Hawiian Fun Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Elias Chatzoudis Scrap used California Girls by Cora's Creations Font of choice I used LDJ JillyNilly and LHF Wade Grotesque casual swash Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, (you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work) Open cc-pp-05 c/p as a new layer and add a mask of choice, once again I used Insatiable Dreams mask 211 now lets open cc-frame-04 c/p as a new layer, image resize by 80% now duplicate and image mirror, Now open cc-frame-05 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 80%, grab your magic wand and click inside your frame, go selections modify, expand by 8, Now selections invert, open cc-pp-11 c/p as a new layer, hit delete and select none, move this layer below your frame layer.In the woolcott example I used cc-pp-09 and change the color on it using hue and saturation/colorize with the settings of 136 hue and 129 saturation. Now lets add some elements, open cc-drink c/p as a new layer, resize this by 60% do that one more time, and image mirror, arrange to your liking, Now open cc-surfboard and c/p as a new layer, resize this by 60% and image rotate to the right by 15% (or left if you are putting it on the right side of your frame lol) now move this layer down below your drink layer. Open cc-parasol, c/p as a new layer resize by 60% and again 2 more times, Now open cc-fish-02 c/p as a new layer, resize by 60% and image rotate to the right by 12% now open cc-fish-01 and c/p as a new layer resize this by 45% and arrange a little on top of the other fish, now lets open cc-bubbles, c/p as a new layer, image resize by 60% , resize it again 2 more times by 60%, now image rotate free rotate to the left by 90% and arrange it to look like it is coming out of your drink, One more element I added, open cc-ribbon-04 c/p as a new layer and move this layer right above your mask layer and up an to the right a bit, When you are happy with all your element placements, add a dropshadow of choice, I did not dropshadow the bubbles or the drink, and I merged the flower frame layers together before I dropshadowed it, add your tube of choice, and hide your white background layer and merge visiable. I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

Just So Natural Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon Scrap used Care Free By Cora's Creations Font of choice Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, (you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work) Open cc-ribbon-01 c/p as a new layer, image rotate free rotate to the right by 45% Now Open cc-frame-04 c/p as a new layer image mirror and then image rotate free rotate to the LEFT by 45%. move this below the rope frame layer, and line up the 2 circles open cc-flower-05 c/p as a new layer, image rotate free rotate to the left by 45% line it up over top of the knots on the frame, to make it look like the stem is under the knots, (this is what I did, grap your free hand selection tool, turn the opacity down on your flower to say about 20% now go to the knots and select just them you can still barly see your stem so make sure you dont select outside the knot to much using that faint stem as a guide, when you have all three knots selected go to the flower layer and hit delete, select none, turn the opacity back up, if you are happy with how it turned out go on to the next step if not you can always go up and hit edit back to the point where you hit delete ) Now lets open cc-greens-03 c/p as a new layer, now go image rotate to the left by 45% move this layer below your frame layer, go image mirror and then flip and arrange to hang over the other side of your frame, I duplicated once again to have leaves behind the bottom end of the frame, Now lets open cc-flower-04 c/p as a new layer, move this layer up to the top, duplicate this and image mirror,duplicate again and go image flip arrange your layers so you have the center flower as the top layer, now grab your magic wand, click inside the paper frame opening, selections modify expand by 8 selections invert, open cc-pp-02 c/p as a new layer BELOW this frame,arrange so the grassy bottom is showing in your opening, hit delete select none, I used cc-pp-03 for my mask layer and a round mask (I like round masks lol) you can use a paper of choice and mask of choice it is your tag, now open cc-bead-01 c/p as a new layer above your mask layer, duplicate and image flip arrange to your liking, you can now add a drop shadow of choice to your elements, Now you can add your tube of choice, I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

