Tag Tutorial - Winter Cutie - PTU

Tube of Choice - I'm using a cute one by Elias Chatzoudis
@ MPT

Scrapkit - PTU - It's called "Winter Bliss" by my
mate Clarey :D She rocks and this kit is
gorgeous! If you'd like to purchase it, please
go HERE for more details

Masks - HERE and HERE

No filters required

This tut is short-handed, ie. I've explained quickly what
I've done, so people familiar with my tut processes should
be fine :D xx

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The Usual

then

Open rectangeframe3

Resize 80%

C&P


Open wintertree

Resize 80%

C&P

Place as mine to the left of the frame

Duplicate

Move one tree under the frame

Dropshadow the bottom tree - 0, 0, 40.00, 10.26 Black

then

Hide the top tree and

Click inside the frame with Magic Wand

and Do a Selection Delete on the bottom tree layer

Expand by 5

and hit Invert

but use your eraser to take away the

treepot at the bottom

Selections None

then

Unhide the Top tree

and erase the treepot so it looks like

the tree is coming out of the frame


Open Paper 9

C&P

Move down the tag canvas a little

then repeat the Selection Delete process

but this time, you can just hit Delete on the paper layer once you've inverted the

selection



Open Paper 8

C&P

Move down the LP to just above the White Back

and apply my Mask 434

Layers, Merge, Merge Group


Open Paper 3

C&P

Move to just above the last mask layer

and apply my Mask 435

Layers, Merge, Merge Group


Open bauble1

Resize 80%

C&P

Place on the right of the frame

Dropshadow as before


Open snowflake4

Resize, 60%

C&P

Place as mine and dropshadow


Open wiredflowers

Resize 60%

Drop down the LP to just above the masks

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip


Open curlyribbon1 and 2

C&P

Place where liked above the wireflowers layer

and dropshadow as before


Open snowdust1

Resize 70%

C&P

Place as mine


Open snowdust2

Resize 70%

C&P

Place just above the wireflowers in the LP

and at the top of the tag canvas as mine



Open the tube you've chosen to use

C&P

Resize as needed

Place where looks best

Duplicate

and move under the frame layer

Add a dropshadow to the bottom one

and repeat the Selection Delete Erase process

Once you've done this

Apply the same shadow to the frame layer

and the wireflowers


Add your name as liked and any words you might

want to use too - I used Palatino Linotype and two

colours from the tag and put winter at the top

and wonderland at the bottom lol!

Crop the canvas

Add your artist info

Delete the White Background

and

save as .PNG

Hope you like xx

Tag Tutorial - Christmas Comfort - PTU

Tube of Choice - I used one of the Christmas gifts by Keith Garvey from last
year @ MPT. However, I think this tube is now available to
buy if you'd like to use the same

Scrapkit - PTU - I'm using "Holiday Wishes" by Jessica @ Gothic Inspirations
I used this in my last PTU tut, but I said at the time, it's packed
full of goodies perfect for taggies...and I wasn't kidding lol!
If you'd like to purchase the kit, go to Jessica's blog for more
info HERE

Mask - by me HERE

Wordart - by me HERE

Xenofex 2 Constellation

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The Usual

then

Open the WindowWSnow

Resize 80%

C&P

Place centrally


Open Candles2

Resize 20%

C&P

Place on the left of the windowledge

Duplicate

Place on the right

Then

Drop both of these layers below the Windows layer

(The snow is on the window, so we're outside looking in :D)


Open the Pine Garland

Resize 50%

C&P

Place as mine at the top of the window

Then

Dropshadow

0, 0, 40.00, 10.26, Black


Now

Take your Magic Wand

Click outside of the Window

Modify and Expand the Selection by 6

then

hit Delete on the Pine Garland layer


Open my Wordart

C&P

Place on the window frame

and apply the same shadow as before if liked


Open TreePine

Resize 60%

C&P

Place as mine over to the left of the window

and

move it under the window frame in the LP

Apply Xenofex 2 Constellation on these settings;




