Wednesday, December 24, 2014

A Hot Chocolate Christmas PTU

A Hot Chocolate Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called Marshy & Tree by Cuddly Rigor Mortis which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase these tubes from CDO  which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Holly Jolly Christmas which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL17 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper3 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open reindeer copy & paste to your image and place on the left bottom of your mask  
Open HoHoHo copy & paste to your image and place at the top of your mask on the right
Open Elf Hat and copy & paste to your image and place it on the top of your tag next to santa
Open gifttag copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom right of your book
Open poinsettia copy & paste to your image and place it on the right just below the gifttag
Open fence copy & paste to your image 
Open tree copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of the fence
Open your tube1 of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 75%) and place it on the right side bottom of your tree
Open gifts copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place next to tube #1
Open lantern copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom right of tube 1
Open milk & cookies copy & paste to your image resize by 50%  and place on the bottom on the right side gift
Open your tube2 of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 50%) and place on the left end of the fence
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube santa or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Friday, December 12, 2014

Do You Believe in Santa? FTU

Do You Believe in Santa?
I used the wonderful artwork called Christmas Time by Elias Chatzoudis which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from Elias which can now be found here  
I am using a  FTU scrapkit called Believe In Santa which can be found at Pam's Scraps & More here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL128 which can be found here
Plugins Used Xero Porcelain
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!
Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper5 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group.  I applied DSB Flux Bright Noise with the following settings to the mask

Open garland copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of your mask at the bottom
Open holly copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask
Open lights and copy & paste to your image and place across your garland
Open tree copy & paste to your image and place it in the top left corner of the mask
Open frame2 copy & paste to your image and  take your magic wand and click inside the frame with the following settings 
Make sure your click above and below the ribbon Then go to selections modify and expand with the following settings 
Open paper3 and copy & paste to your image then do to selections invert  then hit delete move this paper layer below your frame Add DSB Flux bright noise with the same settings as above to your paper Hit selections none  Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image (I used the larger tube for this)  and place the tube under your frame. On your tube layer use your magic wand with the same setting as above and click anywhere on the image then go to selections selections invert Your tube should have the selections around it then go to float then defloat go to your frame layer and at the top of the frame take your eraser tool and erase the part of the frame that is covering your tube then selections select none  Take your eraser tool and erase any other part but the top of the tube that is showing outside your frame
Open candle copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place it  on the bottom left corner of your frame
Open present copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place at the bottom of your candle
Open present2 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place to the left of your present
Open present copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place to the right of your present
Open deer copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom of your tree
Open star copy & paste to your image resize by 50%  and place at the top right corner of your frame
Open cane copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place at the top right corner of your frame

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Peppermint Christmas PTU

Peppermint Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called Christmas by Chris DeLara which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from The PSP Project which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Peppermint Cutie Exclusive which is PTU by Amy Marie and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL362 which can be found here
Plugins Used Xero Porcelain
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper5 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open 67 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner of your mask
Open 69 copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle so that the end is under 67
Open 30 and copy & paste to your image and place it on top of the flower 
Open 61 copy & paste to your image and place it in the top left corner of the mask
Open 8 copy & paste to your image and take your magic wand and click inside the frame with the following settings 
Then go to selections modify and expand with the following settings 

Open pp9 and copy & paste to your image then do to selections invert  then hit delete move this paper layer below your frame  Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image (I used the larger tube for this)  and place the part of the tube your want to show inside the frame then hit delete selections none  move this layer below your frame Go to effect porcelain with the following settings
 and apply to your tube layer
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I did not resize) and place on the left side of your frame
Open 3 copy & paste to your image and place it o the right bottom side of your mask
Open 36 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place it on the top part of the heel of the boot
Open 4 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the frame just above the top of the boot
Open 37 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place at the bottom of your tube
Open 77 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the right side of element 37
Open 33 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom between your boot & glass

