PTE CT Tag by Leah

I made this using the newly released Elias Chatzoudis tube available for purchase at PSP Tubes Emporium HERE.

Check out the PTE facebook group for some snags!

FTU tut - School Memories

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.

Supplies Needed:

~Gimp (any version will do).

~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of Cedric Poulat, you must have a license to use this art which you can get @ PSP Tubes Emporium HERE.

~Back to School FTU scrapkit by Sweet Cravings Scraps which you can get HERE.

~Mask of choice. I used mask 17 which you can get from HorsePlay's Pasture HERE.

~Font of choice. I used Pea Faith Dots.

Let's get started!!!!!

1. Open a new layer ( I prefer a large canvas, so I make mine 1050x656). Make your canvas transparent (Layer > Transparency > Color to alpha).

2. Open Frame 2, add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow). I tilted the frame slightly using the rotate tool in the tool box.

3. Open Paper 12 center it behind frame, remove excess paper using a cutting tool or eraser.

4. Open tubes. I used both a full body and a close-up.

~For the full body tube you will need to duplicate the tube so that you have 2 (at the bottom of your layer box click on the blue box. This will give you 2 tube layers).

~Select the top tube layer in your tool box. Add Gaussian Blur (Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur, use default settings).

~On that same tube layer change the mode to Overlay (at the top of your Layer Box you will see where it says Mode, click the arrow and select Overlay from the drop down menu).

~Add drop shadow to bottom tube layer of full body tube.

~For the close-up tube layer, place it under the frame (but above the paper) in your layer box. Change the mode to Screen (at the top of your Layer Box you will see where it says Mode, click the arrow and select Screen from the drop down menu). Remove excess tube layer using cutting tool or eraser from your tool box.

5. Open and place the following elements:

Chalkboard
Word art 3
Flower 1
Flower 2
Flower 3
Flower 4
Notebook 3
Glue
School books
Bow 6
Scissors 4
Pencil 4
Paintbrush 3

~Some elements may need to be sized down. Using the Scale Tool in your tool box adjust pixels to desired size~

~Add drop shadow to all elements (except Word art 3)~

6. Open Paper 20.

7. Open mask.

8. Add mask to paper (click HERE for a tut on using masks).

9. Merge layers (Image > Merge Visible Layer).

10. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

11. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image).

12. Add copyright info and name.

13. Save as .png

You are finished :)

PTE CT Tag by Leah

I tried my hand at one of Keith Garvey's newly released images from Garvs Coloring Book 2. I had fun coloring this tube. Keep in mind that this is the very first time I have tried to color something lol! You can purchase Garvs Coloring Book 2 at PSP Tubes Emporium HERE.

Be sure to check out the PTE facebook group to get some snags of this tag!

PSP Tube Stop CT tag by Amy

This tag was made featuring a gorgeous fairy by Claire Nobles. This tube comes with 7 layers, that's 1 fairy, 5 butterflies and a bird...tons of fairy fun!!! You can find this beauty @ PSP Tube Stop.

FTU Tut- Bella

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.

Supplies:

Gimp

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Roman Zaric. You must have a license to use these tubes. You can purchase the tube I used starting today at PSP Tubes Emporium HERE

FTU kit from Artistic Dreams called Twilight HERE

Font- Monika Italic

Lets get started!

-File>New 600x225 px.

-Open paper 5.

-Open tube. Place to the far right. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Change the mode to grain merge. Lower the opacity to 50. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Select the flip tool and click canvas. Change the mode of the flipped tube to soft light.

-Open tube again. Layer Scale Layer 75%. Place in the middle. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Duplicate. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 70.

-Open doodle 1. Place to the right side of the main tube. Layer to image size. Repeat drop shadow. Duplicate. Flip.

-Open shadow. Move below the doodle layer. Scale 30%. Place to the right. Lower the opacity to 60. Layer to image size. Duplicate and flip.

-Open apple. Move above the paper layer. Place on the right side. Duplicate. Move duplicate to the left side.

-Open wordart 1. Scale 35%. Place in the upper left corner. Lower the opacity to 50. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open wordart 1 again. Scale 40%. Select the rotate tool. Rotate 90. Place to the right. Lower the opacity to 50 and repeat drop shadow.

-Make the top layer active. Layer>New Layer. Change foreground color to black. Select the bucket fill tool and click canvas. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Select>Shrink 8. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Add a gaussian blur of 10.0.

Add new layer. Change foreground to 9f2600. Bucket fill canvas. Alpha to selection. Shrink by 7. Delete. Select none. Filters>Decor>Add Bevel. Uncheck work on copy.

-Add new layer. Alpha to selection. Shrink by 3. Bucket fill selection with black. Shrink 1. Delete. Select none.

-Add name and copyright.

Avatar:

-Make everything above the doodle layer invisible (click the eye next to each layer).

-File>New 150x150 px.

-Edit>Paste As>New Layer.

-Open tube. Scale 35%. Place to the far left. Repeat drop shadow. Duplicate. Add gaussian blur of 5.0. Change mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 70.

-To add the border repeat steps above for banner.

-Add name or initial. Also add copyright.

All done!

FTU tut - Spring is in the Air

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.

Supplies Needed:

~Gimp (any version will do).

~Tube of choice. I used a beautiful bird by Emerald Eyez, you must have a license to use this art which you can get @ PSP Tubes Emporium HERE.

~Whispering Touch FTU scrapkit by A Taggers Scrap which you can get HERE.

~Mask of choice. I used mask 19 which you can get from HorsePlay's Pasture HERE.

~Font of choice. I used Riddle Medium.

Let's get started!!!!!

1. Open a new layer ( I prefer a large canvas, so I make mine 1050x656). Make your canvas transparent (Layer > Transparency > Color to alpha).

2. Open Frame 2, add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).

3. Open tube.

~You will need to duplicate this tube so that you have 2 (at the bottom of your layer box click on the blue box. This will give you 2 tube layers).

~Select the top tube layer in your tool box. Add Gaussian Blur (Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur, use default settings).

~On that same tube layer change the mode to Overlay (at the top of your Layer Box you will see where it says Mode, click the arrow and select Overlay from the drop down menu).

~Add drop shadow to bottom tube layer.

4. Open and place the following elements:

Deco 2
Deco 3
Hanging flowers
Scattered blossoms
Flower 1
Flower 3
Flower 5
Gem 1
Gem 2
Gem 3

~Some elements may need to be sized down. Using the Scale Tool in your tool box adjust pixels to desired size~

~Add drop shadow to all elements (except Deco 2)~

5. Open Paper 3.

6. Open mask.

7. Add mask to paper (click HERE for a tut on using masks).

8. Merge layers (Image > Merge Visible Layer).

9. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

10. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image).

11. Add copyright info and name.

12. Save as .png

You are finished :)

PTE CT tag by Amy

This tag was made with a fun kit by JRB Scraps called Springin you can find it in the new releases section @ PSP Tubes Emporium.