Cute & Spooky Tutorial

 

 

You will need the following supplies. If you can't get them

then do the best you can by obtaining similar supplies or supplies

of your own choice. 

My kit, Spooky Cute. You can find it on my blog HERE.

Your own word art or My WordArt HERE.

It is the last one named “Too Cute To Spook”.

A tube of choice. I used the witch and a cat by Tooshtoosh HERE.

The site was down at the time of me writing this tutorial.

A mask of choice or my mask LLM-Mask-1259 HERE.  

Halloween Nightmare font at Dafont.com HERE.

I also used Xenofex 2 constellation. This is a paid plug in and hard to find.  

If you do not have it, do not worry. The tag really does not need it.

 

Open a transparent image at 800x800. You can resize later.

Copy and paste paper 9 as a new layer. Add your mask  from image and merge group.

OPTIONAL:

Duplicate the mask layer and add  Xenofex 2 constellation. Adjust your settings to the

way you like it on your canvas. I would show you my settings, but 

I forgot to take a screenshot of them.  :(

Copy and paste the white moon and move it to the upper right part of your tag.

I added the sparkles, moved it near the top, duplicated and flipped, and moved the

Copy towards the bottom of my tag.

For the leaves, I used the raster deform tool to smash them down, duplicated a few times 

and moved them around to make it look like they were covering the ground.

You can also find some free CU leaves on the internet.

There are also some leaves in my Happy Halloween Kit HERE,

if you want to use them. Resize them to fit your tag and to your satisfaction.

 

Grass: I colorized this to green and did not resize it. Duplicate and

 mirror make it look like it is going across the tag behind the house.

Tree 2 resized 75%.

Spooky tree, do not resize. Place it next to the other tree.

Grass_1  resized 50%.

Grass_3 resized 50%.

Scary House resized 50%.

Transparent ghost resized to 50% and mirrored, then resized 75%.

Bat resized to 40%.

Ghost resized to 25.

Ghost with trick or treat bag resized to 25%.

Pumpkin resized to 25%.

Pumpkin with hat resized to  25%.

Pumpkin_3 resized to 25%.

Haunted flying bats resized to 35%. Place them up around the moon.

Toosh Toosh Cat resized to 30% and mirrored.

Toosh Toosh Witch is not resized. Place near the cat with 

the cat looking like it is looking at the witch.

Too Cute To Spook WA resized to 75%.  For the word art, I took my selection tool and 

separated the words.  Too Cute and To Spook. I also added a gradient glow.

 

Now resize your tag and make sure everything is arranged the way you like it.

Add your name and copyright for the image(s) you use.

I used Halloween Nightmare with a paper, black stroke at two.

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial! 

Please let me know how you liked it!

 

 If you try my tutorial, please send me your results.

I would love to see them and show them off!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

I will answer you as soon as I can.

 

 

 

My Disclaimer:

 

All tutorials on this blog are written by me from my own imagination. Any

 similarities to other tutorials are purely coincidental. I use PSP2021 Ultimate and

PSP9, so the tools you use in your program may be called by a

 different name and may look different. 

 

 

Happy Halloween Tutorial

 

With Halloween around the corner, I decided to create a Halloween tutorial. 

I used my Halloween kit, Happy Halloween. Although I believe any kit will do.

Please go visit my Graphics blog HERE to download the kit.

Any Halloween Tube. I used Lia. I do not know where to get her images anymore.

A mask of your choice or my Mask 1240 HERE.

Midnight Drive Font HERE.

A mask of your choice or Scrappy Bit of Fun Mask 0354  HERE.

Extra grass patch HERE. (Scroll down).

Here is what we will be making:

 

Got everything you need? Okay! Lets begin! 

Open a new image 800 x 800. Add a new layer, select all.

Copy and paste Paper 6 into selections. Deselect.

Add mask from image and merge group.

Add another layer and copy and paste Paper 1 into selections. Deselect.

Add mask from image and merge group.

Resize this layer to 85%.

Add a new raster layer, select all and paste Paper 1 into selections. Deselect.

Add Scrappy Bit of Fun’s mask 0354 from the image and merge the group. I resized this layer 95%.

Actually, it is not necessary to add all three layers of masks. You can always 

delete one or two if you do not like the way the tag looks. 

 Castle resized to 70%.

Tree 2 resized to 50%.

Tree (2) resized to 40%. Put this layer under the Castle layer.

Bat resized to 35%. Move it to the top near the moon.

I put a Lia Tube on the moon and resized it to 35%.

The fox Lia tube is resized to 25%. I also mirrored it.

