For the Love of Alysia Tutorial

For the Love of Alysia Tutorial



This is the tag we will be making:






Moderate level - Some knowledge of PSP is needed.


Materials Needed:
Paint Shop Pro (used Version 9, but can be done on any version)
PTU kit "Alysia" by Designs by Tishia which can be bought at Scrappin Bratz
Posers used from the kit, by Medi
Mask #03 by Yez


Filters Needed:
Blinds (comes with PSP)
Optional Filter: Eye Candy 5 Impact Gradient Glow (used for my name/text)


Fonts used:
FFF Professional (for copyright info)
Mrs Blackfort (for name/text)

Please note that I will give the drop shadow settings that I have used HOWEVER feel free to use your own settings if you would like.



1. Open PSP. Open New File: 600 pixels x 600 pixels, 72.000 pixels/inch resolution, transparent. At this time, also open your mask and minimize in PSP.

2. Open Paper 3... copy & paste it as new layer. Resize it 75%, be sure "resize all layers" is UNchecked. Go to Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and use these settings:



Go to your layer palette, right click on the background paper layer, then go to Merge - Merge Group. Duplicate layer, then go the bottom duplicate and go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur with a blur of 25.00, click OK. Go to the top of the 2 and apply the following drop shadow:

Vertical and Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 75
Blur: 8.00
Color: black
Shadow on new layer: unchecked

3. Open one of the frames in the kit (I used Frame 3). Copy and paste as new layer then resize it 60% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). It should already be centered within the stars from the mask, which is good because that is where you want it. Feel free to apply your favorite drop shadow at this point (or wait til end and apply as desired).

4. Open one of the hearts in the kit (I used heart 3). Copy and paste as new layer then resize it 90% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). The go to Image, Rotate - Free Rotate and use these settings:

Direction: left
Degrees: free, 25.00
All Layers: unchecked
Rotate single layer around cavas: unchecked

then move the heart to just below the frame layer and center and sharpen, as needed.

5. Open one of the swirls in the kit (I used swirl 1). Copy and paste as new layer then resize it 85% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move this to just above the blurred mask layer. Apply following drop shadow settings:

Vertical and Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 75
Blur: 4.00
Color: black
Shadow on new layer: unchecked

6. Move heart (my heart 3) to above the frame, and resize it by 85% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Click on the inside of the heart with your magic wand. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand ....by 5.00 pixels - click ok.

7. Copy and paste one of the tubes you are using (you will want one with a close up of the face, or a clear image of the face - I used thefallen3). Copy and paste, then center it above the heart (resize as needed too). When you are satisfied, go to Selections - Invert and then click on the Delete key. Go to Selections - Select None. Go to the layer palette and right click on the layer with the face. Go to Properties and use these settings:

Blend Mode: Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity: 75%
Link Set: 0
Layer is Visible: checked
Lock transparency: unchecked
Highlight in layers palette: unchecked

8. Copy and paste poser thefallen5. Go to Image - Mirror. Resize by 60% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked) then move it around so that she is standing to the left of the heart (see my tag for placement idea). Apply your favorite drop shadow setting.

9. Go to the blurred mask layer, make active. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds and apply these settings:

Width: 5
Opacity: 85
Color: black
Horizontal: unchecked
Light from left/top: unchecked

10. At this point, continue to decorate the tag as desired with supplied elements. When you are satisfied, resize to 500 pixels x 500 pixels, "all layers" CHECKED. Feel free to use the crop tool to crop out any additional edges from the tag.

11. Apply crediting information and watermark. Apply and desired drop shadows to the layers. When satisfied, merge visible. Apply name text and then you are done!

Thank you so much for checking out my tutorial and I would love to see your results if you try it!

Come Sail Away!!

Sharing some tags I made with an absolutely ADORABLE kit from Designs by Tishia! The kit is called "Sail Away" (I used the tagger size kit - it is also available in full size) and can be found HERE in the Scrappin Bratz store. I had a lot of fun with this kit and look forward to using it again!

Here are the tags I made for Tishia:





Thanks to Tishia for allowing me to use her wonderful, creative kit!!

If you like what you see, head on over to the store and grab it. Tishia also has a lot of other wonderful creations to choose from.

Shamrock Pixie Tutorial

Shamrock Pixie Tutorial

This is the tag we will be making




Moderate level - Some knowledge of PSP is needed.


Materials Needed

Paint Shop Pro (used Version 9, but can be done on any version)
PTU kit "Shamrock Pixie" by Darkmoon's Dream Designs which can be bought at Scrappin Bratz
Poser used from the kit

Kirsty's Scraps Mask #24

Filters Needed

Xero-Porcelain - FTU filter
Blinds (comes with PSP),

Optional Filter

Eye Candy 5 Impact Gradient Glow


Fonts used
FFF Fuego (for copyright info)
Doodle Journal - PTU font (for name/text)


Please note that I will give the drop shadow settings that I have used HOWEVER feel free to use your own settings if you would like.



