Sound of the Sea

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 Sounds of the Sea by Stargazer's Musings which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using Bickham Script Fancy 2

Mask: Becky Mask 22. I can't find her site anymore, so I can't supply a link. If you have it, use that one, or just choose another mask you like.

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 650 x 650 pixels, white background.

Open frame 3, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 60%. Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 3.

Open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, between the white background and frame. Selections invert, click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary, arrange it how you want & duplicate. Drag one above your frame and hide it. Drag the other below your frame, take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang below your frame. Deselect, add a drop shadow to the tube and frame.

Add elements:

Clock 1, resize by 30%, rotate to right by 20, add to the top left of frame, add drop shadow.

Sand1, resize by 90%, arrange along bottom of the frame

Beach Chair 1, resize by 50%, arrange on the bottom right, add drop shadow

Beach umbrella, resize by 40%, arrange on the right side, above the beach chair, add drop shadow and drag this layer below the beach chair layer in your layer palette

Decorative net 1, resize by 55%, rotate right by 55, arrange along bottom of frame

Grass 1, resize by 40%, arrange on left side, duplicate, pull copy slightly right, duplicate, resize by 65%, pull that copy slightly right., Drag below the net layer

Coral 1, resize by 40%, arrange to the left, drag below the net layer but above the grass layer. Add drop shadow.

Bird 2, resize by 25%, mirror, arrange on left side, add drop shadow.

Bottle, resize by 25%, arrange on bottom left.

Seashell 6, resize by 15%, add drop shadow, arrange on bottom left.

Seashell 10, resize by 15%, add drop shadow, arrange on bottom left

Sarfish 3, resize by 15%, add drop shadow, arrange on bottom right

Coral 2, resize by 15, add drop shadow, arrange along bottom of frame between the coral on the left and the chair

Leaves 2, resize by 15%, arrange between coral and bottle, drag layer between the two, duplicate & mirror. Drag it over to the left.

Open paper 1, copy and paste as a new layer, just above the white background layer. Open your mask in psp. Go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. In your layer palette, find the mask, delete it, click yes to the pop up box, merge group.

Duplicate 2x and then merge all 3 together to make the mask darker.

Crop & resize. Add your text, copyright and credits as needed & save.

Cuties

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 Lilith Morana,which you need a license to use. You can get it at AIL, here.

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

Font of choice, I am using Zebra.

Plugins: Xero Fritillary

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 background.

Open paper 9. Set your preset shape tool on elipse.

On your color palette, click on the colored box and go to patterns. Find the paper in the menu and click on it. Angle should be 0 and scale 100%. Set your foreground to white, line style solid, width 10. Now draw out a largish circle in the middle of your canvas.

Objects, align, center in canvas, Convert to raster layer. Take your magic wand and click in the white border. Ajust, add/remove noise, add noise monochrome and uniform checked 100%

Deselect, add a drop shadow. Duplicate.

Adjust blur, gaussian blur, 40. Apply Xero Fritillary, change the variation to 30. Resize by 110%

Open ribbon 2, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange near the bottom of the circle, add a drop shadow. If necessary, take the eraser and erase the bits hanging over the frame.

Open fireworks 1, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange near top left of the circle.

Open flower 3, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 30%. Arrange on right, just above the ribbon. Duplicate, rotate to the left by 12, Drag the duplicate just above the original flower & drag that layer below the original flower layer. Do it again so you have a total of 3 flower layers. Merge all 3 flower layers together, duplicate and mirror.

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

Crop & resize.

Add your text, copyright and credits as needed.

Oh So Sexy

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 Tatyana Haustova, which you need a license to use. You can get it at AIL, here. 

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Valentine Angel, a PTU kit by Jen's Sweet Temptations which you can find here.  

UchyTemp OhSoSexy2011 by Uchy at Creative Misfits. You can find it here, and it's the last set in the post.

Font of choice, I am using Renaissance

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 and change the canvas size to about 750 x 750 so you have some room to work. 

Open paper 3, fill black circle and lower black circle by making the layer active (click on it in your layer palette) click inside the shape with your magic wand, selections, invert, copy and paste your paper as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard, deselect. Add a drop shadow then delete your original template layer.

