Easter Bliss

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 Alicia Mujica (Happy Easter) 

which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, Easter Bliss by Niqui's Designs 

Font of choice, I am using Pristina

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.

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 950 x 950 pixels with a white background

Open element 69 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 70% 

click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open paper 4 copy and paste as a new layer 

click delete on your keyboard, leave selected

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

arrange in your frame

erase the bits that hang out of your frame where you don't want them

Now add your elements:

element 27 resize 60% arrange bottom center of frame

element 21 resize 60% arrange in front of basket on left, duplicate & mirror

element 49 resize 50% arrange on left below the flower & basket layers

element 37 resize 50% arrange on bottom right, below the basket

element 7 resize 20% mirror & arrange on bottom left

element 30 resize 20% arrange beside the chick

element 1 resize 55% arrange in the space between the rabbit and basket, behind both layers

element 57 resize 70% arrange behind rabbit on left

element 29 resize 30% arrange by flowers on bottom

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save