Announcing my CT

I just wanted to tell everyone who applied to be on my CT, thank you very much for your interest. The 4 gals that are going to make up my creative team are:

Jessica from Bitchin' Babe Kreationz

Lavendar Angel from Lavendar Angel's Cloud

Sephy from Stephy's PSP Dabbles

Sharon C from Taggalicious Tags & Tuts

So stop on by their blogs and check out their awesome creations!

Welcome to the team ladies!

Tut by Sarah using Sweet Like Cherry Pie

This ever so cute tag was made by Sarah of Shadows Creations using my kit Sweet Like Cherry Pie. You can find her tut here.

You can find the links to the stores you can purchase my kits on the left sidebar.

Tag by Lavendar Angel

This cute tag was made by Lavendar Angel, one of the gals on my CT. You can also see it on her blog, here.

Tags by Sharon C.

These are creations by Sharon C. The first is a tag created by her. It's also on her blog here.

The second is a tut which you can find on her blog .

Pumpkin Girl by Stephy

This adorable tag, called Pumpkin Girl is by one of my CT members, Stephy. It uses my kit Happy Hauntings. You can find the tut here.

Jurassic RAWR!

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the tubes that came with the kit

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit Jurassic Rawr by Farrah's Designer Scraps, which you can purchase here.

Font of choice, I am using MTF Evas Hand

Mask: gemsmask158

Plugins: no outside plugins

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas about 650 x 650 with a white background.

Open frame 2, resize by 40% then again by 55%, sharpen it by going to adjust, sharpness, sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer, rotate to the left by 90.

Click inside the frame, modify, expand by 4.

Open paper 6, resize to 700 x 700 pixels, copy and paste as a new layer, drag below frame, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard.

Open the fence element, resize twice by 40% then sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer, between the paper and frame. arrange it over to the right, leaving a little space open on the left side. Click delete on your keyboard.

Open the dinosaur tubes, resize each by 40% then by 30%, sharpen. Copy and paste them in your frame, arranging them how you'd like. Once you get them arranged, click delete on your keyboard on each dino layer to delete any parts hanging outside your frame.

Deselect. Add drop shadow to the frame, fence and dinos.

Open the sun element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40% then by 30%. Arrange it to the top left over the frame.

Open the girl tube, resize by 40% then by 45%, sharpen. Arrange to the right side, add a drop shadow.

Arrange him to the right side just behind the girl.

Open the tree, resize twice by 40%, sharpen, mirror, add drop shadow, arrange to the top right behind the boy and girl.

Open the bird, resize by 40% twice sharpen, resize by 55%. Mirror and place on top of the tree, add a drop shadow.

Open the grass element, resize twice by 40% and once by 65%, sharpen. Arrange to the bottom left. Duplicate it, resize by 75%, sharpen, then duplicate that layer. Merge the two duplicate layers together. Arrange it in front of the fence, but below the frame, duplicate 4 times for a total of 5 grass. Mirror some of them. Arrange them along the front of the fence, then take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang below the frame.

Open the eggs, resize 3x by 40%, sharpening each time. duplicate them as many times as you want eggs, arrange around your tag.

Open the RAWR word art, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange twice by 55%, then once by 70%, add drop shadow, arrange on the top of the frame.

Open paper 10, resize by about 700 pixels, copy and paste as a new layer above your white background. Apply your mask. Drop the opacity to about 70%.

Add your name and credits. Crop and save.

CT Call

CT Call

Since I just started doing PTU kits, I would like to get together a

creative team. Right now, s I am only looking to get one or two people for tuts and

maybe one or two people who do layouts or quick pages.

You will need to do a minimum of 1 or 2 tuts/pages per month,

no pressure to do a lot of tuts at this time since I'm just starting

there isn't a lot to have to work with, but I am adding more.

If you are interested in joining please send an email to

sinswtcreations@aol.com and send me a link to your tut blog.

New PTU kit Happy Hauntings

New PTU by me, available in both tagger and full sized. You can get it at Designer Scraps and Tagging Angels.

