Thursday, January 29, 2009

All better now

I'm going to go with black for now
till I get new one up

xxoo

Monday, January 26, 2009

Oh My Goodness!!

I have just recieved my first award!!
I know it's crazy , isn't it??
Although I don't really consider myself a designer,
I'm so proud to be given this great award from a very talented Lady,
Jo over at josbits2-tuts4u
Thanks hun!!
I've never done this before, so here goes
I'd like to pass this award onto
a very talented friend of mine Connie aka Mea
over at
I'd also like to pass this onto another talented friend of mine
who just recently opened her blog :)
Patty aka SUNSPOTPP over at
and last but certainly not least
I'd like to pass this award onto
The talented Kay over at
Thanks again for this award JO, it means alot!!
go check out their amazing sites!!!
hugs Beth
xxooxx


Saturday, January 24, 2009

oops bandwidth exceeded, oh well. Darn Photobucket!!
I have been wanting to redo my background anyways.
this one will do for now.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Love Word Art 2nd Edition

New Love Word Art!!
This time I had my hubby check it:)
just to make sure I didn't screw this one up,lol.
you can download this freebie Love Word Art 2nd Edition here
(click on preview to enlarge)

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ooops!

Did I ever tell you how bad I am at spelling? From now on when I decide to make any Word Art I'm going to have to have it proofread before I post it.

My GF emails me last night and said, did ya know ya misspelled always in your Word Art???

well anyways, i fixed the preview and the new one uploaded to my 4Shared and is linked now .

hugs, Beth

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Here's a freebie for ya

Click on it to enlarge and save it if ya want it
hugs, Beth
xx00xx

New tutorial using my Template

Mea over at Le Lezione has written a new tutorial using my template #32
called Desire, and she also used a awesome freebie Valentine Scrap kit she found at Bluedream Designs, you can find it here, Bluey is so talented, go check out her stuff!!!
The tutorial is just awesome, go give it a try!!! :)
click here to take you to her tut

Friday, January 16, 2009

Taggers Template #35

Here's a cute little tag I made using my newest Freebie Taggers Template #35
and I also used a cute little freebie scrap kit I found called Love Birds
at Clareys Designz you can find it here
Thanks Clarey!! !!

Click the preview to download Freebie Taggers Template #35






Thursday, January 15, 2009

Taggers Template #34

Can ya tell what mood I'm in???
spring can't come fast enough!!
It's been -20F here today
BRRR!!!
click here to download the Freebie
Template #34
enjoy!
hugs, Beth
xx00

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Taggers Template #33

One last one for Mea today, man I spoil her huh?
I get to adding things on my templates sometimes I have to keep from overdoing it.
here's my new tag I made her using a freebie add on kit I found here called My Prim Valentine made by Wendy, Thanks Wendy!!:)
and you can download Template #33 here

enjoy!!
hugs,
Beth
xxooxx

Taggers Template #32

I made this tag for my Friend Mea using my newest Template #32
and Seachells Valentine Angel Freebie you can find here
you can download the Template #32 here
hope you enjoy it!!
hugs, Beth
xxooxx

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Freebie Love Word Art

I thought we needed some Love Word Art

Download the Freebie Word Art here
(edited version)


hugs, Beth
xxooxx

Friday, January 9, 2009

Taggers Template #31

Just one for today, I'm going to psp awhile then the boys are coming tonight for a few hours, I get to babysit! YAY! love mygrandbabies!!


click the preview to download Freebie Taggers Template #31






and the Pressie I made for Mea with it.
I also used this awesome scrap kit I found made by Kim at KimmiesKreations
its called Love letters and I used the add on kit:)
love the awesome freebie!!
xxooxx


Thursday, January 8, 2009

Taggers Template #30

Just a simple one but great love song!!

here is the tag I made from it


Click the preview to download Taggers Template Freebie # 30



3 new tuts using my Templates :)

yes, my best friend Mea has been very busy over at LeLezione writing new tuts, she has wrote a new tut for each of my new templates.
aren't they cool!!!
you can find each tut by going to clicking on each preview
have fun with these, and i'd love to see your creations!!
hugs, Beth








Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Taggers Template # 29

My latest freebie taggers template
called "Crazy for you"
hope you enjoy it!!
hugs, Beth
Click the preview to download

Taggers Template #28

Click the preview to download Taggers Template Freebie # 28
hugs, Beth
Would lov to see what you do with this!!