1. Open PSP. Open New File: 600 pixels x 600 pixels, 72.000 pixels/inch resolution, transparent. At this time, also open your mask and minimize in PSP.

2. Open one of the frames in the kit (I used Frame04). Copy and paste as new layer on your blank "new file" then resize it 80% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Copy and paste Paper14 as new layer then resize it 70% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to just below your frame layer. Click inside the frame making sure that the entire area inside is clicked, then close off the frame layer, then make the paper layer active. Go to Selections - Select All, Selections - Float, Selections - Defloat. The go to Selections - Modify - Expand - by 10 pixels - then click OK. Go to Selections - Invert and then click your Delete key. Selections - Select None and then click on the frame layer, making it visible again. Go to Selections - Select All, Selections - Float, Selections - Defloat then apply your Xero/Porcelain effect using the following settings:



Go to Selections - Select None (to remove marching ants).

3. Copy and paste Paper14 as new layer then resize it 75% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to just below your frame background layer. Go to Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and apply these settings:



Go to the layer palette - right click on the "Group - Raster 2" layer, Merge - Merge Group. Feel free to close the mask that you have minimized.

4. Copy and paste one of the pixies (I used Pixie01) as new layer then resize it 35% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to top in the layer palette. Move to left side of tag (see my tag for idea).

5. Copy and paste the mushroom as new layer then resize it 25% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to just below the pixie layer. Duplicate then resize the duplicate by 75% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked), then place them as shown on tag. Do the same thing with one of the chests (I used Chest02) - resize to 35% instead, and do not duplicate - and move that to the layer between the pixie and the mushroom.

6. Copy and paste one of the swirls (I used Swirl01) as new layer then resize it 60% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move it to layer just under the mushroom, then place it behind his head (as shown on tag). Duplicate swirl, then go to Image - Flip, then Image - Mirror. Move the swirl around til it is placed somewhat on the right bottom of the frame (see my tag for idea). If desired, resize the bottom swirl by 85% - some of it still might run off the area, that is ok. Use Eye Candy 5 Impact, Gradient Glow and these settings:



7. Copy and paste Splatter01 as new layer then resize it 60% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to just below your frame layer, then move it around so it is somewhat centered under the frame. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds and use the following settings:

width: 5
opacity: 25
color: black
horizontal: unchecked
light from left/top: unchecked

Then go to Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast and use these settings:

brightness: 15
contrast: 0

Go to Eye Candy Impact, Gradient Glow and use the previous settings.

8. Copy and paste Shamrocks01 as new layer then resize it 50% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked) then go to Image - Rotate - Free Rotate using these settings:

Direction: right
Degrees: 90
All Layers: unchecked
Rotate Single layer around canvas center: unchecked

Center it (somewhat) within the frame, as seen on my tag. Sharpen, if needed.

9. Copy and paste Grass03 as new layer then resize it 40% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked), then place it just above the mushroom layer.

10. Copy and paste Flower07 as new layer then resize it 35% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked), then place it just above the top swirl layer, as seen on the tag.

11. Apply drop shadow to all layers (except mask layer and pixie layer) with these settings - or your preferred settings:

vertical: 2
horizontal: 0
opacity: 75
blur: 7.00
color: black
shadow on new layer: unchecked

(note: on frame layer, I applied the drop shadow twice)


On the pixie layer, use the following settings:

vertical: 0
horizontal: 0
opacity: 70
blur: 20.00
color: black
shadow on new layer: unchecked

(note: I didn't apply a drop shadow on the mask layer, however you may if you prefer.)

12. At this point, feel free to decorate further, using elements in the kit. When you have it all decorated, go to you layer palette, right click, then Merge - Merge Visible all the layers. Then resize to 450 pixels x 450 pixels - all layers checked. Go to Adjust - Sharpen. (You might need to do this more than once.)

13. Apply copyright information and tagger watermark. (I used Pixelette for mine.)

14. Merge Visible, save in .png format (to retain background transparency).

15. Apply name and place in center of bottom of frame area (see my tag for idea). For mine I used the font Doodle Journal, with #33582a as my foreground and background colors. I did stroke 3.0 and size 48 on the font, and used the following Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow settings:




and then did the following drop shadow settings:

Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 75
Blur: 8.00
Color: Black
Shadow on New Layer: Not checked

And that's it!!

Thank you so much for checking out my tutorial and I would love to see your results!



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Check out this wonderful result from Lorri, a fellow member on the Shewolf's Domain groups:



Absolutely amazing! Thank you Lorri, for sharing your result!!

