Diamond-KiKeKa Kits-PTU

For this tut you will need a kit of choice and I'm using the kit Diamond by KiKea Kits SATC

I am also using the art of Ismael Rac that you can get at his store HERE

You will also need a mask of choice and as a proud Misfit I can't think of a better place to get FTU goodies HERE

I used the font MarmaladeJF and it's a free font you can get HERE

Plugin-Eyecandy4000-Gradient Glow

Open paper08 or your paper of choice-copy-CTL+V and close our the original paper.
Add your mask and merge group.
Add the scatter01 resize 75% and place on top of the mask layer.

Grab the circle and add as a new layer.
Resize 80% and place in the middle of the tag.
Add your tube as a new layer and using the selection tool set to lasso, trim up your tube.

Grab the leaves05, resize 55%, rotate-free-30 degrees- left and place to the bottom right of the circle frame.
Grab flower05 and place as a new layer on the leaf.
Duplicate the flower and resize 55% and place next to the larger flower.
Grab the elephant charm, resize 55%, mirror and pplace to the left of the larger flower and just over the leaf stem..
Merge visible and add all your copyright info and credit to the kit designer.

Gemini Creationz-Emo-Pendence-PTU

For this tut you will need a kit and tube of choice.
I'm using Gemini Creationz collab kit called Emo-Pendence that is a exclusive tagger kit you can only find at SATC.
You will need a SATC license to use her tube.

Mask I am using is from Vix and you gab find all her wonderful goodies and tuts on her tut site HERE.

The font I used it PTU and can't share, but Fontspace has some awesome freebies HERE

Lets start!!

Open paper03, copy, paste as a new image (Ctl+V) and close out the original paper.
Add your mask of choice and merge group.
Add 2 new layers and on the top layer add frame2 and place in the middle of the tag.
On the layer below grab paper06, resize 55% and place in the center of the frame.
On the frame layer, add your tube of choice as a new layer.
Using your selection tool set to rectangle, trim up your tube and add a subtle drop shadow.
Now MERGE Down the tube layer to the frame layer.
Now that those 2 are merged, merge down the tube and frame layer.
How nifty is that??......lol

Let decorate!! (This is simple, I promise!!)

On the mask layer add firework element, resize 65%, place under the upper left corner of the frame.
Add a subtle drop shadow and place the firework element at the lower right corner of the frame.
Still on the mask layer, grab flower7, resize 35% and place on top of the firework elements you just added.

Merge visible and let start decorating the frame.
Add leaf as a new layer, rotate-right-free-30 degrees, resize 65% and place upper left corner of the frame.
Duplicate-flip-mirror.
Use your MOVE tool and move the leaf so that the stems are over lapping a bit, merge down.
Duplicate the 2 leafs once-flip-mirror and it places it right at the bottom right corner of the frame.
Merge down the 2 leafs.
Add a new layer and grab the rolled flower, resize 35% and place on top of one of the leaf layers.
Duplicate-mirror-flip and look where it places it.
Merge down-add a drop shadow.
Grab the cupcake, resize 45% and place at the bottom left corner of the frame.
Grab the red, white, and blue sucker, resize 55%- rotate- left-15 degrees and place on the leaf layer of the tag so it's behind the cupcake.
On the flower layer add the skull, resize 15% to the center of the flowers.
Grab the emo heart, resize 20%, rotate-free-15%-right and place on the right corner of the cupcake.
Merge visible and add all your copyright, license info and credit to the designer.

You can leave the tag as is or animate.

This is how I did my animation.
Add the name of the person receiving the tag.
I used a gradient instead of a color.
Convert to raster layer.

Add a drop shadow and mark the little box says "Shadow on new layer."
On the font layer add noise-25%-uniform-ok.
Merge all, copy, paste as a new layer.
CTL+Z and go back until the noise is no longer on the font layer.
Re add the noise and merge all, copy, and paste before current in animation shop.
Repeat this step again until you have a total of 3 frames, view your animation and resize if needed.
Enjoy!!

Serenity Collab Exclusive-SATC

For this tut you will need a kit of choice and I'm using the wonderful collab of Gemini Creationz and Mystical Illustions. You can only find this collab at SATC

You will also need a mask and Creative Misfits have a bunch of wonderful FTU ones on their blog HERE

You will need a font of choice and you can get some freebies HERE

Plugin used-Xero-Porcelain: I really like how it looks on tubes.......lol

Ok, lets begin!!

(The paper size is rather large and at the end you may resize as needed.)


Grab paper01-copy-paste as a new image and add your mask.
Merge group and add a new layer.

Grab element28 rotate-right-free-60 and resize 55% and paste at the bottom of the mask and add a drop shadow.
Duplicate-mirror-merge down.

Grab element32-resize-45%- add a drop shadow and place to the left of the flowers.
Grab the kitty-resize-25%-add drop shadow and place to the right of the flowers.
Grab element14 and place that on the mask layer. (That was easy......LOL)

Grab the tube provided and add as a new layer-resize-65% and place in the middle of the flowers.
Add a drop shadow and then the plugin using the default settings.

Merge visible and add all copyrights and licenses and enjoy!!

The set I made using pieces from the collab kit.
Banner is 600x300 and the avatar is 150x160.

Autism Speaks-FTU-Crafted By Gina

I'm using a wonderful FTU kit of Gina's called Autism Speaks, you can get it on her blog HERE

I'm using the wonderful work of Elias Chatzoudis and you can get his tubes HERE

I'm using a mask of Vix from her goodies section which you can find on her tut site HERE

You will need a font of choice too.

Ok......Lets begin!!

(This is a rather large tag and you can resize if you wish at the end of the tut.
I prefer to work on a larger scale.)

Grab paper02, copy and paste as a new image.
Add your mask and merge group.

Add 2 new layers and on the top layer grab vine01 and place in the center of the mask, copy, paste, mirror and place.
On the middle layer add the close up image of your choice.
Using your majik wand and click on the center of the vine frame we made.
Selections-Modify-Expand-3-Invert and delete the tube layer.
Playing with the blend mode, find a blend you like.
I used hard light.

Merge visible and add your tube as a new layer and mirror, if you want.

Grab flower06 and place behind your tube.
Grab the puzzle pieces and place to the left of your tube.
As a new layer, grab the autism word art re size 55% and place it so it reads AUTISM SPEAKS.
I added a gradient glow.
Grab flower05, resize 55%, mirror, and place above the white flower you just added and also below the white flower too.
You are going to use the same yellow flower and place right above the puzzle pieces.
Grab butterfly02, resize 65%, rotate free-15 degrees- right and place near a flower.

Add your copyright and license info and ENJOY!!

Fibromyalgia Awareness-Crafted By Gina-FTU

I'm using a wonderful awareness kit from Gina. You can find it on her blog HERE

You will need a mask and the Misfits blog has a bunch of wonderful masks HERE

I'm using the work of Keith Garvey and you can find his tubes PTE
You need a license to use his work.


I'm not sure of the font I'm using is FTU or not, but DaFont has a ton of free fonts you can grab HERE

Filter used Xero-Porcelain

I chose to animate my tag using some butterflies.
The butterflies I used can be found HERE

This is a full size kit and there will be a bunch of resizing.

Lets begin!!

Open your paper03 and resize to 700x700, copy and paste as a new image, CTL V.
Add your mask and merge group.
Add 2 layers On the top layer grab frame 2 and resize 30% and place in the middle of the mask layer.
On the layer below the frame, grab paper paper01 and resize to 600x600 and place below the the frame.
Trim up the paper layer by using your rectangle selection tool.
On that same paper layer add your tube and trim it up using the rectangle selection tool again.
Add the Xero-Porcelain default setting and kit OK.

