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!
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Friday, November 27, 2015

A Mother's Love PTU

A Mother's Love
I used the wonderful artwork called Comfort by The Vintage Angel which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can be found here 
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Sweet Baby which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at CDO here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL260 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 140% 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 ele7 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask at the top
Open ele5 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask about 1/4 down from top
Open ele17 and copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left corner of the mask
Open ele16 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner Open ele13 copy & paste to your image and place it o the left side of your mask just under the wordart
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place the tassel on the bottom part of your bottle
Open ele12 copy & paste to your image and place on the right bottom of your mask
Open ele22 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of the heart
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place  the bottom of the handle on the top left of the heart
Open ele30 copy & paste to your image and place in between the ball of yarn and the hat on the left side
Open ele11 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right corner of your mask
Open frame2 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 paper5 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 Add a dropshadow of vert 1 horiz 1 Opacity 55 blur 12 color black to the frame and the tube
Open ele23 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your frame

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, November 26, 2015

Silent Sanctuary PTU

Silent Sanctuary
I used the wonderful artwork called Sanctuary by Jonathon Earl Bowser which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here 
I am using a awesome scrapkit called Silent Serenity which is PTU by Creative Crazy Scraps and can also be found at CDO here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used WSL241 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 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 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!

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Glimmer of Christmas PTU

Glimmer of Christmas
I used the wonderful artwork called BeanBag by Anna Liwanag which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here 
I am using a awesome scrapkit called Glimmer Bright which is PTU by Creative Crazy Scraps and can be found at CCS here 
Font of Choice 
Mask of Choice I used 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. I resize at the end by 75% to get
a 600 X 600 tag
Copy & paste paper2 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 cele53 copy & paste to your image and place so that it goes around your mask
Open cele52 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner of your mask
Open cele3 copy & paste to your image and place in the top right corner of your mask over the snowflake
Open cele20 copy & paste to your image and place so that the stems are in the bottom left corner of the tree in the right top corner
Open cele30 copy & paste to your image resize by 45% and place between the two leaves of cele20
Open cele46 copy & paste to your image and place on the left top of your mask
Open cele21 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left corner of your mask
Open cele12 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side so that the top of the tree is in the middle of the second leave
Open cele13 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and on in the bottom left corner of your tag and one slightly higher so that it looks like the trees are larger (the snow on the second one is in the back of the first one)
Open cele11 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your green tree
Open cele8 copy & paste to your image resize by 45% and place on the left bottom corner of your tag
Open cele14 copy and paste to your image and place on the left side of the log
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I placed on the present)
Open wor2 copy & paste to your image and place so that the curve is above your tube I changed the color to one in the tube but using the manual color correction under adjust.  Then I used candy eye 4000 gladient glow on width 3 soft corners 25 overall opacity 100 Draw only outside selection checked and under color fat was used
Close off your wordart layer & tube layer and merge visable the remaining layers and apply xero porcelain with the following settings to the merged layer.

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!

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Plentiful Pumpkins PTU

Plentiful Pumpkins
I used the wonderful artwork by Di Halim called Christmas Girl 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 Autumn Bonfires which is PTU by Crazy Creative Scraps and can be found at CCS here  
Font of Choice  I used Aquarelle
Mask of Choice I used WSL241 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 ele15 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask  
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask in the middle
Open ele6 and copy & paste to your image resize by 75% and place on the top right of your fence
Open ele1 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your fence
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom right of your mask
Open ele7 copy & paste to your image and place on the top left of your mask
Open ele18 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your image
Open ele13 copy & paste to your image and place so that the bottom part is in the middle of the top of the free pumpkins sign
Open your tube of choice and resize as needed (I resized by 40%) and place on the bottom left next to the pumpkin sign
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube leaves butterflies 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, September 6, 2015

Widow of Darkness PTU

Widow of Darkness
I used the wonderful artwork by Michael Calandra called Black Widow  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 ScrapCCS IB MichaelCalandra 13-1 which is PTU by Crazy Creative Scraps and can be found at CDO here
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WSL362 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 paper8 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 ele8 copy & paste to your image and move slightly up & to the right
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.  Resize by 87%
Open your tube of choice (I used the largest one) and copy & paste to your image resize if needed and place so that it is on the right side of your second mask change the opacity to 57%
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side bottom of your image
Open ele16  copy & paste to your image and place on the left side bottom of your masks
Open ele1 and copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your image
Open ele7 copy & paste to your image and place it on the bottom left just above the razor blade
Open ele20 copy & paste to your image and place the bottom of the fan on the bottom left part of the stairs
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom step of the stairs
Open ele17 copy & paste to your image resize by 50%  and place on the top of the stairs
Open you tube of choice and copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your image with the bottom in the middle of the heart
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your tube
I added a dropshadow to my tube, crow and flower & skull with the following settings - Vert 1 Horiz 1 Opacity 55 Blue 12 Color black


