Sweet Shop

You will need the following supplies for this tutorial.

Template 76 by Yvette here. Scroll to new tag templates 76-80 and download.
Scrapkit Candy Shoppe by Justine here. But any scrapkit would work for this.
Tube of Choice. I chose the artwork of the wonderful Elias Chatzoudis and You need a license to use any of his work. You can find His tubes here.
Alf's Power Toys Color Abs here. It's a free download.
Xero Fritillary which is a free download here.

Open all Your materials in your psp and let's go. Open the template press Shift+D to duplicate it and close out the original one. Go to image canvas size by 700 so that We can see what We are doing.

With Your eyedropper tool go to Your tube and choose a color from it and go to Your template and in the layer palette make sure the rectrangle layer is highlighted and with your magic wand click on it. Go to layers new raster layer and flood fill it with the color You chose. Go to Effects xero Fritillary with the following settings Granularity 10 Agression 30 Tesselation 54 Variation 85 and hit ok. Keep the ants marching and now go to Selections modify expand by 3 go to layers new raster layer and flood fill it with white. Slide this layer under Your filled rectangle layer.Delete the original rectangle layer.On the flood filled white layer give go to effects 3d effects drop shadow and give it the settings of vertical and horizontal 2 opacity 50 blur 5.00 and the color black.

Choose the small circles layer and with the shift key on Your keyboard pressed down choose both circles with Your magic wand. When both have the marching ants around them go to layers new raster layer and go to your materials palette with Your foreground color the same as You chose from Your tube and Your background color white go to gradient and use the following settings angle 323 repeats 3 invert checked and style linear flood fill your new layer with this gradient. Selections select none and then go to Effects texture effects blinds with the following settings width 2 opacity 50 color black and both boxes marked.Now give it the same drop shadow You did Your rectangle layer.Delete the original layer.(Side note I also gave that new raster layer a setting of -1 one to the drop shadow. This is just a preference and You don't need to do it. I just think it's more defined and looks better).

In Your layer palette choose the circle layer and go to layers new raster layer. In Your materials palette change the gradient back to your original color and then with the magic wand choose the circle once more and flood fill the new layer with the color. Keep those ants marching now go to layers new raster layer and fill again with that same color and now go to selections select none and go to effects texture effects weave with the following settings the gap width and opacity should be 1 the weave color black the gap color white and fill gaps checked and click ok. Now in the layer palette put the opacity down to 34. Now give it the same 2 drop shadow You did on the rectangle layer. Now on that top circle go to merge merge down to make it a single layer and delete your original layer.

Now in Your layer palette click on the dotted circle layer go to effects Alf's Power Toys Color Abs and move all the sliders to 255 and click ok. Give it Your same drop shadow.

Now in Your layer palette choose the text layer got o selections select all float selections defloat and go to layers new raster layer and choose another color close to the same color you used from your tube and flood fill that layer then keep those ants marching and go to layers new raster layer and from the kit choose a glitter paper and go to edit copy and paste as a new layer over the floating text layer go to selections invert and press down on the delete key on your keyboard and lower the opacity to 73 and put the blend mode onto Luminance (L). Click on the Text background and give it that same drop shadow We've been using throughout the tutorial.Delete the original text layer and on the glitter layer go to layers merge down and then delete the text layer and when it's gone on Your filled layer do the merge down once again.

Now edit copy and paste as a new layer Your tube resize it if needed and place it on Your tag to Your liking. Give it the same drop shadow You did everything else.

Now just add any elements from the kit You like Your text resize if You want to and then add your copyright and save as png and Your all done.

Broken Halo

What You need for this tut are:
The frame I used which You can find on Vix's blog site scroll under free elements and You will find I think about halfway down the page. You can get this here.
A mask of choice. Mine came from a group challenge and I don't know who made it so I can't share I'm sorry. Vix has some awesome masks on her site under goodies here.
Xero which is a free filter here.
Eye Candy 400 which is a pay to use filter which you can get here. You really don't need to use this as I only used it for the text and My halo tube from the kit and used it on the copyright layer because some of My groups use black backgrounds and this way it makes the text legible.
Font of choice. I used Bilbo which is a pay font You can find that here.
I used a scrap kit from Justine which was a PTU but You could use any scrap elements You wanted it would be just fine with this tut and just use my tutorial as a guide.You can find her kits here or check on the right side of My blog under My CT tags and click on the scrap shops link I have up.

Open Your mask and minimize it in Your psp then shift + D to duplicate frame image close original out with the eye dropper tool choose two colors from your tube or the frame.On your materials palette on the foreground color choose gradient angle 295 repeats 2 style linear.Layers new raster layer..Flood fill it with Your gradient. Layer's new mask layer from image. In the source window choose your mask that you minimized.In Your layer palette on Your mask layer merge and merge group I also chose to duplicate my mask layer so that it defined the butterflies a bit more. Adjust add remove noise add noise uniform noise 20 monochrome unchecked.

On Your frame layer use Your magic wand and while holding down the D on Your keyboard click in each frame's circle while the ants are marching go to selections modify expand by 3. Layers new raster layer and then flood fill it with your gradient. Selections select none. Layers new raster layer again use your magic wand on the frame circles and do as above.once done then go back to that new layer and flood fill it with your regular color.

Effects texture effects texture gap size 1 width 1 opacity 1 weave color black and gap color white fill gaps checked.In your layer palette put the blend mode onto soft light and lower the opacity by 57 or whatever looks good for you. Try to experiment and see what looks best to You. On Your frame layer go to effects 3D effects drop shadow vertical 2 horizontal 2 opacity 30 blur 10 I used a color from the frame for the shadow. Now repeat the drop shadow put the vertical and horizontal at -2.

In Your layer palette be sure all Your layers are below the frame layer. Now again use Your magic wand and click inside the frame layer's circles and go to selections modify expand by 8 and on your tube edit copy paste as a new layer..arrange it how you like.I used my full tube on the first two cirlces and then I went back to selections invert and on the tube layer I hit delete on my keyboard. I again with my magic wand clicked on my frame layer on the last frame and I pasted my tube and deleted it as the other layers all with the same steps.

Slide the tube layers down below your frame layer and then what I did on My tubes the first one I used radiance at the default settings and then porcelain 2 times on my remaining tube layer then I used a blinds effect and lowered the opacity of my first tube to 90 and left the other one as it was. Now add a drop shadow again to your tube layers but change the blur to 5 and the color black and again do the -2 too.

Now let's add our text so click on your text tool and type out Your name or whatever it is You wish on it and convert it to raster layer and add the same drop shadow twice. While My text was still in vector I stretched it out a bit to fit fully over my tag. But again this is choice.

Now all You have left is to add some of the elements of Your scrap and add Your copyright layer and Your good to go.