Down By The Sea Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon Scrap used Sweet Escape by Cora's Creations Font of choice I used Angelina Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This Tutorial is dedicated to one of my Dear Friends Janeann Thank you sweetie for being so supportive of me and for you friendship it means the world to me! This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! This Tutorial is a bit long, and I apologize! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, ( you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work)Open cc-pp-10 Go to your preset shape tool and choose eclipse. Line width set to 9 and color white, and background set to pattern, find your paper you have open, draw out a circle on your image. now convert to a raster layer, Open cc-pp-07 do the same as above, making the circle as close to the same size as you can. convert to a raster layer, and now Open cc-pp-01 and do the same thing again. making it the same size (or as close as you can) to the other circles. Now we want to open cc-pp-07 up again, go to your preset shapes and choose the rectangle setting, line width 15 this time you want your pattern as your foreground (the paper) and the background set to null. Now Draw out a rectangle, you can use my tag as an example, convert it to a raster layer, select all float defloat, modify expand by 8 add a new layer move this below your frame layer and flood fill with white, select none, go back to the frame layer and merge down, go image rotate, and rotate to the right by 6% duplicate and go image mirror, move it over to the left side of your tag, now when you are satisfied with your frame placements merge those two layers, grab your magic wand and click inside the frame openings, grab cc-pp-08 c/p as a new layer below your frames, selections invert and hit delete. leave selected. now open cc-greens-02 c/p as a new layer below your frames but above your paper, image resize by 40% and arrange inside your frames, I duplicated it a couple times to fill them up at the bottom edge. (I actually did this in one frame, then hit delete to get rid of the excess hanging out of the frame selected none, merged the greens layers together, then duplicated and mirrored it into the other frame) Now open cc-net-02 c/p as a new layer above your circles but below the frame backgrounds, duplicate and merge down duplicate once more and merge down this makes the net show up a bit more. Now open cc-fish-01 c/p as a new layer and arrange to your liking, I resized mine by 40% and hung it in the net, I did the same with cc-starfish resizing it by 18% and also used cc-sand-dollar and resized it by 18% as well, you can add more or less this is your tag, Now if you want to add the water to your frames like I did, go back to your paper background layer and select all float defloat selections invert, now open cc-water-01 and c/p as a new layer, resize this by 66% move it over to your right frame, and behind the greens layer, now duplicate and move it up just a bit, duplicate once again and move it up a bit, hit delete on each of those layers to rid the excess from out side the frames, select none, now merge those water layers together, duplicate it and mirror it to the other frame ( you may have to move it a bit to make it fit right) Now open cc-sail-boat and c/p as a new layer above the water layer, in the LEFT frame, image resize by 21% and arrange to your liking, I duplicated mine. now open cc-palm-tree and c/p as a new layer above the water and behind the greens and place it in the right frame, resize this by 60% and arrange to your liking, go back to the paper background again and select all float defloat selections invert and now go back to the palm tree layer and hit delete. now you can add a dropshadow of choice to your elements, I did not add one to my net layer, or the greens or water, but I did for everything else. hide your white background and merge visable, Now open cc-sand and c/p as a new layer move it over to the right a little, image duplicate, and then image mirror, you can add more elements if you like or not it is your tag, now add your tube of choice to your tag and a dropshadow of choice to the tube, resize add your copyright info and save as I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

