April Showers

 


For this kit I used the Rain Drops kit from PolkaDot Scraps found HERE
Animation Shop found in my quick links.
Squirlz Water reflections found in my quick links

Open your background paper of choice
Place Frame 7 on the paper.
Using your magic wand selection tool on Replace, Brightness, 0 and 0 click inside the frame, invert.
Click on your paper layer, and hit delete on your keyboard (this should leave the paper only inside the frame.)
Add Grass, Clouds with rain, tube, ALL copyrights, and greenery on the frame.
Flatten
Resize as needed.
Save
~Open Squirlz, and using the oval tool, select around the inside of the frame the best you can.
Go to the icon in the top bar that looks like falling rain.
I changed my direction to 164 and made sure 'within the outline only' was checked,
hit run in the popup box
if this looks OK to you hit gif in the top tool bar. (might have to hit it twice to get it to regester)
Make sure Rain/Snow only is checked
Hit OK, name the file and save. (Don't lose it we are not done)
~Open Animation Shop
Open the file you just saved.  You should have around 20 frames from your animation.
~Back to PSP
Add your flowers to your frame.  You can save several on a layer (I saved 2 each) but do NOT merge these with the tag!
Add the rest of your wording
Now it gets tricky.
You should have at least 3 layers now.  The tag layer, a flower layer (possibly more then 1) and your wording layer.
Hide your tag layer
Hide your wording layer
Show only 1 of your flower layers
Copy
Paste as a new animation in Animation Shop
Do the same with your remaining layers all as new Animations
On each of these new Animations right click
Insert Image transition FADE make sure you have 20 frames
On each one hit CTRL+A and CTRL+C to copy all your frames
Hit CTRL+A and CTRL+E to paste them into your tag layer after clicking over to your tag layer.
Run Animation.
Hit Ctrl+A and under animation in the tool bar, hit reverse animation
Run
Save.

Rain Drops

For this tutorial I have used the following:
Rain Drops kit from Polka Dot Scraps available HERE
The art of Suzanne Woolcott found in my quick links
Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact available in my quick links.
Animation Shop available in my quick links.

Let us begin...

Open your paper of choice, this is going to be your frame for your tag.
Using the preset shapes cut out your frame by first making your outside by inverting your selection and then hitting delete on your keyboard
Select none
Now remake your shape for the inside of your frame.  You can do this using another shape or the same one for different effects.  Hit delete.
Select none. 
Resize as you would like it to appear.
Now using your Alien Skin Effect go to Bevel.  You can play around with this the settings I used were the factory Default.  14.15, 68, 39, 0, 8
Now you have your frame.
Place element 18 inside the frame as your base
follow with Element 3.
Decorate the outside of the frame as you wish. Do not add your boat yet.
Place your tube on the bottom left of your tag.
On your tube, if needed to highlight the face, resize it.  I had to resize to 200%.
Mirror
Crop so you have just the face (or whatever part of your tube you would like to shadow)
Paste in the bottom right of your tag.  Change transparency to 70 on the transparency slider.
Add ALL copyrights and wording.
Merge Visible
Resize the whole tag as needed
Add your boat.
Copy merged
Open Animation Shop
Paste as a new image
Back to PSP
Slightly rotate your boat and copy merged again
Paste after previous frame. (to do this click on the blue bar, go to paste, and then after current frame.
Repete as you would like for your boat 'rocking'
Run Animation
Save
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Sisters

For this tag I have used the following supplies
BFFL from Amy's Scrap Place which can be purchased HERE
Animation Shop which can be found in my quick links at the top

Let's get started!
resize frame 3 to 150%
Place on 800x800 transparent layer as a new layer
Open flowering tree
rotate as desired
place under frame layer.  Repeat as desired.
Pick your background of choice and place under the frame layer, and above the tree layer.
I have changed the transparency of mine to 50%
Place your tube on top of the background layer.
Add all copyrights and wording.
Minimize your tag
Open a new 800x800 transparent canvas
Place button 6 (or whichever you choose) at about 175 top and 225 side
(you can check your placement by placing your tag layer over it if you would like)
adjust as needed
Open Animation Shop
Using your main tag layer.  Resize 70%
Copy Merged
Past into animation shop. 
Using Ctrl+L twice you will get a total of 3 frames.
Back to PSP
On your button layer Copy merged and place 1 layer as a new animation
Back to PSP
Rotate the button a bit and then copy again
Paste after the other button frame in AS
repete
Going to your tag layer
CTRL+A to select all, and then CTRL+C to copy all
on top of your button layer
CTRL+A to select all
CTRL+E to paste.
Run
Save

ROCK my world

For this tutorial I have used the Music of Love kit from Moonlight Laura which can be purchased HERE
Vix mask 326 which can be found in my quick links (please add this to your mask folder)
The artwork of Keith Garvey which can be found in my quick links.

