<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026</id><updated>2012-02-16T10:02:03.082-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Charmed Illusions</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-278755176489481585</id><published>2010-04-30T10:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T10:06:19.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Started A New Forum!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hey all a few of my close psp friends and I have started a new forum and would love for you to come be a part of it! Due to some Haters I wont post the link to the forum but just send me an email at nightowl0809 at msn dot com..... and I will send you the link!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hope to see you there!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Katrina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-278755176489481585?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/278755176489481585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/04/started-new-forum.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/278755176489481585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/278755176489481585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/04/started-new-forum.html' title='Started A New Forum!'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-3399061223960194916</id><published>2010-02-22T20:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T21:02:12.093-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S4NahAG0XaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/vQ_Kk_pnIOU/s1600-h/clareylovebykatrina2010.png"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 332px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441292297804471714" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S4NahAG0XaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/vQ_Kk_pnIOU/s400/clareylovebykatrina2010.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on February 2010.This tutorial was written in PSP XII but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;For this tutorial you will need: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Template 1 by Scrapity Scrap at &lt;a href="http://scrapityscrapandmore.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://scrapityscrapandmore.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love Is In The Air Scrapkit by Clarey which can be purchased &lt;a href="http://clareysdesignz.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;font of choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your template&lt;br /&gt;Shift D&lt;br /&gt;close out original template&lt;br /&gt;Delete the copyright layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for lots of copying and pasting lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your slats layer actve&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All-Select Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 7 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert&lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Add a gradient glow and drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now make your Circle layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections Select all Float&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 6 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as you did above! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open yourclarey_loveisintheair_epoxyhearts tube&lt;br /&gt;Resize them to your liking and place them in your circle tube&lt;br /&gt;see mine for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now make your square layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections Select All Select Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste paper 11 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert&lt;br /&gt;hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Add same gradient glow and drop shadow as before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working on your rectangle layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections Select all float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 11 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;again add gradient glo and drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do the same as above with your slat rotated layer but use paper 12 but do not add the gradient glow just add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your heart layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections Select all Select float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper3 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No copy and paste the heart frame tube from the kit onto your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;Resize to your liking and so it fits perfectly around the pink heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now add your tube! Depending on your tube you may have to crop off the extras so it looks like its inside the heart&lt;br /&gt;Once you have your tube all in place you can add a gradient glow and drop shadow to the heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can go along and add any extra elements you want.Make the tag your own :)&lt;br /&gt;Close off your white background layer&lt;br /&gt;Layers merge merge visible&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer&lt;br /&gt;Adjust Blur Guassion Blur set at 10&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Effects Plugins Penta.com Dot and Cross&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Use the main settings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All finished&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dont forget to add your name!!&lt;br /&gt;Your all finished&lt;br /&gt;Save crop and save as a png or jpg!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-3399061223960194916?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/3399061223960194916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/love.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3399061223960194916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3399061223960194916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/love.html' title='Love'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S4NahAG0XaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/vQ_Kk_pnIOU/s72-c/clareylovebykatrina2010.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-7247500648192725975</id><published>2010-02-15T22:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:28:04.937-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Goth Girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tiJsrtGDI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ZEv8j-ui-Vg/s1600-h/Goth+Girl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tiJsrtGDI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ZEv8j-ui-Vg/s400/Goth+Girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439048893732821042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goth Girl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on November 3rd 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP XII but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;For this tutorial you will need:&lt;br /&gt;Gothic Total Disorder Scrapkit by Jessica Woods of Gothic Inspirations&lt;br /&gt;which can be purchased from www.scrapswithattitude.com&lt;br /&gt;Tubes of your choice&lt;br /&gt;I used the awesome artwork of Rion Vernon which can be purchased at CILM&lt;br /&gt;Mask #143 by Vixs which can be downloaded HERE&lt;br /&gt;Font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets Begin!&lt;br /&gt;open template in psp&lt;br /&gt;working on the bottom layer&lt;br /&gt;selections select all float&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 4 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert&lt;br /&gt;hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;add a gradient glow and drop shadow to this layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;click on the circles layer&lt;br /&gt;selections select all float&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 7 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert&lt;br /&gt;hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as above&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste the film frame as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;put it between the frame back and frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Making your frame back layer active&lt;br /&gt;selections select all select float&lt;br /&gt;add a new layer and flood fill this layer with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;keeping this layer selected&lt;br /&gt;open the mesh tube from your kit&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste onto your white later&lt;br /&gt;selections invert&lt;br /&gt;hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now make the film layer active&lt;br /&gt;using your magic wand tool click&lt;br /&gt;inside the first frame&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste a tube of your choice&lt;br /&gt;move this layer under your film frame&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do the same for the 4th frame using a different tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your frame layer active&lt;br /&gt;selections select all float&lt;br /&gt;add a new layer and flood fill with black&lt;br /&gt;deselect and add a gradient glow and drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 8 on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer to just above your background layer&lt;br /&gt;Layers load mask from disk&lt;br /&gt;Lod vix mask143&lt;br /&gt;delete mask layer and merge group&lt;br /&gt;add a very light drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;move this layer to the very top of your canvas&lt;br /&gt;resize and arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open bear doodle tube&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;resize and move under your tube layer&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;you can add a gradient glow and drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now you can add any other elements to your tag its totally up to you!!&lt;br /&gt;add your name&lt;br /&gt;copyright,license number&lt;br /&gt;Crop and Save your tag as jpg or png!&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-7247500648192725975?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/7247500648192725975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/goth-girl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7247500648192725975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7247500648192725975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/goth-girl.html' title='Goth Girl'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tiJsrtGDI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ZEv8j-ui-Vg/s72-c/Goth+Girl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6242329491045208080</id><published>2010-02-15T22:39:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:30:18.249-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Colored Attitude</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tivyIEm3I/AAAAAAAAAHY/jzRtfKICuj0/s1600-h/ColoredAttitude.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tivyIEm3I/AAAAAAAAAHY/jzRtfKICuj0/s400/ColoredAttitude.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439049548029008754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colored Attitude&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on November 3rd 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP XII but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black and White Collection-Green Scrapkit by Rieneke Designs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase it at www.scrapswithattitude.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collab Template#3 by Missy and Rachel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you can grab it at www.scrapsofenchantment.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac you can purchase the tube and license at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.artisticmindsinc.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Font of Choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready??!! Lets Go!&lt;br /&gt;Open Collab Template#3&lt;br /&gt;Shift +D to duplicate&lt;br /&gt;Close the original template&lt;br /&gt;Now delete the © Layer!&lt;br /&gt;Make your Large Glitter circle active&lt;br /&gt;Using your FreeHand Selection Tool&lt;br /&gt;Set on Point to Point&lt;br /&gt;Draw around the pink part of the circle&lt;br /&gt;Adjust Hue and Saturation-Colorize&lt;br /&gt;H=53 S=157&lt;br /&gt;Add a a slight drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Make your dotted Line layer active and using&lt;br /&gt;the same H and S setting colorize this layer&lt;br /&gt;Click on your Frame Background Layer&lt;br /&gt;Using your Freehand Tool again&lt;br /&gt;Draw around the pink half of the square&lt;br /&gt;Colorize this selection with the same Hue and Saturation as above&lt;br /&gt;Deselect&lt;br /&gt;Make the Large Black Circle layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections-SelectAll-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper5 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;Now make your small circle layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All- Foat&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste Paper 3 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert and Hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;Delete the Pink Circle Layer.&lt;br /&gt;Making the Small Circle 2 Layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All- Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper1&lt;br /&gt;As a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Sorry I know there is lots of copying and pasting lol&lt;br /&gt;Make your Rectangle layer active &lt;br /&gt;Selections- Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 13&lt;br /&gt;Selections -Invert&lt;br /&gt;Hit Delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Now make your Pink Rectangle Layer Active&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 9 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert &lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard &lt;br /&gt;Now add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Now make your Small Black Rectangle Layer Active&lt;br /&gt;Now how you do this layer is totally up to you!&lt;br /&gt;You can leave it black or use paper 6 like i did!&lt;br /&gt;Completely your choice :)&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to this layer!