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, September 5, 2015

Forest Free Spirit PTU

Forest Free Spirit
I used the wonderful artwork called Alananah & The Gargoyle by Jasmine Becket-Griffith 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 IB JasmineBecket-Griffith 55-1 which is PTU by Gimtastic Scraps and can be found at CDO here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WeeScotslass WSL363 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 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 ele5 copy & paste to your image and place on the right top of your mask
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place at the top left of your mask 
Open ele19 and copy & paste to your image and place it on the left side of your mask just below the middle
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place it on the left side of your mask in the middle
Open ele12 copy & paste to your image and place it in the bottom right corner of your mask duplicate x1 and move the duplicate up until the top part is in the moon
Open ele22 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right corner of your mask
Open ele18 copy & paste to your image and place the bottom of the tree on the brown flower on the left
Open ele20 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side bottom of your tree
Open ele21 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your mask on the left side
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your mask
Open ele14 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of your mask
Open ele4 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your moon
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place on the top the the grass knoll
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the right side of your image (I have her sitting on the log)
Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube tree 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, August 30, 2015

Memories of the Past PTU

Memories of the Past
I used the wonderful artwork called Betty Black by Michael Landefeld which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here  
I am using a awesome scrapkit called Things Remembered which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at PPW here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WSL364 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 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.
Copy & paste paper2 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. Resize this mask by 90%
Open frame3 copy & paste to your image and place at the top of your mask 
Open ele7 copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom of your frame3
Open ele57 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right curve of your frame3
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right corner of the masks
Open ele33 copy & paste to your image and place under frame3
Open ele35 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side middle of your masks
Open ele8 copy & paste to your image and place on the right end of your blue ribbon
Open ele4 copy & paste to your image and place between your blue bottle and blue rose
Open ele16 copy & paste to your image and place on the left top of your masks
Open ele17 copy & paste to your image and place at the top of the radio
Open ele28 copy & paste to your image and place just below ele17 and slightly to the left  Take your magic wand with the following setting and click inside ele28 Then go to selections contract  and contract by 3   Open your tube and copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 resize as needed and place one on each side of ele28 leaving what you want to show inside the selection them hit selections invert then hit delete selections none
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place on the right end of the blue ribbon
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of ele15
Open ele55 copy & paste to your image and place on the top of ele3
Open ele53 copy & paste to  your image and place on the bottom of the blue bottle
Open ele42 copy & paste to your image
Open ele21 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the right end top of the round box
Open ele13 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the left end top of the round box
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place between the camera & phone

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube 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, August 29, 2015

Where Pearls are Hidden PTU

Where Pearls are Hidden
I used the wonderful artwork by Nicole Brune called Sea Siren 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 Pearl Love which is PTU by Crazy Creative Scraps and can be found at CDO here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WSL364 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 paper8 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 ele20 and copy & paste to your image and place on the top middle of your mask
Open ele15 copy & paste to your image and place it just below the same flower and slightly to the right
Open wor1 copy & paste to your image resize by 75% and place it on the right side of your mask at the top
Open ele13 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom part of the purple flower
Open ele18 copy & paste to your image and place on the left part of the sand of the palm tree
Open ele29 copy & paste to your image and place on the left end of the rollinglog
Open ele4 copy & paste to your image duplicate x4 and place on the bottom of your image spread them out to cover
Open ele17 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your sand 
Open ele9 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom from the bottom of the palm tree to the right bottom corner
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle top of your sand you spread around
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place in front of the pearl shell
Open ele14 copy & paste to your image and place on the right bottom of your mask
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place in the top of your palm tree
Open ele12 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your wordart
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image and place in the right bottom next to your drink resize as needed

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube butterflies 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, July 24, 2015

Paradise PTU

Paradise
I used the wonderful artwork called Mermaid Goldfish by Elias which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from EAS which can now be found here  
I am using a awesome scrapkit called Long Summer Days which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be 
found at PPW here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used Vix Big Mask15 mask which can be found here
Plugins used were Xero moonlight & 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. I 

resize at the end by 75% to get a 600 X 600 tag
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 ele12 copy & paste to your image 
Open ele48 copy & paste to your image 
Open ele60 copy & paste to your image and place on the top left of your image
Open ele33 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right of your mask

