Template Freebie

New Template Freebie

Hi all... Hope you've had a great week and have a wonderful weekend
I finally got to creating something today
Been dealing with a migraine and severe depression
for the last few days so haven't felt much like
creating

Today I've made a new Template
Template Six is finally released..
bit late and definately out of order but here we go
If you would like to have this template you can download it here Look for template six
Please remember if you'd like to share the template through groups
just share a preview and a link to my blog
thank you
Hugs Michelle

Here is a tag I created with the template
I have used the fantastic artwork of Steve Walker http://quest.sasktelwebhosting.com/
I have also used a lovely FTU scrapkit called Denimchic http://www.clareysdesignz.blogspot.com/

Well that's it for today
thanks for looking and if you'd like the tag you can get it here
Please do not alter the tag or make extras from it
just put your name on it
hugs Michelle

New Award

Hey Wow
got another award...lol
thanks Mark
http://amvetdezignz.blogspot.com/

The Premio Dardos award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.
The rules are:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to other 5 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment.
Remember to contact each of them to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
I am presenting this award to;

http://brandiscreations.blogspot.com/
http://frecklesscraps.blogspot.com/
http://humbuggraphicsgalore.blogspot.com/
http://seacastlegraphics.blogspot.com/
http://the-cats-meow-catmom.blogspot.com/

New Creation

Well I got to creating today

and basically made a tag with some of the elements I had created

and here is a couple of results

thanks for looking

Hope you have a great week

catch ya soon

Hugs Michelle

Fruit Tutorials

Hi All
so I hope you had a great weekend
I got to creating again
and here is a tutorial for an orange and
strawberry
Hugs Michelle

Fruit Tutorial

Ok so here’s a easy tutorials using vectors and

And eye candy> bevel

And of course your own imaginations

This tutorial was written by Michelle Mills on 23^rd February 2009.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

I claim all rights to this tutorial.

Do not use this tutorial

Or the results of doing this tutorial for personal or commercial gain

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of Paint shop Pro.

The results of this tutorial were done in Paint shop Pro Ultimate x2.

Hugs Michelle

An orange

Open a new 500x500 transparent image

And then with your foreground null and background an orange colour

I used #ee9730 create a circle using your ellipse tool set to circle and line width 2

Pull out a circle like so

Now using your pen tool right click on a node convert to path and now we need to

Add some nodes to shape our orange so with control key pushed in and using left mouse

Add two nodes near the bottom node on our circle like so when near the line a little +add will

Pop up click with left mouse and node will appear

Now click on your middle node and pull up just slightly

Now repeat these steps to add two nodes to the top of orange just slightly wider this time

And again pull down the middle node just slightly

now convert your layer to raster

Now use your magic wand to click the outside of the orange as we are going to add our shadowing

Using your airbrush with the following settings

Size 40, hardness 30, step 1, density 40, thickness 100, rotation 0, Opacity 20, blend mode normal, and rate 25

Choose a darker orange #e78411 add a new raster

Now use the airbrush to mark around the edge of your orange

Now choose a lighter orange #f1b267 and add a new raster

Add the lighter shading around the inner layer of the dark shading like so

Go back to your dark shading layer and add adjust>blur>Gaussian blur of 30

Then go to your light shading layer and add Gaussian blur of 35

Now you merge visible but do not deselect

Lets add our bevel I have used eye candy 5> bevel with the following settings

two images one for basic tab one for lighting tab before clicking ok

Deselect

Using your selection tool with ellipse pull out a small oval near top of orange for more shading

With your first colour #ee9730

Now using your lighten/darken brush with the following settings

Size 15, hardness 50, step 25, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 32, mode RGB

You need to darken toward back of the oval shape and lighten toward the front

With your pen tool freedraw, and line width two and your foreground colour your dark orange draw a small line near the oval to highlight it like so

That’s your basic orange... Now if you like can add a stick and leaf or two

Here we go

Using your pen tool with the following settings

Freedraw, Tracking 10, create on vector, straight line, width 15, anti-alias checked

