CT tag & wallpaper featuring the fantastic art of

Sheena Pike using her tube 41-2. I am also 

showcasing the wonderful IB Sheena Pike

41-2 Scrap by Gimptastic Scraps. The wallpaper

is 1920x1080 & available to download here.

It is in the darkest of times, when faced to look

within ourselves, that we find ourselves.

Our strength, our courage & what truly 

makes us well us, the core of our spirit,

With those things, we can find our happiness

& know that we can conquer the darkness.

This tutorial was written on June 28,2020

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using the tube 11-2 by Yuriko Shirou.

Plugins:

File Factory Gallery E

Kiwi's Oelfilter

Xero Porcelain

Greg's Factory Output

VM Natural

Mask: AKK_Mask060 by

Karmalized Scraps

Texture Pack 16 by
hulsuga

Open up a tube of choice.

Open up a 700x700 new image.

On your Materials palette, choose a color

from your tube for the Foreground/Stroke Color.

Hide the Background/Fill color for now.

I am using the color black for mine.

Select your Rectangle Preset Shape tool.

Set the Width at 7.00 & make sure the 

Rectangle option is selected.

Draw out a big square to desired size.

Objects - Align - Center In Canvas

Convert to Raster.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer under the square.

Resize if you need to. I resized the tube i used 70%.

Position so the bottom of the tube lines up

along the bottom edge of the square.

Its okay if it overlaps a bit. We will fix that soon.

Duplicate the tube once & move above the square layer.

Copy & paste a texture of choice under the previous layers.

Duplicate once & move above the top layer.

Rename the layers such as:

Tex2

Tube1

Square1

Tube2

Tex1

Hide Tex2 layer for now.

Select the Square1 layer & select your magic wand tool.

Click inside the Square.

Go to Selections -Modify - Expand by 3. Then select Invert.

Now select one at a time the following layers:

Tex2

Tube2

Tex1

Press delete on each layer to eliminate the excess outside of

the square shape. Select none.

Now hide layers except Square1 & Tube1.

Lower the opacity on Tube2. Take either your Selection tool

or your Eraser tool & erase the excess of Tube 2 layer. Now, if 

you have a part of the tube you would like to keep  "popping out"

paste the Square, then leave that part.

Raise the opacity back to 100 & unhide the hidden layers..except Tube1

& Tex2. Keep these two hidden for now.

Select the Tube2 Layer in your layers palette.

Apply the plugin: File Factory Gallery E -Web -Default settings.

Duplicate Tube2 once. On the copy layer, apply the plugin

Kiwi's Oelfilter -Sezboard with default settings.

Change the blend mode on this layer to Soft Light.

Go to Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance.

Merge this layer down with the original Tube2 layer.

Apply Xero Porcelain to the merged layer.

Move the Tex2 layer underneath your Tube1 layer

& select the Tex2 layer.

Apply Greg's Factory Output -Shear Tiles -Default settings.

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light.

On Tube1, apply the plugin Xero Porcelain.

Duplicate Tube1 layer once.

Apply the plugin: VM Natural - Splash! -Default settings.

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light.

Now, the tube I am using had additional tube layers.

I selected one of the bird layers & Copied & Pasted as a new layer.

You can use an element or layer of choice for your tag.

Add drop shadow of choice to the layer. Position on one of the corners

of your tag. Duplicate once & position the copy on one of the other layers.

Add a drop shadow of choice to the following layers:

Tube1

Square1

Tube2

Fill in bottom layer of your tag.

Add the mask AKK_Mask060.

Right click & merge group on the mask.

Crop your tag to desired size.

Add copyright information & name to your tag.

Save as png.

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

CT tag & wallpaper featuring the adorable art 

of Colourbelle using her tube 119-1.

I am also showcasing the oh so cute 

IB Colourbelle 119-1 Scrap by 

Karmalized Scraps. The wallpaper is 

1920x1080 & available to download here.

This sweet kitty wants to show her 

human how much she loves her by baking.

