

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Unleash the Hounds...

Something different led me to Texas and work for a local Vet. If you are in the neighborhood and have an animal you might want to check them out --

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Julie Ann Walker, Author Web Site

Julie Ann Walker writes about boys with motorcycles in Chicago with guns and muscles...she wanted something gritty. She described her characters as Sons of Anarchy meet 007. She wanted her website to reflect that atmostphere.

Feed back from the client:

One word: Perfection!

XOXOXO!
Julie Ann Walker
Romantic Suspense Author
of The Black Knights Inc.
www.julieannwalker.com

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I'm Not Vain...Just Drawn That Way

Say hello to Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy. I haven't had this much fun with a blog design in awhile! Pink pink and more pink. She wanted blond, beautiful and sparkly.

Check out Miss Vain's blog here.

What the client had to say...

Oh Rachel, you absolutely rock!!! That's fabulous!!!!!!:))))) I love it!!!!!!!! :) it's sexy, cute, flirty, fun!!! All of it is fabulous, I love it how you incorporated your own ideas into it as well. 

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Gaga Over KMM & My First Mac Halo

Meet the Book Nympho....thebooknympho.blogspot.com

Directions: I want a dark & sexy feel to the blog, since most of the books I read have both. But I'm ok with a humor element as well. So if you want to add a campy vampire element I'm cool with that.
Genres I read:
Paranormal Romance | Urban Fantasy | Young Adult (paranormal themed) |
Erotic Romance (paranormal &"normal")

The following images are copyrighted by The Book Nympho and are not for general use. They are for display purposes, please do not steal.

Client Feedback:

HOLY FREAKING COW!!! I love it. - The Book Nympho

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Keeping it Simple...From the TBR Pile

All images are copyrighted by From the TBR pile and are not for anyone's use but theirs.


Design specs: 

"clean and uncluttered"

We like our basic color scheme, the light bluish/aqua.  We don't want anything too cluttered.  We'd like something pretty and some clean lines, nothing really cartoony looking...and something building off our blog title....a pile of books or something...

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Disenchanted Cover Design

Some loves are meant to be…others are cursed.

Elizabeth Blackburn doesn’t believe in fate or the supernatural until she moves into Cliffside Manor and begins having nightmares about a woman who was murdered in the house.

Determined to unlock secrets that have remained hidden for centuries, Elizabeth is plunged into an otherworldly mystery that not even she can explain away, not to mention, her uncontrollable attraction to the former owner, Dorian Knight.

As the history of the Knight family curse begins to unravel, tensions heighten and old secrets turn deadly. Even though Dorian wants nothing to do with Elizabeth and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go...even if it kills her.

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Something different.

Client provided photography.

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Custome Template - Premade & Cheap!

SOLD 

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I {heart} Romance...

Author, Macy Beckett told me about the books that she has written and it was almost instant inspiration. Especially after she showed me a few example of the sites she likes and they were just so clean and pretty...I knew I had to step up the bar and out of my usual dark comfort zone. Chick lit. I love a challenge...

What Macy had to say about the design:

...Just want to thank you again. It was a pleasure working with you, and I appreciate not only your skill, but your patience as well. You responded to all my questions in a flash and went above and beyond. The compliments keep rolling in, and I'm so thrilled with my site!

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She's Bona Fide...

Welcoming in a new design to the book blogger world today. Bona Fide Reflections has been given a face lift. Directions given included an avatar update, mature and a bit sexy, but not overly in-your-face, a purple color scheme, to expand on the the thought-bubble idea and embellishments to give it a softer look.

Clients thoughts after the blog went live:

"I love the avatar a lot, I love the colors scheme, I love the romantic thougts, I love the reflection of the word reflections, the sparse plant life since I won't have much time to keep them watered, hehehe..."

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Fantastical Cover Design...

Rhiannon Paille's forthcoming novel, FLAME OF SURRENDER.

A little bit about the book:

The boy who follows death meets the girl who could cause the apocalypse.

Krishani thinks he’s doomed until he meets Kaliel, the one girl on the island of Avristar who isn’t afraid of him. She’s unlike the other girls, she swims with merfolk, talks to trees and blooms flowers with her touch. What he doesn’t know is that she’s a flame, one of nine individually hand crafted weapons, hidden in the body of a seemingly harmless girl.

Nobody has fallen in love with a flame until now. She becomes Krishani’s refuge from the dreams of death and the weather abilities he can’t control. Striking down thousand year old trees with lightning isn’t something he tries to do, it just happens. When the Ferryman dies, Krishani knows that he’s the next and that a lifetime of following death is his destiny.

And Kaliel can’t come with him. The Valtanyana are hunting the flames, the safest place for her is Avristar. Krishani can’t bear to leave her, and one innocent mistake grants the Valtanyana access to their mystical island. They’re coming for Kaliel, and they won’t stop until every last living creature on Avristar is dead. She has to choose, hide, face them, or awaken the flame and potentially destroy herself.

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Nothing left out...

Andra of Unabridged Andra had only a few stipulations, she loved purple and blues and she had a graphic that she had purchased already. With that to go on I think I came up with a very clean design...

See the blog live.

What did Andra have to say about her design? Link to rave post.

"I seriously cannot rant and rave enough about how freaking awesome Parajunkee is! She went above and beyond to create this amazing layout. She added all sorts of extras that I didn't even think to add and I pretty much love her forever. Seriously...she rocks my face off. The. END.

SO...All I can say is a HUGE Thank You to PJ and I hope I can somehow pay her back in some way...though I have absolutely no clue what that would be...lol" -Andra

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Getting Trendy with Custom Icons

Have you seen the latest trend in the book blogger world? Putting fun icons before or underneath your post. Mostly utilized by bloggers that review both adult and young adult titles to signify what is safe for teenage consumption...icons can be a fun way to categorize your reviews. I had fun yesterday and made some for myself.

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I Have a Confession to Make...

MyShelfConfessions.com is a book blog that specilizes in the genres of Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Dystopian, Young Adult, Paranormal Fiction and Urban Fantasy. April that runs the blog was very specific in her likes. She loves purple and teal, argyle and she wanted a vampire avatar that her finger up, "shushing" like she had a secret.

This blog is a self-hosted Wordpress blog and I worked within the Chip-Life template.

What April says about the design:

Hi Rachel, I love it all! Think it looks great!

There are also a few other images that are included with April's package.

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