Christmas Dreamer

You will need these things for this tutorial:

Paint Shop Pro. Any version should

work for this.

Scrap Kit of choice. I am using a kit by

Tracy at Scrap Anonymous when

it was a freebie at a store

She belongs to.

Tube or image of choice.

I am using an overlay for My paper by

Armina Designs.

I have a note here as My kit isn't a scrapper's

size so I'm going to have to open

a blank canvas 3600x3600.

Some of You might prefer full or tagger's but

Mine when I do tags and things I love

them to be full size. Anytime You get a full sized

kit the elements You use are easily sized.

This is how You do it.

Image

Resize

All layers unchecked

And for size use

Percentage until it's a size

You like.

Ok so if Your using a tagger sized kit open a blank canvas

of 700x700, if it's full go 3600x3600.

Find a paper from Your kit.

Edit Copy.

Click on the blank canvas with Your magic wand.

Edit

Paste as a new layer.

Selections

Select none.

Open a frame from the kit and paste

it as a new layer.

Add any of the elements You wish

to the tag/Quick Page

pasting each as a new layer.

Using Your magic wand click inside of

the frame.

Go to Your paper layer and tap the

delete key on Your

keyboard.

Selections

Select none.

Now let's add some depth so go to

Effects

3D Effects

Drop Shadow

Vertical 0

Horizontal 0

Opacity 100

Blur 15.00

Color Black.

This step might vary with whatever

kit You have chosen to use so just

play with the settings.

To add an image to the frame just click inside

of it.

Selections

Modify

Expand by 15.

Layers

new raster layer.

Edit

Paste into selection.

Keep in mind the expand might be too big on Your

creation so just play with the

settings some.

Selections

Select none.

Drag that layer under the frame layer.

Add any text You want and then

merge layers.

You can either save the full sized Quick Page

or size it down for a tag and then

save as png.

I hope You enjoyed this tutorial.

Wings Of Hope

You need the following supplies for this

tutorial.

Paint Shop Pro.

I have psp 10 but any version should

work for this.

Scrap Kit of choice or Mine.

Mine is by the talented designer Charly of

Country Hollow Creations.

The kit is called Breast Cancer Charity

Kit.

You can find it at her store here.

Template By Jolanda from Jellebelleke's

Scrappies.

Open template in psp.

Image resize

all layers checked

700 pixels. Make sure that

it's not percent.

With Your magic wand click on Raster

1.

Layers

New raster layer.

Find a paper You like from the scrap kit

that You chose to use and

open it in psp.

Edit Copy.

With Your magic wand click on Raster 1.

Layers

New raster layer.

Edit

Paste into selection.

Selections

select none.

Click on Raster 5 and using Your magic

wand use it on the layer.

Layers

New raster layer.

Open another paper of choice that

will blend in well with Your

creation.

Edit Copy

Edit Paste as a new layer.

Selections

Select None.

On Raster 6 repeat the same steps

as above.

Do the same for Raster 7 and then on

the copy You'll have to scroll up

slightly in Your layer palette and do the

same as We just did.

If You have a nicely textured paper then

use another with a lighter shade.

Ok go back down to Raster 4 and using

Your Manual color correction tool

use these settings:

Manual color target

checked.

Freehand Selection

unchecked.

Source: use the eye dropper tool and

use the same color as the

frame.

Target a color that goes well with

the rest of Your QP.

Now delete all the templates original

layers except leave Raster 3

alone. We'll get to that here in just a

little bit.

Now just start to add any of the elements

from Your chosen tag that You

like.

If they are too big to

Image resize

All layers unchecked.

Be sure that percent is now chosen

and just reduce it's size until

it's right. If not just hit undo and keep

trying.

Let's add a little depth to all of Your elements.

Effects

3D Effects

Drop Shadow

and use your own settings as no matter what

I tell You to use it always varies on

things such as this.

Remember that blank black layer? With Your

magic wand click on

it.

Leaving the ants marching hit Your delete

key.

Keep the ants marching.

Click on raster layer 12 and hit Your

delete key once again.

If Your like Me and always put drop

shadows on it's own layer You

will need to delete

those too.

Click on Raster 10 and 12 repeating

these steps.

See how easy this was? You've now learned

a new trick.

Ok now We are going to add some text to

this very pretty page You've

been making.

Click on Your eye dropper tool and depending

on the paper You used

on the background You will either choose a

light or dark color.

Now add any of the text You want and give

it a pretty drop shadow.

If You wish to now add an image of Your own

just click inside the frame and go to

selections

modify

contract

by only a few pixels though and then it should

look very very nice.

I hope You enjoy this tutorial as much as I did

writing it for You.

How To Make A Quick Page From Scratch

For this tutorial You will need to use a scrap kit of

choice or Mine. I am using a kit by the

wonderful Charly of Country Hollow Creations and

You can find Her kits at Her store here.

The one I'm using is called Baby Time.

I know that some of You are interested in all those

bigger sized images that many scrappers make

with their kits and such, so I decided to

teach You the basics of it. I hope

some of You find it of

use.

This one is going to be a smaller version of a normal sized

quick page but it's still going to be made just like

a real one.

So to get started open a blank canvas of 900x900.