Monday, January 5, 2009

Taggers Template #27

Here's my new Freebie Taggers Template and the tag I made using it

Taggers Template #27


click the preview to download.


would love to see what you make with it!!
hugs, Beth

Friday, January 2, 2009

A tut I wrote last year

With msn groups closing I wanted to keep track of a tut I wrote last year, but don't really want to open a tutorial site because I don't write very many tutorials anymore.

This tut called Dreaming of you has been posted at my favorite msn group T.A.G. since last July and I am also going to post it here for people who arent members and just to have it somewhere for myself to remember.


Dreaming of You






for this tutorial I used psp 9
Xenofex 2
Filters Unlimited
Eye Candy 4000 ~optional
penta.com filter ~optional
filter factory gallery A ~optional
font of choice
I used Montelago unfortunately I cannot share
WSL_Mask148 is in my zip
i got from Weescotslass here
http://www.weescotslass.co.uk/
Thanks for your beautiful Masks!!
exotica letters brush
supplies
here

put the brush in your brushes folder

Open your main tube
open a new canvas 500 x 500
flood fill this layer with white
add a new raster layer
floodfill this layer with black
now go to effects ~ plugins ~ alien skin xenofex 2 ~ constellation with these settings



(click settings image to enlarge)




OK
now we have to colorize the stars to match your tube
click on your change to target brush and use the settings below






change your foreground to the color to match your tube, I used #6ab2f7
with these settings colorize your star background till all the stars are colored
i have supplied my background for those of you who don't have xenofex 2
just copy and paste it from here


(click settings image to enlarge)



now open the WSL_Mask148
go back to your star background
go to layers~new mask layer~ from image




OK
now you should have your mask star background
in your layers pallette right click on your top mask layer and merge/merge group
you should be back to 2 layers

add new raster layer
click your Rectangle tool were going to make the white frame
change your foreground to white and your background null

draw a white rectangle frame around 375 X 200 pixels
using these settings


(Click settings image to enlarge)



you should now have something like this

in your layers pallette
right click on vector 1 layer and convert to raster layer
ok, need a break yet??
add a new raster layer
in your layers pallette drag it under your frame layer
hit your selection tool, set to rectangle, feather 0, anti-alias checked
and draw a rectangle

now flood fill this with the color you chose to match your tube, or I used #6ab2f7
keep selected
penta.com / dot and cross with these settings

amount :72
cross distance :3
cross width :2
and hit ok
selections/ select none
on that same layer
go to filter factory gallery A / zoom out
(note:i have my filter factory gallery A imported into my filters unlimited plugin)
and apply these settings



click ok
and on this same layer~selections ~select all~ float
click on paint brush and find your exotica letters 1 brush
with your color set to black apply your brush with these settings

(click settings image to enlarge)



it should look something like this

selections/ select none
click on your frame layer, lets give it a drop shadow
effects/ 3D effects/ drop shadow with these settings
V~2
H~2
Opacity~71
Blur~7.25
color black
hit OK
add a new layer make sure its on top
now you can add anything here, a quote , lyrics, a poem, for this tutorial I used my name
click your rectangle tool with the same settings as before foreground white background null,
change the line width to 1 draw a rectrangle just a bit bigger than your frame
now click on your text tool
foreground set to null
background set to the color from your tube, I used #6ab2f7
and click on the rectangle we just drew up in the top left corner
so that your text goes around the frame





add the words "Dreaming Of You"/ or your name over and over till you see it fill all the way around your frame
click apply
in your layers pallette right click the floating selection and promote the selection to layer,
selections/ select none
back in your layers pallette click on the vector rectangle layer and delete it

copy and paste your main tube as a new layer
add a drop shadow using these settings
V~2
H~2
Opacity~71
Blur~7.25
color black
hit OK
add a new raster layer
ready to add your name to it?
click the text tool
I used Montelago font size 100 for mine foreground null/
background the same color from your tube we've been using or #6ab2f7
add your text while its floating go to plugins, eyecandy 4000, gradient glow,
with these settings
glow width - 4.00
soft corners - 100
overall opacity - 100
draw only outside selection checked
and change the color to black
click ok
while still floating add the same drop shadow as before
selections/select none
add your copyright info and watermark and merge all
don't forget to crop it
You may want to take this to animation shop and add a bling
there are some nice ones
here
sorry I can't supply the one I used

Photobucket

this tutorial was written June 26, 2008
by KittyKat™ aka Beth

Any resemblance to this tutorial is purely coincidental