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!