Just, she doesn't quite know how to do that.

Can you help her bake up some delicious treats?

CT tag & wallpaper featuring the gorgeous 

art of Barbara Jensen using her Layered

tube Peach 107-2. I am also showcasing

the very pretty scrap Quiet Moment

by Gimptastic Scraps. The wallpaper

is 1920x1080 & available for download here.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the 

green grass, this life can be.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This tutorial was written on June 23,2020

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using the tube Night Fairy by Queen Uriel.

Plugins:

Muras Meister Copies

VM Natural 

Neology

Mask:

SpawnsFSMask50 Here

Open a 700x300 new image.

Open up your tube of choice.

Copy & paste the tube as a new layer

onto your new image.

Apply the plugin Muras Meister Copies-

Wallpaper Rotate with default settings.

Duplicate this layer once.

Rename the two layers as

Copies1

Copies2

Select the Copies1 layer in the layer palette.

Go to your Effects - Art Media Effects - Brush Strokes

Softness 10

Brush: Bristles 160

Width 5 Opacity 50

Strokes: Length 10

Density 25

Lighting: Angle 102

Color Black

Now apply VM Natural - Lightburst with default settings.

Effects- Edge Effects - Enhance

Duplicate the Copies2 layer & move this layer above the 

Copies1 layer. Rename as Copies3.

Apply the plugin VM Natural Weave Distortion with settings:

Size 87

Gap Width 164

Red 1

Blue & Green 0

Transparency 255 Shadow Intensity 34

Change the Blend Mode on this layer to Soft Light.

Select the Copies1 layer.

Apply the mask SpawnsFSMask50.

Right click one of the mask layers & select merge group.

Add a drop shadow of choice to this layer.

Effects- Edge Effects - Enhance

Duplicate the Background or Raster1 layer of the tag.

Fill with a color from your tag.

Select the Copies2 Layer.

Apply Neology - Vasarely Mosaics with Default settings.

Change the blend mode to soft light.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer underneath

the Copies1 layer. Position along one of the sides.

For mine, I positioned it along the left side partially

under the mask. Add a drop shadow of choice.

Select your Copies3 layer.

Select your font tool. Choose a color of choice from your tag

for your text. Type out a word of choice.

Convert to raster.

Apply the plugin Muras Meister Copies-Tiling.

Change the Tile Gap to 2.

Now move the layer below the Copies1 layer.

Now select the Copies1 layer in the layer palette.

Select your magic wand tool.

Click in the center of the tag on this layer with the magic wand.

Selections - Invert.

Select the wording layer. Press delete. Select none.

Stay on the wording layer. 

Add a drop shadow of choice & change the blend mode to Soft Light.

Add a new raster layer to your tag. Arrange this layer so its the top layer of 

your tag. Fill in with a dark color from your tag.

Select your magic wand & click on this layer to select it.

Selections - Modify - Contract by 4.

Press delete & select none. 

Adjust - Add/Remove noise -Add noise

Choose Gaussian & Monochrome. Amount 25.

Add a drop shadow of choice.

Add copyright information to the tag & a name.

Save as a png.

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

This started out as a tag challenge I was doing today.

I really like how it has come out & thought

I'd blog it. I am featuring the oh so cute art of

Destiny Lauritsen using her tube 9-2.

I am also showcasing the wonderful

scrap Sea Star by Kizzed by Kelz.

Sitting on the sand, feeling the warmth

of the sun on you..as the surf

splashes you lightly over & over.

Its the best way to spend a summer

day at the beach.

Ct tag & wallpaper featuring the wonderful art 

of Howard Robinson using his Extras tube 9-1.

I am also showcasing the wonderful IB

Anna Liwanag 65-2 Scrap by Kizzed by Kelz.

The wallpaper is 1920x1080 &

available for download here.

Take advice from a turtle.

Move at your own pace &

swim with the current. 

Be your own navigator in life.

I couldn't help myself. I know better than to

search the name on social media.

