My First Icon!!

I AM SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW.

I just found out that I actually have Paint Shop Pro 8 on my computer!! It came with it!! I have been mourning my lack of iconing capability, and then I find THIS. WHEE. So guess what I immediately did - I made an icon!!

Here it is:

Please please tell me what you think!
I used this tutorial to guide me: http://www.livejournal.com/community/neptunian_queen/1469.html
I still have so much to learn, like whoa, but YAY, now I can actually act on icon bunnies!!!

*dances around ecstatically*

ETA: I've been working on it, I know the text wasn't very legible. Two more versions:


I like the first of those two the best out of the set.

And the experimentation continues...

Another couple of icons I made. I'm having fun! I have also decided I do not like text, for now, so will do without for the time being :P

First I made this:


Then I messed around with saturation and came out with this:


Whee.