&lt;br /&gt;On your WordArt Layer&lt;br /&gt;Using your Selection Tool&lt;br /&gt;Draw around the "IT"&lt;br /&gt;Now colorize them&lt;br /&gt;Hue = 0 Saturation= 0&lt;br /&gt;Add a gradient glow of your choice and a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Now copy and paster Frame Stitch2 to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;Resize so it fits around the bottom circle&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;Add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as above&lt;br /&gt;Open Heartstring1&lt;br /&gt;Resize to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste as new layer&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for placement&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Open Button3&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste into your small circle layer&lt;br /&gt;Resize and add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;You can now add any other elements if you want :)&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Resize if needed&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your liking dont forget to add a drop shadow!&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice add your name&lt;br /&gt;Placement is totally up to you!&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow and gradient glow!&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your copyright,licence number and watermark!!!&lt;br /&gt;Crop and resize to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Save as jpg or png&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6242329491045208080?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6242329491045208080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/colored-attitude.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6242329491045208080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6242329491045208080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/colored-attitude.html' title='Colored Attitude'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tivyIEm3I/AAAAAAAAAHY/jzRtfKICuj0/s72-c/ColoredAttitude.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-3347683267061289491</id><published>2010-02-15T22:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:34:36.334-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Totally Punked</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tjun6m_7I/AAAAAAAAAHg/oVFcgJ_5QaQ/s1600-h/Totally+Punked.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tjun6m_7I/AAAAAAAAAHg/oVFcgJ_5QaQ/s400/Totally+Punked.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439050627619946418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on October 20th 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP XII but can be done with other versions.Here is what you will need&lt;br /&gt;Totally Punk'rs Scrapkit by Tiny ( scrappinbytiny.blogspot.com)&lt;br /&gt;which can be purchased at www.scrapswithattitude.com&lt;br /&gt;Template #4 by Caitlin&lt;br /&gt;http://cupcakesprinkles.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;Font of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Keith Garvey please do not use the same tube unless you have a license to do so.&lt;br /&gt;License and tube maybe purchased at www.mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets PSP!!&lt;br /&gt;Open template#4&lt;br /&gt;Change your canvas size to 700 x 700&lt;br /&gt;Delete the copyright layer&lt;br /&gt;Working on your black rectangle layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All -Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 6 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;br /&gt;and hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;Delete the bottom rectangle layer.&lt;br /&gt;Add a Gradient Glow and Drop Shadow of your choice to the rectangle.&lt;br /&gt;Making your Black Circle layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 5 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Do Not deselect!&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste a tube of your choice into the circle&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Hit delete on your keyboard to get rid of the extras :)&lt;br /&gt;Add the same Gradient Glow and Drop shadow to your circle as you did to your rectangle.&lt;br /&gt;Making your white circle layer active&lt;br /&gt;Select All -Select Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste TD_TP Sticker 1 onto the white circle,&lt;br /&gt;Center it in the circle, add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Add a small block gradient glow to your white circle layer.&lt;br /&gt;Now working on your 2 small rectangle layers&lt;br /&gt;Select-Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 10&lt;br /&gt;as a new layer,&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;Do the same with the corners layer but use Paper 9&lt;br /&gt;Add a small but subtle drop shadow to these two layers&lt;br /&gt;On your STARS layer you can do anything with them.&lt;br /&gt;I did the same as above but I choose 2 different papers.&lt;br /&gt;You can color them or add paper its totally up to you!!&lt;br /&gt;Add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as above.&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any other embellishments that you want.&lt;br /&gt;Add a new rastor layer and copy and paste both the pink and the black splatters onto your canvas.Resize each by 150%&lt;br /&gt;On your pink splatter layer &lt;br /&gt;Image-Mirror&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for refrence :)&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Add your name!&lt;br /&gt;Add your ©'s and License number to your tag&lt;br /&gt;Crop and Resize if needed&lt;br /&gt;Merge and Save as a JPG!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoyed this tutorial if you have any questions please dont hesitate to ask!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-3347683267061289491?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/3347683267061289491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/totally-punked.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3347683267061289491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3347683267061289491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/totally-punked.html' title='Totally Punked'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tjun6m_7I/AAAAAAAAAHg/oVFcgJ_5QaQ/s72-c/Totally+Punked.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-1905212548255029045</id><published>2010-02-15T22:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:37:43.899-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Refreshed Beauty</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tkejrvN-I/AAAAAAAAAHo/P3V7A7cUnF8/s1600-h/Refreshed+Beauty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tkejrvN-I/AAAAAAAAAHo/P3V7A7cUnF8/s400/Refreshed+Beauty.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439051451117549538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refreshed Beauty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on June 3rd 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP X but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Refreshed Scrapkit by So Tempting Scraps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase this kit at Paradise 4 Scrappers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tube and Images of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the awesome artwork of Jamie Kidd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can buy them at CILM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Template#6 from http://www.berrydelightz.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Font and Mask of Your Choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready??!! Lets PSP!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open template 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;duplicate it and resize your canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;image canvas size 600x600&lt;br /&gt;Open paper 1 from your scrapkit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on your template layer make sure the bottom layer of the template is active (the big circle thingy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste paper 1 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your computer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On your layer pallete delete the dark grey layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a gradient glow to your paper layer using the following settings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basic Glow, width 3 ,Soft Corners 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall Opacity 100 Color Fat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making your black square layer active&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as you did before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open doodle3 and copy and paste on to your working canvas as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;delete any access doodle showing make it look like its part of the rectangle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;duplicate this layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;image mirror arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your strip 1 layer active&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;selections-select all-float&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper6 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Using Paper 6 again do the same for your strip 2 layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on your photomat&lt;br /&gt;layer selections select all float&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste a tube or image of your choice&lt;br /&gt;selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;duplicate this image then go image mirror and place overtop of your other white photomat layer&lt;br /&gt;merge the 2 image layers together&lt;br /&gt;then go to adjust hue and saturation-colorize using the settings hue 0 saturation 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;set your color to white&lt;br /&gt;type out the word BEAUTY using capitals&lt;br /&gt;put it across your black and white pictures and lower the opacity to about 40%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your flower layer on your template layer active&lt;br /&gt;Selections Select All-Float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 2 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Add the same gradient glow and drop shadow as before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any embellishments from the kit&lt;br /&gt;I used the buttons and butterflies&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your liking on your tag:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste a tube of your choice and position it in between your 2 frame layers&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to your tube&lt;br /&gt;Add the gradient glow and drop shadow to your frame layers as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper3 as a new layer and move it to just above your white background layer&lt;br /&gt;Apply a mask of your choice,resize this layer to your liking and lower the opacity of it as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Type out your name and arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;You can add the gradient glow and drop shadow as before if you want&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All finished!!&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright,license number and watermark to your tag&lt;br /&gt;Crop,resize and save as a jpg or a png&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-1905212548255029045?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/1905212548255029045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/refreshed-beauty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1905212548255029045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1905212548255029045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/refreshed-beauty.html' title='Refreshed Beauty'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tkejrvN-I/AAAAAAAAAHo/P3V7A7cUnF8/s72-c/Refreshed+Beauty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-4812834818352925735</id><published>2010-02-15T22:36:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:41:14.503-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Friends Forever</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tlSwuEH4I/AAAAAAAAAHw/TM2l25IXmXk/s1600-h/Friends+Forever.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 324px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tlSwuEH4I/AAAAAAAAAHw/TM2l25IXmXk/s400/Friends+Forever.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439052347970166658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on May 2nd 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP X but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit Forever Friends by Ali&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase this awesome kit at Paradise 4 Scrappers &lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice-I am using the awesome PinUp Toons please do not use&lt;br /&gt;the same tube unless you have a license to do so&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase it at www.creativeimagelicensing.com&lt;br /&gt;Mask WSL_Mask202 you can download the mask from Chelles site here&lt;br /&gt;Font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Ready??!! Lets PSP!!&lt;br /&gt;open a new 700x700 image&lt;br /&gt;open up your doodle frame and copy and paste to your new image&lt;br /&gt;using your magic wand tool click inside the frame&lt;br /&gt;selections-modify expand by 3&lt;br /&gt;open paper 5 from your kit&lt;br /&gt;image resize by 75%&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste as a new layer on your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;keep selected and copy and paste paper 6 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert delete&lt;br /&gt;do the same with paper 3&lt;br /&gt;selections select none&lt;br /&gt;on paper 6 go to image rotate and rotate 20 degrees right&lt;br /&gt;do the same with paper 3 layer but change from right to left&lt;br /&gt;drop shadows these two layers with a drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;working back on your frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Effects- eye candy 4000-gradient glow using the following settings&lt;br /&gt;glow width 3&lt;br /&gt;soft corners 0&lt;br /&gt;overall opacity 100&lt;br /&gt;color-Fat&lt;br /&gt;Add the same drop shadow as you did to your papaer layers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up your tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer onto your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;resize if needed and place to your liking&lt;br /&gt;crop off any parts of the tube hanging over the bottom of the frame&lt;br /&gt;add a small drop shadow to your tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste ribbon2 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;resize to your liking&lt;br /&gt;arrange towards the bottom of your frame&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;crop off any access ribbon&lt;br /&gt;add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open up journal 1 resize to your liking&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste onto the lower right side of your frame&lt;br /&gt;image rotate 10 to the right and add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add some of the wordart provided in the kit or you can write out something of your own!