Gothic Inspirations Blog Train- CHOO- CHOO

Gothic Inspirations Blog Train- CHOO- CHOO

 Well don't be too critical lol, I am no scrap maker, but I attempted this kit as a freebie for Gothic Inspirations December Blog Train . I am no Goth Girl by any means, so though the Theme was Nightmare before Xmas ( which I have never seen) I went traditional.. though not quite the traditional Christmas colors thought it matched this awesome tube by Elias which was part of PTE's Xmas gift. Hugz Dee

 DOWNLOAD - HERE

HEADQUARTERS

Jo with: A Taggers Scrap

Annette with: AW Design

Jill with: Created By Jill Scraps

Stuart with: Creative Crazy Scraps

Crystal with: Crystals Creations

Dee with: Dees’Sign Depot YOU ARE HERE

Sharon with: Designs by SharonB

Stina with: Designs By Stina

Dianna with: Digicats (& Dogs)

Elisa with: Digital Designs by Elisa

Conchi with: DNScraps

Miriam with: Ellanoir Design

Jessica with: Gothic Inspirations

Victoria with: Maitri Scraps 

Lee with: Midnight Art

Victoria with: Signature Collections 

Kara with: Sweet Cravings Scraps

New Tag /Tut from Leah Santa's Comfort N Joy

Its just Smashing! Link to her Tutorial - HERE

I really love seeing all these great tags being made with the new Templates!

Prezzie from Carol!

Carol from Hugahav's Haven made and share with me this Stunning Tag using one of our Christmas Collab Templates, its beautifully animated and guess what? She has written the tutorial on it!

TUTORIAL CAN BE FOUND - HERE

Julie Jazzed me up a tag!!

Julie from Julies Jazz Designz sent me this GORGEOUS tag 

she made using one of the new Collab Templates!

Thanks so much for my prezzie!! YAY!

Scarab - I'm Santa's Comfort N Joy

Look at this Prezzie I got... I am so excited.. Scarab made this Stunning tag for me using one of our new Christmas Collab Templates ( Kandi and Mine)

Its just Fabulous Scarab!! Thanks so much..xoxo Dee

Sneak Peek!

Well don't be too critical lol, I am no scrap maker, but I attempted this kit as a freebie for Gothic Inspirations December Blog Train which will be leaving the Station soon. I am no Goth Girl by any means, so though the Theme was Nightmare before Xmas ( which I have never seen) I went traditional.. though not quite the traditional Christmas colors thought it matched this awesome tube by Elias which was part of PTE's Xmas gift. Hugz Dee

 

Tutorial - FTU - Flowers Feed the Soul

Flowers Feed the Soul

I used PSP X2 (though any version will do)

My Supplies( Shape Texture) HERE 

Word Art Font Used - FFF Urban- HERE

The tubes I used are ©Hannah Lynn - Which can be purchased HERE

 This tutorial was written on 11.26.11 by Dee
Any similarities is completely coincidental  

*For this tutorial C/P means Edit, copy element or paper and paste as a new layer.
*Also when I suggest clicking on a layer first before you C/P its for placement purposes.

*D/S - Effects, 3 D effects, Drop Shadow then put in the settings I post in the brackets.

Open up the textures and place them in their folder.. 

for help with this see - HERE 

 

 Create New Raster 200 by 600 and flood fill #54d6d0. Open up your main tube and C/P. Move to the left of your tag.
Set your foreground color to nil and using your eyedropper tool, choose a color from your image as the background color.
Go to your Eclipse too set to circle and  somewhere in the center of your work area, draw out a small circle, choose several other colors from your
main tube and continue drawing out circles, each one a different size but place them close enough together. Once you have 5 or 6 different colors,
right click and convert layer to raster. Go to Effects, Plug Ins, Mura Miester Copies and apply with these settings. 

Hide your Main tube now, right click
merge visible. On your dotted layer go to Effects, Textures Effects, Textures and scroll in the view box to texture 49 and apply using these settings.