A Haunted Love Tube of choice, I used a free tube I aquired years ago if it is yours please contact me and I will credit you accordingly!! You can get it HERE and Zindy S D Nielsen Tube Scrap used La Tua Cantante By Cora's Creations Font of choice I used The Nauti Girl by Rob Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, ( you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work) Now open cc-frame-06 c/p as a new layer, I resized mine by 125%, grab your magic wand and click inside the frame selections modify expand by 8, selections invert, now open cc-pp-06 and c/p below the frame layer and hit delete, leave selected,now add your tube of choice or the one I supplied, hit delete again, select none. I duplicated the zindy tube and on the first layer changed my blend mode to darken and turned the opacity down to 44% and on the other tube layer changed the blend mode to soft light. Now Paste this paper again right above your white layer go image resize by 125% (I alwyas use smart size to resize papers and elements while making a tag) add a mask of choice to your paper. Now open cc-music-sheet and c/p as a new layer resize this by 50% go duplicate this now image rotate to the right by 21% on the duplicated layer go image rotate to the left by 12%. Now open cc-light-01 and c/p as a new layer below the sheet music, move it over towards the left of your frame, Now open cc-musice-01 c/p as a new layer and place it behind your sheet music as well, Now open your cc-lace-01 and c/p as a new layer below your frame and move it up towards the top of the frame, change the blend mode to soft light, Now open your cc-sparkle-01 and c/p as a new layer, image resize by 45% move up towards the top left of your frame, layer duplicate and then imager flip and image mirror move towards the bottom right of your frame. Now open cc-wa-01 and cc-wa-02 c/p each as a new layer, go image resize by 45% and place one at the top left of your frame and the other at the bottom right of your frame, Now open cc-tag-01 c/p as a new layer image resize by 50% image rotate by 21% to the right. move this up and to the right of your frame, now add a drop shadow of choice to your elements, I did NOT add one to the tube layer or the sparkles . now hide your white background layer and merge visable, I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

Summer Fun! Tube of choice, I used artwork Elias Chatzoudis and Suzanne Woolcott Scrap used Funky Fresh by Cora's Creations Font of choice I used Anja Elaine Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, ( you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work)open cc-pp-01 c/p as a new layer and add a mask of choice, I used a round mask. now open cc-frame-03 c/p as a new layer, I resized mine by 80% smartsize, Open cc-flower-02 and c/p as a new layer, resize by 70% do the same with cc-flower01, You can use my tag as a guide or you can place the flowers where you want to. Open cc-dots and c/p as a new layer, placing just above the mask layer and below the frame layer, now image resize by 70% then image rotate free rotate to the left by 65%, move it up and to the left of the tag, now image duplicate and then flip that and then mirror it,placeing it towards the bottom right of your tag.. Now open cc-wing-heart and c/p as a new layer, bring this layer to the top, go image resize by 80% twice, and then image mirror and place towards the top right of your tag. now lets open cc-ribbon-05 and c/p as a new layer, move this towards the bottom right of your tag,now open cc-flower-05 and c/p as a new layer, image mirror and place this over towards the bottom left of your tag, I moved this layer below the ribbon layer, now lets open cc-wa-01 and c/p as a new layer, move it towards the bottom left of your tag, resize this by 80% twice. (On mine I added a gradient glow you can easily do this with dropshadow option in psp if you dont have eyecandy,) Now open cc-heart-03 and c/p as a new layer, (I placed this right above the frame and below the flower layers) image resize by now rotate this by 15% to the left and move it up towards the left top of the tag. Now open cc-pp-07 and c/p as a new layer above your dots and below your frame layer, grab your magic wand and click inside the circle of your frame, go selections modify expand by 5 then selections invert, go to the paper layer you just added and hit delete, leave selected so you can do the same with your tube (IF you want it inside the circle of the frame) If you want your tube sticking out like in my examples, paste your tube, grab your eraser and erase the bottom part of your tube select none, go to the tube layer and select all float defloat, grab your eraser again now this time we will erase the frame layer, the flowers etc, anything that is covering your tube pieces you want visiable "popping" out of the frame. select none, add a drop shadow of choice to all your elements, when you are happy with your tag, hide the white background layer and merge visable. I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

