Fall Fae

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the stunning artwork of 

Jasmine Beckett-Griffiths, you can purchase this from CDO

Scrapkit - Autumn is here from Elli's Bilderwelt

Mask - Miz_Mask_148 - Here

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 17th October 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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open blank canvas 700 x x700

floodfill white

c/p element 77 

rotate left 90

duplicate twice

move one to the left and one to the right

and the original one up slightly

c/p element 04

resize by 50

rotate left 90

move to the left

duplicate, image mirror

c/p tube

resize as necessary so it fits

nicely in the middle of your elements

c/p element 11

resize by 40

position bottom right

c/p elements 49 & 50

resize by 15

position to the left of the acorns

c/p element 52

resize by 70

c/p element 09

resize by 25

position to left of conkers

c/p element 78

resize by 60

position behind conkers and acorns

I colorized to suit my tag better

c/p element 69

resize by 30

position to the left

duplicate

image, mirror

c/p element 75

drag down to just above the white background

position to the left so just the feathery fronds

are showing.  Duplicate and move to the right

erase any that is showing from below the rest

of the tag

d/s all layers 2,5,50,8, black

hide white background layer

merge visible

c/p paper 05 above white background

apply mask

merge group

reposition merged layer so its in the middle of the mask layer

add name, copyright and license information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png.

Floating!

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Zindy Nielsen

You can purchase the same tube from her shop HERE

Floating on Air mini sampler from Gothic Inspirations

Mask - Miz_Mask_142

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th September 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700 

floodfill white

c/p cluster frame

resize by 80

c/p smudge

resize by 60

image, mirror

drag below cluster and move the right slightly

c/p cluster cloud

resize by 60

position top left, so butterflies are showing 

in the middle of your tag

Make white background layer active

c/p paper 4

apply mask

merge group

using your deform tool, squash the mask down a little

duplicate

image, mirror & flip

merge down

make cluster cloud layer active

c/p tube as new layer

position to the right, so you can see a portion of it in the frames

and the top of your tube is coming out above the frames

erase any that is showing below the frames

Change blend mode to screen (or what looks good with your tube)

make cluster layer active

c/p candle

resize by 35

position bottom left of cluster

d/s 2,5,50,8,black

c/p brush

resize by 35

position just in front of candle 

d/s

c/p leaf2

resize by 40

image, mirror

position in front of brush

d/s

c/p wind 

resize by 70

position along bottom of cluster

d/s 

c/p bling 2

resize by 80

rotate right 90

add name, copyright & license information 

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop & save as png

Autumn Joy

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of ZlataM

You can purchase the same tube from Pics For Designs

Scrapkit - Autumn Joy HERE

Mask - Miz_Mask_141

Font of choice 

Wordart - Save png file from bottom of this page

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th September 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

copy and paste PP04 as new layer

apply mask, merge group

copy and paste embellie 18 as new layer

resize by 80

c/p embellie 17

resize by 50

position top right corner of frame

and drag below the frame, erase any part showing

inside the frame

c/p embellie 19

resize by 60, position top right corner of frame

on top of tree, erase any part of the clock

showing inside the frame

c/p embellie 17

resize by 80

position along bottom edge of frame

c/p embellie 07

position on top of mushrooms

c/p embellie 05

resize by 50

position top left corner of frame

c/p embellie 03

resize by 50

position left side of frame

c/p embellie 13

resize by 50, position bottom right corner of frame

c/p embellie 23

resize by 60

c/p tube

resize and position to your liking

You may wish to move some of your elements up or down

the layer palette so you tube sits within them 

make mask layer active

c/p tube again (or a close up version)

erase any that is showing outside of the frame

change blend mode to luminance

duplicate

adjust, blur, gaussian blur 8

change blend mode to overlay

reduce opacity of both tube layers to around 50

copy and paste wordart as new layer

position to your liking

Dropshadow all elements layers except the sparkles

2,5,50,8,black

Add name, copyright & license information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Its a Dogs Life!

