Click here for my friends Bobbi's and Sonel's versions
Translated with permission from the creator, Violette at Violettegraphic tutorial site.
   


See the original tutorial here for PSP in French
This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Violette.
If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission.
You can contact her here.

 They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.
For this tutorial you will need:
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I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XI.
I believe it can be done in most versions.
You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.

Filters and materials needed
Texturizer, free here
Filters Unlimited, available here
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies in zip file here for older versions if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
Tubes were made by Violette, and by Melissa with her permission
You will find Melissa's scraps in her group, Scrappy Expressions (I love that group)
Font used was Vivacious download it here
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I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.
Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.
           



1 - Open your tubes, duplicate them and close the originals.
I like to start with all of my tubes open and close them as they're used
None of these tubes are used twice.
2 - Open a transparent image of 600 X 550 pixels
3 - Activate paper mgt_vyp_fond01 (Lily of the Valley paper)
Edit>Copy (control-C); Edit>Paste as new layer (control-L)
4 - Activate paper mgt_vyp_fond02 (dark green torn paper)
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
5 - Activate paper mgt_vyp_ruban01(dark green ribbon)
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Place on the left side, bottom edge of ribbon on bottom edge of canvas
With the raster deform tool set to scale, pull up on the height to make it fit






Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 0-1-60-1 black
6 - Duplicate layer
Image>Free Rotate>90 degrees, left, all layers not checked


Image>Flip, now move into place at top of scrap as shown with the edge just touching the torn paper
on the right edge of the ribbon. (don't use the command rotate
counterclockwise 90 as it will rotate all layers, you need the free rotate).


In the layer palette, pull this top ribbon layer under the left ribbon layer so it looks like the example.
7 - Click on the eye to turn off the bottom layer and Layers>Merge visible
8 - Activate the tube mgt_vyp_lacet01(the stitching)
Image>Resize to 85%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer

Place on the left edge /Duplicate twice in order to cover the central line with the ribbon
(it's not long enough so you have to duplicate and move the stitching)
Click the bottom layer eye to turn off so the only layers visible are the three layers of stitches, then Merge visible
Rename this layer : Merged 1
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow: 0-1-40-10 black
9 - Click on the bottom layer eye to turn it back on
Duplicate the lace
Image>Free Rotate>90 degrees left and place at top of scrap

Place on the top ribbon on the centre line as before.
I wanted the stitches to meet at the corner and not overlap so, with the top stitching layer active,
I used the rectangle selection tool to select the stitches I wanted removed and hit the delete key.
Don't worry about deleting the side stitching, you're not on that layer so it won't delete anything there.


If there are stitches in the right stitch layer you want removed,
highlight that layer and use the selection tool and delete key.


Once you're happy with the stitching, click the bottom layer eye to turn off
Merge visible
Rename this layer : Merged 2
Click on the bottom layer eye to turn it back on
10 - Activate the selection tool
Settings : rectangle, replace, feather 0, anti-alias checked (see ss)
Click the custom selection icon.


Place these settings in window: Top 75 - Right 436 - Bottom 508 - Left 47




Layers>New Layer>fill with color #dde1d4 (a very pale sage green)
11 - Effects/Texture/Texturizer : Sandstone, scaling 52, relief 1, light direction top, invert not checked
12 - Effects/Filters Unlimited/ Square Edge>Square edge 17



Deselect
13 - Activate the tube mgt_vyp_muguet1(the flower) and resize twice at 85%
Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer. Move into place as shown
14 - With the rectangle selection tool, draw a selection on the part of the
flower tube which is over the side of the note page as shown,
it will just be a small bit of almost transparent white. Click on the delete key (see ss).
Don't worry about selecting what seems to be the torn edge of the paper,
it's not that layer you're on and you won't delete any of that.


