Freebie Cluster Frame(s)

I made these with "Bearly Oz" from KiKeKa Kits. I ADORE this kit and will post a couple of my tutorials today from it. The download is HERE (One frame says "munchkin" and the other says "munchkins". Both are included in the download)

Kit for purchase HERE

Gothic Autumn FTU kit

For this fairly basic tutorial I used the wonderful Indian Summer kit from Jessica at Gothic Inspirations It is a freebie for now so remember to leave much love for her!

VIx mask 197 found HERE

Beautiful art of Kat found HERE you MUST have a license for this art! Please do not use without proper permissions

• Open 2 papers. I chose paper 4 for my mask layer and paper 6 for my background

• On your mask paper apply mask source luminance, fit to canvas, hide all mask
• Merge Visible
  
• Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur radius 4.00
• Copy & Paste onto your background layer. Drop Shadow *2,2,100, 12, black*
• Add tree with a 75% transparancy and a drop shadow same as above.
• ed it!
• Add flowers and leaves aranged as you would like I added drop shadows to this as well, 2,2,100,5, black.
• Add tube of choice with the softer drop shadow that was used in the mask layer.
• Add text and copyright information!!!
• Re-size as desired
• Save!
• Thank you Jessica for allowing me to write this tut for you, I enjoyed it.

Falls Angel

For this tutorial I used the Back to Nature kit from Bits N Bobs found HERE
The Beautiful Art Angel Dust from KatNKDA purchased HERE
Squirlz Water Reflections found HERE
Eye Candy 5 Impact Gradiant Glow found HERE

Open your background of choice.

Add leaves along the bottom, I used a 4,4,100,10 black drop shadow for each leave group and also switched the layering by moving down or up as the case may be.(this is the same drop I have used for everything in this tutorial)

Add Flower elements

Add Element 7 as a base for the Angel

Add Angel

Add Mushrooms and butterfly

Add all copyright info!!

Add your top wording.

Effects>Plug Ins> Eye Candy 5> Gradiant Glow> Useing the green glow I changed the color to a light tan from the angels hair, radius 12

Resize to about 40%

SAVE

Open Squirlz

Using the Start Outline tool, you are going to select (this is a point to point kind of selection) the water area for refelction,

I had the following settings: (click on the pic for a better view)


Run animation and SAVE in gif format
Hope you had fun with this one!

Rock This

• For this tutorial I have used the TIFFANY kit from Gemini Creationz found HERE
• Artwork is PTU by Keith Garvey found HERE
• VIX masks 276 and 383 FTU found HERE
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 trial found HERE
• Animation Shop found HERE

• First pick the two papers you would like to use as your masks and apply one of your masks to each one.
• Next open your background
• Add the Rockstar Mask by Copying Merged and pasting as a new layer.(Drop Shadow)
• Add your tube of choice so it will be inside your frame (Drop Shadow)
• I added the chandelier behind my tube for effect. (Drop Shadow)
• Add any other elements you may want to use on the inside of the picture, I have added to the bracelet and her belly button =)
• RE-SIZE 50% this is now your base layer.
• Open the frame of choice and place your base layer inside the frame. You may have to re-size both the frame and the base to make them look the way you would like for them to. You do this with the little squares that show up when you are on your PICK TOOL
• Add embellishments around the frame as you would like (Drop Shadow)
• Add copyrights and any wording you would like
• MERGE ALL
• Now take your 'ROCK THIS' Layer and re-size it to about 35% and copy merged and paste onto your base layer. You will have to re-size this more I am sure, and place it where you would like it.
• Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy>Gradient Glow
• I used the Dark Aura with the following settings after changing the purple to a hot pink shade.
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• COPY MERGED
• Open Animation Shop
• Paste as a new animation
• Back to PSP
• Apply Glow again with the same settings,
• Copy Merged
• In Animation Shop Paste after current frame
• Repeat the glow as many times as you would like, I did 5
• RUN
• SAVE

Tiffany

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• For this tutorial I have used the wonderful Tiffany Kit by Vicki at Gemini Creationz which can be bought HERE
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact Trial can be found HERE

