FREEBIE: Now Available, INSPIRING DESIGN eZine

Now available for download and is today's FREEBIE, Inspiring Design Digital Scrapbooking eZine.
This issue includes two tutorials on creating die cut shapes and how to make Marrakech flowers and embellishments. With this issue you get two Jelly Bean Lane scrap layout templates, three papers, 1 buttons, two Marrakech flower templates with six shapes each.

Featured designer this issue is CollenK of Starynight.com digital scrapbooking. She has some awesome work I had to brag about.

Download Inspiring design and recieve the templates and mini kit, tutorials and highlight and discover how you can submit your layouts, articles and be a highlighted designer.




Download my TOUHere

Looking for the Best CHARM Layouts

Available this month in the tutorial section of Jelly Bean Lane, the new issue of Inspiring design will feature a how to step by step tutorial on how to create the "charming" scalloped layout featured on the cover. The Tutorials eZine will be fully downloadable in PDF format , and will include a folder with all the supplies you need to create this pretty layout from Jelly Bean Lane.

I am hoping to feature some of the best layouts with Charms from affiliate blogs, so if you have a layout you would like featured in the eZine, please leave a comment with your blog URL. If your layout is featured in the magazine, full credit of the designer will be listed, an exerpt from the blog featuring the layout, a link to the blog and the blog owner will recieve the code and download to place on their blog to show off.

Something fun and new from Jelly Bean Lane to make the process of learning how to digital scrap fun and get everyone involved in our Online Scrappers Community. :)

I look forward to hearing from you.

- 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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TUTORIAL: Installing New Fonts

Good afternoon everyone! :)

I am feeling a bit under the weather today, so I am behind in getting my things done all together(Home work, graphics, goodie bag and freebies). My son and I have slept most of the day. I just feel so whiped out. :(

Anyhoo, I recieved an email from Lois today,(Thanks hun...) and I realized, I have sent out tons of new fonts to everyone in my goodie bag, but not everyone knows how to install them. This tutorial will go on my website also, BUT... I want to share it with you here. I wrote this up for Lois today, and I hope it helped. So I am just going to copy and Paste the Email here real quick.

HOW TO INSTALL NEW FONTS

Step 1. Unzip your font into C:>WINDOWS>FONTS , or if you have saved them to a folder on your computer you can cut and paste them into your fonts folder like so:
a) right mouse click on the new font file and click cut,
go to: START>MY COMPUTER> C:>WINDOWS>FONTS
and paste it anywhere in there with all of the other fonts.

Now, your font is in the appropriate folder, but that doesn't mean it's going to work... you will need to manually install your fonts.

To do so follow
Step 2: While you are still in your windows fonts folder, go to your task bar at the top of that window and click :
FILE>INSTALL NEW FONT.

A new window will appear that says Add Fonts, there will be a box below the title "List of Fonts". Below that will be a window titled " FOLDERS: C:\windows.

Step 3. Click on the folder icon that says C: then the Folder icon that says WINDOWS , then click on the folder icon that says Fonts.
( C:> WINDOWS>FONTS )

You will see all of the fonts your hard drive has stored in the font folder appear in the "List of Fonts:" box above.

Step 4. Go to the "List of Fonts" box and scroll through, finding the new font you just pasted into the Fonts Folder and select it. Click OK.

It may have a little window pop up saying that font is already installed and to install a new version, first remove the old version. Just Click OK.

Once you have installed all of the new fonts you want on your computer, just click close or the X tab and you're done.

Reboot shouldn't be nessacary, BUT, it couldn't hurt, and your new fonts will show up AFTER you reboot your Paint Shop Pro program. The fonts will be used in all programs installed on your computer. :)