Mother's Day

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X7, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Alicia Mujica, Martina tube which you need a license to use.  


Font of choice, I am using Pea Lovey Dovey

Mask: Vix Big Mask 001

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 850 x 850 pixels with a white background
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, drag it down so you can see her face

Adjust, blur, gaussian blur, 50

Crop it, then resize it to 85%

Open your mask, layers, new mask layer, from image, find mask in drop down box, apply

Copy and paste your tube again, resize 40%

With your color set on #2c99ad take your rectangle tool and draw out a rectangle,

duplicate twice, arrange them, merge together

Make sure you're on the rectangles layer, click inside each rectangle with your magic wand 

set on add, selections, invert

Copy your tube again, paste in your canvas, arrange how you want in the rectangles, 

click delete on your keyboard, merge the tube and rectangles layers

Add a drop shadow of 8, 8, 75, 10 to the rectangles

Copy and paste your word art that came with the tube, resize 40% 

Take your eraser tool and set the hardness to around 8,size 75, shape round

 erase her legs so it looks like she's blending into the mask 

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