Summer Angel

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 used the artwork of Zindy S D Nielsen and you can purchase her tubes and artwork from HERE.

* Font of choice. I used Honey Script.

* My Shades of Summer Scrapkit HERE.

* Mask by me HERE.


LETS START

1. Set up your supplies ready to use.

2. New canvas 500 x 500 with a white background.

3. Copy and paste 3 papers from the scrapkit to the canvas. I used (working from bottom to top) #11, #6 and #1.

4. Apply your mask to paper 11 and merge group.

5. Resize paper #6 to 80%. You may like to sharpen to make the texture of the paper to stand out.

6. Resize paper #1 to 75%. Rotate paper 10 degrees Left. You may like to sharpen the paper.

7. Copy and paste flowerframe1 to your canvas. Resize to 90% and sharpen if required.

8. Copy and paste the heart accent of choice to the canvas and resize to 75%. Duplicate and rotate each heart 10 degrees, one to the left and the other to the right. Position the heart on the frame using my tag as a guide. Try and position the hearts so that the pearls cover each other where they intersect. Merge heart layers together.

9. Copy and paste a bow to the canvas. Resize and sharpen - I resized to 40%. Position the bow on the hearts.

10. Copy and paste your tube to the canvas. If you are using the same tube as I did, I did not resize but I did erase the bottom part of the dress. Position the tube to your liking. Duplicate the tube and place the copy above the frame and make sure your original tube is below the frame. On the top tube layer, erase the bottom part of the tube to reveal the flower frame. I tubed around her hand so that the flower and her hand were outside the frame. Erase the excess tube from the bottom layer.

11. Drag the heart layer so that it is above the frame but under the top tube.

12. Apply drop shadow at V and H = 0, Opacity = 70, Blur = 2, colour = #9a928b (if you are using the same tube as me) to the bow, hearts, frame, bottom tube, paper 1 and paper 6 layers.

13. Activate your text tool and select your Honey Script font. Foreground and background colours = #f5dda0, stroke 1, size 36. Type your message. Change Drop shadow settings to V = 1, H = -1, Blur 1 (everything else stays the same) and apply.

14. Change the foreground colour to #d6d1c4 and the size to 100. Type your name and position to your liking. Change Drop shadow settings to Blur 2 (everything else stays the same) and apply.

15. Add copyright information and your watermark. Save as a .jpg file and you are done. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Framed

YOU WILL NEED:

* Paint Shop Pro. I used version 10 but you should be able to make this tag in earlier versions.

* Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Zindy S D Nielsen and you can check out her art at her site http://zindy.zone.dk/index.php

* Corner tube of choice.

* Accent tube of choice.

* Mask of choice. I am using Saphire1.

* Font of choice.

* Super Blade Pro with Coconut Ice preset or another filter of choice to use on your text.

* Gold bead pattern tile (right click and save)

* You can download my supplies HERE. Included are the tubes used in this tutorial, the gold bead pattern, the mask and the corner tube.


LETS START!

1. Open your tubes, mask and pattern in PSP. Open your font (by double clicking on it in Windows Explorer) and minimise to use later.

2. Open a new image 500 x 500 with a white background.

3. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with a light colour from your tube. I used #e7dcd2.

4. Apply the mask to the coloured raster layer (Layers - New mask layer - From image). Merge group. Apply PSP Texture (Effects - Texture Effects - Texture) at the following settings.

5. Copy and paste your main tube and resize it to 75%. If you are using a different tube you will want your mask showing around the edges.

6. Copy and paste your corner tube as a new layer. Position your corner tube so that the inner part of the corner tube just touches the corner of the picture tube.

7. When you have your corner in position, duplicate and mirror. Adjust the position of the mirrored layer if necessary (it should be touching the corner of the other side now) and merge the layers. Duplicate the merged layer and flip. Adjust the position of the flipped layer if necessary then merge your layers again.

8. Put your gold bead pattern on the materials palette (click on the pattern box and scroll up - anything open in PSP will show up at the top of the list and you just click on the image you want to use as a pattern).

9. Activate your main tube layer. Selection - Select all - Float - Defloat. Add a new raster layer and fill the selection with your gold bead pattern. Selection - Modify - Contract by 3. Press the delete key and fill the selection with the light colour you used for your mask layer. Selection - Modify - Contract by 2 and fill with the gold bead pattern. Selection - Modify - Contract by 3 and press the delete key. Select none.

10. Activate your preset shapes tool. Ensure the gold bead pattern is set as the foreground and the background turned off. Draw a rectangle using the following settings. Your rectangle should connect the outer edges of your corner tubes (see example at top). You can use your up and down and left and right arrows to help position your rectangle. When you are satisfied with the position of the rectangle, convert to a raster layer.

11. Ensure that your layers are in the correct order from the top down -

12. Close off the white background layer and the coloured mask layer. Make sure one of the other layers is activated and merge visible. Adjust - Sharpen - Unsharp mask at the following settings.

13. Add drop shadow at the following settings (colour is black).

14. You can resize your mask layer if you want less of it showing. You can play with the layer opacity to lighten the mask as well. I resized mine to 90%.

15. Add your accent tube where you would like it. I used the rose accent from the Zindy tube and did a free rotate at 90 degrees to the right and placed the tube at the bottom of the canvas. Apply the same drop shadow to the accent tube.

16. Select two colours from your tube to use as your text colours. I used #ae6968 for the foreground and #d8a6a1 as the background. Add your text at the following settings.

17. Apply whatever filter you would like to decorate your text with. I applied Super Blade Pro with the M-Coconut Ice preset. Add the same drop shadow as before.

18. Add copyright information and your watermark.

19. Crop your canvas to reduce some of the white space around it. Save as a .jpg file and you are done. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.