This tutorial was written by me on December 22nd, 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. I am using the amazing work of Alex Prihodko. You must purchase his 

work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find his work here. 

PTU Cheers kit by Manipulate by Magik. You can purchase this kit here. 

Collab template 01MPMcollabwPixie from Millie's PSP Madness. You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Stephanie Marie JF.

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Open your template. Set the canvas size to 650 x 650. Resize all layers by 92%. Delete the copyright layer, layers 12, 11, 10, 9, and 1.

Open the glitter. Copy and paste as a new layer above all other layers. Place to the upper right corner. Duplicate, mirror, and merge down. Duplicate again, flip, and merge down. Move this layer to the bottom.

Merge together layers 2 and 3. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 14. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 4, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 19. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Merge together layers 5 and 6. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 3. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the confetti. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner. Duplicate, mirror, and flip. Merge down.

On layer 7, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 1. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with #000000. Deleselect and delete the original layer.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer and place over the furthest right black rectangle. Duplicate your tube 3 more times. Click on the eye in the layer palette for the 3 duplicate tube layers to hide them for now.

For the first tube layer: On the black rectangles layer, use your magic wand and click inside the furthest right rectangle. On the tube over that rectangle, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Don't worry about the jagged edges, we will fix that in a bit.

Unhide the first duplicate tube layer. Repeat the above for the rest of the black rectangle layers & tube layers. When done, merge your tube layers together. On the black rectangles layer, select all, float, defloat. On the tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. You should no longer have the jagged edges.

Duplicate the merged tubes layer. Gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 54. On the original merged tubes layer, set the blend mode to luminance (L), opacity 44.

Open the cell. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open the balloons. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top, slightly to the left of center. See my tag for reference.

Open the bow. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the bottom of the balloons. See my tag for reference.

Open the bubbles. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the note. Resize by 60% and sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top, slightly to the right of center.

Open your tube again, resizing as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the garland. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tag.

Open flower 3. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom over the garland, slightly off center to the left. Duplicate and mirror. See my tag for reference.

Open flower 2. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place between the two black flowers.

Open the cupcake. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower left, covering part of the left side of the left black flower.

Open the brad. Resize by 30%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner of the black rectangles layer. Rotate slightly to the right and sharpen. Duplicate and place to the lower left corner of the rectangles layer, but rotate in the other direction. See my tag for reference.

Open chamagne 2. Resize by 75%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place down and slightly to the right of the cell.

Open the champagne flutes. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly to the left of the champagne bottle.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice and merge visible. Save as a PNG.

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