Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
A Tube (full body and face is good) of choice, mine is by Jamie Kidd and used with a CILM license.
A Scrap Kit with a crown, mine is Bluetonic by Seven's Scraps and you must purchase it to get creative with it.
Font(s) of choice, mine are Gutenberg Nouveau for the lil tag and Motter Ombra for the name.
A mask , the one I used is by Zuzzanna,with hearts and stars, put it in your mask folder.
You should have some knowledge of working with layers for this.

Open a new canvas, 500x500 px, transparent. Floodfill with white. Choose a paper from the kit and paste as a new layer. Now go to Layers, load/save mask/load mask from disk. Choose zuzzanna_mask40, if you used the same as me. Activate Source Luminance, fit to canvas, invert transparency checked, hide all mask. Load. In the layer palette right click Mask Raster Layer and Merge group. My next layer is the dark confetti frame, you'll need to resize it a little.

Now you need a face tube and a frame. Paste the frame onto your canvas and select a rectangle for the face same as in this tut. Now take the the pic of the face and paste it onto the canvas, drag it beneath the frame layer in the layer palette. Move it around and resize as necessary. Invert selection and hit the delete key.
Now activate one of the colour squares in the Materials palette, so the Material Properties open up. Move the cursor over the frame, so you can pick the colour of it. Take a note of the H and S of the colour.
With the face layer active go to Adjust/ Hue and Saturation (H and S...you get it??) and colour the face the same hue as the frame. Activate the frame layer and merge down.

Now I picked a doodle and a ribbon with a heart. The get a softer edge to the ribbon, you select the ribbon where you want it to end with the freehand selection tool, draw a circle around the part you want to get rid of. Now go to selections/Modify/ Feather, I used 21. Then hit the delete key until everything has gone from the circle and you have a nice soft edge. I also added a flower and some balloons, one I made smaller than the other and I also mirrored it. Then a border and of course the crown, you need to rotate it slightly. Go to Image/ Rotate/ Free rotate, choose the direction and the degree of rotation. Leave all boxes unchecked.

I then added the body tube and placed the taggie behind her. For the text you need to write each line seperately, as vector. You get a frame with a long thingie sticking out. Move the cursor over the end of it until you get two arrows in a circle. Left click and rotate the text until it fits on the tag, with the edge dots you can squish and pull it also. Convert to raster in the layer palette. Do that until the text in the taggie is done, merge those layers down onto the taggie so you can move it if need be.
Open a nice paper in psp, minimize it. Open the Materials palette, for the text fill (bottom one), choose pattern from the tabs and find the paper you just minimized. For the stroke use a contrasting colour. Choose a fat text with stroke 3. Apply an Inner Bevel with these settings.

Drag the name layer underneath the body tube. Add dropshadows to all or some layers, whichever suits your tag best. Write all the necessary copyright info legibly onto your tag, delete the white background and save as png.


Here is another example, using the art of Olivia, who is also licensed with CILM.

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