New Tut_A Hug to My Gorjuss Friend

A hug to to my gorjuss friend


You will need the kit from Mar FTU "To my friend Mariel"
as always beautiful Mar TYVM! HERE
My mask layer and wordart HERE
and as alwayus the cute work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

Always remember to resize using aspect ratio unchecked and pixels
checked. And as always use your favorite drop shadow
Open a canvas 570 by 570 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste your mask layer.
Copy and paste element 30 and resize to 500 to 500
Copy snd paste paer 5 and resize it to 500 by 500
Drag it under the frame and erase the excess if needed
Copy and paste element 37 and resize to 300 by 310
Move to the left of the tag.
Copy and paste element 36 and resize to 250 to 259
Copy and paste element 11 and resize to 250 by 430
Dupliciate and mirror this and flip.
Copy and paste element 14 150 by 205 rotate this with free rotate and drop under your flower
Copy and paste element 16 and resize to 150 by 178
Copy and paste element 21 and resize to 200 by 220
Copy and paste element 17 and reisze to 130 by 170
Copy and paste element 28 and resize to 100 by 85 free rotate this a bit if you like.
Duplicate the butterfly mirror flip and move to the right of the tag.
Copy and paste element 20 and resize to 180 by 217
Copy and paste element 15 and resize to 130 by 154
copy and paste element 18 and resize by 100 by 131
Copy and paste elemnt 57 and resize to 550 by 183
Copy and paste your tube and wordart
Add your font and watermark
Save a a png or jpeg
AND
Thats it!
Very cute and really simple....
TYVM for trying

New Tut_Awareness, Survivor, Hope

Awarness Hope Survivor _for Christine

I wrote this in honor of my sister Christine whos an 11 year
Survivor. I wanted to honor her and just tell her how much I love
her.
You will need the kit Pink Touch by Candy Coated Scraps by Heather HERE
TYVM Heather you do amazing work!
My mask layer and wordart HERE
and as always the delightful work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

As always 2 things to always remember. Always resize with lock aspect
ratio unchecked and bicubic and pixels checked. This will
Allow you to resize to the exact measurements.
And as always use your favorite drop shadow on
each elements.

Open a canvas 580 by 580 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste my mask layer.
Copy and paste element 9 and resize to 540 by 524
Copy and paste paper 2 and resize to 550 by 550
Drop this below the heart frame and erase any excess around the frame.
Copy and paste element 1 and resize 300 by 276 and move to the lower left of the frame.
Copy and paste element 6 and resize to 240 by 262 and move to the lower right of the frame.
Copy and paste element 9 and resize to 220 by 207.
Copy and paste element 3 and resize to 200 by 314.
Duplicate this layer and move over to the underneath of the white flower
Copy and paste element 10 and resize to 500 by 312.
Copy and paste element 20 and resize to 200 by 234
Copy and paste element 35 and resize to 120 by 168 and paste to the right of the canvas
Copy and paste element 36 and resize to 150 by 145
Copy and paste element 31 and resize to 100 by 127

Copy and paste your wordart.
Copy and paste your tube
Add your watermark and font
And
Thats it
Your done!
See how pretty?
TYVM for trying

New Tut _Autumn Brings its Beauty

Autumn Brings its Beauty

You will need the kit from Black Cherry HERE TYVM
My wordart and mask layer HERE
And the cute work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

2 things to always remember. Always resize with lock aspect
ratio unchecked and bicubic and pixels checked. This will
Allow you to resize to the exact measurements.
And as always use your favorite drop shadow on
each elements.

