Country Girl

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 Gary Rudisill (Yee Haw Baby) which you need a license to use. 

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, Down Home Girl, by Amy Marie Scraps

Font of choice, I am using End of the Dream

Mask: Horseplay's Pasture Mask 11

Plugins: No outside plugins
I do use Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow on all my copyrights/credits layers
I do this because some forums will make a .png tag show up with a black background and then your
copyright doesn't show.



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 850 x 850 pixels with a white background

open element 50 copy and paste as a new layer resize 120%
click inside each of the squares with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, 

add a new raster layer below the frame

open paper 10 copy and paste into selection (Make sure you are on the new raster layer)
deselect

open the tube copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in the frame

Now we'll add our elements, you can check my tag for exact placement

 element 43 resize  75% arrange on bottom right corner

element 95 resize  55% arrange to the left of the flowers

element 94 resize  55% arrange to the right of the birdhouse, in front of the flowers

element 103 resize  45% arrange to the left of the birdhouse, duplicate & mirror

element 98 resize  45% arrange behind water can

element 65 arrange just above the frame on the right, duplicate, drag to the far left, behind tube

Copy and paste paper 7 above the white background

apply your mask
resize 90% and duplicate a few times to make it darker, then merge them together

crop and resize
add your copyright and credits as needed
add your text and save