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!