Whimsy (redone)

This is one of my first templates (from way back when in 2007) and it's still very popular.  BUT.... it was pretty narrow (computer screens are getting bigger) and it didn't have all the functionality - so I have re-made it.

I am actually going to go back and re-make some of my old templates because it would be a shame if they weren't updated - well, I think so anyway.

Enjoy!

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here 
• Need help installing this? Click here
  

3 Column version coming soon! :D

Booon - cute 2 column template with BEES

Bees don't say "bzzzz" in Japan, they say "Boon", and it always makes me giggle.

This is a very old template, rejiggered to be ultra fresh and functional. Click the image below for a preview (YES, the fonts are all changeable from within the "Template Designer" tab).

Enjoy!

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Sequins Everywhere - Template by Carly

There's always a party somewhere, right?

Here's another template from the lovely Carly which involves some of my favourite things - sequins and streamers. BYO party of course because we can't zip one of those into a folder.
Anyhow, hope you like it.....

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Visit Carly's site {here}

1990s Nightmare! (not a very serious template, but here you go)

OK, so I just realised that the 1990s were 20 YEARS AGO! Holy cow, how long ago was that? (although it seemed like yesterday!). I started using the internet {properly} in about 1997 and it was all about flashy web graphics, animated gifs and things that I thought were pretty awesome. In reality they were pretty ugly - well, looking back they certainly are.... but at the time *sigh*

Let me just say, this template is not meant to be taken seriously. It uses some graphics you may remember (and some you may want to forget). Please note that the links - under construction, email me, etc - are not real, they are just for decorative purposes.

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Christmas Baubles - XML Blogger template. Bright, beautiful and baubleicious!

Here's one of my Christmas templates (more coming soon!). I love a good bauble - ok, I know that sounds weird - but these images by Clarice Gomes are beautiful and I was inspired to create something colourful. You could say this is definitely *not* just another grungy snowflake brush template.

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Please back up your widget data before installing a template!

Joy n Balloon - XML blogger template

This is a very colourful template that is highly customisable by you! The background colours are all changeable from within the "Fonts & Colours" area, including the navigation bar, inner blog colour and post footer colour. As I have outlined below, you can use the header image of the girls and balloons or easily add your own. Enjoy!

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This blog does not come with the header image installed! It is included in the zip folder, but you will have to install this yourself.


How do I install the header image?
Click on the LAYOUT > PAGE ELEMENTS tab. Then click 'Edit' in the header area. The 'Configure Header' pop up box will open (see below). Select the header image from the downloaded folder. Selecting the position of the header as 'behind title and description' will ensure that the title/description text can still be seen. If you want to hide it, select 'instead of'.

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Easy!

Can I make my own header image?
Of course! That's the reason I have made this Blogger template without the header image automatically in the template. I advise you make your header image 800px wide for best results (otherwise, if you select "shrink to fit" it may skew and look weird).
Height does not matter, that is up to you.

Once you've made your own header image, you can just install the header as per instructions above.

Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

PS: If using the girls/balloon image (in the test blog) please leave the link back to the original artist of this photo: D Sharon Pruitt INTACT! (as per creative commons requirements). If you are using your own image you may, of course, remove that link.

Kids at Play - Pink, Blue, Orange Blogspot templates!

Here are some more colour combos of the Kids at Play template.

I am obviously super confused and left the blog description of "Orange Version" in each of these grabs, so please excuse that. They are not, obviously, not all orange versions.

I haven't made test blogs of all of these but you can see a test site of the green version and just imagine the background is in another colour.

the orange version:

the pink version:

the blue version:

I am a nice person and if you want a different colour combination (like yellow and blue, purple and green etc) then please send me an email and I'll make the new image for you and email you instructions on how to change it. My email is: freebloggerdesigns@gmail.com
Please let me know what colours you want the 'inner' and 'outer' area and also, let me know the colours you want, hex# if possible (chose your own #hex colour adventure here).

Oh, and PLEASE be patient, I don't have as much time online as I wish.

