Garvey Diva

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 Keith Garvey which you need a license to use. You can get it at PTE.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Opposites Attract Lovey by Shani of Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find the stores she sells at shown on the top left side of her blog.

Font of choice, I am using Impact for the word Diva and Honey Script Semi Bold for my name.

Mask: gemsmasks160 by Gems Taggin Scraps.

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 white.

Open the scalloped frame element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%. Add a drop shadow.

Open the heart wreath frame, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 55%. Click inside it with your magic wand, make sure you click in the little parts around the outside edge, get in between all the vines, make sure you either hold down the shift key while doing so or make sure the mode on your magic wand is set to add (shift) then modify, expand by 2.

Open paper 6, copy and paste as a new layer, selections modify, invert, click delete on your keyboard. Drag the paper between the two frame layers and leave it selected.

Open your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer and arrange it where you want it in the frame. Duplicate the tube and hide the duplicate for now. Drag the original under your wreath frame and erase the bits that hang out of the bottom. Deselect and add a drop shadow to your tube and wreath frame.

Unhide your duplicate tube, drag it above the wreath frame layer. Erase the bits that hang over the bottom. This way you have her head above the frame and you can erase the parts on the lower part without having to spend a lot of time erasing tiny bits of frame at the top or her on the bottom. This works really well when you have tiny little parts to erase.

Open up the elements you want to use, resize as needed and add them to your tag, drop shadow on each layer. The ones I used are as follows:

Makeup box resized at 45%

Makeup resized at 25% mirrored

Perfume bottles resized at 25%

Shoe resized at 25%

Lipstick resized at 25%

Open a paper, copy and paste as a new layer, drag it down just above the background layer, open your mask. Apply mask by going to layers, new mask layer, from image, find your mask in the drop down menu, click ok. Delete the mask and merge group.

Add your name, any other text you'd like, copyrights and credits as needed.

Beach Day Mermaid

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 Day At The Beach by Farrah's Designer Scraps.

Font of choice, I am using

Mask: Becky Mask023, she isn't online anymore, and I have supplied the mask 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!

Drop shadow throughout is 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Open a new image 650 x 650 white.

Open frame 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 35%.

Take your magic wand and click inside all the little areas between the sticks, and in the big middle part, selections, modify, expand by 5.

Open paper 3, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 35% three times, selections invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect and drag it below your frame layer.

Open the ships element copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 20% then by 40%, add a drop shadow, I used 2, 1, 70, 5. Move the ships over near the top left side of the frame so it looks like they're floating in the water.

Duplicate the ships, mirror and drag down a little lower in the water and to the right.

Open the bottle element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 20% then again by 30% add drop shadow move near bottom left side of frame.

Open your tube, copy and paste to the right side of your frame. If you are using the same tube as me, mirror it and then resize by 65% add a drop shadow.

Open paper 6, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 20% then by 75%, drag below your frame layer.

Take your selection tool set on rectangle, make sure you are on your paper layer, Takeand select the top 2/3 of the paper, so that it's just a little bit above where the stick goes across the bottom of the frame. Click delete on your keyboard.

Take your eraser tool set on round, hardness at 8, step 1, density at 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 100. Run your eraser around the edges of the sand to make it look wavy/irregular around the edges. When you get something you're happy with, drop the opacity down to about 60.

Open the chest, resize by 25% then by 60%. Move to the bottom left of the frame, add drop shadow.

Do the same with the barrel.

Open the glitter, copy and paste as a new layer, reize twice by 45%, drag down below your tube, on the sand, duplicate and mirror.

Open the fish charm, resize by 20%, then by 60%, arrange on the top left side of frame.

Open the lantern, resize by 15%, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange on the bottom left side with the chest and barrel, add drop shadow.

Open flower 2 element, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 25%, arrange on top left side of frame, drag below fish charm layer

Add the pearls element, resize by 15 then by 80% drag it below the lantern but on top of the chest on the left side.

Open some of the shells, resize as necessary and arrange around the tube.

Open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 25%, drag it just above the background layer, open the mask, apply mask by going to layers, new mask layer, from image, find the mask in the drop down box and click ok. Delete the mask and merge group. Duplicate and merge again.

Add your name, copyright and other credits as needed.

Chef Otelia

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 tube that came with the kit.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Chef Otelia by Wicked Princess Scraps, you can find it on her blog here, and the stores she sells at are located on her top left side of the blog. Isn't it just the cutest kits?

Collab template #3 by Tamie and Deb which you can find at the Creative Misfits Creations blog. It's the last link of the post for June 15th 2011.

Font of choice, I did not use a font, I used the alphas provided in the kit.

Mask: DVB Mask 111 by Designs By Vaybs

Plugins: none 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. delete raster 5 layer (credits) and raster 9. Note: if you are using different papers than me, you might want to leave raster 9 til the end and decide if the dotted lines look good over the paper you have chosen to use.

Since it's pretty large, I like to resize my template to start out, so I resized it to 600 x 456 then changed the canvas size to 650 x 650.

Make raster 3 layer active, click on it with your magic wand. Open paper 8, copy and paste as a new layer, selections invert, make sure you are on the paper layer, click delete on your keyboard. Selections invert again, selections modify, expand by 5, add a new raster layer below the paper layer, flood fill with a pink from the paper. Deselect.

