Happy New Year Snag

I made this tag over the holidays...
and forgot to upload oh well maybe it will come in useful next year?

scraps used my New Years Freebie available on my Scraps blog HERE

I recoloured some of the elements gold, to match the tube..

tube is by Arthur Crowe  you must purchase his tubes to use them HERE
this tag however is snaggable for you to use....please do not alter my tags/snags

Arthur Crowe - Happy New Year

scraps used my New Years Freebie available on my Scraps blog HERE
I recoloured some of the elements gold, to match the tube..I will show you how.

tube is by Arthur Crowe called Happy Sexy New Years you must purchase his tubes to use them HERE
it comes with layers . and close ups for you to customise

I used 2 masks, download Vix_Masks 141-180 pack by VixPSP HERE 
download mask pack 40-50 by Vabs HERE
add masks to your mask folder..

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open up a canvas roughly 600x600 pixels

open up paper1 (the red one) from my new years kit 

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas

then apply Vix mask number 

by going to Layers -  Load/save mask to disk
select mask number176

 

click ok or load depending on your version of PSP

then go to layers- merge - merge group

open up glitter rays from the kit
recolour it by going to adjust  - hue and saturation -Colorize

 settings are as follows

duplicate this layer then go to Images -  mirror
then go to Layers- merge down

next add the clock frame from the kit as a new layer

 recolour this gold by going to adjust -hue and saturation - colourize settings are as before

then using your erasor tool set to size 250 hardness around 70

and erase the glitter rays from the layer below from inside the frame area

 open up paper4 (gold) from my new years kit 

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas

then apply Vabs mask number 

by going to Layers -  Load/save mask to disk
select mask number 43

 

click ok or load depending on your version of PSP

then go to layers- merge - merge group

open up close up tube resize by 80% using smartsize
remove the excess that overhangs the clock frame

change blend mode of the tube to screen
by going to Layers- Properties and change the blend mode from normal to Screen

duplicate this tube layer

open up full length resize by 70%


open up word art1 recolour it by going to adjust- hue and saturation - colorize settings are as before

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas
then duplicate 3 or 4 times to fill the background the length of the tube

then merge down till all word art is on one layer

change the blend mode to multiply,
 then slide the word art layer between the 2 closeup tube layers

open up paper1 (red) and use this as your pattern fill set at 50% for the background fill for your text
FOREGROUND SET TO NULL

I used the font Lamplighter Script set to 72

type out the text - Happy New Year

Add a drop shadow

add artist's copyright

save your tag as a png and you are done

New Years

for this tutorial I am using a template from Missy at DIVINE INTENTIONS

I used tag template no 47.

download it from her blog here

NEW YEARS WORD ART FREE FROM MY BLOG

mask used was by Kris at Paintshopstop no 51

Font used was Crooked

artwork used was Jennifer Janesko you can purchase her tubes now from CDO

SUPPLIES INCLUDED glitter tiles and mask HERE

FREE New Years scrap kit made by me HERE

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UNZIP ALL THE SUPPLIES

Place the mask in your masks folder before you begin...

open up the template, delete the watermark by missy layer and the white background layer

then go to iMAGE - CANVAS SIZE and use these settings

next make sure you are on the rounded rectangle bit 2 layer and go to Layers - merge down

this will merge the 2 rounded edges of the template togther on 1 layer.

open up CT-paper5
and copy and paste as a new layer - move to the bottom by going to Layers - arrange - send to bottom
now its time to apply the mask...
go to Layers - Load/save mask - load mask from disk with these setttings

then go to layers Merge Group

NOW click on the rounded edges layer that you merged earlier on, and 

go to Selections - select all, - selections - modify - expand by 1

then copy and paste CT-paper7 into selection
Selections none - add a drop shadow using these settings

 

now copy and paste the red glitter spill as a new layer, and resize using smartsize 

by 70% and arrange to the left..

then duplicate this layer and go to Image Flip and arrange to the right.

now merge down and add a drop shadow using the same settings as before.

now time to glitter the frames..
open up the glitter tile i provided in suplplies...for this tut i ised Silver, leave it open in psp...

now make sure you are on layer Frame 1
select the frame by going to Selections - select all - float

then go to Selctions - modify - expand by 1

and then choose your paintbucket tool and for the forground of your material palette (where you would normally change the colour of your text) click on the patterns tab and find your glitter tile.

use these settings and click ok...

 

now just floodfill your frame with the glitter.
go to selections none add a drop shadow as before then

repeat this process for all 3 frames....

now now its time to add your images....

make sure your background frame1 is your active layer go to Selections - select all

then copy and paste as a new layer the image of your choice ,

go to Selections invert and hit the delete key.

then selections none ..

repeat this process for all 3 frames - go to merge down twice so that all 3 images are on the same layer

then slide this layer with all the images underneath the frames. 

add a bow or ribbon of choice from the kit.

i resized mine by 70% using smartsize and added the same drop shadow as before

and with your selection tool just delete the excess.

now add the new years word art, i resized mine by 70% using smartsize then go to Adjust Sharpness - sharpen and again added the same drop shadow.

add the atist © and your name 

Then just save as a png. and your are done!..thanks for trying my tutorial 

here is another tag using the same kit this time

using the artwork of Suzanne Woolcott you need to purchase her tubes from

her site HERE