Romancing The Heart
You must have a working knowledge of PSP
I am using the beautiful artwork of Jennifer Janesko
You must purchase a license to use her art
I bought mine at CILM but she is now with CDO

Supplies needed:

FTU tagger size scrapkit called Romancing The Heart
from Designs by Vaybs. Thanks Vaybs for sharing your beautiful kit
Be sure to leave her some love when you download. HERE

KyLie Mask 43. HERE
Plugin: Alien Skin Xenofex2-Constellation
Font : Love

Let's Begin

1
Open a new canvas 600 x 600 in psp.  Flood fill with white

2
Open KyLie_Mask43 in psp
Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer. I'm using the heart paper
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image / Source window / locate your mask
Source luminance (Check).  Invert Mask Data (unchecked)
Click OK.  Merge Group
Ajust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius 10
Adjust - Hue and Saturation - H/S/L
Follow the settings as below

Click OK
Resize by 97%

3

Copy and paste element2 (wordart) as a new layer
Resize by 80%

4
Copy and paste element30 (wire) as a new layer
Resize by 80%
Name this as element30
Place this above the mask layer

5

Copy and paste element26 (cluster frame) as a new layer
Resize by 80%

6

Open paper 3. Resize by 60%
Using your magic wand, click inside the cluster frame
Make sure you click onto all the small areas which
needs to be covered.
Selections / Modify  / Expand by 3
Copy and paste paper 3 as a new layer
Selections / invert / hit delete on keyboard.  Select none
Adjust - Hue and Saturation - H/S/L
Follow the settings as below

Click OK
Drag this layer below the cluster frame layer
 

7
Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer
Adjust the position where you want your tube
Layers / Duplicate
Drag duplicate tube above frame layer
Erase some parts of the tube showing past edges of frame
See my finished tag for reference

8
Copy and paste element29 (ribbon) as a new layer
Resize by 70%
Image - Free Rotate - Left 90

9

Copy and paste element15 as a new layer
Place it on the right. Duplicate/Mirror
Element 15 should be
between the mask and element 3 layer

10
Copy and paste element11 as a new layer
Resize by 90%. Place below the paper layer

11
Copy and paste other Embellishments of choice as a new layer
Element 20. Resize by 90%
Element 31. Resize by 45%

12
Inner Bevel of choice
For the Drop Shadow
I used the following settings:
V and H 3,  Opacity 55  Blur 10.00  Color: Black

13
Add your name, artist's copyright and URL
If you don't wish to animate your tag
Layers / Merge all.
Save as a .png or jpeg


If you wish to animate, do not merge yet
Let's continue


In your palette, highlight element 30 layer
Duplicate twice for a total of 3 identical layers (3 frames)
Name them 1, 2, 3

14
Highlight layer 1
Effects / Alien Skin Xenofex2 / Constellation
Follow my settings as below

Click Random Seed
Repeat the same for layers 2 and 3
Keep all settings the same except changing the Random Seed

15
Hide layers 2 and 3
Layers / Merge /Merge Visible
Edit / Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop




ANIMATION SHOP (AS)

1
In AS, paste as New Animation
Go back to PSP
Undo Last Command

2
Hide layer 1
Open layer 2
Layers / Merge /Merge Visible
Copy Merged

3
Go to AS
Paste after current
Go back to PSP
Undo Last Command

4
Hide layer 2
Open layer 3
Layers / Merge /Merge Visible
Copy Merged

5
Go to AS
Paste after current

View animation
If you are happy, save as gif
You're Done!!!
Thank you for trying my tutorial.



Any similarities to other tutorials is merely a coincidence
This tutorial was written by KyLie on 4th February 2010