Supplies needed:

tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Laguna

which can be purchased from Pics For Design

Supplies HERE

Filters : Muras Meister - Copies

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 1st May 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open supplies and place selection file in your selections folder

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

choose a colour from your tube 

set as foreground colour, background to null

preset shapes tool, circle, width 25, create as vector

draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas

Objects, align, center in canvas

convert to raster

duplicate this circle twice

position one to the left and down slightly

and the other to the right and down slightly

drag both under the to circle in the layer palette

now make the top circle active

magic wand, feather 0

click inside the circle 

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with gradient of choice (something that matches your tag)

drag this layer below the circle layer

deselect

text tool - visitor TT2 font, size 14, anti alias off, colour black

type out your phrase, I used "its a dogs life!"

convert to raster

muras meister, copies, tiling angle, default settings but change tile gap to 3

on your gradient layer, 

select all, float, defloat, invert

hit delete on your text layer

deselect

On left circle, magic wand, click inside the circle

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with colour of choice

copy and paste your tube as new layer

position and resize as necessary

selections invert

hit delete on your keyboard

drag colour layer and tube layer below the left circle

change blend mode on tube layer to luminance (legacy)

repeat for the right circle but use a different colour to floodfill

and resize tube to a different size

dropshadow all 3 circle layers 2,5,50,8, black

hide white background and merge visible

New raster layer

Load/save selection from disk

Load Miz_filmstrip2 selection

floodfill with colour of choice (I used the same colour as my circles)

deselect

position at bottom of circles, 

rotate left 5

magic wand, Mode Add, feather 0, tolerance 10

click inside the first filmstrip frame

new raster layer, expand selection by 2

floodfill with gradient of choice

copy and paste tube, resize as necessary

position inside the selection to your liking

selections invert, delete

deselect

change blend mode to Difference

drag filmstrip layer to the top of your layer palette

repeat with the other 4 frames of the filmstrip

dropshadow filmstrip

hide white background & merged circles

merge filmstrip layers together

duplicate, image, mirror

unhide all other layers

copy and paste tube one last time

resize and position to fit

dropshadow

Add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible, save as png

Fairy pixelated

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice preferably one with a nice bit of patterning on it

 I used the beautiful work of Misticheskaya which 

can be purchased from Pics For Design

Filters : Xero, Fritillary

Kiwis Oelfilter - Guck Mal

Muras Meister - Copies

These filters can all be found Here

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open your tube

shift & D to duplicate, close original

lasso selection tool, point to point, feather 11ish

roughly select around the body of your fairy

just leaving the wing(s), and hit delete

deselect

(if using a tube with patterning select round the patterned bit)

Open blank canvas 700 x 200

copy and paste the wing(s) (or pattern) as new layer

Muras meister - copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

Kiwi Oelfilter - Guck Mal 

all settings to 128

duplicate this layer 

selection tool, ellipse, feather the same as before

draw out a fairly large selection in the middle of your canvas

hit delete

deselect

Still on the duplicate layer 

Xero - Fritillary

Granularity 5, agression 67, tesselation 23, variation 55

Magic wand, feather still the same

click inside the empty part of the layer

copy and paste tube as new layer

selections invert

delete

deselect

New raster layer

floodfill with color of choice

select all, contract by 2

delete

deselect

add name and copyright information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

to make a matching avatar

custom selection tool

top & left 0

right 150, bottom 175

selections, edit selection

move the red box to a part of your tag that you like

edit selection 

copy

deselect

paste as new image

add a 2 pixel border like we did for the banner

add name and cr if necessary

merge all flatten

save as jpg

Love you Forever

Supplies needed:

