The Reason

For this tutorial I used the Holiday Shimmer Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creationz which can be found HERE or HERE
Vix Mask 303 (in my Quick Links)
The Art of Suzanne Wolcott which can be found HERE

To begin pick your background paper and resize it to 60%

Open a blank canvas 800x800

Paste Your background paper in the center of this as a new layer.

Open Garland and resize 65%

Use this to frame your background layer

Open Swirl tree and place as a new layer, you may want to adjust the size or width of this. I made mine a tad more narrow, and moved it over to the right side.

Decorate the tree as you wish, I had to resize everything for that to about 20% and I applied drop shadows 2,2,100, 2, black to each element.

Open the Misteltoe and place at the top middle of your frame.

Add your tube as well as any wording and copyrights that you wish,

Save tag as a .png file so as your background is transparent. Ü

Wintersong 1

For this tutorial I used the beautiful Wintersong from Stina which you may purchase HERE
The Included mask... I have no idea where I got this as it has been years, I have left the file name so if you know please let me know so I can fix this issue.

First Open your background paper and then apply the mask. Merge Group. Drop Shadow 6, 6, 100, 6, Black.


Add Winter Scene to the middle 'window' resizing as needed.

Add mailbox off to the right side of the winter scene. Also resize as needed.

Add Postlight to the Right 'window frame'

Useing your selevtion took on PERSPECTIVE, stretch it out to make it look more 3D in the frame by pulling on the one side a touch from the bottom as shown.



Add Bow 11 after resizing to about 50% to the top corner of the middle frame.

Add anything else you would like

Merge Visible.

Using your selection tool on Scale now, resize the tag down so you have some free work area in your canvas.

Add all wording and copyrights

Save your Tag!

I know pretty simple but a lot of people do not know about the perspective tool and so I thought I would share this with you all.

Angels of Winter

For this tutorial I have used the Scrap kit Holiday Shimmer by Vicki from Gemini Crationz which you can purchase HERE
A beautiful Angel tube by Ronne Barton which can be purchased HERE
Animation Shop

First open your paper of choice for your background. I chose hs-11
Now you can play around and use what ever elements and such that you want to but I picked the swirl tree, santa, tag, lt purple poinsettia, lights, mistletoe, and ribbon 01 You can do this however you want, the only tutorial part of this is for the lights Ü

After you have your tag just the way you want it including all your copyrights, Resize 70%

I want you to hide your lights, and merge visable.

Unhide your tag, Copy Merged to Animation Shop as a new animation

Back in PSP hide tag so all you see is your lights.

Adjust>Brightness>-120 (that is negative 120)

Unhide your tag, Copy merged to Animation shop and paste after current frame.

CTRL + A

Animation>Frame Properties, 50

Run and Save

Pint Size Princess

Another tag made with the Baby Bump kit which can be purchased HERE

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!!! When ever you make a tag with an ultrasound picture, remember to remove all of your personal information. Some ultrasound pictures will contain your name and your social security number. Things you do not want on the internet for the world to see. And even if you only share the tag with those you trust, does not mean that it will not be forwarded and not even thought about. PLEASE ALWAYS BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION!!!!

Precious Memories

For this tutorial I have used the wonderful work of Gina in the Kit 'Baby Bump' Which I love since I just found out that I am having another baby girl. You can get this awesome kit HERE
Word art by Linda Wich can be found HERE

• Open your background paper, I used paper # 11
• To create the frame I used edge # 02 Placed it at the bottom left, duplicate, mirror. You will have to move them around to make them match up properly. Then I placed a drop shadow with -4, 4, 100, black, 10.
• Merge down to make the two frame peices one layer. Duplicate, Flip.
• Open Doodle # 02 and place at the bottom left like you did the frame, resize so it only fills half, duplicate, mirror, merge down
• Open bougainville # 01 and do the same as above.
• Open flower #1 and #2 resize as you would like and place them over the bougainville layer.
• Add drop shadows to each of the above 3 layers as you would like. I used 2, 2, 100, black 5.
• Add your tube of choice, I used one of the included, and added a drop shadow.
• Add word art
• Add journal 02
• Add Name
• Add any copyrights you require and resize.
• Save tag.

