Touch The Sky

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
A Scrapkit, the one I used is Ride a Dream by Irene Alexeeva,
it should have at least 2 papers, a doodle or two, 3 or 4 elements, some wordart and maybe an overlay.
A tube or image of choice, I used art by Rion Vernon, licensed through CILM.
One or two blurry masks (I used some by Becky, 22 and 23) and font of choice.
Optional Eyecandy5 Impact.

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 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 a blurry 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. I then added the doodle frame, resized it to 80%, added a dropshadow, and dragged it below the tube. Beneath that I pasted the doodle, I duplicated it and then mirrored and flipped, I set the blend mode in the layer palette to darken on both the original and the dupe. Add a dropshadow. Then I added the wordart, I used gradient glow from Eyecandy5 Impact with a paleblue colour on it, to offset it a little.

Then I also added the star and moon elements and the overlay, slightly resized. Take the tube all the way to the top of the layer palette, and add a dropshadow. Now, when you're happy with your layout, hide the white layer and merge visible. Stay on the merged layer, and select the crop tool. Snap crop rectangle to layer opaque to get rid of excess canvas. Then go to image resize, all layers ticked. Resize it down so you have a tag no higher than 450 px. Go to Adjust/ Sharpness/ Unsharp Mask. Set to Radius 6, Strength 11 and Clippping 2, okay. Add the credits to the artist, scrapper and yourself now. I added the same gradient glow here.

Now go back to the scrapkit, does a paper or element have a texture you like? Open it and select a part of it with your selection tool (rectangle). Right click the selection and copy, on the blank psp background right click and paste as new image, recolour (adjust/ Hue and saturation) if necessary. Click on the A for text and in your materials palette go to pattern and look for the swatch for the fill. I set the scale to 50. Pick a contrasting gradient that matches your tag for the stroke. Type out your name and place it on your tag as a vector layer, move or stretch it if necessary and convert to raster layer. Add a dropshadow. Save as a jpg, and also as a pspimage to use as a template.

Here is another example using a different girl by Rion Vernon and the Summer Breeze Add-On from 2007 by JillD-Zines

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