Choose a foreground brown colour #86541a

Null background

Draw out a line

Convert to raster

If you have eyecandy>texture>wood can use that I used redwood

Otherwise use eyecandy>bevel with the following settings

For the leaf with foreground null and background green #5ece12

Using your pen tool again convert to path and shape the leaf

Add nodes as necessary till it is a shape you like

Convert to raster

Now to add the veins

Again using pen tool changing your width to about 3

And with your foreground a dark green # 50a913

Mark our some veins then convert to raster and

Adjust>blur>Gaussian blur 3

Well that's it...I hope you enjoy this tutorial..

the basic concept of this tutorial could be used for many different fruits it's all about

experimenting with shapes and vectors

hope you have fun

Hugs Michelle

Fruit Tutorial

Ok so here’s a quick
and easy tutorials using vectors and

And eye candy>
bevel

And of course your
own imaginations

This tutorial was written by Michelle Mills on 23^rd February 2009.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

I claim all rights to this tutorial.

Do not use this tutorial

Or the results of doing this tutorial for personal or commercial gain

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of Paint shop Pro.

The results of this tutorial were done in Paint shop Pro Ultimate x2.

Hugs Michelle

The time a Strawberry

Open a new 500x500
transparent image

And then with your
foreground null and background a Red colour

I used #f11533 create
a circle using your ellipse tool set to circle and line width 2

Pull out a circle

Now using your pen
tool right click on a node convert to path

Pull out the bottom
Node and slightly to the left

Convert layer to
raster

Now go to eye candy
bevel and use the following settings basic and lighting tabs

Now for the slightly
longer task of adding the seed

Using your ellipse
shape and black as your background colour

Draw out a little
shape

Continue to do this
all over the strawberry then convert to raster

Use eye candy bevel
again with the following settings basic and lighting tabs

Now for the leaves

Using your ellipse
tool

Using green #50a913

Draw out a small oval
shape

Use your pen tool and
convert to path and then shape your leaf

Once shaped convert
layer to raster

Duplicate layer twice
and then using deform tool move your shapes to form basic

Leaf pattern

Now go to 3d>
effects>inner bevel and use the following settings

Merge visible and
save

You’re done

Hope you enjoyed this
tutorial

And don’t forget to
have fun and experiment

Hugs Michelle

Fruit Salad

New Freebie

Hi all Hope you've had a great weekend
I continued to do some creating over the weekend and here is another
freebie for you
Fruits
Hope you like you can download from here if you'd like them
They are under Fruit Salad
Hugs Michelle

Little Gift from Fran

Thank you Fran at My Sweet Stufs for this little gift
can find Fran at http://flmysweetstuffs.blogspot.com/
Go visit the blog lots of interesting things to find...
I much appreciate it Fran thank you...
Hugs Michelle

Drinks Freebie

New Drinks Freebie

Hi all
Not much happening here at the moment so let's get straight to the freebie
Got to creating today
these are wine glasses I had play with
still trying to get the liquid right but I'm happy with what I achieved thus far..
practice makes perfect and all of that
I will be making more in the near future so keep an eye out for more

If you would like these freebies you can download them here
under wine glasses
have a great day
have fun creating
hugs to all
Michelle

Hi again all got to creating a bit more tonight and here are my results
you can download it from the link Here ...
the olive and olive bowls will be available under olives
I'm now into a bit of a cocktail theme...who knows what tomorrow could be
hugs Michelle

Wow New Award

Hi all

Well It's the Weekend and I hope everyone enjoys theirs

I got another award last night from a wondeful person

Julie of http://www.scrapkitsbyjulie.com/

It's a great site... why don't you have look around

Ok so the award I have to pass it on to

five other people my choices are

http://exclusivelydbm.blogspot.com/

http://rhonstrinkets.blogspot.com/

http://scrapdesignsbydonna.blogspot.com/

http://blackwingscraps.blogspot.com/

http://becky1screations.blogspot.com/

Have a great weekend and hopefully have some new freebies soon

Hugs Michelle

Latest Freebie

Hi All

Hope your having a great week thus far and a great weekend to come

Today I have just one small freebie.. Based on the Tuts I created a little wasp

you can download it here if you like

Please note my TOU

These Elements are for personal use onlyI have created all the elements in this kit through tutorials or my own ideas Please do not alter the elements in any way you may resize as necessary, you may recolour a little to fit into your theme don't share through groups... just a preview and link to my blog you must have fun....lol If this kit is used please link back to my site http://michellescreativemess.blogspot.com/

