My Love Bugs Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon Scrap used Love Bug by Irene Alexeeva Font of choice I used Pea Sarahloo 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)

I always use smartsize when resizing, for me it feels that the elements and papers

stay crisper. Open ial_lbu_paper05 resize this by 18% smartsize now c/p as a new layer, apply a mask of choice I used WSL_Mask3 Now lets open ial_lbu_leaf1 c/p as a new layer and resize it by 20% now image rotate to the right by 40% arrange to the right bottom of your work area, now lets open ial_ibu_leaf2 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 20% now rotate to the left by 40% now duplicate this layer and go image flip now rotate to the right by 18%, place both leaves to the left of your work area, (use my tag as a guide) Now lets open ial_lbu_frame4 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 35% duplicate this, now on the original frame layer rotate to the left by 12% and move up and to the left of your work area, on the duplicated frame layer go image rotate to the right by 12% and move it down and to the right of your work area, Now lets grab our magic wand and click inside the first frame you pasted, selections modify expand by 8 selections invert, now open ial_lbu_paper04 resize this by 18% smart size, now c/p as a new layer, move this layer below your frame layer, and hit delete select none, do the same steps above with frame two, pasting the same paper as before, select none, Now lets open ial_lbu_laundry_clip* c/p as a new layer bring this up to the top, resize this by 28% now image mirror and then rotate to the right by 28% now move it up so it looks like it has the 2 frames clipped together, now you want to erase part of your clip, I turned the opacity down on this to about 60% and zoomed up on my tag so I could see it and carefully erased part so it looks like it is behind the frame, If it helps you can select your frame layer select all float defloat and then use the eraser on the clip, when you are happy with it, select none, Now lets open ial_ibu_hearts_spray c/p as a new layer resize this by 20% image rotate to the right by 12% arrange towards the right of your bottom frame, layer duplicate and then image mirror, arrange this towards the left top frame, now open ial_lbu_ladybug3 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 11% and place on top of your bottom frame, now open ial_lbu_flower1 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 15% place it up on the top frame, duplicate and move this down to the bottom right of your right frame, (again use my tag as a guide) Now lets open ial_lbu_wordart3 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 18% move this layer below your flower layers, now image rotate to the left by 12% move it to where it is peeking out from behind your flower, now lets open ial_lbu_heart_button2 c/p as a new layer, arrange this layer below your flower layers but above your word art layer, resize this by 18% now image rotate to the left by 15% arrange with your flower on the bottom right, now open ial_lbu_heart_button3 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 18% image rotate to the right by 12% arrange with your other heart, now lets open ial_lbu_ladybug2 c/p as a new layer, image mirror, now resize this by 18% and place at the bottom left of your work area,Now add a dropshadow of choice to your elements, and a tube or tubes of choice, when you are happy with your tag, hide the 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