Swan's Flight

Just wanted to share 2 new tags with you that I made using the beautiful kit by Darkmoon's Dream called Swan's Flight :





If you like what you see, be sure to stop by the store Scrappin' Bratz and check it out!

Cutie Bug Tutorial

Cutie Bug Tutorial This is the tag we will be making:      Moderate level - Some knowledge of PSP is needed.  Materials Needed: 
Paint Shop Pro (used Version 9, but can be done on any version) PTU kit "Cutie Bug" by Darkmoon's Dream Designs which can be bought at Scrappin Bratz Posers used from the kit  Chelle/WeeScotsLass Mask #223  Filters Needed: Mosaic-Glass (comes with PSP) Mosaic-Antique (comes with PSP)  Optional Filter:  
Eye Candy 5 Impact Gradient Glow   Fonts used: Pixelette (for copyright info) Walrus Gumbo (for name/text)   DIRECTIONS
  1. Open PSP. Open New File: 600 pixels x 600 pixels, 72.000 pixels/inch resolution, transparent. At this time, also open your mask and minimize in PSP. 2. Open Paper10, copy and paste as new layer onto 'new file'. Resize by 75%, all layers UNchecked. Go to Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and apply these settings:    Go to the layer palette - right click on the "Group - Raster 2" layer, Merge - Merge Group. Feel free to close the mask that you have minimized. 2. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic-Glass and apply these settings:   3. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Mosaic-Antique and apply these settings:    4. Select one of the round frames (I am using frame 01). Copy and paste as new image. Close original. Resize frame by 65% (all layers checked). Copy and paste as new layer on to your 'tag'. Move to the top if it isn't already there. Duplicate the frame, then resize by 90% (all layers UNchecked). Apply the following drop shadow to both frames:    5. Close out the "Group - Raster 2" layer, then make the layer with the smaller frame active. Using your magic wand tool, click inside the frame area. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand - by 20 pixels, then click "ok". Copy paper 17, then paste as new layer. Resize by 75% (all layers UNchecked). Go to Selections - Invert. Click on your "delete" key. Move to just under the larger frame. Go to Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast and apply these settings: Brightness: 90 Contrast: -25 Lower the layer opacity to 20.  6. Copy and paste (as new layer) Cutie Bug 01, then resize by 50% (all layers UNchecked), then again by 75% (all layers UNchecked). Center face in middle of frames. Click on your "delete" button. Go to the layer palette, right click on the layer with the face, and apply the following settings:    Go to Selections - Select None (to shut off the marching ants). Open your 2nd poser (I am using Cutie Bug 04). Copy and paste as new layer - resize as needed. Place above (on top) of the frame layers. Move it around, place as desired, then apply the following drop shadow settings: Vertical: 0 Horizontal: 0 Opacity: 75 Blur: 20.00 Color: Black Shadow on New Layer: Not checked then apply the drop shadow again.  7. Close out all the layers EXCEPT the frame layers. Click on the outside of the largest frame, then go to Selections - Modify - Expand - by 18 pixels - click OK. The copy and paste as new layer one of the banner/wordart elements (I am using WA 01). Resize by 60% (all layers UNchecked), place as you see on the tag. Click on your "delete" key. Go to Selections - Select None. Apply drop shadow settings you used in step #6. Unhide all the closed layers.  8. Copy String 04 and paste as new layer. Resize by 45% (all layers UNchecked). Move it under your top poser AND the banner/wordart layer (see my tag for idea). With your eraser tool, delete the little bit of string that shows just beyond the frame in the bottom left area and the area inside the frame (see my tag for idea). Be careful NOT to erase any of the leaves, though! (You may need to zoom in and out to do this - I did.) Apply the following drop shadow settings: Vertical: 1 Horizontal: 1 Opacity: 75 Blur: 10.00 Color: Black Shadow on New Layer: Not checked  9. Copy Bow 14, then resize by 45% (all layers UNchecked), then resize it again by 45%. Place it to the right of the banner. Apply drop shadow used in #8. Duplicate, then mirror. Move top tube to top layer (so that bow will end up being behind her).  10. At this point, feel free to decorate further, using elements in the kit. When you have it all decorated, close out the bottom layer and the "Group - Raster 2" layer, then Merge - Merge Visible all the other layers. Then resize by 85% (all layers UNchecked), then unhide the 2 closed off layers. Merge - Merge Visible (all 3 layers). Resize: 475 pixels x 475 pixels - all layers checked. Go to Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen.  11. Apply copyright information and tagger watermark. (I used Pixelette for mine.)  12. Merge Visible, save in .png format (to retain background transparency).  13. Apply name and place under the main poser. For mine I used the font Walrus Gumbo, with black as my foreground color and #b31317 as my background color. I did stroke 2.0 and size 42 on the font, and used the following Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow settings:    and then did the following drop shadow settings:  Vertical: 1 Horizontal: 0 Opacity: 75 Blur: 5.00 Color: Black Shadow on New Layer: Not checked  And that's it!! Thank you so much for checking out my tutorial and I would love to see your results!!

