Saturday, March 31, 2012

Hoppy Easter

Hoppy Easter





Beautiful Easter mini freebie from Xtensive Images can be found HERE
She is a valuable member of Scrappin Naturally Store.
Artist tube is by Keith Garvey and can be purchased HERE


This tutorial was written by me on 3/31/12 for this blog,
Desert's Place.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental


Lets begin the tutorial:

Hoppy Easter



This tutorial was written by me on 3/12/12 for this blog,
Desert's Place.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

Open a new image 600x600 transparent background checked.
Open frame 3, resize 70%, copy and paste as new layer leave this open we use it again.
click inside of the frame with the magic wand,
Selections, modify, expand 4, ok
Open paper 5, (leave open we use it again) copy and paste as new layer, and hit the delete key.
Drag this layer under the frame layer
Copy and paste the frame layer once again upper left over lapping the first frame
Click inside the frame with the magic wand, 
Selections, modify, expand 4 ok, then hit the delete key.
Open your tube of choice and paste inside the upper frame, erase any parts over hanging.
lower opacity to 65%
Open easterballoon copy and paste as new layer to the left of the upper frame.
Open easterstring 2 resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer upper left
Open easterflower2 resize 50% copy and paste as new layer upper left
Open easterflower1 copy and paste as new layer upper left over lap the previous a little.
Open easterflower6, resize 35%, copy and paste lower left, layers duplicate and move over a bit to the right, these will show after the next three layers are made.
Open easteregg2, resize 75%, copy and paste as new layer lower left
Open easteregg1, resize 60% copy and paste as new layer lower left to the right of the first egg.
Open easteregg3, resize 55%, copy and paste as new layer, same place over lap the previous layer.
Open easterbutterflyhg, resize to your liking, copy and paste as new layer, upper right side.
Resize smaller again and paste near the previous layer.
Open eastermouse, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer on the top of the egg layers.
Open your tube, resize if necessary and paste as new layer to the right of the frames.
Layers, merge, merge visible and save.  Add your credits and you are done!
Thank you so much for trying my tutorial
xo Desert xo

Rose Love

Rose Love

This was made with the rose filled kit called Roselove from HF-Projekte 
It can be purchased  HERE 
Artist tube is by Keith Garvey and can be purchased HERE
xo Desert xo

Scrappin Naturally Vintage Easter Train


This store has been around since around  October 2011. It was created by Barbara AKA ACowGirlsCreations. A designer herself, she wanted to make a home away from home for designers. So she created a place where she could support all her designers hard work.

There are currently 45 designers at Scrappin Naturally with room for five more. All our designers very talented and unique as you will see with the freebies we are offering. Each designer has their own design style.

 The store is a full service store and we carry so many products from commercial use to full size kits. We offer blinkie service, tagger kits, designer packs, poser templates and more. And there is always some kind of sale going on.

So stop by all the designer blog links below to to grab there parts then head on over to the store HERE and check out all the great things that are available there.




And remember please, a thank you goes a long way!
xo Desert xo

Friday, March 30, 2012

Western Pirate

Western Pirate
This western pirate tag is made with the kit Wild Wild West from Lins_Creations
It can be purchased at Scrappin Naturally HERE
Pirate tube is art by Keith Garvey HERE

Friday, March 16, 2012

Spring Dreamer

Spring Dreamer

This spring time tag was made with the colorful kit called Spring Time Dream by Tootypup
It can be purchased HERE
Artist tube is by Keith Garvey and can be purchased HERE
Spring Dreamer word art created by me 








Monday, March 12, 2012

Spring Fairy

Spring Fairy


This tag was made using Spring Time Party by HF-Projekte and can be purchased 
at Scrappin Naturally and can be purchased HERE.
WCL_62 is from Weescottlass and can be found HERE
Tube of choice is Jessica Dougherty and can be purchased HERE


This tutorial was written by me on 3/12/12 for this blog,
Desert's Place.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental


Let's begin:
All layers but mask layer use drop shadow with these settings:
V:1, H:0, O:100, Blur: 2.00, Color Black

Open new image 600x600
Background transparent checked.
Flood fill with ##9b6924
Open WCL Mask 65
Back on your image click layers, new mask layer, from image, source illuminace checked.
Click ok 
Layers, merge, merge group.
Open PHF SST30 resize 50% copy and paste as new layer, image, mirror.
Open tube, resize if necessary, copy and paste as new layer, drag under the previous layer and erase
any parts outside the previous layer. On the layers pallet,n change the mode to soft light.
Open SST25 resize 10% copy and paste on the right side of previous layer.
Open SST13, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer.
Open your tube, resize if necessary, copy and paste as new layer to the left.
Open SST16, resize 30%, copy and paste at the bottom of the tube layer.
Open SST15, resize 20%, copy and paste as new layer over the previous layer.
Open SST24, resize 10%, copy and paste left side.
Open SST22, resize 20%, copy and paste as new layer on the right. Using the pick tool, change the 
mode to perspective and stretch out to your liking.
Open SST19, resize 10%, copy and paste as new layer on the right over the previous layer.
Open SST4, resize 5%, copy and paste on the right and left sides.
Open SST9, resize 10%, copy and paste lower right side.
Layers, merge, merge visible.
Add credits, and name.
Thank you for trying my tutorial.
xo Desert xo

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Got His Gold

Got His Gold


This was made using the beautiful kit called IRISH BEAUTY from A Cowgirls Creations of Scrappin Naturally
It can be purchased HERE
Artist tube is from Keith Garvey and can be purchased HERE

On to the tutorial:

This tutorial was written by myself 3/11/12 for this blog, Desert's Place
Any resemblance to any other tutorials is purley coincindental.
I am assuming that the reader has basic knowledge of PSP.

Open new image 600x600 check background transparent
Open ACC IB FRAME resize 80% copy and paste as new layer
Click inside frame with magic wand tool. Selections, modify, epxand 3.
Open ACC IB PAPER 1 copy and paste as new layer, selections,invert, then hit the delete
key on the keyboard. Selections, select none. Drag this under the frame layer.
Open your tube, resize if necessary and paste on the frame, erase any parts overlapping.
Open ACC IB RAINBOW, copy and paste to the right of the frame, erase any part showing on the top left of the frame, so it looks  like it dissapers behind the frame. 
Open ACC IB CLOVER FLORA resize 80% copy and paste as new layer near the bottom
Open ACC IB CLOVER FLORA again and resize 40%, copy and paste about 6 in random places on the outer sides on the canvas, 
Open ACC IB LEPRECHAUN HOUSE copy and paste to the right side. The clovers you placed in previous step should be showing slightly around the brick road, if not click on that layer and using the move tool pull them out to the sides.
Open ACC IB HORSESHOE resize 30 copy and paste as new layer, left corner of frame
Open ACC IB  FLOwERS left over clovers and corner of brick road
Open ACC IB FLOWER 3 30% copy and paste as new layer left corner of frame in the center of horseshoe
Open ACC IB FLOWER 2 resize 30%,copy and paste to right of horseshoe.
Open ACC IB CLOVER FLORA again and resize 30%, copy and paste in the middle of the brick road.
Open ACC IB LEPRECHAUN resize 30%, copy and paste over clovers on the brick road
Open ACC IB RAFIA BOW resize 40% copy and paste right corner of freame
Open ACC IB STRING DOODLE, resize 30%, copy and paste left corner of frame.
Merge all layers, add your credits and save.
Thank you for trying my tutorial!
xo Desert xo