Nothing ever turns up & its been made

crystal clear by the silence over the years

that I don't matter anyways. Yet this time of

year, he always crosses my mind. Any other 

time of year, that door is slammed shut &

bolted to be sure. Yet, the demons manage

to pry it open just enough to remind me 

of that wound. No he does NOT deserve

to be called my father or dad in anyway.

He lost that title many years ago.

My FIL has stepped up & filled that role.

& the role of a caring grandfather for my kids.

Still, sometimes I wonder what he looks like now.

Would I know his voice if I heard it?

I certainly wouldn't be eager to talk to or hug him.

No he would get a very cold response from me.

Years of silence does that. I know the family

that cares about me & my family.

And so, tears will not be shed over him. 

No, I will do what I can to ensure my husband

feels special for tomorrow after work. 

He is a father that is there for his children

& for me. He has earned the title of father.
The demons will not win. I am healing
& I am stronger than that.

Radial In Pink

This tutorial was written on June 20,2020

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using a tube by Anna Marine

 which unfortunately isn't available any more.

Plugins:

Mura's Meister Copies

DC Layer

Greg's Factory Output Vol.ll

Texture: 23 Large Bokeh Textures by xnienke

Open up a tube of choice.

Open up a 700x700 new image.

On your Materials palette, choose a color

from your tube for the Foreground/Stroke Color.

Hide the Background/Fill color for now.

Select your Rectangle Preset Shape tool.

Set the Width at 7.00 & make sure the 

Rectangle option is selected.

Draw out a vertical rectangle to desired size.

Objects - Align - Center In Canvas

Convert to Raster.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer.

Resize if you need to.

Position so the bottom of the tube lines up

along the bottom edge of the rectangle.

Open a texture of choice.

I resized the one I used by 50% but this

may vary depending on the size of your textures.

Copy & paste as a new layer below the previous

 two other layers.

Add a new Raster layer under the texture layer.

Fill this color with the same color of the Rectangle.

Rename the three layers like this:

Tube1 

Rect1.

Text1

Color1

Now, select the Tube1 layer in your layer palette.

Duplicate this layer once & move the copy under the 

Rect1 layer. Rename it Tube2.

Apply plugin Mura's Meister Copies - Wallpaper Rotate

with default settings.

Select your magic wand settings. Click inside the Rect1

shape layer. Selections - Modify Expand by 2.00.

Selections Invert.

Now select the following layers one at a time:

Rect1

Tube2

Text1

Color1

& press delete on each layer. This should eliminate any extra

of the layers outside of the Rectangle frame.

Select none.

Select your Tube2 layer in the layers palette.

Apply the plugin:DC Layer -DarkGlass - Default settings.

Set the blend mode on this layer to Soft Light.

Move the Color1 Layer to above the Tube2 layer & 

set the blend mode to Screen.

Add a drop shadow of choice to the layers Tube1 & Rect1.

Merge the  Rect1 layer & the 3 layers inside it together.

Duplicate this layer once. Rename the two layers

M1 & M2 (copy merged layer).

Select the M1 layer.

Apply the plugin Mura's Meister Copies

using the option Afterimage(linear) with default settings.

Apply Greg's Factory Output Vol.ll - Radial Hilte with default settings.

Select your font tool.

Choose a font of choice & set the color to the 

same as the Rectangle shape.

Type out wording of choice.

I did Radial in Pink. Convert the text to raster.

Go to Image - Free Rotate.

Select Left & set it to 90.00.

Position along the left side of the tag.

Apply the earlier drop shadow to this layer.

Merge layers & crop your tag to desired size.

Add artist copyright information & a name to your tag.

Save as a png. Thanks for trying my tutorial.

CT tag featuring the magical art of 

Nikki Burnette using her tube 24-2.

I am also showcasing the magick

filled IB Nikki Burnette 24-2

Scrap by Wicked Princess Scraps.

“I was born on the night of Samhain, 

when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin 

and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and 

sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”

― Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch

CT tag featuring the fantastic art of 

Rebecca Sinz using her tube Crimson.

