Day: November 13, 2013

Fontastic Wednesday: Free Font Pairings

Fontastischer Mittwoch: Kostenlose Schriftartpaarungen I’ve always been a great lover of fonts! Bits of word art, therefore, always get me hooked quite easily. The problem is that not always do word art elements that come with a kit really meet my scrapping needs of particular pages. Here’s where it comes in handy when I can create a bit of word art on my own. And for that it’s great when you have a couple of fonts to play with on your computer. On the www there are tons of websites giving you ideas for great fonts and which fonts look well in combination with which other fonts. But today, I’m going to stir your attention to one of those websites that I found useful (esp. for creating sentiments for my DIY cards …). Check it out HERE. Ich hab schon immer eine Schwäche für Schriftarten gehabt. Interessant gestaltete Phrasen, erregen meine Aufmerksamkeit darum sehr leicht. Das Problem ist, dass Wort Elemente, die mit den Scrapbook Kits geliefert werden, nicht immer eine Scrapbook Bedürfnisse befriedigen (was …

11/11 – Or Cheaply-Buy-Things Day

11.11 – Oder Hol-dir-ein-Schnäppchen Tag Mail and delivery services are busy these days. Why? Because we just happened to pass November 11th, or double-11 as it’s called here. And while I don’t need to discuss why 11/11 is a special date (most people will catch that this is a more special number than say 7/15, unless 7/15 is your birthday, of course), around here it’s an especially special day. Because the biggest internet retailer of the country puts everything on sale (talking about the Black-Friday effect, large scale). Needless to say that everyone rushes to take advantage and buy things, and so, like I said, mail and delivery services are exceedingly busy these days! Postzustelldienste haben zur Zeit besonders viel zu tun. Warum? Weil wir gerade den 11. November hatten, oder Doppel-11, wie sie ihn hier nennen. Und während ich hier nicht besonders erklären muss, warum der 11.11 ein besonderes Datum ist (die meisten Leute werden schon wissen, dass der 11.11 ein etwas interessanteres Datum ist als der 15.7., es sei denn der 15.7. ist …