Wild & Funky

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This tutorial was written on April 2, 2009, using Paint Shop Pro, version X.03. It should be okay to do with other versions as well. I just find X.03 more comfortable for me. You may download a free trial of Paint Shop Pro, version X2, from Corel. Any similarities between this tut and any others you may see are purely coincidental.

You will also need:

A tube of your choice. I'm using the erotic artwork of Barbara Jensen. You must have a license to use her work. You may purchase that license at Barbara's web site.

Scrap kit is by Ivory's Designz. It's a PTU kit, available at Paradise 4 Scrappers, and is called Funky Town. This is a full-sized (scrappers') kit. I was trying to find a kit that would work with the colors on the tube, and Ivory's Designz apparently is not offering a taggers' version. Lots of resizing!

Filters: Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow

Font: I used Flemish Script BT

Supplies: The supplies are little, and don't make THAT much of a difference on the tag. However, they DO make a difference. Two diamonds and a pink sparkle, here!

Let's play!!

Open your supplies in PSP and minimize.

Open a new image, 700 x 700, white.

Open spiky pad 1. Resize 35%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Drop shadow.

Add your tube. Resize, position and drop shadow to taste.

Open beadstring 1. Resize 20% Copy and paste as a new layer. Position where you'd like it. I chose the left side of the "spiky pad." Drop shadow your beads.

Open bow 3. Resize 7 %. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position where the strings cross over one another in the beadstring. Drop shadow your bow.

Open Diamond Small from your supplies. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position over the center of the bow.

Open SparklePink from your supplies. Resize the sparkle layer 35%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position this over the diamond you just placed on the bow.

Open flower 5. Resize 11%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position wherever you'd like. I chose the right side of the spiky pad, toward the top. See my tag for reference purposes. Drop shadow the flower.

Open flower 4. Resize 11%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position next to the first flower, however you'd like. We are building a cluster. Drop shadow this flower.

Open flower 3. Resize 11%. Copy and paste as a new layer. I chose to have this be the top, middle flower in the cluster. Drop shadow this flower.

Open SparkleDiamond from your supplies. Resize 25%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position this over the middle of the top, middle flower you just placed on your canvas.

Open SparklePink again. Resize 35%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position over the SparkleDiamond you placed on your middle flower.

Add your name. I used color #8370fe as the fill AND the stroke, stroke set at 2.

Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow set at 3 - 25 - 100, color white, preset of medium.

Drop shadow your name.

Add your copyright, license information if applicable and taggers'/watermark.

Crop away any excess white space. Resize your tag to the size of your choice. At this point merge your layers and save, and you're done! I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial! Thanks for stopping by!

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