This tutorial was written March 24, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on working with layers.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
An image of choice. I used a beautiful image from Sarah Bennett. Her tubes and images can be purchased at My Tubed Art.
A scrapkit of choice. I used a kit called “Spring Delight” by Scraps Dimensions.
Materials you need:
Mask of choice. I used sg_bubble-edge by EssexGirl. All her masks start with “sg_” so you might have it already. I found out only recently that these belong to her.
A font of choice. I used “TamarilloJF”
Eye Candy 6 – Marble (Optional)

Open up the image and duplicate it. Minimize or close the original.
Delete the copyright layer and promote background layer. Change the canvas size to 700x700 pixels.
Select All – Float – Defloat – Expand by 20
Add a new raster layer and floodfill with white.
Contract by 25 and hit Delete. Select none.
Resize both layers by 80% and add a drop shadow to the frame.
I used 3, 3, 50, 8, Black.
Merge visible.

Add a new raster layer and send to bottom.
Paste “SD Flowers 2” and resize it down to 60%. Place it in the top left corner.
Do the same with “SD Flowers 1” and place it in the top right corner.
Paste “SD Stones” on the top layer, resize it down to 60% and place it in the middle at the bottom.
Add “SD Grass” and resize it to 30%. Place it at the bottom. Duplicate and place it to the left. Duplicate again and mirror
Paste “SD Flower 1” and resize it to 15%. Place at the bottom. Duplicate this 5 times, mirror 2 of them and place around the stones at the bottom.
Add “SD Ribbon 1”, resize it to 60% and place underneath the pink flowers.
Add “SD Ribbon 5”, resize it to 15% and place it on the right side just above the frame/image.
Add “SD Ladder” and resize it to 60%. Place this just above the bottom layer.
Add “SD Leaves 2” and resize it to 15%. Duplicate this as many times as you want. I did it 6 times and rotated some of them and placed them under the pink flowers.
Add “SD Daisy 3”, resize to 30% and place it at the top of the pink ribbon.
Add “SD String 3” to the layer above the ladder and resize it to 80%.
Add “SD Butterflies” on the top layer and resize it to 30%. Place it in the top right corner. See my tag for reference,
Add a suitable drop shadow to all the layers except the frame. I used the same settings as before.
Crop your tag.

Flood fill the bottom layer with a colour from your image/tube. I used #ae6b75.
Put a contrasting colour as your background. I used #b9746c.
Open Eye Candy 6 – Marble with these settings, Foreground colour is Bedrock Colour and background colour is Vein Colour:

Click OK.
Change the layer option on this one to Colour.
Add another layer and floodfill this with a 3rd colour. I used #9885a0.
Place this below your Eye Candy layer.

My goal with this was to get a similar look to the background in the image.
Feel free to play around, or just add a paper from the kit instead.

Add a mask of choice on the Eye Candy layer and merge group. Change the opacity to 75% on this one.
Repeat on the floodfilled layer, but don’t change the opacity.

Set your background and foreground colour to white and add your name, using a script font. Add a drop shadow.

Resize your tag to 550 px on the longest side.

Add your copyright info using a pixel font and save your tag in either png or jpg.

Thanks for trying!
Hugs Lithy

This tutorial was written March 23, 2013 and edited on June 17 2015. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.
It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to resize and working with layers.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice. I used a beautiful tube from Erin Ewer. Her tubes can be purchased at Digital Art Heaven.
A scrapkit of choice. I used a kit called “Old Fashion” by Saskia. This is a PTU kit you can get at DigitalScrapbooking. This is a full size kit, so all elements and papers that are used need to be
resized to fit.
Materials you need:
Mask of choice. I used Mask 61 by Sophisticat Simone.
A font of choice. I used “JustColesCursive”
Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (optional)

Open a blank canvas that is 700x700 pixels.
Paste your tube as a new layer and add a drop shadow.
I used 3,3,50,8,Black
Add a new raster and send to the bottom.

Paste element 26, resize (to 15%) and put it below the tube.
Rotate by 25 to the right and move it towards the left side.
See my tag for placement.
Click inside the frame with your selection wand, and expand by 5.
Add a new raster and place it under the frame.
Paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “saskia_oldfashion”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down. I used same drop shadow as before.

Paste element 77 above the frame and resize (to 15%) to fit.
Using the same selection method as before, paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “15”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down.
I placed this below the first frame and up to the left corner.

Add another frame. I used element 40 and resized it to 20%.
Using the same selection method as before, paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “8”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down.
I bet you’re thinking “more frames?” Don’t worry, that was the last lol.

Now to have some fun with placing the elements.
I have just listed what elements I have used, what layer and what I resized them to.
I use the same drop shadow on these, as I did on the frames. Place to your liking or
look at my tag for reference.

