Thank You Liz

Upon catching up on all I have missed out and attempting to reconnect with those I have lost touch with, I have been reviewing my links and permissions I've granted to PSPers, Tagers and designers for use of my work in their designs and tutorials. I want to thank those of you who have been so kind as to follow TOU and are still linking back to me.

I'm affraid I have been a rather lousy blogger since July of last year, but it was not something I could help. Hopefully I will be back on track in full soon.

I will be moving my Links to the other blog soon. This blog will remain intact and I will do the best to float both, But I am hoping that you all will add the other blog and the website to your webring in exchange for me doing the same. It helps me minimize the back and forth stuff so I can have all of my friends in one place, and brings attention to all of our websites. Webrings are important for getting our art and our designs out there. Alot of people want to charge us for linking on their page, when in reality, it's a favor we all do for each other, saves everyone time and money. We give away so many freebies to people, and so many do not even say thank you... it's always nice when someone is willing to help out and give a little back. :)

Liz, of Lizardesigns, thank you for maintaining you listing, kindess and fantastic designs and tutorials. I look forward to seeing more. I really enjoyed catching up on your site today.

If you are interested in seeing more of Lidardesigns Tutorials please follow the link in the right side bar to her site. She is a fantastic artist and fellow PSPer!

Rock on girl!

Rachel

TUTORIAL By Rachel : Mystic Bubbles

Mystic Bubbles

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TOU:
This tutorial was written by me and the graphic is of my own imagination, except the ownership of copyright over 
Lil Orora Fae by ©Joel Adams.
If it resemebles any other tutorial it is not intentional and is strictly coincidental.
You are welcome to use my tutorial for Weekly Challenges, but you must link back to Jelly Bean Lane and the tutorial address and not copy and paste it to your message boards.
You may use my supplies for other PSP tags and tuts, but may not claim them as your own and must give credit if you use them in tutorials , linking back to Jelly Bean Lane.

For This Tutorial you will need :
PSP X

Plugins:
Eye Candy 4000
Filter Attacks
One Tube of your Choice, I have used
©Joel Adams Lil Orora Fae
which you may purchase at www.lilz.net with your C.I.L.M. License,
 and
My Supplies, which you may down load
here by clicking the zip file.( Lil Orora Fae is not included )

This tutorial is for Intermediate PSPer's, where as you will need to be familur with plugins and Masks to do this tutorial properly. So before you begin, be sure to unzip my supplies and add them in the appropriate PSP Files on your pc.
Ready? Let's Begin by

1. Opening a New image in your PSP
500 x 500 pixels with your background transparency checked.

2. Flood fill this layer with white. Your flood fill button is the little paint can to the left and you select your flood color with the forground color on your color pallet, which is the top color,  not the bottom. :)

3. Add a new Raster Layer.

4. Flood fill Raster Layer 2 with Gradient Duotone Red ( standard with PSPX).

5. Now it's time to use that really cool Plugin, Filter Attacks. Go to Effects>Plugins>Fliter Attacks>Pattern:Supernova.

6. Go to Layers > Load/Save Mask> Load Mask from Disk > Select JellyBeanGrungeMask with the following settings checked:
 Source Luminace
Fit to Canvas
Invert Transparency
Hide All mask

7. Time to add just a hint of a glow around your mask. Make sure you are on your Colored Mask Layer and not the black and white layer and go to :
effects>plugins>eyecandy4000>gradient glow and put in these settings
Glow width = 3.00
Soft Corners =25
Over all Opacity = 60
Draw only outside Checked
Color Opacity 100
Color #ffc0c0

(( HELPFUL HINT: Save as a PSPImage often as you work in case the brownies take over your PSP and it shuts down suddenly. This will save you ALOT of headache and Swearing ))

8. Add a new Raster Layer then tube the heart pearls tube at scaled 136% and adjust it to the center of the Mask. Then go to Effects> 3D effects> Drop Shadow
with these settings:
Verticle 1
Horizontal 1
Opacity 80
Blur 5.00
Color Black or #000000

9. Add a New Raster Layer and select your bubble tubes. Be creative and put them where you want, you may want to add a new Raster Layer between each bubble so you can adjust one if you need to without making all of your bubbles move at once.