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up Bow2 resize 50% twice&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer and place at the top of your journal tube&lt;br /&gt;add a small drop shadow :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up one of your dragon fly tubes provided with the kitResize 50% times 2&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste at the top left hand corner of your frame&lt;br /&gt;You may have to resize it a bit more :)&lt;br /&gt;add the same gradient glow as you did before and a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 17 onto your canvas&lt;br /&gt;move to the bottom of your layer pallete&lt;br /&gt;just over your background layer&lt;br /&gt;add mask WSL_Mask202&lt;br /&gt;Delete mask layer and merge group&lt;br /&gt;Effects-Plugins DBS Flux&lt;br /&gt;Add some noise to your mask layer and&lt;br /&gt;Lower the opacity of this layer to about 60&lt;br /&gt;Now using a font of your choice add your name!!&lt;br /&gt;All finished!!&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright,license number and watermark to your tag&lt;br /&gt;Crop,resize and save as a jpg or a png&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-4812834818352925735?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/4812834818352925735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/friends-forever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4812834818352925735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4812834818352925735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/friends-forever.html' title='Friends Forever'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tlSwuEH4I/AAAAAAAAAHw/TM2l25IXmXk/s72-c/Friends+Forever.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-1882588669180077071</id><published>2010-02-15T22:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:44:41.345-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue Jean Cowgirl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmIy8oNLI/AAAAAAAAAH4/EeGrpWyulHs/s1600-h/Blue+Jean+Cowgirl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 322px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmIy8oNLI/AAAAAAAAAH4/EeGrpWyulHs/s400/Blue+Jean+Cowgirl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439053276281058482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on February 27th 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.This tutorial contains alot of copying and pasting!&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wild West Scrapkit by Crystal&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase this awesome kit at www.scraphappiness.com&lt;br /&gt;Tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Keith Garvey&lt;br /&gt;Please do not use the same tube as me unless you have a license to do so&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase a license and the tube at www.mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;Font of Choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready??!! Lets begin!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a 400x400 new image&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 10 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Image Add borders color white pixel size 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open another new image 700x700&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste your previous image onto the new one&lt;br /&gt;add a drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;image rotate 20 degrees right&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a new image 400x400 again&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 7 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;add the same border as you did before&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste on to your other working canvas&lt;br /&gt;add same drop shadow you used above&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a 350x350 image&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 5 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;add the same border as before and copy and paste in your lighter square&lt;br /&gt;in this layer you can add any kind of wording you want&lt;br /&gt;I used the phrase Cowgirls Rule&lt;br /&gt;use your fave mura meister copies settings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste your tube onto your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;resize and arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Add drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your fence tube from the scrapkit&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer onto your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;place it right infront of your tube&lt;br /&gt;add a slight drop shadow to it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open cowboy sitting tube&lt;br /&gt;resize by 50% copy and paste on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;image mirror and place on the left side of the fence&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;add a small white gradient glow and a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open cowboy hat 2 the white one resize 65%&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste this tube as well to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;image mirror and arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;add a slightly larger drop shadow then your cowboy tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste star bolo tube on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;resize 65%&lt;br /&gt;move this layer beneath your hat layer&lt;br /&gt;add a white gradient glow as well as a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;and arrange under your hat layer to your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste another paper of your choice move this layer to the bottom&lt;br /&gt;but above the white background layer&lt;br /&gt;Add a mask of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your name!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice I used Arial&lt;br /&gt;type out your name and center it at the bottom of your tag...&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;add a darker drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;All finished!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright and license number&lt;br /&gt;crop and save as a jpg or a png&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you liked this tutorial!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-1882588669180077071?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/1882588669180077071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-jean-cowgirl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1882588669180077071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1882588669180077071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-jean-cowgirl.html' title='Blue Jean Cowgirl'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmIy8oNLI/AAAAAAAAAH4/EeGrpWyulHs/s72-c/Blue+Jean+Cowgirl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-7733549512584463638</id><published>2010-02-15T22:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:48:14.700-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pretty In Pink</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmi8j_-SI/AAAAAAAAAIA/RLiFULjGm2I/s1600-h/Pretty+In+Pink.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmi8j_-SI/AAAAAAAAAIA/RLiFULjGm2I/s400/Pretty+In+Pink.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439053725538711842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty In Pink&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on February 12th 2009.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit "Funky Girl" by Brooke of Butterfly Designs you can purchase this awesome kit HERE&lt;br /&gt;Template #12 by Babe of Babe's Designs &lt;br /&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Isamel Rac please do not use the same tube as me unless you have license to do so you can purchase one at www.mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;Ready??!! lets get started!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open Babes template # 12 in psp&lt;br /&gt;Shift d to duplicate this and close out your original&lt;br /&gt;Delete the copyright layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open paper #12&lt;br /&gt;Click inside the black background layer&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your paper as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click inside the smaller black rectangles&lt;br /&gt;Open paper#6&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste as new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now add a gradient glow onto your template with the following settings&lt;br /&gt;BasicGlow width 3&lt;br /&gt;Soft corners 0&lt;br /&gt;Opacity 100&lt;br /&gt;Color fat&lt;br /&gt;click ok&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow of your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now make your inner frame layer active on your template&lt;br /&gt;Select. select all float&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 11 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Select invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up your tube(s) of choice&lt;br /&gt;Making your left frame layer active using your magic wand tool&lt;br /&gt;Click in the frame &lt;br /&gt;Cand paste your tube&lt;br /&gt;Resize if you want it bigger&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Lower the opacity to about 65&lt;br /&gt;Do the same with your other 2 frames ( you can use different tubes for these frames if you want)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On your top black rectangle using a font of your choice type out the words&lt;br /&gt;PRETTY IN PINK&lt;br /&gt;you can add a drop shadow if you want :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up the tag and rope from your scrapkit&lt;br /&gt;resize 65% twice..or size to your liking&lt;br /&gt;hang it on the very last square at the top right hand side&lt;br /&gt;Delete any extra rope so it looks like it is hanging around the square&lt;br /&gt;Add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any other embellishments of your choice to the tag! I resized the black hearts and added them to the tag as well as a flower&lt;br /&gt;Add your name&lt;br /&gt;copyright and license number&lt;br /&gt;crop and save as jpg or png!!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-7733549512584463638?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/7733549512584463638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/pretty-in-pink.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7733549512584463638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7733549512584463638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/pretty-in-pink.html' title='Pretty In Pink'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tmi8j_-SI/AAAAAAAAAIA/RLiFULjGm2I/s72-c/Pretty+In+Pink.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6587167798172360664</id><published>2010-02-15T22:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:51:00.400-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Broken</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tnkeDU71I/AAAAAAAAAII/wISjCI09LGc/s1600-h/Broken.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tnkeDU71I/AAAAAAAAAII/wISjCI09LGc/s400/Broken.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439054851219976018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina on Jan.21st 2009.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;Tube Of Your Choice&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit Broken Wing by Tamara of Just a Girls Designs&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase this kit HERE&lt;br /&gt;Mask WSL_297 by Chelle you can download it HERE &lt;br /&gt;Template #11 By Missy - You can download it HERE&lt;br /&gt;Font of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets get started!&lt;br /&gt;Open Missys template 11 &lt;br /&gt;Shift D to duplicate close out original template&lt;br /&gt;Open broken wing kit &lt;br /&gt;activate your rectangle layer&lt;br /&gt;Select All SelectCopy and Paste paper 1 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Image resize by 80%&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Add a small white gradient glow to your rectangle&lt;br /&gt;Add small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your frame layer&lt;br /&gt;selections select all -float&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 5 resize 85%&lt;br /&gt;selections invert-hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Do the same for your bracket layers but use paper 4&lt;br /&gt;Add the following gradient glow to your brackets&lt;br /&gt;Basic glow width 3,soft cornes 0,overall opacity 100,color Fat &lt;br /&gt;Add the same drop shadow you used before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your smaller rectangle layer&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand select inside this layer&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste paper 3 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;deselect&lt;br /&gt;still on this layer&lt;br /&gt;choose a thicker type font Size 72 foreground and background color white&lt;br /&gt;type out the word BROKEN&lt;br /&gt;Stretch out the word so it fits in the rectangle&lt;br /&gt;see mine for refrence&lt;br /&gt;change the blend mode to overlay and lower opacity to about 82 or one of your&lt;br /&gt;choice&lt;br /&gt;Activate your larger rectangle layer and copy and paste the stitched heart as a&lt;br /&gt;new layer&lt;br /&gt;resize to you liking&lt;br /&gt;image free rotate- 25 left&lt;br /&gt;dropshadow your heart layer&lt;br /&gt;working inside your frame layer using your magic wand click inside the far left frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections Modify expand by 2&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste a male tube from the artist you are using&lt;br /&gt;selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;lower the opacity of this layer to about 65&lt;br /&gt;I had song lyrics from the band Seether at the top and bottom of my frame this is totally up to you !!If you add them add a small gradiet glow and drop shadow to themCopy and paste your tube resize and position to your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open heartwithwings 2 in psp&lt;br /&gt;resize by 25% &lt;br /&gt;copy and paste the heart onto your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;rotate it 25 degrees to the left and add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;place it on your rectangle and bracket see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;duplicate this layer image mirror and arrange on the other side of your tag&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your background(white) layercopy and paste paper9 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;apply WSL_Mask297 mask &lt;br /&gt;resize and using your deform tool pull the mask out a bit&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;lower the opacity a little bit not much i lowerd mine to 76%&lt;br /&gt;Choose a font you like&lt;br /&gt;Pick 2 colors from your tag &lt;br /&gt;Apply your name!