Tutorial "Joy"

This tutorial was written by me on 1st August 2009. It was done with PSP9 but it might work with other versions, too. This tutorial is copyrighted to me, any resemblance is purely coincidental and not intentional!

You need: PTU kit Black & White Collection: Green from Rieneke Designs which you can purchase on Stargazer Scraps, a lovely tube, I used one by Elias Chatzoudis which you can purchase on MPT and my template #20 which you can download here

1. Open the template in PSP, with Shift D make a copy of it, close the original and delete layer Raster 1, highlight layer circle up right, merge down (with circle down left), select all, selection float, select defloat, delete layer, open paper1.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 1/1/50/2 #000000

2. Highlight top layer, open flower8.png, resize 53%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the right circle, place it exactly over it, layer - arrange - move down until the flower is behind the circle, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow

3. Highlight top layer, open framestitch1.png, resize 23%, duplicate layer, merge down, copy and paste as new layer, move up to the right and place it on the circle, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, layer -arrange - move down until the stitches are over the circles

4. Highlight big rectangle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open paper6.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 0/0/50/2

5. Highlight small rectangle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open paper10.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow as before

6. Highlight hole elipse, merge down (with Diamond line), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open paper3.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow as before

7. Highlight inner circle right, merge down (with inner circle left), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open paper4.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, selection invert, selection, modify, contract 3px, open paper5.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, merge down, inverted selection stays

8. Open beads.png, add Dropshadow 0/0/50/2 #000000, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the left into the selection, press delete to remove the part of the beads that is outside the circle, select none, duplicate beads layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down

9. Open string3.png, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer, move up to the right, place it on the corner of the of the rectangle, add Dropshadow

10. Open flower3.png, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer, place it on the upper left corner of the rectangle, add Dropshadow

11. Open ribbon2.png, resize 45%, free rotate 90 degrees left, image mirror, copy and paste as new layer, move it down (see my preview), add Dropshadow
12. Open ribbon3.png, resize 45%, free rotate 90 degrees left, image mirror, copy and paste as new layer, move it down and place it a little above the white ribbon, add Dropshadow, merge down

13. Open flower8.png, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down to the left, place it on the left side of the ribbon, duplicate layer, move it to the right side of the ribbon, merge down, add Dropshadow

14. Now open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, resize if needed and place as you wish, add Dropshadow of your choice

14. Take the text tool, open paper6.png, set your background to pattern (Angle 0/Scale 70), set your foreground to #c5d673 (Stroke Width 0,7)and write down your text or your name, add Dropshadow 2/2/30/3

15. Add copyright information! If you want you can highlight background layer now and flood fill it with #404040 and add a texture of your choice, save as jpg.