Steampunk Winter

 Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Misticheskaya

which can be purchased from the store HERE

Curious Creative Designs - Steampunk Winter scrapkit HERE

Viviennes mask 033 HERE

Font of choice

Snow HERE

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

d/s - dropshadow

open blank canvas 750 x 750

floodfill white

c/p paper 2 

apply mask

merge group

resize 70

duplicate

on the original, image - mirror

rotate left 30

move to top left

move duplicate to bottom right

merge the two mask layers together

c/p frame 2

resize 30

image - offset - H80, V15

magic wand, click inside the frame

expand by 13

new raster layer

c/p paper 7 into selection

deselect

move paper down below the frame

dropshadow the frame

merge down with paper

d/s as you go - i use

2,4,40,12,black

c/p el 30 - resize 25

offset - H-175, V187

c/p el 4 - resize 25

offset - H-75, V213

c/p el 88 - resize 28 - mirror

offset - H35, V200

c/p snow

offset - H-125, V75

make top layer active

c/p el 2 - resize 30

offset - H-40, V5

c/p el 123 - resize 25

offset - H-132, V-90

c/p tube - resize to fit

and position in front of the window/tree/frame

I then added the following elements

but you can add whatever you like

and arrange them around the bottom of your tube

el 31

el 79

el 107

el 80

el 104

el 112

el 25

el 53

el 125

el 3 (I removed the base and placed it along the left edge of the window)

c/p snow again - resize 50

place along bottom of el 3 to hide the cut off base

d/s 2,4,25,12,black

duplicate your mask layer

using your raster deform tool

(I believe its the pick tool in later psp versions)

use these numbers

Add your name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Christmas Reindeer

 

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 11th November 2023 and assumes a working knowledge of psp. 
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

 Supplies needed:

My Supplies HERE

Font of choice

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open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

c/p green flower, resize 8

muras meister - copies - encircle - change amount to 8

dropshadow

c/[ wreath, dropshadow

c/p reindeer between the copies layer and the wreath layer

resize 15

duplicate

layers - arrange - move up

now select around the bottom half of the duplicated layer and delete

dropshadow original reindeer layer

c/p wordart, lower opacity to around 60

move slightly to the left and down a little

add your name

delete white background

merge visible

crop and save as png.

NOTE:  If using the supplied reindeer image then please add "creativefabrica.com" 

somewhere on your tag.  If using another artists image/tube then obviously use the

correct copyright for that artist only.

Yuletide

 This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 28th November 2021 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental. 


Supplies Needed:
Scrapkit - Northern Lights from Kathys psp Designs
My mask 375 HERE
My wordart - at bottom of post - click to open and save full size
font of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white
c/p paper 11
apply mask
merge group

element 105, resize 66, change blend mode to luminance legacy

element 1, resize 40

elements 36 & 57, resize 30, 

place on right side of frame, 
snowflake slightly above the flower

element 87, resize 20, 
place this on top of the snowflake

merge the last 3 elements together to make a small cluster
duplicate, mirror and rotate left slightly
layers, arrange, move down
place this on the top right of the frame

duplicate again
rotate again and place to the right of the first cluster

merge all 3 clusters together
layers, arrange, move down

Make frame layer active, 

magic wand, feather 0, click inside your frame
expand by 5
make clusters layer active
hit delete on your keyboard
deselect

duplicate once more
mirror and flip

element 52, resize 60, place on top of right side of the frame

add some more snowflakes if you wish, resized and positioned to your liking

c/p Miz_WA_Christmas (19), resize 70
lower opacity to 60

Add your name 

(no copyright needed as only elements from the scrapkit are used)

delete white background layer
merge visible
crop and save as png

CLICK HERE TO OPEN WORDART

AND SAVE FULL SIZE

Christmas Cheer

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 29th November 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

any similarity to any other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Supplies Needed:

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

which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 

Christmas Scrapkit of choice (you will need a red paper and some greenery at least in the kit) 

