Sweet Treats

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 Pinup Toons, which you need a license to use. You can get it at Creative Design Outlet (CDO) here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Land of Gingerbread by Jen's Sweet Temptations, which you can find here.

CBN Drama Temp 2 by Deb at the Creative Misfits. You can find it on the blog here, and it's the 3rd set down.

Font of choice, I am using zebra.

Plugins: no outside plugins used..

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 your template, shift D to duplicate. Delete the following layers: ©, 1, 2, Raster 2 Shadow 1, & 9.

Resize to 600 x 600, then change the canvas size to 750 x 750 to have extra work space.

Add a new raster layer, drag to the bottom and flood fill with white.

On layer 12, click inside the circle with your magic wand, selections, invert, copy and paste a paper as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow, delete the original layer 12.

Fill layers 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, & 11 the same way, using papers of your choice. Make sure to add a drop shadow and delete the original layers as you go.

On layer 7, fill with a paper as you did above, but after you click delete on the paper, leave selected. 

Open your tube, mirror if needed, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange within the frame, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow to your tube.

Do the same for layer 4.

Add whichever elements you like adding drop shadow as necessary. I used the following:

Snowman2, resized at 45%

Canister, resized at 45%

Pie2, resized at 45%

Cup, resized at 30%

Cupcake 1, resized at 30%

Cupcake 3, resized at 30%

Crop, resize, add your text, copyright and credits as needed.

Rock of Love

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 Ismael Rac, which you need a license to use. You can get it at his store, here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Rock Love, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find it here on her blog. In the post for the kit, underneath the picture, you can find the link where to purchase the kit.

Font of choice, I am using Sick Capital Vice

Missy tag template 336, which you can find on her blog, Divine Intentionz, here.

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 your template, shift D to duplicate, and close the original. 

Delete the "by Missy" and gradient star layers.

Change your canvas size to 800 x 650 to give room to work. 

The background layer is hidden, click on the eye so you can see it, flood fill with white.

Fill the  layers glitter rectangle right & left, rectangle center, circle 1 center, & rectangle with glitter edges, by clicking on them in your layer pallet, clicking inside them with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 4, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original layer. 

Do the same with the large circle, star left, star right & thin rectangle center layers but with paper 7. Do not add a drop shadow to the star layers. 

Fill circle left, circle right as above using paper 6.

Add a drop shadow to glitter star left and right. Merge the white part of the stars with the middle part it goes to. (that we filled with the pink paper) You want to end up with two stars, both white with a pink center (or whatever color paper you used to fill it)

Click on circle 2 center with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard and leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, duplicate and hide the top tube layer. Take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang over the bottom of the circle. Deselect and add a drop shadow to your tube.

Unhide the top tube, drag it up between the star layers, so that the left star is above the tube and the right star is below the tube. Erase the parts of her legs that hang over the bottom of the circle. You don't have to be too careful, you have the bottom tube showing through.

Add the elements you would like. I added the following:

Wire, resize by 60%, image, flip, arrange on the right, duplicate, mirror, arrange on left, merge down,                                          duplicate, flip. Erase any bits that overlap and don't look right.

Keyboard, resize by 40%, drag below right star.

Drums, resized by 40%

Acoustic guitar, resize by 40%, rotate to right by 20

Emo kitty skull, resize by 25%, rotate to right by 20

Music notes, resize by 25%

Crop, resize, add your text, copyrights and credits as needed & save.

For the Love of Gorjuss

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 Suzanne Woolcott, which you need a license to use. You can get it at her store, here. 

Scrap kit of choice. I am using  For the Love of Jewel, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find the kit here, and a link to the stores she sells at is on the right top side of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using

Missy Tag Template #414 by Missy at Divine Intentionz, which you can find here.

Mask: Vix Big Mask001 by Vix, which you can find here.

Plugins: No outside plugins used.

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 your template, shift D to duplicate, close the original. Delete the "by Missy" layer and the brush layer.

Change the canvas size to 900 x 650 just to give yourself some extra room to work, and you can resize & crop it down at the end.

The background is hidden, so un-hide that and flood fill with white to fill in the blank areas from resizing the canvas.

Make sure the square 1 layer is active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert, copy paper 3 and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original square 1 layer.

Do the same for square 2.

Do the same for circle 1 and circle 3 using paper 2.

Fill circle 2 as above, using paper 4.

Make the frame back layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 7, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard, and leave selected.

Open one of your tubes, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange the tube inside the frame, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Add a drop shadow to your tube and delete the original frame back layer.

Do the same as above for frame back 2 and frame back 3, using paper 10, and using 2 other tubes, resize your tubes if needed.

On each of the 3 frame layers, make the frame layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, open paper  8, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard, deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original tube layer.

Make your background layer active, copy and paste paper 8 as a new layer, image, flip. Resize by 114%. Apply your mask by opening the mask in psp, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask in the layer palette, then merge group. Lower the opacity to about 70.

Add any elements you'd like, adding drop shadow where you like. I added the following and if I resized them, the amount is beside it:

flower & leaf, resize by 70%, duplicate, mirror, arrange over both outside circles

basket of letters, resize by 25%

jar, resize by 20%

teapot, resize by 40%

sugar bowl, resize by 34%

teacup, resize by 28%

bird 1, resize by 20%

Crop & resize, add your name and copyright info as needed.

Winter's Kiss

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 of choice, I am using the artwork of Ismael Rac, which you need a license to use. You can get them at his store, here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Winter's Kiss by Jen's Sweet Temptations and you can find it here.

Font of choice, I am using Sweet Home Oklahoma

Missy Tag Template 430 by Missy at Divine Intentionz, which you can find here.