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

All Dressed Up For Christmas PTU

All Dressed Up for Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called Little Flower by Caron Vinson which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Holiday Hush which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL116 which can be found here
Plugins Used Xero Porcelain
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper5 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open branch copy & paste to your image and place in the top left corner of your mask
Open feather copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle right of your mask
Open flower1 and copy & paste to your image and place it just under the first part of your feather
Open berries2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the top part of flower1
Open tree copy & paste to your image and place it o the left side of your mask
Open poinsettia2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the top right corner of your mask
Open pinebranch copy & paste to your image and place on bottom of your tree duplicate x1 and flip horizontal and place the second one on the bottom of flower1
Go back to your poinsettia2 layer duplicate and move the duplicate in the middle of your 2 pinebranches
Open ice flowers copy & paste to your image and place between the top poinsettia2 and the feather
Open candle2 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right corner of your mask
Open leaf2 copy & paste to your image and place on top of your branch to the right of the tree
Open frame 4 copy & paste to your image resize by 80% and place at the top between the tree and the poinsettia2 (it will cover some of these elements)  take your magic wand and click inside the frame with the following settings
 Then go to selections modify and expand with the following settings
Open paper8 and copy & paste to your image then do to selections invert  then hit delete move this paper layer below your frame  Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image and place the part of the tube your want to show inside the frame then hit delete selections none  move this layer below your frame Go to effect porcelain with the following settings 
and apply to your tube layer
Open bow1 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of the left side of your frame
Open rocking horse copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of your mask on top of the candle
Open slipper copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom of your tree trunk
Open iceskates copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the left side of your rockinghorse
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I did not resize) and place on the left side of your tree
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube squirrel or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Thursday, December 4, 2014

All Aboard the Santa Express FTU

All Aboard the Santa Express
I used the wonderful artwork of PinUp Toons which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Santa Express which is FTU by Scraps by Pam and can be found at Pam's Scraps & More here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL220 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper9 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open branch copy & paste to your image and move to the top of your mask duplicate and move the duplicate just below the branch
Open lights copy & paste to your image and place on top of your branches
Open lights2 and copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your mask
Open sparkles copy & paste to your image and place on top of your branches
Open windows copy & paste to your image and place at the top middle of your mask
Open tree3 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your window so that the bottom of the tree is slightly up from the bottom of the window
Open elfsign copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your window
Open candle copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom of your window on the end of the string of lights
Open train copy & paste to your image and place across the top of your string of lights on the bottom 
Open penguin copy & paste to your image resize by 50%  and place on top of the train engine cab  
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the right side of your image in front of the tree and sitting on the end of the train
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube penguin or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Getting Ready for Christmas PTU

Getting Ready for Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called Tis The Season by Deborah Grieves which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from The PSP Project  which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Its Christmas Time which is PTU by Creative Intentionz and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL220 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.
 Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.
Let's get started!!

Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper11 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layermerge merge group.  Resize by 107%
Copy & paste paper10 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group.
Open wreath2 copy & paste to your image and place in the right hand top of your mask
Open candycanes1 copy & paste to your image and place at the top of your mask in the middle slightly to the right on your wreath
Open candycanes2 and copy & paste to your image and place just below candycane1
Open candycane3 copy & paste to your image and place just below candycanes2
Open bow1 copy & paste to your image flip horizonal and place in the middle of candycanes3
Open nutcracker1 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask in the middle
Open nutcracker2 copy & paste to your image and place on the left of nutcracker1
Open christmastree copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask in the middle
Open candlewreath copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of nutcracker2 by his feet
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 70%) and place in the middle of your image
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, bow or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Mystical Tree Elf PTU

Mystical Tree Elf
I used the wonderful artwork called Tree Elf by Johannah Von Frankenstein which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from The PSP Project  which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Tree Elf which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL116 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.
 Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.
Let's get started!!
Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper6 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open tree copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask at the top
Open wheel copy & paste to your image and place at the top of your mask in the middle
Open book and copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle of your tree
Open bridge copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom right of your book
Open gnarledlog copy & paste to your image and place it o the right side of your mask in the middle
Open leaves2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the top of the gnarledlog
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 75%) and place  in the middle of your image
Open rollinglog copy & paste to your image and place on bottom of your tube
Open bucket copy & paste to your image and place on the left end of the rollinglog
Open bottle copy & paste to your image and place in front of your bucket
Open jarofteeth copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of the rollinglog
Open leaves1 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom middle slightly up from the bottom
Open mushroom copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of leaves1
Open squirrel copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the left corner of the book
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube squirrel or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!

