Vintage Framework: Free Blog Buttons and Graphics

Rich black typography and ornament on crisp white-white. You know I love it. If you’re into it too, I designed a whole bunch of blog buttons, and head & tail pieces for your blog (or other projects.) Of course, you don’t have to stick to black and white if you prefer color- to use and/or modify for your own blog, click on any of the images for the taking or go to HERE or HERE for the PDF files of all of them.

To add buttons to your blog, simply add them as gadgets linking to wherever you want. For the Email button to link the reader to a draft page for contacting you, follow the easy directions on THIS post.
Use the framework to add to the top of your blog posts. Or add one as a gadget just above the blog post area in your blog’s layout.Tail pieces are simply images placed as gadgets at the very bottom of your blog layout.

More black and white buttons you can modify HERE.

You can find FLICKR gadget buttons HERE!

“Visit my Older Posts”graphics HERE.

Twitter buttons are HERE.

“Leave a Comment” graphics HERE.

Blog Cuties are HERE.

Free Blog Typographic Elements

It’s time for more fun blog elements! I found a whimsical, hand-hewn typeface in an old Speedball magazine circa 1940s. As it’s not a font that can be typed, so I scanned the alphabet, outlined the image and spelled out each word individually by dragging letters around in Adobe Illustrator to create some fun typographic images for your blog.If you have Photoshop, you can easily change the colors to suit your blog by going to IMAGE> ADJUSTMENTS>REPLACE COLOR. Otherwise, they’re pretty fun as basic black and white, (and I think it’s kind of obvious that’s a combo I favor.)








The following instructions are specific to Blogspot/Blogger for the Page Elements section of your blog.

For linking buttons, add the image as a PICTURE gadget then add the specific link for each.


























Non-linking graphics, (just a simple floating message,) add as a PICTURE gadget with no link.















To add an email button, follow instructions HERE.




For link list headers, (a graphic to float over a list,) add the graphic as a non-linking PICTURE gadget and add another LINK LIST gadget just below with the corresponding list.






















Encourage your readers to continue past the current page. Make a bottom of the page non-linking graphic to remind them to keep going by adding this as a gadget and drag it to the very bottom of your blog layout.





Want more free blog stuff and placement instructions? Click HERE and scroll through the fun.