Hearts Afloat Tube of choice, I used artwork Suzanne Woolcott (in second example) Scrap used Funky Fresh by Cora's Creationz Font of choice, I used SwingSet BB Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, ( you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work) Open cc-frame-01 and c/p as a new layer, resize it by 90% smartsize. Now open cc-girl and c/p as a new layer, I moved her over to the left hand side of my frame. resize by 90%. open cc-balloon-02 and c/p as a new layer, move this layer below your girl layer and put it behind her. I resized mine by 90% twice, now open cc-balloon-01 and repeat as above, I also mirrored this one. Now open cc-funky-tree and c/p as a new layer, move this layer below your frame layer, I resized mine by 77% and placed it over to the left side of my frame, now open cc-grass and c/p as a new layer, right above your tree layer, and below the frame layer (we will be erasing the bits outside of the frame in a bit lol) resize the grass by 50% now duplicate and mirror and line up the two grass layers so the blend together. (I made sure the two "ends" were behind the center of the frame) Now lets open cc-bee and c/p as a new layer, I resized mine by 20% place it where you want. I duplicated mine and then mirrored this layer. now open cc-pp-09 and c/p as a new layer right above your white layer, turn the opacity on this layer down to 50%. go to the frame layer, grab your magic wand and click inside each of the frame holes, once that is done go selections, modify by 5 and then selections invert. Now we will go to the tree layer and hit delete, then the 2 grass layers and hit delete and then to the paper layer and hit delete, select none. Lets open cc-heart-03 now c/p as a new layer above your white layer, I resized mine by 35% (using your raster deform tool) move it up to theright hand top of your tag, now duplicate this layer (again using your raster deform tool) move this down and to the left abit, so it looks like the hearts are blowing out of the tree. open cc-mushroom 1 and cc-mushroom-2 and c/p as new layers, below your grass layers, and arrange to your liking inside your frame I resized mine by 35%, now you can either add a drop shadow of choice to your elements etc, and hide your white background and merge visiable, and save your tag (add the correct copyright to the tag per Cora's TOU)

or you can also make a tag like my second example below, add a couple tubes to your "window scene". I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü

Like Totally! Tube of choice, I used artwork by Suzanne Woolcott and Elias Chatzoudis Scrap used Totally (80's Blog Train) by Cora's Creations Template 14 by Babe's Designs Font of choice, I used Pea Sarahloo I used Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open Template 14 By Babe and duplicate close the original, Delete the copyright layer. go to the large circle layer and select all, float, defloat, (on some templates you have jaggady edges so what I do is this, go up to selections and modify smooth I put both boxes on 10 ) Now open cc-pp-08 and c/p as a new layer, selections invert and hit delete, select none, now delete the original big circle layer. Select rectangle 1 layer and repeat as above, I used cc-pp-09. Select rectangle 2 layer and repeat again, I used cc-pp-01.Go to the heart boarder layer now, select all, float, defloat, this time I smoothed by 2 (you will lose the shape of the heart if you go anymore than that) I used cc-pp-02 on this layer. Go to heart layer3, repeat again as above(smoothing by 10), I used cc-pp-02 on this layer. go to heart layer 2 repeat as above again, I used cc-pp-05 on this layer. go to heart layer1, repeat as above, I used cc-pp-07 on this layer. now select the circles layer, select all, float, defloat, selections modify, smooth by 10 in each box, selections invert,I used cc-pp-04. leave selected this time, selections invert and then modify contract by 14 hit delete, select none, go back to the circle layer, select all, float, defloat, modify contract by 3, selections invert, I used cc-pp-08 again, hit delete and select none, Now delete the circles layer. now go to the "frame" layer you made with cc-pp-04, I added an inner bevel to this layer using these settings now you can add a few elements to your tag, I used cc-glasses, resized by 48% smartsize, and then did a free rotate of 20% to the right. I used cc-wire also I placed this as a new layer above the white layer, I also used cc-sequins1 and cc-sequins2. I placed these above the wire layer and resized by 35% smartsize, placing one to the top left of my tag and the other towards the bottom right of my tag. Now open cc-safety-pin and paste as a new layer, arrange to your liking, I resized it by 35% and free rotated it to the left by 21% I also duplicated it a couple times, did a mirror and a flip on the layers, so there are a few laying together. I also used eye candy gradient glow on some of my layers, the rectangles, the hearts, the heart boarder, The big circle layer, again this is your choice, your tag, Now choose tubes that compliment your tag, and place them in your framed area, (this is your choice) you can do it like my second example if you prefer.Now add a drop shadow of choice to your elements,when satisfied with your tag, hide your white background layer and merge visiable, as always I resize my tag before adding my copyright layer so it stays clear. Add the copyright info and your name and save your tag to your prefrence. I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü