Easter

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 (Easter Surprise tube)

which you need a license to use.  

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

Font of choice, I am using Bolina

Mask of your choice

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 10 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 55% 

Open element 55 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 90% 

click inside element 10 with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open paper 3 copy and paste as a new layer 

click delete on your keyboard, deselect

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer above both frames, resize by 50%

Arrange over the frame 

Now add your elements:

element 11 resize 45% arrange on bottom right side of tube

element 9 resize 45% arrange on bottom left behind the tube layer

element 35 resize 25% arrange in front of basket

element 1 resize 25% arrange on bottom right

element 41 resize 45% arrange on right above the frames, duplicate & mirror

Copy and paste paper 4 above the white background

apply your mask and merge group

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save