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Friday, August 9, 2024

This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 8/8/2024
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2020 but any version will do
FTU Tube of Choice- BHD_FTUTube-Clown24
Template is also by me
Font of Choice - Strange and Weird
I used a mask by me - AKK_Mask035
Plugins Used: Eye Candy 4000 Glass, DSB Flux-Bright Noise, Muras Meister
I Used 1 of my Free kits 
BHD_GothicXmas

Template & Tube : HERE

**Abbreviations I use**
DS- Drop Shadow
LP-Layer Palette
RS-Resize

DONT FORGET TO SHARPEN and ADD DROP SHADOW to EVERY ELEMENT!

Open Santa_Naughty2 Template
Shift+D to duplicate and close out your original template
resize your canvas to 815x260

 activate Lil Black Rect
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
Open your tube BHD_FTUTube-Clown24 (or tube of choice)
(keep your tube opened in PSP!)
Edit-Copy
Edit-Paste as new layer on your template and select your *MOVE* tool
place your tube where you would like it in the rect
Selections-Invert and press delete
Blend mode Luminance Legacy Opacity 82

activate your Lil Black Rect
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Modify-Expand by 3
add a new raster layer name it Lil Rect Border
flood fill with color of choice
Plugins-DSB Flux-Bright Noise-Intensity 35
Sharpen and move below your Lil Black Rect layer

Activate Gradiant Rect
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
go back to your tube canvas
Plugins-Muras Meister Copies-Line with these settings

Edit copy
Edit-Paste as new layer on your template 
and select your *MOVE* tool
place your tube where you would like it in the rect
Selections-Invert and press delete
Plugins-Xero-Bad Dream with these settings



Activate your pxl txt and change the opacity to 30

Now the next elements are all going to be UNDER our
Black Rect Layer

Drag element 273 onto your LP & RS 30%
place all the way towards the left
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 283 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below el 273 to the left
Duplicate and do the same Mirror as above

Drag element 285 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 283 to the bottom left
Duplicate and do the same Mirror as above

Drag element 287 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 283 slightly to the right
Duplicate and do the same Mirror as above
Merge your copy of el 287 down into el 287
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical

Drag element 279 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 287 as shown in tag
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Merge your copy of el 279 into el 279
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical

Drag element 282 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 285 and move this to the center bottom
as shown in tag
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical
your template should be looking like this now




Drag element 107 onto your LP & RS 30%
place below element 282 and move towards the top to fill in those gaps 
that are shown in the Screenshot above
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical

Drag element 72 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below el 279 all the way to the left side towards the bottom
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 55 onto your LP
Image-Free Rotate-Right-Free 20
RS 15%
place above your Naughty Glass Layer

Drag element 7 onto your LP & RS 20%
place below element 55 and move it all the way towards the left
as shown in tag

Crop your tag
add your copyrights and name(s)

and we are done!!! 

Hope you enjoyed!!
xx






This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 8/8/2024
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2020 but any version will do
FTU Tube of Choice- BHD_FTUTube-Clown24
Template is also by me
Font of Choice - Strange and Weird
I used a mask by me - AKK_Mask035
Plugins Used: Eye Candy 4000 Glass, DSB Flux-Bright Noise
I Used 2 of my Free kits 
BHD_HallowsHorrorCarnival
BHD_GothicXmas

Template & Tube : HERE

**Abbreviations I use**
DS- Drop Shadow
LP-Layer Palette
RS-Resize

DONT FORGET TO SHARPEN and ADD DROP SHADOW to EVERY ELEMENT!



I will be using two different kits for this tag
I will state which kit we are in as we go along!
This is for the Goth Challenge in Misfits which the
challenge is Opposites!
Hence Christmas and a clown!

**NOTE**
If you want your tube or papers smaller before you put them
on your template canvas into your shape layers you have to
RESIZE it BEFORE you paste as new layer onto your template canvas

Alrighty lets do this!!

