Vix's Scrap Tag Tutorials: Tag Tutorial - Sweet Love

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Tag Tutorial - Sweet Love - PTU

Tube of Choice - I'm using a cutie by Suzanne Woolcott

If you'd like to use the same - please visit her site HERE

Scrapkit - PTU - a completely gorgeous one called Love is In the Air by my pal Clarey

You can purchase it from her store HERE

Masks - 445 and 446 by me :) Both are available to save from my blog HERE

Toadies - What Are You

Penta.com - Colour Dot

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The Usual - but make the canvas size 650 x 600

If you'd like a smaller tag, adjust your canvas size accordingly

and the same goes for the following resize percentages

Adjust to what you'd need instead...

OK

Open the Chocolates

C&P

Place to the middle left of the canvas

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Open the SW tube (if you're using a different tube, adjust placement to suit your tag)

C&P

Place as mine

Open the HeartFrame2

80%

C&P

Place as mine

under the other layers and above the White Background

Change both colour boxes to White

and

Duplicate the Heart Frame

Apply Toadies - What are You on

the default settings

then

Penta.com Colour Dot on

the default settings

Make sure this frame is below the original frame in the LP

Duplicate the chocolate box layers

and repeat the Toadies and Penta for the bottom copies

BUT

Change the X-Dose slider in Toadies to 10 from 20

Click inside the non Toadied heart frame with Magic Wand

Selections, Modify, Expand by 5

Open Paper 9 - or another delicious one of your choosing

C&P

Move between the two heart frame layers

and do a Selection Delete on the Paper layer

Selections None

Crop the canvas using Crop Tool - Snap Crop Rectangle to: Merged Opaque

(Should be the same size as your canvas)

Just above the White Background

C&P Paper 7

then

Apply my mask - Vix_Mask446 to it

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

and move across the canvas to line up with the heart frame a little more

See my placement for reference

Open the Cupcake

Resize 20%

C&P

Place to the left in front of the chocolates

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Open Flower 6

70%

C&P

Place as mine to the left of the tag at the top left

of the heart frame then

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Open another of the flowers

70%

C&P

Image

Flip

then place in the centre of the heart frame as mine

Open another of the flowers

Resize as before

C&P

Image

Mirror

But, move this over to the left of the tag and place underneath the

left side flower

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

and

move these under the chocolate box layer (the non Toadied one)

in the LP

Use Dropper Tool

Choose a colour from the tag

Place in Background Material Palette colour box

Have Foreground on Nill

Type out your name in a font of choice

Stretch out to fit where liked

then

Apply a simple and subtle dropshadow to it

I used 0, 0 ,35, 7.00 Black

and now

on the Cupcake, Chocs and

the flowers layer - add a shadow of

2, 2, 45, 5.00 Black

or a shadow of your choice

and on the heart frame, apply a shadow like

3, 3, 54, 7.00 Black

or one of your choice

and on the tube layer - shadow as prefered

Add your Artist info now

Crop the canvas

Delete the White Background

and

save as a PNG

All done xx

About this Blog...

Hiya blogettes,
I love scrapkits, and I love to make tags
using scrapkits too.
Personally, I enjoy opening a new kit and seeing
what goodies lay inside and what happens when
I go nutz in PSP lol!
But, I know there are lots of people who do enjoy a scrapkit tag tutorial - so here's this blog, especially for them!

Here you'll find a few scrapkit tag tutorials for you to enjoy.
Some are Pay to Use scrapkits and some are Free to
Use scrapkits.

Some will be from taggers sized kits
and some will be from full sized digiscrap kits.
Note: If a kit I've linked to is no longer available - just use another kit and see what happens...

I hope these tuts inspire you to go nutz in PSP yourselves and that you have fun with your creations and expressing yourself through gorgeous tags.

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs
Vix xx

Important Information

These tutorials are written by me (Vix) The date of creation is usually the date they are posted on the blog, sometimes earlier. They are based on tags of my own design created by me and any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental. Please do not use my tutorials as the basis for ideas when creating your own tutorials. Be original! Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with these tutorials are supplied in good faith - if I have used something not intended for usage in this way, please contact me via email. Any items specifically created by me for the purposes of these tutorials MAY NOT be used in any other tag tutorials UNLESS I mention that they may be. Links to tube/scrap blogs or sites are added either through necessity or creator courtesy, and it is entirely up to the individual (ie. You!) if you choose to visit these sites and/or download/purchase from them. Scraps used in my tutorials that I've obtained from PTU purchased scrap kits are NOT supplied in my tutorials supplies. This website is intended for educational/entertainment purposes only NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted. PSP groups and forums are welcome to text link to the tutorials. All of my tutorials are registered with TWI

Glossary of Terms

C&P - Copy and Paste

The Usual - New Image in PSP, 600 x 600 Pixels
Add a New Layer and Floodfill White
(I tend to make tags in 700 x 600 but my older tutorials are the first dimensions)

LP - Layer Palette

(the bit on the right in PSP which shows all the layers)

MP - Materials Palette

(also known as the Colour boxes - found at the top right of PSP)

Selection Delete - Magic Wand Tool on 0 Tolerance and
0 Feather, click inside the mentioned item (frame etc)
then Selections, Modify, Expand (or Contract) by a
certain number of Pixels which will be stated.
Then Selection Invert and either eraser delete (if asked)
or hit the Delete button to get rid of excess tube
or paper, for instance.

Magic Wand Settings - just so you know...
Mode: Add
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 0 (unless otherwise stated)
Feather: 0 (unless otherwise stated)

Eraser Settings -
For hard removal - ie. getting rid of excess tube etc
Size: 102
Hardness: 100
Step: 5
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100

Resize and 00% - if I show a number percent, like 80% etc
It means Resize that particular element
paper, tube etc by the amount stated then C&P

Double Layer Tube Emerge -

Once placed as you'd like it on your tag

Duplicate the tube layer

Move one just above the frame layer (or whatever you're wanting the tube to "emerge" from)

and one just under this layer

Hide the top tube layer

Using Magic Wand Selection - select your frame inner

and then Modify, Expand as needed

then

Selections, Invert

And take your Eraser tool on a hard strong setting (see my settings above) and erase any parts of the tube which stick out below the area you want them to be

Once deleted, Selections None

Now unhide your Top tube layer

Activate in the LP and then

and repeat the erase as needed

You should - all being well - have your tube emerging from a frame in selected parts

And that is the double layer tube emerge. Used in many of my tuts

Top Tips

1. Use a different tube/image. Nothing makes a tag from a tutorial more your own than NOT using the same tube etc.

2. Colourize your chosen kit to suit your mood or your tube = but, only if the scrap designer allows...and most do :)

3. Give a little credit if poss. Many designers do want credit for their scraps, so where able, slip a little "scraps by..." or "scrapkit by..." in your tag credits when using scrap designers that ask for credit when used online. Most of the full sized scrap designers do ask for this.

But of course, if the designer doesn't ask for credit, then that's fab too and saves on tag credit space :)

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Tuesday 9 February 2010

Tag Tutorial - Sweet Love - PTU