Mask of choice Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 

700 x 700 floodfill white

c/p paper of choice 

apply mask 

merge group

open red paper and choose it as your background pattern 

in your materials palette, foreground null

preset shapes, circle, line width 0 

hold down the shift key and draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas 

objects - align - center in canvas 

convert to raster 

select all, float, defloat, 

contract 50

delete

deselect

select all, float, defloat, 

expand by 5 

new raster layer 

floodfill with red 

add noise 100%, gaussian, monochrome 

repeat noise 

deselect 

drag below the red paper layer merge the two layers together

dulplicate twice, 

resize both duplicates by 80 

move one up and left, 

move the other down and right 

making sure the large frame is still on top and in the center

magic wand, feather 0, 

click inside the large frame 

expand by 5 

c/p paper of choice, 

invert, 

delete 

deslect, 

drag paper below frame

make left small circle active 

c/p some greenery/tree

repeat for right small circle 

add other elements of choice above the greenery 

but below the large center frame

add your tube resized to fit nicely on top of all other layers 

add some wordart if you wish 

add your name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer 

merge visible 

crop and save as png

Xmas Ella

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 14th November 2020, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

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

which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 

Scrapkit - Vintage Winter from GOF designs HERE 

Mask chmask_fecnikek (4) HERE 

Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 400 x 300 

c/p paper 3 

 c/p tube, 

resize to fit position to the left of the canvas 

duplicate adjust - blur - gaussian blur 6 

change blend mode to screen 

duplicate & mirror both tube layers 

new raster layer flood fill with color of choice 

add noise, 100, uniform 

select all, contract by 2, 

delete, 

deselect 

merge all

I will call this canvas "tuberec" for the purpose of this tutorial 

put this aside for a moment we will come back to it 

 Open blank canvas 700 x 700 

floodfill white 

 c/p paper 6 

apply mask 

merge group 

 open blank canvas 500 x 500 

c/p paper 3 

selection tool - circle, feather 0 

draw out a selection to cover the entire center of the canvas 

copy & close the canvas without saving 

 paste as new layer on top of mask 

select all, float, defloat 

new raster layer 

flood fill with color of choice 

add noise 100%, uniform 

contract selection 5, 

delete 

deselect 

 go back to tuberec - copy paste as new layer on top of circle on main canvas

 c/p element 20, 

resize 40, 

 duplicate twice, 

mirror one of them place in a line under tuberec, 

but so some is poking out from behind the top of it 

c/p tube, 

resize to fit, 

position in center of tag 

 element 39, resize 25, 

duplicate several times, 

position along bottom of tuberec but on top of main tube 

I used elements 4, 11, 25, 33, 38, 59, 73, 89 & 106 resized and positioned

 along the bottom of your tag to your liking 

covering the bottom of the tube 

 add name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer 

merge visible 

crop and save as png

Christmas Joy

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 5th December 2020, and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

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

which can be purchased from the store Very Many Tubes

Scrapkit - As The Wind Blows from Horseplays Pasture

My frame (save from bottom of post)

Mask of choice

Font of choice

•••

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 15, apply mask

c/p frame, resize 30

c/p the following elements under the frame layer

elements 12, 46, 61, 18, 22, 21 - all resized by 50

duplicate, mirror, flip, rotate as you see fit

and make a cluster of the elements around the frame

dropshadow all elements

Make frame active

magic wand, click inside the frame, expand by 5

click delete on each element layer

invert selection

c/p tube close up as new layer just under the frame layer

resize as necessary, position to the left side of the frame

delete

deselect

change blend mode to hard light

duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8, change blend mode to screen

c/p full tube above frame layer

resize as necessary

elements 18, 19, 26, 34, 37, 38, 66, 

(and anything else you would like to use)

resized appropriately and position along the bottom of

the tag to your liking

dropshadow all elements

add some wordart if you wish

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

(click to open full size and save)

Pink Christmas

 

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 28th November 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

any similarity to any other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alec Rud

which can be purchased from Pics For Design

Scrapkit - Rennies Winter from Pink Paradox Productions

(this was a FTU kit but the site is now closed so please use whatever you have)

