Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Ho Ho Ho PTU

Ho Ho Ho
I used the wonderful artwork by PinUpToons called Holiday Goodies 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 Tinsel Town which is PTU by  Crazy Creative Scraps and can be found at CDO here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used Gemmasks192 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 ele15 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask just below the middle and change the blend mode to overlay
Open ele16  copy & paste to your image and place on the stem part of your first flower
Open ele19 and copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right corner of your image
Open ele12 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom left part of your mask
Open ele11 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and place them on the right side middle of your mask side by side with one slightly higher
Open ele20 copy & paste to your image and place in the top left corner of the mask
Open ele22 copy & paste to your image  Take your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image place the head part of your tube on the Christmas ball with the part you want to keep on the bulb take your magic wand and on the layer with your Christmas ball click anywhere and them go to the tube layer and hit delete (you should only have the head of the tube on your bulb) change the blend to 59 on the tube layer and merge down onto the bulb duplicate the merged layer x1 and place them side by side with one on the top of the poinsettia and the other to the right of the first one
Open ele7copy & paste to your image and place in between the two other balls at the top
Open ele24 copy & paste to your image and place on the left bottom of the image
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place next to silver bag add a dropshadow of choice
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place across the top of your mask add a dropshadow of your choice
Open wor1 copy and paste to your image and place on the top part of your mask
Open ele28 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and flip horizontal the duplicate and place them across the top of the image covering the strings of the lights
Open ele21 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom middle of your mask
Open your tube of choice resize as needed and place on the right side of your pile of presents

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, December 22, 2015

Golden Winter Forest PTU

Golden Winter Forest
I used the wonderful artwork by Hannah Lynn called Whimsical Winter 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 Winter Sparkle which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at CDO here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used Gemsmasks182 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 paper1 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 ele26 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle top of your mask
Open ele22 copy & paste to your image and place on the top of your mask
Open ele35 and copy & paste to your image and place in the middle right of your mask Add a dropshadow of your choice
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place across the top of your mask
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place it in the top left of your mask
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask Add a dropshadow of your choice
Open ele19 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of your gold wreath
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place the first star on the bottom of the second arrow on your sign post
Open ele31 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your image at the top
Open ele24 copy & paste to your image and across the middle top of your gold tree
Open ele1 copy & paste to your image and place on the right bottom of your mask
Open ele32 copy & paste to your image duplicatex1 and place across the bottom of your image on on top of the other
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left corner of your mask

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, December 5, 2015

Witch's Christmas PTU

Witch's Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called Santa Witch by Laguna which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from PicsForDesign which can now be found here 
I am using a awesome scrapkit called Starlight Magic which is PTU by Creative Crazy Scraps and can be found at CCS here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used WSL255 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. I resize at the end by 75% to get a 600 X 600 tag
Copy & paste paper7 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 ele10 copy & paste to your image and move it slightly down from the middle
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place in the top left corner of your mask
Open ele1 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle on the bottom of your mask
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place on the left so that the bottom part of the key is in middle of the mask
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner of the mask
Open ele5 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on top of your stump
Open ele13 copy & paste to your image and place so that the bottom of the chain is in the middle bottom of the clock
Open ele25 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your stump
Open ele33 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of the stump
Open ele8 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of the mushroom
Open ele18 copy & paste to your image resize by 90% and place on the bottom of your tag
Open ele21 copy and paste to your image and place so that the top butterfly in on the top of your chain
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the right bottom of your image
Open ele31 copy & paste to your image and place on top of your grass

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube
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!

Christmas List PTU

Christmas List
I used the wonderful artwork by Anna Liwanag called Diary 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 Shades of Winter which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at CDO here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used WSL223 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 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 ele9 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right side of your mask
Open ele24 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right of your mask
Open ele5 and copy & paste to your image and place on the middle of  the other set of leaves
Open ele4 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom left of your mask
Open ele39 copy & paste to your image and place so that the star is in the middle of the leaves at the top right of your mask
Open ele52 copy & paste to your image 
Open ele54 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle on the right side of your tree
Open ele41 copy & paste to your image and place on the candy cane
Open ele31 copy & paste to your image resize by 45% and place at the bottom of the candy cane
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on top of the boxes
Open ele8 copy & paste to your image and place next to ele2 covering half of ele2
Open ele17 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of the boxes
Open frame1 copy & paste to your image Take your magic wand and click inside with the following setting and then go to selections modify expand with the following setting
Open paper10 copy & paste to your image and go to selection invert then hit delete (do not deselect)
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place the part you want to show in the frame then hit delete go to selection select none Change the blend mode to multiply duplicate x1
Open your tube of choice and place across the bottom of the 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!
Tube used in this one is Here