Wednesday, 4 April 2012

"Easter Bunny Baby" - PTU


(Please click the image to see the full-size tag.  Thanks!)

This tutorial was written on Wednesday, April 4th 2012 by Mystery Designs. It was written in PSP X2 and assumes a good, working knowledge of the program. Any similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done intentionally. Please do not copy or claim the tutorial as your own. If you wish to do so, please link to my blog should groups or forums use it in challenges, and please leave me a comment with a link to where it is being used. Thanks :)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube of choice. I'm using a free tube by OrkusArt. They are with Pics For Designs and you can find them here

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a pretty Easter kit called “Easter Feelings” by Jen of Sleek N Sassy Designz which you can purchase here

Font of choice



**Plugins**

Xero - Porcelain



Ready? Lets begin.....

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 700 x 700 pixels

If you like smaller tags, this can be resized later on. It is just to give room to work :)

Open up your tube of choice
press shift + d to duplicate
Close the original

Open up “EF_Frame4” from the kit
Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Frame

Grab you Magic Wand tool with these settings :




Select inside all four squares of the frame

Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels

Open up “EF_Paper5” from the kit
Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Framebg

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Highlight your “Raster 1” layer
Selections – All

Highlight your “Framebg” layer
Image – Crop to Selection

(This should remove any excess paper which might be a problem later on when resizing)

Open up “EF_Element15” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Chick1

Image – Mirror

Highlight your “Framebg” layer
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Invert

Highlight your “Chick1” layer and hit delete

Selections – None

Effects – Plugins -Xero – Porcelain with the default settings :


Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance (Legacy)

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element69” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Happy Easter

Image – Resize – 64%
Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :


Arrange along the top of the frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element46” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Bow1

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange at the top-left of the Happy Easter string

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Bow2
Image – Mirror

Arrange at the top-right of the Happy Easter string

Add a drop shadow to both bows

Open up “EF_Element40” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “House

Arrange the house down at the bottom left of your frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element13” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Pot

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange it down in front of the egg house at the bottom left of your frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element38” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Cupcake

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange the cake so it is next to the pot we have just placed


Add a drop shadow


Open up “EF_Element10” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Bunny1

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange so your bunny is sat near the pot at the bottom left of your frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element57” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Eggpop

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange the Egg pop so it is down at the bottom left of your frame near the cupcake

Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element67” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Bunnypop

Image – Resize – 40%

Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :



Arrange the Bunny pop down at the bottom left of your frame near the other pop

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element60” from the kit


Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Flowers1


Arrange them so they are at the bottom right of your frame, slightly overlapping at the bottom

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Flowers2

Image – Mirror

Arrange the duplicate so that it overlaps the top left edge of the frame

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Drag this layer down in your layer palette so that it rests above your “Raster 1” layer

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Bow2” layer

Open up “EF_Element22” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Flowers3

Arrange it at the bottom of your tag next to the egg house

Drag this layer down in your layer palette so it rests above your “Flowers1” layer

Your layer palette should now look something like this :


Highlight your “Bow2” layer

Open up “EF_Element72” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Butterfly1

Image – Resize – 20%
Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :


Arrange the butterfly so that it rests on one of the flowers on the right-hand side of your tag

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Butterfly2

Image – Mirror

Arrange the second butterfly so that it rests on one of the flowers on the left-hand side of your tag


Layers – Merge – Merge Down


Add a drop shadow

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and rename “Tube”

Arrange it over to the right-hand side of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element19” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Bunny2

Image – Resize – 20%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag. Placement will depend on the tube you have chosen for the tag :)

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element9” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Chick2

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag. Again, this will depend on choice of tube.

Add a drop shadow

Open up “EF_Element36” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Chick3

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag

Add a drop shadow

**If you wish to resize your tag, now is the time to do so**

Add your name and all copyrights.
Save your finished tag and you’re done!


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