Supplies Needed
“Sweet Candy Love” is a
tagger size scrap kit created by Crystal of Crystals Creations and can be
purchased from Digi Divas here. You
can visit her blog here.
Thank you Crystal for such an adorable kit packed with such sweetness!
This tutorial was written
assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.
~♥~ Let’s
get started ~♥~
Open up a 700 x 700 blank
canvas.
Flood fill white.
Open up Paper 9.
In your color pallet,
close out the foreground.
Set the background to
Pattern - look for Paper 9.
Make your Ellipse Tool
active set on Circle
Create a 600 x 600 circle.
Objects/Align/Center in
Canvas.
Right Click on the circle
in your layers pallet and choose “Convert to Raster Layer”.
Adjust/Add Remove
Noise/Add Noise:
Gaussian and Monochrome
checked
Noise: 48%
OK
Click anywhere outside of
the circle with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Selections/Modify/Contract
by 12.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 7
Into Selection.
Selections/Modify/Contract
by 6.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6
Into Selection.
Click the Lock Icon at
the top of your layers pallet to lock this layer.
Adjust/Blur/Radial Blur:
Match your settings to
mine –
Click the lock Icon at
the top of your layers pallet to Unlock the layer.
Deselect.
Copy and paste ee4 as a new layer.
Resize 55%
Free rotate Left 45
degrees.
Duplicate 2 times for a
total of 3.
Move all 3 into position –
see my tag for reference. Be sure the
middle frame is behind the 2 frames that are side by side.
Highlight the rear center
frame.
Click inside of it with your
Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 4.
New Raster layer below
the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 5
Into Selection.
Deselect.
Highlight the frame on
the left.
Click inside of it with your
Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 4.
New Raster layer below
the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 5
Into Selection.
Lock the paper layer by
clicking on the lock icon at the top of the layers pallet.
Adjust/blur/Radial Blur:
Use same settings.
OK
Unlock the layer by clicking
the lock icon again.
Copy and paste ee18 as a
new layer below the frame.
Move into a position you
like.
Right click on it in your
layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer”
Lower the Opacity to 44.
Close out the original
element layer.
Deselect.
Highlight the frame on
the right.
Repeat the above step
accept open up the original element layer and move it beneath this frame and
continue with the steps. Once you’re
done you can delete the original element layer.
Add your
elements. I used:
Ee18: Resize 80%
ee25: Resize 60%
ee17: Resize 45%
ee10: Resize 60%
ee20: Resize 35%/Duplicate/Mirror
ee7: Resize 50%/Duplicate
ee6: Resize 40%
ee19: Resize 30%/Duplicate
ee5: Resize 20%/Duplicate
ee40: Resize 45%/Duplicate/Use Pick tool to turn
one of them slightly.
Highlight your white
background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 5
Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Resize 120%
Merge Group.
Duplicate the mask layer.
Add your copyrights.
Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #000000
Background: #007486
Close out the background
color for now.
Make your Ellipse Tool
active set on Circle.
Set the width to 1.00
Create a circle slightly
bigger than the pink glitter circle.
Objects/Align/Center in
Canvas
In your color pallet
close out the foreground color and open the background color.
Make your Text Tool
active.
Move your cursor along
the center top of the circle you just made until you see a rocking A.
Click your mouse.
Your Text Box will
appear.
Type your name, hit the
space bar twice.
Highlight your name and
the 2 spaces, right click your mouse and choose “Copy”.
Click your mouse anywhere
in the blank area of your text box.
Press Ctl + V – your name
should have appeared again.
Keep pressing Ctl + V
until you see your name appear all the way around the circle.
(If that step is too
difficult then just keep typing your name again and again until it appears all
the way around the circle).
Click on the + sign in
your layers pallet.
Click on the eye of the
New Ellipse layer.
Highlight Vector 1 layer.
Right click your mouse
and choose “Convert to Raster layer”.
Close out your white
background.
Save your tag.
I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial.
I’d love to see your
results.
Hugs,
Bev