&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright,license number and Watermark!!&lt;br /&gt;All finished!!&lt;br /&gt;Crop resize and save!!!&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in wholeor in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6587167798172360664?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6587167798172360664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/broken.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6587167798172360664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6587167798172360664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/broken.html' title='Broken'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tnkeDU71I/AAAAAAAAAII/wISjCI09LGc/s72-c/Broken.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-1996201343745112887</id><published>2010-02-15T22:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:57:24.960-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wired Hearts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpDUS7RrI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/kTsWyjNPqgs/s1600-h/Wired+Hearts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 317px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpDUS7RrI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/kTsWyjNPqgs/s400/Wired+Hearts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439056480688621234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wired Hearts&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina on April 1st 2008.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 tubes from the same artist&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Frame Made By Chelle( wsl_fram5) You can download from her site HERE&lt;br /&gt;Doodle Hearts by Lori you can download them HERE&lt;br /&gt;Mask-HERE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Martin Abel please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so.You can purchase the license and tubes CILM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready? Lets PSP!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open 700x600 image&lt;br /&gt;flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;open the wsl_frame 5 and copy and paste as new layer&lt;br /&gt;Using your selection tool set to freehand &lt;br /&gt;draw around the back circle&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with a color or paper of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer underneath you frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Now using your selection tool again&lt;br /&gt;Outline one of your rectangles&lt;br /&gt;Fill with either a paper or color of your choice&lt;br /&gt;do not deselect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste a tube of choice position to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and press delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;change your tube to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to around 70&lt;br /&gt;do the same with the bottom rectangle using the same paper (you can change papers if you want) and a different tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open up the heart &lt;br /&gt;Doodled Hearts page&lt;br /&gt;and using your selections tool crop around the hearts on a string &lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste onto your working canvas you may need to colorize and resize to fit your tag.. &lt;br /&gt;Image mirror and place on the left side of your tag on the top of edge of the top frame &lt;br /&gt;add a slight drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back on your doodled hearts page copy and paste the barbwired type heart on to your working canvas place to your liking or see my tag for rrefrence cut off any parts to make it look like its going threw the frame&lt;br /&gt;Add a slight drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now copy and place your tube as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Making your white background layer active&lt;br /&gt;Layers new rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with a darker color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Layers Mask New from Image&lt;br /&gt;Find the mask I supplied and apply it&lt;br /&gt;Effects Texture Effects Weave&lt;br /&gt;Gap Size 2 Width 10 Opacity 3waeve and gap color a lite color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;press okay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Addyour name license and copyright watermark&lt;br /&gt;save&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you For trying my tutorial I hope you liked it!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-1996201343745112887?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/1996201343745112887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/wired-hearts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1996201343745112887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/1996201343745112887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/wired-hearts.html' title='Wired Hearts'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpDUS7RrI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/kTsWyjNPqgs/s72-c/Wired+Hearts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-7159709144433557678</id><published>2010-02-15T22:31:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T19:59:03.919-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spoiled My Way</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpgbbX5jI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hrz2ESh-fC8/s1600-h/Spoiled+My+Way.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpgbbX5jI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hrz2ESh-fC8/s400/Spoiled+My+Way.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439056980819306034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spoiled My Way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina on February 5th 2008.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome Artwork of Keith Garvey please do not use the same tube as I am unless you have purchased a license to do so.&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase one at www.mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will need the following&lt;br /&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;2Scrap Papers Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;My Stitched Circle Template and Wordart-&lt;br /&gt;Here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please do not use these in your tutorials without my permisson:)&lt;br /&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready Lets Go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open new 700x600 flood fill with white &lt;br /&gt;Open up my stitched circle template in psp&lt;br /&gt;flood fill with a color,patten or paper of your choice.&lt;br /&gt;Deselect&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the circle on to your new image&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste the stitching onto your circle layer,&lt;br /&gt;hide your white background and &lt;br /&gt;merge these to layers.&lt;br /&gt;Layers merge,visible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand&lt;br /&gt;click inside the middle of the circle&lt;br /&gt;selections modify expand by 4&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste a paper or your choice as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste my word art onto your circle.See my tag as to placement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer move it under your stitched circle layer &lt;br /&gt;duplicate your tube layer and move the duplicated tube above your circle layer.&lt;br /&gt;Using your freehand selection tool draw around the tube to cut off the parts over lapping the circle &lt;br /&gt;Press delete on your keyboard to get rid of that extra&lt;br /&gt;Deselect &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to both your Stitched Circle Layer as well as the tube that is underneath that layer.&lt;br /&gt;You will notice there is a space between the word art &lt;br /&gt;,Using your preset shape heart line width 5&lt;br /&gt;foreground color-same as you used for your circle&lt;br /&gt;background null&lt;br /&gt;draw out a heart so that it covers that space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the heart and&lt;br /&gt;Select-modify expand by 2 &lt;br /&gt;Add a new rastor layer and flood fill with a lighter color from your tube.&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer below your heart outline&lt;br /&gt;You can add any kind of effect to this layer if you wish I added some noise.&lt;br /&gt;Back on your heart outline add a gradient glow &lt;br /&gt;Glow width 3Soft Corners0Opacity 100Color Fat&lt;br /&gt;And add a drop shadow to it&lt;br /&gt;I also typed in the word SPOILED into the heart..totally up to you:P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;making your white background layer active &lt;br /&gt;copy and paste another paper as a new layer add a mask of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Delete and click yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now add a gradient glow of your choice to the mask&lt;br /&gt;I used black because my mask layer is white&lt;br /&gt;Drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Now time to add your name and your copyright as well &lt;br /&gt;Dont forget your licence number!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;All finished resize and save as a jpg or png&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-7159709144433557678?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/7159709144433557678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/spoiled-my-way.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7159709144433557678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/7159709144433557678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/spoiled-my-way.html' title='Spoiled My Way'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tpgbbX5jI/AAAAAAAAAIY/hrz2ESh-fC8/s72-c/Spoiled+My+Way.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-4885776153901193031</id><published>2010-02-15T22:31:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:03:58.459-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sealed With A Kiss</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tqqJJ7lSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/46eUpdp1KvY/s1600-h/Sealed+With+a+Kiss.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tqqJJ7lSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/46eUpdp1KvY/s400/Sealed+With+a+Kiss.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439058247224628514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sealed With A Kiss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina on January 16th 2008.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ScrapKit of Choice or the one I used&lt;br /&gt;Here&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit is called Kisses by Melissa formally of Scrappy Expressions. &lt;br /&gt;(Kit includes film tube)Thank you Hun!!&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Mask of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Embellishments of choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Keith Garvey please do not use the same tube as me unless you have a license to do so.You can get one at http://www.mypsptubes.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready?&lt;br /&gt;Lets begin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a new 700 x 600 Image&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;Using your preset shapes set to Heart1&lt;br /&gt;Set your foreground to a paper or pattern of your choice&lt;br /&gt;background none width set to 15&lt;br /&gt;Draw out a heart shape to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor later&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up your film tube copy and paste it as a new layer onto your working canvas,&lt;br /&gt;move this layer below your heart layer.&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making your heart layer active, using your magic wand click inside the heart &lt;br /&gt;Selections Modify Expand by 5&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert&lt;br /&gt;Make your Film layer active again and hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now inside your film tube you can add anything you like ..patterns, pieces of your tube etc its your tag its totally up to you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once finished that click on your Free hand selection tool&lt;br /&gt;Draw around the top left hand side of your heart that is white.&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste another paper from your kit or pattern of&lt;br /&gt;your choice&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer below all your other layers but above your white background.&lt;br /&gt;Do the same with the other remaining white sections under your heart you &lt;br /&gt;can change patterns or papers totally up to you:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a slight drop shadow to your heart layer as well as your film strip layer&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the bow from the kit resize to your likeing and &lt;br /&gt;place at the top right hand side of your heart.&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for placement&lt;br /&gt;Drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Layers new rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer below all layers but above white background layer &lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with color from your papers or a pattern of choice&lt;br /&gt;Click on your text tool &lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;I used arial size 28 foreground null background white&lt;br /&gt;Type in s.w.a.k.&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Now go to Effects-Mura Meister-Copies&lt;br /&gt;and apply the following settings&lt;br /&gt;Line.Tile,Blend Mode....Number -1 Shift X and Y 50, Tile Gap 3&lt;br /&gt;Merge these 2 layers together colored and text layer&lt;br /&gt;Now add a mask of your choice and lower the opacity to around 50%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now open your tube &lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste as a new layer and arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Drop shadow your tube layer&lt;br /&gt;Now add your name! &lt;br /&gt;I added Be My Valentine over top of my name totally up to you:)&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright and license number as well as your water markSave as jpg!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-4885776153901193031?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/4885776153901193031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/sealed-with-kiss.