CT tags featuring the new PTU scrap Camping USA by Amy Marie. You can purchase this wonderful scrap at her store. It is jam packed with lots of outdoor camping elements combined with plenty of 4th of July and patriotic elements as well.

New CT tag featuring PTU IB scrap Sebastien Serrano 1-2 by Honored Scraps. You can purchase this Patriotic themed kit at CDO. It's great for all those Happy 4th Of July, Memorial Day, USA tags you may want to do. I also put a couple snags as well of this one.

Ms. Patriotic

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
May 21,2013
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a tube
by Ismael Rac. It will be available for purchase
soon at his store.

Supplies: I am also using a matching kit
called 2013 penny's tats 2. The scrap kit is
also available at the store.

Plugin: Toadies blast em
Xero Radiance
EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 700x700 new image with white background.
Open up your tube & scrap supplies as well.

Choose a frame of choice.
Copy & paste onto your new image.
Click inside the frame with your magic wand tool.
Selections modify expand by 5.

Paste a scrap paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections invert & press delete button on keyboard.
Move the paper layer underneath the frame in your
layers palette.

Resize your tube if needed. For the one I used, I resized
55%. Copy & paste between the two layers.
Duplicate once. Move the tube copy layer to above
the frame layer. Hide for now.

Back on the original tube, press delete.
Select none.
Now unhide the tube copy layer. Make sure it is selected
in your layer palette.

Take your eraser tool. Erase parts of the tube showing past
the frame which you do not want to show. You may need to hide
the original. And also lower the opacity of the tube copy layer so
that you can see the frame through it.
This helps with the erasing part.

Once done, you can unhide the original tube & put the opacity
back up to 100% on the copy layer.
Add a drop shadow to frame & original tube layer
2,2,25,5 Black.

Open up an exploding firework element.
Paste on the bottom of the tag underneath all
the previous layers.

Duplicate the firework element once.
On the bottom layer, apply the plugin Toadies blast em
Default settings.

Paste a ribbon as a new layer on top of the tag.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the ribbon.
Position near the bottom of the tag. Open a rocket element.
Resize 50% & 80% once each. Paste on right side of
the tag.

Open a pair of flip flops. Resize 30% & mirror.
Paste on the left side of the ribbon.

Open a hanging star element.
Resize 50% & arrange to appear to
be hanging from the frame on one side.

Click inside the hanging star element with magic wand.
Selections modify expand by 3.
Paste your tube so that part of it appears inside the star.
Selections invert & Press delete.
Select none.
Move the tube part underneath the star.

On the tube part inside the hanging star, apply the
plugin Xero Radiance.
Strangeness 128
Charm 50
Truth 128
Beauty 255

Merge the tube part & hanging star element together.

Choose your font tool. Choose a nice fat chunky type font.
Type out words of choice for your tag. Convert to raster.
Apply Gradient glow Fat glow width 3.00
Then apply the gradient glow solid blue also.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the text also.

Resize layers 85%. Add artist copyright information.

Now to do the animation.
First, duplicate 2 more times the firework layer with
the Toadies Blast em effect on it.
On the bottom one, adjust -add noise
uniform 15
Middle layer is same except change number to 25.
The top one the number is 35.
Hide the top two layers until we need them in a bit.

Now open Animation shop.
Copy & paste your hanging star as a new animation.
Effects - Insert Image Effects -Tv Scanlines
Effect length 1.7 secs Frams 3 fps
Move to the side for now.

Back to psp, X out the hanging star on it.
Make sure the bottom blast firework layer is visible.
Copy merged & in Animation, paste as a new animation.

Back to psp, hide that layer & open the next one above it.
Copy merged & paste after current frame in AS.
Repeat the above steps with the last blast firework layer.

Now staying in AS, Select the 3 tag frames. Copy & paste after
the 3rd frame.This should give you a total of 6 frames.
Select all of the tag frames,
Back to the star animation, select all & Copy.
Drag over to the desired position on the tag.

Once all positioned, select all, view animation.
Just to make sure its as you want everything on the tag.
If you are happy, save as gif. Thanks for trying my tutorial!

Sounds Of Freedom

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
June 20,2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube by Al Rio.
I purchased the tube at CILM
which has closed.The artist's
tubes are no longer available.

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Animation Shop

Plugins:
Xero Porcelain
Muras Meister Copies
EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 600x250 new image.
Open a tube of choice.

Copy & paste your tube as
a new layer onto your tag image.
Duplicate the tube once.

On the bottom tube layer,
apply the plugin
Muras Meister Copies
Line (Rotate)
Default settings.

Use your selection tool,
select a horizontal narrow
rectangle along the copies layer.

Promote this selection to layer.
Select none.
Duplicate it once.
Move the copy either down or
up on your tag.
Merge the two layers together.

Now on the copies layer,
go to adjust
hue & saturation -set both to 0.
This will greyscale the layer.

Apply Xero Porcelain on the same
layer. Default settings.

Add a drop shadow to your 2nd tube
layer & to the rectangle layers.
2,2,50,5 Black.

Add a new raster layer on the top
of the tag.
Fill the new layer with a color
of choice.
Click this layer with your magic wand tool.
Selections modify contract by 4.
Press delete.
Select none.

Adjust
add noise 25 uniform.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the frame.

Add wordart or text of choice to the tag.
I used the words Sounds Of Freedom.
It is entirely up to you.

Add a gradient glow to the text.
EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow
Setting Fat Glow width 3.00

Merge the main tube & frame layers
together.
Make sure your rectangle layers are not
merged with another layer.
Add artist copyright information.

Open up Animation Shop.
Copy merged & paste as a new animation.

Back in PSP.
On the rectangle layer, go to adjust
hue & saturation - both set to 0.

Copy merged & paste after current frame.
Select all copy & paste after frame 2.
This should give you 4 frames total.

Select all Animation
Frame Properties -change to 50.
View animation.
Save as gif.