Romance

Just showing off another tag made using Wicked Princess Scraps kit called Seduction, which is a PTU kit. Here's the kit and you can find links to the stores she sells at on the top right side of her blog.

My Heart

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.  He is now an independent artist, at the time I got my tube he was at PTE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using  Seduction, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. On her blog, look at the left side, you'll see the links to stores she sells at.

Template by Scarlet on the Creative Misfits Blog. It's about halfway down the page, with her name just above it.

Font of choice, I am using Fiolex Girls

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

Image, cavas size, change to 850x850.

Add a new raster layer, fill it with white or another color not in your kit or tube so you can see what you're doing with your tag. Drag that layer to the bottom.

Go to the black circle layer, make that active. Click inside it with your magic wand.

Selections, invert. 

Make the Be Mine text above it active, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Make the large square layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert. 

Open paper 3, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Make the black rectangle layer active, and do the same as above, using paper 4.

Do the same with the black circle using paper 6.

Do the same for the small square layer, using paper 7, but after you add the paper, open your close up tube, mirror it, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in the square, click delete on your keyboard. Then deselect and delete the original layer. 

Change the blend mode on the tube to soft light.

Merge the top 3 text layers together (My heart beats for you layers). Add your drop shadow.

Add your main tube.

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

Rose card, resized 45%

Chocolates, resized 35%

Glass, resized 35%

Shoe with pearls, resize 35%

Pills resize 30%

Butterfly, resize 30%

Bird, resize 30%

Circles, flip, rotate to right 25, drop opacity to 60

Crop, resize, add copyright info and your name and 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.

Devil Girl In the City

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 Kim Draper, which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using New Age Outlaw, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps.
There are blinkies along the left side of the blog so you can go to whichever store you'd like to purchase the kit.

Font of choice, I am using Strangeworld

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 a new canvas 750 x 750 white background.

Open frame 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%.
Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert.
Open paper 9, copy and paste as a new layer,
click delete on your keyboard, drag the paper below the frame.
Leave selected.

Open cityscape 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 80%.
Click delete on your keyboard & deselect.

Hide the white background, merge visible. Unhide white background.
Move the frame over slightly to the right.

Open metal frame. Copy and paste as a new layer,
resize by 35%.
Click inside all 3 of the parts of the frame with your magic wand
having it set to add/shift.
Open paper 5, copy and paste as a new layer,
click delete on your keyboard, drag paper below frame.
Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer,
between the paper and metal frame.
Arrange where you want, click delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.
Change blend mode to luminance(L)

Hide the square frame and white background,
merge visible, unhide hidden layers.
Resize the metal frame layer to 70%.

Copy and paste the tube again, resize by 75%
mirror, arrange on the left side.

Add any elements you'd like. I used:
Cycle 1, resize by 70%
Fencing, rotate right 45, resize 80%
Stack money, resize by 30%
Spiked skull, resize by 30% then 80%
Poker chips, resize by 20%

Crop, resize
Add your copyright & name then save.

Eternity

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 Tim Lowry, which you need a license to use.  You can find him at AIL.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Eternity, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can go here to her blog and see a list of the stores she sells at in the upper left side of the blog.

Font of choice, I am using

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.

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 750 x 750 with a white background. 

Open square frame, resize by 80%.

Take your freehand selection tool, set on point to point & the mode on add, and click on each of the 4 corners, slightly in from the edge. Once you get all the corners clicked, go back to the first corner and double click on it, you'll have a square of marching ants.

Now go to selections, invert.

Open paper 2, copy and paste as a new layer between the frame and white background layer.

Click delete on your keyboard and deselect.

Open circle frame, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 85%.

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

Open a paper, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard, drag the paper below the frame layer, and leave selected.

Open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange where you want it, click delete on your keyboard.

Duplicate your tube, on the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur of 3, change the blend mode to soft light.

On the bottom tube apply Xero Porcelain with the default settings.

Copy your main tube and paste as a new layer, arrange it on the left side.

Open glitter, copy and paste as a new layer, drag down so it's just above the white background.

Arrange it to the right, duplicate, mirror and flip the duplicate and pull it to the left. 

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

Heart scatter, resized by 85%, mirrored

Jar, resized by 30%

Chocolate Box resized by 30%

Candlestick resized by 30%

Bag, resized by 30%

Rose bunch, resize by 30%, duplicate twice, 

move one over to the left of the first bunch, then mirror the last one

Crop and resize

Add your credits and/or copyrights as needed.

Ass your name and save!

Magick in The Woods

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 Amberly Berendson,which you need a license to use, she's at My Tubed Art.

At the bottom of the page you will find an alternate version of the tag that I made using Caron Vinson artwork and you can find her at CDO.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Magick In The Woods, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. 

Font of choice, I am using Dagobert.

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 about 750 x 750 with a white background. 

