Hookah Forum Set Show off

I made myself a new forum set for Siggy Showdown, since quite a few of my friends call me Hookah! LOL I had fun making this, and I'm proud of it!

Tainted Love Tag Show-off

Hey ya'll! I've got a new tag done with an awesome PTU kit Tainted Love that you can find at the awesome Melissa's Inspirational Scraps!!! Check it out, and grab her kit, it's awesome! Here's the tag I made from it! :) 

New Layout!

I just wanna give a shout out to Sherry, and say thanks for the awesome blog layout!! I love, love, love it soo much!!! Thanks again, huggles!!! :D

Spooktacular Hottie FTU

This tutorial was written by me, any resemblance to any other tutorial is completely unintentional. 

PSP version used: PSP X2

Supplies: 

Tube- I'm using an awesome artwork tube of Elias Chatzoudis, you can purchase those at PSP Tubes Emporium, You must have a proper license to use his artwork. 

Template 8 from Amy and Leah's Halloween Templates, you can download that HERE. 

Scrap Kit of choice- I used Spook which is a FTU kit from Melissa's Inspirational Scraps, which I CT for! You can find that HERE.
Font- Wizards Magic

Filters: 

Xero> Fritillary
Xero> Radiance
Xero> Mistifier
dsb flux> Bright Noise 

Let's get it started! :) 

Open your template, and then resize to 650 x 650. Select sm circle, and copy and paste your tube. 

Paper1, select magic wand, and select circle again, Selections>Invert, delete. 

Paper8, behind large circle, magic wand the circle. select paper, Selections> Invert, delete.

 make lg circle invisible. 

On the paper circle do Xero> Fritillary: 

Paper4, resize 70%

Magic wand s 4, and click on paper layer, Selections> Invert, delete.

Paper13 do same steps as above for s1, s2, s3. 

Gradient two colors from your color palette, bucket fill on lg circle back, and sm circle back. I did purple and orange. 

dsb flux> bright noise 

Paper4, resize 70%, copy and paste. Magic wand- s 4, select paper, Selections>invert, delete. 
Paper14, do the same steps above on layers s1, s2, s3. 
Gradient 2 colors from your palette, and bucket fill both circle back layers. 
dsb flux> Bright Noise, Mix 75. on both. 
Increase repeats in gradient, and bucket fill rect. 
dsb flux> Bright Noise on rect back
Decrease the gradient repeats and bucket fill lg square back, dsb flux> Bright Noise
Pick 3 colors from the palette and bucket fill them into the top and bottom strips. 

Now for your close up tube. Copy and paste, resize if needed, and position over circle. select sm circle again with magic wand,  Select tube, Selections> Invert, delete. 

Xero> Radiance- 128, 50, 128, 124. 

Still on the close up, Xero> Mistifier with these settings:

Softlight, Opacity 60

Now, duplicate your full tube layer, mirror, position over the 3 squares the way you want them. Cut out parts of the tube you want to show in the squares, as I said from above. :)

Merge 3 squares with matching layers to make one layer. Effects> Texture effects- Blinds 2, 40. 

Opacity- 80

Now for the elements! Woo hoo! 

Spooky house- 30%

Web- 100%

SpideronWeb- 30%

Broom- 100%

Cauldron- 45%

Gravestone- 30%

Now, I used Wizards Magic font, at 65 for the awesome Shayuri at 70. :) 

Lokas Software> Gel, default settings, to both font and template WA. 

Drop shadow on everything, and add your copyright and water mark! 

POOF!!! You're done!!!

Hope you enjoyed my tut and please leave me some love to let me know you stopped by! :P

Happy Harvest PTU

This tutorial was written by me, any resemblance to any other tutorial is completely unintentional. 

PSP version used: PSP X2

Supplies: 

Tube of choice, I'm using the awesome newly released art work of FourXsDesigns that you can find at PSP Tubes Emporium. You must have proper license to use her tubes. 

Scrap Kit of choice- I used Rustling Leaves by Darkmoon's Dream, and you can find that HERE.

Fonts- Autumn Deco and PetraScriptEF- both FTU

Filters: 
Xero> Radiance
Lokas Software> Gel
Eye Candy> Gradient Glow
DSB Flux> Bright Noise

Now lets do this! :P 

Open up a new canvas as 600x600. 
Open up your full tube- resize 90%, copy and paste onto main canvas, drop shadow- 4, 4, 45, 5.00. 
Duplicate, Effects> Radiance with these settings:

Opacity 60%
Open up your tree- resize 50%, copy and paste behind tube. Position where you want it. 
Duplicate, Image-Mirror.  Resize- 80%  Position where you want it. Drop shadow on both. 
Open Leaves03, resize- 60%, copy and paste, place behind everything. Duplicate, Image>Mirror. 
Open Leaves02- resize 50% place behind trees.
New Raster Layer-
Select Picture tube tool, and choose Grass 01. 

Place grass randomly so it looks like it's behind the tube. 
On the grass- Adjust> Hue and Saturation> Colorize
I used Hue 36, Saturation 105
Open pumpkin element, free rotate> right, 10.00, Resize- 40%, place where ya want. 
Duplicate> Mirror. Drop shadow on both, 2,2, 45, 5.00.
 Branch02, copy and paste behind the pumpkins. Drop shadow.
Hat02, resize 40% postion behind pumpkin. Drop shadow.
 Ribbon01, resize 50% copy and paste. 
Books resize- 30% copy and paste between branch and hat. Drop shadow.
Flower02, resize-15%. copy and paste. Drop shadow. 
Acorns02, resize- 10%, free rotate- left, 30.00. copy and paste. Duplicate a couple of times, mirror one and place around on the grass layer. 
Bird, resize 12%, Adjust> Sharpness> Sharpen, copy and paste. 
Basket, resize 20%, copy and paste in front of tube layer. Drop shadow.
Apples, resize 20%, copy and paste. Duplicate, Mirror, adjust so it can be seen.


Now for our text: I use Autumn Deco Font for the Happy Harvest at size 55. Then I zoomed in and colored the leaves yellow and orange. 
I used Lokas Software> Gel like this:

Then I used Eye Candy 4000> Gradient Glow> Medium, in an orange color with these settings: 
Glow Width 6, Soft Corners 25, Opacity 100. Drop shadow. 


Now write the name in PetraScriptEF, in yellow. Convert to Raster Layer, DSB Flux> Bright Noise- Mix 60. 
Eye Candy 4000> Gradient Glow. Same settings as above, and then do it again with these settings- 4.00, 25, 100 with yellow. 
Drop shadow. 
Crop.


Now add your copyright and watermark, and you're done! Hope you enjoyed my tutorial! Thanks for stopping by, and I'd love to see your results! :)

Welcome!!!

Hey ya'll! Thanks for stopping by my blog!!! I'll just be doing snaggables and showoffs, and probably some tuts too. :) Here are some tags that I recently made.

I made it for my CT with Melissa at Melissa's Inspirational Scraps! I used her awesome kit Rockin Emo Skullz. 

Here's some that I made for some of my gals at Siggy Showdown, they rawk!!!