I always start with the "header". I made this one with a tube by Sara Butcher-Burrier and a scrapkit by Honored Scraps. They were both purchased from CdoeStore. I begin with a blank 'canvas', 1000x1000 pixels, and work on that until I get it the way I want. The tube was a bonus for november 2019, and the scrapkit was made especially for that tube.

Next I work on the tiles. This set needs six background tiles so I can use variations on the shade that I pick. I made a swatch of the basic colours. As you can see, I concentrated on the blue shades, and added the gold colour of the feather in the header as a contrast.

The first tile is the one that will the background for the main part of the page, the content. So I picked out the lightest shade of blue. I always make my tiles at 250x250 pixels. It's just a quirk of mine! Some people make smaller ones, some larger. After filling the tile with the blue, I used a filter in Paintshop Pro to get a nice effect. The filter is Fantastic Machines Paintengine. Paintshop pro has a facility to make the tile seamless. With Paintshop Pro you can fiddle about with the tiles for hours if you want, until you get a look that you like. I then went on with making the rest of the tiles. It can drive you mad!

Once I had spent the best part of an hour getting the tiles just right, I could get on with chosing a font, and making the divider and buttons for the set. I like to pick something from the scrapset for the divider. I have a large collection of fonts, so I resisited the tempatation to look for a new one and chose Trinigan. Sometimes I chose something from the scrapset for the buttons, or there is a good button font that I often use. Or just the words themselves. I use Eye candy 3 to give the words an inner bevel, which makes them look more 3D and shiny!

I finished off with a "footer" of my name, and then it's time to sort out the page itself. That involves chosing colours for the links, the scrollbar, and to outline the tables. I tried white, #fffff, but I thought it looked better if I picked up the gold colour, #e9d9a9. As you can see, I added something to the css so that the background is "fixed". I just prefer that!

I hope that this shows you how I make a webset, and something of why I love making them. I always promise myself that I will use them, all of them, in my websites. But, well, then I go and make a dozen more!