A Personal photo/image - I am using a photo of my handsome sons

but it could be an image of mum/dad/sibling/pet anything you like 

as long as its personal to you

My Template 79 HERE

My supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 7th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open template

shift D to duplicate, close original

delete credits layer

on the following layers

select all, float, defloat

paste as new layer

invert

hit delete

deselect

delete origial template layer

Layers 1, 6 - Paper 1

Layers 4 & 8 - Paper 2

Layers 2, 3 & 9 - Paper 4

Layers 5, 10, 12 & 13 - Paper 3

Layers 7 & 11 - paper 5

Make layer 14 active

select all, float, defloat

paste your own image as new layer

resize to fit

selections, invert

hit delete to get rid of any excess

deselect

rotate left 5

Copy and paste red leaves as new layer

resize by 40

position where layer 15 is located then delete layer 15

Copy and paste blue leaves as new layer

resize by 40

position same place as red leaves but rotate to your liking

adjust - sharpness - sharpen more

Copy and paste red rose as new layer

resize by 10

position on top of leaves

duplicate, image, flip, 

position below first rose

Copy and paste blue rose as new layer

resize by 25

position in middle of two red roses

dropshadow leaves and roses

2,4,50,8, black

merge leaves and roses together

duplicate the rose cluster

move to the where layer 16 is positioned, delete layer 16, 17 & 18

copy and paste heartwings

resize by 15

dropshadow

position where the top circle frame intersects with your image

rotate to the right slightly

duplicate

position where the bottom circle frame intersects with your image

rotate to the left

dropshadow all template layers 

0,0,50,8, black

Make Background layer active

copy and paste wordart as new layer

resize by 60

position to the right and up a bit so it can be seen from under the rest of the layers

add white gradient glow

dropshadow

make top layer active

copy and paste wordart 2 as new layer

resize by 80

position to your liking

apply white gradient glow

dropshadow

Add your name and copyright info (if you took the photo add your own name)

delete white background

merge visible

crop and save as png

another example I made, this one is of me and my hubby on our wedding day 

Moments

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the Gorjuss arwork of Suzanne Woolcot 

which is no longer available to purchase as tubes unfortunately

A sitting tube is best for this tutorial

Eye Candy 4 - Gradient Glow

My supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 4th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

Open one of the images supplied

custom selection

top 129, left 132, right 389, bottom 673

copy & deselect

Paste onto your canvas as new layer

select all, float, defloat, contract by 18

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

inner bevel

bevel 2, width 10, smoothness 25, depth 10

ambiece -11, shininess 35, color white, angle 225

intensity 35, elevation 60

Copy one of the images supplied

paste as new layer

resize by 75

drag below your frame layer

position so a part of the image you like is showing inside the frame

On frame layer

magic wand, feather 0, click inside the frame

expand by 4

invert

on image layer, hit delete

deselect

dropshadow the frame 

2,5,46,9, black

copy and paste hot air balloon 

as new layer

resize by 40

dropshadow as before

paste again 

resize by 20

adjust, hue and saturation, hue map

drag the first slider down to a color of your choice

dropshadow

Position balloons to your liking on your tag

copy and paste tube as new layer

resize to fit nicely on your tag

position so its sitting over the bottom left corner of your frame

dropshadow

copy and paste wordart as new layer

resize by 40

position to your liking

eye candy 4 - gradient glow

add a fat white gradient glow, change the width to 3

dropshadow

new raster layer

flood will with a gradient made from two colors from your tag

linear, angle 45, repeats 4

apply mask

merge group

drag mask layer down to just above your white background

you may wish to use your deform tool to stretch and/or squish it to

fit nicely around your tag

add name, license and copyright information

delete white backgroud layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Midnight Desire

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice -  I am using the beautiful free artwork of Zindy

which you can download HERE

My Scrapkit - Midnight Desire

Mask of choice

Font of choice - ( I used Diane De France)

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 25th March 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

copy and paste paper 8

apply mask

merge group

copy and paste element 33

resize by 40

rotate right 22

move up and to the right slightly

copy and paste element 24

resize by 20

position bottom left corner of frame

coy and paste element 27

resize by 30

position bottom right corner of frame

copy and paste various elements of your choice

resizing and positioning as you go, to make a cluster

around the bottom of the frame (see my tag for reference)