And what is a Halloween tag without a ghost? I chose Ghost 1 and resized it to 40%. I also lowered the layer properties to 75.

I also put this layer under the castle layer. See my tag above.

I also added Ghost with pumpkin and resized it to 40%. I also put this layer under the castle layer.

Pumpkins resized to 40%.

Grass_1 resized to 15%. I colorized this element to brown.  Colorizing this element is NOT a necessity.

I also added the extra grass patch. I resized it to 30% and put it under the pumpkins layer.

Squirrel resized to 30%.

Highlight the Tree 2 layer.

Copy and paste Pumpkin 3 and resize it to 50%.

Copy and paste Pumpkin 2 and resize it to 40%.

Highlight your top layer and copy and paste Trick_Treat_Bag 1 as a new layer. I resized mine to 50

I added the Sparkles and Sparkles-1 elements. I did not resize the Sparkles elemet

I resized Sparkles-1 to 75%, duplicated it, image free rotated to 45.

Choose a moon. I chose Moon_1 and resized it to 35%. Move it to the top on one of the corners.

Add a gradient glow, or use the tutorial  HERE  for the gradient glow effect, if you do not have the effect. My settings are below. Play around with your settings and set to the one you like the best. I added mine two times. 

 

Now we are getting to the end.

Add any other elements you want.

Arrange the elements to the way YOU like them. (I hardly ever follow a tutorial 100%) 

I do not merge my layers in case I want to change something at a later date.

Add your names with a font of your choice or the one I

 mentioned in the beginning of this tutorial.

 Add your copyrights, then resize it

to your liking. I use Pixelette for my copyrights and my tag'd by line.

 

Save as a PNG or JPEG and you are done!

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial! Please let me know

how you liked it!

 

If you try my tutorial, please send me your results.

I would love to see them and show them off!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. 
I will answer you as soon as I can.

My Disclaimer:

All tutorials on this blog are written by me from my own imagination. Any 

similarities to other tutorials are purely coincidental. I use PSP2021 Ultimate, so the tools you

use in your program may be called by a different name and may look different. 

Ghostly Cute Spooks

My Cute Spook Kit HERE.

My Kit "Ghostly Pumpkins"  HERE.

Font- Zombie Holocaust. 

Artwork By  Lia.  

My Mask #648 HERE  on my blog.

Open an image- size of choice. 

Open Paper of choice- I chose paper 7. 

Add a new layer. Copy and paste it into selection- Deselect.

Add you mask. Layers, merge, Merge group.

Copy and paste your elements of choice.

 Grass Patch resized to 85%-I duplicated mine a few times 

and arranged them to the way I liked them. 

Moon 35%.

Ghosts from "Ghostly Pumpkins" Duplicate a time or

two to darken the background.

Tree  25%.

Bat1 Resized to 25%.

Bat Resized to 30%.

Tombstone 2 Resized to 25%.

Owl Resized to 25%.

Tombstone 1-30%.

Cat On Pumpkin -- 55%

Pumpkin 1 Resized to 45%

I merged some Leaves together and  resized them to 25%.   

    Duplicate and spread around

grass area, above and below the tube layer.

Ghost- (The one I used was in my brushes.  I am not sure where I got it from, so

I am unable to share it. Please use a substitute brush or tube. )

Resize and arrange the elements to the way you like them.

Crop and/or resize your tag to your liking.

Add your watermark if you wish, and make 

sure you add the copyright for the image you used.

Add your name or name(s) of whoever you want. 

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how 

you like my tutorial. I would love to see your results!

MIA---Why?

Yea I know...MIA Again!  I just haven't felt like 

writing tutorials. I am now making kits,  working more, 

and very busy in The Creative Chicks.

All I can say is that the tutorials are not coming

too often anymore. I will try, but no promises.

I am in the process of writing a Halloween one, but it may

tomorrow before I get it posted.

I also want to invite you all to the Creative Chicks Halloween Bash.

It starts October 20th and runs thru the 31st. Just go 

click on the badge at the top of the page.

Have a great day all!

Fright Night

Scrapkit-  Night of Fright by Melissa's Creationz.

 Unfortunately, the kit is not available.

Please use a suitable replacement.

Updated: 6/23/2024.

Mask 203 by Simon HERE.

Template 2013KandeeHalloweenCollabs_4  

by Dangerously Delicious Designs HERE.

This font Halloween Party

I used the awesome art of Popeye Wong.

Shift D to Duplicate. Delete Info layer, cat, and word back shadow layers. 

