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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, December 23, 2019











In this tutorial I
used the lovely “Windsor Red” tube


from the latest
pack 110 by


Barbara Jensen.


You can purchase the
tube at






The kit is “Merry
Christmas” from


Karmalized Scraps


and can also be
purchased at






You will need
Christmas mask 1 from



(you will find them under the Snags tab).





Font of choice.

















I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizontal  5, opacity 75, blur 10.











Open a new transparent canvas 750 by 750 pixels and fill
with white.





Paste the mask, resize it 80%, select all, float and
defloat it, make a new layer, paste paper 1 into the selection, deselect and
delete the original black mask layer.





Paste element  2,
resize 90%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste frame 3, resize 50% select the interior of the
frame with your magic wand and expand the selection by 20, make a new layer
below it and paste paper 6 into the selection, deselect, apply the drop shadow
to the frame, merge it down onto the paper, rotate it 10 degrees to the left
and move into place.





Paste the tube, resize 55%, place in position and apply
the drop shadow.





Paste element  36,
resize 20%, position below the tube and apply the drop shadow.





Paste wordart 1, resize 55%, place in position and apply
the drop shadow.





Paste element  4,
resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  24,
resize 30% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  27
on the top, resize 60%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  17,
resize 20%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  5,
resize 10%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  12,
resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  1,
resize 35% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  14,
resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  31, resize
10%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  26,
resize 40%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  39,
resize 25% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  30,
resize 8% and rotate 150 degrees to the right, place in position and apply the
drop shadow.





Paste element  13,
resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  21,
resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste element  42,
resize 10%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.





Paste spray 3, resize 60%, mirror and move into place.





Check your layers and make any adjustments, then crop
your tag, add your copyright information and text and export on a transparent
background as a png.





















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