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4885776153901193031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4885776153901193031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/sealed-with-kiss.html' title='Sealed With A Kiss'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tqqJJ7lSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/46eUpdp1KvY/s72-c/Sealed+With+a+Kiss.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6884222325880256740</id><published>2010-02-15T22:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:10:58.166-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's In The Game</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tsSBZNb8I/AAAAAAAAAIo/nA0F9pDKZus/s1600-h/It%27s+In+The+Game.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 324px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tsSBZNb8I/AAAAAAAAAIo/nA0F9pDKZus/s400/It%27s+In+The+Game.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439060031847624642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its In The Game&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on March 19th 2007.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supplies&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice-sports related&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Famous Logos Font ding-Here&lt;br /&gt;Photo Effects-Scanlines&lt;br /&gt;Mask-Becky_Mask19 which can be downloaded here&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith Garvey please do not use the same tube as me unless you have a license to do so.&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase a license and tubes at http://www.mypsptubes.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Get Going!!&lt;br /&gt;Open a new canvas 700x 600&lt;br /&gt;flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pick 2 colors from your tube&lt;br /&gt;using the dark as your background&lt;br /&gt;and the light color for your foreground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up your Famous Fonts Ding &lt;br /&gt;Using these settings&lt;br /&gt;Create as vector size 300 stroke width 3&lt;br /&gt;Holding the shift key type in the number 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your vector nodes you can make the EA sports symbol smaller or bigger depending on your liking&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the EA symbol &lt;br /&gt;Now go to Effects -Plugins-Phot Effects&lt;br /&gt;apply using default settings&lt;br /&gt;Select None&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now add a drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on your white background layer and make it active&lt;br /&gt;Layers-New Rastor Layer&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill this layer with the dark color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Masks-Mask from disk and use the mask&lt;br /&gt;Becky_Mask19&lt;br /&gt;Layers-Merge-Merge Group&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I resized this layer 90% but its up to you&lt;br /&gt;Still on your mask layer goto&lt;br /&gt;Effects-Plugins-Phot Effects and use the following settings&lt;br /&gt;Width-3Spacing-2&lt;br /&gt;Apply&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your tube as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Arrange your tube to your likeing and add a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under nearth your EA symbol using a different font type all in capitals&lt;br /&gt;ITS IN THE GAME&lt;br /&gt;I used font Trajax size 36 but still had to shrink it down a bit&lt;br /&gt;Arrange it so it sits right under the EA symbol&lt;br /&gt;add a slight drop shadow to this layer to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now at the top of the E &lt;br /&gt;I added the words Batter up! &lt;br /&gt;You can add whatever you would like and at the bottom &lt;br /&gt;I ADDED THE TEAM NAME THAT WAS ON THE GIRLS SHIRT ITS TOTALLY UP TO YOU.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6884222325880256740?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6884222325880256740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-in-game.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6884222325880256740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6884222325880256740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-in-game.html' title='It&apos;s In The Game'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tsSBZNb8I/AAAAAAAAAIo/nA0F9pDKZus/s72-c/It%27s+In+The+Game.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-8011440996970200670</id><published>2010-02-15T22:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:13:02.463-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tssoTh-cI/AAAAAAAAAIw/PXJ11mE0cWc/s1600-h/It%27s+The+Most+Wonderful+Time+Of+The+Year.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 324px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tssoTh-cI/AAAAAAAAAIw/PXJ11mE0cWc/s400/It%27s+The+Most+Wonderful+Time+Of+The+Year.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439060488969386434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on November 28,2007.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Photo Frame Tube&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit by Clarey which you can download from her 4shared file here&lt;br /&gt;Thanks hun for your wonderful kits and your hard work!&lt;br /&gt;Supplies Here&lt;br /&gt;Artwork is ©PinUpToons you must have a license to use the same tube as me if you dont you can purchase one at CILM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets PSP!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open new 700x600 canvas &lt;br /&gt;flood fill this with white&lt;br /&gt;Using preset shape elipse set your foreground to white, background null&lt;br /&gt;line width 20 draw out a circle&lt;br /&gt;convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Effects texture effects weave&lt;br /&gt;settings gapsize 2 width 7 opacity 3 and choose a color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the circle&lt;br /&gt;selections modify expand by 3&lt;br /&gt;choose a paper from the scrapkit copy and paste this layer over top of your circle layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert and push delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;move this layer below circle layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your scrapkit kit again and choose a ribbon&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer on your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;and resize to your likeing, postion to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click inside your circle again &lt;br /&gt;selections modify expand by 3 then&lt;br /&gt;selections invert make sure your ribbon layer is active and erase parts of the ribbon sticking out.&lt;br /&gt;Select None&lt;br /&gt;Using a picture frame tube you have choosen&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste as a new layer on to your canvas &lt;br /&gt;move this layer underneath your ribbon layer&lt;br /&gt;image rotate 20 degrees left&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand again click inside the frame &lt;br /&gt;selections modify expand by 2 &lt;br /&gt;copy and paste another paper of your choice underneath the frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert and delete the excess paper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep selected and copy and paste the tree from the scrap kit or any other embellishment of your choice under the frame and hit delete to get rid of the access.&lt;br /&gt;Add drop shadow to that layer .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to your frame as well as your white circle layer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a pointsetta tube from your scrapkit resize and copy and paste the tube as a new layer..see my finished tag for placement.&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer and move it up a bit... add drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Open The Wording layer I provided or use your own totally up to you copy and paste as a new layer and move this layer under all of your other layers but overtop your background layer you may have to resize depending on the size of your circle.. Colorize to fit your tag&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost finished lol&lt;br /&gt;Make your background layer active and copy and paste another paper of choice from the scrapkit now apply a mask of your choice or any type of effect to it,,totally up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add your name I used disney print fontI also added a gradient glow to my fontDrop shadow&lt;br /&gt;Add your watermark and copyright and license info crop and save as a jpg&lt;br /&gt;All finished!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-8011440996970200670?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/8011440996970200670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-most-wonderful-time-of-year.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8011440996970200670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8011440996970200670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-most-wonderful-time-of-year.html' title='It&apos;s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tssoTh-cI/AAAAAAAAAIw/PXJ11mE0cWc/s72-c/It%27s+The+Most+Wonderful+Time+Of+The+Year.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-8273773694207515740</id><published>2010-02-15T22:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:15:27.569-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Glittered Hearts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttUyJHUoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/c1r0Q9vA6Wo/s1600-h/Glittered+Hearts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttUyJHUoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/c1r0Q9vA6Wo/s400/Glittered+Hearts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439061178804818562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina Evison.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. &lt;br /&gt;You must purchase a license to use his work if you &lt;br /&gt;do not have one, you can get one here .mypsptubes.com &lt;br /&gt;Open a new image 700x600, dont worry we can resize later&lt;br /&gt;Set your foreground color to white, background null &lt;br /&gt;Choose the elipse preset shape, line width set at 5 &lt;br /&gt;Draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas (see my tag for reference) &lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer &lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside your circle &lt;br /&gt;Selections Modify expand by 2&lt;br /&gt;Open up one of your scrap papers &lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste as a new layer on to your working canvas &lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your keyboard &lt;br /&gt;Select none,&lt;br /&gt;Merge visible these 2 layers&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your tube as a new layer &lt;br /&gt;Using your selection tool or eraser tool take off any extra&lt;br /&gt;tube that may be hanging over the edge on the bottom&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for reference &lt;br /&gt;Add drop shadow of your choice &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now back on your circle layer add the following drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;V and H 0 Opacity 50 Blur 7 &lt;br /&gt;Now using your preset shape tool set to rectangle &lt;br /&gt;Choose another paper or pattern&lt;br /&gt;Set your foreground color to white background to your paper/pattern &lt;br /&gt;and draw out a long thin rectangle &lt;br /&gt;See my tag for refrence &lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer 3 times &lt;br /&gt;Arrange these layers underneath your circle layer&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for reference or you can arrange them to your likeing &lt;br /&gt;Hide your circle and tube layer and merge your rectangle layers together and &lt;br /&gt;add the same drop shadow as before &lt;br /&gt;Now using your preset shape set to heart or any shape you would like&lt;br /&gt;set your foreground color to white and use a solid color from your tube for your background color&lt;br /&gt;Set your line witdh to 2 &lt;br /&gt;Draw out a smaller heart &lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer 4 times and arrange it almost around your circle&lt;br /&gt;(see tag for reference)&lt;br /&gt;Merge your four heart layers together &lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer then Image Mirror and &lt;br /&gt;move it so it is about even on the other side of your circle&lt;br /&gt;If you wish to add some noise to your hearts or even add a few brushes or elements totally up to you!! &lt;br /&gt;Add your name and your copyright and license number if needed &lt;br /&gt;Crop resize and save as a .png or .jpg Thank you for trying my tutorial!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.&lt;br /&gt;You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole&lt;br /&gt;or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-8273773694207515740?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/8273773694207515740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/glittered-hearts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8273773694207515740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8273773694207515740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/glittered-hearts.html' title='Glittered Hearts'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttUyJHUoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/c1r0Q9vA6Wo/s72-c/Glittered+Hearts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-5695892831021412214</id><published>2010-02-15T22:26:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:17:39.259-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Framed Beauties</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttz5Zd3EI/AAAAAAAAAJA/305mJds5ma8/s1600-h/Framed+Beauties.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 279px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttz5Zd3EI/AAAAAAAAAJA/305mJds5ma8/s400/Framed+Beauties.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439061713328397378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on March 20th 2007.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 tubes from the same artist&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;brushes or embellishments of choice&lt;br /&gt;Templates made by me- Here&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Dean Yeagle &lt;br /&gt;please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so.&lt;br /&gt;You can purchase the license and tubes CILM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Begin&lt;br /&gt;Open a new canvas 600x500Flood fill this canvas with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open the templates I provided copy and paste Template1 as a new layer on your new canvas.