ROSE LACE TAG

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro.

Tube of Choice - For this tutorial, I used a delightful image created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Supplies to Download. This file contains the following:

Two patterned seamless background tiles (the roses vintage was shared, the rosebkg was created by me), small rose tube and rectangular lace frame created by me.

The beautiful floral ellipse lace frame which was shared. 

The lovely rose ribbons were created by  Dozi aka Katzerl.  Do visit Dozi's amazing site for so many wonderful scrap elements you can download to use with your signature tags.

Various different butterfly animations created by Peachie.  Do click here to view her wonderful site and download those animations you would love to add to your tags. 

 

SETTINGS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Magic Wand Settings 

Mode: Add/Shift, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance 16 (more or less depending on your PSP version), Contiguous checked, Feather: 0, Anti-Alias checked and outside selected.

Drop Shadow:

Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80, Blur 5, Color Medium Gray #808080

Step 1

Open up your rectangular lace frame, ellipse lace frame and both background seamless pattern tiles (roses vintage light and  the rosebkg).

Step 2

Left click the magic wand using the settings from above.  Left click the magic wand inside the rectangular lace frame.  Go to Selections/Modify expand 10. 

Step 3

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and open up the rosebkg seamless background tile.

Step 4

At the Material Palette, left click the top color box.  When the color selection window opens, select pattern.  Locate the rosebkg pattern file with angle set to 0 and scale set to 100. 

Flood fill the selection with this pattern and go to selections/select none.

Step 5

Go to Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom.

Step 6

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 7

Open up the ellipse lace frame and Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the settings from above.

Go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. Left click the mover tool and move the frame over to the left side of the tag with the top of the frame slightly touching the top and side areas of the rectangular lace frame.

Step 8

Open up the layer palette, and go to your merge layer (the bottom layer) and left click the eye so that layer is closed off.

Once closed off, go back to the layer with your ellipse frame (top layer).

Step 9

Left click the magic wand and left click inside the ellipse frame. 

Go to Selections/Modify/Expand 5.

Step 10

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Step 11

Open up the roses vintage light seamless background tile and left click the top color box.  When the color selection window opens, select pattern.  Locate the roses vintage light background pattern file with angle set to 0 and scale set to 100 and flood fill the selection. DO NOT DESELECT.

Step 12

Open up your tube graphic and make it active.  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  Left click the mover tool and move the image inside the selection.

If the image is too large to fit, go to Image/Resize, using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked.

Step 13

Go to Selections/Invert.  Click the delete key and go to Selections/Select None.

Step 14

Open up the bottom layer of the tag (left click the red x on the eye) and go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.

Step 15

Open up the small rose psp file (pink rose).  Go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  Left click the mover tool and move the small pink rose to your lace oval frame within one of the open spots surrounded by pink beads.  Go to Layers/Duplicate and again move the pink flower to another spot.  Keep duplicating your layers until your entire lace frame is now surrounded by pink roses.

Once this is done, go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 16

Open up one of the rose bows and copy and paste it to the bottom of the frame.  Resize as necessary. Do add the same drop shadow as above.

Step 17

Open up the pink rose bud file.  Copy and paste it where you would like it on your tag.  Resize as necessary and add the same drop shadow as above.

Step 18

Add your text and copyright information and go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 19

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Step 20

Save your file as a psp or psd file. We will complete the tag in animation shop. Click here to continue.