Pumped Up Kicks

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Three tubes, I am using the artwork of Armando Huerta, which you need a license to use. I got mine at MPT, but since they closed I don't think he has gone to any stores to sell. So if you don't have any of his artwork, you'll have to use another artist.

Font of choice, I am using The beautiful Ones

Plugins: Xero Fritillary, Two Moon Rotate & Fade Away, Xenofex 2 Constellation

My word art here.

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Let's get started!

Open a new transparent canvas 600 x 250

Open your main tube, pick two colors from your tube, a light and a dark. I used #c4dff3 & #84bce5.

Make a gradient with these two colors, it should be linear with an angle of 45 and 1 repeats. Flood fill your canvas with this gradient.

Apply Xero Fritillary with the following settings top to bottom:

5

30

10

15

Edge effects, enhance.

Apply the Two Moon Rotate & Fade Away with the following settings top to bottom:

94

15

Open your other two tubes.

Copy and paste one tube, arrange it to the left side and duplicate it.

On the top tube layer apply gaussian blur 3.

On the bottom tube layer change the blend mode to Luminance (L) and drop the opacity to around 70.

Open another tube, this time arrange it on the right side and follow the same steps as you did on the first tube.

Open your main tube, copy and paste as a new layer add a drop shadow 1, 1, 100, 5 arrange slightly off center to the left.

Make your background layer active.

Selections, select all, modify, set selection borders and set it at 2.

Add a new raster layer at the top of the tag, flood fill with one of the colors you used for your background, but change it so that it's a bit darker. I changed mine to #575e83

Deselect, add noise guassian, 70, monochrome checked.

Go back to your background layer, do the same as above, but set selection borders at 4.

Add a new raster layer under the last border you did, flood fill it with black. This time instead of adding noise, apply Xenofex 2 Constellation with the following settings top to bottom:

1.98

50

50

25

50

75

fill with solid color checked and the color should be black.

Merge the two border layers together and add drop shadow 1, 1, 50, 5

Add your word art & your name.

Add any credits needed.

CT Call

CT Call

Since I just started doing PTU kits, I would like to get together a

creative team. Right now, since I only have one kit out and a couple more in the

works, I am only looking to get one or two people.

You will need to do a minimum of 1 or 2 tuts per month,

no pressure to do a lot of tuts at this time since I'm just starting

there isn't a lot to have to work with.

If you are interested in joining please send an email to

sinswtcreations@aol.com and send me a link to your tut blog.

Announcement & New PTU kit!

I am very happy to announce that I am now making scrap kits and will be selling them at Designer Scraps! A big thank you to Farrah for the tips and for accepting me at her store! Here is a preview of my first kit, Sweet Like Cherry Pie, which you can get at the store. Click on the preview to see it a bit larger.

I am at Tagging Angels so you can also check out my products and shop there. Thank you so much to Kissy for accepting me into the store!

If you use my kits for a tut, please send me a link to my email listed on the left so I can link you up!

I'm No Angel

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Barbara Jensen, which you need a license to use. You can get it at her site here. This tube, however, is exclusive to Scraps and the City and you can get it here.

Template10 by Mindy Mae, which you can get here. Just look on the right sidebar for download links.

Font of choice, I am using Brushtip Travis, Dagobert

Plugins: no outside plugins, we'll just use ones that are standard with PSP.

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Let's get started!

Open the template, change the canvas size to 650 x 650 to give a little space to work.

Delete the following layers: raster 1, stars, hearts, and little circles.

Click inside the circle with your magic wand, make your foreground a gradient, choose the grey accent gradient from your drop down box, angle 45, repeats 1.

Add a new raster layer and flood fill with your gradient. Deselect.

Effects, texture effects, weave with the following settings, 2, 8, 30 weave and gap both white, fill gaps checked.

Click inside the white border on the circle layer we just used, add a new raster layer below the gradient, flood fill with white and deselect. Delete the original circle layer.

On the white border layer, add noise uniform, 80, monochrome checked. Add a drop shadow.

Add a drop shadow to the stitches and the angel circle layer.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if needed, add a drop shadow.

