Decorated Tags

Decorated Tags


Using preset shapes and different pattern fills, textures, your own artwork, you can create all kinds of beautifully decorated tags or labels for your scrapping creations.

These can also be made to artfully decorate gifts.

Tags are handy additions to scrap pages and are useful for writing your journaling or information on your layouts.

How you decorate your tags is up to you!

Your tags can be the traditional packaging tag shapes, or circular, heart shapes, any shape, torn, whatever you like!

Decorate your tags with ribbons, buttons or beads, stitching, flowers, leaves or abstract designs, word art, or paint them.

Lockdown 2020

This unusual time has afforded me the opportunity to get back into creating with Paintshop Pro which is something I enjoy. 

Rusty to say the least, it's all coming back to me. With time to spare and enough coffee, I am updating this blog. 

If there is anything you need to help with your creations please email me at the email I have provided and I will get them to you.

Donations gratefully accepted if you think that the work I have done to help you is worthy.

Stay well and safe and enjoy your own creativity! 

Envelope Tutorial

Tutorial Link


Tutorial Note

Working on an 8 inch x 8 inch canvas for space
I made the envelope approximately 16cm x 11cm at 300 pixels per inch
applied texture old paper at default setting but changed the size to 300 and depth to 6
Add a slight bevel to the card and envelope
You could use your lighten and darken tool to give a bit more dimension to the edges of the envelope and card
Merge when satisfied and crop to size.
Image shown at 72 pixels per inch and 600 pixels x 600 pixels Smart Size
xoxoxo pat

Colourful Grunge Paper

Colourful Grunge Paper


Below are the directions:-

Working on a 12" x 12" 300 pixels per inch canvas.
There are 8 different layers in Paintshop Pro and the layers have different Layer Properties from top to bottom. You can also see the different images used.



To change the colouration below:-

Open the merged colourful image and copy to paste as a new image into your workspace.
Close the original colourful image.
Change the image in your workspace to Greyscale
Increase the colour depth to 8 bits.
Apply a pink overlay or color of your choice and adjust the opacity of this layer.
Added the fern and clock face to the sides.

Folded Paper Corners or Rolled Edges

Folded corners or edges





Note from Pat

For this example above you will need  two layers of paper or two different colours or patterns.

Follow steps 1 to 4 as shown in the example above - cutting and pasting the pieces onto a new layer each time.

Once everything is in position - (I have used lines to show the pieces up)

Then you can start applying shadows and use the warp tool or warp brush to alter the fold slightly.

Experiment

Take a real piece of paper and fold the corner down and up again and see how it lays.

If it is soft paper or tissue it can stretch slightly it may even curl a bit.

Instead of using negative image to change the colour of your first cut piece, try colorizing it.

See another example tutorial here at Corel.com Tutorials.

To Insert Paper Clip

See this tutorial on YouTube

Easy tutorial to follow to make your paper clips hold your tags

Colourize Old Photograph

This was a lovely exercise changing a black and white photo to colour.

Colourizing an image.

There are lots of different tutorials about now so do a search if you fancy doing some colourizing yourself.

Violet Margaret (Frederickson) Stevens (1909-1982)

Fill a Shape with Text in Paint Shop Pro

Fill a Shape with Text in Paint Shop Pro

How to wrap text inside a shape


With the one above I selected my text when I was done and used the spray gun to paint over the words, it looks kind of grungy now.



With this one I played a bit longer to get the text positioned exactly as I wanted it in the heart and then played with what I have learned from 36 Glitter Elements and this Cardboard Tag (Video) tutorial, and the vellum tip from J. below.

You will need Mura Meister Clouds available here

1. Start with a blank transparent canvas, size up to you.

2. Set your foreground color to black and background color to white.

3. Go to Mura Meister Clouds under your filter directory and just apply the default settings.


4. Apply a gaussian blur of around 50.

5. Then adjust the opacity to around 22 or whatever looks good to you and voila, vellum. You can even add a poolshadow if you wish. J.

Patterned Beads and Seed Beads

Patterned Beads and Seed Beads
(by ©PCArt)
Using Paint Shop Pro XI



Beads here done with pattern, colour, gradient and pattern again

You need the pattern fills you want for your beads open in your workspace
so that they will be available in your materials palette.
or you can use what you already have in your materials palette
You can use colours, gradients or patterns.

Open a new Canvas 600 x 600 pixels at 300 pixels per inch
transparent background
Background colour fill set at #c0c0c0 - Foreground none
Using your Preset Shapes draw out a circle to the size you want
Keep in mind that the size you see in Paint Shop Pro
when seen at approximately 20% magnification
is about the size it would be when printed

This will be your bead Template

in Paint Shop Pro (or e-mail or web) at 100%


Approximate printed size

Go to your bead layer, Right click and Duplicate your Bead as many times as you want to. Use your mover tool to move the beads to where you want them.
The beads are all on separate layers

Click on your first Bead
Selections / Select All / Selections / Float / Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Expand by 2 pixels
Flood fill with your desired pattern, colour or gradient
Keep Selected
Apply Effects /Geometric Effects / Spherize at default
Keep selected
Apply Effects / Artistic Effects / Balls and Bubbles
Shape - single ball or bubble
Surface - colour #ffffff Opacity 15 Shininess 50 Gloss 80
Maps - none
Illumination - Maximum 15 minimum 0 Lights 1 colour #ffffff highlight size 28 Save preset
OR Apply the Eye Candy Round Glass setting of your choice
OR Apply Effects /Geometric Effects / Spherize at default
and Apply Greg's Factory Output Volume II / Spotlight
Play with the settings until you have something you like
The settings here are
X 164 Y 89 Size 46 Focus 84
Inner Gain 160 Outer Gain 45

Repeat applying patterns or colours or gradients and effects to your collection of beads. Cut and paste each completed bead as a NEW IMAGE and save as .png

Continuing with this phase of beads that we are in and using any of the previous tutorials for beads


Create some bead work - anything at all - I used my Seed Beads in some way in all of my Africa Theme Kits This is one of the things I have made with my Seed Beads

Definition Tag

Originally from a tutorial By Angela M. Cable - the tutorial is no longer available


Tutorial Note from Pat



Card size 1004 x 650 pixels at 300 pixels per inch
Flood fill with colour of choice
Apply texture I used Filters Unlimited / Cardboard fine
Paint Brush size 47 - blur 32
Add your choice of message /definition / with your favorite font
Leave off the drop shadow
Apply a slight inner bevel to the card.