Add noise to the frame layer, uniform, monochrome checked 75%. Add a drop shadow. Delete the original layer.

Add papers to the following layers the same way as above. Make sure to delete the original raster layers as you go along.

Copy of raster 3 using paper 5

Raster 6 using paper 7, add a drop shadow.

Raster 2 using paper 10 resized by 73% add drop shadow

Raster 4 using paper 13 add drop shadow

Raster 1 and copy of raster 1 using paper 14

On raster 7 and raster 9, add the same noise setting you did on the outside oval frame and add a drop shadow.

Open your tubes, go back and select the left side small square layer by going to selections, select all, float, defloat, invert. Copy and paste one of your tubes over the square, arrange how you want, click delete on your keyboard. Do the same for the other square on the other side.

Change the blend mode of these tubes to luminence (L)

Copy and paste your full size tube, arrange in the middle of the tag, add your drop shadow.

Open the bead splatter element, copy and paste as a new layer, drag it down so that it is just above all the oval layers in the middle.

Copy and paste various elements that you like, resizing and adding drop shadow as necessary.

I used:

Candybox resize by 25%

Birthday cake resize by 25%

Chococupcake resize by 20%

Heartcupcake resize by 28%

Cafecup resize by 20%

Tag 3 resize by 45%

Chocohearts resize by 75%

Cherry resize by 20%

Strawberry resize by 20%

Balloons resized by 45%

Choco4 resize by 15%

Choco2 resize by 15%

Open paper 11, copy and paste as a new layer, drag down so it is just above your background layer. Open your mask, layers, new mask layer, from image, find your mask in the drop down menu and apply. Delete the mask and merge group. Drop opacity to 60%.

Open up the letters you need for your name using the alphas provided in the kit, resizing as necessary.

Crop, resize and save!

Rainy Day Love Letters

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 Robert Alvarado which you need a license to use. You can get it at MPT.

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Love Letters by Farrah at Designer Scraps.

udooaktemplate By Brutal Designs from template pack 9.

Font of choice, I am using Just Realize.

Mask: Any mask of your choice, I used ACD Mask 1 by Chas, which is available to ACD Divas members only.

Plugins: Penta Color Dot, Xero Porcelain, Xero Radiance

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, close the original. Delete the following layers: credits, word art, and word art 2.

(optional step) Resize to around 600 x 600 then change the canvas size to 650 x 650. I just do this so that I'm not resizing my tube a lot, so that the tag itself is closer to what I like it in size. If you want to just increase the canvas size and resize the whole thing at the end, that's fine too.

Flood fill your background with white to make it easier to see what you are doing.

Make your blk circle top layer active, click on it with your magic wand. Open paper 3, resize by 30% then by 65%. Copy and paste as a new layer, selections invert, make sure you are on the paper layer, and click delete on your keyboard. Delete the original layer.

Do the same using various papers for the following layers: blk circle bottom, dk grey square top and bottom, resizing the papers as needed.

Click on the pink oval layer with your magic wand, add a new raster layer and flood fill with #d6c59c. Add/remove noise 75% uniform monochrome checked, add a drop shadow.

Click on purple oval with your magic wand, open paper 9, resize by 30%, copy and paste as a new layer, selections invert, click delete on your keyboard, leave selected. Open your tube, copy and paste the close up as a new layer, arrange inside the oval layer to the left side, click delete on your keyboard.

Change the blend mode on your tube to screen. Delete the original oval layer.

Click on the green square layer with your magic wand, add a new raster layer, flood fill with #9676cd, apply penta dot and cross with the default settings, mirror your close up tube, copy and paste as a new layer, selections invert, click delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Duplicate your tube, on the top layer, gaussian blur 3, change blend mode to soft light. On the bottom layer, apply Xero Porcelain at the default settings, drop the opacity on this tube to about 60.

Delete the original green square layer.

Click on grey square right, add a new raster layer and flood fill with #9676cd, mirror your tube back to how it was originally, copy and paste as a new layer and arrange it in the square, selections invert, click delete on your keyboard, deselect and delete the original layer.

Apply Xero Radiance at default settings drop the opacity to 70.

Apply drop shadow to all shape layers.

Copy and paste your tube, resize if necessary, add a drop shadow. If you are using the same tube as I did, I resized mine by 85%.

Open some of your flower elements, copy and paste and resize as needed and arrange them over the top of the tag.

Open ribbon 2 element, resize 3 times by 50%, rotate to the left by 90 and mirror, drag it under the flowers and add drop shadow.

Do the same with ribbon 1 element, drag it between the diary and basket layers.

Open the bird element, resize 3 times by 50, arrange near the top right, add drop shadow.

Open the basket, image mirror, resize by 50 twice, copy and paste as a new layer, add drop shadow.

Open the diary, resize 3 times by 50, copy and paste drag below basket layer, add drop shadow.

Open jar element resize 3 times by 50, copy and paste as a new layer, drag below basket layer, add drop shadow.

Open tag element, resize same as above, copy and paste move to the top of the tag.

Open paper 10, copy and paste as a new layer, just above your white background layer, open your mask, go to layers, new mask layer, from image, find your mask in your drop down menu, apply it, delete the mask layer and merge group. I resized mine by 110%.

Add your name, copyright and credits as needed. Crop, resize, and save.