Beauty of the Beach Tutorial

Beauty of the Beach Tutorial


This is what we will be making:








Moderate level - Some knowledge of PSP is needed.




Materials Needed


Paint Shop Pro (used Version 9, but can be done on any version)
PTU kit for Crazed's Creations called "Beauty of the Beach - Tagger" which can be bought at Scrappin' Bratz
Monti's Mask - blindsmask1

Filters Needed:
Blinds (comes with PSP)
Xero Porcelain - freeware
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow


Fonts used:
FFF Fuego (for copyright info)
Kamp Friendship (for name/text - paid font)



Directions


1. Open PSP. Open New File, 600 pixels x 600 pixels, 72 pixels/inch resolution, transparent. Open your mask, and minimize in PSP.

2. Copy and paste paper6, then resize it 75% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Do the same thing for paper4. Rename the water layer "water", and rename the sand layer "sand".

3. Making the water layer active, go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur and apply the following settings: radius: 4.00 then click OK.

4. Making the sand layer active, then go to Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and use the following settings:



Merge - Merge Group.


5. Copy and paste frame5 and center it over the mask area. Rename this layer "frame". Using the magic wand tool, click on the inside of the frame. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand and expand by 15 pixels. Click on OK. Choose a paper for the background to your frame (I chose paper16) then copy and paste it to your 'tag', then resize it 70% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Go to Selections - Invert, then hit your Delete button. Move this layer to just under the frame layer and rename frame background. While you still have the marching ants on, copy and paste your tube and center it in the middle of the frame. Go to Selections - Modify - Contract and contract by 15 pixels. Click on the Delete button to remove all areas outside of the selected area. Go to Selections - Select None (to remove marching ants.) (If you have any stray areas outside of the selected area, just delete them with the eraser tool.) Rename this layer "tube" and move down to between the frame and frame background layers.


6. Go back to the frame background layer and make active. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds and use the following settings:



7. Go to frame layer and go to Selections - Select All, Selections - Float, Selections - Defloat. Apply the Porcelain effect with the following settings:



Apply Drop Shadow with the following settings:


Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 75
Blur: 18.00
Color: black
Shadow on new layer: unchecked


8. Go to tube layer and apply your preferred drop shadow settings.


9. Copy and paste on of the bows (I chose bow2). Move to top layer. Resize by 60% (be sure "all layers" is UNchecked). Move to the middle of the left side of frame (see my tag for idea). Duplicate, then mirror image. You should now have a ribbon on each side of the frame. Apply the following drop shadow to both bows:


Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 65
Blur: 10.00
Color: black
Shadow on new layer: unchecked

10. Copy and paste one of the starfish buttons (I chose button3). Resize by 80% (again, be sure "all layers" is UNchecked), and then move it over to the center part of the bow on the left side. When pleased, duplicate the button and mirror, so that you will now have one in the same area on the bow on the right side. Apply your favorite drop shadow settings to both buttons.

11. Use other elements (shells, starfish) to decorate as you desire.

12. Once you have it decorated as you desire, copy and paste one of the starfish tags (I chose starfishtag1), then resize it by 55% ("all layers" UNchecked), then place it on the left side of your tag, near the bow/button decoration. Duplicate the starfish tag, then move one of the copies to under your bow/button elements. Then, on the top one, you are going to take your eraser tool and erase the top part, like the area that is in the square:




You are going to want it to look like the string is coming from BEHIND the button, like this:




Add your preferred drop shadow to the bottom starfish tag.


13. When you have the tag looking how you want, resize it (all layers CHECKED), to 500 pixels x 500 pixels. Sharpen (Adjust - Sharpen) anything that might have become blurry in the resize.

14. Add your copyright information to your tag. Additionally, if you wish to crop any of the sides or top (if it seems to much to you), now is the time. (I cropped mine a little bit so the final tag ended up being 460 pixels x 489 pixels, and changed the properties on the copyright layer to "overlay".)

15. Merge All Visible and save as a .jpg

16. Add name, place in the starfish tag area. Go to Edit - Copy Merged and then save as jpg.


For text on tag, I used Kamp Friendship at size 14, 1.0 stroke, color #0d3044 for both foreground and background, rotated it 37 degrees to the left, then centered it in the starfish shape. Then I used Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow with the following settings:





then applied the following drop shadow settings:


Vertical: 1
Horizontal: 1
Opacity: 65
Blur: 3.00
Color: black
Shadow on new layer: unchecked



And that is it!!

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and would love to see your results!!