Open up the Purple shape, C/P and line it up towards the bottom. Recolor it if you want. Go to effects, Texture effects, Textures and scroll to Texture 88
and using the same settings as before, apply to your purple shape. Now apply a d/s to the shape with these settings.

Duplicate your main tube and drag  it below your Purple shape, duplicate twice, arrange each layer how you want it. I used the bottom flowers  for the bottom layer, then the tubes face as the middle layer, for the top one I just mirrored it,  and used the flower image again. Apply a d/s to each of these layers (5,3,50,5.00) Click on top layer, choose a color from your tag and flood fill with it, select all, select float, invert by 3 hit delete, select none. Choose a color from your tube, set as background color, using your eclipse tool
trace out a small circle to put in the middle of your Purple shapes flowers, add a d/s to the first one (3,2,30,3.00) and duplicate as many times as you need so that each flower has a center.
Using FFF Urban Font set to 8 pixel size and anti-alias set to off...type out your word art leaving a space of about 5 space bar hits between repeating it. Align it up just above the flowers and apply same d/s as you did to the flower centers. Add your Text and copyright info and your done! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial:) Dee

Its a Purple Award!!

Kerry from Purple's Tutorials honored me with this cute  PURPLE award.

She wanted to share her purpleness so she made a purple kiss award. 

RULES :

To get this award you must have the color purple in your blog design. 

And you can only award those with purple in there blog. 

You must send it to 5 people who have purple in there blog and you must tell them the rules also.

Don't forget to let them know too.  

I Pass this award on to :

Brulicious Designs

Rose's Place

Blissfully Beth

Crazy Cakes Scraps

Punky Butts

 

New Prezzie From Kandi

Look at this GORGEOUS Tag Kandi made me using one of her new Templates (47) which you can grab HERE

A Kandee Christmas Collab Set!

Kandi and  I did it again!! This time we collabed for 8 Christmas Templates!! I think they turned out FABULOUS myself! Please take a moment if you download to leave some love and appreciation. Drop by Kandi's Blog - Kandi Kissez and leave her some love as well... it just takes a moment and its a wonderful gesture! Hope you enjoy these Templates. Both in PSD and PSP Image ( PSP 7 compatible) Hugz Dee:)

DOWNLOAD PSPIMAGE - HERE

DOWNLOAD PSD - HERE

Naughty Elves

 Gaby from Disturbed by Gaby made this Fab tag using  one of my textures.

Check out the tutorial - HERE 

Thanks for sharing Gaby - Awesome tag!!

 

Snowflake Wordart

Just click on picture, then right click and save as .png.

Forever Fall

Forever Fall

I used PSP X2 (though any version will do)

My Supplies( Template Texture) HERE 

Name Font Used - Water brush Rob - HERE
Plug In Filters Used

Alien Eye Candy6 Gradient Glow - HERE
You can get  a trial version for Alien Eye Candy

The tubes I used are ©Renee Biertempfel - Which can be purchased HERE

 The Gorgeous Scrap Kit I used is by Monica of Scrappamondo 

It is called Autumn Colors it can be purchased HERE

 This tutorial was written on 11.14.11 by Dee
Any similarities is completely coincidental  

*For this tutorial C/P means Edit, copy element or paper and paste as a new layer.
*Also when I suggest clicking on a layer first before you C/P its for placement purposes.

*D/S - Effects, 3 D effects, Drop Shadow then put in the settings I post in the brackets.

Open up Template, Shift D, close out original. Put your Texture in your Programs Texture folder.

For a tut on it go - HERE

Delete the info layer, image canvas size, re-size to 675 by 675, all layers checked.

Go to bottom white bg layer, select all, flood fill it white.

We want each letter of Fall on a separate layer. I have done it for you in the Template,

but if you have down loaded the previous version (from BLOG Train) of this template

the letters are not separated.

Here is a list of Papers and resizing for each shape, I will explain the procedure for one shape then just repeat for each.