Open fence leaves, resize by 55%, duplicate, mirror, arrange across the canvas, pulling them down a little closer to the bottom.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, arrange in the middle of the fence, resize if needed. I resized mine by 80%.

Open Mushroom house 3, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%, drag below the fence layer, and arrange it to the top left.

Open the hills element, copy and paste as a new layer drag it between the fence and house layers, resize by 65% (see tag for reference)

Open the tree element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 75%, drag below all the layers, arrange on the left.

Open tree branches, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 75%, arrange just below the tree layer, duplicate, drag over between the tree and house layer

Open rock 2 and rock 3, copy and paste each of them as a new layer, resize by 75%. Arrange rock 2 under your tube so it looks like she's sitting on it, arrange rock 3 to the left & duplicate. Mirror the duplicate and resize it to about 80%.

Copy and paste trinket box as a new layer, resize by 25% then adjust sharpness, sharpen. Arrange on the stones to the left.

Copy and paste pebbles as a new layer, resize by 45%, arrange under the rocks, duplicate, mirror and arrange.

Open the rainbow, copy and paste as a new layer, drag behind the house and trees.

Open the dove, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 25%.

Open the fox, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 25%, arrange on rock on right side.

Crop & resize. 

Add your credits & copyright as needed

Add your name, and save!

Here's another example of the tag using another tube

Save Yo Drama

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 Marilee Caruso Photography, which you need a license to use. She is at AIL. 

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Justice Vampire by Wicked Princess Scraps. 

My template #22 

Font of choice, I am using Zombified

Mask: Vix Big Mask 1

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.

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 your template, shift D to duplicate, then close the original.

Delete the credits layer.

Open paper one, click inside Raster 1 with your magic wand, copy and paste the paper, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard and delete the original Raster 1 layer. Deselect.

Do the same for Raster 3.

Do the same for Raster 6, but use paper 10.

Fill Raster 2 & 4 the same way, but use paper 4.

Now we'll fill Raster 5, but use paper 8 and leave it selected this time.

Open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer and arrange it in the circle. One you get it how you want it, click delete on your keyboard and then deselect.

Apply Xero Porcelain to the tube using the default settings. Duplicate your tube.

On the top copy of the tube, adjust blur, gaussian blur 3. Change the blend mode to soft light.

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer. Once you have it where you want, apply a drop shadow of 5, 5, 100, 5 if you want a heavy drop shadow like I did on my tag, otherwise just use whatever you've been using throughout the tut.

Add any elements you'd like. I used:

Bloody Bling, erase the parts that hang outside the circular frame.

Broken heart, resize by 25%, rotate right by 20

Cemetary, arrange inside the bottom of the circle area, erase the bits that hang out, change blend mode to soft light, duplicate so it's a little darker.

Open paper 3, copy and paste as a new layer. Open your mask. Go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. In your layer pallet delete your mask, click yes to the pop up box, merge group to merge your mask together.

Add any text you'd like to yours, and your name, and copyright info. 

Crop & resize then save!

Yo Ho Ho Pirate

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.  He has now gone independent and you can find his tubes here.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, Pirates Wanted by Wicked Princess Scraps. 

Font of choice, I am using Twelve Ton Fishstick

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 about 750 x 750 with a white background.

Open square frame, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%.

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

Open paper 1, copy and paste as a new layer below your frame, click delete on your keyboard. Leave it selected.

Open your tube, mirror it, then copy and paste as a new layer between the frame and paper background. Click delete on your keyboard. Change the blend mode to Luminance(L) and drop the opacity to about 65 then deselect.

Open the frame element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%, rotate by 45, doesn't matter if it's right or left. 

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

Open paper 5, copy and paste as a new layer, drag it blow the frame layer. Click delete on your keyboard, deselect.

Add your tube.

Add the following elelements:

Starfish swatch, resize by 30%

Torn cardboard, arrange at top, duplicate, flip.

Boat, arrange in frame, blend mode Luminance(L), drop opacity to 65

Treasure box resize 45%

Crates, resize 40%

Pouch 5, resize 35%

Chain, resize 18%

Bottle, resize 20%

Coin splatter, arrange on left, duplicate, drag to right, erase bits that show on bottom.

Crop, resize, add copyrights/credits as needed, add your name and save!

Times Past

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 Times Past, which is an exclusive collab that you can purchase at Designer Scraps. I am using Krissy's portion of the kit for this tut. 

Font of choice, I am using Pushkin

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 template 750 x 750, white background.

Open frame 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%, click inside with your magic wand, expand by 3. Open paper 6, resize by 70%, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard & leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer just above the paper we just put inside the frame, arrange how you want, click delete on your keyboard, deselect.

Paste your tube on again, this time resize it by 45% (if using the same one as I am, otherwise, resize it to whatever size fits your tag). Arrange it over the top of the frame (see tag for reference).