Open Santa Naughty Template
Shift+D to duplicate and close out your original template
Resize your canvas to 790x250
in your LP delete the credits

Open your tube BHD_FTUTube-Clown24 (or tube of choice)
(keep your tube opened in PSP!)
C&P onto your LP & RS 61% - Sharpen your tube 
Place this below your Santa Txt Layer in the center
Duplicate your tube and go to Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur:3
Blend Mode-Screen-Opacity 75
Merge down into your original tube layer
add DS - V:0, H:5, Opacity:80, Blur:10

We are using BHD_HallowsHorrorCarnival for this portion

Activate your Center Rect in your LP
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
Open paper 5 & RS to 75%
Edit-Copy 
Edit-Paste as new layer on your template 
and select your *MOVE* tool 

place where you would like in the center rect
Selections-Invert
Hit Delete
Rename Center Paper Rect
In your LP delete your original Center Rect layer (the black one beneath it)

Activate your Center Paper Rect in your LP
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Modify-Expand by 5
Add new Raster Layer name it Center Border



Flood fill with color of choice
Plugins-DSB Flux-Bright Noise with these settings



Sharpen
move this below your Center Paper Rect layer

Activate your Grad Rect Right in your LP
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
Go back to your BHD_FTUTube-Clown24 and Edit-Copy
Edit-paste as new layer onto your template 
Select your *MOVE TOOL*
and place your tube in the rect where you would like
Selections-Invert
Hit delete
Blend mode screen
Rename Tube Right
Now
Duplicate Tube Right
Rename Tube Left
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
In your LP drag Tube Left above Grad Rect Left

Activate Skinny Rect Right
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
Open paper 3 & RS 55%
Edit-Copy
Edit-Paste as new layer and select your *MOVE TOOL* and 
place to the right as shown in tag
Rename Paper Right
delete your Skinny Rect Right layer

Duplicate and rename "Paper Left"
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
In your LP drag "Paper Left" above your Skinny Rect Left Layer
delete your Skinny Rect Left layer

Activate your "Paper Right" Layer 
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Modify-Expand by 3
Add new Raster Layer name it Paper Right Border
Flood fill with color of choice
Plugins-DSB Flux-Bright Noise BUT change the intensity to 100
Sharpen
Duplicate and rename Paper Left Border
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Drag below your Paper Left Border

Now we are going to use BHD_GothicXmas

Drag element 289 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below Skinny Rect Top to the left
Duplicate-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Merge down the copy of El 289 into El 289 layer
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Vertical
Merge down the copy of EL 289 into El 289 layer
this is what it will look like in your LP




Drag element 288 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below El 289 to the left side of canvas so it peeks out a bit
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 273 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below El 288 all the way to the bottom right as shown in tag
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Merge down the copy of El 273 into El 273 
Duplicate-Image-Mirror-Vertical

Drag element 282 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below element 273 and move to the top left
Duplicate-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Merge down the copy of 282 into El 282 and Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical

Drag element 149 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below el 282 to the left
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Now we are going to use BHD_HallowsHorrorCarnival kit

Drag element 62 onto your LP & RS 30%
place above Copy of El 273 to the left
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal
Merge down the copy of 62 into El 62 and Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Vertical

Drag element 68 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below El 149
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 69 onto your LP & RS 40%
place below El 68 towards the bottom right
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 4 onto your LP and RS 30%
place above Skinny Rect Top to the right as shown in tag

Drag element 8 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below your tube layer to the right 

Drag element 25 onto your LP & RS 35%
place below el 8 to the left

Now we are going back to BHD_GothicXmas Kit

Drag element 51 onto your LP & RS 20%
place above element 25 towards the bottom

Drag element 198 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below your tube layer to the left

Drag element 202 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 198 as shown in tag

Drag element 226 onto your LP & RS 20%
place below element 202 as shown in tag

Drag element 7 onto your LP & RS 25%
place above element 198 to the left

Drag element 72 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 25 to the right as shown in tag

Drag element 300 onto your LP & RS 50%
place below element 226 up towards the left as shown in tag

Drag element 297 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 72 as shown in tag

Drag element 287 onto your LP & RS 25%
place below element 297 all the way to the left of canvas as shown in tag
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 221 onto your LP & RS 20%
place above your Skinny Rect Top layer
to the left as shown in tag

Drag element 218 onto your LP & RS 45%
place below element 221 towards the left 

Drag element 102 onto your LP
Image-Free Rotate-Left 20 & RS 35%
Place below Paper Left Border to the left as shown in tag
Duplicate
Image-Mirror-Mirror Horizontal

Drag element 55 onto your LP
Image-Free Rotate-Right 20 & RS 20%
place below Copy of El 102 to the right as shown in tag