Grey Circles - Paper2 - re-sized 18%

Red Square - Paper 1 -re-sized 18%

Grey Rectangle- Paper 16 - re-sized 18%

FALL letters - Paper 13 -re-sized 18%

White Circles - Paper 14 -re-sized 18%

Click on one of your grey circles (the shape you are replacing with paper), Open up your paper, re-size (all layers checked) C/P. On shape layer, Select All, Select Float, Select Invert.
On your new Paper Layer, hit Delete, Select None. Delete the Original Shape. Go to effects, 
Plugins, Alien Eye Candy Gradient Glow and apply to your new Paper with these settings.

Then Go to Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and Apply with These Settings.
(7,5,50,7.0)
Now repeat procedure of replacing each shape with the designated Paper. 
Apply the GG and the DS to all EXCEPT  the letters and the white circles. Also DO NOT Delete the Original Letters or circles.
Click on Your Bottom Letter Layer (Right L), create new raster flood fill it 
#997e61. On the Original L, Select All, Select Float, Select Invert, on your new flood filled layer hit delete, select none. Go to Effects, Texture Effects, Texture, in your view finder look for Texture 16 and apply with these settings.

Apply the same d/s to this new L 

(7,5,50,7.0) and delete the original L. On the Paper 13 Layer of the same L  change its blend mode to multiply and set the opacity to 68%.

Repeat for each Letter layer.

Click on your white circles layer.  Open up your close up tube of choice, duplicate twice and arrange each one over one of the circles. Using your magic tool, set to Color, Add (shift) and 40 tolerance, click on the first circle so it has marching ants around it. Select invert and on your close up tube layer for that circle hit delete, select none. Now duplicate that close up tube layer, on the bottom layer change the opacity to 85 and set the blend mode to Luminance(L). Change the opacity of the top one to 85% and set its blend mode to screen. Now repeat for the other 2 circles. When done add the same d/s to the white circles as we won't be deleting this layer.


Click on your Overlay layer, go to Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance more.

Click on one of the Leaves layers, Create new Raster, flood fill it
#957957, on the Leaves layer select all, select float, select invert, on your new flood fill layer, hit delete, select none. Add the same Gradient Glow as you did your main shapes. Keep the original shape but add d/s to it (7,5,50,7.0).
Now repeat for other Leaves Layer, except use  #df8018 as your flood fill color.


Now the rest of this tag is all elements except for my main tube. Add your main tube and apply d/s (7,5,70,7.00). I will now list all the elements I used and what resizing and d/s I used for each. The trick to this tag is Layering. Before adding a new element, click on your top layer, then once added arrange
your element to where you want it and then drag that layer down to where you think it looks good. 

SbyM_AC-Elem2  - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem11 - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem12 - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem13 - re-sized  20%, duplicated, flipped d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem14 - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem15 - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem17 - re-sized  20%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem18 - re-sized  20%, duplicated, flipped d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem19 - re-sized  20%, duplicated twice, mirrored and flipped d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem25 - re-sized  20%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem26 - re-sized  10%, duplicated, mirrored d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem29 - re-sized  15%, duplicated, flipped d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem31 - re-sized  15%, duplicated, mirrored d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem32 - re-sized  15%, duplicated, mirrored d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem34 - re-sized  15%, d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem37 - re-sized  15%, duplicated, mirrored d/s (5,3,50,5.00)
SbyM_AC-Elem38 - re-sized  15%, duplicated, mirrored d/s (5,3,50,5.00)

Click on your mask layer, create new raster layer, flood fill it
#83664a. On mask layer, select All, select float, select invert, on new floodfill layer hit delete, select none. Delete the original mask layer and then duplicate your new mask layer. On the top mask layer go to Effects, Edge effects, enhance more.


Now add your Text and copyright info. Delete the bottom white bg layer, merge visible and save as a .png.

If you have any questions regarding this tut  just send me an email  to: dee2592@gmail.com

I would love to see any results!! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.