• Remember to save your work often!
• To begin first pick a paper that you would like to use to make your mask. I used paper #6
• Apply your mask.
• Merge Group
• Copy
• Paste as new image. Add a drop shadow. I used 4, 4, 100, 10, black. Then I inverted it as a -4, -4, 100, 10, black
• Open background paper. I used #27. Place this under your mask
• Open Music Notes 32 and resize 50%.Place on top of your background layer and under your mask layer on the left side of your mask. Add a 4,4,100, 10 black drop shadow. Merge Down
• ***Duplicate, Move to fill more of the inside of yours mask*** Repeat as needed to fill your mask. Merging down each duplication,
• You should still have only 2 layers.
• Open MusicNoteStrand
• Paste on top of background and under mask as before. Duplicate and move as before for the effect you would like with a drop shadow and merging down so as to keep 2 layers.
• Use freehand selection tool now and connect the bottom tips of the hearts of the frame. Try to do this very carefully and remember you can always start over if needed..
• Once you have it connected and you have your marching ants around the frame I want you to go to selections > Invert
• Now click on your background layer in your layers pallett and hit the delete key on your keyboard.
• This should insure everything you have done other then the mask frame is INSIDE your mask.
• Open and add any other elements that you would like over your mask. I have used the mic and one of the gutairs. Each with a drop shadow.
• Open your tube of choice and add to the right side also over your mask.
• Add all wording and copyrights
• resize
• Save tag as a png file.

Think Of Me

For this tutorial I have used the Black Rose kit from Tooty Pup Scraps found HERE
Animation Shop trial found in my quick links.
Notesbylori (Which I made and have included below)

• Start with a 500x500 canvas flood filled white.
• Open Scroll 1, resize 45%
• Paste on the right side of canvas. Transparancy at 75
• Open Mirror 1
• Resize 50%
• Place in the top left hand corner.
• Using the freehand selection tool while having the scroll layer selected, trace around the part of the scroll that shows through the mirror. Hit delete.
• Select None
• While still on the scroll layer... Merge Down. This should give you 2 layers.
• Open Piano 1, resize 40%. Place on top of the mirror layer, in the lower left corner.
• Merge Down until you have 2 layers.. One has the background and the scroll the other everything else.
• Open Bubble 11, resize 45%, place on top, right hand side. Drop shadow 3, 3, 100, 10, black
• Merge Down till you have the 2 layers again
• Add All wording and copyright information. Merge this with your top layer of mirror, piano and bubble so you still only have 2 layers.
• *******
• Open notesbylori

• Copy and paste between the other 2 layers. Duplicate and move it around so you have the tag covered in a sporadic way,
• Hide Background and top layers
• Merge Visible... this will put all your musical notes on one layer so now you should have 3 layers.
• Unhide all
• Copy Merged
• ********
• Paste into Animation Shop as a New Animation.
• Back to PSP
• Delete Notes layer
• Repeat the steps between the stars, this time with your notes all in a different position
• In Animation Shop Paste this after your current frame.
• Ctrl+A
• Animation, Frame Properties. Change this to 50.
• Run Animation and Save
• :)

February's Child

For this simple tutorial I used Set 2 in Moonlight Laura's Birthstone Mini Kit Collection "Amethyst" She has the first 3 up and the others are soon to follow! You can find them avalable HERE
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact Trial is in my Quick Links

• OPEN paper #2 Resize 60%
• Effects>Photo Effects>Film & Filters. I used the darkest green in the preset colors with a 50% setting.
• Open Shiny doodles 3, resize 60%, rotate left
• Place in the bottom left hand corner with only the top half of the doodle showing.
• Duplicate, Mirror.
• Merge Down
• Drop Shadow 4,4,100,4, black
• Open Heart CHarm 2, resize 45%
• Place around the 400 px place on your tag layer.
• Drop shadow as above
• Add flowers and ribbon borders as you wish
• Add copyrights and wording,
• To use your gradiant glow you will want to convert whatever text you want to glow to a raster layer
• Effects>Plug Ins> Eye Candy 5 Impact>Gradiant Glow. I used the Green Glow setting changed to white with a radius of 5.00

Painted With Love

This is another tag/layout I have made with the Amethyst kit from Moonlight Laura which can be purchased HERE