Tutorial Time!!!

Here's a preview of the tag we will be making today:

For this tutorial I am using:

PTU Scrap kit called My Bloody Valentine from Redefined Designs

Mask of Choice

& The lovely artwork of Keith Garvey. You need a license to use his work and can acquire one through his site (linked)

& my favorite graphics program, Gimp

First open a new canvas 600x600, background white

Open as layers paper 4 & scale to fit inside your canvas

now open your mask of choice.

Apply paper 4 to the mask and close out the mask layer

Next open as layers Skullcircle2. 

Open as layers Frame3 and scale down to fit inside the skull circle

Make your mask layer active and open as layers Paper12 and place inside of the frame (with frame3 active use the magic wand tool click inside the frame. expand the selection by 6 and back on the paper layer select invert and cut)

Next we are going to add our tube in the same way. Open your tube as a new layer above paper12 and fit inside the frame

now make your top frame layer active again and we will start to place the elements!

Open as layers Stabbed Heart and scale down to 140x162 and place to the bottom left hand side of your frame

Open as layers Blade, rotate slightly and scale down to 244x244 and place to the bottom left hand side of your frame slightly overlapping the bottom of the stabbed heart element

Open as layers bloodjars and scale down to 130x190 and place to the bottom left hand side of your frame to the right of the blade and heart slightly overlapping both

Open as layers voodoo and scale down to 166x175 and place towards the bottom center of your frame

Open as layers chainsaw and scale down to 217x103 and place to the bottom center of your frame overlapping the bottom of the voodoo doll

Open as layers Moon scale down to 200x200 and place to the upper left hand side of your frame

Open as layers Loveelement and scale down to 274x208 and place to the lower left hand side of your frame

Open as layers Skull and scale down to 105x85 and place to the lower left hand side of your frame

Open as layers Dust

Now all you gotta do is add your copyright and name, delete the white background layer and save as a .png file!

Tada! Pretty tag created!!

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I would love to see your results!

xoxo,