Drag element 38 onto your LP & RS 20%
place below El 7 to the left as shown in tag

Drag paper 11 onto your canvas
and add your mask layer I used 
AKK_Mask035

Crop your tag
And we are done!
Add your copyright and name(s)

Hope you enjoyed!!
xx

























This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 8/6/2024
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2020 but any version will do
Tube of Choice- Enamorte 84-2
Font of Choice - I used The maria story
I used a mask by me - Summermask-01-KK24 HERE
and also used a 2nd mask - Suz cmbbmask12
Plugins Used: Eye Candy 4000 Glass, Xero-Bad Dream
I Used Stus kit Entry To Evil HERE
I Used 2 FTU Animations from Simone:
SimoneAni-LightningSpecial-02 and SimoneAni-LadyVampire-07
Just click the names of the animations and it will take you to them!

Here is my Wordart you can use
(the steps are still below if you want to type out something else!)




**Abbreviations I use**
DS- Drop Shadow
LP-Layer Palette
RS-Resize

DONT FORGET TO SHARPEN and ADD DROP SHADOW to EVERY ELEMENT!

Drop Shadow used in this Tutorial is:
V:0, H:5, opacity:80, Blur:10

Lets make a quick animated sig!

open a new canvas 700x200
Selections-Select All
Selections-Modify-Contract by 3
Selections-Invert
Flood fill with color of choice
Selections-Select none

Do the selections steps above again BUT this time contract by 8
and flood fill with color of choice 
add ds (V:0, H:5, opacity:80, Blur:10)

Drag paper 20 onto your LP & RS 70%
C&P your tube layer place this above your paper layer all the way to the right
Plugins-Xero-Bad Dream

select your text tool and type out EVIL in a BOLD font
I used Pink Rocket the size is 150 
Convert your text layer to a raster layer-rename text layer
move below your tube layer
and place where you would like
With your text Layer still active
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Modify-Expand by 2
in your LP add a new raster layer and move this beneath your text layer
and flood fill with color of your choice
Adjust- Add/Remove Noise-Add Noise-Uniform, Noise:60, monochrome checked
sharpen - Selections- Select None-rename glitter layer

Activate your text layer
Selections-Select All
Selections-Float
Selections-Defloat
in your LP add a new raster layer (Keep this above your text layer!)
Effects-Plugins-Eye Candy 4000-Glass with these settings





selections-select none
rename this glass layer

select your text tool again 
and type out Entry To - font I used was Bank Gothic
convert to raster layer
(you want this layer above your glass layer)
Effects-Plugins-Eye Candy 4000- Gradient Glow with these settings
I use Medium in the SS







Activate your glitter layer and add DS of choice
I used V:0, H:10, Opacity:85, Blur:10

Drag element 91 onto your LP & RS 20% place below your tube layer as shown in tag
sharpen and DS (do this to every element!)
Drag element 96 onto your LP & RS 15% 
place below element 91 as shown in tag
Drag element 53 onto your LP & RS 25%
 place above your paper layer as shown in tag
Duplicate element 91 , rename El 91 left 
and place above element 96 to the left 
Duplicate element 96, rename El 96 left 
and move to the left as shown in tag
Duplicate El 91 left and move to the very left side 
of your canvas as shown in tag
Drag element 78 onto your LP & RS 30%
 place above your paper layer all the way to the left of your canvas

C&P your tube layer and place above your paper layer as shown in tag
Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur-3

If you aren't animating then you are done here 
add your copyright and name(s)

Animation-

Open Jasc Animation Shop and open your animations
I am using SimoneAni-LightningSpecial-02 and SimoneAni-LadyVampire-07


In PSP 
Layers-View None
Activate your Paper Layer and Tube Layer

Now activate only your paper layer where the finger is pointing in SS
Edit-Copy Special-Copy Merged


Back to AS
 Edit-Paste as new animation
CTRL+L and make sure you have 15 frames same as our animation
Edit- Select All
Edit-Propagate Paste

Activate your animation 
SimoneAni-LightningSpecial-02
we are going to resize this animation settings below:


Edit-Select All
Edit-Copy

Activate your sig 
Edit-Paste into selected frame and 
place where you would like

Back to PSP

Layers-View None
Activate all your layers above our tube and paper layer we used
DO NOT make your paper layer and tube layer active again!
CTRL and click on each layer in your LP and make visible
activate your bottom layer which should be Element 78




Edit-Copy Special-Copy Merged
 
Back to AS

On your sig tag
Edit-Paste into selected frame

Activate animation Lady Vampire
Delete frame 16
(we need 15 frames like our other animation!)
Edit-Select All
Edit Copy

Activate your sig
Edit-Paste into selected frame place this above your letter L in EVIL
go back to your animation Lady Vampire and select Animation - Mirror



Edit-Copy

Activate your sig
Edit-Paste into selected frame above your E in Evil
and we are done! 

