Valentine's Templates

Over at the Rac Stalker's forum, we had another template challenge, and this time the theme was Valentine's Day and/or love. We had a great turn out. You can check them out at the forum or you can head on over to our challenge goodies blog here. If you are interested in joining in on the fun, come on over to the forum and join us! This is my set of templates and you can download them HERE.

Word Art

Here are a couple word art that I was working on for Valentines Day. I am planning on doing a few more, so check back. You can download them HERE.

Heartbreaker General

For this tut you will need the following: Any version of Paint Shop Pro. I am using PSP X. A tube of your choice. I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac, which you must purchase to use. You can get it at AMI. A nurse or medical scrap kit. I am using a PTU kit called Naughty Nurse by Wicked Princess Scraps. Plugin: Alien Skin Eye Candy 3.1 Glow Font of choice, I am using Standing Room Only. Let's get started! Open a new 700 x 700 white canvas. You can crop it down and delete the white background at the end. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary, and add a drop shadow. Open the STAT element, copy and paste as a new layer, move near the bottom of your tube, so that the line goes across her legs. Add a drop shadow. Take your eraser tool and erase part of the line that goes over one of her legs so that it looks like she's stepping over it. Open the chart element. Copy and paste as a new layer, resize by about 55%. Duplicate twice, on the bottom layer, rotate to the left by 20, on the middle layer, rotate to the right by 20. Open one of the pills, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by about 33%, apply Eye Candy Glow, size about 4, fat, white, add your drop shadow. Arrange it near the top of the heart. Add your ©info and credits as needed. Add your name, and you're done!

Stargazer

For this tutorial you will need the following: Scrap kit of choice. I am using the PTU kit by Kat NKDA called Stargazer. You can purchase it at AMI. Tube of choice. I am using the tube that came with Kat's Stargazer bundle. You can purchase the kit separately or a bundle that includes the tube and other items. Font of choice. I used Moonstar. Plugins: Alien Skin Eye Candy 3.1 Glow (optional for name) Open a new canvas 700 x 700 either transparent or white if you like the white background to work with. Open element 5, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%. Open element 17, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 85%, make sure it's lined up in the middle of the round element. Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 5. Open a paper of choice, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Drag it below your frame layer. Leave selected. Open a close up of your tube, mirror it(if you don't have a close up, then just resize it and sharpen) copy and paste as a new layer, and click delete on your keyboard. Change the blend mode to Luminance(L). Click inside the circle element layer, selections, modify, expand by 5, selections, invert, open another paper, copy and paste as a new layer and click delete on your keyboard. Drag it below your round element. Copy and paste the moon as a new layer, move it to the right of your tag, add a drop shadow. Add any other elements you might like on your tag. Add your tube as a new layer, add a drop shadow. Add your name and ©info and/or credits as necessary.