Juicy Kat

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 3, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Flowers & Frame here

Plugins

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Xenofex Constellation

The tube I used Juicy Kat is by Les Toil, his website is here

You can get his tubes from his official yahoo group fan club is here

The name of the font I used is Jungle Juice

I used size 72 & 85

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply bright noise intensity 35, mix checked

Add a new raster layer

Select all

Paste purple flowers into selection

Deselect

Change layer properties to overlay

Add drop shadow

Duplicate 2 times

Apply cross shadow using default settings

Repeat on other 2 layers changing the 2 bottom #'s to 108 & 88

Paste your frame as a new layer

Select all>float>defloat

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your bg layer

Deselect

Change layer properties to overlay

Click inside with your magic wand

Expand 3

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your bg color

Move to below your frame

Do Not Deselect

Paste your blue flowers as a new layer

Invert your selection

Delete & deselect

Change layer properties to luminance

Add drop shadow

Apply graphics plus cross shadow using default settings

Apply constellation

Settings>star field>keep original image checked

Add drop shadow to your frame

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your bg color

Select all

Contract 8

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Apply constellation, same settings as before

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

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Love Sick Duck

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 2, 2012 & is copyright protected

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Plugins

Eyecandy Texture Weave

The tubes I used Love Struck Duck & Chick are FTU by Mrs Homer Lynn, you can get these tubes from her blog here

The name of my font is Dynalight

I used size 60

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply eyecandy weave

Settings>plain distorted smeared dark shadows

Basic>pattern twill>gap width 5, keep original image checked

Paste your duck tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position at the bottom of your tag

Paste your chick as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position in a lower corner

Duplicate & resize to 50%

Position in opposite corner

Duplicate

Activate your pick tool

Decrease your x position by 100

Repeat this until you have 8 little chicks

Starting with the 2nd one from the right decrease your y position by 20

Repeat this on # 4, 6 & 8

Hide all except the bottom one

Starting from the bottom one rename the layers to 1, 2, 3, etc

Starting with # 8

Duplicate & mirror

Rename to 15

Duplicate & mirror & 7

Rename to 14

Move to below # 15

Duplicate & mirror # 6

Rename to 13

Move to below # 14

Duplicate & mirror # 5

Rename to 12 & move to below # 13

Repeat this until all but # 1 is duplicated

Do NOT duplicate & mirror # 1

You should now have 15 little chick layers

Duplicate your bg layer & send to top

Select all

Contract 10

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide all your chick layers except #1

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide # 1 & unhide # 2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide # 2 & unhide # 3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until all 15 frames are pasted

I set my frame properties at 35

On frames 1 & 9 I changed the frame propterties to 100

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

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Result by Kaye W

Angel With Horns

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 30, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Supplies here

The tube I used Devious is a free tube by Lady Mishka, you can get this tube from PFD here

The name of my font is Tamborine

I used size 60

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Add texture with these settings

Add a new raster layer

Select all

Paste your flower into selection

Deselect

Change layer properties to luminance legacy

Add drop shadow

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Position in a lower corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Paste your lace as a new layer

Resize to 56%

Position in upper right corner

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Add drop shadow

Move up so only the lacey part is showing, see my tag

Select around your tag with your selection tool

Crop to selection

Duplicate your lace

Flip & merge down

Paste your floral swirl as a new layer

Duplicate & rotate right 30

Repeat this 8 more times

You'll have 10 swirl layers

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide all your swirl layers except the top one

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your top swirl & unhide your second one

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Repeat until you have all 10 frames pasted

Select all your frames & copy

Activate your last frame

Paste after current

Repeat 2 more times

You'll have 40 frames

Reverse the last 10 frames and change frame properties to 3

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

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Result by Kaye W

Blonde Beauty

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 28, 2012 & is copyright protected

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Supplies Needed

Lace here

Plugins

Harrys Filters 4.0

The tube I used Hollywood Blonde is a free tube by Sumer Agisama, you can get this tube from PFD here

The name of my font is Tole Caps

I used size 36

My tuts today are dedicated to my grandson Jordan who turns 11 today

 Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with red

Duplicate 5 times

Apply harrys filters with these settings

Repeat on other 5 layers increasing the multiplier by 1 each time

Paste your lace as a new layer

Select all>float>defloat

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your bg color

Deselect

Layer properties>multiply

Merge down

Add drop shadow

Paste your main tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Paste your close up tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Position in a lower corner

Duplicate & mirror

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Keep doing this until you have all 6 frames pasted

Hold down your shift key & click on frames 2 & 6, this will select all those frames

Copy

Activate frame 6 and paste after current

Reverse the frames you just pasted, they'll still be selected

You'll have 11 frames

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

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Result by Kaye W

Devilicious

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 27, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Flowers here