Hope you enjoyed
xx










This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 8/6/2024
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2020 but any version will do
Tube of Choice- Enamorte 84-2
Font of Choice - I used The maria story
I used mask - Suz cmbbmask12 (its my favorite mask lol)
Plugins Used- Muras Meister
I Used Stus kit Entry To Evil HERE

**Abbreviations I use**
DS- Drop Shadow
LP-Layer Palette
RS-Resize

DONT FORGET TO SHARPEN and ADD DROP SHADOW to EVERY ELEMENT!

Drop Shadow used in this Tutorial is:
V:0, H:3, Opacity:80, Blur:10

I am going to try to do a simple tag tutorial wish me luck!
Lets go! 

Open new canvas 800x800
Drag frame 2 onto your LP
Drag paper 6 onto your LP and move below your frame layer
activate your frame layer - grab your magic wand and select inside the frame
Selections-Modify-Expand to a 5
Selections-Invert
Activate Paper 6 and hit delete 

Drag element 76 onto your LP & RS 25% leave it where it is
Drag element 81 onto your LP & RS 25% place below element 76
activate element 76 and move it over to the left a little bit
activate element 81 and move it over to the right a little bit
activate element 76 and merge down into element 81
Plugins-Muras Meister Copies with these settings



place below your paper layer-Objects-align-center in canvas

Drag element 77 onto your LP & RS 25% - 
Muras Meister Copies again BUT
change number to 14, Shift X and Shift Y to 58 
place below merged flowers 1 layer - Objects-align-center in canvas
Drag element 90 onto your LP & RS 20% leave it where it is
Drag element 94 onto your LP & RS 20% move it over to the left of element 90 a little bit
merge down into element 90
Muras Meister Copies BUT 
change number to 12, Shift X and Shift Y to 65
Objects-align-center in canvas and place below element 77 
Drag element 98 onto your LP & RS 20% leave it where it is
Drag element 96 onto your LP & RS 20% move it over to the left a little bit
Activate element 98 and move it over to the right a little bit
Activate element 96 and merge down into element 98



Muras Meister Copies BUT 
change Shift X and Shift Y to 67 - Objects-align-center in canvas
add this DS to your flower layers 
V:0, H:3, Opacity:80, Blur:10

C&P your tube layer above your frame layer
Sharpen, duplicate your tube- adjust- blur-gaussian blur:3
Blend mode- Screen - Opacity 74 
merge down into your original tube layer add DS

Drag element 53 onto your LP & RS 40% 
place below your tube layer to the left
Drag element 19 onto your LP & RS 30% 
place above your tube layer as shown in tag
Drag element 17 onto your LP & RS 30% 
place above element 53 as shown in tag
Drag element 81 onto your LP & RS 30%
 place below element 19 to the left 
Duplicate and rename El 81 right 
Image- Mirror-Mirror horizontal
Drag element 97 onto your LP & RS 20%
 place below element 81 to the left 
Duplicate and rename El 97 right 
Image- Mirror-Mirror horizontal
Drag element 66 onto your LP & RS 20% 
place below your tube layer to the left as shown in tag
Drag element 78 onto your LP & RS 30% 
place above element 17 down to the left as shown in tag
Duplicate and rename El 78 right
 Image- Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
Drag element 48 onto your LP & RS 30% 
place below element 78 right 
Drag element 45 onto your LP & RS 13%
 place above element 19 upper right corner as show in tag
Drag element 27 onto your LP & RS 15% 
place above element 19 bottom left
Drag element 12 onto your LP & RS 15% 
place below element 27 to the left
Drag Paper 4 onto your LP move this all the way to the bottom and add your mask!
Crop your tag.
Add your copyrights and name (s) and we are done!!

