6 New Tags

These first two tags are from tuts by Rose Creations. You can find them here and here.

 

These next 2 tags are from tuts by Vix. You can find the first one at her blog here. And the second one is at her old site here.

This cute winter tag is from a tut by Mona. You can find it here.

And this last tag is based on a tut by Fanzy Design Tuts. You can find it here. Obviously I changed it a bit.

Iced Mocha Tut - PTU

For this tut you will need:

PSP - I use version X3 but any version will do.
Iced Mocha kit from Pixie at Kissed by Pix. Or kit of choice.
Tube of choice. I used a tube by PinupToons purchased from CILM, but you can find it at CDO.

Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first.
Mask15 from Moonbeams & Spiderwebs
Font of choice, I used Santa's Sleigh.
Plugins used:
VDL Adrenaline, Snowflakes
Eye Candy 4000, Gradient Glow

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.

Open a new workspace 600 x 600, flood fill with white.

Open beadswag of choice, I used beadswag1, copy and paste as a new layer on your workspace. Move near the top. Duplicate, rotate 90 degrees to the left. Arrange so the tips lines up with the tips of the top swag. Duplicate this layer and mirror. Line it up the tips again. Then activate the first swag layer that you pasted on, duplicate and move it down so the tips match the two sides. You should have something like this.

Hide the white background layer and merge visible. Unhide the white layer again and using your mover tool, move the frame you've made to the center of the workspace. Resize by 80% all layers unchecked.

Click inside the frame with your magic wand, tolerance and feather set to 0. Selections, Modify, Expand by 2. Open paper of choice, I used paper 1a. Copy and paste as a new layer on your workspace. Invert selection and hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Move paper layer under frame layer.

Activate the frame layer. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize as needed and place her where you want her to go. Duplicate this layer, hide the original and move the duplicate below the frame.

Activate your frame layer again. Click inside with the magic wand and expand by 2, invert selection. Activate the duplicate tube layer and press delete on your keyboard.

Activate the frame layer again and give it a drop shadow of 1,1, 50, 5, color black. Repeat with the horizontal and vertical at -1. Activate and unhide the top tube layer. Give it a drop shadow of -3, 3, 50, 8. I usually do a second drop shadow of 0,2, 50, 5, but this is optional.

Now we're going to erase the excess below the frame. Start first by lowering the opacity of the top tube to about 60%. Zoom in about 600% on your workspace so you can see what you're doing. Using your eraser set at the settings below.

Erase everything below and on top of the frame, don't worry if you go over the edge, that's what the tube underneigth the frame is for, so it won't show. Just be careful not to remove any of the drop shadow on the tube. If you hide the bottom tube, you can see where you erased, like below.

Unhide the bottom tube, return opacity to the top tube to 100% and check for any stray pixels you might of missed by hiding and unhiding the layer several times while you're zoomed in. I found a couple on mine, so removed them with the erasor. Zoom back out to 100% when you're done.

Now we're going to add our elements from the kit. I used the following. Copy and paste each, resizing by the amount listed and place where desired, using my tag as a guide if desired.

Tree 3, 50%
Bow 3, 20%, duplicate and mirror.
Gingersled, 40%
Mug, 40%
Cupcake1, 20%

Give all of your elements a drop shadow of 1, 1, 50, 5.

Activate the paper layer behind your frame. Select all, float, defloat. Apply VDL Adrenaline, Snowflakes with these settings. Deselect when done.

Activate the white background layer. Copy and paste a paper of choice. I used paper 7a. Open your mask and minimize. With your workspace active, go to layers, new mask layer, from image. Find your mask in the drop down menu. Source luminance ticked, invert mask data unchecked. Click ok and merge group. I resized my mask down 95% but this is optional. With your mask layer still active, click on your crop tool and click on layer opaque on the tool options bar.

 Click on the nodes and drag out a bit if there's a chance it might crop off part of your tube, I had to do this with the top node or it would of cropped off part of her hat and that just makes your tag look bad. Double click on your canvas or click the green check on the tools options bar to apply the crop. Activate the top layer in your layers palette.

