This tutorial was written on Thursday, May 31st 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 the cute little fairy tube which comes with the scrapkit.
Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a really pretty kit by Stef of Stef's Scrapkits called “Fairy Bee Time” which you can purchase here
Font of choice
**Plugins**
None
Ready? Lets begin.....
If you are using a tube
Open up your tube
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Open up a new image – 800 x 800 pixels
This may seem a little large, but we can always resize later on :)
Open up “ele17_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frame”
Grab your Magic Wand Tool with the following settings :
Select the inside of the frame
Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels
Highlight the “Raster 1” layer and rename “Inside”
Open up “pap03_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – Into Selection
**Do Not Deselect**
Open up “ele14_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Rainbow”
Selections – Invert and hit delete
**Do Not Deselect**
Open up “ele30_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Hills”
Arrange along the bottom of the frame
Hit delete
Selections – None
Add a drop shadow
Open up “ele04_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Tree1”
Image – Resize – 35%
Arrange over to the left-hand side of your tag
Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “Hills” layer
Open up “ele34_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frog”
Image – Resize – 25%
Arrange over on the bottom-left inside the frame
Add a drop shadow
**If you are using a tube, at this point copy, paste and resize accordingly**
Open up “ele27_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Fairy”
Image – Resize – 35%
Arrange along the bottom-middle inside the frame
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “Frame” layer
Open up “ele13_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Grass1”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange over on the bottom-left corner of the frame
Layers – Duplicate and rename “Grass2”
Image – Mirror
Arrange over on the bottom-right corner of the frame
Add a drop shadow to both grass layers
Make sure your “Grass2” layer is highlighted
Open up “ele40_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “House”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange over on the left by the frame and grass
Add a drop shadow
Open up “ele16_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bow”
Image – Resize – 35%
Arrange over the pole of the house we just placed
Add a drop shadow
Open up “ele29_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Grass3”
Arrange along the bottom edge of the frame
Add a drop shadow
Open up “ele02_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Fence”
Image – Resize – 75%
Image – Mirror
Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “Grass3” layer again
With your Eraser Tool, clear any overlap of grass showing as follows :
Highlight your “Fence” layer again
Open up “ele38_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bird”
Image – Resize – 25%
Arrange so that it is sitting on top of one of the fence posts
Add a drop shadow
Open up “ele10_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “OrangeFlower”
Image – Resize – 10%
Arrange over the green of the tree so that it looks as if it is in bloom
Duplicate and place as many flowers as you feel looks right in the leaves of the tree and add a drop shadow to each flower
Highlight your top flower in the layer palette
Open up “ele09_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “PinkFlower”
Image – Resize – 10%
Arrange along the grass at the bottom of the frame
Again, duplicate and place as many flowers as you feel looks right in the grass and add a drop shadow to each flower
**If you would like 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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