Open a canvas 580 by 580 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste my mask layer
Copy and paste element 34 resize to 540 by 506
Copy and paste paper 4 and resize to 500 by 500
Grab your magic wand and click inside the circle frame.
Hit objects invert and delete the excess paper.
Copy and paste element 1 and resize to 300 by 293
Copy and paste element 3 and resize to 300 by 293
Copy and paste element 200 by 195
Copy and paste element 7 and do not resize this.
Drop this under your frame. Duplicate this and
mirror it or you can grab your free roate and rotate this a bit
to the left.
Copy and paste element 11 and drop this under the frame , rotate it a bit and
place it in between the other leaves, duplicate this layer and free rotate this
layer , see my tag for an idea.
Grab elemeny 20 and free rotate to make more straight before you copy
and paste do not resize.
Duplicate and mirror this.
Copy and paste element 30 and resize to 280by 311
Copy and paste element 25 and resize to 130 by 106
Copy and paste element 32 and resize to 200 by 327.
Copy and paste element 9 and 10 ...10 resize to 100 by 132
and element 9 100 by 100
Copy and paste your tube.
Copy and paste your wordart
Add your watermark and font
Thats it!
You are done
See how pretty and simple huh?
TYVM for trying it

Hello All

Im Stevies Big Sis Christine *waves* and Im going to be posting 2 new tuts she wrote. Shes very much in Springsteen Country tonight lol and will be a wee bit tired to do much tomarrow or the next few days....
Stevie hopes youll enjoy these while shes gone.....
Huggers
Christine

New Tut_Fall is a Magical Time

Hi all, im back with another quick tut for you all....really pretty dont ya think?

Fall is a magical time

You will need the kit FTU Magical Fall Freebie HERE
By Candy Coated Scraps TYVM!
My wordart mask layer HERE
and as always the delightful work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

Ready?
A few steps before we begin. Always resize with aspect ratio
unchecked , bicubic and pixels checked. And always use your
favorite drop shadow.

Open a canvas 570 by 570
Copy and paste my mask layer.
Grab Element 59 ad resize to 540 by 475. Yes this one we want larger.Copy and paste.
Grab paper 20 or paper of your choice from the kit and resize it to 550 by 550.
Copy and paste and drop below the frame layer. erase any excess under the frame.
You could as an alternate method click on the center of your frame and hit inverse
but sometimes this gives a jagged edge a bit, I prefer to erase. Choice is yours to
whats comfortable for you.
Grab elements 37 and 38 and do not resize these.Copy and paste these and drop under
your round frame.
Grab element 52 and copy and paste this, do not resize , mirror and flip.
Grab element 27 and 28, Resize only element 27 260 by 253, copy and paste these
and postion them similar in my tag.
Grab element 39and resize to 200 by 172.Copy and paste between the daisies.
Grab element 49 and resize to 200 by 160, move this pumkin to the right of the tag corner.
Grab element 24 and copy and paste the the left of your tag,mirror and flip this adding the
second one to the right.Do not resize.
Grab element 42 and resize to 160 by 160, copy and paste and rotate a bit with free rotate.
Grab element 46 and resize to 150 by 150 and copy and paste the owl to the right of the tag.
Copy and paste your tube and wordart
add your watermark and font
Save as png or jpeg and
Thats it!
Pretty cute here huh? and super easy.TYVM for trying!

New Tut Lets give gorjuss thanks....

Hi all yes one more tut lol . I thought this make a nice Thanksgiving tut...I know a lot of folks dont celebrate this in other countires, in canada I know its this month , this coulds also just make a cute tut to give thanks....
Lets Give Gorjuss thanks
You will need the patches kit from Tamie of Addictive Pleasures TYVM Tamie its so cute!HERE

My wordart mask layer and font HERE
and always the cutie work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

ready?
Remember to always resize using aspect ratio unchecked, and pixels and bicubic checked
and always remember use your favorite drop shadow.

Open a canvas 600 by 600 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste my mask layer.To make your mask layer seem darker simply
duplicate it and merge them together.
Copy and paste element 32, do not resize.
Copy and paste paper 9 and drop below the frame.
Erase any excess that might be hanging over the frame.
Copy and paste element 37 and resize to 400 by 432.
Copy and paste element 27 and srop below the frame and paper layers.
Duplicate this layer and mirror it and using your free rotate rotate it a bit.
Copy and paste element 5 and resize to 150 by 286, place the turkey on the
left hand corner of the tag.
Copy and paste element 55 and drop behind some of the elements, see my tag.
Copy and paste element 40 resize 4oo by 400 drop in front of the barn.
Copy and paste element 15 150 by 150 and move to the right of the tag.
Copy and paste element 7 and resize 500 by 208. Drop below the other elements
Copy and paste your tube wordart.
Add your watermark and font
Save as a jpeg or png
Thats it..you are done....TYVM for trying

New Tut_ Hope is never a dream...