Hit Random Seed to get the placement you'd like

then

and apply the same shadow as before

and do the same delete process as used for the Garland


Open Paper17

Resize 70%

C&P

Place under all the layers

and repeat the process for deletion of outside excess


You can - if you'd like - decorate your tree

with some of the candy canes etc

Resize them as needed

But, I didn't do this as I thought looked cool as it was :)


Open your chosen tube

C&P

Place as you'd like

Dropshadow

then drop down below all the layers to just above the tree

and

repeat the delete process


Open Paper7

Image, Resize 70%

C&P

Place just above the White Background

and

apply my Mask 434

then

Erase the parts of mask that show under the bottom of the window ledge


Open the Snowflake Frame

Resize 75%

C&P

Place just above the mask layer

and dropshadow as before

And again, delete the small part of frame that shows under the window ledge


Don't dropshadow the Window though xx


Last touches...

Open Holly2

Resize, 15%

C&P

Place to the right of the windowledge

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Shadow as before


Finally, add your name in a style and font of choice

and

Add your artist info (and scrapkit designer info if required)

Crop the canvas to a more taggy size

Delete the White Background

and

save as .PNG

OR!!!

If you want to add an animated snow effect to the tag, then do so now

and save as a .GIF

Have fun and Merry Christmas xx

Tag Tutorial - Christmas Love - PTU

Close Ups of Choice - I used two from Keith Garvey
These can be obtained from MPT

Scrapkit - I'm using a fantastic Christmas kit by Jessica @ Gothic Inspirations
It's PTU and called "Holiday Wishes" and packed with tons of goodies for lots
of Christmas tags, I love it, thank you Jess hun xx
If you'd like to buy it, please visit GI for more details

My Masks - Vix_Mask434 which can be right clicked and saved from
my other blog HERE and Vix_Mask147 which you can get from my
tut site HERE

Wordart by me HERE
It's a PNG file so should be no background on your downloaded one

Xero Graphics GreyTinter


Xenofex 2 Constellation - optional


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The Usual - except make the tag canvas 650 wide x 600 pixels

then

Open Frame4

Resize 70%

C&P

Place centrally to the canvas

So let's get this frame filled so we can fill the tag with goodies :D


Open two tubes of choice - facial close ups or large tubes if prefered

I used close ups

Then C&P

Place as liked

then use a Selection Delete with an expand of 14 - yes really lol! - and

Invert and delete the excess tube/s

and Crop the canvas to it's current size 650 x 600

then

Duplicate the tube layers

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur 2.00

and change the Blend Mode to Soft Light

and

then

on the bottom tube layer - apply Xero Graphics Greytinter on the default settings


Paste a Paper from the kit - I used

Paper18 - resized to 70%

Move the paper under the tubes and repeat the Selection Delete as before

as you just want this paper as a background frame fill

(There is a space in the bottom middle of the frame - but this will be sorted in a minute lol!)


Open Paper 7

Resize as before

C&P

then apply my mask - Vix_Mask434

and

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

now open Paper 10

Resize and C&P as before

but this time - apply Mask...yeah, my mask 147 again hehe, I think

it compliments a lot of tags so I'm using it again, but feel free to use

a different one of your choice

and Merge Group as before

then

move the 2nd mask down the LP so it's under the 1st mask layer


Back to the elements...

Open Bow2

Resize 50%

C&P

and place in the bottom middle of the frames

Open the Candles - gorgeous!