Open bird ornament 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 50%, mirror, arrange somewhere on the top of the frame.

Open foliage, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 80%, arrange along the bottom.

Open flower 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize about 25%, duplicate, arrange each on on opposite ends of the foliage. Duplicate one and resize that one by about 80%, arrange somewhere along the top of foliage.

Open clock 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize to about 33%, arrange on the right side of the foliage, drag this layer below the foliage layer.

Open leather gloves 1, resize by 20%, arrange by your tube & foliage.

Crop & resize.

Add any text & copyright/credits needed.

Bad Love

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 Industrial Aardvark which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Valentine Arrows by Wicked Princess Scraps.

Font of choice, I am using Rock Bottom.

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 750x 750 white background.

Open frame 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 75%

Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 2, selections, invert.

Copy and paste paper 1 as a new layer, drag below the frame layer, click delete on your keyboard.

Leave selected. 

Copy and paste your close-up as a new layer. I used close-up 2. Resize if needed, I did mine by 75%

Click delete on your keyboard and change the blend mode to Luminance(L).

Copy and paste swirly frame as a new layer, drag down so it's on the bottom, resize by 85%. Change the opacity to around 65 or 70. Erase the bits that hang below the frame. Leave it showing above the top and around the two sides.

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer. Resize if needed, I resized mine by 75%.

Add any elements you'd like. I used the following with the amount I resized them beside

Cat, 35%

Thorned heart, 30%

Voodoo doll, 30%

Cupcake, 30%

Rose cupcake, 30%

Love Pills, 30%

Demon Skull, 30%

Spiked shoe, 25%

Devil bird, 25%

Beaded string, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange it along the bottom so it's just over top of the elements that run along there. Now, duplicate it and drag the bottom one so that the layer is below all the elements but above the frame layer. 

Now take your eraser tool and erase the parts of the top beaded string (your duplicate copy) that is over the elements on the right side of the tag. You'll have the beads showing above the cupcakes on the left side, and then it will look on the right side like it's gone below the elements because you have the bottom layer showing through. 

Crop your tag and resize it.

Add your text and copyrights as needed, then save.

Alice

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 Charlie, which you need a license to use. You can get it at The PSP Project.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Alice by Wicked Princess Scraps. It is available at The PSP Project.

Font of choice, I am using A.C.M.E. Secret Agent for the word art and AL Meaningful for the name.

Template 20 from Millie's PSP Madness.

Mask: Vix Big Mask 18 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 your template, shift D to duplicate and close the original. Delete the credits layer and then resize to 600 x 514 then change the canvas size to 700 x 700. I like to unlock the white background, fill it the rest of the way in with white and keep it visible to help me see what I'm doing, then delete it in the end.

Delete layers 1,2, 4, & 5

Open paper 12, make layer 3 active, click on it with your magic wand. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer. Selections, invert, make sure the paper layer is active, click delete on your keyboard. Delete the original layer 3. Add a drop shadow to the paper layer.

Do the same with layers 6 & 7 using paper 9. (Make sure you are deleting the original template layers & adding drop shadows as you go.

Fill layer 8 the same way using paper 6.

Fill layer 10 using paper 12.

Fill 11 & 12 with paper 13 resized by 65%.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange where you want it.

Place elements around the tag as you'd like. I used the following, resize as necessary and add drop shadows:

Cards

Cat

White Rabbit

Mushroom House

Mushroom House2

Mushrooms

Flower Scatter

Grass

Books

Sugar

Cake Plate

Flower 3

When done adding elements, crop the tag.

Open your mask in psp. Create a new layer right above the background layer and flood fill with a color that compliments your tag. I used #415471. Go to layers, new mask layer, from image. Look for your mask in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask in the layer pallet on the right, then merge group. I then resized mine by 110%.

Add whatever text you'd like. Then add your name, copyright and credits as needed. Resize, crop & Save.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Rock of Love

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 Rock Love, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find it here on her blog. In the post for the kit, underneath the picture, you can find the link where to purchase the kit.

Font of choice, I am using Sick Capital Vice

Missy tag template 336, which you can find on her blog, Divine Intentionz, 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, and close the original. 

Delete the "by Missy" and gradient star layers.

Change your canvas size to 800 x 650 to give room to work. 

The background layer is hidden, click on the eye so you can see it, flood fill with white.

Fill the  layers glitter rectangle right & left, rectangle center, circle 1 center, & rectangle with glitter edges, by clicking on them in your layer pallet, clicking inside them with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 4, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original layer. 

Do the same with the large circle, star left, star right & thin rectangle center layers but with paper 7. Do not add a drop shadow to the star layers. 

Fill circle left, circle right as above using paper 6.