Hope you enjoyed!!
xx



Tuesday, August 6, 2024


This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 8/6/2024
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2020 but any version will do
Tube of Choice- Magical Song by Misticheskaya
Font of Choice - I used Lounge Bait
Mask Used - Suz cmbbmask12
I Used Stus kit Colors Of The Ocean HERE

**Abbreviations I use**
DS- Drop Shadow
LP-Layer Palette
RS-Resize

DONT FORGET TO SHARPEN and ADD DROP SHADOW to EVERY ELEMENT!

Drop Shadow used in this Tutorial is:
V:0, H:4, Opacity:30, Blur 5.00

Lets Go!!

Open a new canvas 800x800
Drag frame 4 onto your LP & RS 60% -
 Objects-Align-Center in Canvas
Drag paper 6 onto your LP below your frame layer and RS 60%
activate your frame layer 
select your magic wand , click inside the frame- 
selections-modify expand by 5-selections-invert
activate your paper layer and hit delete 

Drag element 97 onto your LP & RS 40%
Plugins- Mura Meister Copies- Encircle with these settings



 drag below your paper layer 
objects-align-center in canvas
Drag element 88 onto your paper & RS 30%
Muras Meister - same settings as above 
drag below element 97
 objects-align-center in canvas
Drag element 102 onto your LP & RS 30%
Muras Meister - change Shift X and Shift Y to 60
place between element 97 and 88
 objects-align-center in canvas
Drag element 86 onto your LP & RS 45%
Muras Meister (60 for Shift X and Shift Y)
move below element 88 
objects-align-center in canvas
for all of your flower layers sharpen them and 
add ds (V:0, H:4, Opacity:30, Blur 5.00)

C&P your tube layer above your frame layer and RS 43%
place to the left
Sharpen , Duplicate, Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur 3.00
Blend mode Screen
Merge down into your main tube layer 
add DS change your settings to these
 (V:0, H:4, Opacity:80, Blur:10.00)

Drag element 67 onto your LP place above your tube layer to the left of her feet
(I want her feet showing)
Drag element 54 onto your LP & RS 65% 
and place above your paper layer
Drag element 15 onto your LP & RS 20% 
place below element 67 to the left and up a little bit
Drag element 48 onto your LP & RS 30% 
place above element 67 to the left 
Drag element 91 onto your LP & RS 20%
 place below element 48 to the left
Drag element 89 onto your LP & RS 20% 
place below element 15 to the left and up a little bit
Drag element 83 onto your LP & RS 35%
 place below element 91 as shown in tag
Drag element 73 onto your LP & RS 40%
 place above element 89 a little to the left as shown in tag
Drag element 70 onto your LP- Image-Free Rotate-Left-Free 20 and 
RS 20% place below element 15 to the right
Drag element 23 onto your LP & RS 10% 
place above element 73 to the left
Drag element 20 onto your LP & RS 20% 
place above your tube layer to the left
Drag element 18 onto your LP & RS 25% 
place below element 20 to the left 
(ignore the following step below if you are using a different tube)
 activate your tube layer and get your eraser tool to erase 
any tube showing on the bottom left
Drag element 79 onto your LP & RS 40% 
place below element 18 slightly to the right 
Drag element 80 onto your LP & RS 40% 
place below element 79 slightly to the left 
Drag element 75 onto your LP & RS 20%
 place above element 79 as shown in tag
Drag element 12 onto your LP & RS 15% 
place below element 83 slightly to the left
Drag element 8 onto your LP & RS 15% 
place above element 67 to the right
Drag element 10 onto your LP & RS 45% 
place below your tube layer to the right 
Activate element 79 and duplicate it
on the duplicate - Image-Mirror Horizontal and
 move below your tube layer- rename this 79 right
Activate element 80 and duplicate it
on the duplicate - Image- Mirror Horizontal and 
move below your 79 right element
Drag element 19 onto your LP & RS 13% 
place below your tube layer to the right to where it is on the rocks
Drag element 93 onto your LP flip horizontal & RS 35% 
place below element 10 to the right 
grab your eraser tool and erase the little bit peeking underneath the rock at the bottom
Drag element 11 onto your LP & RS 25% 
place below your tube layer all the way to the left
Drag paper 7 onto your canvas move this all the way to the bottom and add your mask
add copyright and name(s)
and we are done!

Hope you enjoyed!
xx


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