Mask: Vix Big mask 18 which you can find here.

Plugins: Xero Porcelain

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 your template, shift D to duplicate, close the original.

Delete raster 1 layer. Change the canvas size to about 850 x 600 to give yourself room to work.

Fill the various shapes by making the layer you want to work with active (click on that layer in your layer palette) click on the shape with your magic wand, layers, invert, copy and paste the paper, click delete on your keyboard. & deselect. Do this for all layers except frame back 1, 2, & 3, glitter back,  and their frames. Add drop shadows as you go and delete the original layers.

Add noise to the frame back 1, 2, and 3 layers with the following settings: Uniform, monochrome checked, 100%, then add drop shadow.

For each of the frame back layers, fill with a paper as you did above, but leave selected, then copy and paste your tube, arrange it within that area, click delete on your keyboard and deselect. Do this for each of the frame back layers.

Duplicate each of your tubes. On the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur 3. Set blend mode to soft light. On the original tube layer (bottom) apply xero porcelain using the default settings, except change the blue to 0.

Add a drop shadow to the tube layer you just applied the filter to. Do this with each tube.

Copy and paste a paper just above the white background layer. Apply your mask by opening your mask, got to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok, click yes on the pop up, delete the mask in the layers pallet and merge group.

Add any elements you like.

Add your text, copyright and credits as needed.

Winter Express

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 Keith Garvey, which you need a license to use. You can get it here at PTE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using  Snowflake Dreams by Honored Scraps which you can find here.

Template #440 by Missy at Divine Intentionz, which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using Simply Glamourous

Mask: Vix Big Mask 19 by Vix, which you can find here.

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.

 I use the drop shadow of 1, 1, 50, 5 throughout unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open your template, press shift + D on your keyboard to duplicate, close the original template.

Delete the snowflakes layer.

Resize to 600 x 440, then change the canvas size to 800 x 600. Un-hide the white background layer, make sure it's the active layer, and flood fill with white. 

Make shape layer active, click inside it with your magic wand. Open  paper 15, copy and paste as a new layer, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Add a drop shadow, delete the original black shape layer.

Do the same as above on rectangle 1 and rectangle 2 layers using paper 8.

Fill the oval layer as you did with the other layers above, using paper 12.

Add a drop shadow to the dotted oval layer.

Fill the rectangle layer (larger pink one) using paper 1, follow the steps above.

Fill the thin rectangle (black) using paper 14.

Make the rectangle (top pink one in middle with the white frame) active. Selections, select all, float, defloat, add a new raster layer, flood fill with #1285a2. Leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste your close up as a new layer, arrange where you want it, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Delete the original rectangle layer, do not add a drop shadow to this.

Change the blend mode on the tube to Luminance, drop the opacity to about 60.  

Add a drop shadow to the following layers: frame & rectangle back.

Make the word art layer active. Selections, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer, flood fill the words that are darker pink with #1285a2 and the ones that are lighter pink with #5caec4. Delete the original word art layer. Merge down the flood filled layer with the word art back layer, add a drop shadow.

Add your main tube, drag that layer below the word art layer. Add a drop shadow.

Add whatever elements you'd like to your tag. I used the following, add drop shadow as you go along.

Tree 7, resize by 125%

Snowflake 12, resize by 25%

Hollyberry 2, resize by 50%

Copy and paste paper 6 just above the white background layer. Open your mask, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down menu, click ok, click yes to the box that pops up. Merge group. Resize by 110%

Crop your tag, resize if needed. 

Add your name, copyright and credits as needed.

Exclusive tut & Templates

Over at the ACDivas forum we had some Christmas contests. One was for tutorials exclusive to the forum and one was for Christmas templates that would be exclusive to the forum. Here are my entries, and if you'd like to download the templates or try the tut, come on over and join the Divas! We'd love to have you there. You can find the forum HERE.

My tut:

My templates:

New tut by Stephy

This tag/tut was made by one of my CT members, Stephy, using my Very Merry Christmas PTU kit. You can find it on her site here.

Winter WIshes

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 Keith Garvey, which you need a license to use. You can get it at PTE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, All Wrapped Up by Jen's Sweet Temptations.

SSCTemplate 20 by me, here.

Font of choice, I am using Sh*t Happens

Mask: Vix Big Mask001

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.

For the drop shadow in this tut I used 1, 1, 50, 5 black throughout unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open the template, change the canvas size to 650 x 650.

Delete the following layers, the top credits layer, circle 1, circle 4, circle 1 frame and circle 4 frame.

Rotate the other layers to the left by 45.

Fill each of the remaining layers with papers of your choice from the scrap kit by clicking on each layer with your magic wand, selections invert, copy and paste the paper, click delete on your keyboard and delete each of the original raster layers. Leave the top square layer for last.

I also added noise 100%, uniform and monochrome checked, on the two square frame layers. Add drop shadow to your liking as you go along.

When you fill the top square layer, leave selected, open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in the square and click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, duplicate the tube, on the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur, 3. Change the blend mode to soft light. Change the blend mode on the original tube to Luminance(L), add a very light drop shadow. I used 1, 1, 15, 1 black.

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer, add a drop shadow.

Add any elements you'd like. I used the following with drop shadows and if I resized them, the amount is beside it.

Bow 1, 30%

Snowman 1, 65%

Lantern, 30%

Mouse, 25%

Add a paper just above the white background layer. Open the mask, layers, new mask, from image. Find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask in the layer palette and merge group.

Crop, resize, add your name and copyright & credits as needed. On my name, I added noise at 50, uniform and monochrome checked and added a drop shadow.