Hi all heres another easy and sweet tut.....

Hope is not a dream

You will need the kit Timeless by Kat HERE
TYVM Kat is beautiful!
My wordart mask and font HERE
and the beautiful work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

Ready? always remember resize bicubic .lock aspect ratio unchecked and in pixels
Add your basic drop shadows to each element as you go along. Any one will do, whatever you like.


Open a canvas 600 by 600 and floodfill white
Copy and paste my mask layer.
Stretch it just a slight bit to go as far to the edge of the canvas with overrunning it.
Open element 13 and copy and paste this over the mask, do not resize this and add a drop shadow.Change this showing for
this element to multiply.
Open element 3 and copy and paste this under the frame, do not resize this one either.
Grab element 6 and resize to 340 by 286 copy and paste this to the left of the frame, duplicate mirror and
flip it, grab your raster deform and make it a bit smaller see my tag for a guide.
Grab element 8 and resize to 450 by 484, copy and paste this under the roses, and duplicate mirror and move the
other to the left.
Grab element 05 and copy and paste between the roses. Resize this to 50 by 50 and duplcate 3 times add the gems
on the frame.
Grab element 16 and resize to 400 by 400. Duplicate this layer and using fre rotate rotate this a bit, drop them both
below the mask layer
Grab element 15 and resize to 200 by 268. Copy and paste this as a new layer and move to the upeer left of the tag,
place it over the gem.
Grab element 11 and resize to 550 by 154. Copy and paste and drag on the bottom of the canvas
Copy and paste your tube.
copy and paste your wordart.
Add watermark and font
save as a png or jpeg

Thats it...your done And TYVM for trying it

NEW Tut _ Gorjuss Freinds are reasons to be Thankful

Hi all I decided to write 2 new gorjuss tuts today....the first one below
Hope you enjoy them...
Gorjuss Friends Are Reasons To Be Thankful




Youll will need this blog train freebie By Rebeccas Scrapping Silliness
HERE TYVM Rebecca its beautiful
My wordart and mask layer font HERE
and the delightful work as always of Suzanne Woolcott.HERE

Ready ?lets begin.This one is quickie and very very easy.

Open a canvas 570 by 570 and floodfill white
Copy and paste my mask layer.

When we resize elements and papers make sure you resize in pixels
lock aspect ratio is unchecked, resize all layers and bicubic checked.
This makes resizing a breeze.

Open your frame and resize 400 by 463 copy and paste as new layer.
Move it a bit to the top corner.
Add your drop shadow, any basic drop shadow will do, whatever you like,whatever you think
looks great with your tag.
Rezie the frame again down to 300 by 347 and copy and paste as new layer. Drop shadow,
and use free rotate to roate a bit to the right.

Grab paper 2 and resize to 400 by 400, drop this below your larger frame.
Grab paper 4 and resize this to 300 by 300 drop this below your second frame.
Erase any excess hanging over the frame.

Go on to your mask layer and dupliciate this. use your free rotate to move it a bit so its
hanging over the frames
Open flower and resize to 300 by 289 copy and paste and move to the left of the big frame
Resize the flower again to 200 by 193 copy and paste this next to the larger flower
Drop shadow on both.
Open your leaves and resize to 300 by 453 , free rotate 90 degrees to the right.
and copy and paste moving it to the top of the frames.
Open the sticks ribbon and resize to 500 by 106.
Copy and paste as a new layer and drop on the flowers.
Add your drop shadows.
Copy and paste your tubes. add drop shadows
Word art and font and watermark copy and paste.Add a drop shadow to the word art.
Resize your tag if desired and save as a jpeg or png

Thats it!
We are done , see really easy..and kinda cute TYVM for giving it a try

Im Bruce Springsteen Heaven!

