Fairy Princess

For this tut you will need the following: Any version of Paint Shop Pro. I am using PSP X for this tut. Tube of choice. I am using the tube that came with the kit. Missy's tag template #312 at Divine Intentionz. PTU scrap kit Whispered Pixie by Wicked Princess Scraps. Go to her site, and on the right hand side, about a quarter of the way down are blinkies to take you to the stores where you can get the kit. Font of choice, I am using Sweetheart Script. Optional plugin for name: Alien Skin Eye Candy 3.1 Let's get started! Open your tag template and resize it by 85%, then change the canvas size by going to image, canvas size and change it to 650 x 650. Delete the layer called "by Missy" and then unhide the background layer if you like to have that there to see things better while you're working. On the circle one layer, take your magic wand and click inside it. Open paper 12, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, and make sure you are on the paper layer, hit the delete button on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original circle one layer. Add a drop shadow. I used 1, 1, 60, 5. I then deleted the dotted circle layer because it didn't show with the paper I used. If you use a different paper, you might choose to keep that layer. Make circle 2 layer active and click on it with your magic wand. Open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 60%, selections, invert, and make sure you are on the paper layer, hit delete on your keyboard, deselect, add a drop shadow, then delete the original circle 2 layer. Make the Brush by Starwalk layer active. Click on adjust, hue and saturation, colorize, change the Hue to 238, and the Saturation to 149. Make the frame layer active and click on it with the magic wand. Open paper 7, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, on the paper layer, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect, add your drop shadow, and delete the original frame layer. Make the background frame layer active and click on it with the magic wand, open paper 9, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 60%, selections invert, and click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary, arrange your tube so you have whatever part you want showing in the frame, click delete on your keyboard, deselect, delete the original background frame layer. Now go to adjust, Hue & Saturation, Colorize, and change the Hue & Saturation settings both to 0 to make the tube grey. You can colorize the word art and the stars if you want, or fill them in with a paper like we did the other layers. I chose to leave mine as they were. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Arrange it to the right side of your tag. If you use the same one that came in the kit, you'll need to resize it around 60 or 70%. Open the bubble string element, resize by 60% and arrange near the bottom of your tag, drag that layer just below your tube. Open ribbon 2, resize by 40% arrange it under the word art, and so that the staples are on the bottom left corner of the frame. Open the mat element, resize by 60% then resize by 90%. Drag it just below the bottom circle layer, and just above the Brush by Starwalt layer, duplicate, image, free rotate to the left by 30, duplicate that layer and rotate again to the left by 30. Open the Doily element, resize by 105% drag that layer down just above the mat layer you just did. Open the Rose Clusters element, resize by 40% rotate to the left by 90, arrange to the bottom left of your tag. See mine for reference. Add your name and any © info that is needed. For my name, I typed it in white then added a glow with the Eye Candy 3.1 set at 3, fat using #ffd2d1 as the color. If you want to save as a transparent tag, delete the white background layer and save as a .png file.

Sweet Serenity

For this tut you will need the following: Any version of Paint Shop Pro. I am using PSP X. Scrap kit Sweet Serenity by Wicked Princess Scraps. Click on the name of the kit and go to her blog. Then go on the right hand side to the blinkies for the stores she sells at, and it is on sale at Twilight Scraps. Tube of choice. For this tut I am using the tube that came with the kit. Font of choice, I used Sweetheart Script. Ok, let's get started! Open a new canvas, size 700 x 700, white. Open element WP_SS_BracketFrame, copy and paste as a new layer, rotate to the left by 35. Click inside the bracket frame with your magic wand tool, selections, modify, expand by 3. Open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, and resize by 80%. Selections invert, and on your paper layer, click delete on your keyboard and leave selected. Open your tube, mirror it, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 150%, on the tube layer, hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect, drop the opacity down to around 28 or 30%. Add a drop shadow to your frame. I used 1, 1, 60, 5 throughout the tutorial. Open the featherstar element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70% and arrange it at the bottom of the yellow bracket frame. Open the purple doodle, copy and paste as a new layer, drag it down below the paper background layer (that you filled inside the frame with). Open the moon star dangle element. Take your selection tool set on rectangle and draw around the right half of the element. I drew as far as the white star that was after the 5th purple star to the left of the moon. Copy and paste as a new layer, and move it over to the right of your tag, so that the moon and purple stars are mostly outside your frame. You will have some white stars dangling inside your frame. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize if necessary. I resized mine by 80%, and add a drop shadow. Add your © info and name, crop and resize as necessary and if you want to save it as a transparent tag, delete the white background layer and save as a .png file.