Do the same for the 2rectangles layer using paper 9.

On the heart frame layer, do the same using paper 8. Add/remove noise using the following settings uniform, monochrome 100%. 

Fill the heart layer with paper 4.

Make the mask layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert. Copy and paste paper 4 as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard then deselect.  Duplicate the pink mask layer and merge down. Delete the original mask layer.

Fill the wa layer the same way you filled the shapes layer using paper 4. Delete the original wa layer and merge down with wa bg. Add a drop shadow.

Make your heart layer active. Selections, select all, float, defloat, invert. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, duplicate. Drag one layer below the heart frame and one above. Hide the top tube. Take your eraser tool and erase the bits of tube hanging over the frame. Deselect. Add a drop shadow to the tube.

Un-hide your top tube layer. Erase the bits hanging over the frame. You don't have to be super careful because you'll have the bottom tube showing. 

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

Some new CT tuts

Here are some wonderful new tags & tutorials by my talented creative team members. 

These first two are by Sharon C. at Tagalicious Tags & Tuts.

You can find Luv U here. This one is made with my PTU kit Love U Beary Much

You can find Love In Air here.  This one is made with my PTU kit Love In Air.

This wonderful tag is by TOR at Tagz by TOR, and it's called The Love Letter. It's made with my Love In Air kit and you can find it here. 

Sweet Valentine

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, here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a Valentine Collab by Designs by Vaybs which you can find on her blog here.

Font of choice, I am using Miss Fitzpatrick

Mask: Vix big mask 19, here.

Plugins: Xero Radiance

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 background.

Open frame2 copy and paste as a new layer, rotate by 90 and resize by 70%.

Click inside the frame with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 3.

Open paper 9, copy and paste as a new layer between the frame and background layer, resize by 70%, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer between the paper and frame. Arrange it in the frame, 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. On the original (bottom) tube layer apply Xero Radiance with the default settings except change blue to 0.

Add a drop shadow to your frame and bottom tube.

Open WA4, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 82%, drag to the bottom.

Open WA6, resize by 63%, copy and paste as a new layer, add drop shadow.

Open element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, add a drop shadow, arrange on the right, drag this layer below the word art layer we put across the bottom of the frame.

Open element 7, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%, arrange on the left, add a drop shadow.

Open paper 11, copy and paste as a new layer just above the white background. Open your mask, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. In the layer palette, delete the mask, click yes. Merge group.

Crop & resize.

Add text, copyright and credits as needed & save.

Secret Garden

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 Gabriella Szabo, which you need a license to use. You can get it at AIL, here.

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

Font of choice, I am using Miss Fitzpatrick.

Collab template 1 by Deb & Kristin at Creative Misfits, which you can find here.

Mask: Vix big mask 1 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.

Let's get started!

Open your template, shift D to duplicate. Resize to 600 x 520, then change the canvas size to 750 x 700. I filled the background with white to make it easier to see.

Delete the following layers: credits, raster 1, copy of raster 1, stars, raster 3.

Fill each of the different layers of the template by clicking on the layer in your layer palette, then take your magic wand, click inside the shape, selections, invert, copy and paste the paper, click delete on your keyboard and deselect. Delete the template layer and add a drop shadow to each of the paper layers as you go.

On the middle circle layer, once you click delete, do not deselect. Leave selected, then open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer. click delete on your keyboard. Then deselect, add a drop shadow to the circle layer.

Change the blend mode on the tube to Luminance(L) and drop the opacity to about 50.

Open your mask, open a paper, copy and paste just above the background layer, apply your mask. Go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box. Delete the mask in the layer palette, then merge group.

Add your tube & apply a drop shadow

Add your elements & add drop shadow where needed.

Flower 9, resize by 60%, arrange on right, duplicate & mirror

Flower 7, mirror, rotate right by 17, arrange on right

BFly4, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange below your main tube, over the circle layer

BFly5, copy and paste as a new layer, arrang eon the right

BFly2, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange on the left side

Crop and resize.

Add your text, copyright and credits as needed, then save.

