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Hello, I am Sami, the Girl behind Guilty Pleasures. I have been writing tutorials since May 22, 2009. My first tutorial was called Twilight Obsession. How I got my name is simple. I found tagging to be my Guilty Pleasure. I thought it fit perfectly. I am a designer as well. You can find links to my blogs on my top menu. If you have questions please feel free to ask. Other wise you can read more about me on my ABOUT ME PAGE!

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Monday, August 31, 2009

My Heart and Soul

A beautiful scrapkit was used for this tut
Love Story by Naughty Creations. You can find her here
Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Irene Shpak.Do not use unless you have a proper license to do so. You can purchase her work here
Mask of choice. I am using a mask by Weescotslass Creations



This tutorial was written on 31August2009 by Samantha. All similarities to this tutorial is completely coincidental.

Create new Raster Layer 600x600
Flood fill white

Copy and paste frame 4 as a new layer
Open tube copy and paste as new layer
Moving below your frame layer
Mirror and resize by 70%
Grab your magic wand, Highlight your frame layer
Clicking inside the frame, selections modify
expand by 10%, highligh your tube layer
Selections, invert and hit delete
change the settings on your tube layer to luminance legacy

Open your paper of choice, I am using pp2
Copy and paste as new layer Moving it below your tube layer
Go to layers load/save mask I am using Mask 238
Merge mask group and resize by 80%, Free rotate left by 90 degrees

Open paper of choice, I am using pp11
Copy and paste as new layer, moving below your tube layer
Grab your and click inside the frame. Make sure you have all
the little areas of the frame selected
Selections, Modify, Feather by 5%
Then Selections, Modify, expand by 10%

Highlight your paper layer,Selections, invert and hit delete.

Now its time for your elements
Open your bowlocknkey copy and paste as new layer
Move above your frame layer resizing by 50%
Move to the top left corner of your frame

Open Flowers3 copy and paste as new layer
resizing by 61% move to the bottom right of your frame
See mine for placement.

Open your candle, copy and paste as new layer
resizing by 40% Move to the bottom left of your frame
Open flower5 copy and paste as new layer
resizing by 20% move above your candle layer
with your eraser tool carefully erase the part
that is below the candle

Open up the word art of choice, I am using wordart 5
copy and paste as new layer moving to the top of your frame
and slightly to the right, resizing by 80% and adding
a drop shadow of choice

Add your copyright, name and save and you are done.
I would love to see what you come up with.
Please send to scrapsbysamantha@blogspot.com

Zirconia

Scrapkit is Zirconia by Tammykat @ Pimp My Tags W/ Scraps
You can check out Their Blog Here
Artwork is by Elias Chatzoudis. Do not use unless you have a proper license to do so.
You can purchase his tubes here
Mask of choice. i am using Mask 81 by Weescotlass Creations



This tutorial was written by me Samantha using Corel Paintshop Pro X2 on
31 August 2009. All similarities to this is completely coincidental.

Create new raster layer 600x600
Flood fill white

open frame of choice
I am using acrylicframe2
copy and paste as new layer
resize by 80% and center

copy and paste tube of choice as new layer
mirror and resize up by 115%
Move to the right of the frame and below the frame

go to selections, Modify and expand by 10
highlight your tube layer
selections invert and hit delete


Take the settings on your tube to luminance legacy
opacity down to 69%

Now open up the paper of choice
I am using solidblack paper
Copy and paste as new layer, move below your tube layer

highlight your frame layer
grab your magic wand and click inside the frame
Go to selections, modify expand by 10
highlight your paper layer, selections invert and hit delete

Copy and paste your tube layer once again
Moving above your frame layer to the left

Open up another paper
I am using purple solid paper
copy and paste as new layer
Moving above your white background

Open up your mask of choice I am using Mask 88
Go to layers, New Mask layer, from Image
Merge group

Now to your elements
Open up purpleblue flower copy and paste as new layer
Resize by 65%
Duplicate, Mirror and flip
Move below your tube layer

Open up your bluegemstar
copy and paste as new layer
Moving right above your mask group

Add your copyright, name, save and your done
I would love to see your results. You can send them to me at
scrapsbysamantha@gmail.com
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sweet N Sassy

Scrap Kit is by Ziggy, you can find the kit here
Tubes are the art work of Keith Garvery. Do not use without a proper license. You can purchase his tubes and a license here
Mask 81 is by Weescotslass Creations.



This tut was written on 30 August 2009. This is an original tutorial by Samantha.
All others completely a coincidence.

LETS BEGIN
PSP X2

Create new raster layer 600x600
Flood fill white

Open your frame
copy and paste as new layer

Open up tube of choice
Copy and paste as new layer
move below your frame
I have her behind the left frame

grab your magic wand
Click inside the left frame ( you need to see marching ants)
Selections Modify expand by 10
Invert, highlight your tube layer and hit delete

Open up tube of choice
Copy and paste as new layer
move below your frame
I have her behind the right frame

grab your magic wand
Click inside the right frame ( you need to see marching ants)
Selections Modify expand by 10
Invert, highlight your tube layer and hit delete

Make both the tubes on the left and right
Luminance Legacy

Now open up a third tube
copy and paste as new layer
Move it above your frame layer

Highlight your white background layer
Now open up the paper of choice
I am using paper 1

Copy and paste as new layer
Go to layer, Load/save mask invert transparency unchecked
I am using Mask 81 by Weescotslass Designs

Now open another paper of choice.
I am using paper 4
Copy and paste as new layer
Make sure it is above your mask layer
highlight your frame layer and grab your magic wand
Click inside the left frame holding your shift down
click inside the right frame
Go to selections Modify and expand by 10
highlight paper 4
go to selections invert and delete

Open up element of choice
I am using the Flower
Copy and paste as new layer
Move t the very top
resize by 50%
Move below your final tube layer
Duplicate and mirror
Move down to the bottom of your frame
See mine for placement of both

Open up your beads
copy and paste as new layer
Move to the bottom of your frame
resize to your liking and move below your last tube layer

Add your copyright, name and save
You are done.

Don't forget to share your results.
Send to scrapsbysamantha@gmail.com

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License Numbers☆

Keith Garvey - KG1044
Roman Zaric - RZ161
Elias Art Shop - EAS10361
Bonnies Creations - BC-Samantha08
Indie Zone - iZ-5150
ART - ART134
Michi Art - MA0156
Gary Rudisill - GR0134
The Hunter - APSS0109
Arthur Crowe Factory - AC019
The PSP Project - TPP00427
Lorenzo Di Mauro- LO1240DM
PSP Asylum PA0149
Dreamscape Imaging - DSI1135
CDO - CDO-2216
PTE - PTE-0058
Barbara Jensen - BJ1635
Scraps and the City - SATC46
MPT - MPT4535(closed)
CILM - CI2428LM(closed)
AMI - AMI4903 (closed)
Ismael Rac - IRS111F
Zindy - ZZT1401
Suzanne Woolcott - SW1232
PFD - PFD_SweetSami or PFD_SK289012
Upyourart - Upyourart3303
Tosh - Toosh1682
Sweet Pinups - SPU-20SamFL27f477
MyTubedArt - MTA-0577
Artistically Inclined - AIL0172
Lady Mishka - LM_018713

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