Hey everyone, sorry I was gone from tutorials for a spell, hoping to get back into the grove of things. Needed a little break! Any tutorials you see here, I'll be offering up over at Another Creative Design which you can join the forum here. Hope to see you there!! Now on to the tutorial

 Mayhem Gurl

This tutorial was written by me, Lori, on Nov. 10. 2010.

And it was written for those who should already have a basic knowledge of working with PSP. I used Paint Shop Pro XI

Do not copy this tutorial and post it through any group or claim it as your own. Please share a text link only. If you use this tutorial please send me a copy of the tag you made with it to my e-mail to the left. I'd LOVE to see the creations. Thank You!

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is strictly coincidental.

Supplies needed

Tube(s) of choice, I used the Artwork by ©Keith Garvy, you must purchase a license found here.

Callab template by Missy and Rosey for Creative Misfits and can be found here.

PTU Scrapkit by Shani of Wicked Princess called "Smatha the Sassy" and can be found here.

Font of choice (I used NimbusRomdBold for my name)

Plug In: Xero

Please remember to stop and save often.

Add drop shadow of choice as you go. Refer to my example as needed, merge layers down as needed to make things a little eaiser.

Let's Rock this Tutorial!!

Open the template in PSP, using your shortcut keys on your keyboard (SHIFT+D) duplicate the template as a new image. Close the original.

Open paper 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 18 and 28 mimize for later use.

Delete the background layer. Go to the large circle layer, Select-All, add new raster layer, paste paper 10 into selection, Make sure your large circle layer is active and Select – float- defloat- Invert, hit the delet key on your keyboard. Delete original large circle layer.

Do this with top purple rectangle using paper 5, rectangle shape 1 using paper 10, rotated rectangle shape using paper 2, purple cirle using paper 1, both thin rectangles using paper 28, dotted circle using paper 6, and circle using paper 12.

Go to your word art by Rose, Select-All, add new raster layer arrange below the wordart layer, paste paper 6 into selection, go back to your wordart layer and Select – float- defloat- Modfy- expand by 2- Invert, hit the delete key on your keyboard.

Open swirlyframe element, resize 452x462 pixels, copy and paste as new layer over the dotted circle.

Here's where it's gonna get a little 'tricky' with the wordart by Minx. Duplicate it so that you have 4 layers total. With your selection tool set to rectangle 0 feathering, draw a rectangle around the word Mayhem, go to Selections-float-defloat-hit your delete key on the keyboard. Do this also with the word girl and the exclmation marks. With your change to target tool change the color of the words 'always causing mayhem' to #9c92b2. Go to selections-all- add new raster layer, arrange below the word Gurl paste paper 5 into selection, go togo back to the gurl layer and Select – float- defloat- Invert, hit the delete key on your keyboard. Do this also with the exclamation mark using paper 2. Delete the separate layers you had made before.

Go to the Purple Stripi Wordart, select-All-Float-Defloat add new raster layer and paste paper 1 into selection.

Open winged heart element, resize 206x160, copy and paste as new layer arrange over top right star. Delete the star.

Open Barbedwiredoubleheart element, resize 216x147pixels, copy and paste as new layer arrange over bottom left star. Delete the star.

Open hornedframe element resize 156x 187 pixels, copy and paste as new layer arrange to the right of the large word mayhen. With your selection tool set to magic wand, click inside the heart and paste paper 18 into selection.

Add tube of choice as a new layer, arrange behind the Mayhem wordart. Duplicate original 2x's, make the copied layers non-visiable, we'll go back to them in a bit. Go back to the original tube, go to effects-xero-Porcelain using the following settings:

Go to effects-xero-radiance using the following settings:

Go to one of your duplicate tubes, arrange this so it's inside the swirlyframe to liking. Go to effects-Photo-Black and white film with the filter color set to red strength to 39. Duplicate this layer go to adjust-blur-gaussian blur with the radius set to 10.00. Go to the original layer, go to effects-xero-radiance using the following settings:

go to your layer properties set the visiablity to 20. see image:

Go to the smaller circle, select-All-float-Defloat-Invert, go to each tube layer and hit the delete key on keyboard.

Go to the last duplicated tube layer, and arrange so a portion of the tube is inside the heart frame, you may duplicate this arrange to liking and do the above instructions for the black and white tube if you like. Go to the heart frames background select-All-Float-Defloat-Invert, go to each tube layer and hit the delete key on the keyboard.

Add Copyright info, license and save!

Thanks for Rocking Out my tutorial, I hope you enjoyed! ~Lori