Crazy, Sexy, Cool

This tutorial was written on May 8th 2009 by Susan aka Hippiedaze.
The idea for this tag is off my own head lol and any resemblance is purely coincidence.
General Knowledge of psp is required, tutorial was written in psp 9 but will work in other versions.

Supplies Needed

Tubes of Choice I used the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit MPT, mypsptubes - HERE .
Template Used - Template #37 by Melissa @ Melissa's Creations - HERE .
Mask Used - DBA Mask #26 by Ali - HERE .
No Scrap Kit Used. Preset Shape Used - Flower 7. ( this should be included with your psp program).
Plugin Used - Eye Candy 4000, Gradient Glow.
Effects Used - Textured effects, Weave.
Font of Choice.

(Open all supplies and save mask to psp folder before you begin)

Lets Get Started

Open the template, hit shift & d on your keyboard,this pastes the template as new image, close the original template. I resized all layers by 90% smart size at this point. ( optional) Delete info layer, go to layers, add new raster layer, grab your floodfill tool from the tool palete and choose white colour as your foreground then floodfill the new layer, move this all the way down to the bottom of your canvas, while still on white layer, go to layers, select canvas size and select 500x500 so you have a little more room to work, if theres any transparent canvas showing click it with the floodfil tool.

Go to your colour palette and choose 2 colours you want to use for the tag, i used (#c13d52) & (#eeb7bc), now click the foreground tab and choose gradient from the pop up box, scroll the tiles till you find foreground/background tile, select this and use the folowing settings :- Linear Style .... Angle - 145 ... Repeats - 8. Click ok.

Activate the Circle layer, go to selections, select all, select float, select defloat then go to layers, add new raster layer, grab your floodfill tool and fill the new layer with the gradient you just made, selections, select none. Delete the orginal circle layer now.
Still on the Circle layer, go to effects , select textured effects, weave and put in the following settings :-
Gap Size - 2 ... Width - 5 ... Opacity - 9 ... Weave Colour - White ... Gap Colour - White ... Fill Gaps - Checked.

Now go to effects once more and select eye candy 4000, gradient glow and use the following settings :-
Glow Width - 3.00 .... Soft Corners - 25 .... Overall Opacitiy - 100 .... Colour - White or colour of your choice.

Activate the Rectangles layer, go to selections, select all, select float, select defloat, go to layers, add new raster layer, grab your floodfill tool, i used the gradient to fill but this time i changed the pink to a darker colour (#c13d52), the gradient will change in your foreground tab now, click inside the marching ants on the rectangles and fill them with the new gradient. No glow or dropshadow used on this layer. Delete the original rectangle layer now.

Activate the Rectangle Frame layer, select all, select float, select defloat then go to layers and add new raster layer, back to your colour palette and change your foreground back to solid colour (blue#74b8d0) , now grab floodfill tool and click inside each alternate frame with the blue then switch colours and fill remaining frames with (pink#c13d52). Delete the original frame layer, Add a dropshadow to the new layer.

Repeat this step on the 3 Frame layers, see mine as an example.

Delete each original frame layer and Add the dropshadow to the new layers.

Activate the Lft Square layer, select all, select float, select defloat, paste a tube of your choice as a new layer, resize if needed and position inside the marching ants, when happy with placement go to selections, select invert then hit delete on your keyboard, do not deselect yet, activate the lft square layer again and go to adjust, select brightness/contrast and move the brightness slider all the way left (-255) the square should now be black.

Repeat that step on the other Squares layers with different tubes if you wish.

Activate the Dots Brush layer and go to adjust, select brightness/contrast and move the brightness slider all the way left (-255) the dots will now be black.

Activate the wordart layer, I did the same as with the frame layers here using both colours. (see mine for example). Add the same gradient glow you used before on this layer. No dropshadow.

Activate your top layer, go to your preset shape tool from the tool palette and choose flower 7 shape which should be included with your psp program, I used the same pink & blue colours to draw out some flowers, not too big, you can also switch the forground/background colours to make some flowers the alternate colours. I also added a few smaller white flowers, just change the foreground to null and background to white for these. Give all the flower layers the same gradient glow we used before.

Ok now activate the very bottom layer, add a new raster layer, Go to your colour palette and choose 2 colours we used in the circl layer back at the start, (#c13d52) & (#eeb7bc), now click the foreground tab and choose gradient from the pop up box, scroll the tiles till you find foreground/background tile, select this and use the folowing settings :-
Linear Style .... Angle - 145 ... Repeats - 8.

Click ok, go to layers, load mask from disc, then find the mask you choose at the start (Designs by Ali Mask #26), Make sure the following settings are set...
Fit to canvas - checked .... Source luminace - checked .... Invert transparency - unchecked .... Hide Mask - checked. Click ok.

I moved the mask to the left of my canvas then duplicated it and mirrored.

Crop and resize now if you wish to.

Add your name, artist info and copyright info.

Save as jpeg or .png. and we're done lol.
Thanks for trying my tutorial and i hope you enjoyed it would love to see your results, hippiedaze@hotmail.com