Dancing With The Butterflies

Dancing with the Butterflies Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Caron Vinson Scrap used Heart Flutters by Irene Alexeeva Font of choice I used Weltron 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 ial_hfl_paper06 resize by 18% c/p as a new layer and apply a mask of choice, I used Artmama-My Cup has overflowed photomask I turned the opacity down to 60% on my mask layer. Now lets open ial_hfl_frame1 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 30%, grab your magic wand and click inside the opening of the frame expand by 9 and then invert, open ial_hfl_paper04 resize by 18% c/p as a new layer, making sure the dark shadowy area is showing in the bottom area of the frame, hit delete, leave selected we are going to be filling in the frame area with some things and want to make sure to delete the excess as we work. now open ial_hfl_cloud1 c/p as a new layer (below the frame layer) resize by 13% and place to your liking in the frame, hit delete if there is any hanging outside the frame area, (leave selected still) now open ial_hfl_cloud2 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 13% place with the other cloud (hit delete if you need) now lets open ial_hfl_grass2 c/p as a new layer, resize by 25% move it over towards the left just a bit hit delete, now open ial_hfl_grass1 c/p this as a new layer Below the grass layer you just added, resize by 25% and place a bit towards the right, again hit delete (leave selected) now open ial_hfl_flower1 flower 2 and flower 3 c/p each and resize each by 7% and place them together on the left side of the grassy area, now select none. Now we are going to add a few things on the OUTSIDE of the frame, Open ial_hfl_lantern_lit c/p as a new layer and resize this by 18% and place on the right side of your tag, now open ial_hfl_hat1 c/p as a new layer and resize by 10% place at the base of the lantern, now open ial_hfl_hat2 c/p as a new layer resize this by 10% and now rotate to the right by 112% place near the other hat, now open ial_hfl_heart4 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 15% move this to the top left of your frame, open ial_hfl_heart 5 c/p as a new layer mirror and resize by 15% place with your other heart. now open ial_hfl_butterfly c/p as a new layer and resize this by 12% now place on top of one of the hats. when you are happy with your tag add a dropshodow and tube of choice, hide the white background layer and merge visible. 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