I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Friday, November 14, 2014

A Time Gone By PTU

A Time Gone By
I used the wonderful artwork called Redhead by Charlotte Thomson which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes from The PSP Project  which can be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Got the Blues which is PTU by A Taggers Scrap and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice GemMasks111 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper10 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open wheel copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of the mask just slightly to the left of the middle  
Open flower3 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner of your mask duplicate and flip horizontal and place just below the first one
Open dress and copy & paste to your image and place it one the right side of your mask in the middle
Open bottle2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your dress at the bottom
Open bottles2 copy & paste to your image and place it on top of your dress & bottle near the bottom
Open leaves5 copy & paste to your image and place it in the top left corner of your mask
Open leaves4  copy & paste to your image and place just below leaves5
Open leaves3 copy & paste to your image and place below leaves4
Open leaves1 copy & paste to your image and place below leaves3
Open frame 8 copy & paste to your image resize by 150% and then free rotate 90 degrees and place so that it starts by your wheel and covers half of the wheel  Take your magic wand and click inside the frame with the following settings 

 Go to selections modify and use the following settings

Open paper8 copy & paste to your image and hit selections invert then delete selections none
Open sparkles1  copy & paste to your image (this will be under the frame layer) 
Open cutain2 copy & paste to your image and place on top of the paper layer under your frame
 Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 55%) and place under your frame layer
Open mask copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of your image
Duplicate your tube layer x2 and move down behind the mask placing the eyes of each duplicate in the openings of the mask Take your eraser tool and erase all of the tubes showing outside the openings
Open shoe copy & paste to your image and place next to the left side of the mask
Open blingswirl1 copy & paste to your image and place so that the top part of the bling is on the left bottom corner of your gold frame
Open butterfly copy & paste to your image resize by 75% free rotate by 45 degrees and place on the left side of the bling
Open sparkle3 copy and paste to your image and place on the left side of your frame
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, chest or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Giving Thanks PTU

Giving Thanks
I used the wonderful artwork called Autumn Girl by LadyMishkaNEW which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from PicsForDesign  which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Give Thanks which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used Gems Masks 197 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper3 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open frame 5 copy & paste to your image and place on the top in the middle of your mask
Open flower1 copy & paste to your image and place on the left middle of your frame
Open flower2 and copy & paste to your image and place it just above and to the left of flower1
Open candle copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom and to the left of your frame
Open leaf2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your frame just slightly up from the middle
Open leaf3 copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle right of your frame
Open pumpkin copy & paste to your image and place below your 2 leaves
Open berries copy & paste to your image and place on top of your leaves
Open pilgrimhat copy & paste to your image and place on top of the pumpkin so that the bottom of the hat covers the stem
Open cookedturkey copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom of the candle
Open pie copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your pumpkin
Open mashedpotatoes copy & paste to your image and place on the right of your cooked turkey so that it covers half of the turkey
Open musket copy & paste to your image and place it across your image from the bottom of the candle to the pilgrimhat
Open ribbon copy & paste to your image and place it across the top of your image
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed  and place in the middle of your image

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, frame or anything you would like to!
Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Thursday, October 30, 2014

A Very Sexy Witch PTU

A Very Sexy Witch
I used the wonderful artwork by Cris Delara which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase the tubes from The PSP Project which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Sexy Witch which is PTU by Amy Marie   and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice DBV111 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet 

your needs.
Copy & paste paper13 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open 101 copy & paste to your image and place on the top in the middle of your mask 
Open 69 copy & paste to your image and place just below the moon
Open 31 and copy & paste to your image 
Open 4 copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your village
Open 111 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your village
Open 80 copy & paste to your image and place across the bottom of your village road
Open 8 copy & paste to your image and place on the top part of the tree on the left
Open 6 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom right of the tree on the right
 Open 110 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on right of the spider
 Open 30 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom of the tree on the left
 Open 33 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom of your book
 Open 48 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place above the tree on the right
 Open 25 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on top of the tree on the left
Open your tube of choice resize if needed and place in the middle of your image

 Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Crisp Autumn PTU

Crisp Autumn
I used the wonderful artwork called Nata by Alex Prihodko which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes from PicsForDesign which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Season of Change which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice DBV111 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper5 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open fence copy & paste to your image and place on the top in the middle of your mask 
Open pinebranch copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and flip horizontal the duplicate place one on each end of the bottom of the fence
Open wheel and copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of the fence
Open petals copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your fence
Open branch copy & paste to your image and place across the top of your fence starting at the second board
Open birdhouse copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your fence
Open lantern copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the bottom left of the fence
Open mushroom copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of the bottom of the birdhouse
Open frame2 copy and paste to your image and place at the bottom on your mask  Taking you magic wand with the following setting click inside each of the frame opening go to selections modify and expand with the following setting  Now open paper7 copy & paste to your image go to selections invert and them hit delete  move this layer below your frame selection select none
Open you image of choice resize if need and then duplicate x1 and flip horizontal the duplicate place the part of the tube your want to show in each of the end openings of the frame then using the same settings as above click inside each of the end openings them expand same as above then go to selection invert and click on each tube layer and hit delete selections select none
Open pumpkin copy & paste to your image and place on top of the middle frame opening
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed  and place so that they are on top of the frames

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Welcome to My Home PTU

Welcome to My Home
I used the wonderful artwork called Felinea Web by Gabi Spree which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase these tubes from The PSP Project  which can now be found here  
I am using a scrapkit called Jere which is PTU by Wicked Princess Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used  DBV113 Designs by Vaybs is here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper9 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open curtain copy & paste to your image  duplicate x1 flip horizontal the dupicate and place them at the top of your mask on each side so that there is a small hole between them at the top
Open bird copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place in the middle of your mask
Open birdcage and copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle of your mask so that the top is at the top of your mask 
Open flower4 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask 
Open floor copy & paste to your image resize by 85% and place on the bottom of your mask
Open book and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom right of your floor  
Open pillow copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place it on the bottom left corner of the book
Open table copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place it above the pillow
Open image5 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and resize again by 50% and place it on the table
Open candle copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and resize again by 50% and place it on the table
Open glass copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and resize again by 59% and place it on the table
Open coatstand copy & paste to your image and place on the left side curtain
Open mask copy & paste to your image  resize by 50% dublicate x1 and place one in each corner of the top of the curtains
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place so that the cat is sitting on the pillow if you use this tube
 Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, flower, bird or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Even Darkness is Beautiful PTU

Even Darkness is Beautiful
I used the wonderful artwork by Enamorte which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase these tubes from CDO which can now be found here  
I am using a scrapkit called Darkness Calls which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used  DBV110 Designs by Vaybs is here
Plugins used Xero Porcelain
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper9 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open bottle copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place in the bottom right corner of your mask
Open pumpkin copy & paste to your image and place on the left of your bottle slightly up from the bottom
Open holywater and copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask slightly up from the bottom
Open goblet copy & paste to your image and place between your bottle and pumpkin
Open crystal ball copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left just off your mask
Open jar and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom left between your holywater and crystalball 
Open book copy & paste to your image and place it on top the the goblet
Open leaf1 copy & paste to your image and place it in the right top corner of your mask
Open flower3 copy & paste to your image and place it on top of the leaf
Open moon copy & paste to your image and place it on the top left corner of your mask
Open birds copy & paste to your image and place it on top of the moon
Open skulls&rose copy & paste to you image resize by 50% and place in the top middle of the frames
Open Skull copy & paste to you image resize by 50% and place in the bottom middle of the book
Open frame3 copy & paste to your image and move to the top of your image  Using your magic wand with the following settings

click inside your frames and expand your selections with the following settings

Open paper 5 copy and paste to your image - go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.  Selections select none Move this layer below your frame.
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed  (I used 3 different tubes by the same artist in this tag) and place them under each of the frame openings then take your eraser tool and carefully erase the parts of the tube that are outside the frame Then go Effects Xero Porcelain and apply with the following setting

to each of the tubes in the frames.
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place in the middle of the frames
 Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, skull, frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Bride Awaits PTU

