For this tag I used Paint Shop Pro 9 it should work with any version of the program.
You will need the “Darling Nikki” tagger scrap kit by Wicked Princess Scraps you can get it exclusively from Designer Scraps.
You will also need a tube of choice I used Gary Rudisill 's beautiful artwork Please do not use the same tubes without proper license. I used WEESCOTSLASS’ mask WSL-228 she has a list of zipfiles just below her intro on the right of the page if you need it. I also used Eyecandy4000's HSB Noise.

To start download the scrap kit unzip it, put you mask in your masks folder, and pick your tube.

Now open a new image 900x900 don’t worry we will resize it later. Flood fill this layer with white then apply your mask with the Invert transparency box CHECKED. Merge the group and duplicate the layer. On both of the groups use Eyecandy4000 HSB noise with the settings 100,100,100,100,7.62,7.62 smooth lumps seamless tile Unchecked hit random a few times. Name one of the layers 1 and the other 2. {If you are not going to animate then you can skip the second layer.} Use your layer link toggle and make both of them 1.

Open paper WP_DN_PP6 and copy/paste it as a new layer. Apply your mask to this layer but Uncheck the invert transparency box merge group. Take your magic wand and click the outer edge area of the group you just made make your layer 1 active and hit delete and then do the same to layer two. Make this layer linked with the mask layers. Then hide the layer 1 and layer 2 we will not need them again for a while.

Open the element WP_DN_CITYSCAPE resize 70% merge all Unchecked. Move the city so it is just above the mask on the bottom and fits nicely side to side of the mask. When you are happy with the placement link this layer with the others.

Open WP_DN_TRAGEDYMASK image>rotate> free rotate 10 left and then open WP_DN_COMEDYMASK image>rotate> free rotate 10 right use the move tool to position the masks close together then merge them together. Image>rotate>free rotate 20 left. Then resize 60% and sharpen. Give your tube a drop shadow I used 0,0,100,2 white. Move them so they are to the left of the tag. When you are happy with the placement link this with the other layers.

Open your tube and place it so its head is aligned with the smile of the comedy mask or just slightly below. Now take your selections tool and cut off the bottom of your tube just above the white edge of the city. Give your tube the same drop shadow as before.

Now is a good time to add any extra elements you want. When you are happy with your placements merge visible (make sure your layer 1 & 2 are still hidden). Duplicate this layer merge the original with layer 1 and the other with layer 2.

To cut the image down go to image canvas size uncheck the lock aspect ratio box then make the canvas 843x800 centered. Make sure the image is really centered; when you are sure it is resize to 450 pixels resize all layers box checked. Sharpen both of your frames. Add a white background to both layers by adding a new layer flood fill it with white and then merging the layers down.

Add your © and your name.
For the name I used the font 256 Bytes in white with no foreground. When you have your name placed the way you like it selections> select all> float then use your eyecandy4000 with the same settings as before selections select none.

IF you are not animating save and you are done. If you are animating open your animation shop then copy merged and paste into animation shop, go back to psp9 and hit undo until you just have the name layer floating then use eyecandy4000 but hit random a few times and then selections select none. Hide the top layer with the tube and then copy merged into animation shop after the frame that is already there. Save with your favorite settings. Congrats you have finished another tag!!

If you need help with this tutorial please feel free to contact me at iceholecyn(at)gmail.com change the (at) to @ to make the email work =D
Feel free to show off what you have created with this tutorial at the same email address. Please comment if you used this tutorial I would love to know if this was helpful to anyone =D Thanks for trying my tutorial!

For this tag I used Paint Shop Pro X3 it should work with any version of the program.
You will need the “Retro Punk” tagger scrap kit by Creative Intentionz.

You will also need a tube of choice I used Myka Jelina's beautiful artwork you can get it HERE Please do not use the same tubes without proper license. I used Monti’s blinds mask 1 you can get it HERE.

To start download the scrap kit unzip it, put you mask in your masks folder, and pick your tube.