Lolly Popcorn - free XML template

Oh my gosh!!!!!!! It's not very often that you come across a completely awesome site that offers fantastical things for you to use for free but I have found one >> patterncooler.com (why oh why didn't I see this site before????) that offers background images.

BUT.... not just any old boring background images! You can scale and change the colour of the images very easily and then download them and then use them!!! So stop dilly-dallying and go look at the awesome patterns {here}.

Here is a template using one of those patterns:

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Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Change Me! - Free XML Blogger template

OK, so I am going to admit that this template is not going to be to everyones liking. There are a lot of things that are changeable in this template and as such the "Fonts & Colours" area is kind of extreme and almost everything is adjustable. However, this does make for awesome control - you can pretty much make this template into whatever you want. AND.... it contains no images in the design!

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Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here
  
  

So.... what's possible?



or



or

The moral of this story is that I KNOW this isn't going to be everyones cup of tea but I know some people like to control all the colours and this is for you! If you want the borders to disappear then make them the same colour as the background! Then they won't be seen!

xx

Rainbowz - XML Blogger template

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here
  
  

Please note that the background colour is changeable. The header has a transparent background and therefore won't look good with all colours, but it does look good with many. Here are some examples:

orange


pink


green

All the colours are changeable from within the "Fonts & Colours" area. Enjoy!

LolliPopper - free XML Blogger template

Here is a delightful lollipop themed blog template (header image by Flóra at Flickr.com - CC 2.0) and I adore it! There are quite a few changeable elements to this design - the border colour (pink the example), the background (grey in the example) and the inner blog colour - below the header image (white in the example) are all changeable. So you can make this template as bright as you like! Enjoy!

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

This Little Piggy - free XML template

There are so many weight loss blogs out there so I thought I would try and make something to offset that! Haha, so here is a blogger template that embraces my inner piggy :-) This also has a navigation bar (instructions to change these links are within the blog code >> just go to Layout > Edit HTML and scroll down to near the end to change the links). More detailed instructions on what to do can be found here. Enjoy!

Oh, and I have made the nav bar colour changeable from within the Fonts & Colours area. Hoorah.

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Friendly Forest - Free Blogger Design XML template

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Enjoy :)))

Don't be afraid of Colour! - Free Blogger Template XML

This is dedicated to Dori! :-)

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Cupcakes Galore - Free XML Blogger template

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.
Please note that the header image is by Hello Darlin @ Flickr.com.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Striped Blitz - free XML blogger template - 3 columns

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Rainbow Lovers - XML blogger template

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

NOTE: the inner blog (blue) colour and the pink border colour are all changeable from within the "Fonts & Colours" area of Blogger.... so there's a million combinations. This template is nice and bright... I hope you like it too.

Custom Colours - 100% customisable blogger template

Here is a blogger design with NO graphics - you can fully customise all the colours (background, 2x borders, inner background) and create whatever kind of look you want. I've made the test blog a greyish/blue, but you can do whatever you like. I like this idea a lot....

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Here are some example of what you can do.....

Enjoy!

Martini Free Backgrounds (tiling)! 10 images - Zipped and ready to go!

Martini background image (in 10 colours) avaliable for free! You can use these images in your personal blogs, scrapbooking or any other personal/commercial work. The only rule is that if you do use them for commercial works, you have to show me.

(oh and the second and most important rule is that these images must, under NO circumstances be put up on another website for download. It's up to me when and IF I ever do that).

You can see the red image in use over at the "Retro Bar Fly" blog. Pretty swell.
I was going to say "chin chin", but that means "penis" in Japanese! So if you yell out "Chin Chin" in a bar and a table of Japanese businessmen wink at you - you'll know why!

• To download the images: click here (zip folder)
• Read image T&C: here

Cherries 'n Stars - free Blogspot XML template

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

I have had this background stored away for the last few years but I have no idea who it's by. The background image can be found here. I originally downloaded it (the background) as a MySpace template, which makes me think that it's OK for non-commercial. Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

Note: the inner background colour and the border colour is completely customisable from within the "Colours & Fonts" area.