Now, make your gradient circle layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat. Now make your tube layer active, take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang over the bottom too far, then deselect.

Bring the big angel word art layer to the top, click inside it with your magic wand. Add a new raster layer, flood fill with white.

Add noise, uniform 80, monochrome unchecked.

Selections, modify, expand by 3, add a new raster layer under the angel word art, flood fill with black. Deselect, merge the white layer and black layer together, delete the original word art layer.

Free rotate to the left by about 15 add a drop shadow.

Use your text tool to add the words "I'm no" I did mine in black, then selections, modify, expand by 2, added a new raster layer, flood filled with white, deselect, and merged the two together, rotate the same as we did the angel layer and add a drop shadow.

Move both of these layers up to the top left of your tag.

Recolor the lines by making that layer active, and using adjust hue and saturation to get it to the color that matches your tube. I did mine by changing hue to 67 and saturation to 154.

Add your copyright and name and you're done!

I Didn't Ask to be a Princess

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you need a license to use. You can get it at Psp Tubes Emporium.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Princess Tales, which is a PTU kit by Honored Scraps which you can purchase here.

MisfitExclusiveTemplate 2 by Melissa @ the Creative Misfits. It's the 9th set down from the top.

Font of choice, I am using Over the Rainbow

Mask: WSLMask302 by Weescotslass

Plugins: no outside plugins required

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 650 x 650 white.

Open your template, resize the canvas to 700 x 600 to give us some extra working room and flood fill raster 1 with white. Delete the credits layer (raster 8) and raster 2.

Make the raster 4 layer active, open your paper, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert and click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange how you want it in the frame, and erase the parts that hang over where you don't want it. Deselect and add a drop shadow to your tube.

Delete the original raster 4 layer.

Make raster 3 layer active, click on it with your magic wand. Open your paper, copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original layer.

Use the steps above to add papers to your word art layers. On the word art layers, after you add your paper, add noise uniform, noise 40%, monochrome checked.

Add any elements you'd like to the tag.

Either copy and paste a paper into your tag just above the background layer OR flood fill with a color or gradient made from the kit or your tube. Open the mask, layer, new mask layer, from image, find your mask in the drop down box. Click ok, delete the mask, merge group.

Add your copyrights, credits and name.

Let's Get Lost

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Barbara Jensen, which you need a license to use. You can get it at her site.

Word Art from Blissfully Beth

Font of choice, I am using Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Plugins: Mura Meister Copies, Xenofex 1.1 Shower Door

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Let's get started!

Tag

Open a new canvas 600 x 250 with a white background.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer.

Apply Mura Meisters copies with the following settings:

Wallpaper Rotate

Random

Wraparound

Settings on right side top to bottom: 20, 50, 50, o, 100, 0, 100, o, 100, 0, 0, 30, o

Adjust blur, motion blur radius 45 strength 100, apply it twice then change radius to 294 and apply that once.

Apply Xenofex Shower Door with the default settings.

Copy and paste your tube, arrange it to the right side, change the blend mode to Luminance(L) and drop the opacity to around 40.

Draw out a white rectangle across the bottom of your tag, lower opacity to about 50.

Copy and paste your tube again, arrange it slightly to the left of the bottom tube, add a drop shadow.

Copy and paste the word art, arrange near the top left, change the color to suit your tube, add a drop shadow.

Make the background layer active, selections, select all, selections, select selection borders, settings are inside, antialias checked, width 3.

Add a new layer at the top, flood fill with a color to complement your tube, add a drop shadow.

Delete the white background.

Add your copyright info & your name & save.

Avatar

Open a new canvas 150 x 150 white background.

Copy and paste the background from the tag that you made out of your tube.

Copy and paste your tube and arrange it how you want it.

Make the white background layer active, use your crop tool and click on the icon at the top "snap crop rectangle to" and click on the center one "layer opaque" then click on your avatar to crop.

Still on the white background layer, go to selections, select all, modify, select selection borders, change the width to 2, add a new raster layer at the top, flood fill with the same color you used on the tag.

Add a drop shadow.

Add your copyright info, and your name/initials and save.