In PSP open ciz_retropunk_paper9 Shift+d to duplicate the paper close the original. Save the duplicated paper with what ever you plan to call your completed tag. Auto save will only save your work IF you have save at least once before. Promote background layer go to layers> load/save mask> I picked Montiblindsmask1 but any circle mask you like will do the trick. Merge>Merge group. Image>canvas size 720 lock aspect ratio checked.

Open ciz_retropunk_paper9 copy and paste as a new layer. Image>resize uncheck the lock aspect ratio then choose pixels and make it W400 by H 300 make sure the Resample using Weighted Average IS checked, resize all layers box is NOT checked. Open ciz_retropunk_paper12 resize change the pixels to W375 H275 leave the rest of the settings the same. Image>rotate> free rotate> 5% left. Open ciz_retropunk_Heart1 copy and pase as a new layer. Open ciz_retropunk_clip3 copy and paste as a new layer Image> rotate> free rotate 100 Left. Image>resize 60% check the lock aspect ratio box. Use your move tool so that the clip looks like it is holding the layers together. Hide the mask layer and merge visible. Add your name in the heart. I used Delta Hey Max Nine.

Open your tube and copy and paste it as a new layer use your move tool to move your tube to the right of the papers. Open ciz_retropunk_emobunny copy and paste as new layer Image resize 60% move over in front of your tube. Give your bunny, the girl and the paper a drop shadow of 0,0,100,3 black. Merge the bunny down.

Add any other elements from the kit you want to when you are happy with the placements Merge visible. Resize the tag to 450 pixels wide making sure the resize all layers box IS checked this time; sharpen. Add the copyright information for the tube you used and your name. To save the clear background save as a png. Congratulations you have finished another tag!!

If you need help with this tutorial please feel free to contact me at iceholecyn(at)gmail.com change the (at) to @ to make the email work =D
Feel free to show off what you have created with this tutorial at the same email address. Please comment if you used this tutorial I would love to know if this was helpful to anyone =D Thanks for trying my tutorial!

For this tag I used Paint Shop Pro X3 it should work with any version of the program.
You will need the “Dark Angel” tagger scrap kit by Wicked Princess you can get it from Scrappetizing HERE, Twilight Scraps HERE, or Lollipops N Gumdrops HERE Look at all three there might be a sale.
You will also need a tube of choice I used Pinup Toons you can get them HERE Please do not use the same tubes without proper license.

To start download the scrap kit unzip it, and pick your tube.

In PSP open WP_DA_ PP16 Shift+d to duplicate the paper close the original. Save the duplicated paper with what ever you plan to call your completed tag. Auto save will only save your work IF you have save at least once before. Open WP_DA_Chair copy and paste as a new layer on your tag; Image mirror to make the chair face the other way. Copy and paste your “Slave” Pinup Toon and place her on the chair so it looks like she is lounging see my tag for reference; she fits in the chair without resizing. Once you have her on the chair merge the two layers together rename this layer chair. Then move the chair so that her shoe is almost to the left wall keeping the legs of the chair on the floor.

Open the WP_DA_ Piano Stool and copy and paste it as a new layer on to your tag. Move this layer below the chair layer. Image resize 80% make sure the Resample using Weighted Average IS checked. Lock the aspect ratio IS chacked and the Resize all layers box is NOT checked. Move the stool so it looks like a table next to the chair. I did not like the color so I changed it, Adjust>Hue& Saturation>Colorized with H128, S255. When I was happy with the placement of the table next to the chair I hid the chair to make decorating the table easier. I decorated the table using WP_DA_RoseCandle image resize 35% anytime I resize an image I like to adjust>sharpness>sharpen. Next I took the WP_DA_Goblet and copy and pasted as a new layer then resized 25% sharpen it. Then duplicate it and move the glasses so they are next to each other. Unhide the chair layer to make sure the placement of the items on the table still look nice. If you are happy with the table placement hide the chair and the background layer. Then merge visible and rename this layer table. (You should now have 3 layers from the bottom you should have the background, table, chair) Hide the chair and the table layers. Save if you have not already.

Open WP_DA_Arch Copy and paste as a new layer above the background layer. Position the Arch so it is on the left just touching the floor and almost touching the left edge. Duplicate the arch and Image> mirror so you have two arches merge the two arches down so they are a part of the background. Between the two arches I placed two of the WP_DA_KnotHeart resized to 30% and then merged those down too. Promote the background to a layer and rename the layer room.

