Supplies needed:

PSP (this tut was written in X)

Font of choice, I used Vintage

A mask of choice

3 images/photo's of choice. I used some of the gorgeous photography of Beth Turner. You can find these pics and more of her work at Through My Eyes.
Thank you Beth for allowing us the use of your beautiful work!!

3 tubes of choice, I used an artwork ŠJoel Adams www.lilz.net.
You must purchase a license to use his work from CILM
Please do not use his work unless you have the proper license for it!

Let's begin!

Open up a new image 600x600, floodfill it with white and add new raster layer

Take your selection tool and draw out a selection of 135x115. Pick a dark colour from your tubes, I used #4e001f, and floodfill your selection.
Deselect and duplicate your rectangle until you have six in total. Arrange them in a bigger rectangle, see my finished tag.
I kept a gap off 5 pixels between the rectangles. Hide your background and merge visible.

Take your magic wand and click in the top left rectangle. Contract the selection by 4. Take the tube or image you want to use in this rectangle and resize as necessary.
Next copy/paste your image/tube as a new layer and position to your liking, invert selection and hit delete.
Re-invert your selection, add a new layer and add effects-3D effects-Cutout with the following settings:

Duplicate the cutout layer and that's one square done!

Now go back to your rectangles layer, select the next rectangle and repeat the process only this time using a tube instead of an image or the other way around lol

Do the same for all your rectangles. Once you've filled all of them, select all of the rectangles and contract selection by 4,
invert selection and adjust-add/remove noise-add noise with the following settings:

Hide your background and merge visible again.

Add a drop shadow with the following settings, the colour is the same as the one you used for your cutout:

Activate your background and add a new layer. Floodfill this with the same colour your used for your rectangles.
Add a mask of choice and using your deform tool tuck it in behind your rectangles so that just the edges are peeking through.
See my finished tag as an example. Next set the opacity of the mask layer to your liking.

Now crop and resize as necessary and add your copyrights and tagger's mark.

Now take your text tool and choose a font, I chose the Vintage font. Set your foreground colour to your rectangle colour
and your background colour to a lighter colour from your tag. Now type out "For every faerie..." or a text of your choice,
add the same drop shadow as before and drag it to the border between the top two rows so it overlaps both of them.
Next type out "There's a flower" or a text of your choice, add the same drop shadow and drag it to the border between the bottom two rows.

Add your name at the bottom and add the same drop shadow as before.

Save as .jpg and you're done!

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and I'd love to see your results. You can email me here

Here is another example from the tut, made by the wonderful Fi. Thanks for letting me use this as an example!!

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