Now if you're going to resize it, do it now before you add your copyright info. I resized mine 90% all layers checked.

You can now add your copyright information, license if required and watermark if you have one. Add your name using chosen font, foreground and background colors from your tube or kit. Convert to raster and add this inner bevel or one of choice.

Then give it a gradient glow.

Then I gave the text a drop shadow of -1, 1, 50, 5.

Delete the white background layer, merge visible and save as a png or merge all and save as a jpg. Congrats you're done!

©2012 Queina. All rights reserved. Any similarities to any other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

5 New Tags

 

These first two tags are from tuts by Millie's PSP Madness. The 2nd one I modified the template quite a bit to make it work for the tubes that I used. You can find the tuts here and here.

These next two tags are from tuts by Manipulated By Magik. You can find them here and here.

This cute tag is from a tut by Just Fi. You can find it here.

5 More Tags

Ok here's part 2 from my post earlier.

This first tag is from a tut by Stalked By Stayyseee. You can find it here.

This next tag is from a tut by Tagalicious Tags & Tuts. You can find it here. She does not provide a direct link to the cluster frame and it took some time to find so I saved the link and you can find it here.

This tag is from a tut by Abstract. You can find it here. This tut was written for Photoshop and so I had to make some changes. I didn't have the preset shape or the ability to change it like she did so I used VM Natural, Sparkle. 

This tag is from a tut by SuthrnPrincess Tuts. You can find it here.

This last tag is from a tut by julies jazz designz. You can find it here. I really love how this one turned out.

5 New Tags

I have a bunch of new tags to share, but going to split it up into multiple posts.

 

 The first tag above is from a tut by Just Fi. You can find it here. The 2nd tag was inspired by the same kit.

This tag is from a tut by Abstract. You can find it here.

This tag is from a tut by Venomous Creations. Though as poorly written as it is, I don't know if it could be classified as a tut. But anyway, you can find it here. Oh the kit maker's site is no longer up but if you do a Google search you can find the 2 parts for it.

This really cool tag is from a tut by Midnight Kiss at Creative Addictions. You can find it here.

5 New Tags

Hello, I have 5 new tags to share with you today.

These first 2 are from a tut by oohbabelicious. You can find it here. I couldn't decide when I did the tut which tube I liked better so I did both.

This tag is from a tut by Guilty Pleasures. You can find it here.

This tag is from a tut by Jazzed Up Junk. You can find it here. I did this tut a few weeks ago but forgot to post it.

This tag is from a tut by Venomous Creations. You can find it here.

4 new tags

Hello everyone, I have 4 new tags to share with you.

 

This first tag is from a tut by Tutorials by Sue. You can find it here.

 These next two tags are from tuts by Sezy at Invented by Sezy Designs. You can find them here and here.

This last tag is from a tut by Just Fi. You can find it here.

Lots of new tags

Hello peeps, I have a bunch of new tags to show you.

 

This first tag is from a tut by K'Lani. You can find it here.

 This next tag is from a tut by Whynters at Creative Addictions. You can find it here. She doesn't give the direct link to the scrap kit (huge pet peeve of mine), so I hunted it down and you can find the kit here.

 

 Now this next tag is from a tut by Tasha's Playground. You can find it here. This tut is written for Photoshop and I use PaintShopPro but it wasn't too hard to figure out.

Now these next 3 tags are from tuts by Candy's Treats. You can find them here, here and here.

This next tag is from a tut by Stalked By Stayyseee. You can find it here.

 

 These next 3 tags are from tuts by Disturbed by Gaby. You can find them here, here and here. And the animation for the 3rd tag can be found here.

This tag is from a tut by Tagalicious Tags & Tuts. You can find it here. The animation used in this tut can be found at the same link above.

This last tag is from a tut by Bright's Kreationz. You can find it here. I was a bit disappointed that there were no instructions on how to make the background yourself but the end result is still pretty.

So that's all for now, until next time, happy tagging!