Using Your magic wand click on the blank

canvas. From the kit choose a paper You really

like and go to edit copy and edit paste

into selection.

Selections

select none.

Now from the kit You have just chosen open a

frame or other like element from it.

Edit copy

Edit paste as a new layer.

Positioning it where You'd like it to be.

If You'd like to make the said element a little

bigger all You need to do is go to Image.

Image resize

All layers unchecked.

Put the size on percent and type in

about 110 or so and just

use what looks best

to You.

Now just begin choosing the elements You'd

like to use and paste them over

the canvas as We did with

the frame.

My quick page won't be half as good as

Your's trust Me lol I am just

trying to guide You in how to pull

off a really nice looking

creation.

Ok now let Us add some depth.

Effects

3D Effects

Drop Shadow

Vertical 2

Horizontal 2

Opacity 60

Blur 10.00

Color Black.

If these settings are too much for the

page just play with the settings.

Now on Your frame layer click inside of it

with Your magic wand.

Now click on the paper layer in your layer

palette and hit Your delete key on

Your keyboard.

Selections

Select

none.

Now that Your done with that You can add

Your own text etc that You wish.

Save as png and it will match any Background

You want to put it onto.

I do hope somebody found this a little

useful.

Candy Coated Love

You will need the following supplies for this tutorial:

Scrap kit of choice or Mine.

It's called candy coated and can be found

at Scraps With Attitude.

It's made by the very talented Heather at

Candy Coated Scraps.

Template made By DBA. Thank You Ali

for allowing Us to use Your wonderful templates for

our creations. You will have to look under

templates.

Paint Shop Pro but if You know Your programs well

enough You could probably do this with any

of them out there.

Tube of choice. I used a tube by Jason Patterson

which I acquired through MPT's yahoo group.

You have to have a license in order to use any of his

artwork.

Now let's get started. Open Your template in psp and

duplicate it by pressing shift+D and close the

original one.

Click the background layer with Your magic wand and

opening a paper of choice from the kit go to edit copy

and edit paste as a new layer and then selections

select none.

(Side note here. Now depending which psp version

Your using Your manual color correction tool will be

under Your customize settings when You click on psp's

background. So go to the area under Your tag and

right click on customize and under commands You will

see tools click on that and look for the color correction

tool on the right hand side and place it on one of Your

toolbars in psp. Just drag it up there. I am not sure where

it is in versions other than psp 10 sorry).

Open another paper or element from the kit and choose

a color that goes with Your tag and keep this open

behind Your canvas but to the left or right of it so that You

can see it.

On the Group Raster Layer use Your manual color

correction tool and for the colors on source click

the merged layer and that shade of grey will be

showing in the box. On the target choose the color

from the paper or element You have chosen and click

ok when You like how it looks.

Click on the raster layer 2 in Your layer palette with

Your magic wand click on the heart and from

the kit Your using choose and paper from it and

go to edit copy and edit paste as a new layer.

Selections select none. On raster layer 5 use Your

color correction tool and use a color of choice

to color the hearts frame.

Delete layers 4 and 6.

For raster 1 and 2 You can either do the paper

steps once again or the manual color

correction tool. It's up to you.

On raster layer 7 We are going to work this

in a few steps since the hearts are two

different colors.

So go to Your manual color correction tool

once again and for the colors of source

choose black and whatever other

color You have used for Your creation.

Now on that same layer let's use Your

freehand selection tool and draw

around all the other smaller hearts that

You didn't did get colored. Be sure

the lasso tool is set to add (Shift) so You don't

have to hold down Your shift key. Once

this is done color them the same way

as above.

On layers 8 and 9 do the same as We have done

with the hearts only You won't have to use

Your free hand tool.

Now we are going to add our tube. Go to

raster 3 and go to edit copy on your

tube and then edit paste as

as a new layer.

Duplicate this layer and pull one of them

under the frame layer and turn the

visibility off on the top layer. now just carefully

erase around the frame on the

outer edge.

Now go back to Your top layer and erase

it doing the same don't worry this is

such a faultless step it will never

look marred if Your a terrible tuber as

I am lol.

Ok now make sure the top layer is still selected

and begin to add any of the kits elements

that You like.

If Your using My kit You will have really size

down. I did this by going to image resize

make sure that percent is chosen and that all layers

are unchecked. I used the numbers between 5

and 20 for all of My elements.

Now let's add drop shadows to all of the things in

our tag. Effects 3D Effects Drop Shadow

with the following settings

vertical 2

horizontal 2

opacity 40

blur 5.00

color black.

Now don't add a drop shadow onto the top tube

that You used for Your heart instead

drop shadow the one below the frame layer so

that is shows no flaws. If You have any

hangers just erase them to

smooth out the tag.

Now add any text You wish and go to layers

merge visible save as png and Your

all done.

I hope You enjoyed this tutorial.

Awards

I got this award from The amazing Jane from JT's

Designs. Thank You so much hon and I love You

designs and things. You have some very nice

talent -hugs-.

I am sending this to the following person: (I would send

it to more but with the holdiays a lot of people are away).

1. Susan known as Hippiedaze and one of the most

talented ladies I know out there.