Another CT team

I have joined another Creative Team, this time it's Wicked Princess Scraps. She's got some great kits, go check out her site HERE.

Bad Girls

For this tutorial you will need the following: Any version of Paint Shop Pro (I am using PSP X) 2 tubes of choice. I am using the awesome work of Ismael Rac which you can purchase at AMI. A scrap kit. I am using Whips and Pain Excite me by Monti which you can also purchase at AMI. Mask of choice. I used a Mask 12 by Babe's Designz Font of choice, I used Angelic War. Plugins: I used Alien Skin Eye Candy 3.1 Glow for my name, which is optional. Let's get started. Open a new canvas about 700 x 700 and flood fill with white. If it's too big you can crop it down at the end. Having it this size gives us lots of room to work. Open 2 frames, Black wrapped frame and red wrapped frame. Copy and paste each frame as a new layer, resize each frame by 60% then by 90% and mirror one frame so that you have the bows on each frame facing outwards. Use your mover tool to bring one a little higher than the other. (See my finished tag for reference). Take your magic wand and select inside your frame with the red ribbon, make sure to hold down the shift key and get the little parts at the bottom of the frame between it and the ribbon. Selections, modify, expand by 5. Add a new raster layer below the red ribbon frame, and flood fill with #a20003. Leave selected and open one of your tubes. Copy and paste it as a new layer, drag it below the frame layer, and above the paper layer. Duplicate your tube layer, and bring the duplicate above the frame layer, and hide it for now. Selections invert and on the original (bottom) tube layer, take your eraser tool and erase all the bits that hang over the frame at the bottom. Select none, add a drop shadow to that bottom tube. I used 1, 1, 60, 5 Unhide your top tube layer and erase the parts that cover the ribbon and hang below the frame. You don't have to be very careful that you don't go outside the ribbon because you have the bottom tube showing through. Doing it this way lets you kind of be a sloppy eraser, lol. Add a drop shadow to the frame layer also. Now on your other frame (with the black ribbon) grab your magic wand tool and click inside all the parts of the frame and between the frame and ribbon like you did previously. Selections, modify, expand by 5, open the Red Fur paper, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, and on the paper layer, hit the delete key on your keyboard. Drag that layer below your frame layer, and leave selected. Copy your second tube and paste as a new layer. Do the same as you did with the other tube above. Open the Red, black, brown paper and paste as a new layer, and drag it just above your white background layer. Open your mask, and click on layers, new mask layer, from image, on the drop down menu, choose the mask, and make sure invert mask data is checked, click ok. Delete the mask layer, and merge the group together. Drop the opacity to around 40% and resize by about 75%. I noticed when I resized it left a border of the paper around the edges that I had to erase with my eraser tool, so if it does that to you, just erase it. Drag your two top tubes (the ones in each frame that are the top tubes) up so that they are the two very top layers in your tag. Open the red eyelet ribbon element, copy and paste as a new layer, and resize it by about 50% and then again by about 77%. Drag it below the two top tube layers and position it so that the eyelets are on each frame, add a drop shadow, and erase the parts that show over the tops of the ribbons and hang too far below the frames. Copy and paste the Black Ribbon Pain element. Resize by 77%. Drag that layer below the two tube layers but above the eyelet ribbon layer. Leave it positioned on the tag where PSP put it when you copy and pasted it. After resizing it lays nicely in the center of your tag. You may have some of the ribbon that shows through the tube because of how you erased the tube, if so just take your eraser tool and erase it. Add your drop shadow. Open the ball gag element, resize by about 25%, add a drop shadow, rotate to the left by 20. Drag it to the bottom left corner of your tag, and erase the parts that go over the frame, so it looks like it is hanging off the bottom of the frame. See my tag for reference. Open the element Black Collar Slave, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 25%, rotate to the right by 35%, add a drop shadow. Position it above the top rectangle on the right side of it, and erase the bits that hang over it the frame so it looks like it's dangling from the frame. See my tag for reference. Open the Black Whip Heart element, resize by about 35%, add a drop shadow, mirror and arrange to the bottom left side of your tag over the ball gag. Using your text tool, add your copyright and license info to your tag. Then add your name. I used Angelic war for my name, black as my background color, #a20003 as the foreground, the stroke width set at 2, then converted to a raster layer, and added Eye Candy 3.1 Glow in white with the width set to 5 and opacity drop off set to fat and added the same drop shadow I used throughout the tag. Crop down and resize your tag. If you want it transparent, delete the white background layer and save as a .png file and you're all done!