Saturday, June 30, 2012
PTU - Punk
This tutorial was made using PSPX2, but can be adapted
To do this tutorial you must have working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro
This tutorial was written by DesignsbyRená on June 30th, 2012
Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy!
I am using the wonderful work of VeryMany, which I purchased it from www.picsfordesign.com
Items you need:
Scrapkit “Punk Kitty Rocks” by AmyMarie, which you can purchase here!
Template by Rosey (100) which can be found here!
Font is: A&S Blaze (pay font)
Plugins Needed
Eye Candy 4000
Image>canvas size> 800x800 (we can crop layer)
Delete the credits layer, the background layer & all of the word art layers
Now select the “Purple Oval” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp015”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your favorite gradient glow
Now select the ‘pink circle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp9”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Deselect
Add your favorite gradient glow
Next. Select the “Blue Rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp013”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your gradient glow
Select the “Pink Rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp7”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Add noise 50%
Add your gradient glow
Now select the “Black Rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp015” again
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your gradient glow
Select the “White Circle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp012”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your gradient glow
Select the “Purple Rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp4”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your favorite gradient glow
Now using paper “pp015”
Select the “Big Star” layer
Float/defloat
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your gradient glow
Follow these same steps for the “little star” layer
Now open element “clawedheart”
Resize by 50%
Adjust>sharpen
Place to the left of your rectangle (look to my tag for an example)
Image>duplicate>mirror
Merge these two layers together
Next, open “wingedskull”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Place at the top of your tag (again look to my tag as an example”
Add your favorite gradient glow
Add your tube :o)
Open element “Emokitty2”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking
Adjust>sharpen
Place to the left of your text
Font is A&S Blaze at size 72
Add a black/white gradient glow to your name as well as a drop shadow
Foreground #f37e9c, background set to paper “pp6”
Don’t forget to crop your tag
DON’T FORGET TO ADD PROPER © INFORMATION!!!!!
Anywayz, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or want to show off your results, please email me at
Thursday, June 28, 2012
PTU - Glittered Goth
This tutorial was made using PSPX2, but can be adapted
To do this tutorial you must have working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro
This tutorial was written by DesignsbyRená on June 28th, 2012
Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy!
I am using the wonderful work of VeryMany, which you can find here!
For the scrapkit, I am using “Awesome Sauce” by Alika’s Designs
Which can be found at here!
Last but not least you need your template 50, by Rosa which can be found here!
For this tut, you will need to have the following plugins
Eye Candy 4000
Font is A&S black Swan (pay font)
Now on to the tut!
Open your template
Delete the credits layer, the background layer, & wordart layer
Go to Canvas size and resize it to 800x800 (don’t worry, we will resize later)
Select the “LrgCircle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “as_paper06”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your favorite gradient glow
Select your “PinkSquare” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “as_paper03”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your favorite gradient glow
Now right above layer “DiamondLine” add a new layer
Open element “as62”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Merge down
Move the sparkles where you like them :o)
Now open element “as01”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Place to the left center
Image>duplicate>mirror
Now select the “PinkDots” layer
Floodfill with a color from your tube (I used #561b55)
Now select the “PurpleSquare” layer
Floodfill with the same color from above
Now select the “PinkGlitter” later
Floodfill with the same color
Adjust>add noise 50%
Deselect
Next, select the “PinkCircle” layer
Floodfill with black (#000000)
Now add your tubes
For the left side tube (preferable a close-up)
Copy & paste as a new layer
Select the “PurpleSquare”
Float/defloat
Invert selection
Go back to your close-up layer
Delete the bottom portion of your close-up
Deselect
Position to your liking
For the tube on the right:
Follow the same steps, except use your version of the “LrgCircle” layer
Lastly open element “as06”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking
Place inside the black circle
Add your name
I used the font AcornSwashAltern
Foreground black & background #f883cc
Leaving your font selected
(or if not selected, float/defloat)
Open element “sparkles21”
Place inside your text
Invert>delete the excess
Merge these two layers together
Add your favorite gradient glow
For my font, I used A&S black Swan at size 100 (may need changed according to name size)
Don’t forget to crop your tag
DON’T FORGET TO ADD PROPER © INFORMATION!!!!!
Anywayz, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or want to show off your results, please email me at
designsbyrena@windstream.net
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
PTU - Pretty In Emo
This tutorial was made using PSPX2, but can be adapted
To do this tutorial you must have working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro
This tutorial was written by DesignsbyRená on June 27th, 2012
Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy!
I am using the wonderful work of VeryMany, which I purchased here! www.picsfordesign.com
Items you need:
Template by Missy (278) which can be found here!
PTU Scrapkit “Emo Girl” by AmyMarie, which you can purchase here!