&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the each shape of the templateSelections -Modify-Expand by 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now add a new layer and move this layer below your template layerFlood fill the selections with a color from your tube.Add a texture or pattern of your choice.Deselect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hide your white background layer and the other 2 layers together.Adding a drop shadow of your choice as well&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now copy and paste Template2 as a new layer arrange it so it looks like a frame see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside on of the shapes Selections modify expand by 2 and copy and paste one of your tubes as a new layer,resize and arrange to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert delete&lt;br /&gt;Colorize this tube&lt;br /&gt;Hue and Sat 0Repeat those steps for the other shapes using&lt;br /&gt;different tubes remember to colorrize your tubes:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hide your white background layer again and merge the other layers together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer.working on your original layer go to effects-distortion effects-pixelateand use the following settingsBlock width-155block height-129&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making yourduplicate layer active resize this layer 95% and arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your tube as a new layer arrange it and add a drop shadow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any kind of embellishments or brushes you would like&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your font I used Trajax size 48 stroke width 2&lt;br /&gt;Using the same color as before as your background and no foreground color &lt;br /&gt;type in your name and arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;You cana dd a gradient glow if you want or just a drop shadow its completely up to you lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All finished!! Time to add your copyright and license number if needed and your watermark.Crop,resize and save as a jpg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.&lt;br /&gt;You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole&lt;br /&gt;or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-5695892831021412214?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/5695892831021412214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/framed-beauties.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/5695892831021412214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/5695892831021412214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/framed-beauties.html' title='Framed Beauties'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3ttz5Zd3EI/AAAAAAAAAJA/305mJds5ma8/s72-c/Framed+Beauties.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-5173777945989175120</id><published>2010-02-15T22:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:22:23.229-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forever</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tu9LHiPBI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/f5MG_i3psGQ/s1600-h/Forever.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 292px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tu9LHiPBI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/f5MG_i3psGQ/s400/Forever.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439062972215475218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on September 23,2007.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Penta.com Fliter-Dot and Cross&lt;br /&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;br /&gt;Embellishments of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Supplies &lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit Always by Melissa of Sentimental Style&lt;br /&gt;The Scrapkit was one from her old group Scrappy Expressions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Artwork© Suzanne WoolocottLicense and Tube Purchased from AMI&lt;br /&gt;Please do not use the same tube in your tags as I have unless you have the appropriate License.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open 700x600 image&lt;br /&gt;flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste the SE_Always Frame onto your blank image &lt;br /&gt;resize 85%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the frame&lt;br /&gt;Seclections Modify Expand by 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your image into the frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections Invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer below your frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Hide your background layer and merge the frame and image layer together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your preset shape tool select the elipse shape&lt;br /&gt;foreground white background. &lt;br /&gt;find the SE Always Paper 1&lt;br /&gt;Line width set at 5&lt;br /&gt;Draw out a circle a little bit bigger the your frame&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for example&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Colorize to suit your tube&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to your circle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your elipse shape again draw out a smaller circle over top of your bigger one.&lt;br /&gt;Select a darker color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Effects -Plugins-Penta.com-Dot and Cross &lt;br /&gt;use defualt settings&lt;br /&gt;Effects Texture Effects-Weave- Gap size 1 Width 5 Opacity 3 weave &lt;br /&gt;and gap color white check fill gaps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your Frame tube again&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the frame&lt;br /&gt;Seclections Modify expand by 7&lt;br /&gt;add a new layer and flood fill it with a lighter color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Edit copy merged paste on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;below your image layerImage rotate left 15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open the SE_AlwaysFabric label copy and paste as a new layer &lt;br /&gt;postion to your likeing colorize and&lt;br /&gt;add a saying I added Friends Forever but its up to you:)&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to the label layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on your background layer&lt;br /&gt;Add new Rastor layer &lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with a dark color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;And add a mask of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any other embellishments or doodles you want.&lt;br /&gt;Add your name and copyright and license information Crop and Save&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-5173777945989175120?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/5173777945989175120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/forever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/5173777945989175120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/5173777945989175120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/forever.html' title='Forever'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tu9LHiPBI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/f5MG_i3psGQ/s72-c/Forever.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6865842144827277112</id><published>2010-02-15T22:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:19:13.416-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Do You Feel Lucky???</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tuNeopLTI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bYkqjuwV7jo/s1600-h/Do+You+feel+lucky.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 322px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tuNeopLTI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bYkqjuwV7jo/s400/Do+You+feel+lucky.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439062152820895026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do You Feel Lucky??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on March 5th 2008.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome Artwork of Keith Garvey please do not use the same tube as I am unless you have purchased a license to do so.You can purchase one at www.mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will need the following:&lt;br /&gt;My Supplies (Mask,Dice ,Cards and Wordart)- &lt;br /&gt;Here&lt;br /&gt;If any of these belong to you and would like credit or for me to take them down please let me know:)&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready Lets Go!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a new 700x600 image flood fill with white. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open all of your supplies in PSP&lt;br /&gt;Using your preset shape set to Elipse width 40&lt;br /&gt;foreground black or a color from your tube draw out a circle.&lt;br /&gt;Objects align center in canvas,Convert to rastor layer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Resize your circle to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Crop off any access tube&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the wordart provided or you can add your own totally up to you!!&lt;br /&gt;Resize if needed and postion to your liking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up the playing cards provided.&lt;br /&gt;Resize and place to your liking..&lt;br /&gt;see my finished tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;Add a small drop shadow of choice.&lt;br /&gt;Drop Shadow your circle and tube layer as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your white background layer active and flood fill with another color from your tube &lt;br /&gt;I also used my preset shape tool and added some diamond spades clubs and heart shapes..&lt;br /&gt;but that is totally up to you..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your mask&lt;br /&gt;Layers -New Mask Layer- From Image&lt;br /&gt;and find the mask I provided&lt;br /&gt;Source Lumimance checked&lt;br /&gt;Invert Mask Unchecked&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your elipse shape preset again set your width to 4&lt;br /&gt;but change the line style to dash color or to one of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Draw out a circle so it sits just above your black circle.&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer to just above your masked layer.&lt;br /&gt;.Add a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up the dice tubes provided and copy and paste each one onto your working canvas. &lt;br /&gt;Place to your liking..see my tag for refrence..&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow of your choice.&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your font I used BlackJack&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to your font&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright and license number if needed and your &lt;br /&gt;All Layers Crop and ResizeSave as a JPG or PNG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All finished!! Pretty easy hey lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.&lt;br /&gt;You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole&lt;br /&gt;or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6865842144827277112?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6865842144827277112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-you-feel-lucky.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6865842144827277112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6865842144827277112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-you-feel-lucky.html' title='Do You Feel Lucky???'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tuNeopLTI/AAAAAAAAAJI/bYkqjuwV7jo/s72-c/Do+You+feel+lucky.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-8564279900631955493</id><published>2010-02-15T22:23:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:24:20.564-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Come A Little Closer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvYaXiyaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/QCCdugCWSNQ/s1600-h/ComeALittleCloser.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 324px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvYaXiyaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/QCCdugCWSNQ/s400/ComeALittleCloser.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439063440165620130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come a little Closer&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me Katrina on May 5th 2007&lt;br /&gt;.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Supplies-Here&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit by Melissa- Scrappy Expressions(formally)&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for all the wonderful Scrapkits and your hard work Melissa!! &lt;br /&gt;Artwork© Keith Garvey License and Tube Purchased from http://www.mypsptubes.com/&lt;br /&gt;do not use the same tube in your tags as I have unless you have the appropriate MPT License. &lt;br /&gt;Ready? Lets PSP!!!&lt;br /&gt;Open a new canvas 575x575&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with white &lt;br /&gt;Open SE-Scrapkit Touchstone in psp &lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the Photo Mount on to your blank image&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the white part of the photomount&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your tube as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Postion to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;br /&gt;Make sure your Tube layer is highlighted&lt;br /&gt;Hit Delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Change the blend mode on your tube layer to Luminance&lt;br /&gt;Hide your background layer and merge your photomount and tube layer together&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow &lt;br /&gt;Unhide your background layer and Highlight your photo layer&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste The Ribbon from the scrapkit&lt;br /&gt;Resize the ribbon to your likeing I resized mine 75%&lt;br /&gt;Place the ribbon to your likeing on your photo&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for example&lt;br /&gt;Delete the extra parts of your ribbon&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the chain as a new layer on your tag Resize 68%&lt;br /&gt;Click on your ribbon layer and go&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Select All-Float-Defloat-Invert&lt;br /&gt;delete the extra chain of your tag. &lt;br /&gt;Open a new image 305x345&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste one of the papers as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Image -Add Borders-Pixel width 6 color white&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste this on to your working image&lt;br /&gt;Apply a drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image-Rotate- Right-15&lt;br /&gt;Place this layer behind your photo layer&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for placement if you would like :) &lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the Journal Block on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;Place inbetween your photo and paper layer&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Add the same drop shadow you used for your other layers&lt;br /&gt;Copy and pAste the flower and resize 65%&lt;br /&gt;Add drop shadow and move it to the right hand side of your photo &lt;br /&gt;Now on your Journal Block layer you can add words,lyrics etc to it&lt;br /&gt;I used Lyrics from a Song by Dierks Bentley&lt;br /&gt;I have supplied the lyrics if you would like to use them:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lower the opacity of your wording layer to around 60&lt;br /&gt;Now just add your name and your copyright and license number if needed.