This tutorial was written on February 17, 2009 and is of my own imagination. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is pure coincidence. Please do not use the same images/tubes as I have unless you are licensed to do so. Supplies Needed: Tube of choice. I am using a tube by Jennifer Janesko. You can get her work here. The Scrap Kit I used for this is by Liv Luvs Scraps. The Kit is called "Heidi". This kit is full of bright colors and is a lot of fun to work with. Thank you so much Liv for giving me this kit to play with! xoxo The font I used is called Virgin. You can find it on dafont.com. Mask of choice. I used one from Zuzanna. You can download her masks here. Cupcake Sprinkles Template Bundle, Template 1. You can download her template bundle here. You will need the plug ins Alien Skin Eyecandy 5: Bevel and Eyecandy 4000 Gradient Glow for this tutorial. Let's get started! Open a 500x500 transparent image and flood fill it white. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperTexturedMaroon and copy/paste it into your image. Click on Layers/Load-Save Mask and choose the mask you want to use for your tag. Right click the mask layer in your layers menu and merge/merge group. Reduce the opacity to 50%. Open Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1 from her Template Bundle. Find the layer marked "Rectangle 1" and copy/paste it into your image. Position it towards the right of your tag. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperSpots. Select your magic wand tool. Click rectangle 1. Select your fill tool. Change your foreground to texture and pick the spots paper from the swatches. Click rectangle 1 again to fill with the spots paper. Select/Select None. Find "Rectangle 1 Frame" in Cupcake Sprinkles template and copy/paste it into your image. Position it over the rectangle. Select your magic wand tool. Click the frame. Select your fill tool. Change the foreground to color, #ee3f66. Click the frame with your fill tool. Select/Select None. Go to Effects/Alien Skin Eyecandy 5: Bevel and use these settings: Using Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1, find the layer "Rectangle 2" and copy/paste it into your image. Position it over rectangle 1, refer to my tag if needed. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperStripes. Select your magic wand tool. Click on rectangle 2. Select your fill tool. Change your foreground color to texture and choose the stripe paper from the swatches. Click rectangle 2 to fill with the stripes. Select/Select None. Find "Rectangle 2 Frame" in Cupcake Sprinkles template and copy/paste it into your image. Position it over the rectangle. Select your magic wand tool. Click the frame. Select your fill tool. Change the foreground to color, #ee3f66. Click the frame with your fill tool. Select/Select None. Go to Effects/Alien Skin Eyecandy 5: Bevel and use the previous settings. Back to Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1, find the layer "Rectangle 3" and copy/paste it into your image. Position it over your previous rectangle layers, refer to my tag if needed. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperTexturedLtPink. Select your magic wand tool and click rectangle 3. Select your fill tool. Change your foreground to texture and choose the pink paper from the swatches. Click rectangle 3 to fill it with the pink paper. Select/Select None. Find "Rectagle 3 Frame" in Cupcake Sprinkles template and copy/paste it into your image. Position it over the rectangle. Select your magic wand tool. Click the frame. Select your fill tool. Change the foreground to color, #ee3f66. Click the frame with your fill tool. Select/Select None. Go to Effects/Alien Skin Eyecandy 5: bevel and use the previous settings. Select your eraser tool and erase any parts of the rectangles that extend past the frames. Copy/Paste one of the staples from Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1 into your image. Position it like I have in my tag. Click on Enhance Photo/Manual Color Correction and use these settings: Paste the staples into your image again. Position them like the other staples in my tube. Apply Manual Color Correction again using the same settings. Apply drop shadow to both sets of staples. Shadow settings are: Your tag should now look something like this: Open the tube you are using. Resize it down to a size you like and position it over rectangle one, make sure your tube layer is under the staple layers. Erase any parts of the tube you don't want over hanging the frame. Drop shadow. Using Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1, find the layer "Circle 1" and copy/paste it into your image under all your frame layers. Position it to your liking, you can refer to my tag for positioning if you need to. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperSpots. Select your magic wand tool and click on circle 1. Select your fill tool. Change the foreground to texture and choose the spots paper from the swatches. Click circle 1 with your fill tool to fill it with the spots. Select/Select None. Copy/Paste "Circle 2" from Cupcake Sprinkles Template 1 into your image. Position it in the center of your previous circle, refer to my tag for positioning if needed. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_PaperHearts. Select your magic wand tool and click on circle 2. Select your fill tool. Change the foreground to texture and choose the hearts paper from the swatches. Click cricle 2 with your fill tool to fill it with the hearts paper. Select/Select None. Your tag should now look something like this: Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_FeltHeart and copy/paste it into your image. Resize it down until you are comfortable with the size. Click Image/Free Rotate and rotate it 25 degrees to the left. Position it like I have in my tag. Drop shadow. Open LLS_HeidiPU_TS_LayeredFlower2 and copy/paste it into your image. Resize it down until you are comfortable with the size. Position the center of the flower under the staples on the upper left of your frames. Drop shadow. Select your ellipse tool. Turn off the background color. Change the stroke width of your ellipse to 1 and draw out a circle. Make sure this circle is slightly bigger than the polka dot circle. Make a new vector layer. Select your text tool. Change the font color to #a72a3e. Select the font and size you want to use. Hover your text tool over the circle you just drew until your text tool turns into a curve and click, type out Always A dreamer and click apply. Position your text until you are happy with it. In your layers menu, right click the text and click convert to raster. Delete your guide circle. Click on Effects/Plug Ins/Eyecandy 4000/Gradient Glow and apply a gradient glow that you want to surround your text. When you are happy with it click ok to apply the glow. Your tag should now look something like this: Select your text tool again, make it slightly bigger than your word art, using the same font type out your name. To achieve the effect I have for "Liv", choose a light pink for your background color and #a72a3e. Change your text stroke width to 5. Type out your name and add noise to it. Change your stroke width to 0 and type out your name again so it's a solid color. Position the solid name over the one with noise. Convert to raster and merge the two. Drop shadow. Add your tube's artists copyrights/watermarks to your tag and your license number. That's it your done. Thanks for doing my tutorial. If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to share your finished work, please email me at waldees06@gmail.com.