If you use element 36, (the midnight desire wordart) 

I suggest a white gradient glow to ensure it shows up nicely

make mask layer active

copy and paste tube as new layer

resize and rotate to fit nicely inside your frame

erase any extra showing outside the frame

dropshadow all elements and frame 

2,4,50,8, black

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Glorious

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alex Prihodko

which you can purchase from Pics for Design

My supplies HERE

Font of choice

Filters - AP freebies (included in supplies)

Muras Meiser Copies

Eye Candy 4 Gradient Glow

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 25th March 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p tube

muras meister copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

ap11 - blends/blurs- blur min/max cross

set blur to 100, blue to 184

ap14 motion - distort gridedge

distort 40, xtra 10, edge 3

distortion options: mottled

duplicate

ap01 inovations - Lines silverlining 

gap, threshold & Line all set to 10

all colours set to 0

choose backslash from the dropdown menu

merge all layers except the white background

apply mask to merged layer, merge group

c/p tube as new layer

resize as necessary

position to the left slightly

apply mask again

merge group

dropshadow 3,6,50,13, black

c/p wordart as new layer

position to the right slightly 

eye candy 4, gradient glow

on the Color tab choose the thin setting

then change the color from white to a color from your tag

on the basic tab

Glow width 3, soft corners 25, overall opacity 100, draw only outside selection checked

dropshadow

c/p rose cluster

resize by 80

position at bottom of tag

colorize to suit your tag

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

save as png.

Here are some more samples made by the wonderful members over at Taggers Inn

by Me

by Moony

By Deeva

by Deeva

By Bee

By Ravenbyrd

Happy Easter

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the lovely artwork of Elias Chatzoudis

which can be purchased from his store HERE

Template 177 from Punky Butts

Scrapkit from Horseplays Pasture - Floppy Ears and Fluffy Rears

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 20th March 2016

and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open template, shift D to duplicate

close original 

delete credits layer, dotted circle layers and center Happy Easter layer

resize all layers 87%

make scallop left active

select all, float, defloat

copy and paste paper 16 as new layer

selections invert

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

delete original template layer

Repeat for scallop right and center scallop

on each scallop layer

select all, float, defloat, expand by 5

new raster layer, floodfill with #ffd1f6

deselect

drag this layer below the scallop layer

add noise 30%, uniform and monochrome checked

dropshadow 0,0,80,9,black

repeat for the other two scallop layers

make Left outer circle active

select all, float, defloat, 

copy and paste paper 11 as new layer

invert

hit delete on your keyboard

delete original template layer

invert selection again

expand by 2

new raster layer

floodfill white

deselect

drag white layer below the blue layer

apply the same dropshadow as before 

repeat for right outer circle and center outer circle

Left inner circle

select all, float, defloat, 

copy and paste paper 12 as new layer

resize by 60

invert selection

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

delete original template layer

repeat for right inner circle

repeat for center inner circle but use paper 1 resized by 60%

Hide all layers except

left, right and center rec frame layers

merge those 3 layers together

unhide all layers

(ensure the frame layer is above the pink rectangles)

select all, float, defloat

copy and paste paper 7 as new layer

invert

delete

deselect

merge down with the original frame layer

Merge left rec, right rec and center rec layers together

select all, float, defloat, 

copy and paste paper 11 as new layer

invert

delete

invert again

copy and paste close up tube as new layer

duplicate

position one to the left so the girls face is showing

and one to the right so the bunnys face is showing

delete 

deselect

erase any the two tube layers that are showing in the center frame

Merge the two tube layers together

Change blend mode to luminance (legacy)

duplicate, blur, gaussian blur 8

change blend mode to burn

copy and paste tube as new layer (ensuring its above the frame layers)

