Old School Summer

For this tutorial you will need the following: Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSPX, but any version should work. Two tubes of your choice. I am using the gorgeous artwork of Ismael Rac which you must purchase at AMI to use. Effects and Plugins: Sepia Toning, which comes with PSP X Penta.com Color Dot Toadies Ommadawn Font used: Angelic War Let's get started! Open a new canvas about 700x700 with a white background. You can crop it down and get rid of the white at the end. This just makes it easier for us to work. Using your preset shape tool set at rectangle, set your foreground to #c5203e and your background to null, line width about 5. Draw out a smallish rectangle. Convert to raster layer and then duplicate it 3 times. Arrange them so they are overlapping how you'd like them. Make the second rectangle down active and click inside it with your magic wand tool. Now, make the top rectangle active, click delete on your keyboard. Do the same for the third rectangle down, then deselect. Merge the top 3 rectangles together. Now, make the third rectangle down active, click inside it with your magic wand. Now get on the bottom rectangle layer and make it active, click delete on your keyboard. Merge it with the other layer with the 3 rectangles. Click inside each of the rectangles with your magic wand while holding the shift key down, selections, modify, expand by 2, add a new raster layer and flood fill with #1381e2. Open one of your tubes, copy and paste it as a new layer, selections, invert, click delete on your keyboard, deselect and add a drop shadow. Take your magic wand and on your rectangles layer, click inside 2 of the frames holding down the shift key. Now go to your tube layer and go to Effects>Image Effects> Sepia Toning and use the default setting. Deselect. Back on the blue background layer inside your rectangles, apply Penta.com Color dot with the following settings top to bottom: 90, 2, 255, 255, 255. Hide your white background layer again, and merge all layers visible, add a drop shadow, then unhide your white background. Duplicate your merged layer. On the bottom layer, blur, gaussian blur by 20. Duplicate the blurred layer and mirror it. Drag the two blurred layers around to where they show how you like them and then merge them together. Then apply Toadies Ommadawn with the following settings top to bottom: 12, 8, 234, 17. Add your full tube and give it a drop shadow. Add your name. Add your copyright info, crop and resize as necessary and save!

Angel Wing

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 AMI. Scrap kit of choice. I am using Night Wings by Kat NKDA which is a PTU kit that you can also purchase at AMI. Font of choice, I am using Pea Lovey Dovey Mask: I am using the mask that came with the Night Wings kit. Plugins: No outside filters 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 a new canvas 700x700 white. Open element 13, copy and paste as a new layer and resize by 45%. Click inside it with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 8. Open paper 2, copy and paste as a new layer, selections, invert, make sure the paper layer is active, and click delete on your keyboard. Leave selected Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer and drag it below the frame. Take your eraser and erase the bits you don't want showing at the bottom of your frame and then deselect. Add a drop shadow. I used 1, 1, 35, 6. Now take your freehand selection tool (the one that looks like a lasso) and make sure it's set on Add(Shift) and that Feather is set to 0. Draw around the parts you want showing above the frame. Go to selections, promote selection to layer, then select none. Now move the layer you just made above the frame. Open element 1, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 20% then again by 40% and then sharpen. Arrange it to the left side of your frame and add a drop shadow. Do the same with element 2, arrange it just under element 1. Open element 10, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, add a drop shadow and arrange to the top right, drag down below the frame and paper layer. Open element 28, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, rotate to the right by 105, add a drop shadow, drag it below your top tube layer. Open element 15, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, add a drop shadow. Drag it below element 28 and arrange it across the bottom of your frame. Open paper 12, copy and paste as a new layer, drag it down to just above your white background layer. Open your mask, apply by going to Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, click on the drop down menu and find your mask, click ok. Delete the mask layer and merge the group. Add your name to the little metal piece (element 15) that you placed at the bottom of your frame. To get the engraved look, I did the text in black and then added my drop shadow. Then applied 3D effect cutout with the following settings: Vertical: 10 Horizontal: 10 Opacity: 50 Blur: 5 Shadow Color: Black Fill Color: White (have box checked) Make sure to add your copyright info. If you want a transparent image, then delete or hide the white background layer and save as a .png.

