Spring Garden Tag

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Spring Garden by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

Plus my spring template. It can be downloaded here.

*  Open the template. Duplicate. Save.

* Open paper 4 and 7. Resize to 600*600 px. (SmartSize).

* C/p paper 4 (/the blue one) above the “Letters Inner” layer. C/p paper 7 (green) above the “Letters Outline” layer. X-out all four layers.

* Go to  layer “Letters Inner”. Select all/Float/Defloat. Then while still selected go to the blue paper layer and promote selection to layer.

* Repeat the process with the outline layer and the green paper.

* Open the flowers you want to use. Resize them approx. 15%. C/p them to the canvas above  the promoted blue layer.

* Place a flower beneath each letter. This is what mine looks like:

// I ended up moving the daffodils a bit up.

* Add a shadow to all the flowers.

* Go to the layer that is called “Letters Inner”, select the S with your magic wand. Then go to the layer with the flower shown in this letter (/in my case the pink tulips). X-out the flower and promote the selection to a layer. Deselect.

* Repeat this with all the letters.

* Go to layer “Letters Inner”. Select all/float/defloat and Invert. Then make a new layer beneath the top layer (/which is the promoted green paper). On this new layer add a drop shadow with these settings:

* Deselect.

* X-out the white background layer. Copy merged.

* Open a new canvas 800*600 px. Paste the merged wordart onto this canvas. Save.

* Open a flower plus the girl from the kit. Resize both to 25%.

* Add a shadow to all layers.

* Write “Finally”.  I used LD Jilemma, size 100.

* Add a  background. I used white.

* Resize if wanted. Save.

Your tag is finished. This is my result:

//A Note: I used a font called LD Jumpy for the spring template.