Open ele46 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right of your mask
Open ele51 copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of your mask on the left
Open ele1 copy & paste to your image 
Open frame5 copy & paste to your image Take your magic wand with the following setting 
and click inside your frame Then go to selections expand and expand with the following settings  
Copy and paste paper9 on top of your frame and them go to selections invert then hit delete move this paper layer below your frame  them selections do not deselect Open your tube (I used the larger one) and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place it inside your frame and position so that the part of the tube you want to use is inside the frame then hit delete selection select none duplicate the tube layer x3 and flip horizontal 2 of at them and arrange them inside your frame to cover the inside of the frame (see tag if needed) merge the tube layers together and than duplicate the merged layer on the duplicate layer go to adjust blur gaussian blur and apply the following 

and then change the layer to overlay now go to effects xero moonlight and apply the following (you can skip this is you do not have this effect)

Open ele45 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of your image so that the top of the bucket is on the frame
Open ele59 copy & paste to your image and place to the left of your bucket so that a slight part is on the bucket
Open ele3 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right corner of your frame
Open ele52 copy & paste to your image and place across the orange towel in the middle
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the right of your image so that the bottom is in the middle of the blue flower
Open ele26 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your frame
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on top of the green shell
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place so that the top of the tube is in the middle of your frame Add a dropshadow of your choice to the frame, tube and any other element your want! Now close off your tube layer and merge the remaining layers click on the merged layers and apply xero porcelain with the following settings 

Open your tube layer back up

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!

Butterfly Beauty PTU

Butterfly Beauty
I used the wonderful artwork called Little Dress by Anna Liwanag which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from CDO which can now be found here  
I am using a awesome scrapkit inspired by Anna Liwanag 74-1 which is PTU by Creative Crazy Scraps and can be found at CDO here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used wsl128 mask 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 pap1 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 ele14 copy & paste to your image and place at the top right of your mask 
Open ele5 copy & paste to your image and place at the top right of your mask 
Open ele7 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your star
Open ele8 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom middle of your mask so that the bottom of the stem is slightly off the mask
Open fra2  copy & paste to your image and place in the top left of your mask Take your magic wand with the following setting

 and click inside your frame Then go to selections expand and expand with the following settings

Copy and paste pap6 on top of your frame and them go to selections invert then hit delete move this paper layer below your frame  them selections select none  Open your tube and copy & paste to your image resize as needed  and place it inside your frame and position so that the head is above the frame On your tube layer using your magic wand with the same setting as above click anywhere on your image go to selections invert then selections float then selections defloat now highlight your frame layer and using your eraser tool erase the part of the frame that is 
covering the head of your tube then selection select none Again using your eraser tube click on your tube layer and erase any of the tube that is showing below the bottom of your frame
Open ele12 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom middle of your image
Open ele20 copy & paste to your image and place so that the bottom butterfly is in the middle of your candle
Open ele10 copy & paste to your image and place to the right of your candle
Open ele19 copy & paste to your image and place across the bottom of your image
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place on the right of your image so that the bottom is in the middle of the blue flower
Open ele4 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom of your frame
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom of the black heart
Open ele11 copy & paste to your image and place on top of your bow
Open ele17 copy & paste to your image and place across the bottom of your tube on the right
Open ele16 copy & paste to your image and place on the left end of the key
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image resize by 45% and place in the top left of your image go to image free rotate and rotate to the left by 17
Add a dropshadow of your choice to the frame, tube and any other element your want!

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, July 18, 2015

Princess of Darkness PTU

Princess of Darkness
I used the wonderful artwork called Vampire Princess by Verymany which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube from PicForDesign  which can now be found here  
I am using a beautiful scrapkit called Clockwork Gothic which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at PPW here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used WSL223 which can be found here
Effects used xero soft vignette
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 paper7 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 ele47 copy & paste to your image and place on the top part of your mask
Open ele34 copy & paste to your image and place on the top part of your candle sticks
Open ele32 and copy & paste to your image and place in the middle right of your mask
Open ele10 copy & paste to your image  
Open ele24 copy & paste to your image and place it o the left side top of your mask  
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on the top part of the frame of ele24
Open ele22 copy & paste to your image and place just below ele24  
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place just below ele24 on the jug
Open ele29 copy & paste to your image  
Open ele30 copy & paste to your image and place on the top part of the web
Open ele13 copy & paste to your image and place on the right top of your mask making it slightly lower than the other picture in your image
Open ele16 copy & paste to your image duplicatex2 and place them across the bottom of your mask
Open ele33 copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom right of your mask
Open ele42 copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom right of your mask
Open ele46 copy & paste to your image and move it down slightly
Open ele6 copy & paste to your image and place it in the bottom right corner of your mask
Open ele8 copy & paste to your image and on the bottom of the hat
Open ele48 copy & paste to your image and place beside the left leg of the tub
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized 50%) and place on the left side of your image
 Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube pictures or anything you would like to!
Go to layers and close off your tube layer merge visible and then go to effect xero soft vignette and apply the following
if you don't have this plug in you can just skip or play with others!
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!