Solo Beauty

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 Amy Matthews, which you must have a license to use. You can find her work at AMI. Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit by Aiya at Juicy Bits. You can get it HERE or over at AMI. Font of choice, I am using Pristina Mask: Gemsmask16 which you can find in set 1 HERE. No Plugins needed. 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 size 700x700 white. We'll crop and resize at the end. Open frame 10, copy and paste as a new layer, rotate to the left by 90 and resize by 85%. Click inside the frame while holding down your shift key, make sure to click inside the ribbon on the bottom right side. Selections, modify, expand by 8. Open paper 9, copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer. Resize if necessary. Duplicate your tube, drag one layer down below your frame, and hide the layer above your frame for now. Take your eraser tool and erase the parts that hang below your frame, then add a drop shadow. Deselect. Unhide the top tube layer and erase the bits that hang over the bottom of your frame. you don't have to be careful, because you have the lower tube showing through. Don't erase the parts that show over the top of the frame. Open frame 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 90%, and drag it below the frame and paper layers, free rotate to the right by 20. Copy and paste any elements you'd like to use on your tag, resizing as necessary. Open paper 21, copy and paste as a new layer, drag down so that it's just above the white background layer. Open and apply your mask by going to Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image and finding the mask in the drop down box. Delete the mask and merge the group. I resized mine by 85% and lowered the opacity to about 60%. Add your name and copyright info. Crop your tag, resize if necessary, and if you want it to be transparent, delete or hide the white background layer and save as a .png. You're all done!

Possess Your Heart

For this tutorial you will need the following: Paint Shop Pro, any version should work, I am using version PSP X. Tube of choice. I am using the wonderful artwork of Camilla Drakenborg which you must have a license to use. You can find her work at AMI. Template CM06 by Bel Vidotti, which you can find at the Creative Misfits blog (March 14, 2010 entry). Just click on the template below Bel's name to go to the download. Scrap kit of your choice. I am using a kit by Juicy Bits called Love Buzz which you can also find at the AMI store. Mask of your choice. I am using Becky_Mask042. I don't have a current download site for her anymore. Font of your choice. I used VTC Bad Tattoo Let's get started! Remember, you don't have to use the same tube, elements or papers I do. You can use anything you want, these are just suggestions. Make it yours! Open your template, delete the credits layer and both star layers, change the canvas size to 600x700 just to give us some extra room to work. If you like having a white background layer to help you see what you're doing, you can add a new layer, drag it to the bottom and flood fill with white. It's not necessary, but some people like that too see a bit more easily. Make the gradient elipse layer active, selections, select all, float, defloat, invert. Open paper 11, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 65%, make sure you are on your paper layer and click delete on your keyboard and then deselect. Delete the original layer. Make the blue frame layer active, selections, select all, float, invert, open paper 2, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 55%, make sure you have that layer active, and click delete on your keyboard and then deselect. Delete the original layer. Make the Blue rec layer active, selections,select all, float, invert, open paper 13, copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 40%, make sure you are on that layer and click delete on your keyboard. Delete the original blue rec layer. Make one of the thin rec layers active, selections, select all, float, add a new raster layer and flood fill with a color from one of the papers you used. I chose pink because I had only used it on one of the papers and didn't want my whole tag to be yellow and black. Add a drop shadow. I used 1, 1, 60, 5. Do the same for the other thin rec layer, the hearts layer and the top I will posses you layer (the white one). Add any elements you'd like. I added Heart Tag 1 resized at 40%, and the bee resized at 23% and rotated by 18 to the right. Add your name, © info and credits as necessary. Crop and resize, save and you're all done!