Irish Knockout tut...

Supplies Used:

Oi Irish tube by Screaming Demons. Get it at SATC.

Irish Charm Scrapkit by Broken Dreams Scraps. Also available at SATC

Template 130 by my wonderful friend Leah. Get it at Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts.

Font: Velvenda Cooler

Filters: EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow and Glass.

Open up template #130.

Delete the copyright and background layers.

I changed my canvas size to 800 by 800 so I had room to work.

Select Circle #3. Selections, Select all. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 10 into selection. Deselect and delete the original circle.

Select Rectangle #2. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 9 into selection. Deselect and delete the original rectangle.

Select Rectangle #1. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 8 into selection. Deselect and delete the original rectangle.

Select Square 2. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 6 into selection. Deselect and delete the original Square.
 Select Square 1. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 2 into selection. Deselect and delete the original Square.
  Select Circle 1. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 1 into selection. Deselect and delete the original Circle.
 Select Circle 2. Add new raster layer and C/P Paper 1 into selection. Deselect and delete the original Circle.
 C/P Your tube. Use your eraser to remove  any bits of the frame/tube that are excess. Dropshadow both.
C/P Element 49. Resize by 50%. Position along the top of the rectangle one layer. Use your eraser to remove any excess.
Duplicate and position at the bottom of rectangle 1.
Duplicate. Image, Rotate, Free rotate. 90 Degrees right. Position along one side of Rectangle one. Duplicate and mirror.
Merge all the ribbon layers together. Add drop shadow.
C/P Element 13. Resize by 50%. Position under one side of the squares. Add Glass...

Duplicate and mirror.
C/P Element 55. Resize by 30%. Position just under the edge of the wordart. Dropshadow. Duplicate and move slightly up and over.
C/P Element 1. Resize by 50%. Position just under the edge of the wordart. Dropshadow. Duplicate and move slightly up and over.
C/P Element 50. Resize by 50%. Position under your green beer. Dropshadow.
C/P Element 7. Resize by 15%. Duplicate a few time and position next to the pot of gold.
C/P Element 29. Resize by 50%. Position under pot of gold.
C/P Element 9. Resize by 30%.
C/P Element 19. Resize by 30%.
C/P  Element 51. Resize by 20%. Use the deform tool to position over wordart. Duplicate 2 time. Change Layer property on both duplicates to Multiply.
Select Words 2 Back. Add inner Bevel...

Then Gradient glow...

 Then Dropshadow.

 Select Words 2 and add dropshadow.
 Resize now if you need too :)
Add your copyright and watermark.
Add your font. Repeat Inner Bevel, Gradient Glow, Dropshadow

Drinkin' and Fightin' Tut...

Supplies Used:

Oi Irish tube by Screaming Demons. Get it at SATC

Lucky Clover kit by Rebellious Scraps. Get it at SATC.

Template from 2 Irish Bitches. Get it HERE.

Font: Scrap Cursive

Filter: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow, Glass, And HSB Noise.

C/P Scatter. move to the bottom layer.

Select raster 1. Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 11 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

Select raster 2. Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 9 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

 Select raster 3. Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 10 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

 Select raster 4. Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 6 into selection. Deselect and delete original. Duplicate and change the layer property to multiply.

C/P Crystal Rain. Resize by 50%. Duplicate and mirror. 

On paper 6 layer Selections, Select all, Float, Invert. Back on the crystal rain layer hit delete.

Deslect.

C/P Chain. Resize by 50%. Duplicate and mirror.

Select the top Square layer. Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 12 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

C/P Tube.

C/P Clover Chain. Resize by 50%. Position the the corner of paper 12.

Select raster 6.  Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 7 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

 Select raster 7.  Selections, Select all, Float. Add a new raster layer. C/P Paper 2 into selection. Deselect and delete original.

C/P Irish Beer. Resize by 30%. Duplicate and move up a bit.

C/P Whisky. Resize by 30%. Position over beer.

