Red

YOU WILL NEED:

* Paint Shop Pro or similar. I used PSPX but you should be able to make this tag in other versions.

* Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Jennifer Janesko. You will need a license to use her artwork and you can buy images or tubes from CILM.

* Scrapkit of choice. I am using the St Nicholas kit from Sentimental Style HERE. The sequin heart used in this tutorial is also by Melissa. Thank you Melissa for all the wonderful things you make and share.

* Flower tube of choice. I used roses by Kel from HERE.

* Penta Color Dot Filter HERE.

* Font of choice - I used Words of Love HERE.

* Text effect of choice. I used Super Blade Pro.

* MY SUPPLIES. Included are the scrap papers and elements, rose tube, and sequin heart.


LETS START!

1. Set up your supplies ready for use.

2. Open a new image 500 x 500 with a white background. Add two new raster layers. Create a custom selection using the settings below. Copy and paste each of the scrap papers into the selection, each paper on the new raster layers you created. Make sure your darker colour (red) is on the bottom. (I had trouble getting one of the papers to copy but selecting all then copying worked.)

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3. Duplicate your red paper and apply Gaussian Blur to the bottom layer at the settings below. Apply Pentas Dot Filter to the blur layer.

4. Activate the top red layer. Image - Free Rotate - Left 10.00 degrees. Add drop shadow at the following settings to each paper layer (not the blur layer).

5. Add your tube to the canvas. Resize and sharpen if necessary (I resized to 80%).

6. Add the ribbon and bow to the canvas. Resize to 60% and sharpen. Apply drop shadow to your tube and scrap elements at the same settings as before. Position your ribbon, bow and tube using my sample tag as a guide.

7. Add the sequin heart to the canvas. Resize to 80% and sharpen. Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize - H 252, S 220 (or match the colours in your tube). Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness -20, Contrast 0. Position the heart over the chain link attached to the bow. Duplicate the heart layer and move one layer below the bow. Apply drop shadow to the bottom heart layer.

8. Activate the top heart layer and using your eraser tool, carefully erase a small portion of the heart so that it looks like it is threaded through the loop. If you plan on animating the heart later (see sample at bottom of page) take as little out of the top heart as possible.

9. Add your rose tube to the canvas. Resize to 70% and sharpen. Position to your liking. Add the same drop shadow as before.

10. Activate your text tool using the settings below and type your name. If you are using SBP then colour wont matter, otherwise select a colour to compliment your tube. Postion your name inside the heart, convert to raster and apply drop shadow changing the opacity to 45 and the blur to 4

11. Add copyright information and your watermark. You can save your tag as a jpeg at this point or you can animate it like the example below.

12. ANIMATION You will need Animation Shop and a sparkle filter of choice. Close off the layers with your name and the top sequin heart and merge visible. Duplicate your background layer, your name and the heart layer so that you have 3 of each. Apply your sparkle filter (I used Xenofex Constellation) to each of the heart layers, changing the random seed each time. I also adjusted the brightness and contrast on each of the heart layers using the same settings as before. You want to merge a name, a heart and a background together so that you end up with 3 layers. Save as an Animation Shop psp file. Open in Animation Shop and save as a gif (I used Optimised Octree Settings). I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Scrappin'

YOU WILL NEED:

* A good knowledge of Paint Shop Pro (or similar).

* Tube of choice. I am using the art work of Jennifer Janesko. You will need a license to use her art work. Tubes can be purchased from CILM.

* Scrap kit of choice. You want to select a kit that compliments the main colours in the tube you are using. I am using the Just A Whisper scrap kit from Nana's Attic. You can download the papers and elements used in this tag HERE.

* There are no outside filters used in this tutorial.

* Font of choice - I am using Orpheus.

* Silver beads pattern - right click and save.

Lets Start

1. Open a new canvas 500 x 500 and floodfill with white. Open your tube, pattern and scrap supplies in PSP.

2. Add a new raster layer for each paper that you want to use in your tag plus one for the blur layer and one for the silver bead frame. Activate your selection tool and create a custom selection using the following settings -

3. On the layer just above the white background, floodfill with a dark complimentary colour. I used #000040. Resize the papers to 30%. Copy and paste the paper into the selection, each paper on a different layer. Floodfill with last blank raster with the silver bead pattern, contract by 3 and press delete. Deselect.

