Seaside Daydream

Snaggable versions of this tag in my Fotki album

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X7, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Tricia Shanabruch (Seaside Daydreams tube)

 which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit Beach Time by Niqui's Designs 

Font of choice, I am using Gants De Soie

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.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 850 x 850 pixels with a white background

Open element 39 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 75%

take your freehand selection tool set on point to point and click on each of the 4 corners

then back to the first corner to double click, selections, invert

open paper 4 copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in the frame

click delete on your keyboard,

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize by 60%

arrange in front of your frame

Now add your elements:

element 12 resize 80% duplicate arrange below the frame

element 59 arrange over your tube, erase the ones that cover her face

element 56 resize 40% arrange between the tube & frame on the left

element 18 resize 30% arrange on left

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save