PTU - Seeing Red

This tutorial was written May 6th, 2013. 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:
Any tube you decide on. I’m using a gorgeous tube by Michi Art at CDO.
I also used a PTU kit called “Seeing Red” by Hana Designz.
Here is a preview of the kit:

Materials you need:
A mask of choice. I used “Mask0103" by Sophisticat Simone at Scrappy Bit Of Fun. Don't forget to check out her animations as well.
A font that you like. I used “Parisienne-Regular”.
Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (Optional)

My settings for drop shadow: 3, 3, 70, 8, Black.

Make a new canvas, 700 x 700 pixels.
Paste Frame5 and rotate 15 degrees to the left.
Paste Frame1 underneath this and place it in the top left corner.
Paste a paper underneath the black frame. I used Paper10.
With you Magic Wand active, click inside the black frame, Expand the selection by 5 and Invert.
Go back to the paper layer and hit Delete.
Select none.
Paste your tube and add a drop shadow to the tube layer.

If you use a tube similar to the one I used, you’ll have to remove the bottom part of the tube that is sticking out. There are numerous ways of doing this, but here is what I do:
Click inside the black frame with the Magic Wand and Expand by 1. Invert the selection and got the tube layer. Use the eraser to remove the bits that are sticking out at the bottom. Select none.

It’s time to place some elements. There are lots of beautiful elements in this kit, and I wish I could show them all lol.
Here are a few of the elements I used and where I placed them:

HD-84: Place it as a layer between the 2 frames and place it in the top right corner.
HD-27: Above the tube at the bottom of the tag.
HD-75: Resized down to 70%, flip it and place it underneath HD-27 to the left. Duplicate and mirror and place it on the opposite side at the bottom. See my tag for reference.
HD-25: Resized down to 70%, place it underneath HD-75 to the left. Duplicate, mirror and flip and place it on the opposite side at the bottom.
HD-12: Paste above the paper and rotate 15 degrees to the left. Duplicate this and move these 2 layers a bit so that you get 2 rows of hearts inside the frame. See my tag for placement.
HD-54: Paste it above the black frame and place it in the top right corner of the frame.
HD-1: Paste it above the black frame and towards the top right corner of the frame.
HD-4: Paste this below the white feathers (HD-75) and resize down to 60%. Place it on the bottom right side.
HD-5: Paste this as the top layer and resize it down to 60%. Place it at the bottom left.
HD-59: Paste it at the top layer and place it at the bottom left corner.
HD-19: Paste it and place it at the bottom of the tag. Send this to the bottom layer, duplicate, mirror and merge these 2 together. Duplicate again and mirror and merge.
HD-53: Paste it as the top layer, resize down to 60% twice and place it at the bottom.
Go to the bottom layer and paste a paper. I used Paper3.
Add your mask to this layer and Merge Group. Tutorial on how to do that can be found HERE.
Crop your tag with Merge Opaque.

Add a drop shadow to all the layers except the tube layer, paper layer and mask layer.
A neat way to add a drop shadow is that once you’ve done it to one layer, go to the next layer and press Ctrl Y on your keyboard. Repeat this to the rest of the layers.
I don’t know if it’s the same code in other versions of Paintshop Pro, so you might have to look it up.

Add your name using a suitable font. I had both fore- and background layer set to white.
Convert your name to raster and add Eye Candy Gradient Glow on it with these settings:

Add a drop shadow to the name and resize your tag. I resized mine to 550px on the longest side.
Add proper copyright and save as png or jpg.

Thanks for trying!
Hugs Lithy