Magical - PTU

Magical
I used the wonderful artwork by PinUpToons 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 Magical Moments which is PTU by Crazy Creative Scraps and can be found at CCS here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used DBV mask72 which can be found here
Effects 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 paper2 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 ele21 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask at the bottom just to the left of the middle
Open ele25 copy & paste to your image and place so that the stem is in the middle of the rose at the top
Open ele6 and copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left of your mask
Open ele20 copy & paste to your image and place it on the top middle of your mask
Open ele35 copy & paste to your image and place it o the right side of your mask in the middle
Open ele34 copy & paste to your image and place it between the rose and the top flower just slightly to the left
Open ele11 copy & paste to your image  
Open ele46 copy & paste to your image and place on the top right of your image
Open wor1 copy & paste to your image and place in the top left of your image
Open ele2 copy & paste to your image and place on the left in the middle of your mask
Open ele53 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side on your mask so that it covers the end of the branch on the lantern
Open ele27 copy & paste to your image and place on your tree where the leaves start
Open ele40 copy & paste to your image and move slightly to the left
Open ele21 copy & paste to your image and place at the bottom of the castle towers
Open ele36 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place so that the strings are attached to the word magical in your wordart
Open ele18 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right of your mask
Open ele38 copy & paste to your image and place so that it starts on the rose at the bottom of the castle towers
Open ele23 copy & paste to your image and place just below ele38
Open ele24 copy & paste to your image and place so that it ends at the bottom of your fern leaves
Open ele55 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place on the top of the birdhouse
Open ele44 copy & paste to your image and place at the top of your fern leaves
Open ele52 copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place at the bottom of your castle towers
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your image
 Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube bird or anything you would like to!
Go to layers and merge visible and then go to effect xero porcelain and apply the following
You can skip this step if your wish!

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, July 4, 2015

Queen of the Night PTU

Queen of the Night
I used the wonderful artwork called Queen of the Night by Eos Sparks 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 Queen of the Night which is PTU by Gimptastic 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 paper8 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 lanterns copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask at the top
Open feather1 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and place 1 at the right  top of your mask and the other just below it on the right
Open frame6 copy & paste to your image go to image free rotate and rotate the image to the right by 15 and move it up on your image so that the point of the frame in on the left side of the first feather Open paper5 copy & paste to your image and free rotate the same way as the frame adjust the paper so that the part you want inside the frame is showing and move this layer below your frame Take your magic wand and click inside with the following setting and then go to selections modify expand with the following setting 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
Open rose copy & paste to your image duplicate x3 and place them going up from the bottom left of your frame to the top of your mask moving each one slightly to the left
Open vase copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom right of your mask
Open scroll copy & paste to your image and place in on the bottom of your mask with the right side ending in the middle of your vase
Open lanterns copy & paste to your image and place so that the left most lantern in at the bottom left corner of the frame
Open candles copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom right side on your mask
Open books copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your mask
Open flower2 copy & paste to your image free rotate the same way as above and place on the bottom of your frame
Open cat copy & paste to your image and place in the middle of your scroll
Open crow copy & paste to your image and place on the right of your cat
Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I resized by 80%) and place on the left side of your mask
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!

No Peeking PTU

No Peeking
I used the wonderful artwork called Bubble Fairy by Lisa Victoria 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 Eventide which is PTU by Irish Princess Designs and can be found at The PSP Project here  
Font of Choice  
Mask of Choice I used DBV mask 110 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 ele18 copy & paste to your image  
Open ele75 copy & paste to your image resize by 39% and place in the top left of your image
Open ele50 and copy & paste to your image and move to the left side of your mask
Open ele11 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask
Open ele10 copy & paste to your image and place in the left side of your mask about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom
Open ele78 copy & paste to your image and place it to the right of ele10
Open ele19 copy & paste to your image duplicate x1 and place them across the bottom of your mask
Open 99 copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask with the bottom at ele19
Open your tube of choice copy & paste to your image resize if needed and place on the bottom right of your image
Open ele100 copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left of your tube

Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube mushrooms 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!