Plugins

Xenofex Constellation

The tube I used Chubby Twisted is by Popeye Wong, you can get his ftu tubes here

If you haven't been there lately he has some new tubes

The font I used is called Shower Flower

I used size 42 all caps

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize layer

Floodfill with black

Select all

Add a new raster layer

Paste your flower into selection

Deselect

Add drop shadow

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & position on one side

Resize to 75% and leave in the position it landed

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Apply constellation

Settings>small star constellation>overall star density 0>twinkle amount 75>keep original image checked

On your big tube layer

Zoom in on the tail & activate your freehand selection tool

Select around the tail

Copy & cut

Erase any lines

Paste as a new layer

Postion back into place & duplicate

Rotate right 25

Position back into place

Activate your clone tool & cover up the gap

Activate the original tail move to above the rotated one

Duplicate & rotate left 25

Do same as you did with the other tail

Rename these layers to tail 1, tail 2 & tail 3

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

I added the constellation effect to my text & name changing overall density to 4

Animation:

Hide animation tail 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide tail 1 & unhide 2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide tail 2 & unhide 3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Copy frame 2 and paste afer frame 3

I set my frame properties at 20

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

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Result by Kaye W

Christmas Snow

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on November 18, 2010

Please read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit Xmas Candy Cane by Lacarolita Designz here

Gradients MQC Ribbon Green & MQC Holiday Here

Snow Mound Here

Font Used:  Christmas, you can get it at dafont.com

I used the fabulous artwork of Popeye Wong here

Plugins

Filters Unlimited 2.0

Vanderlee Snowflakes

Open a new transparent canvas 930x450, we can resize later.  I made this for a blog so thats why so big lol

Flood fill with gradient, angle 45 and repeats 4

Apply Filters Unlimited Kaleidoscope 2>Divisions 48 and Variation 192

Apply Filters Unlimited>Paper Textures>Cotton Paper/ Fine>Intensity 128 and lightness 96

Copy and paste as new image, minimize for now

Apply border size 15 all the way around with a contrasting color

Select with your magic wand and flood fill with the Holiday Gradient same settings as above

Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds with the following settings

Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel with these settings

Deselect

Add another border size 20

Flood fill with a dark red gradient, select with your magic wand and repeat the blinds effect, UNcheck horizontal

Repeat inner bevel changing the bevel from #12 to #2

Deselect

Add 1 more border size 15, repeat same as the first one

Resize back to 930 pixels wide

Back to your copied image

Add a border 15 pixels all the way around

Flood fill with your red gradient

Apply blinds effect with the same settings as the screenshot shows

Apply inner bevel using bevel #2

Resize to 80% and paste as a new layer on the image with 3 borders, duplicate 3 times for a total of 4

Paste Candy Cane Tree as a new layer, resize to 38%

Move over to the edge of the frame on the larger image, duplicate & mirror.  Merge down.  Using your move tool, press your down arrow one time

Paste your tube as a new layer, resize if needed

Paste the snow mound as a new layer, place below the trees and resize to 93%

Move to the top of your smaller image border

Add your copyright info

Animation

Activate the top layer of your duplicates

Using your selection tool select around the inside of the border

Apply Vanderlee Snow Flakes with the following settings

Rename layer to snow 1

Apply snowflakes on the next layer changing amount from 40 to 38 and random seed to 2, rename to snow 2

On next layer change amount to 36 and random seed to 3, rename to snow 3

On last layer change amount to 34 and random seed to 4, rename to snow 4

Deselect

Merge your copyright info, tube, trees and snow mound layers

Hide the bottom 3 snow layers, merge visible.  Copy and paste to animation shop

Back to PSP, undo your merge.  Hide snow 1 and UNhide snow 2, merge visible and paste after current in animation shop

Repeat with snow layers 3 & 4

I resized mine to 650 pixels wide

Frame properties 15

Save as gif and you're all done

I hope you have enjoyed doing this tutorial

:)

Bibbity Bobbity Boo

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This tutorial was written by Sharon1958 on October 14, 2010.

Please read my TOU on the right side of this blog

This tut uses no scrap kits and is easy to do for any skill level with a working knowledge of psp.  The supplies I provided are already the right size for this template.

Template Bibbity Bobbity Boo by Creative Misfits Here.  Scroll about 1/2 way down

Materials Here

I am using the beautiful artwork of Popeye Wong

Font I used was Vampiress, you can get it at dafont.com

Open template, shift D to duplicate, close out original.  Delete credits layer.

Open supplies

Paste all as a new layer and position into place referring to my tag, no need to resize any of them.  Mirror the right cat

Activate 2grad layer, select all, float, defloat.  Paste your tube as a new layer, invert selection then hit your delete key to remove the excess, deselect.

New raster layer, send to bottom.  Flood fill with a dark red gradient.  Apply an inner bevel of your choice settings.  Merge visible

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your copyright info and your text

Merge and save

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial

Sharon