Here is current development of my icons over this week. I started with the top icons, I wanted them to look messy but controlled. I also used the gradient affect so that I could use my main colour palette colour with the sites main logo colour.
I changed my mind and decided that one solid colour would look better, also that the original logos were too controlled with such a perfect circle around them. Leading me to take away the circle and messily trace the sites logos, I also made smaller 50px versions to put under images that would link to the image on another site. Finally I thought the smaller 50px icons fit a lot better as they sat in a line on the side of my blog instead of 2 in a row with 1 left over.
The smaller icons take up much less space, showing a tidier blog.
I did however keep my facebook logo separate as its one of the most common sites people tend to follow as facebook is become an everyday social media source and is the most used for keeping in contact when compared to instagram/twitter/etc.