10. Time to add a glow around your bubbles. If you added a Raster Layer between each bubble you will need to go to each individual Layer to add the glow effect. To add the glow to the bubbles go to Effects>Plugins> Eye Candy>Gradient Glow , with the following settings:
Glow Width 11.28
Soft Corners 25
Opacity 60
Draw only outside selection Checked
Color #ffc0c0

11. Add a New Raster Layer and add the tube of your Choice. Then go to Effects>Plugins>Eye Candy>Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Glow Width 36.14
Soft Corners 25
Opacity 60
Draw Only outside Selection Checked
Color: #ffc0c0

12. Add a New Raster Layer then select the Pink Sparkle Tube at 35% Scale and add sparkles here and there to your bubbles.

13. If you have used another artists work, then please find your bottom layer and add their proper copyright at this time.

14. You are now ready to add your Signature to the tag. Go to your Mask layer and add a new raster layer. Select the Faerie Font and in your Color Palette your Foreground Color will be #000000 and your background color will be the gradient duotone red. with the following settings:
Antialias Sharp
Stroke Width 0.5
Create as Vector

15. Type your Signature Now, and size it and adjust it where you want it on your tag.

16. Go to Effects>3D Effects> Inner Bevel with the following settings:
Bevel #2
Width 6
Smooth 7
Depth 3
Ambience 2
Shininess 0
Color White
Angle 315
Intensity 50
Elevation 30

17. Go to Effects>3D Effects> Drop Shadow>Effects>Plugins>Gradient Glow with the same settings you use for the Mask Layer.

18. To finish it off go to Image>Add Border with the following Settings:
Top 1
Bottom 1
Left 1
Right 1
Color #8fob32

GOOD JOB! I would love to see the tags you have created from this tutorial and your many variations.

Rachel Hansen Jelly Bean Lane
 2003-2007



Here is one that my friend Sammy made when she tested this tutorial. I love it and it shows that you can use about any form of art or free tube without using specifically a CILM Artist if you don't have LIC.
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FREEBIE: Limited time only! NEW by Rachel Hansen: Metallic Heart Scrap Elements

I AM SOOOO EXCITED!! I just finished a new element that I think you guys are going to LOVE!!! I work very hard on my graphics and elements, and appreciate your love and respect for them and using them properly and considering my copyright and tou.


These little Metallic Heart Scrap Elements are brand new and made by me and I'm offering them to you for free download for a limited time before I put them in my store. :) You get a set of 8 differant colored Metallic Hearts with little paint swirls over them. They are lovely! :)

Colors include:Blue, Cobalt, Red, Yellow, Green, Purple, Fushia and Pearl



Please leave a comment if you download these. I really do love your show of appreciation for the freebies and I would love your feedback on my work. These are original graphics, please follow my TOU. ;)

Want 'em?



I look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy them!

Smiles Across the Miles and Happy Scrapping -
Rachel

FREEBIE: PSP Brushes / Digi-Scrap Stamps

Hi everyone! Man today was busier than yesterday and I truly think tomorrow I will have a break to play around on here and post more goodies alot sooner. lol I know I said that yesterday. ha ha. I made sure that my Goodie Bag subscribers got their promised daily goodies first thing. ;) And while I was at it, I tubed a pair of sunglasses. Now I am getting to the fun in here. :)

Anyhoo today's first freebie is a set of PSP Brushes/Digi-Scrap stamps by Lori. They are lovely brushes and can come in handy on many differant graphics and scrap pages. :)



Want them?



