This Way to the North Pole

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.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Christmas Night, a PTU kit by Irish Bitch Designs.

Font of choice, I am using Frosty

Plugins: Visman Extravaganza -Transmission
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.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.


Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 800 x 800 (we'll crop & resize it in the end, we just need extra space to work) with a white background.

Open frame 3, copy and paste as a new layer, click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify,
expand by 3, selections, invert.
Open a paper of your choice (I used 3), copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard, drag this layer between your white background and your frame, leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in frame. You may have to resize your tube. If you're using the same one as me, I resized mine by 65%.
Now, take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang over your frame where you don't want them, then deselect.

Hide your white background, merge visible, then duplicate.
On the bottom layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur 25
Apply VM Transmission with the following settings top to bottom
6, 24, 41
Duplicate this layer, then mirror, merge down. Make your white background visible again.

Duplicate the tube/frame layer. On the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian 3. Change opacity to soft light (or whatever suits your tube more)
On the bottom layer, apply Xero Porcelain, with the default settings.

Add any elements you'd like. I used the following:

Tree
House
Sign - resized 40%
Baubles - resized 30%

Crop, resize, add your © info and name, then save!

Crazy Attitude

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. This particular tube is a Limited Edition tube that is only up for the month of November 2012 with a $10 purchase, so if you're looking for it on the site after this date, chances are you won't find it.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Freak Like Me, a PTU kit by Lexi Creationz Scrapz.

Collab template 4 by Punky and Pooker, which you can find on Elegant Inspirations

Font of choice, I am using Aquarelle

Mask of your choice

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.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.


Let's get started!

Open template, shift D to duplicate, close the original.
Delete the Cr Info layer, I have CCA layer and small arrows layer.

Flood fill the background layer with white.

Make Dk Pink Left Square layer active, click on it with your magic wand, selections, invert.
Open paper of your choice, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect.
Delete the original layer.

Do the same as above to fill all the template layers. (or just fill with colors from your tube if you want to add some other colors into it)

Click inside the middle circle with your magic wand, open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer and arrange it, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard.
Lower opacity of the tube to about 50.

Copy and paste your main tube arrange to the left.

Add any elements you want.

Crop, resize, add your copyright and name then save.

New tag

New tag using the artwork of Keith Garvey and scrap kit, Sweet Snow Friends by Wicked Princess Scraps.

Stores she sells at are on the top left of her blog.

Winter Wonderland

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 Chris Harper which you need a license to use. You can find him at AIL.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Sweet Snow Friends by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find the stores she sells at on the top left of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using Dagobert & Zebra

Mask of your choice

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.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 800 x 800 pixels with a white background.

Open rectangle frame, copy and paste as a new layer, rotate left by 90, resize by 80%
Click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 3, selections, invert.
Open paper 3, copy and paste as a new layer, drag below frame, click delete on your keyboard, leave selected.
Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in the frame, erase the bits that hang over the bottom of the frame.

Add the following elements (see my tag for placement)
Cloud, resize by 60%, arrange on left, duplicate, mirror
duplicate each of these clouds, and resize by 60%, arrange over larger clouds
lower opacity of all the clouds to about 65
Pond, resize by 60%, arrange on left, duplicate, mirror
Penguin4, resized by 40%, arrange on left, duplicate, mirror
Moosesnowballs, resized by 40%
Bunnyski, resized by 40%
Snowballbear2, resize by 32%
Sign, resize by 60%

Open paper 4, copy and paste as a new layer, drag down so that it's just above the white background.
Apply your mask.

Crop and resize.

Add your copyright info and your name, then save.