Element 25 – below the bottom frame – 15% - Duplicate and mirror it.
Element 23 – above the bottom frame – 10%
Element 42 – above the rectangle frame – 12%
Element 67 – above oval frame – 12%
Element 45 – above the oval frame – 10%
Element 12 – above the oval frame – 15% - mirrored
Element 16 – above the books – 5% - mirrored
Element 37 – below the tube – 20%
Element 43 – above the tube – 20%
Element 56 – above the tube – 5% - mirrored
Element 73 – below the teddy – 15%

Some of the elements get a white line around them if you resize them a lot. The solution to that is simple:
Stay on the layer of the element, select all, float, defloat, contract by 1, invert and hit delete.
You have to do this BEFORE you add drop shadow.

If you want to add more elements, now is the time to do so.
If not, add drop shadow to all the layers.
Crop you tag with the Crop Tool and Merge Opaque selection.

Go to the bottom empty layer and select all.
Paste a paper of choice in to the selection. I used number 9. Selection none.
Add a mask of choice to this layer and merge group.
Depending on what paper you use, you might have to duplicate this layer a few times.
I duplicated it once and merged down.

Don’t worry, we’re almost done, hehe.

Now it’s time to add your name or a saying.
Change your fore and background colour to white and type the name with the Text Tool. I used size 80px.
Add a gradient glow to the name using a darker colour from the tube. I used #968f57.
Add the same drop shadow to the name.

Resize your tag to 550 pixels on the longest side.
With a pixel font, add your copyright info and save your creation.

Thanks for trying out my tutorial.
Hugs Lithy

This tutorial was written on March 19, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice. I used a beautiful tube from Sherri Baldy.
Her tubes can be purchased at My Tubed Art.

Materials you need:
Mura’s Seamless - Stripe
Mura’s Meister – Copies
EyeCandy 4 – Gradient Glow
A scrapkit of choice. I used a kit called "[THE]easterkit_addon" by Vero.
This was FTU at DigitalCrea at the time this tutorial was written.
Mask of choice. I used a mask named “sg_tinyhearts“ by EssexGirl.
Font of choice. The one I used is called  “A Gentle Touch”

Let’s get started!

Open a new blank canvas, 700x700 px.
Select All with the selection tool and paste paper PP7 in to selection. Deselect.

Paste in EL21 and resize it by 40%. Move it down a little bit so it looks like it rests on top of the grass. See my tag for reference.

Add a new layer and choose Mura’s Seamless – Stripe with these settings:

Add a new layer and floodfill with a colour from the tube.
Add another layer and floodfill with another colour from the tube.
Go back to the stripe layer, select all – float – defloat – invert
On the top floodfilled layer, hit delete on your keyboard.
Delete the black striped layer.
Merge the top striped layer down to the floodfilled layer.
Go back to the top layer and with your Magic Wand active, click inside the frame.
Expand the selection by 3, Invert. Go back to the striped layer and hit delete.

It’s time to add the tube before we add any other elements, so add your tube and place to your liking. I placed it so it looks like she is standing on the grass.

These are the elements I used and what I resized them to. See my tag for reference on where to place them:

Behind the frame and striped layer:
EL13 - 40% - green leaf
EL3 – original size - flower
EL20 – 25% - mirrored – green ribbon
EL23 – 30% rotate 45 degrees to the left. Duplicated
EL18 – 50% - rotate 90 degrees right pink leaf

Behind the tube:
EL24 – 12% - bunny with carrot
EL29 – 40% - blue bow
EL1 – 10% rotated 10% to the right – brown egg
EL11 – 10% - pink egg with bow
EL5 – 10% rotated 90% to the left – blue cracked egg
EL9 – 10% yellow eggshell

I used drop shadow on all the elements and tube: 3, 3, 50, 8, Black

Hide the background layer and crop your creation with Merged Opaque.

Unhide your background again and add a mask of choice.
Merge group and duplicate the masked layer. Merge down.

Set your foreground and background to a colour of choice. I chose white.
Activate the Text Tool – font size 40 pixels, antialias smooth.
Go to the striped layer write “Happy Easter”. Center in canvas and convert to raster.

Go to Mura’s Meister – Copies with these settings:

Activate the striped layer – select all – float – defloat - invert.
Go to the Happy Easter layer and hit delete.

Activate the top layer, change the size of the font to 80 and write a name
or saying.

Add a glow to the name/saying by using EyeCandy 4 – Gradient Glow
With the Fat setting, the 2 colours from the striped layer and these settings:

Add the same drop shadow as earlier.

Resize the tag. I resized mine to 500 px on the longest side.
Add your copyright info and save as png or jpg.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lithy

This tutorial was written March 14, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:

A tube of choice. I used a beautiful tube from Jessica Brown. She was selling at Indie-Zine at the time this tutorial was written.

