Layouts!

Okay... It is really really fun playing around with designs for layouts! <3 Making my own backgrounds seems to have become a new favorite hobby of mine~! I've actually made two others today. ^_^ It's really getting easier and easier with each one I make~! It's all about practice, practice, practice! Hehe~! Soon, I'll be cranking them out by the dozens and I'll have plenty of backgrounds to choose from! x3

Here are the two I had just finished making:

 You can bet that you'll be seeing these on my blog eventually! As you can probably tell, I have been downloading the materials I've been using for my backgrounds from digital scrapbooking sites (thank you thecutestblogontheblock.com for this tip!). :3 You can find so many different types of papers, patterns, banners, and elements, mix and match them together, and make such pretty and unique layouts with them. It makes the process of making a background so much simpler! Not much tweaking is needed at all! ^.^

I Did It!

I finally had made my own background! <3 Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think it turned out really nicely, especially for my first one! ^_^ All those tutorials I've read and watched on youtube seemed to have paid off! ^.^ (I used so many sources, that I can't even remember or list them all, but if you google "how to create your own blog backgrounds", you'll surely find lots of helpful tutorials and videos that will walk you through the process step by step!). It took me awhile to actually understand them, and it also took a lot of playing around with Gimp to figure out how to use the tools and how to layer images, but I did it! Aaah~! The fruits of my labor are sweet indeed~! Now, I need to move onto the next step and see if I can't make my own custom tables... :3 That would be so nice~! 

Once I start getting better with creating my own layouts, maybe I should think about posting my own tutorial to (hopefully) help others with making their own personal blog backgrounds, too! One that's simple and easy to understand for people like me who are pretty much clueless when it comes to stuff like this. I guess that means I better start studying some more!