Sweet Spring Kit by Teresa; Tube by ©Rosalys

This tutorial was created on March 11, 2011 and is the property of It's Me Again Tuts by Bonnie.  This tutorial was created using Psp vs. 9, but I see no reason why it cannot be created using other versions of Psp.  This tutorial assumes that you have a working knowledge of Psp. 

A big thank you to Rosalys for allowing our group, DragonsLair Tubes, to use her beautiful art.

~FOR THIS TUTORIAL YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING~

Paint Shop Pro (trial version)

Sweet Spring PTU kit here (Kit on sale now!)

Sweet Spring word art here

Tube and font of choice

Okay, let's get started on our tag!

1.  Open your supplies in Psp and minimize all but the SS(21) to your Psp workspace for now.  Shift+D to make a duplicate of the purple frame.  Close out the original frame as you will be working with the duplicated frame.  Image/Canvas Size.  Change the width and the height of the canvas to 750w x 750h. 

2.  Layers/New Raster Layer.  Flood fill the new layer with the color #FFFFFF.  Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom.  Activate the frame layer and apply a drop shadow effect to the frame using the settings shown below.

Vertical 2; Horizontal 1; Opacity 50; Blur 5; Color Black

3.  Restore the tube that you will be using for your tag - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize your tube if needed.  Position your tube inside the frame (see header tag).  Apply a drop shadow effect to the tube changing the blur to 8.  Restore the SS(82) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Image/Resize.  Resize the element by 55% one time and by 90% one time.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the element.  Rotate the element by 20 degrees to the left.  Position the element on the left side of the frame as shown in header tag.  Restore the SS (43) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize the element by 55% one time and by 90% one time.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the element.  Position the element on top of the purple candy stick as shown in the header tag.

4.  Restore the SS(46) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Restore the element by 50% two times and by 65% one time.  Position the element on the top left corner of the frame.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the element.  Restore the SS(5) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize the element by 50% three times and by 90% one time.   Position the pink heart in the center of the blue tag.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the pink heart.

5.  Hide (X out) the white background layer of your tag and merge visible (Layers/Merge/Merge Visible) all other layers of your tag.  Move your tag down towards the bottom of your canvas so that you will have room at the top of your canvas for the rainbow.  Restore the SS(31) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Position the rainbow at the top of your canvas above the tag.  Lower the opacity of the rainbow to 74.  Remove the X from the white background layer.

6.  Restore the SS(81) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize by 50% two times.  Using the Magic Wand tool, click inside the heart to select.  Selections/Modify/Expand by 3 pixels.  Restore the SS(07) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Position the paper over the selection and go to Selections/Invert.  Hit the delete key on your keyboard.  Selections/Select None.  Layers/Arrange/Move Down.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the heart layer.  Layers/Merge/Merge Down.  Rotate the heart by 20 degrees to the left.  Layers/Duplicate.  Resize the duplicated heart by 90%.  Image/Mirror.  Move the duplicated heart at the bottom of the first heart.

7.  Restore the SS(59) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize the rope by 50% one time and by 65% one time.  Image/Mirror.  Add the rope to the top heart.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the rope.  Restore the SS(57).  Activate the Selection Tool (rectangle, feather 0) and draw a selection around the small flower on the top left side of the flowers.  Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Position the flower on the top part of the string that is on the top heart.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the flower.  Layers/Duplicate.  Resize the duplicated flower by 90%.  Position the flower on the smaller bottom heart (see header tag).

8.  Restore the sweetspringlove element-Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Position the love word element on the top right corner of the frame as shown in the header tag.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the love word element.  NOTE:  The individual letters for the word love come with the kit; you can add whatever papers you want to them and position them as desired.  I included the word Love how I made it to save time in the tutorial.

9.  Restore the SS(37) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Image/Rotate/Free Rotate.  Rotate the ribbon by 90 degrees to the left.  Resize the ribbon by 55%.  Apply a drop shadow to the ribbon.  Position the ribbon under the letter V from the word Love.  Restore the SS(73) - Edit/Copy; back to the tag image and Edit/Paste As New Layer.  Resize the element by 50% two times.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the element.  Position the element at the bottom right corner on top of the bottom of the ribbon.

10.  Using a font of choice and the color #C6ECEC, type the words "Sweet Spring".  Rotate the words by 90 degrees to the right.  Apply a drop shadow effect to the words and position on the right side of the frame (see header tag).  Add your name to the tag if desired, and any copyright that is needed.  Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).  Crop away any excess white space that is around your tag.  Resize your tag if needed and save in desired format.