Thanks for visiting

Hugs Michelle

Spider Tutorial and Freebies

Hi all

As promised here is
the tutorial for my spider

I again went looking
for spider tutorials and couldn’t find any but the fluff ball

Kind and they are
cute but not what I wanted so I got a pic of spider and

And looked at what
was happening this is what I came up with

I hope you like

Thanks for looking
Hugs Michelle

This tutorial was written by Michelle Mills on 19th February 2009.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

I claim all rights to this tutorial.

Do not use this tutorial

Or the results of doing this tutorial for personal or commercial gain

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of Paint shop Pro.

The results of this tutorial were done in Paint shop Pro Ultimate x2.

Hugs Michelle

 

Supplies required eye candy 4000, eye candy Impact bevel

 

Open a new 500x500 transparent image

Start with the body and using your ellipse tool with whatever colour you
like

Today I’m going to use a brownish colour 563c24

Null your foreground and draw out and oval or circle

Now go to your pen tool and right click on node and convert to path

Right click again and node type to cusp

Stretch out and bring up your little arrows like so

 

Convert to raster

I’ve decided to put some pattern on his back so I’ve used my airbrush
tool

Size 15, hardness 20, step 1, density 40, thickness 100, opacity 20,
rate 5

Add new raster and I’ve used a lighter brown 77634f

Then adjust blur Gaussian 5

 I used default setting today for this spider and then adjusted the
lighting

83, 55, 80, 50

 

Now create a circle for the head with your colour or one slightly
lighter if you like

Convert to raster and use eye candy bevel again

 Again I’ve used default and
changed the lighting

This time to 268, 23, 65, 92

Now arrange so the head sits in the little hollow you made with the body

 

Now let’s do our legs

Use your Pen tool freedraw and change your dark colour to your
foreground

And keep background null

Use the following settings freedraw, tracking 10, show nodes, create on
vector, width 10

Now draw a little half triangle where the fangs will be

 

Convert to raster and duplicate layer and mirror

And place the fangs where you like not too close

But not too far apart either

 

Now use default setting for the fangs but change the lighting again

This time to 91, 0, 65, 92

And repeat the bevel

 

Now for the legs

Using the same settings for the fangs draw out your front leg on right
side

Again it’s a half triangle but a lot longer and should start near the
fang

Then convert to raster

 

Now do the second leg and this time it’s about half way down the head

Same basic shape for the leg

Convert to raster

 

Third leg is at the base of the head and beginning of the body

Convert to raster

 

The final leg starts at the body but this time it goes straight back as
follows

 

Convert to raster and then close off all but the legs and merge visible

Use basic default settings again and change the lighting

This time to 275, 0, 65, 100

 

Repeat bevel with lighting at 162, 0, 65, 100

Duplicate layer and mirror and then place legs on the other side not
quite matching

Move leg layers to the bottom

 

Using your circle ellipse tool create a small eye for your spider

White for background foreground is null

Convert to raster duplicate layer and merge down

Now do a smaller circle with black

Place within the white of the eye and merge down

 

Now merge the black pupils down onto the white and using

Eye candy 4000 glass use the following settings

5.99, 50, 23, 0, 0, 0, 50 colour very light grey

Lighting 279, 29, 100, 40, white, 0, 300

 

Now merge visible and save as png or pspimage you’re done

 

Now as each individual spider is different every time you do it...

Most of these settings are a guide...

