Tutorial "Stop Talking"

This tutorial was written by me on 23rd April 2010. 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: "Blah Blah Blah" Scrapkit by Creative Intentionz which you can purchase at Just4Taggers, an adorable tube, I am using the artwork of Keith Garvey which you can purchase at MPT, template Fly by CrazyCakesScraps, Effects - Muras Meister Copies

1. Open template in PSP, with Shift D make a copy of the template, close the original, delete layer Raster 3, Raster 2, Raster 1 and wordart, image - resize 675x675px (resize all layers checked), with your crop tool crop the image as you can see on my preview, image - change canvas size 700x575px (center placement)2. Add new rasterlayer, arrange, send to bottom, flood fill with white, highlight background, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper10.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000, repeat with -1/-1/35/3 #000000

3. Highlight oval, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper7.jpg, set to pattern (Angle 0/Scale 75), flood fill selection with pattern, select none, add Dropshadows as before

4. Highlight rectangle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper8.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, adjust - add noise - Uniform and Monochrome checked, Noise 10, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000

5. Open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Bling1.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, image flip, move up to the right (Position x 278/Position y 32), duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange above background layer

6. Highlight both star layers, delete them, highlight line1, arrange - move down, merge down (with line2), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper8.jpg again, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow

7. Highlight circle, merge down (with circle2), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper11.jpg, rotate 90 degrees right, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000

8. Highlight background (the white squares in the middle), delete this layer and also layer squarerow, selection, custom selection Left 48/Top 188/Right 650/Bottom 385 (maybe you have to play a little), add new layer, set paper CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper11.jpg (original) to pattern (Angle 90/Scale 75), flood fill selection with pattern, selection, modify, contract 5px, add new layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper10.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, don't deselect, selection invert again, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Paper12.jpg, set to pattern (Angle 90/Scale 75), add new layer, flood fill selection with pattern, select none, set the opacity of this layer to 25, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000 and -1/-1/35/3 #000000 to the two rectangles we have added first (not to the last one)

9. Highlight they grey rectangle, open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, duplicate the tube, image mirror, place both tubes as you wish, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000, merge down, duplicate two times, move one to the left, one to the right, merge these tube layers, highlight the rectangle with the low opacity, select all, selection float, selection defloat, selection invert, highlight top layer, press delete, select none, set the opacity of tube layer to 5010. Highlight top layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-DiscoBall.png, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the right and a little up, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000, arrange it above the circle layers

11. Open CIZBlahBlahBlah-MusicalNotes2.png, resize 25%, copy and paste as new layer, Effects - Muras Meister Copies - Tiling, move as you wish, highlight circle layers, with magic wand tool click outside, highlight Music Notes layer, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 1/1/35/3 #000000, arrange layer above circle layers

12. Stay on the Music Notes layer, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Light1.png, image mirror, copy and paste as new layer, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, highlight the upper oval layer (the turkise one), select all, selection float, selection defloat (it is important that you don't take the magic wand tool for this step), selection invert, highlight Light layer, press delete, select none

13. Highlight top layer again, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Sparkles.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, image flip, move it to the right and a little up into the rectangle, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down

14. Open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Vine1.png, copy and paste as new layer, free rotate 90 degrees left, move it down, add Dropshadow, open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Flower1.png, resize 30%, copy and paste as new layer, move it onto the right side of the Vine, duplicate layer, resize 90% (resize all layers not checked), place it as you can see on my image, add Dropshadow to both flowers

15. Open CIZBlahBlahBlah-Girl1.png, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move to the left, add Dropshadow, open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, resize if needed, add Dropshadow, if necessary remove some parts at the bottom of it

16. Open CIZBlahBlahBlah-NoteTag1.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, add Dropshadow, move it down, place it between the BlahBlahBlah-Girl and the tube, layer should be under the flower and under the girl layer but above tube layer

Add copyright and write down your name with an adorable font, I used colour #3daab9, promote to rasterlayer, select all, selection float, selection defloat, selection, modify, expand 2px, add new layer, arrange - move down, flood fill with white, select none, highlight the original text layer, merge down, add Dropshadow

Hope you enjoyed this tut with an adorable kit ♥