Diva Style

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 Jose Cano. This tube is an ACD group exclusive and is not available for purchase at any stores. Only members of Another Creative Design are eligible. You can go HERE to join and learn about how to earn the tube.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using I Promise You which is a PTU kit and you can find it at Wicked Princess Scraps HERE.

Font of choice, I am using

Plugins: Eye Candy 4000 Shadow Lab (or just a drop shadow will work)

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 600x600 white canvas.

Open paper 3 and set it as your background pattern and set at 75%. You can do this by right clicking on your background in your color palette and then clicking the pattern tab and scrolling through to find your paper. Then in the percentage box change it to 75%.

Set your foreground to null.

Using your circle preset shape draw out a good sized circle. Objects, align, center in canvas, then change to raster layer and add a drop shadow.

Now open paper 10 and do the same thing, except this time use your rectangle tool and draw out a large rectangle. See my tag for reference. Once you get it drawn, change to raster layer.

Selections, select all, float, defloat, invert.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer. Arrange how you like it in the center of the rectangle. Selections, invert, on your tube layer, now take your eraser tool and erase any parts you don't want hanging over.

Now selections invert, make sure you are on your rectangle layer, selections, modify, expand by 3. Make a new raster layer below your rectangle and flood fill with #b07e87.

Expand by 3 again, add new raster layer below the one you just did, flood fill with white.

Do the same as above except this time expand by 5 and flood fill with #f9e1de.

I then went ahead and merged all the rectangle sections together, then applied Eye Candy 4000 shadowlab with the following settings to both the rectangle and the tube:

Center Offset Direction: 315

Center Offset Distance: 4.33

Overall Opacity: 100%

Overall blur: 56

Perspective blur: 0

Color black

Draw only outside selection checked

I then went back and erased the part of the shadow that was under the legs of the tube where it cut off her legs in the rectangle.

Now open the arch element and copy and paste it just below your tube. You may or may not need to erase part of the tube or arch if it looks funny. I didn't bother erasing any because I covered it with another element. It's totally up to you depending on what elements you use. If you are copying my tut exactly, you won't need to erase anything.

Open the heart sucker, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, rotate to the left by 15. duplicate and mirror. Arrange the two on the left lower side. add drop shadow to both then merge together. Duplicate and mirror.

Add your name, copyright and any scrap kit credits needed.

Crop, resize and save!

Christmas At Grandma's

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 at his site HERE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Christmas at Grandmas from Juicy Bits, which you can purchase at her store HERE.

Font of choice, I am using Zebra.

Mask: Monti circle mask which you can get at Monti's site HERE. My link should take you to her mask page, if it doesn't click the masks link on the left and the mask is just a little down the page.

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 650x650 white background.

Open element 19, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 70%.

Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, expand by 5. Open paper 02, copy and paste as a new layer, below the frame, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, take your eraser tool and erase the bits that you don't want hanging over the frame, then go ahead and deselect. Add drop shadow to your tube and frame.

Open element 01, copy and paste as a new layer, rotate to the right by 20. Drag down below the frame and background paper. Add drop shadow.

Open element 29, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 50% add drop shadow and arrange over the left middle part of the frame.

Open one of the tag elements, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 50% add a drop shadow and arrange it so that it looks like it's hanging from the bow.

Open element 43, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%, add a drop shadow and arrange on the lower part of the frame.

Open element 26, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 30%, add a drop shadow and arrange it on the right lower side of tag.

Open both candy canes, copy and paste as new layers resize them both by 20%, then mirror one of them. Rotate one to the left by 20 and the other to the right by 20. Add drop shadow, then merge them together. Arrange on the right side of the little house.

Open one of the mugs, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 20% then again by 65%. Add a drop shadow and arrange on the bottom by the house.

Open a paper of your choice, copy and paste as a new layer just above your white background layer. Open your mask, go to layers, new mask layer, from image and apply the mask. Then on your layers palette, delete the mask layer and merge the group. Resize the mask if necessary.

Open your alpha. Take your selection tool and draw around the m, copy and paste as a new layer. Go back to your alpha, deselect, draw around the e, copy and paste as a new layer, ect until you get all the letters to spell Merry. Duplicate your r, then arrange the letters out. I rotated a couple of them by 20 to the left or right. Once they're arranged how you like them, merge them all together and then resize by about 50%. Add a drop shadow.

Do the same as above to get the word Christmas.

Add your copyright and credits as necessary.

Add your name or text.

Crop tag and resize as needed.

I always delete the white background layer and then save as a .png so it's transparent and I don't have the white background.