Mask of choice

Font of choice

•••

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 14

apply mask

merge group

frame 9, resize 30, rotate left 6, move up the canvas a little

el 60, resize 30, position top right corner, drag under frame

duplicate, mirror & flip and move just under bottom left corner of frame

el 61, resize 40, position top left corner, duplicate, mirror and flip

move to just under bottom right corner of frame

el 59, resize 30, rotate right 20, position along bottom of frame

duplicate, flip, rotate left 30, position along top of frame

make frame layer active

magic wand, feather 0, mode add

click inside the frame, expand by 3

now click on each of the element layers and hit delete

deselect

add dropshadow to all elements

hide white background and mask layers

merge visible

unhide white background and mask layers

magic wand, click inside the frame again, expand by 3

invert selection

c/p tube, resize as desired, position face in the selection

delete

deselect

duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8

change blend mode on original tube to hard light

change blend mode on blurred tube to screen

paste tube again, mirror, resize as desired (I resized 20)

and moved my tube just to the right of the frame

duplicate

gaussian blur 8, blend mode overlay

dropshadow as you go along

el 20, resize 28,

el 47, resize 20,

el 37, resize 20,

el 30, resize 15

el 22, resize 22

make a cluster across the bottom of your tube/tag with the elements

I duplicated the poinsettia and placed one behind the sleigh

add any other elements you wish

el 72, resize 40

add a nice gradient glow and dropshadow

add your name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

Crop and save as png

crop and save as png

Slats

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 10th December 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using "Forest Elf 3" from Very Many

which can be purchased from the store HERE

Christmas Cluster HERE

Mask of choice

Font of choice

pinkrec - save from bottom of post

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p tube

effects, muras meister, wallpaper rotate, default settings

adjust, blur, motion blur, angle 130, strength 100

apply mask, 

merge group

c/p cluster, resize 60

c/p tube again, resize 40, drag under the cluster

freehand selection tool, feather 22, select around the bottom 

of the tube hit delete 2 or 3 times

deselect

merge tube and cluster layers together

copy merged, paste as new layer, mirror

c/p large tube once more

merge down

c/p rectangles, select all, float, defloat, invert

hit delete on the merged layer, deselect

apply your favourite inner bevel

drag down to just above mask layer, move to the left

duplicate bevelled rectangles, adjust blur, gaussian blur 5

layers - arrange - move down

change blend mode to dissolve

dropshadow rectangles layer

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

crop and save as png

•

click to open full size and save

•

Here are some more examples made by members of my forum 

By Prismatic

By Deeva

By Wendy

Pink Christmas

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th November 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using "White Elf 2" by Very Many

which you can purchase from the store HERE

My supplies HERE

Mask of choice

Font of Choice

•

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper

apply mask

merge group

duplicate

merge down

c/p wreath, resize 15

c/p frame, resize 25

c/p tube, resize as necessary, erase any that is showing below the frame

c/p tree, resize 50, position bottom right 

c/p gifts, resize 40, position bottom left

c/p NOEL, resize 20, place in front of gifts

c/p pink tree, resize 60, position in front of first tree but to the left a little 

c/p pink deer, position middle bottom

c/p baubles, position in front of pink deer

c/p pink cones, place next to the baubles

c/p wordart

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

•

Here are some more examples made by the member so of my forum

by Linda

By Wendy

By Waltraud

By Chillybean

By Gigi

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 17th November 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Eskada

which you can purchase from Pics For Design

My supplies HERE

Mask & Font of choice

•

open blank canvas 700 x 700 

floodfill white

c/p paper

apply mask

merge group

c/p frame

c/p lamp, resize 70, position along right side of frame, 

(we will come back later and erase the bottom of the lamp)

c/p sign, resize 50, position left side of frame, towards the top

c/p poinsettia cluster, resize 40, position top left corner of frame

(reposition sign so it looks like its hanging from beneath the cluster)

c/p mittens, resize 30, position on left so they look like they are hanging from beneath the sign

