PaintShop Pro X2 (Any version should work)

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Eye Candy 4 > Gradient Glow

Font Of Choice : I used Hiruko Size 90 Color : #6eb4de

Mask Of Choice

Paper 14

Fence

Butterfly

Bow

Bird

Grass

Fairy Tree

Froggie

Mushroom 3

Mushroom 4

Sun

Tree

Lizard

Open a new 800x650 image, white background

Open Paper 14, copy & paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to Layers, click Load/Save Mask, Then click Load Mask From Disc. Find the mask you would like to use, then click ok. In your layers pallet, right click on your mask layer, then click Merge, then Merge Group. 

Now use your move tool and position your mask where you want it.

Open your fence element, copy & paste it as a new layer

apply a drop shadow.

(To apply a drop shadow on any element go to Effects, click on 3D, then click Drop Shadow. Set your settings to your choice, then click Ok.)

Open your Shoe House, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 85%. Using your move tool position it to the middle of your fence. Then apply a drop shadow.

In your layers pallet make sure your Shoe House is above your Fence layer.

Now open your Welcome element, copy & paste as a new layer onto your canvas, re-size to 85%. Apply drop shadow.

Open your Grass element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size your grass to 15%, now in your layers pallet, right click on your grass layer, then click Duplicate, you will want to duplicate this layer so that you have a total of 4 grass layers. Each time you duplicate it use your move tool and move each sections of grass to the side of the grass it came off from. So if you are moving it from the left side, you want to slide that duplicated grass to the right so that the ends touch. Now once you have 4 layers of grass in your layers pallet, and 4 pieces of grass on your canvas, that you have moved so that they are end to end, go back to your layers pallet, right click on the top grass layer, click Merge, then click Merge Down. Do this until all 4 grass layers become ONE. Once you have one grass layer, right click on your merged grass layer, click Duplicate, then using your move tool move each section of grass over so that the ends are touching, duplicate this layer as many times as you need to so that you have a line of grass all the way across your fence.

(In your layers pallet, make sure that your all of your grass layers are moved down below your Mushrooms 3& 4 layers, & Welcome layer.)

Open your Tree element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas , now re-size it to 70%, then use your move tool to move your Tree over to the left side of your Fence. 

Apply a drop shadow.

Now lets open your Fairy Tree element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto the right side of your canvas, putting it just about at the end of your fence.

Apply drop shadow.

Now open your BabyDoll Fae Pink, before you copy & paste it, go to Image, click Mirror. Then copy & paste it onto your canvas as a new layer. Re-size to 80%. In your layers pallet, right click on your BabyDoll Fae Pink layer, click Duplicate, then go to Adjust, click Blur, then click Gaussian Blur, set to 3.00 click Ok.

Then change your blend mode to Overlay.

Now on your bottom (original) tube layer, apply a drop shadow.

Now open your Mushroom 3 element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 50% then re-size it again to 65%. Use your move tool and position it to the right of your BabyDoll Fae . Now go to Adjust, click Sharpness, then click Sharpen.

Apply drop shadow.

Open your Mushroom 4 element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 50%, ,then re-size it again this time to 75%.  Using your move tool again, position your Mushroom 4 element to the right of your Mushroom 3 element. In your layers pallet make sure that your Mushroom 4 element is above your Mushroom 3 element.

Now open your Sun element, copy & paste it as a new layer, then re-size it to 25%, use your move tool and position it to the top left side of your frame, just above your Tree & Shoe House. Go to Adjust, click Sharpness, then click Sharpen. Apply Drop Shadow.

Open your Bow element, then copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 25%. Use your move tool and move your bow so that it is on your chimney of your Shoe House. Go to Adjust, click Sharpness, then click Sharpen.

Apply drop shadow.

Open your Lizard element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30%, use your move tool move it so that it is right in front of your Shoe House door.

Then go to Adjust, click Sharpness,then click Sharpen.

Apply drop shadow.

Now open your Froggie element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30%, then use your move tool and position your froggie element over so that it is to the bottom right of your welcome element. 

Go to Adjust ,then click Sharpness, then click Sharpen.

Apply drop shadow.

Open your Bird element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 20%, using your move tool position your bird element so that it appears to be sitting on top of your welcome sign. Now in your layers pallet, right click on your bird element layer and click Duplicate, then go to Image, and click Mirror. Now position your second bird on the green leaf of your Fairy Tree.

On both bird layers, go to Adjust, click Sharpness, then click Sharpen.

Apply drop shadow to both layers as well.

Now open your Butterfly element, copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, re-size it to 15%. Using your move tool move your butterfly element over to the  right of your tag, then in your layers pallet right click on your butterfly layer and click duplicate, then go to Image, and click Mirror. 

Use your move tool to position where you want your second butterfly, I have moved mine to the right side near my mushroom 4 element.

Now is time to add your name. The font size & color I used are listed above in my Supplies Needed area.

Once you have your name where you want it, go to your layers pallet, right click on your name layer then click Convert To Raster Layer. Then go to Effects , Plug-ins, click on Eye Candy 5, then Gradient Glow , apply settings that are below :

 Click Ok.

Now using your magic wand click inside each letter of the name, once all letters are selected go

 to Effects, click 3D, then click Inner Bevel and apply the settings that are below :

Click Ok.

Once that is done, on your keyboard use your Ctrl & D key to deselect your name . OR you can go to Selections, then click Select none.

Now apply a drop shadow to your name layer. :-)

Now you will need to add any copyright/credit information that is needed.

Once all of that is done, go to your layers pallet, right click on any layer, then click Merge, then on the slide out menu click Merge Visible.

Once all layers are merged, you will want to crop your tag. So using your crop tool, crop off any access canvas that we did not use, be careful not to crop to close to your design. You don't want to crop off any of the elements, tube, or text.

Once you have cropped your tag you might need to re-size it, if so you can do this one of two ways, you can either use your Shift & S keys on your key board and that will bring up your Re-size menu ,OR you can go to Image, & click Re-size. Set your settings to whatever you need them for, then click ok.

Once I re-size something, I always sharpen it, so if you would like to do this as well, go to Adjust, click Sharpness, then click Sharpen.

Now save your image as png & you are all done!

Thank-You for trying my tutorial, I hope you found it easy to follow. As always if you try one of my tutorials please send me your finished design I would LOVE to see it and display it on my blog!