Coral Mermaid

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 a PTU kit, Coral by Inzpired Creationz

available at Pimp My Tags With Scraps 

Font of choice, I am using 2Peas Rock Star

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 900 x 1000 pixel, white canvas

Add the following, you can check my tag for exact placement

Dolphin 1, arrange in middle on left

Dolphin 1, arrange in middle on right

Cloud, arrange on top left, duplicate, mirror

Clouds 2, pull up so it's over top of the 2 cloud layers, in the middle

Sand 3, arrange in front of the dolphins on the left, duplicate, mirror

Sand 2, arrange in front of sand 3, on left, duplicate, mirror

merge both sand 2 layers together, duplicate, flip, drag down in front of original sand 2

Open your tube, arrange in the middle of the sand

Lighthouse, resize 80% arrange in middle behind mermaid

sand castle resize 60% arrange on left

Grass 2, resize 70%, duplicate a few times and arrange around the tag, maybe resize some 

Seagull, resize 40%

Flamingo, resize 55%

Flowers, resize 30%

Starfish, resize 55%

Shells 2, resize 55%

Shell 2, resize 55%

Crop & resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save