Beautiful

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 26th May 2021, 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 Very Many
which can be purchased from the store HERE
Font of choice
Wordart (right click and save - It will save as original size)

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open blank canvas 610 x 240

floodfill with gradient made from 
#f6d9eb & #e2b7ef
angle 36, repeats 2

c/p close up tube, move to right side
blend mode overlay

c/p regular tube, position face in middle
duplicate - gaussian blur, 5
blend mode screen

paste regular tube again, resize 60
mirror, position on the left side
blend mode overlay

layers - arrange - move down
repeat (so its under your main tube in the middle)

duplicate
mirror
move to bottom right corner

duplicate
mirror
resize 60
blend mode burn

duplicate (last time!)
layers - arrange - bring to top
move to the right so its over the eye of the close up tube

freehand selection tool, feather 25
select around the bottom half of the tube and hit delete a couple of times
so just the face is left, showing over the eye of the close up
If you dont like the look of it like that, you can then move 
the close up tube slightly more to the right

Merge visible

c/p wordart, position to left

add name, license, & copyright information

merge all (flatten)

image - add borders - white, 5
select all, contract 5, invert
add noise to your liking

select none
save as jpg 

Slicer

 This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 2nd May 2021, 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 fabulous artwork of Cuddly Rigor Mortis
which you can purchase from CDO
Filters - Muras Meister, Copies
VM Distortions
Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 250

c/p tube as new layer

effects - muras meister, copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 10

effects - VM distortion - slicer - slices 25, gap 2 RPM 13, BPM 42, Trans 56, Mode 111

if the circles are not centered, cut the layer
then paste as new layer to center it.

duplicate - add noise - 20, gaussian, monochrome
change blend mode to overlay and lower opacity to around 75

c/p tube
duplicate 4 times
1st copy - resize 60, mirror, position bottom left corner
2nd copy - resize 45, position between copy 1 and main tube
3rd copy - resize 30, position bottom right corner
4th copy - resize 60, mirror, position between main tube and copy 3

merge all 4 copies together, change blend mode to burn

Move main tube to top of layer palette

new raster layer

floodfill with a color from your tag
select all, contract 2, delete
deselect

add name, license and copyright information
merge all
save as jpg

Make a matching avatar if you wish 

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

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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

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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

Lighthouse

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 1st July 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

This tag was inspired by an image I saw on pinterest, there was no copyright or artist details to credit

the supplies I have either made myself or are various items I have collected 
over the years and are © free as far as I am aware
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Supplies Needed:

HERE

My mask - Miz_Mask_284 

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p ocean b/g

move right a little

apply mask

merge group

duplicate

resize 120

adjust-blur-motion blur-angle 0, strength 100

Now activate your raster deform tool

use the following settings

mode • scale
pivot x • -346
pivot y • 256.50
position x • -495
position y • -20
scale x(%) • 135.86
scale y(%) • 70
perspective x • 0
perspective y • -62.04
shear • -31.02
angle • 0

now on original mask layer,

select all, float, defloat, invert

then back to the blurred layer and hit delete a couple of times

deselect

c/p book

move down a little

c/p seapages

position on top of book
covering the text on the pages

c/p rocks

position on left page

c/p lighthouse

resize 60

position on rocks

duplicate rocks

mirror

layers-arrange-bring to top

position in front of bottom of lighthouse

and erase a little to make it look like the 

lighthouse is sitting among the rocks

c/p lightbeam

position so its coming from the top of the lighthouse

drag down layer palette so its beneath the lighthouse layer

lower opacity to around 80

c/p sailboat

layers - arrange-bring to top

resize 12

position on right page, so its in the lightbeam

c/p seagull

resize 12

position to your liking high in the sky 

now make your mask layer active

duplicate and drag it above your book layer

freehand selection tool, feather 35ish

draw out a selection around the top 3/4 of the mask layer

hit delete a few times 

deselect

reposition if necessary to make it look like the book edge is in the ocean

add your name

delete white bg layer

merge visible

crop and save as png