Contest

If I hit  500 followers on my blog, I will give away 1 kit to each of 5 lucky winners picked by random.org. Also, if I get 1000 likes on my facebook page, here, I will give away 5 more!

New Tut by Stephy

This great tag is from Stephy, one of my CT members, and she has done a tut for you. It uses my PTU kit Sweet Like Cherry Pie and you can find her tut here.

New CT Member

I'd like to welcome a new CT member to the team, TOR. You can find her awesome creations at TxOrRoze Designz.  Welcome aboard!

Warning

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 Lilith Morana, which you need a license to use. You can get it at AIL, here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Gothabilly, a PTU kit by Pimp'd Designs, which you can find here at Pimp My Tag With Scraps.

Template #141 by Addictive Templates which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using Sick Capital Vice

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, close the original.

Resize to about 600 x 600 pixels, then change the canvas size to about 700 x 700 or so so you have room to work.

Delete the credits layer.

Fill each of the layers with papers from the kit by making the layer active (click on it) in your layer palette. Click inside the shape with your magic wand, selections, invert. Copy and paste the paper as a new layer, and click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow & delete the original template layer.

Do the same with the different layers of word art, raster 14, raster 12, & raster 10. I filled mine with papers and then erased the paper part that covered in letters I didn't want filled. (like in the words that say "play nice" i filled with a dark purple paper, then erased all but the letter p & y). 

Merge all your word art layers together. 

Add your tube, add a drop shadow to the tube. 

Drag your word art over or down a little to make it look good with the tube.

Add your elements. I used:

Wire

Print 1

Ribbon 1 (erase some of the left side to fit)

Skull

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

Strawberry Kisses

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 dolls that came with the kit. If you also use them, you have to credit them as you would a tube, and that info is included in the folder within the kit.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Strawberry Kisses, which is a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps, which you can find here. A list of the stores she sells at is on the top right of her blog.

Template: Tracy's Template #56 at Freebie Friends, which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using

Mask:

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

Delete the credits layer.

Change the canvas size to about 750 x 600 so you have some room to work. Also add a new raster layer, flood fill with white and send to the bottom. The white layer just makes it easier to see what you're doing.

Make bracket 1 layer active in the layer palette, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert, open paper 5, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. 

Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original bracket layer.

Do the same for the bracket 2 layer.

Make the oval layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 1, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard.

Deselect, delete the original black oval layer.

Add a drop shadow to the glitter oval layer.

Make the circle layer active, fill it the same way you did the brackets, using paper 14. Leave it selected.

Open the strawberry bouquet element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%. Arrange to the right, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Duplicate the strawberry bouquet, mirror and arrange on the left side. Merge down, add a drop shadow.

Delete the original circle layer, add a drop shadow to the paper layer.

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

Add elements. I used:

Bow, resize by 18%, place on right, duplicate, mirror, add drop shadow

Strawberry bunch 2, resized by 12%, arrange in her hands, adjust sharpness, sharpen, add drop shadow

Grass, resize by 30%, duplicate, image mirror, merge together

Umbrella, resize by 30%, add drop shadow, place on left side of grass

Strawberry 2 & Strawberry 3, resized by 15%, place on the left under the umbrella, mirror one of them, add drop shadow

Teapot candies, resize by 20%, drop shadow, arrange on right side of grass.

Sweet word art, resize by 27%, add drop shadow, arrange to top left.

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

Save & you're done!

Good Morning

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  Good Morning, a PTU kit by Farrah's Designer Scraps, which you can get here.

Font of choice, I am using A Little Pot & AL Meaningful

Mask:  Vix Big Mask 18, which you can find on her site 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 a new canvas 650 x 650 with a white background.

Open frame 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 22%.

Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 3. 

Open paper 2, resize to 600 x 600 pixels, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and drag this layer below the frame layer. 

Merge these two layers together, rotate to the left by 20, & add a drop shadow.

Open the good morning card element, resize to 525 pixels on the width. Copy and paste as a new layer, add a drop shadow.

Open frame 3, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 30%.

Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 3.

Open paper 9, resize to 600 x 600 pixels, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Drag the paper layer below the frame layer. 

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange it how you want it within the frame.

Take your eraser tool and carefully erase the bits you don't want hanging over the edge of the frame.