Using your magic wand with tolerance set at 10 select inside the frame area of the windows so we can cut those out. Open WP_DA_Pinetree copy and paste place somewhere in the window then duplicate and place a tree in the other window. Open WP_DA_Gate resize 30% and place so it is at the top of one of the windows move the room layer above the trees and the gate. Move the trees and the gate around until you are happy with the placement of the items outside the windows. Close the room layer. Open WA_DA_PP12 copy and paste as a new layer put this layer below the trees and gate. Merge visible rename the layer outside. Save if you have not already.
Add any other elements from the kit you want to when you are happy with the placements Merge visible. Resize the tag to 450 pixels wide making sure the resize all layers box IS checked this time; sharpen. Add the copyright information for the tube you used and your name. Congratulations you have finished another tag!!

If you need help with this tutorial please feel free to contact me at iceholecyn(at)gmail.com change the (at) to @ to make the email work =D
Feel free to show off what you have created with this tutorial at the same email address. Please comment if you used this tutorial I would love to know if this was helpful to anyone =D Thanks for trying my tutorial!

Here is my tutorial for the pink tag I made earlier this week. I was planning to write the tutorial right away but I forgot to save the template in layers and had to remake it from scratch. as a reminder this is the tag ♥


For this tag you will need Eye candy 4000,
Magical Creatures scrap kit by Alikas Scraps you can get it for free HERE

My template HERE

and tube of choice I used art from Jasmine Becket-Griffith you can get it HERE Please do not use the same tube with out proper license.

To start download the scrap kit, my template and pick your tube.
In PSP open my template, Shift+d to duplicate the template close the original template. Delete the first layer (my info) save the duplicated template with what ever you plan to call your completed tag. Auto save will only save your work IF you have save at least once before. This is your working template.

I like to start using templates from the bottom. so go to the bottom layer (the black layer) and right click to view current only. click the eye to view the layer called "Freehand591 BT" that is the name of the font I used for the word art circle. Use adjust> hue & saturation> Colorize to change the word art to a color from your tube.
From the scrap kit open pearls01. Copy and paste as a new layer just above your word art. Resize the pearls to fit inside the word art. (I used the full sized kit so I had to resize it to 15%) recolor the tube using the same settings you used for the word art.
Duplicate the pearl layer and then adjust> add remove noise> add noise> with random and Monochrome checked 26%. make your other pearl layer active and add noise 20%.
Click on the tag back layer and add a new rastor layer selections select all, From the kit open paper01 copy and paste into the selection. Make the tag active and selections float> selections defloat make the paper01 layer active and hit delete. selections > defloat and delete the gray tag back. color the paper 01 with the same settings you used before.
Make the next layer visible and active then repeat the steps above using paper9.
Make your frame for the box active and use eye candy with your favorite settings or use mine (9.3, 100, -4, 13, 50, 66, 66 color light pink) I saved my setting and called it light glass. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer move it below the frame and shift it to the right. then trim any of your tube sticking out of the frame by first making your frame layer active and using the magic wand on the outside of the frame. Selections> modify expand by 3 make the tube layer active and hit delete. now deselect. add your tube © between the pearls or someplace on the tag.
Make the flower layer active feel free to change it out for a flower from the kit. I used rose01 recolor and resized to make a little bundle. now is a good time to add more flowers next to your tube if you want to.
now we are to the fan layers. For all of the backgrounds I used paper03 (recolor like the other items) and all of the "frames" I used my eye candy light glass. Merging the fan blade frame to the fan blade background as I finished each one.
After you finish the nine fan blades make your next flower active make it match the flower layer you already have.
make the "name" layer active to add your name make sure you change the color to match your tube.

