Under the Sea

Anyone else chompin' at the bit waiting for Spring to get here? I decided it was time for a summer themed tag just because I'm sick of looking at all the snow outside my window! For this tut you will need the following: Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, but any version should work. Scrap kit of your choice. I am using a PTU kit by Gina of Scrappin' Bratz, called Something's Fishy. You can get her kit HERE. A tube of your choice. I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac which you have to purchase to use. You can find his stuff over at AMI. Let's get started! Open the Something's Fishy frame 5. Resize it to 550x480 pixels. Then change the canvas size to 700x700. Take your magic wand and click inside the frame, modify, expand by 5. Open a paper, copy and paste as a new layer, resize to the size you'd like so the pattern is showing how you want it to in the frame, arrange it, and then selections, invert, make sure you are on the paper layer, and click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer then duplicate it. Drag the original below your frame layer and hide the duplicate for now. Take your eraser tool and erase the parts of your tube that you don't want hanging below your frame. Deselect and add a drop shadow. Unhide your duplicate tube and erase the parts that hang over your frame. You don't have to be really careful what you erase, because you will have the bottom tube showing through. Open paper 1, resize by 35%, copy and paste as a new layer, send to the bottom. Apply your mask, then delete the mask and merge the group. Open one of the wave elements, copy and paste as a new layer. Resize it so it fits across the bottom of your frame. I did it twice by 50% then once by 60%. Then drop the opacity to about 50% and take your eraser tool and erase the bits that cover the mermaid's tail. Bring the opacity back to 100%. Add any elements you like to your tag.

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Dare to Be Different

For this tut you will need the following: Paint Shop Pro, any version should work, I am using 10. A tube of your choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Ismael Rac which you can purchase at AMI. Scrap kit of choice. I am using My Bloody Wedding by Addicted2Scraps. It is a PTU kit. Template 52 by Linda which can be found at the Creative Misfits blog. It's the second one down, just click on the set and you'll be taken to the download. Font: I used Carlotta. Plugin: (optional) I used Eye Candy 3.1 Glow to put the glow on my name. Let's begin! Open your template and delete the top credits layer. Make the black circle layer active and click inside it with your magic wand. Open a black paper from the kit, copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary. Selections, invert, make sure you are on your paper layer, and hit delete on your keyboard. Leave selected. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and arrange it in your circle. Use your eraser tool to erase the bits you don't want hanging over the bottom of your circle. Deselect and add a drop shadow to your tube. Delete the original circle layer. Hide your tube and circle layer. Take your selection tool and draw out a rectangle starting at the top edge of the blue part of the glittery frame circle. Open a red paper, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, and hit delete on your keyboard then deselect. Now back on your glitter circle, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert, on that paper layer you just did above, make that layer active then hit delete on your keyboard. Now the red paper should be a half circle just covering the blue area. Now go to adjust, add/remove noise, and add noise with 100%, uniform and monochrome checked. Merge this red layer down with the glitter circle layer and add a drop shadow. Unhide your tube and circle layers. Activate the large rectangle layer, click inside it with your magic wand. Open another black paper, copy and paste as a new layer. Selections invert, hit delete on your keyboard. Add a drop shadow. Do the same for the Rectangles layer. Do the same for each of the remaining blue layers, but use a red paper to fill them in. On the glittery text and stars layers, Add noise to it just like you did with the half circle layer. Open element 60, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange to the top left, and then drag it to the bottom and then add a drop shadow. Add any other elements you might like. I didn't add anything besides that last one. You can also add a mask if you'd like. Add your copyright info and your name. Crop it down, resize if necessary, delete the white background layer and save as a .png so it's transparent.

Punked

For this tut you will need the following: Paint Shop Pro, I am using version X. Tube of choice. I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac. You have to purchase his work, and you can find it at AMI. Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit by Addicted2Scraps called Totally Punk. Mask: I used BeckyMask23. Her site is closed, and I cannot share it. You can use that one if you have it, or use another. Plugin: Alien Skin Eye Candy 3.1 Glow (or another one of their versions of glow if you have a higher version) Font if you want to use another font, that's fine, I just used the Alpha that came with the kit. Let's get started. Open a new canvas sized 650x650, flood fill white. Open TP1 frame, copy and paste as a new layer. Take your magic wand and click inside it, selections, modify, expand by 5, leave selected and open a paper, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, hit delete on your keyboard, leave selected and drag the paper layer below your frame layer. Open a close up of your tube if you have one, or just resize if you don't, copy and paste as a new layer, duplicate. Drag the original below the frame layer and close off the top tube layer. Now, take your eraser tool and erase the parts of the tube you don't want showing around your frame, then add a drop shadow and deselect. Unhide your top tube layer and erase the parts along the bottom of your frame that you don't want showing. You don't have to be real careful with getting exactly along the frame line because you will have your bottom tube showing through! Add a drop shadow to your frame. Open the I Am word art, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by about 40%. Add a glow using Eye Candy and change the color to #f3008b, make the width 3, and fat. Add your drop shadow. Open element TP49, copy and paste as a new layer, add a drop shadow and arrange it along the bottom of the frame. Move the I Am word art so it is above this element. Open wire element TP50. Arrange it to the top left of your canvas and duplicate. Move the duplicate over so it is to the right of your canvas, and line it up so they line up together and it looks like one piece. Merge down and duplicate this merged layer. Drag the duplicate down to the bottom of your canvas and line up the edges so they overlap and look like one piece again. Merge these two layers together. Apply your mask. Delete the mask layer, and merge together the group. Resize if necessary. Open element TP20, copy and paste as a new layer, move it just above the masked layer, and arrange to the left of your tag. Add a drop shadow. Now for your name. Open each of the Alphas that you need for your name. You will notice it has both the upper and lower case letters on each one. Just take your selection tool and draw around whichever one you need, then copy and paste as a new layer. Then, what I did, was line them up how I wanted, rotated some, brought some down higher or lower so they didn't all line up. Then I resized them by 60% and added a drop shadow. Arrange the name where you'd like it. Add your copyright info. Crop it, delete your white background if you want to save it as transparent. To save as transparent, save as a .png.