• First you are going to open your base, I have used the fancy tag, any of the tags or brads will work for this though, just remember to re-size if you need to.
• Layers>New Raster Layer, Normal
• Zoom in to about 250% and with your lasso selection tool you are going to use point to point with a feather of 2 and select the inside of your tag.
• Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin>glass with the following settings. (remember when I give you settings it is what I used feel free to change anything you may want.)
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• Add your text for your tag and move it under the glass by selecting the layer in the layers palette and just moving it down.
• Add all embellishments to the tag you would like.
• Save

Hanging Around

For this tutorial I used the Spooky Hallow Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creatioz found HERE
Animation Shop trial found HERE
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures trial found HERE
FONT is Riesling

I like to start big because it makes it easier for me so I opened a new canvas 800x800 white
Apply the web and stretch it to fit the whole canvas by pulling the corners. Drop Shadow 4,4,100,14,black (this is the drop I use for the whole tag)
Apply the rope frame to the center. Drop Shadow.
Useing your free hand selection tool set on point to point with no feather Draw a line around the inside of the rope frame. Selections>Invert and then hit your delete key on your keyboard. This should take away any extra web from around the frame.
Add the broom and the bat to the tag. drop shadows on both. minimize your tag for a moment to work on the nest step.
Open Branch, Fall flower 2, fall flower 4, fern leaf, gflower,
Open a 600x600 transparent layer for your base
Apply in this order... Fern, Branch, and then the flowers. For my effect I made the branch with a slight sepia tone to bring out the gray in the flowers. Drop shadow each item. Merge Visable.
Copy
Open back up your tag and paste your flower arrangement on the tag near the bottom.
Layers>New raster layer>normal
Using your preset shapes took you need to be on rounded rectangle. For my inside I picked up a nice orange from the sunflower, and flood filled the rectangle.
Effects>Plugins>AlienSkinTextures>Marble

Effects>3D>Inner Bevel> Rounded Width:8, Smoothness0, depth20, ambiance0, shiny0, angle 315, intensity 50 and elevation 30
Apply all text and copyrights.
RESIZE tag, I used 70%
Add Spider and make her sit nicely on your frame. If you would like your tag NON animated go ahead and save it now.
For an animated version this is where you open your Animation Shop
Copy tag Merged.
Paste as new Animation
Back to PSP
Move your spider slightly
Copy Merged
Paste after current frame in Animation Shop.
You are going to continue the back and forth until you have your spider walking all the way around the frame. For when the spider is behind my sign I have 2 frames without the spider in them at all.
Run
Save.

Fly-by

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• For this tutorial I used the Spooky Hallow Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creationz found HERE
• Animation Shop (trial found HERE)
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 (Trial HERE)
• Open a 700x700 new canvas flood filled white.
• Add GCZ_SH_Frame
• Center GCZ_SH_Moon over the frame PLUGINS>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5>Gradient Glow. I took the Green Glow setting, changed the color to WHITE and the glow radius to 21.80, 35, 100, 100, 65, 100 Random Seed.
• merge down.
• PLUGINS>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5>Gradient Glow. I took the Green Glow setting, changed the color to a DARK BLUE and the glow radius to 21.80, 35, 100, 100, 65, 100 Random Seed.
• Add GCZ_SH_Broomwitch and GCZ_SH_Cat. Place these where ever you would like on your moon layer.
• Add text and copyrights (My text also had the white glow as used above)
• MERGE ALL
• Add GCZ_SH_Spider some place under the broomstick.
• VIEW>GRIDS
• VIEW SNAP TO GRIDS
• Using your Pen tool with the following settings:(you will have to click to see the full toolbar)
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• Black and Black. You are going to draw a line from the spider to the broomstick. The grids will help you to insure the lines will remain straight and the Snap to grids will make sure the spider staying in the correct area as well.
• COPY MERGED
• PASTE as a NEW ANIMATION in Animation Shop
• Back in PSP Move your spider down... I counted 4 grid clicks.
• Back to your pen tool and connect the end of the old line to your spider.
• COPY MERGED
• PASTE AFTER CURRENT FRAME in Animation Shop.
• Do this as many times as needed for the spider to move as you would like.
• RUN
• SAVE as a .gif