c/p skis, resize 30, position bottom right of frame

c/p tube, resize as necessary, erase any that is showing outside the frame

at the bottom, but leave her head over the top of the frame

(so she looks like she is emerging from the frame)

c/p swag, resize 40, position bottom left corner of frame

c/p stag head, resize 50, position bottom left 

c/p snowman, resize 50, position just to the right of the stag head

c/p jute reel, resize 50, position at feet of snowman

Go back and duplicate the poinsettia cluster, flip it and move it up slightly

so its showing behind the stag head

duplicate again, mirror, resize 50 and place in middle of skis

c/p gift, resize 15, bottom right

duplicate, resize 70, mirror and place just to the left of the first gift

Go back to the lamp now and erase the bottom of it that is showing behind the gift

Dropshadow all elements and tube

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Piggin' Christmas

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice -  I am using the 'oh so cute artwork of Laguna 

which you can purchase from Pics For Design

My Mask 003 HERE

Scrapkit Gingerbread Wishes from Pink Paradox Productions

Font of choice

Filters - Muras Meister - copies

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 15th December  2018 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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 18

apply mask

merge group

resize by 115

c/p element 92

resize 30

muras meister - copies - encircle

change shift x & Y to 60

change angle to 22

d/s

c/p frame 2

resize 60

image flip

magic wand, click inside the frame

expand by 5

on the muras layer, hit delete

deselect

d/s

c/p element 92 above frame layer

resize 40, rotate right 36

image effects, offset, h145, v-120, trans/custom clicked

d/s

c/p element 91

resize 30

place under the red flowers

d/s

c/p element 17

resize 40

image, mirror

offset, h-60, v-182

d/s

c/p element 106

resize 50

offset, h-175, v30

d/s

drag below the book

c/p element 115

resize 50

place on top of tree

(you may wish to rotate it a little to the left)

duplicate, merge down

c/p element 36

resize 30

offset, h-183, v-111

d/s

make frame layer active

c/p tube

resize 25 if using the same tube as me

or to fit if using a different tube

position to your liking

d/s

add name, copyright and license information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Christmas Stocking!

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - a leggy tube wearing stockings is best for this tut

I am using the gorgeous artwork of Barbara Jensen

Scrapkit - Silver Bells from Pink Paradox Productions

Mask #153 HERE

Font of choice

Supplies HERE

Animation Shop

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 10th November 2018 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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 18

apply mask

merge group

c/p paper 39

resize 50

c/p frame 6

resize 50

move paper layer up a little so you can see some

of the snow on the ground

on frame layer, magic wand, mode add, tolerance & feather 0

click inside the frame, expand by 3, invert

on paper layer, delete

deselect

hide frame layer

copy merged

open Animation shop

paste as new animation

duplicate frame until you have 30 frames

open snow animation

edit - select all

edit - copy

back to your canvas

edit - select all

edit - paste into selected frame

position so the snow is in the circle

and click once

Now it may get complicated so concentrate and stay with me here

on the snow animation

click on the first frame

hold down shift and click on the 10th frame

edit - cut

now click on the last frame (20)

edit - paste after current frame

edit - select all

edit - copy

back to your canvas

edit - paste into selected frame

position in the circle but slightly more to the left

click once

back to the snow animation

repeat above steps

until you paste onto your canvas, this time move it 

slightly to the right

click once

Now leave this canvas here, while we go back and finish our tag in psp

You can close the snow animation now, without saving

Now back to psp

unhide frame

c/p element 66 under frame, resize 15

image effects - offset - h 81, v-108, custom & transparent checked

duplicate and move across to the left side so the 

right hand edges match up to make a whole fence

merge down

c/p tube as new layer above frame

resize 70

image effects - offset - h-120, v0

selection tool - circle, feather 30

draw out a circle from the little fingernail

on the right hand out to the outer edge of the frame

invert

hit delete on tube layer 2 or 3 times

deselect

c/p element 57, resize 40, position at bottom of tube 

c/p element 52, resize 40, position to the right of the bucket

c/p element 63, resize 60, position on left, drag under the bucket layer

c/p elements 86, 87 & 99, resize 20,

position to your liking across the top to hide

any harsh straight edges of the tube still showing

c/p word art

make sure all your elements have a dropshadow and 

are positioned to your liking

add your name, copyright and license information

now hide the white background, mask & paper layer

copy merged

now back to AS

paste as new animation

duplicate until you have 30 frames

edit - select all

edit - copy

on your canvas that we left here earlier

edit - select all

edit - paste into selected frame

line it up so the inner edge of the frame

is lined up with the edge of the circle

click once

save as gif

Silver Bells

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice, one with a close up is good

