I made this with no outside filters and used only textures that are found in PSP .. you of course can use what ever you like to make it with:)  I did get a little lazy, made selections for everything, so they go together fast but you get to decorate it how ever you want:)  Here is ZIP FILE, download it and export the SEL's into your selction folder.  If you do not have a selection folder then make one under your PSP folder (or where ever you keep your items for PSP)

If you know PSP7 then you may skip past the BLUE areas they are to show new users how to set certain styles and tools.

If you Know PSP6 then you may skip past the GREEN areas they are to show new users how to set certain styles and tools

Remember

Open new image 350/350 White background, 16 million colors

Set your foreground color to white, your background color to 4F774F

      PSP7  There are two color swatches on top of your color palette.  Click on the left one (foreground) and choose the default WHITE from the left hand side squares, click OK.  Now click on the right one (background) and in the middle near the bottom you will see HTML color .. type 4F774F in that area and click OK

      PSP6  There are two color swatches under your color palette.  Click on the left one (foreground) and choose the default WHITE from the left hand side squares, click OK.  Now click on the right one (background) and in the middle near the bottom you will see HTML color .. type 4F774F in that area and click OK

Use your Flood fill tool set to linier gradient, foreground/background, angle 140, repeats 0

    PSP7  Left click and hold on the first style button under your color palette.  You will see a small window pop up with 4 icons in it.  Choose the second one from the left, that is Gradient Fill.  Now regular click on the same style palette .. a new window will pop up.  Choose the top left icon (that's Linear fill) then use the push bar on the left to open a window that has all of your gradients in it.  The foreground/background gradient SHOULD be the TOP left one.  You can move your mouse over the colors of the different gradients and a small text will show the name of that gradient.  After picking the foreground/background fade, then you will go back to the main window.  Put 140 in the Angle area, and 0 in the Repeats area.  Click OK
      Left click and hold on the 3rd and forth button also to turn them OFF .. if they are off then do not worry about it.  The off/null button is the first one on the right.

    PSP6 Choose your flood fill tool, then open your tool options window.  Use the pull down window for Fill Style and choose Linear Gradient.  Blend Normal, paper none, match RGB, tolerance 100, Opacity 100.  Now click on the SECOND icon at the top of the Tool Options window, use the pull down window and find #1Foreground/Background (probably on top) then put 140 in Angle, and 0 in Repeats.

Go to Layers, Add New Raster Layer .. Name it Glass, opacity at 62 .. click OK

Go to Selections, Load from Disk .. and load sher_glass.sel

Use your Flood fill  tool to fill each of the selections, some may fill two or three at a time

Yours is bigger and has a white background

Go to
Image, effects, Texture
Effects, Texture effects, Textures.

Use the Wrinkled preset with these settings.
    SIze 53%
    Smoothness 13
    Depth 3
    Ambience 0
    Shininess 0
    Color WHITE
    Angle 123
    Intensity 50
    Elevation 31
Click OK
 

CTRL D to deselect

Go to Layers, Add New Raster Layer (name it border) Click OK

Go to Selections, Load from Disk ... sher_catcher.sel

Change your flood fill tool to Paint and make sure the foreground is set to white

PSP7 left click and hold on the first style button (you have it set to gradient we are going to change it back to paint) When the small icons pop up choose the first one on the left.  That is paint

PSP6 Open your Tools options window and set the Fill style back to solid fill

Flood fill the selection with WHITE
 

Go to
Image, effects, Blinds
Effects, Texture effects, Blinds
with these settings:
    Width 4
    Opacity 79
    Color BLACK
    CHECK Horizontal
    UNchecked light from left/top
Click OK

Go to
Image, effects, Sculpture
Effect, Texture Effects, Sculpture,
use the Gold preset with these settings:
     Size 100%
    Depth 3
    Smoothness 7
    Ambience 17
    Shininess 40
    Color WHITE
    Angle 324
    Intensity 26
    Elevation 46
Click OK

CTRL D to deselect

Go to Layers, Add New Raster Layer (Welcome border) Click OK

Go to Selections, Load from Disk .. sher_welcome.sel

Flood fill the selection with white

Go to Selections, Modify, Expand 1 (it will look a little run togther but it's not really)

Apply your Gold Sculpture effect.