Plugins Needed
Eye Candy 4000
Font is AcornSwashAltern
Image>canvas size> 800x800 (we can crop layer)
Delete the credits layer & Raster 1
Select “square1” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp2” from your kit
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize by 50%
Adjust>sharpen
Invert your selection>delete the excess
Do the same for layer “Square2”
Then select “frame1” layer
Flood fill with a color of your choice (I used #f883cc)
Add noise at 50%
Deselect
Add your favorite gradient glow
Do the same to the “frame2” layer
Now select the “circle” layer
Open element “heartspiked” element
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking, and place in the square on the left
Image>duplicate>mirror
Merge these two element layers
Now reselect your “circle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp010” from your kit
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Change the layer to Luminance(L)
Opacity set to 36
Now select your “frame3” layer
Float/defloat
Floodfill with the same color as above
Add noise at 50%
Deselect & add your favorite gradient glow
Now select the “thin rectangle2” layer
Float/defloat
Floodfill with same color
Add noise at 50%
Add your gradient glow
Do the same with the “thin rectangle3” layer
Now select the “words” layer
Float/defloat
Floodfill
Deselect
Now open “wingedheart” element
Copy & paste as a new layer
Add your favorite gradient glow again
Now open the “sparkles24” element
Copy & paste as a new layer
Place to the left
Image>duplicate
Image>mirror
Merge these two layers
Now add your tube!
After float/defloat on my circle layer, I went back to my tube layer
Then I inverted the selection
And then erased the bottom portion of the tube
You may need to slightly reposition the tube to make it appear that it is within the circle
Now open element “emokitty”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize by 50%
Adjust>sharpen
Place on the left, where u prefer
Image>duplicate>mirror
Merge these two together and then add a drop shadow of choice
Next open “shoe1”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking
Position on the left & duplicate
Mirror
Merge these 2 layers and then add your drop shadow
Add your name
I used the font AcornSwashAltern
Foreground black & background #f883cc
Leaving your font selected
(or if not selected, float/defloat)
Open element “sparkles21”
Place inside your text
Invert>delete the excess
Merge these two layers together
Add your favorite gradient glow
For my font, I used AcornSwashAltern at size 48 (may need changed according to name size)
Don’t forget to crop your tag
DON’T FORGET TO ADD PROPER © INFORMATION!!!!!
Anywayz, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or want to show off your results, please email me at
Thursday, June 21, 2012
PTU - Sizzlin
Sizzlin
This tutorial was made using PSPX2, but can be adapted
To do this tutorial you must have working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro
This tutorial was written by DesignsbyRená on June 21st, 2012
Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy!
I am using the wonderful work of Ismael Rac, which I purchased it from www.xeracx.net
Items you need:
Scrapkit “Something Sweet” by AmyMarie, which you can purchase here!
Template by Kandi Kissez (CMTemp3-kk-12) which can be found here!
Plugins Needed
Eye Candy 4000
Font is AbagailJackson
Image>canvas size> 800x800 (we can crop layer)
Delete the credits layer & white background layer
Select the “top right pink rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp1”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Deselect
Add your favorite gradient glow using the colors from the kit
Follow the above for the “bottom left black rectangle” layer
Now select the “pink rectangle stripes” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp3”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Deselect
Add your gradient glow
Now, create a new layer above your “black rectangle layer”
Open element “glittersplatter1”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Move to the left of your tag
Image>duplicate
Image>mirror
Now reselect the “black rectangles” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp4”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Add your gradient glow
Now select the “blue rectangle” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp2”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Deselect
Add your gradient glow
Next, select the “frame backs” layer
Open paper “PP012”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Select the “white frames” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp011”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Invert again, add noise 50%
Deselect
Add your gradient glow
Now in between the “white frames” layer & your version of the layer
Open your close-ups
Copy & paste as a new layer
Position to your liking in the right frame (resize & sharpen if needed)
Now add your close-up again
Image>mirror
Resize if needed, don’t forget to image>sharpen if needed
Add this to your smaller left frame
Merge these tube layers together
Select the “stripes” layer
Float/defloat
Open paper “pp011”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Invert>delete the excess
Deselect
Now, select the “feel the heat” layer & add your favorite drop shadow
Select the “wordart” layer, add your favorite gradient glow
Open element “12”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize by 50%
Adjust>sharpen
Place in the top right frame
Add your favorite gradient glow
Image>duplicate
Resize again by 50%
Adjust>sharpen
Place in the bottom of your left frame
Look to my tag as an example
Merge these layers together
Now, open element “icecream1”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking
Adjust>sharpen
Place to the left
Image>duplicate
Image>mirror
Merge these two layers
Add your favorite drop shadow
Now open element “bow1”
Copy & paste as a new layer
Resize to your liking
Position in the box (which contains Sizzlin) on the left
Image>duplicate
Image>mirror
Adjust>sharpen
Merge these two layers together, and then add your favorite drop shadow
Add your main tube
I used AbagailJackson as my font size 48
Adjust font size to the size of the name
Foreground set to null & background set to #ab5ff5
Add your favorite gradient glow
Add your favorite drop shadow
Position to your liking
Don’t forget to crop your tag
DON’T FORGET TO ADD PROPER © INFORMATION!!!!!
Anywayz, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or want to show off your results, please email me at
designsbyrena@windstream.net
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About Me
- Designs by Rená
- SAHM to two wonderful children. Married for 14 years to my best friend. I have been using PSP for 15+ years now,and love all aspects of it. If you need to get ahold of me,please email me at designsbyrena01@windstream.net