The Bride Awaits
I used the wonderful artwork called Bride of Frankenstein by Joahannah Von Frankenstein which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase her tubes from The PSP Project  which can now be found here  
I am using a scrapkit called The Haunting Hour which is PTU by Tasha's Playground and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice  Vix mask 363 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper01 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group. 
Open e11 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right of your image
Open e43 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and place them across the bottom of your mask 
Open e59 and copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask
Open e65 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and placeon the right side of the leaves on the bottom of the mask
Open e40 copy & paste to your image and place it on the left top of your mask
Open e39 copy & paste to your image and place so that the top part of the leaves is in the clouds  
Open e25 copy & paste to your image and place on top of the moon
Open e20 copy & paste to your image resize by 75% and place on the left pile of leaves
Open e67 copy & paste to your image resize by 75%  and place on the left end of the leaves
Open e68 copy & paste to your image resize by 75% and place on the left next to the pile of skulls
Open e01 copy & paste to your image  and in the left bottom corner of your image
Open e53 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle top of your mask
Open e60 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the right corner of the leaves
Open e69 copy & paste to your image and place across the cauldron
Open e34 copy & paste to your image and place the bottom at the top of your skulls
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the left side of your image
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, bat or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Wish PTU

Wish
I used the wonderful artwork called At Your Service by Elias which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes from Elias Art  which can now be found here  
I am using a scrapkit called I Dream of Genie which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice  Vix mask 431 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper4 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)
In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer
merge merge group. 
Open columns copy & paste to your image and place on the top left of your image
Open branch copy & paste to your image and place on top of your column so that a small part is above the top duplicate and place this one below the other
Open leaf and copy & paste to your image and place it at the top right of your image
Open deco3 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask in the middle
Open flower2 copy & paste to your image and place it in the middle of your leaf
Open frame5 copy & paste to your image free rotate 90 degrees and place in the center of your image Take your magic wand with the following setting and click inside your frame opening and expand your selections with the following settings  Open paper9 copy & paste to your image and them hit selections invert then hit delete then selections none move this layer below your frame
Open veil copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of your frame opening
Open your tube of choice resize if needed and place on top of your frame
Open pillow2 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1  and place them side by side on the bottom of the frame
Open bottle copy & paste to your image   and place on the left side of the left pillow
Open lantern copy & paste to your image and place in the left corner of your frame
Open waterpot copy & paste to your image  and place so that the water part in on the right pillow
Open candle copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the right corner of your right pillow
Open crystalball copy & paste to your image and place next to your bottle
Open keys copy & paste to your image and place across the crystalball bottle and pillow
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!

Thursday, October 9, 2014

See the Beauty PTU

See the Beauty
I used the wonderful artwork called Flower Queen by Alena Lazareva which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase her tubes from The PSP Project  which can now be found here  
I am using a scrapkit called V is for Valentine which is PTU by Sam's Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice Vix mask 451 which can be found here
The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!


Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper  4 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load) In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layermerge merge group.  Resize by 115%
Open pearly leaf copy & paste to your image and place on the top left of your mask
Open fabic flower3 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right of your mask
Open frame3 and copy & paste to your image resize by 40%  Take your magic wand with the following setting

 and click inside your frame click selections expand with with following settings

 open paper1 copy & paste to your image click selections invert hit delete selections none move this layer below your frame
Open your tube of choice resize if needed and place in the middle of your mask now take your eraser tool and carefully erase any part of the tube that covers the bottom of the frame
Open Fuzzy trim1 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom below your frame
Open fuzzy trim2 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom below your frame slightly to the right of fuzzy trim1
Open rose2 copy & paste to your image and place it on your frame just above the flowers
Open rose3 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your frame just above the bottom curve
Open rose1 copy & paste to your image and place above rose3

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!


I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!