Irish Fantasy

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 Eugene Rzhevskii which you need a license to use. 

This tube was a free loyal customer tube for February 2018 for Pics For Design customers

I've linked above to his other artwork 

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Irish Fantasy by Scrappin With Lil Ole Me

It's available at the following stores:

Designer Scraps

Mystical Scraps

Scraps N Company

Font of choice, I am using

Mask: WSL_Mask246 by Wee Scotslass Creations




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 900 x 900 pixels with a white background

Open element 63 copy and paste as a new layer 

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

open paper 8 copy and paste as a new layer 
click delete on your keyboard

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize by 50%
arrange in the frame, erase the parts that hang out of the frame

Add the following elements
element 107 resize 70% arrange on bottom left
element 17 resize 40% arrange by element 107
element 16 resize 65% arrange behind the pot of gold
element 99 resize 75%, mirror, arrange below & to the right of element 16
element 53 resize 30%, mirror, arrange by pot of gold
element 18 resize 45% duplicate a couple times, arrange behind pot of gold

open paper 2 copy and paste as a new layer
open your mask, 
layers, new mask layer, from image,
find your mask in the drop down box, apply, merge group, resize 90%

add your copyright and credits as needed

Crop and resize

add your text and save