Get The Lowdown On Design Bundles - How They Can Help You

Hey beaut's!

When it comes to being a blogger designs and visuals are super important, you want your readers to get a feel of your style and of course you want to make a good, lasting impression. A huge part of blogging is of course your socials, it's the way we spread our work and content as far as we can on the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr plus more. All of this sharing and creating wicked edits can be such a time consuming thing for us bloggers and I for one am all about finding something that's going to save me a lot of time and faffing about with image re-sizing, creating designs and what not, that's where Design Bundles come in.

If your new to Design Bundles their an affordable site that sells digital products such as graphics, templates, mock ups, patterns, illustrations and craft files. Its basically a blogger or social media lovers dream, you can browse over 150,000 marketplace products so your literally spoilt for choice but the social media mockup design bundles are where the party's at for me, there a brilliant solution to the time consuming and creativity draining issue of social media that's for sure.

The mock up designs are so amazing as you don't have to worry about sizing and cropping. All you have to do is just add in your own image and text and then you are able to create your showcase really easily and it so professional looking too. Personally I love this for Pinterest, I love Pinterest and always have love hearts in my eyes at some peoples gorgeous mock-ups on there, so now I'm very happy I can now do my own easily! I had a play around and came up with a couple of images myself, little testers shall we say and I love them! I just love how the designs are personal to you because you get to edit them how you like and add the text of your choice but the designs are all taken care of, yay!

Other useful things for us bloggers to use the mock-ups for are things like business cards - if your really wanting to promote your blog and get yourself out there these can be quite the essential, you can also do t-shirt mock-ups if your looking to do merchandise. The mock-ups are great for personal use to, t-shirts for occasions like hen-do's, birthday party's and stags! You can personalise cups, you can even create your own wall art mock-ups which is great if you have any funny family phrases that you use as you'd never find those sort of quotes or jokes on wall art in a shop! 

Another fab thing to note is that Design Bundles also offer 24/7 technical support online so you don't have to worry if you don't feel confident or if your struggling to begin with as there is always someone there that can help you tackle any problems that you may occur. I think this is a great feature because when I'm new to anything I could always use a little help so knowing there will be help available at anytime is a godsend!

Have you used Design Bundles before beaut's? I'd love to know!



* This is a collaborative post. All writing and opinions are my own!

Baking | Chocolate Chip Rolo Blondies

Hey beaut's!

If theres one thing I love to do in the kitchen it's bake, so when I saw an amazing Blondies recipe on Pinterest I just had to recreate them and share them with your all today! I did actually tweak the recipe a bit to suit what I had in the cupboard and my baking tray size ect but they turned out incredible!

What You Will Need

*Makes 15 Blondies*

2 sticks of butter (226 grams)

2 cups of light brown sugar

2 cups of plain flour

Half teaspoon of salt

2 large eggs

2 tablespoons of vanilla

100g of milk chocolate chips

2-3 packets of Rolo's

 Oven Tray 31Cm X 21Cm

How To

1. Firstly pre heat your oven to gas mark 4 and line your oven tray with greaseproof paper.

2. Then in a large mixing bowl, completely melt your butter in the microwave, do this in the 30 second bursts as you don't want to burn or boil your butter, then set aside to cool.

3. After a few minutes your butter should be cool which means it's safe to add your 2 large eggs, vanilla and brown sugar, whizz these together until smooth.

4. Once all of your wet ingredients and the brown sugar are well combined pop in your salt and flour and mix again until your flour is just combined, don't over mix.

5. Fold in your chocolate chips, I actually kept a few aside to sprinkle on top of the mixture before it went into the oven too.

6. Once your chocolate chips are distributed well through out the mixture pop around 60% of your batter in your lined oven tray and spread evenly, then it's time for the yummy Rolos!

7. Evenly place the Rolos on top of your batter that you already spread out in your oven tray so that each Rolo is sitting on it's 'base' rather than laying on its side. I made 5 rows with 4 Rolos going down each row but you can literally pop in as many or as little as you like.  

8. Pop the remaining batter into your tray on top of the Rolos and spread evenly so that the Rolos are covered and sprinkle on the remaining chocolate chips.

9. Bake for around 23-30 mins, or until the top of the Blondies are lightly browned and set. Be carful not to over bake your Blondies as they are like cookies that set and harden whilst they cool.

And there you have it, very easy yet extremely scrumptious Chocolate Chip Rolo Blondies. I actually found these so simple and fun to make and they turned out perfectly considering it was my very first attempt! The texture is slightly cakey, moist, so gooey and sweet where the rolo's have melted somewhat, arhhhh they are incredible!

Do let me know if you give these yummy Blondies a whirl beaut's, I'd love to know!