My Summer Vacation

Yes, at long last, another tutorial! 

Supplies used are:

Tube of Choice, I chose Creo aka Creddy Bears.
Creo's site is down, so unless you have some of his tubes,
please choose another tube of choice.

Use  the Scrapkit from HERE called Summer Vacations by Jaelop Designs.

(Scrapkit not available, Sorry) Please use one of choice.


 This Circles1 Template by KS Designz is HERE.


Mask 3 from Rachel Designs from this post HERE.


Shift D to duplicate your template. Close the original.
Resize the canvas to 650x650. You can resize later, if you wish.
I start from the bottom.
Copy and paste Paper 8 as a new layer. Add your mask.
Merge Group. I used the texture effects-this is optional.
If you do decide to use the effect, use the default or play around with the settings.

Circle 1 layer-- Select all, float, defloat, add a new layer, copy and paste Paper 2 as a
new layer. Selections invert, delete.

For Circle 2 layer, follow the steps above, using Paper 3.
For Circle layer 3, I used paper 16 and colorized it to blue.

Elements I used are as follows:

Pool resize to 12%.
Elements 61 & 62 (clouds) Resize them to around 65%.
Towels Resized to 16%.
Tube- Resize to fit your tag.
Element 7 (Beach Ball) Resized to 15%.
Element24 - Resize to 20%.
Pink Sunglasses resized to 15%.
Element 4 Resize to 15%.

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.
I am unsure of the font I used. I will add it when I find out.

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how
you like my tutorial. I would love to see your results!

Show-Off!

Here is a tag that Betsy E made after 

doing my Spring Is... Tutorial.

Beautiful tag Betsy!  

You can visit Betsy's blog HERE.

Thank you again so much!

Spring Is...

This is a simple tutorial for any type of tagger. 

For the tag above, I used the following supplies:

Tube by Lia at www.liamida.com

My Kit Spring Is  HERE.

A mask of choice or My mask # 569 HERE.

**Remember to sharpen each layer that you resize 

and add a drop shadow all layers of choice. **

Open a blank image, 600x600 or a size you prefer.

New Layer.  Select all. Copy and paste  Paper 19 into selection.

Add your mask from image or from Disc.

Elements and sizes I used are:

Tree 3 -- resized 65%  two times.

BellFlower --  25%.

Flowers White resized to 15%.

Flowers White 1 resized to 15%.

Flowers resized to 15%. Duplicate, Image-mirror.

Tree 4 resized to 45%.

Lia tube resized to 70%.

Spring Wordart 2 resized 75%.

Butterfly resized to 20%.

Flower Pink 20%. Duplicate-Mirror.

Now arrange all elements to the 

way you like and want them.

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 am unsure of the font I used. I will add it when I find out.

Please let me know how 

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

Not So Shabby

For the above tag, I used the following supplies

Very Many tube found Here  www.verymanytubes.com

Mask by me HERE-- LLM 462 or a mask of choice.

Cloud brush -- You can use any brush or tube of choice.

"Mini Kit" made by Yalana Designs

Romantic Shabby Chick HERE.

I am sorry, the kit is not available. 

Please use suitable replacement elements.

Mura Meister Copies.

This is a very easy and quick tutorial.

Open a blank image -- size to your preference. I usually use 600x600 - 650x650.

Open Paper 12 --LLM 462 resized 103.

Element 1 resize to 25%. Mura Meister copies, set on encircle default.

Clock 25%-set in middle of canvas.

Use a cloud tube or brush of your choice and cover the bottom of the clock.

Add your tube.

I also added a couple of the flowers near the base  of the clock on each side.

Add any other elements you want and drop shadow layers of choice. 

I hardly ever dropshadow my mask layer.

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 am unsure of the font I used. I will add it when I find out.

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how 

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

It's All About Love

I used a couple of Tubes by Creo -- Creo's site is 

down, please use a suitable substitute tube. 

My Mask # 500 HERE. It is the last one in the post.

My Kit Adore HERE.

I also used Paper 4 from my Little Love Kit HERE.

Open a Transparent image- Size of your choice, I used 630x630.

Open a Paper of choice, I chose the Paper 4 from the Little Love Kit.

Copy and paste it as a new layer onto your canvas. 

Add your mask from image or from disc. 

Merge group. I duplicated and mirrored mine.

Now add your elements of choice.

I chose the following elements:

Tree --- I did not resize the tree.

Cupid Creddy tube resized to 85%. I put mine just above the 

tree layer.

Rose 1 resized 75% - duplicate and mirror.

Mailbox resize to 85%.

Love birds resized to 50%. I placed them on the layer below the

mailbox, making them look like they are sitting on it.

Candle resize to  40%.

Cupcake 1 resize to 30%.

Butterfly resized to 25%.

Strawberry resize to 25%, duplicate, mirror.

2nd Creo tube-- Did not resize.

Bunny resize to 40% and I mirrored it. I put the bunny

behind the Creo couple tube to the right.

Penguin resized to 40%  then 50%. I put the penguin behind the

couple tube to the left. 

Sparkles - Duplicate flip and mirror.

Position your elements the way you want.

Crop and resize your image to your preference.

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. 

For my name, I duplicated the layer and on the 

bottom layer added a white Fat Gradient glow.

I also added a drop shadow of 1, -1, 5, 0. 

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!