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Hello and welcome to my blog! I am Vivienne, living in the UK and married with a son who now lives in Perth, Australia and a daughter who has given me two gorgeous grandsons! Paint Shop has been my hobby for more years than I can remember and I love making tags. I have always loved doing tutorials written by others and a couple of years ago started writing them myself. As well as tag tutorials, I also have a Tips and Tricks page where you will find tutorials on basic Paint Shop techniques. I hope you enjoy my blog and have fun with my tutorials. Please be sure also to check out the Tag Gallery and see some of the awesome results to the tutorials!

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Monday, May 11, 2015




In this tutorial I used the awesome art of
You need a license to use Eny’s art, available at

I used a fantastic kit called “I’m So Hollow”.
You can purchase the kit from
Deedles n Doodles store.

I used mask 4 from set 9 from

Font is




I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizontal 5, opacity 85, blur 10.


Open a new transparent canvas 650 by 600 pixels and fill with white.

Make a new layer, select all, paste paper 4 into the selection, deselect and apply the mask.

Paste element 88, resize 50% and place in position.

Paste element 62, resize 65%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 10b, resize 75% and place in position.

Paste element 104, resize 50%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 137, resize 80%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste the tube, resize 70%, place in position and apply the drop shadow,

Paste element 61, resize 45%, drag below the tube, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 49, resize 50%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 57, resize 70% and place in position.

Paste element 48, resize 30%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste spray 5, resize 50%, mirror and place in position.

Paste cluster 11, resize 30% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 3, resize 35% and duplicate, drag one copy above the tube, place in position and apply the drop shadow to each.

Paste element 12 making sure it’s below the tube,  place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 41b, resize 45%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 136, resize 75% and flip, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 9, resize 35%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 86 on the top, resize 30%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 12 again, resize 70%, place in position taking care to cover the bottom edge of the cluster and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 4, resize 45%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 121, resize 30% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 122, resize 30%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 50, resize 25%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 51, resize 20%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 8, resize 35%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 47, resize 30%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Check your layers and make any necessary adjustments.  I erased the rat’s tail and enlarged the mask a little.  

When you are done, crop your tag, add your copyright information and text, then export on a transparent background as a png.

















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