position in the center of your tag, 

dropshadow 2,5,50,8, black

copy/paste/resize/position some elements of your choice

dropshadow

add Name, license and copyright information

merge visible

crop and save as png

Shenanigans

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alicia Mujica 

which can be purchased from the store HERE

Scrapkit - Irish Sass by Melissaz Creationz

Mask of choice 

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 13th March 2016

and assumes a knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 6

apply mask of choice

c/p element 2

resize by 50

duplicate 3 times and mirror and flip them

to make a squareish shaped frame

merge together and dropshadow

C/p tube

resize as necessary

c/p element 12

resize by 50

position to the bottom left of tube

duplicate, mirror

c/p element 29

resize by 60

position at the bottom of your tag

dropshadow

c/p element 14

resize by 60

duplicate 1 or 2 times and position to your liking

dropshadow

c/p element  17

resize by 60

position to the left and below the wordart

dropshadow

c/p element 20

position to the right and below the wordart

dropshadow

Add name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer

merge visible

save as png

Steamy Forum Set

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the artwork of Laguna 

which can be purchased from Pics for Design

Font of choice

My Supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 6th March 2016

and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Note:  c/p = copy and paste as new layer

d/s = dropshadow

Open blank canvas 700 x 250 

c/p paper 1, position to the left hand side of the canvas

duplicate, image, mirror

c/p paper 2

c/p cogs, resize between 30 - 20

duplicate some if you like

and position randomly down the left hand side

along the edge of the top paper

d/s all cogs 2,5,50,8,black

merge all cogs

duplicate, image, mirror

c/p brown flower 

resize by 30

position bottom left corner

duplicate, image, mirror & flip

d/s

c/p leaves

resize by 30

position at top, drag under the cogs

duplicate, image, mirror & flip

d/s

make top paper layer active

c/p clock

resize by 80

change blend mode to multiply

c/p tube 

resize as necessary

d/s

new raster layer at top of layer palette

select all, contract by 2, invert

floodfill with #4e4236

add noise 100%, uniform & monochrome checked

deselect

add name, copyright & license information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

To make matching avatar

Selections - custom selection

left & top 0 Right and bottom 200

edit selection - using your move tool

position the red box to your liking

edit selection, copy 

paste as new image

Add border like we did for the banner

add name, cr and License if necessary

merge all flatten

save as jpg

Owl Love You Forever

Supplies needed:


Tube of choice - I am using a forum exclusive - Ophelia
you must be a participating member of Taggers Inn to acquire this tube
Scrapkit - Owl Love you Forever from my blog HERE
Mask HERE
Font Mr Lackboughs


Filters - Muras Meisters, Copies
Eye Candy 5 Impact

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 25th February 2016
Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white

c/p paper 4
apply mask
merge group

c/p cluster 
resize by 60

make mask layer active
using your deform tool
squish the mask down until the the 
'frame' of the mask matches the frame
of the cluster

c/p element 13
resize by 60
rotate right 18
position along top edge of frame

c/p tube 
resize as necessary

Open paper 2
make a circle selection in the middle of the paper
copy
close paper
paste circle onto your canvas

text tool
Mr Lackboughs, size 30, color black
type out "Owl Love you forever"
convert to raster
Effects - Muras Meister Copies - Tiling (angle)
default settings but change tile gap to 2

make circle active
select all, float, defloat
make text layer active
selections invert
hit delete on your keyboard
selections invert
new raster layer

effects, eye candy 5 Impact - Glass
Width 65, smoothness 100, corners 0, inside selection
glass color white, opacity 15, tinting 39, refraction 50,
inner shadow opacity 41, drop shadow opacity 0, shadow offset 12 shadow glow 2

expand by 3
new raster layer
floodfill with grey
contract by 6
deselect
eye candy 5 Impact - Chrome
on the settings tab use indoor platinum
deselect

Merge all the circle layers together
resize if necessary and position top right corner 

c/p element 2
resize by 30
position at bottom of circle

dropshadow all layers except mask
2,5,50,8, black

c/p element 23

add name, license and copyright information 
delete white background layer
merge visible
crop and save as png

Here are a few examples by the wonderful members of my forum 

By Blanca

by Bee

by Deeva

by DonnaLee