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!