Deselect, add a drop shadow to your tube and your frame.

Take your preset shapes tool set on ellipse and draw out a circle that just fits over the round frame. DO NOT change to raster, leave as a vector layer.

Set your foreground to white and background to #445270.

We're going to make a curved text here around the frame.

Take your text tool, and where it says "create as" change it to floating. Now hover your text tool over the ellipse you drew out until you see a little curved line pop up under the A. Write out your text "good morning" or whatever you choose to use. You might have to play around with it a bit to find where to start writing your text so it fits across the top of the frame properly.

Once you get that done, deselect the text, add a drop shadow, and delete the ellipse.

Now to add elements. Use whichever elements you'd like. I added the following with any amounts I resized next to it. Add drop shadows where necessary.

Coffee maker, resize by 15%

Coffee, resize by 15%

Pancakes, resize by 12%

Muffin, resize by 12%

Button 2, resize by 45%, duplicate, image mirror

Ribbon, resize by 14%

Open paper 10, resize by 655 x 655, copy and paste as a new layer, just above your white background. 

Open your mask in psp, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click on it, click ok. 

Go to your layer palette, find the mask, delete it, click yes. Merge group.

Crop, resize, add your text, credits and copyright as needed, save & you're done!

Music Speaks (No Scraps)

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 Freya Langford-Sidebottom, which you need a license to use. You can get it at Artistically Inclined Licensing.

Template from Misfits Collab by April Dawn & MzDixi. You can find it here, and it's the first set on the blog post. When you download the templates, it's the second template in the folder.

Music word art by Deb  from Creative Misfits, which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using Bank Script

Plugins: Alien Skin Eye Candy 2000 - HSB Noise, Tramages - Tow the Line

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!

Change the canvas size to 850 x 850 pixels. 

Delete the following layers mask 1, mask 2, mask 3, mask 4, cr info, word art, word art outline.

In your color palette, set your foreground to #3a51a0 and your background to black. Then click on your foreground and choose gradients, find foreground/background and set it to linear, angle 45, repeats 3.

Make the big pink square layer active, click inside it with your magic wand. Add a new raster layer above it and flood fill with your gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer. Add a drop shadow to the gradient layer.

Make outterbk layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, add a new raster layer, flood fill with black. Deselect.

Apply HSB Noise filter with the default settings, apply it again, this time hit the Random Seed button a couple times before applying it. Add a drop shadow and delete the original template layer.

Make the inner square layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, add a new raster layer above it, flood fill with #6f84cb then deselect. 

Apply Tramages - Tow the Line using default settings. Delete the original template layer.

Fill both the upper and lower pink rectangles with #1b2549 using the same technique used above, then add drop shadows to both and delete the original layers.

Do the same with upperdkpinkrectangle and lowerdkpinkrectangle (the two going across the very top and bottom), fill with #212e5d, add drop shadow and delete the original layers.

Do the same with pink lines 1 and pink lines 2, fill with #8c9dd6 and do not add drop shadow to these layers.

Make the pink inner circle layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat, add a new raster layer and flood fill with black. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original layer.

Make a new canvas sized 700 x 700 pixels, flood fill with #8c9dd6. 

Back on your template layer, make pink dots layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert, copy and paste the new canvas you just made, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Do the same as above for the pink circle frame layer.

Go back on the black circle layer, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert. Take your close up tube layer, and mirror it. Then copy and paste as a new layer & arrange it in the circle how you want it, click delete on your keyboard and deselect. I erased the bits that were beyond the blue border. You can erase them or leave them depending on what you like. 

Change the blend mode on the tube to Luminance(L) and drop the opacity to about 70.

Add your main tube, add a drop shadow to the tube.

Open your word art, copy and paste as a new layer. Take your magic wand and click inside the pink letters. Add a new raster layer and flood fill with #6f84cb. Deselect and merge the blue layer down.

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

Caution

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 Steff by Wicked Princess Scraps, and you can find this one exclusively at The PSP Project, here.

Addictive Templates Template 162, it's the 15th one down on this post here.

Font of choice, I am using Florence Script

Mask: WSL mask 84, by Weescottslass, 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.