Resize your Canvas to 800x800 or larger and fill your background layer with white.

Starting from the bottom,  add a new layer, select all, and Copy and paste paper 1 into selection.  Deselect- Add your mask of choice or the one I used--Mask 203 From Simon.

For the Template layers, Select all, float, defloat,
then add a new layer and copy and paste each paper into selection:

Orange Circle- Paper 12.

Green Square -- Paper 3 Resized 85%.

Teal rectangle - Paper 1 resize to 85%.

Purple rectangle - Paper 6 resized to 85%.

Large green circle   -- Paper 12 into selection.

Dotted circle -- Manual color correct to white.  Duplicate. 

Purple rectangle - Paper 4 Resize to 85%.

Orange square  -- Paper 7.

Teal circle -- Add a new layer, fill with black.

Hand coming out of ground 75%.

Copy and paste the Skull and place to the right of the hand. Layer properties on screen.

Black dotted frame Manual color correct to white and duplicate.

Orange stripe -- PP 5  resized to 85%.

Teal stripe --   Add a new layer, fill with #fe9214.

Small green circle -- Add a new layer fill with white. Add noise. 

Eyeball resized 80%- Place over circle layer. 

Bats layer- Mirror and move back over to right -  add drop shadow.

Add your tube - I used a Popeye tube, Which I  resized 75%. Drop Shadow.

Duplicate your wordart layers, add a gradient glow and drop shadow. 

Spider resized to 65%.

Element 23 - Poison resized 75%.

Pumpkin --  Element 16 - resized to 80%.

Cat resize to 50%.

El 27 - Resize if you want- I did not resize.

  Move this layer to bottom, just above mask layer. Duplicate 

and mirror. Duplicate- Flip, Duplicate and Mirror.

Crop or resize to the size you want.

Add your watermark if you wish, and make 

sure you add the copyright for the image you used.

Add your name or name(s) of whoever you want.

I saved mine as a PNG image.

You are done!

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how 

you like my tutorial. I would love to see your results!

Ghastly

Here is what we will be making:

Supplies I used are

Toxic Desires Graveyard kit. 

It was Ptu now FTU. Get it HERE.

Tube- I used a couple of tubes by Toosh Toosh.

Masks of choice or the one I used  LLM_114 by me  HERE.

I also used one from here also by me called LLM-Hallo-4. 

You can find it HERE at the Creative Chicks Blog. 

NOTE: HALLO-4  can be found HERE. 

Look for 

LLM_Halloween-Masks-Exclusive-For-CC-2015.rar

Fonts used are pixelette and FreakyNight. 

You may find them at dafont.

Open a new image 600x600 Transparent.

Flood fill raster 1 with white and name it Background, 

or name it whatever you want.

New raster layer-name it for the paper you are using. 

I used paper 17. Select all copy and paste your paper 

into the selection. Deselect. Add

 your mask from image or from disc. This

 depends on which mask you are using. Merge group. 

 Change the layer properties to overlay.

Now add a new layer underneath this one. Again, name 

it for the paper you are using. I used Paper 3. 

Add the other mask or another of choice.  Merge group.

Copy and paste the house onto your canvas. Resize it by 90%. 

Copy and paste Tree 1 re-sized 75%. Put it somewhere in front of the house.

Copy and paste the full moon and re-size it 55%. Make sure it is 

under the House layer. I put mine to the right top. 

Duplicate the moon and on bottom layer add a yellowish gradient glow. 

Copy and paste both  bushes and re-size them to 50%. 

Duplicate each one and put them around the front of the house.

Put one behind the house on one corner, duplicate and mirror.

Cat-re-sized by 35%.

Sign re-size by 50%.

Grass 1-re-size by 90% and put under the house layer. Duplicate and mirror.

Grass 2 re-size 50%. Place in front of sign.

Re-size the ghost by 50%. Place to one side. Duplicate and mirror.

Cloud 2 re-sized 50%. Place behind house up around the moon.

Bat  re-sized to 35%. 

pumpkin- re-size by 40%. Duplicate and re-size by 85%. 

Duplicate this one and resize by 75%.

Place your pumpkins where you want. I just lined mine up.

Arrange your tag to your liking or see my tag for reference. 

Add your tube. If you used the same ones I did, I re-sized the girl 

55%  and re sized the Toosh Toosh Tombstones by 35%.

Add your watermark if you wish, and make 

sure you add the copyright for the image you used.

Add your name or name(s) of whoever you want.

I saved mine as a PNG image.

You are done!

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how 

you like my tutorial. I would love to see your results!