C/P Necklace. Resize by 30%. I used my deform tool to position so the clover charm landed between the Irish girl words.

Select the Irish Girls words. Add Glass...

and Gradient glow...

Then Dropshadow

Select the Drink word. Add HSB noise...

And Inner Bevel...

Then repeat gradient glow and drop shadow.

Repeat on all the rest of the wordart and your font.

Back on your large Clover add Inner Bevel.

Add your copyright and watermark.

Black Ice Tut...

Supplies Used:

Stockings Christmas tube by Roberto Alvarado. Tube was part of the xmas gift 2011 from PTE.

Awesome Goth Christmas scrapkit called Black Ice by my girl Tasha from Tasha's Playground. You can buy this kit at SATC.

Font Used:

Aquarelle

Filter used:

VDL Adrenaline (Snowflakes)

Open a new image size 800 by 800 (You can resize later but be sure to do it before you animate!)

C/P Frame 4.

Using your magic wand tool select all the way around your outer circle.

 Save this selection to disk where you can find it later if you plan to animate.

KEEP SELECTED til I tell you to deselect.

Click on your background layer.

C/P Paper 13 into selection.

C/P Paper 1 into selection. Change the Blend Mode to Luminance.

Deselect.

C/P Tree Element. Resize by 50%. Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3. Position trees ate varying heights on the right side of your frame layer.

C/P Trees. Resize by 50%. Position at the bottom right of you frame layer. You can move the black trees around under it to make it all look full.

C/P House. Resize by 75%. Position between 2 of the black trees so that just the ice shards are sticking out.

C/P Snow mound at the bottom of the frame. Duplicate and mirror.

C/P Snowflake. Resize by 20%. Duplicate a few times and stagger them over the top half of your frame.

C/P your tube. I added a very light drop shadow to mine.

If you want to resize the tag now is a good time to do it.

Add your copyright and watermark.

(If you don't want to animate you can add your name and save now :)

Select your background layer and floodfill with choice of color. I used black and added some red brushes.

Select your Paper 1 Layer.

Selections, Load/Save selection, Load the selection we made earlier.

Add a new raster layer.

Apply VDL Snowflakes with the following settings...

KEEP SELECTED!

Add a new raster layer. Repeat VDL Snowflakes but change your random seed to 100.

Add a new raster layer. Repeat VDL Snowflakes but change your random seed to 200.

Select none.

Hide the top 2 snowflake layers so that only the bottom one is showing.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop as a new image.

Close the bottom snowflake layer and open the middle snowflake layer.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop after current frame.

Close the Middle snowflake layer and open the top snowflake layer.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop after current frame.

Select Frame 1. Edit, Select all. Then go to Animation, Frame Properties and change to 20.

To add your name...Make sure propagate paste is checked in Animation shop.

Back in PSP type out your name. I used color #a52424.

Add inner Bevel with the following settings...

Duplicate inner bevel.

Add same drop shadow you used for your tube.

Change the opacity to 70.

Go to Edit, Copy. C/P into animation shop as a new image. Drag into frame one on your tag. View the animation. If it blinks you forgot to click propagate paste. Just undo the drag and undo on your name. Select Propagate paste and move to the first frame.

Hope you enjoyed this tut :)

Here is the unanimated version...

Colorful Xmas Mini Tut (FTU)

Supplies Used:

Gloomy Girl tube By Celinart. Get it at SATC.

Emo Xmas kit by Kittz Creations. Get it from her blog HERE

Leah Template #5 from Creative Mistfits. (I used the Jingle Bells Template)

Eyecandy 4000 Gradient Glow (font Only)

Font is called Igloo Laser.

What I used:

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 3

Paper 4

Candle

Jingle Bells (3x)

Merry Christmas Wordart

Parcel (9x)

Snowflake Cat On Skull

Stocking (2x)

Swirl

Tree

Xmas Hanging Baubles (2x botton layer I cut off the mistletoe and bow)

Xmas Hat