Add a drop shadow to glitter star left and right. Merge the white part of the stars with the middle part it goes to. (that we filled with the pink paper) You want to end up with two stars, both white with a pink center (or whatever color paper you used to fill it)

Click on circle 2 center with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard and leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, duplicate and hide the top tube layer. Take your eraser tool and erase the bits that hang over the bottom of the circle. Deselect and add a drop shadow to your tube.

Unhide the top tube, drag it up between the star layers, so that the left star is above the tube and the right star is below the tube. Erase the parts of her legs that hang over the bottom of the circle. You don't have to be too careful, you have the bottom tube showing through.

Add the elements you would like. I added the following:

Wire, resize by 60%, image, flip, arrange on the right, duplicate, mirror, arrange on left, merge down,                                          duplicate, flip. Erase any bits that overlap and don't look right.

Keyboard, resize by 40%, drag below right star.

Drums, resized by 40%

Acoustic guitar, resize by 40%, rotate to right by 20

Emo kitty skull, resize by 25%, rotate to right by 20

Music notes, resize by 25%

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

For the Love of Gorjuss

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  For the Love of Jewel, a PTU kit by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find the kit here, and a link to the stores she sells at is on the right top side of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using

Missy Tag Template #414 by Missy at Divine Intentionz, which you can find here.

Mask: Vix Big Mask001 by Vix, which you can find 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 your template, shift D to duplicate, close the original. Delete the "by Missy" layer and the brush layer.

Change the canvas size to 900 x 650 just to give yourself some extra room to work, and you can resize & crop it down at the end.

The background is hidden, so un-hide that and flood fill with white to fill in the blank areas from resizing the canvas.

Make sure the square 1 layer is active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert, copy paper 3 and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original square 1 layer.

Do the same for square 2.

Do the same for circle 1 and circle 3 using paper 2.

Fill circle 2 as above, using paper 4.

Make the frame back layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, selections, invert, open paper 7, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard, and leave selected.

Open one of your tubes, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange the tube inside the frame, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Add a drop shadow to your tube and delete the original frame back layer.

Do the same as above for frame back 2 and frame back 3, using paper 10, and using 2 other tubes, resize your tubes if needed.

On each of the 3 frame layers, make the frame layer active, click inside it with your magic wand, open paper  8, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard, deselect, add a drop shadow and delete the original tube layer.

Make your background layer active, copy and paste paper 8 as a new layer, image, flip. Resize by 114%. Apply your mask by opening the mask in psp, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask in the layer palette, then merge group. Lower the opacity to about 70.

Add any elements you'd like, adding drop shadow where you like. I added the following and if I resized them, the amount is beside it:

flower & leaf, resize by 70%, duplicate, mirror, arrange over both outside circles

basket of letters, resize by 25%

jar, resize by 20%

teapot, resize by 40%

sugar bowl, resize by 34%

teacup, resize by 28%

bird 1, resize by 20%

Crop & resize, add your name and copyright info as needed.

Lead Santa

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 Cherished Moments by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find the stores she sells at on the top left side of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using Zebra

X-Mas template 8 by Tracy F at Freebie Friends and More.

Mask: WSL84 by WeeScotsLass

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.

For this tut, I have made some abbreviations for stuff that is repetitive.

S/SA/F/D = Selections, Select All, Float, Defloat

C/P = Copy/paste as a new layer

S/I/CD/DS = Selections, Invert, Click delete on your keyboard, Deselect

S/I/CD/LS = Selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard, leave selected

Let's get started!

Open template, resize by 80%, change canvas size to about 650 x 650.

Delete the following layers:

Tracy F Designs

Ribbon

Ribbon Ball

Tree

Snow

Make the circle layer active, S/SA/F/D

C/P paper 12, S/I/CD/DS, delete the original circle layer.

Make oval 1 layer active, S/SA/F/D

C/P paper 11, S/I/CD/DS, delete the original oval 1 layer.

Make Oval 2 layer active, S/SA/F/D

C/P paper 12, S/I/CD/DS, delete the original circle layer.

Make rectangle layer active, S/SA/F/D

C/P paper 1, S/I/CD/DS, delete the original circle layer.

Add a drop shadow of choice to each of the white fill layers and the rectangle layer. I used 1, 1, 50, 5.

Merge all the text layers together & add a drop shadow.

Open your tube, C/P, add a drop shadow.

Add any elements you want. I used the following:

Branch, resize 44%, duplicate, image mirror

Three angels, resize 76%

Presents pile, resize 15%, duplicate, mirror, arrange near each other over tree

Bell Hanger, resize 35%

Bundle, resize 35%

Flower frame, resize 35%, click inside frame with magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 2, copy and paste a paper, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Add drop shadow to frame.

Open paper 14, copy and paste as a new layer. Open mask, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down menu, click ok. Delete the mask in your layers palette, click yes, merge group.

Crop, resize, add your name or text in the the little box for your flower frame.

Add copyrights and credits as needed, then save.