Down By the Pond

Down By the Pond Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Jennifer L Nilsson Scrap used Lilly Pad by PolkaDot Scraps Font of choice I used MTF Peach Cobbler 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 PDS_LP-element37 and c/p as a new layer, image resize by 45%, image rotate free rotate to the left by 18% move over to the left of your image, now lets open PDS_LP-frame1, c/p as a new layer, now lets open PDS_LP-element39 and c/p as a new layer right above your white layer, now lets open PDS_LP-element20 and c/p as a new layer, move this over towards the right a bit, now lets open PDS_LP-paper1. grab your magic wand and click inside your frame, selections modify expand by 8 selections invert and paste the paper BELOW your frame layer, hit delete, leave selected, selections invert and add a new layer, flood fill this with white, move it below your paper layer, now turn your paper layer opacity down to 55% now lets open PDS_LP-element3 and c/p as a new layer, arrange to your liking, hit delete to get rid of the excess hangin outside the frame. select none, now lets open PDS_LP-element7 c/p as a new layer, image resize this by 45% move over towards the left of your frame, duplicate and move this up a bit. now lets open PDS_LP-element21 c/p as a new layer above your frame layer, move towards the bottom left of your frame, layer duplicate and image mirror, now lets open PDS_LP-element15 c/p as a new layer, resize this by 45% and move over and towards the right of your frame at the bottom, now lets open PDS_LP-element16 c/p as a new layer, resize this by 60% and move this layer down below the other flower you just pasted, and arrange to your liking, now lets open PDS_LP-element2 c/p as a new layer, image mirror and image resize by 45% move this over towards your letter and make him look like he is sitting on the branch. now lets open PDS_LP-element19 c/p as a new layer image resize this by 26% and image rotate to the right by 21% paste it again and resize again by 26% and now rotate to the left by 12% place these to your liking, or you can use my tag as a guide, Now you want to add your tubes of choice, and a drop shadow of choice to your elements, I did not dropshadow the small leaves or the bubbles, I used PDS_LP-paper1 for my mask layer and a round mask, this is your tag so use what you want. 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