LO's Tuts Oh My!

I'm in a very creative mood, I'm going to be writing up a few tuts and creating some LO's from my daughters 13th b-day party. We roller skated at the roller rink, I don't think I've done that in almost 20 years but I do gotta say... I STILL GOT IT, WOHOOO! Keep your eye out for the tuts and LO's!

I miss my nephew...

It's been 9 years this month since I lost my nephew, and I miss him dearly. This layout was made with a kit named Sunshine Baby by Scraps by Jessica, you can find a link to her blog on the left, or you can click her blinkie over there too, since I CT for her! Thanks for looking!

New LO! Mommy and Collin

Here's my latest LO, using a scrap kit from Sarah at Pimp my Tags... you can find the link under my favorite links over there on the left. The kit is called "So Happy" and it's really a great kit!

Gorjuss Taffy Tutorial

This tutorial was created in PSP 9 but should work in any version. If you like my tutorial, please link to my blog, and please do not claim my work as your own. Thank you!

Supplies:

Four tubes of your choice, mine are PTU Suzanne Woolcott tubes.

Scrap kit of your choice, I'm using Baby Cakes Scraps free tagger kit called PaPaws Taffy, which you can download on her blog. Or I have provided the butterfly, dragonfly and both frames that came with this kit here.

Mask of your choice.

Let's get started.

Open a new canvas, transparent 600x500, we can resize as needed.

Go into your scrap file and choose one of the frames, for this tutorial I chose the first one.

Copy and paste the frame into your blank canvas.

With your magic wand, click inside one of the frames, as seen below:



Go to Selections>Modify>Expand, put 3 in the box, and click okay.

Go to one of your tubes, resize how you'd like it to fit within the frame, then copy and paste it as a new layer on your frame canvas, with the mover tool, move it within the selected area. Once you have it how you like it, go to Selectins>Invert, then hit the delete key.

Selections>Select None

Move your tube layer below the frame layer.

Repeat this with the last three frames.

At this point you should have something like this:



Click on your frame layer, go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow.

Vertical and Horizontal should both be at 2, Opacity at 71, Blur at 5.00 and Color Black, click okay.

Go to Layer>Merge>Merge Visible

Go to Image>Resize Resize to 80%, Smart Size and make sure Resize all Layers is UNchecked. Click okay.

Add a new raster layer to your canvas, then go to Selections, Select all. Leave it like that for a moment.

Open a paper from the kit that you like. Copy it, and paste it as a new layer on your canvas.

Now click Selections>Invert, hit the delete button. Delete the blank layer, you should have two layers now, Merged and Raster 2, move your paper below your frame image.

Find your favorite mask, and apply it. You can do so by going to Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from Disk

On your layers palette, click to highlight the Group-Raster2 Layer. Then to got Layers>Merge>Merge Group

Apply a dropshadow to the mask layer, same settings as before.

Now highlight your merged layer, add a new layer and make sure it's on top. This is where you'll use some of the elements from the scrap kit to decorate your tag to your liking.

Add your credits, please remember to give credit to the artist whenever possible

When you're done it should look something like this:



From here you can add the name you'd like to your design, or what not.

Go to Layers>Merge>Merge Visible

Then go to click Ctrl+c, and then Ctrl+v, Save your image to whatever you'd like.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I hope you come back for more. Feel free to leave me comments, I'd love to hear your feed back.

Tutorial ©2008 SweetDragonDesigns, Scrap kits, brushes, masks all © to their prospective owners.

Happy Turkey Day!

I really hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm going to be posting some of my layouts and sig tags, as well as one tutorial for all of you to see. Since I can't seem to sleep, I may as well do SOMETHING with this blog. xoxo LD

Looking better....

Well it's totally looking better and better. Now I just need to tune up the fonts and such, if you have any ideas, let me know! Hugs, LD

Well it's coming along... slowly. Time for bed, found out I may have a cyst on one of my ovaries tonight, and haven't been able to sleep, going to try to nap for an hour before I have to get the kiddos up for school. Tomorrow comes the header, and changing the fonts around and more blog links and blinkies, and then I'll upload some of my tag tuts and lay outs.... and tags I've made.... busy day! xoxo LD - SweetDragonDesigns

Blog is currently under construction.... it's getting there though!