Friday, June 27, 2014

Celebrate the Fourth Of July FTU

Celebrate the Fourth Of July

I used the wonderful tube called USA Girl by Elias Chatzoudis which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes from his store which can  be found here
I am using a scrapkit called Celebrate the 4th by Pam's Scraps & More which is FTU and can be found here
Mask of Choice (I used gemsmask 43)
Font of Choice I Used AcornSwash
 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 3 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 frame and copy & paste to your image and move to the top left of your mask
Open  paperflower and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom right point of the star in your frame
Open flower3 and copy & paste to your image place it at the top right of your mask
Open doodle3 and copy & paste to your image and place it on the left bottom of your mask
Open rocket2 and copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom left of your mask 
Open stars and copy & paste to your image and place it in next to your rocket
Open boombox and copy & paste to your image and place it across the bottom of your mask in the middle
Open cake and copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom right of your mask
Open ribbon2 copy & paste to your image and place in on the top left over the center circle of your frame
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed  and place it on the right side on the of your  frame (I did not have to resize this tube)  Add a dropshadow of choice 
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!

A Little Bit Steampunk FTU

A Little Bit Steampunk

I used the wonderful tube called Lil Helena Wells by Joel Adams which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes from CDO which can  be found here
I am using a scrapkit called A Little Bit Streampunk by Pam's Scraps & More which is FTU and can be found here
Mask of Choice Weescotlass WSL297
Font of Choice I Used a Truer Blue
Plugin 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 600 X 600 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.
Copy & paste paper 16 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 wings and copy & paste to your image and move to the top of your mask
Open  gear and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom left of your mask 
Open gear3 and copy & paste to your image place it at the bottom of your first gear slightly to the left
Open frame2 and copy & paste to your image resize by 67% and place it in the top left corner of your mask  take your magic wand using the following settings
and click inside of your frame you made expand your selections with the following setting 

Open paper11 copy & paste to your image hit selections invert delete and move under your frame  Open your tube of choice copy and paste to your image flip horizontal and place the part of your tube you want to keep in the marching ants and hit delete move this layer under your frame go to selection select none 
Go to effects xero porcelain and apply with the following settings

Add a dropshadow of choice to the frame (I used vert5 horiz4 opacity50 blur2 color black)
Open lipstick and copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your mask
Open mask and copy & paste to your image  resize by 63% and place it on the bottom of your frame 
Open keychain and copy & paste to your image resize by 49% and place it in the center of your gears on your frame  
Open skullpin and copy & paste to your image resize by 37% and place it on the top of your keychain
Open gear2 and copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom of your mask so that the gear is on the clock and large gear
 Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed  and place it on the right side on the of your  frame (I did not have to resize this tube and also used the box from the tube)  Add a dropshadow of choice 
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, June 22, 2014

Dreaming of You PTU

Dreaming of you
I used the wonderful artwork called Melancholy by Kathy Cyr 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 Beauty Within which is PTU by Abstract Creations and can be found at The PSP Project here.
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice  I used Weescotlass wsl297
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 1 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 144% 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 e22 and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom left of your mask
Open e15 copy & paste to your image and place on the right top on your mask
Open e2 copy & paste to your image and move it up to the top of your mask
Open e47 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and flip horizontal 1 place the so the they are across the bottom of your mask
Open e10 copy & paste to your image and place it at the top left of your mask
Open e23 copy & paste to your image  
Open e24 copy & paste to your image and place across the bottom covering half of your white clouds
Open e12  copy & paste to your image resize by 79% and place in the middle of your image
Open e49 copy & paste to your image 
Open e52 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your clouds
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 79%) and place on the right side bottom 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!

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Dreaming of Darkness PTU

Dreaming of Darkness

I used the wonderful artwork called Bed of Roses by Eos Sparks 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 beautiful scrapkit called Gothic Garden  by Irish Princess Designs which can be purchased at The PSP Project here
Font of Choice  I used Burtons Nightmare
Mask of Choice I used Weescotslass WSL82 these masks are 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 7 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.  Resize by 108%
Open moon and copy & paste to your image
And another mask Copy & paste paper 14 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.
You will have 2 masks with one slightly larger than the other
Open fog and copy & paste to your image and place it at the top left of your mask. 
Open grass copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your mask
Open fench copy & paste to your image and place it on the left of your mask 
Open ripples copy & paste to your image and move it up just slightly from the middle
Open vine copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom left of your mask 
Open bench copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom of your mask
Open tree copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your mask so that the bottom is on the top of the bench
Open sparkle copy & paste to your image  
Open bushes copy & paste to your image   
Open bats copy & paste to your image resize by 59%  and place it at the top left of your mask  
Open tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize by 79% and place it on top of the bench 
Open pillar copy & paste to your image and place it at the right end of your bench

 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!