Urgent! Need help with Illustrator. (Icons)

[JoeyNL]

Hey guys!


Thanks for reading this post, i searched for 3 days but couldnt find a easy soloution so i came to Talkgraphics hoping you guys can help me out.

I try to be realy clear about my problem, and excuse me for my English.

I am new to illustrator, more into photoshop but for my work i need icons for any size.

So let me show you what i got :



This is the end product, but there is a problem.

I made it out of simple rectangle shapes :



So the "Blue" background is not really a background but just a colored rectangle.


It needs to be transparent so you can place it anywhere :



So how can i make the something like this without overlapping alot of layers like i did, i hope you guys understand my problem.

Thanks in advanced,

Joey