Trendsetter

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(s) of choice, I am using the beautiful artwork of Ismael Rac, which you need a license to use. You can get at his store HERE. I am using one full length tube, and a close up.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Trendsetter by Juicy Bits which you can get HERE.

Font of choice, I am using the alpha that came with the kit.

Plugins: VM Extravaganza-Transmission,

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 600 x 600 white background.

Open Frame 4, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, I resized mine by 85%, then hide it for now.

With your magic wand, click inside the frame, then selection, modify, expand by 3.

Open paper 9, copy and paste as a new layer just above your white background layer, resize by 60%, selections, invert, make sure you are still on the paper layer and click delete on your keyboard, leave selected.

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

Duplicate the tube, on the top layer, adjust blur, gaussian blur by 3, change the opacity to soft light.

On the original layer adjust, hue and saturation, change both to 0, then add a drop shadow just to the bottom tube.

Now go ahead and unhide the other tube.

Open paper 15, make your elipse tool active, and make your background pattern paper 15, your foreground set to null . Draw out a largish circle that is a little taller than your frame, so you can see it above and below (see my tag for reference), convert to raster layer. Add a drop shadow.

Open paper 8 and do the same as above, just put the circle over to the right side of the frame, drag it below the pink circle layer, add a drop shadow. Merge the two together, apply VM Transmission-Extravaganza with the following settings:

Line Width: 6

Offset: 18

Contrast: 40

Now lower the opacity to about 45.

Open scatter 2, copy and paste just above the layer we just made with the circles, resize by 60% and add your drop shadow.

Open the pink Hearts layer, copy and paste as a new layer just above your frame, resize by 85%, add your drop shadow.

Open heart01, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 45%, arrange over the top right corner of the frame, add your drop shadow.

Open the alpha, use your lasso tool to go around the letters you need, copy and paste as a new layer, resize them whatever size you want them, I did mine by 45% then sharpened them, after you arrange them all how you want them, merge them together and add a drop shadow.

Add any copyright and credits you need to add.

Crop your tag, and if you want a transparent tag without the white background, delete that layer and save as a .png file.

Masquerade Ball

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 one of the tubes that came with the scrap kit. It is by Lisa at Sophisticated Imaging.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Masquerade Ball by Wicked Princess Scraps.

Template 2 by Deb & Mich at Creative Misfits Creations. It's the 4th one down. Just click on the link above the templates where it says Deb & Mich.

Font of choice, I am using

Mask: WSL mask 302, which you can find at Weescotslass Creations.

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. Delete the Copyright, and Raster 1 and 2 layers. I resized mine (all layers) so that it was 575x441 and then changed the canvas size to 650x650. This made the size of the template smaller and then gave me room to work. We'll crop any excess off at the end. I also added a new layer above the background layer and flood filled with white and deleted the background layer that was there. I just find it easier to work with doing it that way.

Make raster3 layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 6, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange how you like it, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Do the same for the oval frame layer picking a darker paper to use (I used 9), then add a drop shadow.

Repeat for the circle layer. I used paper 16.

Make the white dots layer active, and make the color replacer tool active. Set black as your foreground and white as the background and then go over the dotted layer with the color replacer tool. This will change your dots to black.

Make the diamond dots layer active, use your dropper tool to pick the color of the diamond dots and make it your background color (right click) then left click on a dark color from the paper you used in the circle layer.

Now go over all the dots in the diamond dot layer and diamond dots 2 & 3 layers and change the colors.

Click inside the big diamond layer, selections modify, expand by 3. Open paper 19, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%, selections, invert and click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected.

Open a tube of your choice, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange into the diamond as you like it, click delete and deselect.

Go back to your big diamond layer, selections, select all, float, defloat, add a new layer above the diamond layer and below the paper layer you just put on. Flood fill with the dark color you changed the dotted lines to.

Deselect and delete the original diamond layer. Add a drop shadow.

Duplicate your tube layer. On the top layer blur, gaussian blur of 3, change the blend mode to soft light. On the original layer, change the blend mode to Luminance (L).

Fill the left and right diamond layers as instructed above.

Copy and paste your tube, resize if necessary. If you use the same tube I did, I resized by 64%. Add a drop shadow.

Add any elements you like, resizing as necessary.

Open a paper of your choice, paste it above the white background layer. Open your mask, layers, new mask layer, from image, find your mask in the drop down box, click ok. Delete the mask layer, merge the group. Resize mask if necessary and I changed the opacity of mine to 56%.

Add your name, copyright and other credits as needed.

Crop and save.