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Vintage Week & Scenic Glory

Woohoo! It is vintage week! One of my favorite topics. I have tons in store for you, lots of freebie alerts, inspiration, and I even have some sweet freebies up my sleeve :)

For my first daily love post this week, I just HAD to share “Scenic Glory”. I have been saving it especially for vintage week. I just adore the design.

Ever After Blueprint

So my good friend Lynne from Visual Serendipity pointed out this lovely blog to me the other day, and it so happens to have been designed by our very talented sponsor, Viva la Violet. So I just had to share it with you! Click on the image below to visit her blog.

Adobe Illustrator Tip: Easy way to find a Complementary Color

When I am designing, sometimes I have a hard time thinking outside of the box when it comes to color… It is easy to pick a color, but it gets harder to build on to that with complementing colors. I wanted to post this tip, because it is a super easy way to come up with a color scheme with little effort. Step 1: Select the object that you want to change colors. Step 2: Select Your Eyedropper Tool Step 3: Withe the eyedropper tool, click on the color that you want to complement. Step 4: Click on the Menu Bar, on your "color" palette, and click on "invert". Now you will see the color that it picked. Step 5: Now if you don't like that color, or if you want to try another one, go back to your original color and do the same thing, except, select "complement" instead. I liked this color for my background :)

EASY! How to Create a Seamless Custom Blog Background at COLOURlovers.com

December 30, 2010 8 Comments

I am going to show you how to make a Custom Seamless pattern to use for a background at Colourlovers.com I love this website! Below is the Pattern that I colored, and that I am going to use for my example.

So first, you need to set up a Free account.

Then you click on Create and Pattern.

Now you can choose to Design A Pattern:

or Color a Pattern:

I chose to Color A Pattern and it turned out like this:

Now, Name your pattern and Click Create Pattern:

Sometimes it will ask you to name colors, and it really doesn’t matter what you name them (it doesn’t always ask):

Then it will take you to your pattern, and you need to save it by clicking on the Preview(it is located on the right sidebar, it looks like this).

Then do a Right-Click and Save Image As.

Now you need to go to your photobucket account and upload it, but before you upload, make sure that you select your “Customize your upload options” and then select Best Possible Quality (1mb file size). If you skip this step, your file will be smaller and won’t look right.

Now there you have a Cute Custom Background!!

To install using the MINIMA Template, follow these directions (if you are using the new 2010 Templates, scroll down for instructions)

Make a new window or tab on your browser (leave your photobucket up), and go to your blog and your Edit HTML page.

Paste this code:

background:url(YOUR DIRECT LINK CODE HERE) ;

In the place of the the line that says background:$bgcolor; where I have shown below:

Where it says: YOUR DIRECT LINK CODE HERE go back to your Photobucket account and you need to click on your image, and copy your “Direct Link Code” and paste it in place of YOUR DIRECT LINK CODE HERE

The direct link code can be found in 2 places in photobucket, it will look like one of the images below.

Now click on PREVIEW on your Edit HTML page, and it should look something like this.

Now that is IMPOSSIBLE to read, so I am going to put white behind my posts and sidebar. So I am going back to my Edit HTML page, and am going to scroll down to my #outer-wrapper { and paste this: background: white; Just like shown below. **If you want it a different color, you can use a color picker and put the hex code (example: #000000) Here is a link to a Color Picker.