CTRL D to deselect

Open your layer palette and click on the glasses to the right of the bottom layer (this will turn off the white background)

Go to Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

Yours is bigger ( notice I turned my background back on:)

Open your layer palette and turn your background back on IF you want to.  I really just wanted it there so you could see the the green does how well and it was not to light:)

Make your Background color white  (just click on the little arrow between the two colors and they will switch places)

PSP6 when your text box comes up in the next step then click on the LARGE box in the middle and choose white (I use white with the gold preset because it looks better)

Use your text tool set to any font you want .. you want it small so that the text will fit in the text boxes of your SunCatcher.  I am using Black Chancery set at 20. You use wt ever font you want, you may have to adjust the font size. Type in your first word and Click OK .. use your mouse to move it to the center of your top text box.  I typed Always

Apply the Gold Sculpture effect twice to the text and recenter if needed.

Use your text tool again and type in Welcome .. apply the Gold sculpture twice again and center the text in the bottom box.

I would REALLY remember to save right about now!!!
 
 

Layers, Add New Raser layer .. (you dont have to name it because we will merge in just a couple of steps) Change opacity to 62, click OK

Go to Selections, load from disk, sher_cloverleaf_glass.sel

Flood fill the selection with color 4F774F (thats your green color) it should be set as your foreground by now so just left click to fill the area.

CTRL D to deselect

Go to Layers, add new raster layer, just click OK

Go to Selections, load from disk, sher_cloverleaf.sel

Flood fill the selection with WHITE

Go to Selections, Modify, Expand 1, click OK

Apply the same Gold Sculpture that you have been using

CTRL D to deselect

Open your layer palette and turn off all the layers that are NOT to two you just made, You should have a Background layer (that's the white so we can see the image) click on the glasses, The next layer up should be the SunCatcher and text, click on the glasses to turn it off.  Now you have two left, the green "glass" and the Gold for the clover .. make sure on of them is highlighted and then right click on it, choose MERGE, MERGE VISIBLE

Click on the X's to turn on your other layers.  Right click on each layer and RENAME it .. THe bottom is the Background (should already be named such) the Next layer is the SunCatcher, the top layer is the Clover

Use your Mover tool  and move your clover over the left, you may put it anywhere you like

Yours is bigger

NOW, CTRL C to copy that clover .. then CTRL E to paste it as a new selection, move it around the screen until you find where you like it then click your mouse to set it .. CTRL E again to place another one .. do this until you have 2 to 3 sets of Clovers on your image.

Yours is bigger

OK, when you are done with placing your Clovers then CTRL D to deselect the last one.

Open your layer Palette and highlight SunCatcher .. Right click and choose New Raster Layer .. Name it stems, click OK

Switch your foreground color to white again.

Use your Draw tool set to Freehand line, Antialias, line width 5, Solid line (STROKED for PSP6 users)

PSP7 you will need to turn off your second style palette for this.  Left click and hold on the palette then when the 4 icons pop up choose the last one on the right.

You are going to draw a stem from the center of each clover out on to the SunCatcher.  We are working on a layer that is between the clover and the suncatcher, so you may not see the line you are drawing right away, just start in the middle and do something like this

I made mine green so you can see it

Draw your stems from each Clover .. here is what look like in Green .. try and not to cross over any other stem, because we are going to apply the Gold Sculpture and if you do, then you may get a lump:)

Yours is bigger and you do not need to copy mine, just do what you think is nice.

Go to
Image, Effect, Blinds ..
Effects, Textures Effects, Blinds ..
apply the same settings that we used at the begining .. if you have not done anything with it then it will be the same, just click OK

Now apply your Gold Sculpture ...

This is mine

Open your Layer palette and Click on the backgrounds glasses to make it invisable ..

Go to layers, merge, merge visiable ... Save how you want to save it.

If you want to save this as a tube then go to Edit, Copy, edit, paste as new IMAGE .. (this will give you just your graphic with no background layer)

Go to FILE, EXPORT, PICTURE TUBE .. when that window comes up type the name for your suncatcher in the lower right hand spot .. you do not need to add the extension, the program will do that.  Click OK
 

Want to make it your own way??  Look here

  Graphic made by Dee

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