I am using the beautiful artwork of Alex Prihodko which can be 

purchased at Pics For Design

Supplies Here

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 20th November  2017 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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Open supplies

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

copy and paste paper as new layer

apply mask

merge group

preset shapes, ellipse

width 20, foreground set to foil pattern

background null, 

draw out a small circle in the middle of your canvas

align, center in canvas

convert to raster

adjust, brightness & contrast

B54, C15

adjust, sharpen more

repeat brightness

duplicate

position side by side, but make one slightly

higher than the other and just overlapping slightly

erase the part of the bottom one that is showing

inside the top one

merge down

magic wand, feather 0, mode Add(shift)

click inside both parts of the frame

expand by 4

paste paper again

invert, delete

deselect

drag paper layer below frame layer

c/p swirl

resize by 60

position along bottom of frame

c/p berries

position on top of swirl

c/p fir

resize 40

position below swirl but to the left

duplicate, image, mirror

move so it is poking out from behind the swirl

c/p diamond circle

resize 40

image effets, offset

H-68, V54 transparent

duplicate

offset, H146, V-155

merge down

drag down to just above your mask layer

c/p snowflake swirl

resize 70

duplicate twice and flip &/or mirror 

to show some of the snowflakes to your liking

c/p silver bells

resize 30

drag to top of layer palette

position at the end of the berries stalk

c/p ribbon

position behind silver bells

Make frame layer active

magic wand, click inside the left one

expand by 4

c/p your close up tube

invert

delete

invert

duplicate tube

adjust blur, gaussian blur 9

deselect

change blend mode on bottom tube to luminance legacy

change blend mode on top tube to screen

change opacity of both tube layers to 58

drag tube layers below frame layer

c/p tube above frame layer

but below all other elements

resize to fit nicely over top of empty frame

dropshadow, tube, elements and frame

add name, copyright and license information

delete white bg layer

merge visible

save as png

Merry Christmas

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 19th November  2017 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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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice, I am using the beautiful artwork of Misticheskaya

you will need a PFD license to use the same tube as me.

My template 108 HERE

Scatter - save from the bottom of the page

Font of choice

Filters - Penta.com, AAA foto frames

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Open template

shift & d to dupliate and close original

delete credits on duplicate

bg layer

floodfill with white/red gradient

linear, angle 0, repeats 0

copy and paste scatter as new layer
resize as necessary

dropshadow

change blend mode to dodge

copy and paste tube 

resize 150

position to the right

change blend mode to burn

drop opacity to around 50

You may wish to reposition your scatter

at this point

layer 3

select all, float, defloat

new raster layer, floodfill with same

red/white gradient as before but change

angle to 90

keep selected

copy and paste tube as new layer

invert selection

delete

deselect

change blend mode to luminance legacy

dropshadow

repeat for layer 4

but resize tube by 60

layer 1

adjust, colorize

hue 255, saturation 255

layer 2 

repeat colorize

WA layer

add noise 100%

uniform, monochrome checked

merge visible

effects, aaa foto frame

width 20, opacity 50, 

all other settings default

selection tool, custom selection

left & top 15, right 685, bottom 285

invert

(if for some reason the selection is not close to the rectangle made by the 

foto frame filter, then contract by 3 or 4 to get it closer)

effects, penta.com, color dot

change distance to 6

deselect

add name, copyright and license information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

Click to open scatter full size and save to your computer

Here are some more examples made by the members of my forum Taggers Inn

Made by Gigi

Made by Suzie

Made by Mary