Resize 25%

C&P

Place on the left side of the frame

Duplicate

and move the duplicate over to the right of the frame


open CandyCanesWBow

Resize 40%

C&P

Place as mine


Open the Leaves Fern

Resize 40%

C&P

Place as mine on the right


Open the Bow (it matches the one on the Candy Canes)

Image, Resize 25%

C&P

Place as mine over the Leaves


Move the candles layers to the top of the LP


Open the Pine Garland

Image, Resize 80%

C&P

Place as mine just above the frame layer


I also added a subtle Constellation effect to the Leaves layer - but this is optional


Now add some dropshadows where you'd like

I added a drop of 2, 2, 45.00,

to

Leaves

Candy Cane

Bow

Bow 2 (the gold one)

Pine Garland

then

I added a dropshadow of 0, 0, 40, 10.26 Black to the Frame layer


Open my Wordart

C&P

Place as Mine


Then add your Name as liked

Add your Artist info

and then

Crop the tag again and

Delete the White Background

and

Save as .PNG

Tag Tutorial - Girly Girl Two - PTU

Tubes of Choice - I used a couple by the fab Elias Chatzoudis
His work is PTU and should be purchased from MPT

Scrapkit - PTU - "It Girl" by my pal Clarey, it's her first
kit in a while and it's v.cool :D Love it hun, thank you xx
If you'd like to purchase it, you can get it from her shop HERE

Mask - WSL_Mask220 by Chelle, it's a fave of mine :D
Can be downloaded by visiting Chelle's tut site which
is linked in Cool Supplies over on the right

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Font of Choice
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The Usual

then

Open White Square Frame

50%

C&P


Move to top left of canvas

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip


Open flower1

C&P

Place in the centre

and

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but change the Number slider to 6

Move down below the frames layers


Over to the papers

Open Paper 10

C&P

Place in the top left frame area

Open Paper 12

C&P

Place in the bottom right frame area

Using Magic Wand with a Selection Delete of with an expand of 6

Delete the excess paper/s

and move the top left paper and frame layers down

the Layer Palette so they are below the bottom right ones


Open Paper 3

C&P

Apply WSL_Mask220



Now

Open eyeshadow

Resize 60%

C&P

Place as mine


Open Lipstick

C&P

Place as mine


Open Mascara

Resize 80%

C&P

Place as mine


Open Phone

Image, Resize 60%

C&P

Place as Mine


Open Varnish

C&P

Place as mine


Take your two face tubes

Resize as needed - I went down about 80%

You want the paper fills to show as well

C&P your tubes

Shadow as liked

and then

use the same Selection Delete with an expand of 6

to get rid of the excess tube/s


Open Glitter Splat 2

Image Resize 40%

C&P

Move to the top right

and move down under the flower layer in the LP

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip


Open Ribbon1

Resize 80%

Move to the top middle of the canvas

Line up as mine and

then move down the LP to just above

the flower layer

Duplicate

Image

Flip


Now add a dropshadow to all element layers

except the papers and mask

Shadow of 2, 2, 45, 5.00 Black


Then Crop the canvas

and add your Name in a style or font of choice

I used a glitter fill for the stroke - Stroke of 2.00 and

Black fill for my name and then shadowed as before

then

Add the artist info

and delete the White background

and save as .PNG

All done :D

Thanks for Looking xx

Tag Tutorial - Girly Girl One - PTU

Tube of Choice - I am using a gorgeous one by Keith Garvey
which is PTU and can be purchased from MPT

Scrapkit - PTU - a fantastic new kit from Clarey called "It Girl"
Gorgeous! And can be purchased from Clarey's shop HERE

Chelle's Mask WSL_Mask177 which can be downloaded
from her tut site which is linked in Cool Supplies

Xero Graphics - Greytinter

VM Extravaganza - Transmission

Font of Choice

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The Usual

then

Open heartframe1

60%

then

C&P

Place to the top left of the centre of the canvas


Repeat for heartframe2 and place as mine


Open WireHearts

C&P

Place as mine

Erase the excess wire on the top and bottom if liked

I used a small eraser on a round setting on 25 then changed to 5 when

I got closer to the hearts


Open Paper12

C&P

Move under all the other layers

and Chelle's Mask WSL_Mask177


Duplicate the Mask layer

and on the bottom layer

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur, 10.00

then

VM Extravaganza, Transmission,

Line Width 3

Offset 2

Contrast 40

OK to Apply



Open Papers 9 and 11

C&P

Place as liked within the heart frames

then using Magic Wand

do a Selection Delete with an expand of 4

and delete the excess papers


Open glittersplat1

60%

C&P

Place as mine on the bottom right of the tag

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip


Open the tube you've chosen to use

Resize as liked

and C&P

Place where looks best then

Duplicate the tube

and on the top layer

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur, 3.00

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light

and

on the Bottom tube

Xero Graphics Greytinter

and change to the settings and Apply to the tube


Add Dropshadow of

0, 0, 40, 10.26 Black


Open tinysparkleoverlay

Resize 90%

C&P

Drop down the LP to just under both tubes


Now add a dropshadow of

2, 2, 45, 5.00 Black to all the element layers except

the sparkles and paper layers


Now

Add your Name in a colour and font of choice

Dropshadow as before

Add your Artist info

On a Layer above the White Background

Floodfill with a colour from the tag

and taking care not to crop the sparkles

Crop the canvas now to a more taggy size

and then delete the colour fill and White Back layers

and save as Transparent .PNG

Thanks for Looking xx

Tag Tutorial - Sparkly Elegance - FTU (Time Limit)

Tube Close Up of Choice - I'm using one by Barbara Jensen

which you can get from her site HERE (Over 18's only as the site

contains artistic nudity)


Scrapkit - "Framboise" by Latham, Lya and digiscrap.ch HERE

It's a FULL SIZED Collab from www.digiscrapbooking.ch and at

the time of writing (25th Nov)it was a freebie to download...so be quick!

If it is PTU when you see this tutorial, then I'm sorry 'bout that and

if you really want to do this tutorial, then you'll need to purchase it...or

not do the tut lol xx


Mask - I'm using WSL_Mask220 by Chelle Weescotslass which

you can download from her tut site which is linked over on the right

under Cool Supplies


Mura Meister Copies


Scripty Font of Choice


This tag is for Chas, who writes amazing tuts and makes
gorgeous tags :)

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The Usual

then

Open Lya Design (19)

Image, Resize, 20% SS

C&P

Move to the top left-ish of the tag canvas

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Line up as mine on the bottom right


Open latham_element36 - (ribbon and leaves)

Image, Resize 10% SS

C&P

Place as mine


Open latham_element32

Resize 5% (yup, small!)

C&P

Place UNDER the element 36 as mine


Open Lya Design (p4) a stunning paper!

Image Resize 15%

C&P

Place just above the White Background in the LP

and apply Mask - Chelle's Mask WSL_Mask220

Layers, Merge, Merge Group on the mask layer

and

then Duplicate the mask layer


open latham_element25 (it's in the other folder)

Image, Resize, 10%

C&P

Line it up under the ribbon and leaves element on the right


Open latham_element20

Resize 10%

C&P

Line up as mine under the previous elements (not the frames though)


Open latham_element19

Resize 10%

C&P

Move to the top of the LP

(Layers, Arrange, Bring to Top)

and

apply a dropshadow 0, 0, 35.00, 7.00

and then

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set to

Star Cluster preset and change the Shift X and Shift Y sliders to 64

OK to Apply

and once applied, Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

and move under all the elements in the LP except the frames


Open latham_element37

Resize 20%

C&P

Place as mine lined up with the top left frame

and move down the LP

so it's under the scattered gems


Now let's fill the frames and then finish off with a few

more elements lol!

OK - choose a paper

I used

latham_papier8

Image, Resize 15%

C&P

Do a Selection Delete with an Expand of 8 on the frame layer

and delete the paper excess

Selections None


So now your frames have a paper fill

so choose your image/close ups to use


I chose to use just one

and placed it in the bottom frame

I also duplicated, blurred and soft light on the Top tube

and applied Xero Greytinter to the bottom tube

and also a drop shadow

then

did a Selection Delete as before


Tip: I also deleted two of the gems that were covering

her eyes lol!