what a great last few nights....Im so so just overwhelmed....for those of you who arent familar , he closed our Giants Stadium with a series of shows, new one is just being built and almost done. He was just great. Im doing more shows at the end of this month in PA so im excited plus a few more I do miss my kit and tag making though....lol

FTU Templates for Breast Cancer

I decided to make these cause frankly Ive never seen ones for this. So heres a couple to make some fabby awareness tags....
Grab um HERE

FTU Gorjuss Buttons

I like making buttons and wanted to make some fun ones for us woolcott fans. In honor of the fact Suzanne loves stripy socks I came up with these. I hope you enjoy them and have fun with them
Grab them HERE

New Kit_BC Awareness For Christine

A lot of people may not know that my sister Christine is a BC survivor. She had stage 2B and is free almost 11 years. In honor of her and those afflicted I decided to make a kit. I hope you will enojy using this and think of those woman who have lost their battle, survived their battle, and for awareness.
Grab both the paper and elements HERE

NEW tut Whats A Girl To Wear?

Whats a girl to wear?


Hiya my gorjuss friends, im back with a quick tut. This kit was sooo pretty by Monica I had to make a tut.

You will need Monicas kit....Just a purple kind of day HERE Monica makes AWESOME kits TYVM
My wordart font and mask layer HERE
And as always the cute work of Suzanne Woolcott HERE

Ready?
Open a canvas 600 by 570 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste your mask layer.

Make sure you always resize using smartsize, lock aspect ratio unchecked, and
pixels checked.
Always use your favorite drop shadow to your elements, however you like it.

Copy and paste element 8 and resize to 550 by 513
Resize paper 2 to 550 by 550 and copy and paste this and move under your mask layer
Erase any excess over the heart frame.
Copy and paste element 23 resize to 300 by 400 and copy and paste to the right of the tag .
Copy and paste element 28 resize to 300 by 300 and place in the center of the tag.
Copy and paste element 27 and resize 200 by 200 and place to the left of the tag.
Duplicate> Mirror and place to the right
Copy and paste element 18 and move to the right, place this under your heart.
Rotate a bit to the left .
Copy and paste element 5 on top of the heart.
Copy and paste element 9 resize by 170 by 148 , move to the right of thr tag
Copy and paste element 10 resize by 170 by 208
Copy and paste your wordart
Copy and paste your tube.



Add your watermark and font.
save as a png

thats it your done....
Thanks for trying it......

FTU Button Frames

I made these and really didnt have a place to put them...I think they are really cute for some projects...there are 8 frames plus a CU Greyscale for you to color or use in a kit.....
Enjoy them.....Hugssss Stevie
GET um HERE

NEW Kit Outside The Rain

I was getting some rain on and off the last few days in NJ, not heavy rain but some rough surf. I was making this kit and these colors worked for some oddball reason, it doesnt look like it will but did , and as most of you might know LOL I hate blue....I do....but know a lot of folks like it. I love Suzannes girls in blue but thats about it, this will go well with lots of those.....
Enjoy it.....Hugs Stevie

Heres a preview of the papers

Get both HERE

Hi freinds....

I hope everybody is doing well, and thats means all my Gorjuss buddies and friends, Ill be in and out the next few days, I got some concerts with my hubby and some singing stuff but I hope youll enjoy these gooodies.
Im am so so thrilled all of you are getting my kits , and enoying them...TYVM for the support....

New Tut_Friends Make Memories

Ready for one more tut? This is easy peasy and really sweet. I love this lil gorjuss girl so much

Friends Make Memories

You will need the FTU kit from Monica and Lornas blog.....Gothic Romance. Both have terrific kits TYVM HERE .scroll down to the second kit
My wordart font and mask layer HERE

Ready?
Open a canvas floodfill white 600 by 600.
Copy and paste my mask layer.

Make sure you apply a BASIC drop shadow to each your elements. Any will really do on tags, its truly a matter of what you like and what looks great to you.