Merge visible and lets decorate!!

Grab the wrap02 and resize 30% and place at the bottom of the frame.
Grab flower01, resize 10% and place on the bow of the wrap.
Grab the awareness ribbon, resize 15%, rotate free-right-15% and place at the upper left corner of the frame.
Grab flower02, resize 10%, and place on the awareness ribbon.
(Don't forget to add your drop shadows.)

Grab birdie 1&2, resize 15%, place at the bottom right corner of the wrap and place so it looks like they are kissing.
Grab butterfly 2&3, resize 10% and place around the flower on the wrap.
I mirrored the second butterfly so it looked like they were flying around it.

Add your copyright info and license.

If you wish to animate from here, this is how I did it.

Open your selected animation in animation shop and highlight all the frames CTL A,leave as is for now.
(My butterfly animation has 15 frames.)
Open your tag in animation shop as a new animation and place before current until you have 15 frames or as many as your animation has in it.

CTL A highlight all frames of your tag and just leave as for now.
Copy your animation and place on the FIRST frame of your tag and place it where you'd like.
View your animation and make sure it's where it needs to be and enjoy!!

Dark Streak-PTU-SkySraps

For this tut you will need a tube of choice.
I'm using the stunning work of Suzanne Woolcott, you must have a license to use her work and you can purchase her tubes and other art HERE

The kit I'm using is Dark Streak by Skyscraps. You can purchase her kits and tubes SATC

You will need a mask of choice and you can find a ton of free ones HERE

You will also need a font of choice and the one I'm using is PTU, but Fontspace has some great free ones for you to choose from HERE

No filters are needed so lets begin!!

Open your paper of choice, copy and paste as a new image, CTL V.
Apply your mask of choice.

Grab the rose bunch and place as a new layer.
Resize to 45%, rotate free-60 degrees and place to the bottom of the mask.
(Look at my tag for reference.)
Copy, paste and mirror the rose and place so the stems overlap each other.

On the mask layer grab both of the loopy candy canes and resize 50% and place the dark one first to the left of the roses and then the lighter of the candy canes.
If you notice, they look like trees.
Don't forget to add a drop shadow.

Next grab the twig and berries and resize 35% and place in front of the tree.
Back to the rose layer.

Add your tube as a new layer.
Back to the rose layer, again...lol

Grab your flowers of choice from the kit you are using.
Resize 30% and place on the rose layer.
I did mine as so.

Resize 30%, added drop shadow, placed, copy, paste, mirror, and place.

Merge visible and add all you copyright and license info and you done.
Enjoy!!

Rayven-Gemini Creationz

For this tut you need a tube of choice and I'm using the work of Gemini Creationz.
You can find all her kits and other goodies at SATC

You will also need a font of choice.
I'm using a PTU font and can't share, but you can get a ton of free fonts HERE

Xero-Porcelin
Plugin you will need is Filters Unlimited-Plugins AB 06-Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream (yummy.....lol)
(Texture of choice can also be used.)
If you choose to do the banner and animate, just need your choice of animation.

Lets start!!

Open a new image 813x323 and fill with a gradient that matches your tube.
With your preset shape, make a square-convert to raster layer.
Add your tube as a new layer.
Back to the square-selections-modify-contract-6-invert-delete the tube layer-select none.
Repeat this section and your are going to add a drop shadow to the square only-select non.
Merge both the tube and the square together-layers-mgerge-merge down.

On the square add your procelin and slide the blue to 0 and hit OK.
Rotate-right-free-15.
Add a drop shadow to the square-duplicate-resize-75%-mirror-merge down.

Add your tube again and add a drop shadow. (That was hard........LOL)
Add another new layer and lets add the border.
Selections-modify-contract-6-invert and add a gradient to the border and add a drop shadow.
Add all your copyrights and license info.
At this point you can keep it as is, or you can animate like I did below.
Enjoy!!