Midnight in the Garden

For this tutorial I have used the Vintage Dreams kit from Scrappin Bratz that was made in honor of Jillann the former Scrappin Bratz owner which can be purchased HERE

Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact 5 Trail can be found in my quick Links on the top right of the page.

• Open paper 26 or whichever one you would like to use as your frame. Resize to 25%
• Open a blank 800x800 canvas transparent
• Using your preset tool, Draw a shape you would like to use as your frame. I used a dodecagon. I placed it from 100 to 700 in both directions.
• Flood fill this with your paper of choice, merge visible
  
• Draw another of the same shape inside the previous one. Using the freehand selection tool Follow your shape around and then hit delete to make the inside gone.
• Using Eye Candy 5 Glass apply the following settings. (Click on the picture to see full size)
• Strech the shape to fill your canvas.
• Open another paper for your background inside your frame, Resize to 15% and place inside your frame.
• While having the frame layer selected create a drop shadow I used 2, 2, 100, 10 black.
• To fill your frame you are going to want to resize each element you wish to use to around 20% to start with, you can use what ever you would like I have used the moon, bench, rain, and Ivy all with the same drop shadow as above.
• Resize your canvas to 70%
• Paste as a new layer on a fresh 800x800 canvas.
• Place your bird(s) of choice on the top with a drop shadow
• Place a branch on the left side under the frame layer, Duplicate, Mirror, Merge Down, Drop Shadow.
• Using your flowers of choice make a nice arrangement and place it over the frame at the bottom. Add a drop shadow.
• Add anything else you would like at this time, including all copyrights and wording.
• Resize as desired
• Save your tag

Tis The Season (Click to see full tag)

• For this tutorial I used the Tis The Season kit from Gemini Creationz which can be purchased HERE
• The artwork of Keith Garvey titled Mistletoe which can be purchased with a license HERE
• Vix Masks 14 & 297 Which can be found HERE Both pre-saved to your Masks folder.
• Animation Shop Which can be found HERE
• Font is Freebooter Script, it was FTU as all my fonts are and I am unsure where I got this one.

• First you are going to want to open 2 papers of choice from the kit, a contrasting set works best.
• With your foreground paper, Apply Vix mask 297 by Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from disk. Locate the mask and make sure Source Luminance, Fit to canvas and hide all mask are ticked.
• Paste on to your background paper. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow 4, 4, 100, 7, black. Merge All.
• Apply Vix Mask 14 by Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from disk. Locate the mask and make sure Source Luminance, Fit to canvas and hide all mask are ticked. Add Embellishments of choice around the tag, I used cream poinsettea, cream star 2 and bells. Merge Visable
• Image>resize, 30% We will call this your "Tag layer" and minimize this for now.
• Open your frame of choice from the kit, I used frame 5. Using your magic wand selection tool (Mode:Replace, Match:Color 20, Contiguous, 0, Anti-ailas, outside) Click inside your frame. This should give you your marching ants effect.
• Open the paper that you wish to be the background of your frame, I used 09. Adjust>blur>Gaussian Blur 5.00 Copy
• Paste the paper onto your frame layer. Selections>Invert and tap your delete Key. Select None. Move this new layer under your frame. Add a drop shadow when you have the frame selected if you would like.
• Inside the frame I added the xmastree and the jinglebells both with a slight drop shadow but you can add what ever you would like.
• Apply your tag layer where you would wish with a drop shadow by Copy and paste as a new layer.
• Add Tube of choice and all copy rights.
• Add any wording you would like.
• Merge all Flatten
• Using your freehand selection tool draw around the red line of the star. Adjust>Add/remove noise>Add noise. Random should be checked, Start with a number around 15. Select None, Copy Merged
• In Animation Shop Paste as a new Animation
• ***Back to PSP, Undo Select None, Undo Add Noise. You should still have your marching ants at this point so what you need to do is add noice again and this time increase your number by 10. Select None. Copy
• Paste after current frame in Animation shop.***
• Repeat the steps between the stars at least one more time for a total of 3 frames. I have 5 framas so I did the steps a total of 3 more times, this is totally up to you. The more frames the more your glitter will shimmer.
• Run your animation and Save!