Materials you need:
Toadies – Living Sine (linear)
Pixelate – Sector Mosaic
Birgits Chaos – Stripes
Eye Candy 6 – Perspective Shadow (optional) and Extrude (optional)
Font of choice. I used Super Delicious BNT.

Open a new canvas 600x250 and floodfill with a color. It doesn’t matter what color you choose.
Add Toadies – Living Sine at default settings:

Add Pixelate – Sector Mosaic with these settings:

Add a new layer and floodfill with a color. Add Birgits Chaos – Stripes with these these settings:

(There are also other types of stripe filters under Birgits Chaos)

Image rotate – 40 degrees to the left and move to the top left corner. (See end result for position). Change the layer option to Overlay.
Add your tube and place it on the left side of the tag and under the striped layer. Change the layer option to Overlay or another suitable option.
Add a close up of the tube on the right side of the tag. Add a suitable drop shadow to both the layer tubes. I used Eye Candy 6 – Perspective Shadow with the blurry setting.
Add a new layer and floodfill with black or a dark color from your tube. Select all, contract by 6 and hit Delete.
Invert, contract by 1 and floodfill the selection with a light color from your tube.
With the selection still active, go to Adjust – Noise – Add noise and put in these options:

Select none and add a drop shadow: 0,0,100,10, Black

Add your name with a suitable font.

To get the rainbow effect on the name, I duplicated the name and used Extrude on the bottom name layer. It doesn’t matter what colors you choose in the settings. Then I made a new layer that I floodfilled and used the Living Sine setting on it. I changed the size on this rainbow layer to be a little bit bigger than the name. After that, I went back to the name layer that has Extrude, selected all, float, defloat, invert. Go back to the small rainbow layer and hit delete. Delete the original name layer that has Extrude on it and put a dropshadow on the name layer with rainbow extrude on it. Merge the top name layer down to the layer with the name and rainbow Extrude.

Add proper copyright and you’re done!

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Duplicate your tag and crop it to 150x150, choosing a section of your tag. Do not use the re-size option.
Delete the tube layers, the frame layer and the font layers.
Add a new layer and floodfill with black or a dark color from your tube. Select all, contract by 6 and hit Delete.
Invert, contract by 1 and floodfill the selection with a light color from your tube.
With the selection still active, go to Adjust – Noise – Add noise with the same settings as before.

Add your initial and save it.

This tutorial was written March 9th, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I used a tube from Cliff Thomas. This tube can be purchased at Indie-Zine, at the time of writing this tutorial.

Materials you need:
Mura Meister - Copies
Eye Candy 6 - Perspective Shadow (Optional)
Eye Candy 6 - Extrude (Optional)
Font of choice. I used Sk8 Or Dye.


Open a new transparent image 600x250

Post a tube of choice. I resized mine by 85%, but that depends on tube and how you like it :)
Duplicate the layer. Hide the top tube layer. On the bottom tube, add Mura's Meister Copies - Wallpaper Rotate - Default settings - Click OK.
Go to Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur with these settings:

Add a new layer. Set background to a colour of choice, and draw a long vertical stripe. Something like this:
(Click on the image to see it in full view)

Center in canvas and convert to raster.
On the same layer, go to Image - Free rotate:

Go to Mura's Meister again and change the settings to these settings:

With you Magic Wand active - Tolerance set to 20 and Feather 1, click in between the black lines on every other are (skip one in between).
Expand by 2.
Activate the Radial layer. Go to Effects - Art Media Effects - Brush Strokes:

In the colour option, use a colour of choice from your tube and click OK.
Invert the selection, go to Adjust - Hue & Saturation - Colorize and set both options there to 0.

Go to Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen More. Select None.

Unhide your top layered tube and add a suitable drop shadow. I used Eye Candy 6 - Perspective Shadow at the default Blurry setting, but you can use
older versions as well.

Activate the Radial layer and add your tube again. Place it on the left side and change the layer options to Overlay or another setting of choice.
Duplicate this tube and mirror it. Merge these two layers and lower the opacity to about 20.

Activate the black stripes and add a drop shadow of choice. I used 3D Effects - Drop Shadow at 0,0,100,10, Black.

Go to the top layer and add a new raster. Flood fill with the same colour you used for the stripes.
Select All - Contract by 5 and hit Delete. Expand by 2 and Invert. Flood fill with a colour from your tube.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise:

Deselect and add the same drop shadow you used on the black stripes.

Add your name using a colour from your tube.
I also used Eye Candy 6 - Extrude on the name, with these settings:

Add a drop shadow of choice. I used 3D Effects - Drop Shadow at 3,3,80,10, Black.
Add the proper copyright info and save your creation as jpg.

Thanks for trying!
Hugs Lithy