I have been playing with my PSP today (/surprise, surprise LOL) and I ended up making five new free tag backgrounds.
You are very welcome to use my backgrounds in tutorials. Just please leave a direct link here instead of uploading them to your site. Thank you! 
Just click twice on the backgrounds below and then right click to save them to your computer.
Here is a couple of tags, I made using the backgrounds:
Enjoy!
Lise-Lotte S.
Program used: PSP 9
Supplies: Seamless Pattern Creator 1 (PSP Scripts). The pack can be bought at Digital Scrap World.
A colorswatch and a texture. Or you can use mine (right click to save to your own computer):
* Install the scripts. How to do it, is described in the pack.
* Open the colorswatch and your texture pattern in your PSP.
* Chose two colors from the swatch with your color picker. I use color 5 as my background and color 8 as my foreground color.
* Run script “lhsPATTERN_TILE_vol1_01″. You now have a seamless tile that looks like this:
* Open a new 3600*3600 px. canvas.
* Chose a color from the swatch. I use #7. Pick the color with your color picker and flood fill the canvas.
* Add a new layer.
* In your color/material palette chose the pattern option. Find your new tile and set the scale to 25:
* Flood fill the empty layer with this pattern.
* Add a new layer. Again go to the color/material palette and find lhsPATTERN_tut_SeamlessPatternCreator1. Set the scale to 100.
* Flood fill the new layer in your canvas with this pattern.
* Change the blend mode of this layer to overlay and lower the opacity to approx. 65.
Your paper is now finished! Remember to save!
I have made three other examples of how to use the Seamless Pattern Creator 1. I have left out the text here and is just showing the settings with pictures.
EXAMPLE # 1:
I combine two of the scripts in this one. That can be done, when the tiles has the same size (/in this case 600*600 px) and the scale and angle is set to the same.
Background color in the paper: #5
Result:
EXAMPLE # 2:
Paper background color: # 6
Result:
EXAMPLE # 3:
Paper background color # 1.
Result:
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You can download the four papers here. These are 3600*3600 px. while the examples above are 600*600 px. You will have to click a couple of times on these preview to get to the full size.
Program used: PSP9
Supplies: quick page “Grandma’s Rose Garden”. It is free and can be downloaded at Digital Scrap World.
A tube or picture of your choice. I use “Spider Spider” by Susanne Woolcott. It can be bought in her store.
Outside filter: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow.
* Open the quick page. Duplicate. Close the original.
* Resize 30% (Smartsize). Copy.
* Open a new canvas: 400*500 px. Paste the resized qp onto this canvas.
Move so it looks something like this:
* Add a new layer. Select all/float/defloat. Flood fill with at light or medium color picked from the qp. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract 2 px. Keep selected.
Flood fill with a darker color. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract 1 px. Press delete. Deselect.
I used a green and a brown color.
* Open the tube or picture, you want to use. C/p it to the canvas. Drag it beneath the qp-layer. Place to your liking.
I use one of Susanne Woolcott’s beautiful artworks (“Spider Spider”).
* Add copyright information.
* Add your text. I wrote “Gorjuss” with font Libra BT size 48. I used the brown color from the frame.
Convert to the vector to a raster. Drag the layer to be the top layer in your canvas.
* Apply Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow with these settings:
* Add a drop shadow:
Your tag is now finished!
Here is another result using the same qp and frame:
I hope you enjoyed this super easy tutorial!
Lise-Lotte S.
I have made some tag backgrounds, that I would like to share with my blog readers/followers.
If you are a tutorial writer, then you are welcome to use the backgrounds in your tutorials, my only request is that you don´t upload the backgrounds to your own site, but make a link directly to my blog. Thanks!
The backgrounds are all 650*250 px. Click twice on the previews below to see the actual size, then right click to save.
Enjoy!
I played with the backgrounds to show, how they can easily be turned into quite nice sig tags. This is what I came up with:
Program used: PSP9
Supplies: kit School Days by me. It can be bought at Digital Scrap World.
My mask. It can be downloaded here.
Pictures or tubes of your liking.
* Open paper 3. Duplicate. Save. This is now your working canvas. Close the original.
* C/p the following embellishments from the kit onto your canvas:
calculator1,
doodleborder,
doodleflower2,
doodleframe2,
doodleheart2,
frames1 (with DS),
glitterglue_blue,
glasses,
paperflower3,
pen2,
pencil,
ribbon1,
ribbon2 and
ruler.
* Rotate the two ribbons 80 degrees to the right.
Rotate the calculator 10 degrees to the left.
Rotate the pen 4 degrees to the right.
Rotate the pencil 2 degrees to the left.
* Place everything like this:
The doodles should be at the bottom plus the ruler should be between the two ribbons.
* Resize your canvas (all layers checked) to 600px.
* Add a shadow to all the embellishments except the doodles.
* Crop your canvas like this:
* Promote background (/that would be your paper layer) to a raster layer.
* Add a new layer. Flood fill with white. Drag the layer to the bottom of the canvas.
* Open my mask. Go back to your canvas and apply it to the paper layer with these settings:
* Merge group.
* With your freehand selection tool select within the frames like this:
* Keep selected, then go to the paper layer and press delete. Repeat with the white layer plus the embellisments you can see beneath and within the frame.
* De select.
* You canvas should look something like this now:
* Write you text/ add your name to the tag.
I wrote “SCHOOL” with font Sketchetik size 48 color black.
* Add a new layer above the doodles. Find lhsGLITTER_kitSchoolDays_red in your Picture Tube Tool. Change the scale from 100 to 25 and then “draw” a circle of glitter around doodleframe2 like this:
* Time to add your tubes or pictures. Place them beneath the white layer.
* Add copyright info, if needed.
Your tag is finished!
My result: