Make a Cute Blog Monday! One Super Cute Blog

I know, technically it is Tuesday, I am 18 Minutes late....  I meant to get it done on Monday :p

This is brand new, but I think I am going to steer away from Weeks, for the time being anyway, every Monday (or almost every monday), I am going to make a cute blog, and show you how I did it!

This weeks blog is "One Super Cute Blog" Click Here to see it live.

• Free Blogger Blog
• Free Account on Colour Lovers
• Cute Illustration
• Picnik (no registration or sign up required)
• Free Account on Fonts.com Web Fonts 

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

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.

The Easy Way to Make a Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator and Install it in Blogger.

I used to make all of my blog backgrounds about 1600px X 1000px, which is all good....  but I hated it when I would look at my designs on my dad's 30in monitor and I would see all that nasty white space on the sides of my beautiful designs.

Hopefully with this simple tutorial, I can get you hooked on seamless patterns as backgrounds.  Not only are they simple to make, and oh so lovely, the go on forever and ever, no nasty white space.  Oh, and don't let me forget, they are smaller in file size, therefore, they will show up quicker when you are loading your page.

So on to the tutorial!  This is going to be the first of 2 tutorials, and this one is the UBER EASY way to do it.  We are going to take a dingbat font (this is "Davys" that I found at fontsquirrel.com) and make that into our seamless pattern.

DIY Custom Blog Design Part 2: Background

This is Part 2 of a series of tutorials, if you need to start at the beginning, click here.

I have picked this paper from Amanda's Kit to use for my background:

So what I need to do first is open my paper up and size it down to 72dpi and somewhere between 1200 and 1800px (I totally just grabbed that number, just remember that this is custom, so size it where you want it :)