using panels to create custom page for all blogs I used panels to create static or landing pages, but now I'm wondering if it would be possible and how to create a custom page template for all blogs using panels, so a user would simply have to write a blog and not have to fuss without creating a specific panel variant for every blog page that is created. 

thanks,

Chad
If you enable the pre-provided page named node_view, it does exactly what you ask for. It loads any (and every) node then.

You can add what's called selection rules to limit to to certain content types, or based on other arbitrary conditions.