&lt;br /&gt;Crop and Save as a png.All finished!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-8564279900631955493?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/8564279900631955493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/come-little-closer.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8564279900631955493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/8564279900631955493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/come-little-closer.html' title='Come A Little Closer'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvYaXiyaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/QCCdugCWSNQ/s72-c/ComeALittleCloser.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-3350349517321007805</id><published>2010-02-15T22:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:25:49.399-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Circled Squared</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvvyR2_KI/AAAAAAAAAJg/UeKh0yG35BY/s1600-h/CircledSquared.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 289px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvvyR2_KI/AAAAAAAAAJg/UeKh0yG35BY/s400/CircledSquared.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439063841721220258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Circle Squared&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on May 6th 2008.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 tubes from the same artist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Circle and Square Made by me HERE&lt;br /&gt;Mask- WSL_Mask12 By Chelle you can download HERE at her site..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you Chelle for all the awesome masks!!&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit Going Dotty By Yvette You can download it from her Blog HERE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank y ou Yvette for another awesome kit!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the awesome toons of PinUpToons please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so.You can the buy from CILM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets PSP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a new 700x600 image&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open the rectangle and circle shapes i provided and copy and paste &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the rectangle on to your new canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;using your magic wand click inside the rectangle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;selections modify expand by 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste a paper of your choice as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;move this layer underneath your rectangle layer deselect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add a gradient glow of your choice and a small drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your circle as a new layer on your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for placement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand click inside the circle selections modify expand by 5 and copy and paste another matching paper on your canvas as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert hit delete on your keyboard &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;move this layer below your circle layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apply the same gradient glow and drop shadow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on your rectangle layer to make it active&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your magic wand tool click inside the rectangle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selections modify by 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste a tube of your choice arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Move your tube layer below your rectangle layer and change it to luminance and lower the opacity to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Find another tube and use the same steps as above for your circle layerWhen finished add a drop shadow to your tubes&lt;br /&gt;If you are using the same kit as me copy and paste the going dotty pinned ribbon on to your working canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;resize and postion to your liking..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;add a small drop shadow,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your rectangle layer active again &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;using your preset shape rectangle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;width 4 color that matches your tag I used #f2af92&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;line style set to diamond draw a rectangle within &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the white of your bigger rectangle convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do the same with your circle layer but change the color and use the circle preset shape.&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste a bow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resize and place on the right hand side of your tag towards the top&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;see my tag for placement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drop shadow this layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste a flower of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;resize and place on the bottom left hand corner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;drop shadow of choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on your white background layer &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and copy and paste another matching paper as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apply the mask WSL_Mask12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;merge group and duplicate your masked layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;merge both mask layers together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to Adjust-Add Noise Gaussian checked momochrome checked and Noise 50%&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your font&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Place to your likeing &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;add a drop shadow and gradient glow if you choose:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add your copyright and license number and your watermark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merge all layers crop resize if needed and save as a jpg or png&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial if you have any questions please just ask:)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-3350349517321007805?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/3350349517321007805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/circled-squared.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3350349517321007805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3350349517321007805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/circled-squared.html' title='Circled Squared'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tvvyR2_KI/AAAAAAAAAJg/UeKh0yG35BY/s72-c/CircledSquared.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-3894602767236922665</id><published>2010-02-15T22:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:28:40.010-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bitch On A Mission</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3twccXSNmI/AAAAAAAAAJo/841zcwHPvGM/s1600-h/BitchOnAMission.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 284px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3twccXSNmI/AAAAAAAAAJo/841zcwHPvGM/s400/BitchOnAMission.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439064608932509282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by me on March 15,2007Any resemblence to anyother tutorial is completely coincedental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SuppliesTube of Your Choice-I am using the awesome art work of Keith Garvey you need alicense to use his art you can get it at mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;2Fonts of your choice I am using Trajax and Swiss 911Xcm Bt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready Lets get started!!&lt;br /&gt;Open a new blank canvas 700x600Flood fill with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your preset shape rectangle using these settings:&lt;br /&gt;Line Width -7 Foreground-color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Background-Black&lt;br /&gt;draw out a rectangle (see my tag for refrence)&lt;br /&gt;Convert to Rastor Layer&lt;br /&gt;Still working on your rectangle layer&lt;br /&gt;Go to Effects Eyecandy 400 and apply the glow of your choice&lt;br /&gt;Now add the following drop shadowV and H- 1 Opacity 75 Blur 5 color Black&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your rectangle preset shape again Foreground-null background whitedraw out a smaller but longer rectangle (see tagf or refrence)&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer and arrange to your likeing&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this later and move to the bottom of your black rectangle.&lt;br /&gt;Using a font of your choiceI used Swiss 911 Xcm BT size 100&lt;br /&gt;Choose a light color from your tube and type out the word CAUTION in capital letters. &lt;br /&gt;You may have to adjust the size depending on the size of your rectangle. &lt;br /&gt;Place the words in between your 2 white rectangles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now using a thinner font I used Trajax size 30 and&lt;br /&gt;using the same color as before type in the phrase: Bitch on A Mission" or your choice of phrase.&lt;br /&gt;Adjust the size to your likeing so that it fits in your white rectangle.&lt;br /&gt;Postion and convert to rastor layer.&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer and move it to your bottom white rectangle.&lt;br /&gt;Hide your white background layer and merge visible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unhide your background layer&lt;br /&gt;Using your rectangle preset shape again&lt;br /&gt;Foreground null background &lt;br /&gt;blackdraw out a long skinny rectangle leaving a little bit sticking out.&lt;br /&gt;You can check my tag for refrence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this rectangle and arrange to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;Merge both little black rectangles then duplicate again&lt;br /&gt;and move the duplicate down towards the bottom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the font Swiss 911 Xcm BT or font of your choice type out CAUTION again using size 20. &lt;br /&gt;Rotate this layer 90 degrees to the left and arrange it between the 4 long black rectangles&lt;br /&gt;convert to rastor layer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate it then go to Image-Flip -Mirror&lt;br /&gt;Now add the tube of your choice&lt;br /&gt;and apply a drop shadow of your choice and position the tube to the right of your tag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your name!&lt;br /&gt;At the top of your caution sign using your font of choice I used Trajax in capital letters type out your nameSize depends on the length of your name.Now add a drop shadow of your choice.&lt;br /&gt;All finished!! Add your proper copyright and your watermark&lt;br /&gt;Layers merge all flatten Crop and resize Save as a jpg.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-3894602767236922665?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/3894602767236922665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/bitch-on-mission.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3894602767236922665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/3894602767236922665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/bitch-on-mission.html' title='Bitch On A Mission'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3twccXSNmI/AAAAAAAAAJo/841zcwHPvGM/s72-c/BitchOnAMission.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6144491690935189658</id><published>2010-02-15T22:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:30:37.835-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Berry Beautiful Garv</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tw544Vp9I/AAAAAAAAAJw/iBccq3v40rg/s1600-h/BerryBeautifulGarv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 291px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tw544Vp9I/AAAAAAAAAJw/iBccq3v40rg/s400/BerryBeautifulGarv.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439065114803546066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berry Beautiful Garv&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on October 20th,2008.This tutorial was written in PSP X but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Berry Delight" PTU scrapkit by Brandi of Grunge and Glitter Scraps which can be purchased at Aussie Scraps Designs&lt;br /&gt;If you Do not have this kit it should work with any kit&lt;br /&gt;Template #7 By Yvette you can download it HERE&lt;br /&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Eye Candy4000 -Gradient Glow&lt;br /&gt;Penta Filters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the awesome artwork of Keith Garvey Please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so.You can purchase a license and tubes from www. mypsptubes.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready?? Lets get started!