Memories

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
A Scrapkit, the one I used is A Day, A Story Add on by Choubinette Designs,
it should have at least 3 papers, some flowers or foilage, and something to put the word labels on, like the ladder.
A tube or image of choice, I used art by Suzanne Woolcott, you can purchase a license to use her work at her site.
One or two masks (I used Gabeemask15/ the frame one and mask187/ the bg one) and fonts of choice.

To start with resize your scrapkit if needed, you can follow the directions from my tutorial. Open the tube you wish to use also. Have the kit open in the browser.

Take one of the papers, and press shift+D to copy it, close the original. Add a new raster layer and drag it to the bottom in your layer palette, floodfill it with white. Go back to your paper layer and use an edge mask on it, just so you don't have straight edges. In the layer palette right click into the mask layer and merge group.
Open the second paper, right click it and copy, on your working canvas right click and paste as new layer. Again apply a mask, and merge group as above. Make sure the smaller layer is on top.

Now add your tube, resize if necessary and remove any unwanted edges by feathering them. Use the lasso tool to select the area, then go to Selections/ Modify/ Feather, I set mine to about 20. And press delete on your keyboard and deselect. I then added the ladder, resized it to fit my tag, added a dropshadow, and dragged it below the tube. Add more elements to your tag, add dropshadows to all layers. I used -3,3, 50 and 5, black on all items. Happy? Then now is the time to resize the whole tag to no more than 450 px height.

Get your 3rd paper, a lightish one works best, using the selection tool cut out a rounded rectangle that fits across the ladder rungs. Mine was 135x26. Right click into that selection and copy, paste as a new image. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Buttonize. My settings are H3, W19, Opacity 99, transparent. Now right click your lil button and paste it onto the tag as a new layer. Reduce the Opacity to about 84. Move the rectangle over the upper rung of the ladder. With the raster deform too you can swivel the rectangle, activate it, and hover the mouse over until you see two arrows, click and move the rectangle up or down. In the layer palette right click that layer and duplicate it. Move it down and swivel it again to fit the next rung. And so on, until you have enough.

Now comes the text for the rectangles, make sure you don't have too many words or too long ones. The text tool does the same as the raster deform, so you can svwivel the text. If it is slightly too long or high you can squish it by pushing the little squares. I used the colour from the darkest paper and added a dropshadow to each layer. Now it is time to add the credits in a nice little font (remember to turn antialias off when using a pixelfont), and save as a pspimage so you have a template. Find a pretty font for your name, I used the same colour for the fill and a lighter colour from the tag for the stroke which I set at 2. I added the dropshadow from before twice.

Here is another example using a different girl by Suzanne Woolcott and the Star Gazing Mini Kit by Ellie Lash

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