More often than not all you need do is play around with lighting

The eyes though can be the hardest bit and you may need to play around
with all settings until

You get an eye you like

 

Well I hope you have fun with this and enjoyed the tutorial

Thanks for looking hugs Michelle

 

If you would like to download these spiders they are available here more will be added later they are

under the name png elements 3

hugs Michelle

Here's a beetle I did this afternoon...By just changing some shapes and playing with the lighting settings

you can dowload it here

Last Freebie for today

This time it's more butterflies

If you'd like these butterflies please download from here

under Elements png butteflies

Well that's about it for todays freebies

Hope you enjoy

Hugs Michelle

My Busby Barclay Bee

My Busby Barclay Bee

Hi all

Well I got to
creating today and I thought I’d try a Bee

However after
searching and search I couldn’t find a bee tut I liked

Only few out there so
I looked around for some ideas and came up with this

Little fellow... and
I’ve decided to write a tutorial for him for those that want to try

This tutorial was written by Michelle Mills on 18th February 2009.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

I claim all rights to this tutorial.

Do not use this tutorial

Or the results of doing this tutorial for personal or commercial gain

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of Paint shop Pro.

The results of this tutorial were done in Paint shop Pro Ultimate x2.

Hugs Michelle

 

Supplies needed Eye
candy bevel

Eye candy 4000

Ok let’s go

First create a new
500x500 transparent image

Null your foreground
and background is black

Using your ellipse
tool draw out an oval shape

Align to the centre
and Convert to raster

Now use your mesh
tool to make a stinger do this until you’re happy

 

Now choose a
yellowish green colour for the body I used #b0ae13

Now using your
selection tool freehand point to point mark out small section for the yellow
band

And flood fill with
the yellow do this till you have as many bands of yellow as you want

 

Now go to Eye
Candy>impact>Bevel and use the following settings

59.67, 100, 100, 0,
inside selection, 0, shade interior checked,

Lighting 65, 47, 68,
60, highlight white, shadow black

Null your foreground
again and draw out a circle with your preset shape

Convert to raster and
use Eye candy bevel with same settings as before but change lighting to

66, 16, everything
else the same

Now move this to just
the right of your body

 

Now draw out a
slightly bigger circle for the head

And use eye candy
bevel again using the same settings but change lighting to

257, 60, 77, 73 all
others the same

Move the head to
slightly right of the small body

 

Now with your pen
tool draw freehand, tracking 10, create on vector checked, width 3, anti-alias
checked draw out your antennae

Convert to raster and
duplicate....move antenna until sitting way you like

Adjust your body as
you need to and merge visible

Now it’s wing time

With for foreground
null and background white draw out an oval with your ellipse preset shape

Then drop the opacity
to 20

Use cut-out with the following
settings

10, 10, 70, 40

Now free rotate wing
45 degrees

So you can see what you’re
doing you may want to create a new raster flood fill and send to bottom

Move the wing to the
body segment until sits where you want

Duplicate wing layer
and merge down

Duplicate merged
layer and mirror and place other wing

Duplicate a wing
layer and resize to 70% and then free rotate 45 degrees

Move this wing to
major body area and then duplicate and mirror

Move the wings around
until placed where you like

Now close off your
white raster layer and then merge visible

Now for the eyes

With your circle
preset tool draw out a small circle to fit on the face for eyes

Duplicate the white
eye and move so that you have both eyes equally placed

Change background
colour to black and still leaving foreground null draw out a smaller circle for
the pupils

Then move the pupils
until in position you like close all layers except the eyes and merge visible

And using eye candy
4000 glass use the following settings

Bevel 3, smoothness
82, inside marquee, 30, 35, 50, 0, 50, glass colour very light grey

Lighting is 91, 34,
100, and 40, highlight white, 0, and 300

Merge visible and
then save as png....

Thanks for trying my
tutorial I hope you like it

Hugs Michelle

If you would like a buzby Bee you can download from here

My Tou is included in the download

I've created one more thing tonight and the tutorial will be up tomorrow with some freebies of my latest creation

so who's up for spiders

this is one of the little critters I created tonight.. Reddy the Redback...lol

some feeback would be great on this.. apart from spiders EEEUUCk!!!

but in the meantime take a look at the preview and come back tomorrow if you'd think you'd like

to give the tut a try 

thanks again

Hugs Michelle