Let's get started!

Open your template, resize to about 650 x 650 pixels. Change the canvas size to 750 x 750, so you have room to work.  Delete raster 10 layer (credits).

Fill in the various layer with papers. To do this, click on the layer you want to work with in your layer palette, then take your magic wand tool and click inside the shape. Selections, invert, copy and paste your paper as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and then delete the original template layer. Add drop shadow where needed. Do this to all layers except raster 4 and raster 3.

Add a paper just above your white background layer, apply the mask by opening it in psp, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find it in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask out of the layers palette, click ok. Merge group.

On raster 4, add noise by going to adjust, add/remove noise with settings: uniform, monochrome 100.

On raster 3, fill with your paper, but then leave it selected. Copy and paste your close up tube, arrange within the frame, click delete on your keyboard. Change the opacity to Luminance(L) and drop the opacity to around 70.

Add your main tube, add a drop shadow.

Add any elements you'd like. These are what I used:

Heartspray2, resize 65%

Heartbow, resize by 75%

Girly Skull, resize by 28% then by 75%,  rotate right 20, arrange on top of bow

iPod, resize by 25%

Sad bear, resize by 34%, mirror

Crop, resize, add text and any copyrights/credits necessary, then save.

It's Winter

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 here at PTE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Snow Fighting Allowed, a PTU kit by KiKeKa Kits, which you can get here.

Addictive Templates #154, which you can find here.

Font of choice, I am using Nano Script

Plugins: Visman Extravaganza - Transmission

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 delete all the top layers until you get down to raster 6 (all the word art layers need to be deleted).

Resize all layers to 600 x 600, then change the canvas size to 750 x 750. This is just to give us room to work.

Fill the different shapes with a paper by clicking on the layer in the layer palette to make it active, then use your magic wand to click inside the shape, go to selections, invert, copy and paste your paper, then click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow if needed and delete the original layer. 

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange slightly to the right, add a drop shadow.

Add your elements. I used the following:

Mittens, resize by 13%

Flower3, resize by 15%

Flower6, resize by 10%

Bucket2, resize by 10%

Ribbon4, resize by 10%, duplicate, mirror

Moose2, resize by 25%

Open the ice pond element, resize by 21%, duplicate twice and arrange them stacked like below, then merge them together.

Apply Visman Extravaganza - Transmission, using default settings except change the offset to 10. Drag this layer to the bottom.

Now just crop, resize, add your text and copyright/credit info as needed.

Serenity

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 Jennifer Janesko, which you need a license to use. You can get it at CDO.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using On the Wings of Serenity, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find it here. You can find the links to the stores she sells at on the upper right side of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using

Mask: gemsmasks116 by Gem's Taggin' Scraps, 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 a new canvas 650 x 650 white background.

Open wood frame, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%. Pull it up & to the left a little bit.

Open rectangle frame 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, and arrange it over the bottom right side of your other frame.

Click inside the large wood frame, selections, modify, expand by 3.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange below the wood frame, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard, deselect. (If your tube doesn't fill the frame, then leave selected and add a paper of your choice below the tube.

Duplicate your tube, on the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur by 3, change the blend mode to soft light. On the original tube layer, apply Xero Porcelain using the default settings, except change the blue channel to 0. Add a drop shadow to the frame.

Do the same with another tube inside the smaller frame. If you're using the same tubes I did, then resize your tube about 70%.

Open your mask, also open a paper of your choice (I used paper 5), copy and paste the paper as a new layer, just above the white background. Apply your mask by going to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok, then in the layer palette, delete the mask, choose yes, then merge group. Then duplicate the mask layer and merge down.

Now add any elements you'd like. I used the following, drop shadow as needed:

Flower spray 3, resize by 70%, arrange over top left of larger frame

Flower spray, resize by 55%, mirror, rotate left by 30, arrange along bottom of large frame, keeping it underneath the smaller frame layers.

Flower spray 2, resize by 55%, mirror, arrange over the right lower side of smaller frame.

BugGlobe, resize by 25%, hang over the left side of smaller frame.

Fairy 1, resize by 25%, arrange where the two frames come together.

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