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 -  Lori's Doodles Flowers and Bees included.

Lori has awesome doodles and she now has her own blog, located here,  where you can download all of her wonderful graphics.  

SETTINGS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Drop Shadow:

(1) Vertical Offset 1, Horizontal Offset -1, Opacity 40, Blur 4, Color Black

(2) Vertical Offset -1, Horizontal Offset 1, Opacity 40, Blur 4, Color Black

(3) Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80, Blur 5, Color Black

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up a new transparent image, 600 width by 600 height.

Step 2

At the Material Palette, in the top color box, select a light to medium color that coordinates with your graphic.  In the bottom color box, select a deeper shade of the same color family.

Step 3

Left click the top color box and when the color selection window opens, click the gradient tab and select linear style, foreground/background with angle and repeats set to 0.   Your gradient should now have the deeper color on the top and the lighter color on the bottom.

Flood fill the transparency with this gradient.

Step 4

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 70%, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked.

Step 5

Go to Effects/Reflection Effects/Kaleidoscope and use these settings:

Step 6

Repeat Step 5 applying the kaleidoscope settings and erase all of the pixels that are not part of the kaleidoscope design.

Step 7

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the #1 drop shadow.

Step 8

Repeat Step 7 but apply the #2 Drop Shadow.

Step 9

Go to Layers/Duplicate.  Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 80%, bicubic and resize all layers not checked.

Step 10

Repeat Step 9 duplicating the layers and again resizing 80%.

Step 11

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. 

Step 12

Open up your tube graphic.  Copy and paste the tube graphic to your tag.  Resize as necessary and use the #3 drop shadow to the image.

Step 13

Open up Lori's Doodle Flowers and Bees.  Using the freehand selection tool, select one of the flowers and add it to your tag. If you want more than one flower, duplicate as necessary and resize.  Also add the bees to your tag, again using the freehand selection tool and resizing as needed.

Step 14

Add your text and apply a drop shadow. 

Step 15

Add your copyright information.

Step 16

Crop away any unused palette.  Resize the tag if you want it smaller and save as a jpg.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Purrs,

Nikki, Nichie and Sue

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