I only ask that you leave me a comment when downloading, either here or on my file storage. :)

Hugs-Rachel

FREEBIE: NEW! RainbowCoffi English Roses Picture Tube

Hello my fellow
And yet, another lovely New tube from RainbowCoffi! :) Please follow her TOU and leave the file name intact. Do not claim as your own work and do not add to any other collection or website without permission. ;)



Want it?


Enjoy! Smiles Across the miles - Rachel

FREEBIE: Mother's day word art

With Mother's Day coming up soon I thought I would share another set of word art in inpiration and celebration to our mom's. Without them, we would not have life and what a great time to make some lovely greetings, tags/siggy's and scraps with these brushes.






Smiles Across the miles -
Rachel

FREEBIE: Bahdah-BLING Thing!!

I Bling! It makes tags and graphics look so much better and it beats plain jane glittering. Don't get me wrong, I love to glitter my tags with the plain jane glitter. When I first learned to glitter I was really excited because I mastered something new and pretty and it was easier than I had imagined.

Bling is another thing. It's a little more time consuming, and you need Xenofex to create it ( or other plugins ) BUT... it looks hella-cool once you get it on your graphics and tags!

Today's Bling Thing is a heart trail. I didn't make this one, nor am I claiming I did. I had it laying around in my stuff and it hasn't been used lately cause I have been so busy with other things. BUT... I love this Bling!!



Pretty huh?

I have it in PSP image and PSD for those who do not have Paint Shop Pro. Like I said before, my cup of tea is PSP and not PhotoShop, but I can do either or, makes no matter to me. If you like the bling.... then it's yours. :) Same TOU as usual. ;)

Paint Shop Pro Version in .Pspimage format


Or.... PhotoShop in . PSD format

Enjoy it and Have fun Blingin' your graphics! :)

Smiles across the miles -
Rachel

Siggy Piggy's Update

For my friends who are members of my MSN Group Siggy Piggy's Anonymous, you're probably wondering what happened there. *Sighs* A little drama, and it's not dead, there are still people in there but, we went from # 3 on the TOP MSN PSP groups to whatever we are now during my Maternity leave.

I am not sure if the members there stopped coming because I wasn't able to get in there every day or what..... But in my heart I know there was more to it than that. I had a friend in RL ( Real Life ) who was an Assistant manager there. She allowed some of her friends into the group and they began starting trouble, pushing her to give them a Managment position to supposidly "clean" up my copyright infingment problem. OH, let me assure you, there was no copyright problems within the walls of SPA. The pages they threw a fit over and reported to me to MSN over was pages that was all original graphics and design by me! Can you believe that? Well, I tossed the trouble makers out on the AZZes and removed the friend from the managment position she had no business holding!! Then to boot, Her old man and I had it out in RL due to his rude mouth and taste for causing drama in my personal life with my Man. So, she decided to leave an ugly PUBLIC message on my Forums for me and everyone else to read.

We have started over again, somewhere better, and it's turning out to be what I originally wanted Siggy Piggy's to be like and beyond.

It is taking alot of time to get Jelly Bean Lane ready to open, but I assure you, the wait is worth it.

We will have tons of Tubes and even more Scrap Kits and Elements than I do here so far. Not to mention all of my tutorials for PSP will be over there.

So, my fellow Siggy Piggy's, Fear not, for not one single fool can bring me and my desire to share and teach graphics design down. We are on the Uprise again and it will be bigger, better and MORE FREEBIES!!

We will be hosting tubes with permission from the following Artists and tubers: RainbowCoffi, KennyK , Snickerdoodles, Gingersnaps by Sammy, Rachel's JellyBean's, Bobbie Allen, Tutorials by ME, Enne's Snow Globes, Sammy and many more. ;) Also, we will be features Ooak's Babies and Fairies by Cheryl Trottier. :)

Keep Posted for more details on when the grande opening will be AND, for the Link on how to get there and join. ;) There will be Free Mega Scrap Kits by me, downloadable in full for Members only! :) You don't want to miss it. ;)

Hugs,
Rachel