She comes with two layers -

one with angel wings & one without.

If I got rid of my demons,

I'd lose my angels. - Tennessee Williams

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings. -Anne Rice

CT tag & timelines featuring the gorgeous

scrapkit My Tribe by Karmalized Scraps.

I am also showcasing the art of 

Molly Harrison Tube 104-1

Zindy S.D. Nielsen Tube

The Love Maze

 “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship 

is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by 

the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.”

CT tag featuring the wonderful art of 

Elias Chatzoudis using his tube 99-3.

I am also showcasing the gothic

filled IB Elias Chatzoudis 99-3

Scrap by Gimptastic Scraps.

"Always be yourself...unless you suck."

- Joss Whedon.

"Black is such a happy color." 

- Morticia The Addams Family

CT timeline featuring the wonderful art of 

Anna Liwanag. I am using an old bonus tube

by her from May 2015. I am also showcasing

the oh so pretty Sara Butcher May 2018

IB Scrap by Ladyhawwk Designs.

Her favorite time to visit the shore is 

at sunset. The sky paints the shore in

such beautiful colors. The shells glow

with the warmth of the sunset colors.

CT tag featuring the gorgeous art of 

Dirk Richter using his tube 27-2.

I am also showcasing the very fun 

IB Dirk Richter 27-2 Scrap by

Kizzed by Kelz.

She loves to hear the race cars

going on the track! The best part is 

when her favorite driver wins!

After all, she is his biggest cheerleader

& waits for her to come back to the pit.

New tag & wallpaper by me featuring the art of 

Enys Guerrero. I am using her June

2020 Bonus Tube. This gorgeous beauty

can be yours with a $10 purchase of 

her regular tubes.  Also am using

the Enys Guerrero June 2020

IB Scrap by Whisprd Dreamz.

The wallpaper is 1920x1080

& available here for download.

The moon will guide you through the night with 

her brightness, but she will always dwell in the 

darkness, in order to be seen.     Shannon L. Alder

Today is not an okay day. No its a 

very hard day for me. People checking if I am 

okay or what's going on with me.

 I should reply but I can't bring 

myself to. Just like I can't bring myself

to do just about anything right now.

Too consumed by sadness & emotion.

They have taken my smile & right now

most of my motivation. Am losing my

interest in things or at least right now I am.

I've enjoyed PSP last couple days but 

right now, I just can't do it. I try to seek

out help but am getting nothing accomplished

on that avenue. It's so hard to find a therapist

right now that I can see. I just want to feel

better and to be myself. I'm losing her

to sadness, numbness & maybe a bit of  emptiness. 

Why? That is not a very clear answer at all.

No it's a very muddy answer. Simple answer

is nothing did this but yet everything has 

lead up to this. & I don't know how to 

get through it all either. Logically I know 

I need help & I am trying to get it. But I can't

pull myself out of this emotional hell either.

Depression does that to a person.

Note: This tutorial has special meaning to me.

I've been battling depression to keep myself

mentally okay during everything right now.

I am trying to illustrate how I feel at times 

via the tag. Maybe I can help others a little 

while trying to copy myself. Mental health

is as important if not more so than

physical health.

This tutorial was written on June 14,2020

Any resemblance to another

tutorial is purely coincidental.

I am using a tube by Tiffany Toland-Scott.

This tube isn't available anymore but her 

regular tubes are here:

Mask: DD-NFM_2015_5

by Dee available here

Plugins:

Mura's Meister Copies

Apply VM Experimental

Distortion Filters

EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 700x700 new image.

Open up your tube of choice.

On your Materials palette, choose a color

from your tube for the Foreground/Stroke Color.

Hide the Background/Fill color for now.

Select your Ellipse Preset Shape tool.

Set the Width at 7.00 & make sure the 

circle option is selected.

Draw out a circle to desired size.

Objects - Align - Center In Canvas

Convert to Raster. Rename the layer Circle.

