Insert Self - katie's inspiring design blog

Believe and Bloom

2009-11-06T16:36:00.000-08:00

Insert Self is no more.... It's now BELIEVE AND BLOOM!!!!! Go check out the new digs.

Shiny and New

2009-06-24T13:22:00.000-07:00

Have you seen it, have you seen it?!! It's the talk of the town (or.. well.. cyberspace)!!!! It's awesome, unique, organized and fun!! What is it you ask?

Well the new website of course!! Go check it out in all it's shiny new glory.

Along with the makeover we now offer websites, yep full blown fany websites!! Can we say excited?!

Lemon Cherry Blogs

2009-05-26T16:36:00.000-07:00

Things have been very quite around here. Sorry about that, just trying to get it together. We've created Lemon Cherry Blogs to handle the personal blog aspect of our business. This leaves us free to focus on print and websites! Be on the look out for new services and a new site design sometime next month!

Speaking of Lemon Cherry Blogs, it is our featured site this week! I, Katie, am the sole owner and designer of this juicy little design studio. With it's bright bold color pallet and portfolio, this is deffinatly my baby; it has my personalitly all over it! If you are in need of a blog design please go take a look at my work and consider hiring me to make all your sweet bloggy design dreams a reality. You can also support me by following my blog, taking a button and leaving comments!

Spread Shirt

2009-03-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

Our featured site this week is spreadshirt.com. This awesome interactive website allows you to create your own, personalized apparel. Select the shirt, baby blanket, button etc. that you want then choose your color and your design. Specializing in t-shirts they ask the question, "Why settle for a mass produced t-shirt when you can create your own?" We absolutely agree. Stop on by this neat place this week and you will see that they also offer many options to celebrate St. Patrick's day which is on March 17! They offer 5 pages of St. Patrick's day designs alone. We are impressed and you will be too. The best part? You can upload your own design. Yep, ask us to create one for you and you can have a t-shirt that matches your blog. How cool would that be! Go create your dream t-shirt and come back to leave us a comment. We are dying to know what your shirt looks like! Also tell us what tbest part of St. Patrick's day is by voting on this weeks poll.

Our {grand} winners

2009-03-10T14:36:00.000-07:00

It's been a hard thing, choosing these winners. We had a few things to consider and a few disagreements but in the end these are our winners and we are so excited about them!

First place: Bethany

Second place: Cherry Blossoms

Third place: Constance, Jacky and Tamra

Congratulations ladies, we are on the edge of our seats to hear your reactions and get started on your designs!

Giveaway Over

2009-03-09T10:53:00.000-07:00

The {grand} giveaway is officially over. We'll announce the winners a little later. If you entered be on the look out for an email from us!

the prague spring

2009-03-06T19:18:00.000-08:00

The Prague Spring was a movement in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War in 1968, now it's Rusty's blog. Rusty wanted a place to write about his political passion and views. He was hesitant to create a blog knowing that "it has to look awesome or I'm not going to like it." Made sense to us.

This was our first Wordpress design, but with our photoshop and illustrator skills we were able to create the perfect college of awesomess for our friend Rusty. We create a logo and header that he is very proud of. Let his blogging began.

COLOURlovers

2009-03-04T16:27:00.000-08:00

This week we are featuring COLOURlovers. It is a terrificly fun site about colors! It's a color and design community for creative inspiration. Here you make your own color combinations and patterns. You can view the combinations that other people have made; you can vote, comment and connect with other cool color loving people. COLOURlovers also have a blog that you can read and get tips from, as well as a store to buy COLOURlover products. It's an awesome site that begs to be bookmarked. It's full of inspiration and ideas. We just love this site and know that you will love it too! You won't be disappointed if you click here to visit this weeks featured site. Visit our website to vote on this weeks poll!!

Don't forget about our {grand} giveaway! You can enter anytime now till Monday the 9th.

{grand} giveaway!

2009-03-01T01:25:00.000-08:00

How to enter/how it works?
1. Write a post - We want to know what you wish your blog looked like. If you rubbed a magic blog creater lamp, what would you ask for? Dedicate a post to announce our giveaway {include a link to this post please!} and answer this question. Come back and leave a comment here with a direct link to your post. We will read everyone's ideas and Katie will pick her top two favorites. They will be the #1 and #2 winners.

2. Spread the word - Add one of our buttons. We have lots of different ones for you, pick your favorites and add them to your sidebar {maybe even mention them in a post}. Leave a comment when you have done this.

3. Give Katie some love - follow her. Our designer is awesome, make her feel like she is! Choose to follow her here and here. {You can even follow this blog and this blog if you want too.} Leave a separate comment for each blog you love on. We'll pick a random number and that commenter will be the #3 winner.

Everyone who does all three will be considered a participant and win. You can't go wrong there!

What you will win!
The #1 winner will win a FREE order of their choice up to $100
The #2 winner will win a 75% off coupon for an order of their choice
The #3 winner will win a 50% off coupon for an order of their choice
All participants will get $10 off coupon for an order of their choice

*Contest ends March 8, 2009. Coupons are good till April 8.

Crazee Scotts

2009-02-28T21:46:00.000-08:00

This is a blog I did for the Crazee Scotts. Juls is a follower of my blog and I hers. I love reading her posts. Her family is really fun and silly. They are involved in sports and music and they like to play practical jokes on each other. They wanted bright colors and black. Something that brought out their crazeeness! I think we achieved just that.

Here is what Juls wrote "To say that I am satisfied with the job that Insert Self did on my blog would be an understatement. I am thrilled with the results. The personal attention and the fact that they were not happy until all of my wishes were met, were just icing on the cake. I highly recommend this company, and will seek them out first for my future design needs!"

It was such a pleasure to work with her. I couldn't be happier that she is thrilled with her new blog design.

Productive Pennies

2009-02-28T14:10:00.000-08:00

This is my second personal blog. I wanted a place to keep track of coupons giveaways and discounts. I don't always update it like I should, but it looks really cool! I wanted something a little less girly but still fun and random. I'm totally in love Robort the robot. This one have lots of header links and even animation!

Sunshine {and bubblegum}

2009-02-24T00:38:00.000-08:00

This is my personal blog. I love my blog! I have meet the sweetest funniest wonderful women because of it. I have gotten so many sincere personal comments and ascetic complements. I blog almost every day so I love that my blog reflexes me. It makes me happy every time I look at it.

I want to bring that same happiness to you. That's why I design. I love doing it. I love the praise that my clients give me and the praise that my clients get from their viewers. If you'd like a cute blog like mine check out our website and see what we can do for you.