Grab Frame 4 and copy and paste it, move it a bit down to touch the bottom of the mask layer. See my tag for reference.
Copy and paste Paper 8 , drop this below the frame layer and with your eraser tool erasse the excess under the frame.
Copy and paste Fan 3 and using your free rotate , rotate this a bit, duplicate this fan mirror and flip.
Open Swirl 2 and resize it 400 by 271. Copy and paste this and move till its above the fan layers. Again duplicate and move it and rotate it a bit to your liking.
Open flowers 5 and 6 and copy and paste them to the left of the tag. Duplicate flower 5 and move it to the right.
Copy and paste the Heart Pillow 3 and move this below your flowers to the left.
Copy and paste bow 12, and place this to the left on top of your grey flower.
Copy and paste jewel 3 over the bow 12 and place it over the center knot of the ribbon.
Open Heartpin 1 and copy and paste to the left of the tag.
Open buttefly 2 and resize to 100 by 80. place above to the top on the left.
Copy and paste the heartcharm 1 and resize 120 by 185. place to the right of the tag.
Copy and paste your tube
Copy and paste your wordart
Add your watermark and font
Thats its your done!
Save as a png or Jpeg

New Tut_ Owl Love You Forever

Owl Love You Forever

You will need Mars kit which is now a FTU HERE Mars work is awesome TYVM Mar for your time and talents. My supplies mask layer font wordart HERE And the very very cute art from Suzanne Woolcott...which with a licence you can get HERE

Ready?

Open a canvas floodfill white 570 by 570 , you can resize at the end if you like.
Copy and paste my mask layer.
Resize your frame to 500 by 500 sweet blue 21. I always use smartsize for my elements.
Make sure when you resize always that lock aspect ratio is unchecked and its set to pixels.
Copy and paste paper 5 . Grab your magic wand and click inside your frame.
Highlight your paper
Selections, Invert delete.....
Deselect
Add a basic drop shadow as you go along with your elements then your tube. I find that whatever you like will work best.
Grab elements 39 and 40 ... 340 by 334
Element 38 , 300 by 234 , and free rotate a bit to look like mine move this under your blue flower.
Duplicate and mirror and flip place this under your other flower.
Element 46 resize to 200 by 183 copy and paste between the 2 large flowers
Element 7 resize to 500 by 66 Place this under your frame and erase any excess over the frame.
Element 27 resize to 100 by 98 , Duplicate amd move across from the other element.
Element 63 resize 200 by 217
Element 82 resize 129 by 104
Copy and paste your tube and postion it no the flowers
Add your watermark and font.
Thats it!
Thanks for trying.....

New Tut_ Bootyful Gorjuss

Bootyful Gorjuss

Sue AKA Catarific wanted me to try a animated tut, well I gave it a shot....I got to thank her because withought her lessons for psp and animation shop on her blog, this tut would never have happened, remember I use Photoshop, so this was a bit of challenge....Thanks Sue for being a GREAT teacher....Hugsss Stevie

You will need Mariels Kit Bootyful from her blog HERE TYVM Mariel you do beautiful work!
My mask layer font and animation HERE .

Open a canvas 600 by 600 and floodfill white.
Copy and paste my mask layer provided, if you like recolorize it to suit your needs.
You can do that by going to Adjust > Hue Saturation> Colorize and move the sliders to you achieve a color you do like . Hit ok.

Make sure when you resize to resize using smartsize, resize all layers checked.
Make sure lock aspect ratio is unchecked.
Makes it much easier.


Open elements11, Resize it to 350 by 391
Open element 10 , Resize 300 by 350
Open element 9 and Resize it it 200 by 223 and then rotate this to the right > Image > Rotate
Right
Open element 8 and again rotate this to the right > Image > Rotate
Right resize to 400 by 200

Add a basic dropshadow to all of these as you go along. I used the default ,but go with what you like.

Open Up elements 82 83, 84
Copy and paste each one of the these below your boxes.
Rotate these a bit like you see in my tag.
You can do this by using your pick tool and either free rotating or scaling.