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OpenYvette's template# 7&lt;br /&gt;Shift D to duplicate the template and delete the copyright layer&lt;br /&gt;click on your layer pallete and make your black shape layer active &lt;br /&gt;Selections- Select all -Float &lt;br /&gt;Selections -Modify -Smooth &lt;br /&gt;settings both at 10&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste Paper 6 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections -Invert and hit delete on your keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;Selections- Invert again and go to Selections- Modify Contract by 15&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste Paper number 10 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections invert delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;Close off all other layers but the 2 you just papered and merge visible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate this layer &lt;br /&gt;Adjust blur guassin blur 10&lt;br /&gt;Effects - Plugins Penta dot and cross&lt;br /&gt;settings amount 72 cross distance10 cross width 2&lt;br /&gt;you may have to resize this layer to make it a bit bigger&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Move This layer underneath your original layer&lt;br /&gt;Make your Original Layer active&lt;br /&gt;And Go ToEffects -Plugins-Eye Candy 4000&lt;br /&gt;add a gradient glow to this layer&lt;br /&gt;Settings Glow Width 3 soft corners 0 opacity 100 color fat..&lt;br /&gt;Add a small drop shadow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on your large frame layer and using your Freehand Selection tool&lt;br /&gt;Draw around the black part of the frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections- Modify -Smooth settings at 10&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper1 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections- Invert delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;keep selected and copy and paste a tube of your choice as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;arrage the tube to your liking &lt;br /&gt;when done hit delete on your keyboard&lt;br /&gt;add a small drop shadow to your frame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do the same with your smaller frames but you maynot need to add any papers.&lt;br /&gt;See my tag for refrence.&lt;br /&gt;Add a small drop shadow to your smaller 2 frames&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up bow 1 and 4 and resize them both by 50% 3 times &lt;br /&gt;copy and paste them onto your working canvas &lt;br /&gt;one goes on the bottom smaller frame at the top left hand corner the other at the top right hand corner of your large frame,&lt;br /&gt;See my finished tag for refrence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up the orange flower and resize it by 16% copy and paste onto your working canvas see my finished tagfor placement. &lt;br /&gt;Add a small drop shadow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open up your You're Berry Beautiful word art resize by 75% copy and paste onto your working canvas and arrange to your liking on the right side of your tag by your large frame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effects- Plugins-Eye Candy 4000- Gradient Glow&lt;br /&gt;same settings as before add a small drop shadow.&lt;br /&gt;I turned my words a bit but thats up to you&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add more elemets if you want&lt;br /&gt;I added the small flowers to it&lt;br /&gt;Time to add your name and copyright and license number&lt;br /&gt;All finished crop and save as ajpg or png!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6144491690935189658?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6144491690935189658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/berry-beautiful-garv.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6144491690935189658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6144491690935189658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/berry-beautiful-garv.html' title='Berry Beautiful Garv'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3tw544Vp9I/AAAAAAAAAJw/iBccq3v40rg/s72-c/BerryBeautifulGarv.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-6481482713484284964</id><published>2010-02-15T22:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:31:42.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautifully Ripped</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3txKC9rGiI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/T-zJakyAWQ0/s1600-h/BeautifullyRipped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 324px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3txKC9rGiI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/T-zJakyAWQ0/s400/BeautifullyRipped.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439065392388184610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on March 11th 2007.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;Tube of choice I am using the wonderful artwork of Jessica Dougherty please do not use the same tubes as me unless you have a license to do so.You can purchase the license and tubes CILM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Font Of Choice Eye Candy 4000 Gradient GlowSupplies-Here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready Lets get started!!!&lt;br /&gt;Open a new transparent Image 400x 400&lt;br /&gt;Flood Fill with a color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Layers-Load Mask- Wandas Mask Ripped&lt;br /&gt;Make sure Invert Transparency Is Checked&lt;br /&gt;And apply Layers Merge Group&lt;br /&gt;Now Open up a new Image 600x600 &lt;br /&gt;flood fill this with white&lt;br /&gt;.Copy and paste your Mask Image as a new layer on to your new canvas.&lt;br /&gt;Now go to Effects-Eye Candy 4000-Gradient flow and apply the following settings&lt;br /&gt;Basic-Glow Width -3 Soft Corners-0 Overall Opacity -100 Color- Fat&lt;br /&gt;Now add the following drop shadow.H and V-0 Opacity 50 Blur 5.00 color black&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add any type of brushes,elements words anything you like to you mask layer I used a mask of stars and lowered the opacity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now open up your chain tube I provided and copy and paste this on your mask image as a new layer . &lt;br /&gt;Postiton to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate that layer Image-Mirror and postion it.&lt;br /&gt;You can now change the blend mode on your chains to what you think will go with your tag and apply the same drop shadow as above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hide your white background layer Layers-Merge-Visible.&lt;br /&gt;You may need tor esize this layer now depending on the size of your tube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer on to your mask image resize if needed postion and apply the same drop shadow as before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your pen tool pick a dark color from your tube&lt;br /&gt;Line width 2 Dash Dot&lt;br /&gt;Draw out 3 lines making it look like they are connecting from the chains (sideways)&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;Move this layer under your mask layer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now choose a font for your name I used Trajax&lt;br /&gt;Size depends on the length of your name&lt;br /&gt;Using the dark color from your tube type out your name.&lt;br /&gt;Convert to Raster Layer&lt;br /&gt;Add the same drop shadow as before&lt;br /&gt;All finished Merge all flatten crop and rezise if needed&lt;br /&gt;Save as a jpg.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Katrina.&lt;br /&gt;You may link to and/or print this out for your own personal use. Please do not copy it in whole&lt;br /&gt;or in part to place online, rewrite it, script it, or claim it as your own without my written permission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-6481482713484284964?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/6481482713484284964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/beautifully-ripped.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6481482713484284964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/6481482713484284964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/beautifully-ripped.html' title='Beautifully Ripped'/><author><name>Katrina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16228060941561716262</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/SpnWrDfl8_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/FFHtuRZ9pZ0/S220/angelishiousismaelkatrina09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3txKC9rGiI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/T-zJakyAWQ0/s72-c/BeautifullyRipped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936843008359173026.post-4167490039191186258</id><published>2010-02-15T22:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T20:34:28.694-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bad Girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3txuM0KvaI/AAAAAAAAAKA/J8BvXgj7sKY/s1600-h/BadGirls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tS7eL2dM_iQ/S3txuM0KvaI/AAAAAAAAAKA/J8BvXgj7sKY/s400/BadGirls.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439066013507960226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAD GIRLS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tutorial is of my own creation and resemblence to any other tutorial is simply coincedental.This tutorial was written by me Katrina on August 30th 2006.This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done with other versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what you will need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supplies: Here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tube of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brush made by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonts: Devil Inside and Badaboom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EyeCandy4000-Gradient GlowMura Meister-Copies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Scott Tolleson please do not use the same tube as me unless you have a license. You can purchase a license here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Get Started!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a new 600x500 transparent image&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill with white.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your tubes and fonts and minimize your fonts for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste your tube as a new layer on to you white background.Resize if needed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choose 2 colors from your tube A dark and light color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set your Foreground color to the dark one and Background to the light color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your preset shape EllipseLine Width-5 Create as vector&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Draw out your circle &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the nodes stretch the circle around your tube to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now switch your Foreground and Background colors and draw out a smaller circle and place in the left or right side of your bigger circle,which ever fits your tube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Convert to rastor layer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now using the font Devil InsideSize 48(depending on the size of your circle)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreground-Null Background-your light color&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the inside of your smaller circleand type the number 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrange to your liking -convert to rastor layer &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Layers-New Rastor layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the brush Badgirls &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using a dark color from your tube apply the brush in the middle of the big circle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;resize if needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your Big Circle Layer and using your magic wand tool click inside your big circle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now highlight your Brush layer and go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effects-Plugins-Mura Meister-Copies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;apply using the following settings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Line&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Number -1 ,ShiftX-50,ShiftY-50,Tile Gap-10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not De-Select&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make your Big Circle layer active again and apply your favorite pattern,texture or effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used Penta.com-Jeans filter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Select None&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apply a gradient glow of your choice to both your circle layers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hide Your white background and tube layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Layers-merge-merge visible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now apply a Drop shadow to your merged layers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V2 H-2 opacity5 blur5 color black&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Repeat the drop shadow switching the V to minus2 and H to 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your tube layer and Add a drop shadow of your choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using your Ellipse preset shape again with your foreground set to a light color and your background set to null Line Width 2 Draw a circle around your big circle making it a little bit bigger then the bigger circle.&lt;br /&gt;Do Not Convert To Rastor Layer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the font tool and a font of your choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used Bank Gothic Size 24 floating&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Move your cursor over the circle til you get the A)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;click on the circle and type out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bad Girls Go Everywhere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;promote this selection to layer then Select None.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activate your Vectored Circle Layer active and delete it as we will not need it anymore &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now its time to add your nameI used the font badaboom size depends on your name&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the light color as your foreground and dark as your background type in your name.Arrange to your likeing.&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow of your choice.&lt;br /&gt;Add appropriate copyrights and your water mark to your tag.Crop and Save!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5936843008359173026-4167490039191186258?l=charmedillusions.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/feeds/4167490039191186258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charmedillusions.blogspot.com/2010/02/goth-girl-this-tutorial-is-of-my-own_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4167490039191186258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5936843008359173026/posts/default/4167490039191186258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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