This tutorial was written by me on April 11th, 2012 and is my own creation. 

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP9, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. You will need a closeup for this tutorial. I am using the sexy work of Amy Matthews, a PTU artist. Her art must be purchased and a license obtained to use her work. You can find her art here. 

PTU Angel Desire's kit by Inzpired Creationz. You can find the kit here. 

Forum Template 127 by Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts. You can download it from their blog here. 

Font of choice.

Filters:

Filters Unlimited 2.0

Ok let's get started!

Open your template. Delete the credits layer ,gradient 1 layer, wave 1 & 2 layers, border 1 layer.

Open paper 5. Copy and paste as a new layer just above the gradient 2 layer. Delete the gradient 2 layer.

Open your closeup tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Duplicate your tube twice and arrange along the wave to your liking. Merge these tube layers together.

Duplicate the merged tubes. Adjust, blur, gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to overlay. On the merged tube layer, select all, float, defloat, invert. On the blurred layer press delete on your keyboard and deselect.

On your original tube layer, effects, texture effects, weave with the following settings:

Gap size - 1

Width: 2

Opacity 2

Weave & Gap color black

Fill gaps checked.

Merge the two circle layers together. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 1. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open ribbon 4. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move down towards the bottom of your tag. See my tag for reference.

Open the scattered jewels. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the lower left side of your tag. Duplicate, mirror, flip. See my tag for placement.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to your liking. Duplicate, adjust, blur, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to overlay.

Open flower 1. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the bottom right corner. Duplicate and mirror.

Open the clouds. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the bottom of your tag. See mine for reference.

Open sparkles 1. Ajust, hue & saturation, colorize, 0, 0. Copy and paste as a new layer. Arrange to your liking. Set the blend mode to screen.

On your border layer, select all, float, defloat. Create a gradient of #dd6fc3 and #ebceac with the following settings: linear, angle 135, repeats 3. Floodfill the border selection with this gradient.

Filters Unlimited 2.0, Pool Shadow Framed. Play around with the settings to find one that you like. Add the same weave as before to this layer as well.

Crop your image to 600 x 225.

Still on the frame layer, select all, float, defloat, modify, expand by 2. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with black. Move this layer below your frame layer. Merge the frame layer with this layer.

Add drop shadows of your choice. I used 2, 1, 31, 8.00, black.

Add your name, copyrights, license info.

For the avatar, delete the frame layer, your name, and copyright layer. For the remaining, merge visible.

Select the crop tool, set the size to 150 x 150. Move the highlighted box over the tube's top half. Apply the cropping.

Select all, float, defloat, modify, contract by 6, invert. Floodfill with the same gradient as before. Selections, modify, expand by 2. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with black. Move this layer below your gradient layer. 

Add the weave to the gradient and merge this layer with the black.

Add the drop shadows of choice. Merge visible.

Add the artists name, license number and an initial of choice.

Save both as a .png or .jpg.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial :)