Vix's Scrap Tag Tutorials: Tag Tutorial - Clareycakes

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Tag Tutorial - Clareycakes - PTU

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube of Choice - I used a PTU one by Suzanne Woolcott aka gorjuss

Scrapkit - Cupcake Party Tag Kit by Clarey - you can purchase it HERE

Xenofex 2 Rip Open

Mura Meister Copies

Mask of your Choice - a rectangular one would be good

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OK - We're going to make a nice big tag :D So if you need to start
smaller - cool, just adjust the following sizings as in proportion to your start size :)

The Usual - but make it a 650 x 600 pixel New Image

Add New Layer

Floodfill White

Open roundframe1 from Clarey's kit

C&P

Resize 80% Smartsize

Using Magic Wand on your usual selection settings - see my Glossary of Terms section over on the right if you're not sure what settings to use

Click inside the roundframe1 and Selections, Modify, Expand by 6

then find the paper12

Image, Resize 86% Smartsize

C&P on the tag canvas

Place as liked within the frame

Selections, Invert, Delete

Selections, Invert

and then find paper6

Resize as before

C&P

But, move this down the tag canvas

so it's just under halfway up the frame centre - see my tag for ref

Once happy with placement - repeat the Selections, Invert and Delete

Selections, None

Now, move both of these paper layers down the LP

so both are under the frame layer

Whole paper nearest the bottom

So, on the pink half filled paper layer

Take your Freehand Selection Tool

Have it set to 3 Feather - Add - Point to Point

And select the top horizontal edge of the paper

Start at the left side - go across the top of the pink paper area and slightly beyond

then back over to the left side again to join it - jaggedy as you like - from one

side of the paper to the other

See this example below to show you how I selected it

Keep Selected

then

Xenofex 2 - Rip Open and apply the following settings

So now, see the gorgeous cupcakes that come with this kit?

We're going to stuff our pink paper pocket with cakes! :D

Choose which you'd like to go with the tube you're using

Resize the cakes 50% or so, make them different sizes if prefered

then

C&P

Move down the LP so they're below the Pink Paper layer

and place as liked

Once happy with placement of the cakes

Apply a dropshadow of your choice to them to give some depth

I used 0, 0, 40.00, 10.00, Black

Then, open paperflower3

C&P

Then

Go to Mura Meister Copies - look for the Encircle Preset

and change the X and Y Sliders to 70 each

Apply

Open paperflower6

C&P

Image Free Rotate, 90 degrees to the right

then move this flower - over the tag canvas so it's lined up with

the pink flower on the middle of the left side

Move down the LP so it's below it

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Line up on the right side

Duplicate this flower on the right

Image

Free Rotate, LEFT, 90 Degrees

And place as mine under the top central flower

Duplicate this one

Image

Flip

Now

Open a chosen paper to go with your tag so far - I used Paper11

Don't Resize this one

just C&P

then

Crop to canvas size 650 x 600 tick crop tool

Make sure the paper is just above the white background

then

Take your mask of choice - a rectangle shaped dimension one would be best, and then apply

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

Now open your chosen tube

C&P

Place as liked

Add effects as liked and shadow as prefered :)

Now on the flowers and frame layer

Apply a dropshadow as liked

I used the same one I did for the cupcakes earlier

Open scatterswirl2

Image

Resize 60%

C&P

Now

Line this swirl up with the top right area of the mask layer

See my tag for reference

Now

Move the swirls down the LP to just above the Mask Layer

Duplicate

Image

Flip

Image

Mirror

Now merge these two layers together

and apply a subtle shadow

I used

2

0

16

1.98

Black

Add your name in a colour and font of choice

Apply a Bevel or (as I did) a SuperBladePro preset

and

Shadow as before

Apply any other bits you might like to use - I added some sparkles which I love at the moment, am obsessed with sparkles lol!

Now, add your artist info

and Crop the tag canvas

I got down to

623 x 546

Then

Delete the White Background

and

save your work as a PNG file - so it's transparent backed

and when posting in your forums, will not have a white background :)

Hope you enjoyed this simple, copy and paste tut - simple, maybe...but effective? I think so hehe xx

This tutorial was written on 1st October 2010 by Vix
All of my tutorials are registered with TWI

About this Blog...

Hiya blogettes,
I love scrapkits, and I love to make tags
using scrapkits too.
Personally, I enjoy opening a new kit and seeing
what goodies lay inside and what happens when
I go nutz in PSP lol!
But, I know there are lots of people who do enjoy a scrapkit tag tutorial - so here's this blog, especially for them!

Here you'll find a few scrapkit tag tutorials for you to enjoy.
Some are Pay to Use scrapkits and some are Free to
Use scrapkits.

Some will be from taggers sized kits
and some will be from full sized digiscrap kits.
Note: If a kit I've linked to is no longer available - just use another kit and see what happens...

I hope these tuts inspire you to go nutz in PSP yourselves and that you have fun with your creations and expressing yourself through gorgeous tags.

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs
Vix xx

Important Information

These tutorials are written by me (Vix) The date of creation is usually the date they are posted on the blog, sometimes earlier. They are based on tags of my own design created by me and any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental. Please do not use my tutorials as the basis for ideas when creating your own tutorials. Be original! Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with these tutorials are supplied in good faith - if I have used something not intended for usage in this way, please contact me via email. Any items specifically created by me for the purposes of these tutorials MAY NOT be used in any other tag tutorials UNLESS I mention that they may be. Links to tube/scrap blogs or sites are added either through necessity or creator courtesy, and it is entirely up to the individual (ie. You!) if you choose to visit these sites and/or download/purchase from them. Scraps used in my tutorials that I've obtained from PTU purchased scrap kits are NOT supplied in my tutorials supplies. This website is intended for educational/entertainment purposes only NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted. PSP groups and forums are welcome to text link to the tutorials. All of my tutorials are registered with TWI

Glossary of Terms

C&P - Copy and Paste

The Usual - New Image in PSP, 600 x 600 Pixels
Add a New Layer and Floodfill White
(I tend to make tags in 700 x 600 but my older tutorials are the first dimensions)

LP - Layer Palette

(the bit on the right in PSP which shows all the layers)

MP - Materials Palette

(also known as the Colour boxes - found at the top right of PSP)

Selection Delete - Magic Wand Tool on 0 Tolerance and
0 Feather, click inside the mentioned item (frame etc)
then Selections, Modify, Expand (or Contract) by a
certain number of Pixels which will be stated.
Then Selection Invert and either eraser delete (if asked)
or hit the Delete button to get rid of excess tube
or paper, for instance.

Magic Wand Settings - just so you know...
Mode: Add
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 0 (unless otherwise stated)
Feather: 0 (unless otherwise stated)

Eraser Settings -
For hard removal - ie. getting rid of excess tube etc
Size: 102
Hardness: 100
Step: 5
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100

Resize and 00% - if I show a number percent, like 80% etc
It means Resize that particular element
paper, tube etc by the amount stated then C&P

Double Layer Tube Emerge -

Once placed as you'd like it on your tag

Duplicate the tube layer

Move one just above the frame layer (or whatever you're wanting the tube to "emerge" from)

and one just under this layer

Hide the top tube layer

Using Magic Wand Selection - select your frame inner

and then Modify, Expand as needed

then

Selections, Invert

And take your Eraser tool on a hard strong setting (see my settings above) and erase any parts of the tube which stick out below the area you want them to be

Once deleted, Selections None

Now unhide your Top tube layer

Activate in the LP and then

and repeat the erase as needed

You should - all being well - have your tube emerging from a frame in selected parts

And that is the double layer tube emerge. Used in many of my tuts

Top Tips

1. Use a different tube/image. Nothing makes a tag from a tutorial more your own than NOT using the same tube etc.

2. Colourize your chosen kit to suit your mood or your tube = but, only if the scrap designer allows...and most do :)

3. Give a little credit if poss. Many designers do want credit for their scraps, so where able, slip a little "scraps by..." or "scrapkit by..." in your tag credits when using scrap designers that ask for credit when used online. Most of the full sized scrap designers do ask for this.

But of course, if the designer doesn't ask for credit, then that's fab too and saves on tag credit space :)

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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Tag Tutorial - Clareycakes - PTU