4. Arrange your papers in the order you want them to show. Use the image rotate function (Image - Free Rotate) to tilt the papers on an angle. Alternate to the left or the right. If you have a lot of papers make the angle smaller eg 5. An angle of 15 plus a drop shadow will fill the 500 wide canvas. Leave the top paper layer as it is.

5. Copy and paste your tube to the canvas and resize (I resized to 80%). Sharpen if necessary. Position the tube to your liking under the silver frame layer. Carefully erase any parts that are not on the paper. Add drop shadow to the frame, tube and paper layers at the settings shown below.

6. Activate the blur layer (layer above the white). Apply Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds at the settings shown below. Repeat and untick the Horizontal box. Reduce layer opacity to 80%.

7. Resize the ribbon and overlay from the scrapkit and position. Sharpen the ribbon and duplicate. Move one ribbon layer above the frame and one below the tube. On the top ribbon layer, carefully erase the edge of the ribbon that is on the frame. The bottom layer is there so that you don't have to be too careful, also if you want to add a shadow use the bottom layer. (I didn't add shadow to this layer.)

8. Select two complimentary colours from your canvas and add your text (I used dark #9397a7 and light #eeeff5). I made mine vertical, stroke 2 and created as a vector so it could be sized to the space available. I selected the light colour in the letters with my magic wand and applied Inner Bevel at these settings -

9. Add the same drop shadow as before to your text. Add copyright information and your watermark. Save as a jpeg file and you are done. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

So Blue

YOU WILL NEED:

* Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop. You will need a good knowledge of both programs for this tutorial.

* Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Jennifer Janesko. Jennifer's artwork is licensed and you can purchase it from CILM.

* My It's So Blue scrapkit HERE.

* Font of choice - I used Chocolate Box.

* My heart mask HERE.

* Sparkle tube of choice. You can make a sparkle tube from a tutorial by Dark Yarrow HERE or you can use the one I made HERE.

LETS START!

1. Set up your supplies ready for use. Open a new image 500 x 500 with a white background. Copy and paste Paper 1 from the scrapkit as a new layer. Apply the heart mask to the paper and merge the group.

2. Copy and paste Frame 2 (heart shape) from the scrapkit to your canvas. Resize to 75%.

3. Paste your tube between the mask and frame layers and resize and sharpen if necessary. I resized to 70% and moved the tube to the right as shown. I sharpened my tube using the settings below.

4. Activate your magic wand tool and click outside the heart on the frame layer. Selections - Modify - Expand by 2. Click on your tube layer and press delete.

5. Click on the frame layer. Copy and paste a ribbon to the canvas (I used the lighter blue one). Image - Free Rotate - 15 degrees left. Use your magic wand with a feather of 2 and select outside the heart frame. Click on your ribbon layer and press delete. If the edges still seem a little rough, use your soften brush to tidy it up.

6. Copy and paste your heart ribbon charm to the canvas. Position it to your liking and then using your freehand selection tool with a feather of 0, carefully trace around the middle bar but only where it is over the ribbon. The idea is to make it look like the charm is threaded on the ribbon. Apply drop shadow to your charm at the settings below. Merge the ribbon, frame and tube layers together and apply the same drop shadow.

7. Copy and paste a bow to the canvas. I used the large blue bow, resized to 70% and sharpened using the same settings as before. To make the colour more in line with the tube and the ribbon, Adjust menu - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness 40 Contrast 5. I also applied the same settings to the mask layer.

8. Add your copyright information and watermark. Close the white background layer off and merge visible. Hold the control key down and press C then V to crop the excess space from your canvas. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with white. Drag the white layer to the bottom and merge visible. Duplicate the layer.

9. Copy and paste the sparkle tube to the canvas. Resize to 40% and position over the top of the charm. Duplicate the layer and resize the new layer 80%. Position the smaller sparkle so that the middle of it is aligned with the middle of the larger sparkle. Change the blend mode for each sparkle layer to hard light. Merge a sparkle to each background layer.

10. Activate your text tool and using the settings below type your name. I had the foreground closed and the background colour was #819df4. Image - Free Rotate - 15 degrees left. Apply Inner Bevel at the settings below. Apply drop shadow at the same settings as before but change the blur to 6 and the colour to white. Duplicate your text layer and merge it to each of your background layers.

11. Save your canvas as an Animation Shop .psp file.

12. Open your file in Animation shop. Change the frame properties to 40. Save as a .gif using the settings given below and you are done.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.