Click on eyes in the layer palette to close the bottom layer
and merge visible to merge the torn paper with the flower.
Turn the closed layers back on
15 - Activate the text tool. Using the font of your choice (Vivacious, size 30, used here), type your text.
I kind of paraphrased a line from Thomas Wolfe and made it my own! LOL


Write line by line to better place the text
Color #6d7164 (dark sage green) background color, foreground color turned off
After each line I added a new vector layer and typed that line.
I moved them into place when I was done, then added the drop shadow line by line
(it will ask to make it a raster layer, say yes)
Add a drop shadow for each line
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow : 1-1-40-1 black



Click on the eyes to turn off the background>Merge visible (this will be merging the text with the note)
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow : 2-2-40-2 black (putting a drop shadow on the note)
16 - Duplicate
Image>Free Rotate>10° degrees to the left
If you want the left stitches to go over top of the rotated note like I have,
in the layer palette, pull the stitch layer up to the top.
17 - Activate the tag mgt_vyp_tag01
Image/resize to 85%
I found them a bit yellow for the tag so I went to Adjust>Hue and Saturations>
Hue-Saturation-Lightness and played with the sliders to get it more white and less yellow.
Duplicate 3 times

For each tag:
Add your text - I used Love - Tenderness - Happiness, and Luck for the tags
I used the font Vivacious, size 24 for each tag (size 22 for Happiness to make sure it stayed within the tag)
To rotate, click on the raster deform tool, hover over the middle box and you'll see two curved arrows.
Left click on the box and rotate to where you want it.


Add drop shadow as before to text. 1-1-40-1 black
For each tag, merge visible
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Place as shown on the example
Add drop shadow to each tag, 1-1-60-1 black


Make in the same way for the others tags
18 - Activate the corner mgt_vyp_coin01
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Place in the corner lower right
If you want your little tag (Happiness) over top of the corner,
drag the happiness tag layer in the layer palette to the top
Drop shadow" 1-1-60-10
19 - Activate the paper clip
Image>resize at 35%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Duplicate
Image>Rotate to your taste

With the eraser tool, with no transparency or soft edges, erase the parts located below the paper
Apply drop shadow to each: 1-1-60-1
20 - Activate the rivet
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Duplicate and place as shown
21 - Activate the Pointe (pin)
Image/resize to 85%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
With the eraser tool, erase the parts located below the paper
22 - Activate the noeud01 (bow)
Image>resize to 85%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Place as shown
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow :1-2-40-2 black
23- Activate the chain mgt_vyp_chaine01
Image>resize to 85%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
Place as shown
Erase the part behind the "Love" tag
24 - activate the tag02
Image>resize to 65%
Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new layer
In the layer palette, pull this layer under the chain layer and place as shown
With the eraser tool, erase the part of the chain behind the tag
You could leave it as the top layer but it's easier to erase the chain than it is to erase part of the tag
25. Place your text. I used the font Vivacious, size 26.
The creator wrote May 1, 2007 as this is a special holiday in France
and they give Lily-of-the-Valley (Muguet) nosegays for good luck.
I wanted mine to be good for the whole spring in any year, so I wrote Spring Time on it and no year.
Write whatever you like!
Apply drop shadow: 1-1-60-1

If you want to change the text on the tag later, add it after the final border and the merging.
The text can then be added and changed as desired.
Just remember to save the scrap tag while the text is still a layer as a psp or psd file.
If you try and keep it as a layer now, you won't be able to add the borders.
Close all of the layers except the chain, the tag and the text
Merge visible
Open your closed layers
26. If you like your results Merge all (flatten)
27 - Image>Add borders : 1 dark green pixel #3b3f32
28 - Image >Add borders : 3 pixels pale green #dde1d4
Select with the magic wand
Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel set at:
Bevel 2-1-0-1-50-0-color white-315-30-25
29 - Watermark and save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.
l hope you had fun!
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Tutorial translated May 13, 2007
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These tutorials are translated with permission from the original writer.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site,
but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group.
©2003-2008 Ellie's Treasures


ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS

By my friend Bobbi, of Ramblin Roots


Made by my friend, Sonel of Sonel's Corner

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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
 Sadly, she passed away but her tutorials just came back online, thanks to PIRCNet.
You can find the tutorial here.
 The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "Scrap Porte-Bonheur" tutorial header is Vivacious.
Click on the font name to download the font.
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
 Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
 This is the address to Deb's old pages
 http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
 I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
 For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.