Now for the FUN part animation. (save again if you have not already)
right now ALL of your layers are active IF you want to make your tag with more then one name hide your name layer. Now scroll to the pearl layers and close the second set of pearls. Make your hand tool active and right click on your tag copy merged and paste into animation shop. back in PSP hide the pearl layer you have open and open the one you had hidden, hide the bottom fan blade it is #9. Copy merged and paste in your animation after the previous frame. Repeat these steps for frames 9 to frame 1.
when only frame one is left switch your pearl layers again and copy merged one more time. you now have 10 layers in ani shop. Select frames 1 to 9 and copy then paste as a new animation edit> select all. animation> reverse frames then copy those frames and paste into the original animation after frame 10. edit> select all and change the frame properties to 20. If you brought over the name you are done save the animation and send it to me to show off...
If not then edit select all and copy as a new animation layer. {this makes it so that when we undo we can never accidently remove any of the animations layers} (see note 1 below) Now take a trip back to your PSP program and click on your name layer view current only then copy merged and paste into animation shop as a new animation. Duplicate your name until you have 19 (or more) frames edit select all and copy. then make your tag animation active edit select all and paste into selected frames move your name so it is ON the top fan layer and view your animation to make sure you got the name on all of the layers if you did save and send it to me to show off... if you did not hit undo and try again. to add another name hit undo twice then repeat the steps to add your new name. You will have to hit undo twice because the first undo removes the animation compression the second undo removes the name.

*note 1: I like to go back into the PSP program and paste all of my animation layers as a new image at this point and then take a copy of my name layer(still as a changeable text vector layer) and add it as a new layer to the animation frames I copied over. I close my previous working file and save my animation shop layers with the same name as I used for my working file. this helps save steps if I decide to add more names later so I don't have to redo the whole reanimation of the tag.

If you need help with this tutorial please feel free to contact me at iceholecyn(at)gmail.com change the (at) to @ to make the email work =D
feel free to show off what you have created with this tutorial at the same email address. Please comment if you used this tutorial or snagged the template I would love to know if this was helpful to anyone =D Thanks for trying my tutorial!

ok so I am feeling a little bit brave and decided to write a quick tutorial. I just made this forum set no scraps required. I did use EyeCandy 4000. You can get the same effects with your bevel and drop shadow but I don't know the settings sorry.

This set features CuddlyRigorMortis' amazing artwork you can get it HERE Please do not use the same artwork without proper license.

ok lets start... for this you should start by picking the tube you want to use. Now open a new image 600 wide by 300 high transparent. Copy and paste your tube on to your canvas. Now Effects; Reflection effects; Kaleidoscope until you like the way it looks.
Add a new rastor layer and floodfill with a dark color from your tube I used a gray change your blend mode to mutiply. Now add your tube and resize to your liking. Position to the left with a drop shadow of 1,1, 40, 4 color White. Add your © and merge your image. Now is a good time to save if you have not already. Then add your name using the same dark color as before with the foreground off. I used Foo size 100. convert to a rastor layer and then use Eye candy 4000 and the Graphite setting, then use eyecandy 4000 gradient glow 3,25,100 draw outside checked, on the color tab check Fat and then click the first little color selector box and change the color to your dark color. Save again you are done with the tag ;)
Now for the avi make a new image 150 by 150 transparent. Flood fill this with your dark color selections; select all, selections; invert, selections; modify; contract by 5 and delete. copy and paste your little avi frame on to the tag you just made. Move your little frame to an area of the tag you think would look good as an avi. Now take your magic wand with your little frame layer active click in the area OUTSIDE the box make your tag layer active and hit delete. add your © and then merge visible. copy this as a new image and repeat the adding of a name (making it smaller or just the first letter)save you are now done with your avi.
I like to save my avi and Tag together if I am keeping the template so I undo on the tag layer and take a copy of the avi and paste it as layer so I can save it all as one PSP file.
Thank you for trying my tut. I would love to see your results.
Please note this tutorial was written by me on the 6th Feb 2011, and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

So tonight I made a tag from a template and the wordart was black and in a circle. We all know how to do the wonderful select all and add a new color but I found a way to keep the black and make it look pretty by adding Eye Candy 4000 with these settings...

Poof you have pretty black letters like I have in this tag.


This tag was made from a tutorial called Hit Me you can find it HERE
and features Daniel Esparza's beautiful artwork you can get it HERE