Listen Cowboy

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
A (Cowgirl) Tube of choice, mine is by Olivia and used with a CILM license
Filters Unlimited 2
EyeCandy5 nature
AlienSkin Xenofex 2
A nail or screw, mine is from Dozibaer, read the rules, go to eyelets and screws in the bottom right corner, page 3 and download "a-dozi's-screws-02"
A Bullethole, add to MyPSPFiles/Picture Tubes

Open a 500x400 canvas and floodfill white.
Take your rectangle tool and pick two browntones, a lighter one for fill, a darker one for the frame. The line style is solid, width 2, now draw a longish, slim rectangle.
Click into the center with the magic wand, tolerance and feather set to 0. Apply Effects/tecture effects/texture/woodgrain.
Deselect and duplicate 4x, for 5 rectangles, rotate two of the freely at 90 degrees and arrange like a fence. x out the white background and merge visible.
Apply Filters Unlimited 2.0/ Distortion Filters/Deformer/default settings.
Add a dropshadow of V -3, H 3, Opacity 66, Blur 10.

Add a new raster layer, use your freehand lasso to make a shape similar to this at the bottom of your fence. Change the foreground colour to dark green and the background colour to light green.
Apply Eye Candy5/nature/fire
Settings: text 100pt-tiny flame
Basic: see screenie

Colors:untick natural flame colors.
Leave the first block white,click on the 2nd lil house shape,
click on the arrow by the color chart and make it dark green,
3rd light green, leave the 3rd black and make the 4th dark green.
Deselect.
I made my grass a bit wider with the raster deform tool, just pick it from your tools and drag the nodes, click on a another tool to apply.

Activate the fence layer and pick the rectangle tool, outline set to 0,
make the background a browny yellowy colour.
Now form a rectangle (piece of paper), convert to raster layer.
Apply AlienSkin Xenofex2, burnt edges.
Settings: subtle/make selection transparent.
Dropshadow V 3, H 3, Opacity 66, Blur 100.

Next open the screw/nail tube, make a selection around the one you want with your lasso, right click and copy.
I'm using the middle bottom one, right click paste as a new layer onto your working canvas and resize.
I resized mine to 30%, duplicate it and put one at the bottom of the paper too, to look as if the paper is nailed/screwed to the fence post.
I rotated mine a bit and set the blendmode to luminance on one and hard light for the other.
Add your text to the paper, use mine if you wish ;o)
(Please refrain from mailing and telling me that the grammar is wrong. I know, but it sounds good!!)
I then applied the woodgrain texture twice and lowered the opacity to 82.
X out the white layer and merge visible

Add your cowgirl tube, resize as necessary, same dropshadow as for the fence.
Pick your tube tool, and grab the BulletHole.PspTube, add a new raster layer, lower the scale of the tube to about 22.
Now click where you like the holes. Next take your magic wand, tolerance set to 18 and click into the hole inners.
Change to your fence layer and press the delete key on your keyboard.
I fancied a background that's not all plain and used Xenofex Crumple on the white layer with the subtle setting.
Use the crop tool, snap crop rectangle to merged opaque.
If your artist allows stock photo backgrounds or you own licensed background photos, you could use one of those instead ;o)
Resize the tag NOW if you want it smaller.
Credit the artist and yourself, add your name, save as jpg and you're done.

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