Copy & paste a tube layer underneath

the circle layer. Apply the plugin

Mura's Meister Copies: Wallpaper Rotate

with Default Settings. If needed,

repeat the plugin effect once to completely

fill in the image with the tube copies.

Rename this layer Tube1

Select the circle layer area on the layers palette.

Click inside it with your magic wand.

Settings:  Add Shift

RGB Value

Tolerance 0

Contiguous & Anti-alias checked

Feather 4

Selections Invert.

Select the Tube1 layer & press delete

on your keyboard. Select none.

Duplicate the Tube1 layer & 

rename the copy as Tube2.

Staying on the Tube2 layer, go to 

Adjust -Blur - Gaussian Blur 10.00

Apply VM Experimental - Magnetic Detection

with default settings.

Repeat this again to eliminate the effect

outside of the circle layer.

Select the circle layer area on the layers palette.

Click inside it with your magic wand.

Settings:  Add Shift

RGB Value

Tolerance 0

Contiguous & Anti-alias checked

Feather 4

Selections Invert.

Select the Tube2 layer & press delete

on your keyboard. Select none.

Still on Tube 2, change the blend mode to 

Overlay or one of choice.

Duplicate Tube2 & rename it to Tube3.

Apply Distortion Filters - Radial Waves - default

Change the blend mode on this layer to Soft Light.

Now select Tube1 layer.

Apply Xero: Porcelain with default setting.

On the Circle layer, Add noise to the layer.

Adjust -Add/Remove Noise

Gaussian 25.00

Add drop shadow of choice to the layer.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer above the 

background layer.Apply the plugin

Mura's Meister Copies: Wallpaper Rotate

with Default Settings. If needed,

repeat the plugin effect once to completely

fill in the image with the tube copies.

Lower the opacity 30 & set the blend mode

to Soft Light.

Select your rectangle preset shape tool.

On the Materials Palette, hide the 

Foreground Color & unhide the Background color.

Draw out a horizontal rectangle across the center of the 

Circle shape. Be sure not to draw it so far that it extends

past the Circle shape. Convert to Raster.

Apply EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow.

Setting Fat & Glow width 3.00.

Lower the opacity to about 38.00

Apply a drop shadow of choice to the layer.

Rename the Rectangle layer as Rect1.

Select your font tool & choose a font & color for your text.

Type out a word or two for your tag.

I used the words Magnetic Sorrow but choose words

that fit your tag.

Convert to raster & position on the Rect1 layer.

Add a drop shadow of choice to the text.

Add a new raster layer under that layer.

Fill with a dark color from your tag.

Merge the two bottom layers together.

Apply the mask DD-NFM_2015_5.

Merge group. Resize the mask layer 93% & 97%.

Duplicate the mask once.

On the original mask layer, go to Adjust

Blur - Gaussian Blur 5.00

Merge the two layers together.

Copy your tube or a layer of it.

Paste as a new layer as top layer of the tag.

Position along a side or as wanted on the tag.

Add a drop shadow of choice to the tube layer.

Crop your tag to desired size.

Add artist copyright & name to the tag.

Save as png.

Thanks for my trying my tutorial.

CT tag featuring the gorgeous art of 

Elias Chatzoudis using his tube 133-4.

I am also showcasing the very pretty

scrap Sunset Sparkle by Savage Dezines.

Her favorite time to visit the shoreline

is during sunset. It's less populated

by then and she can lay on the 

sand undisturbed. She is fine with

the beachgoers - as long as they

keep their distance. Too many of them

flip out at seeing a mermaid.

CT tag featuring the wonderful art of 

Anna Marine using her tube 32-1.

I am also showcasing the wonderful

IB Anna Marine 32-1 Scrap 

by Chaos Priestess. The 

wallpaper is 1920x1080 &

available here for download.
Not every angle is a happy angel.
Some have tarnished wings &
have lost their halos. They have been
tainted by humanity and now
shed tears of sadness because of us.
Yet, maybe they are stronger than
the other angels. For they realize
that not all humans are ugly & evil.