Now the fun part are ya still with me lol
Copy and paste elements of your choice, be creative or follow my tag for a guide.
Add basic drop shadows to all your elements.
Copy and paste your tubes and add drop shadows.
Add your watermark and font




If you like what you see save as a psp file or psd merging all of your layers except the font layer if your making more tags just x that out and merge visable.

Right click on the frame, go to duplicate selected and left click. Duplicate your frames until you have the exact same number of frames as your animation. Save as a psp file.

Open your Star animation in Animation Shop
Now click on Edit >Select all....All your Star frames are now
highlighted ( they will be blue)

Open your tag in animation shop. .the same way you did
the star animation above...so each frame has blue around them also.
Go to your tag frames and again hit the Control and A keys to highlight all your frames in the tag.
Holding down your left mouse key, place your image exactly where you want it in the first frame, and release the left mouse key your animated stars should be where you want in each frame of the tag.

To change the frame speed highlight the frame and right click in the frame and go to Frame Properties. Type in your speed and click ok , if you have more than one with the same speed hold down the shift key and hijglight your frames. Go to any of the highlighted frames and right click, type in your new speed. I used 15 on each frame

Go to Optimazation Wizard gif file , replace current animation with optimazied version.
Better quality image
Next then ok
Make sure you save a psp image of main file if you want to add names to the tag
Phew! we are done!
and if your still with me lol
Thank you very much for trying.....

Halloween Templates # 1 to 4

I know Halloween is coming up soon and some really love to use these templates. I know I love Halloween templates to make tags. Heres a few to have some fun with.All my templates are PSD format, and yes they can open in PSP no problem, and PS users will have no problems either. You can grab um
HERE
Hugs Stevie

New Tut Forever Gorjuss Autumn

I love these new templates by Vix....so I decided to write a tut.....

Forever Gorjuss Autumn

You will need my kit Autumn Follage. Grab it HERE
My supplies, which is the mask layer and font HERE
And Vixs Template 21 HERE Thanks so much Vix!


Ready?
Open your template and delete the copyright.
Add a new raster layer and floodfill with white.
Copy and paste the mask layer provided. If you like recolor it to you liking , and if you want make a smaller a bit by using your raster deform tool.
Open your papers for the template.
I used Papers 2 5 and 7.
Minimize them in PSP.
Make sure your forground stroke is set to pattern and click ok.
Then using your magic wand tool, click on each part of them template you want to fill and floodfill
with your paper of choice. I find this much easier than other methods.
Do the same with your Autumn Wordart, or floodfill a color of choice.
Copy and paste your leaves using your raster deform tool to move a little bit and rotate.
Copy and paste your branch, and then duplicate, mirror and flip moving this to the bottom of the template.
Copy and paste your broom , leaves, crow and pumkin and anything else you want to add to your tag.
Add a basic drop shadow of choice to your elements,
Copy and paste your tube and position to where you like.
Add your font and watermark.
Resize your tag if you want a smaller tag.
Thats it!
We are done
TYVM for trying my turtorial

New Kit _Gorgeous love

I made this thinking about the red lil gorjuss girls Suzanne creates, the colors match so well

Grab the kit HERE

NEW Kit Halloween Happy

Heres a fun Halloween kit, lots of bright papers, ghosts pumpkins you name it
It will be great for fun bright tags for taggers like me lol
Go HERE to grab the kit

NEW Kit_ Autumn Folige

This is a pretty simple Fall kit...lots of bright colors and it would look great some of the Woolcott cuties.....
you can grab the papers and the kit
HERE

A NEW blog with a Fresh start....

I have as you know or some know decided to close my old blog and start fresh....I really love scrapping and tuts and making tags so I want to try to get back into it again. I will say this all my kits tuts whatever I make will always be FREE, this for me is a hobby and I enojy sharing with my friendsI hope you like what ull be seeing. I will do them as time let me allows.
Most of these days Im really into the delightfull work of Suzanne Woolcott and I really dont tag as well beyond that anymore. I have made so many wonderful friends i the Woolcott community , they are simply the best. So withought me yakking anymore lol let me get on with it...To those who like or love my kits from my older blog , I hope ull migrate...Thanks for the support....