Winter Changes~

Phew, yay for being a bit early this time! Anyways, since I got my Winter preview up, and it feels a little out of place to keep my former theme, I’ve made some Winter changes for the blog~ I hope everyone enjoys them first of all. Even though it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet, the Christmas music is already playing on the radio so it doesn’t seem to early, right? So I’ve added some new banners and a little bit of revamps on the theme; thus, a short Winter update post. :D

Theme

Hey~ A theme change without an actual URL move. It’s been awhile since that’s happened. xD

I can honestly say that I’m always soo tempted to change into another theme because I just love all the more choices with self hosted wordpress. Soo, it was really hard to keep the same theme and just change the colors, but I did~ Actually, this theme has four different colors, so I just changed to blue and made the background. Not much to say about it this time, except that of course it’s a Winter-y theme.  I don’t know why, but I like this change a lot more than before. I guess it’s because blue is my favorite color. I’m not into Halloween, so the Halloween colors on my blog before weren’t exactly my favorite. Not to mention a brighter background makes the site look so much more open~ Okay, so now I’m going into a messy ramble, so onto the banners!

Banners

Ah, this time, I didn’t have as many banners made as before. I’ll probably make more as I find more scans. So for now, I won’t remove all of the banners from my old rotation just yet. I’ll keep the ones that fit. However, this time, I have a “meh” sort of feeling towards this set. There are some that I really like, but then others that I just wish I would’ve done better. Maybe I just need to add more. xD

Kimi ni Todoke: Under the Stars

The Kimi ni Todoke banner first because it’s my favorite. Favorite show, favorite banner~ Even though it’s a pretty plain banner and doesn’t look like a lot of work was added onto it, the reason I love it so much is because that’s not all true. It’s a lot more plain compared to what I usually do, but I think that’s what I love so much about it. Also, it was the first time I ever actually extended the picture, so I’m pretty proud of myself, haha. It’s pretty obvious where since I’m not that great yet and it was my first attempt. Anyways, if that doesn’t make sense, all in all, half of the sky was well…made by me? And I didn’t need the clone tool! xDD So I feel pretty accomplished (since I’m so noobish still on photoshop). xD It probably seems unreasonable to most people, but I don’t know, I feel happy on my first attempt.

Anyways, rewinding back. I had wanted another Kimi ni Todoke banner since I didn’t want to (but had to) remove my new Kimi ni Todoke banner. Anyways, I remembered how lovely episode 7 of Kimi ni Todoke was, and I absolutely loved the scene under the sky. So, I grabbed a screencap of it. I just loved how beautiful the sky was, so I just had to use it for a banner. However, the screencap was cut and didn’t extend further leading to the situation before. Afterwards, I just added glassy, glowy text that I thought would go along.

Eden of the East

Ahh, the Eden of the East banner. I forgot where I got the fanart from, but it isn’t mine, firstly. Anyways, a pretty “meh” banner to me. Since we have the first movie coming in December and the second movie coming in January, I figured, an Eden of the East banner should fit fine. xD

Anyways, I pretty much just went crazy on this banner. I added tons of effects. I think I was experimenting or something when I made this; however, I don’t remember since I made this banner way before the rest. I added the checkers, tiles, circles, thunder, etc. Since the theme is blue, I tried bringing out as much blue as I could in the banner. The attempt failed.

Watashi ni xx Shinasai!

Probably my least favorite banner. Not image though. The image is just hawt~ Anyways, it’s my least favorite because I couldn’t do the picture justice.

I decided after being deprived of other Winter scans, to use manga scans. Since the Nakayoshi calendar just came out (which, btw the scans belong to cookie.Dough, thank you!) I decided to use the image for my banner. It is a Christmas card afterall. However, I had problems on what to do for the rest of the background. Thus, what you currently see occurred. I changed a lot of the borders to be a tint of blue (maybe I’m a bit crazy on the blue?). It was pretty hard for my uncreative mind to decide what to do for the background, so that’s why it looks so blergh. Oh and the tagline. A pretty lame one. WnxxS! fits being hawt, so…I just thought the tagline fit it. Unfortunately, some of the text is hard to read, so I apologize for that.

Shugo Chara!

It was a beautiful picture. But I killed it with my title. Even though Shugo Chara! definitely isn’t up to par, I’m still into the manga. I’ve dropped the anime, and I’m probably only going to watch the anime if someone tells me to.

However, about the banner. I was looking for Christmas scans of Shugo Chara, and I came across quite a few Winter-y and Christmas-y scans. I wanted to use all of them, but I realized it was pretty hard to include all of them (hence why they’re used in this post xDD). So I simply used my favorite. It’s just so colorful and pretty~ Then I just slapped some random text on and that’s about it. xD

Kobato

One of the ones I was satisfied with. I had found this perfect scan of Kobato and I just had to use it. It fits so well for the season, and it’s just so pretty. :3

I didn’t do much to the banner. For the image, pretty much the only thing that I did was fix the line in the center. However, I added lines on the side and bottom to give it a…gift box look to it. Lastly, I just slapped on the title. To be honest, it’s sort of different from what I usually do like the rest from this set, but I’m still happy with it. :D I just wish I could include more of Ioryogi!

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Anyways, I guess that’s it. It’s a pretty short post, as I’ve mentioned before. I hope to add more banners when I find more awesome images~ I’m hoping to find at least some nice scans of the Winter shows coming up so that I can make banners with the Winter shows. If I do make more banners though, I’ll just add them into the roll. :D