Now for some shadows

See which elements you think need a shadow and add one

I used

-3, 5, 17, 3.00 Black to the berries, lavender, gems and cherry blossom


Open Lya Design (5)

Image, Resize

30%

C&P

Place as mine

I placed one under the gems in the top frame area

and then

Pasted again and placed over the bottom of the curtain


Tip: you may want to floodfill the White Back

with a dark colour so you can see where the white sparklies are

You don't want to chop them off when done - so

I tend to do this so I can check lol - once checked, you can change back to White


Crop the canvas now to a more taggy size and take care

not to chop off the white sparklies or shadow edges

On the Frames layers,

Apply a shadow of 0, 0, 40.00, 10.26 Black


Now taking a favourite scripty font, type some wording that

applies to the tag and place on the top left as mine

and add a subtle shadow (the one I added to the gems first will do)

Then

use a colour from the tag and Stroke of 1

and add the name

Then Shadow as before

Add your artist info etc

and

Delete the White Background

All done :)

Thanks for looking xx

Tag Tutorial - Flaky - FTU

Tube of Choice - I'm using one of the wintery ones

Artwork © Jessica Dougherty

If you'd like to use the same tube, it must be purchased via CILM

However, feel free to use what you'd like to use instead


Scrapkit - FTU - a gorgeous wintery one by Tamie @ Addictive Pleasures

called "Snoeflake" - thanks hun xx

If you download it, please leave a little love

Mask - by Chelle @ weescotslasscreations - called WSL_Mask117
You can download it from Chelle's tut site which is linked in the
Cool Supplies section of this blog

Mura Meister Copies



The Usual

then

Open bg

Image, Resize, 75% SS

C&P

Crop to the canvas size 600 x 600

then apply Chelle's mask WSL_Mask117

Layers, Merge, Merge Group


Open ribbonframe

Image, Resize, 80%

C&P

Place centrally if not already there


Open the bg again

Resize 60%

C&P

Place under the ribbonframe layer

and do a Selection Delete with an expand of 5


Open bench

Image, Resize 60%

C&P

Place as mine


Move under the ribbonframe

and apply a shadow of

0, 7, 17, 30.00, Black

and

Select and expand again using magic wand on the ribbonframe

then

Hit Delete on the bench layer

Selections None


Now add your tube - resized as you like

I resized 90% and made it look like she's sitting on the bench :D

Apply same drop as before to it


Open hangingflake3

70%

C&P

Place on the left

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Move both under the tube layer in LP

and apply 0, 0, 35.00, 7.00 Black

Open string3

40%

Place in the centre of the left flake

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Shadow both as before

and make sure both are below your tube layer


Open the icecones

Image, Resize 80%

C&P

Apply same shadow as before

Move under the ribbonframe in the LP

Leave for the minute as we'll do a mass delete in a sec...


Open flower4

50%

C&P

Apply same shadow

then

Place centrally and go to

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look for Encircle

Change the Shift X and Shift Y slider to 60

and the ANGLE slider to -10

Click OK to apply


Move down under the ribbonframe and icecones in LP

Open ribbon3

C&P

Move over to the right a bit

so the bottom of it is lined up with the bottom know

in the ribbonframe

Place above the flowers layer

but below the icecones

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

then

Image, Free Rotate

Left, 90 degrees

then

move up the tag a bit

then

add the dropshadow to both of these


Now using Selection Delete with the same expand

Delete the flowers that are in the frame

and the ribbons that are in the frame

then

Selections Invert

and Delete the icecones that are OUTSIDE of

the frame


Now apply a shadow to the ribbonframe layer

I used 0, 0, 40, 10.26 Black


Open snowflakes

80%

C&P

Place just above the bg layers

and line up as mine on the left

(there should be a flake placed between the trees on the left and the flowers and ribbonframe -

if you get that, you'll be lined up as mine is)

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip


Now, add your name as liked and a phrase/saying if liked too

I used Century Gothic, Black

48 for the phrase and 72 for my name and stretched it, subtle shadow as before

then your artist copyright info

Crop the Canvas

and

Delete the background

and save as a transparent .PNG

All done :) Hope you enjoy xx