Sea - FTU (Quick and easy)

Scrapkit - Sea Breese - HERE
Mask - HERE
Tube - E Rzhevskii with PFD - HERE
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Remember to DS as you go
P3 - resize 35%
Apply mask/merge group
Duplicate a few times to get the darkness you want
Cluster7 - resize 35%
Grab freehand selection tool and draw around the frame/invert
P20
E128 - resize 25%
E161 -resize 40%
Position your tube
Crop/resize as needed/add proper copyright

Forum Style - Pink

Scrapkit - sparkles from any kit
Plug-Ins : Medhi
Tube - Toria at CDO - HERE

Open transparent image 600x250
Make a gradient using colors from your tube with:
Linear/angle 200/repeats 3
Flood fill canvas
Duplicate
On this image Medhi - vibrations with the following (make sure you change colors to match tube)

Layer properties - opacity at 60
Duplicate this image
Medhi - melt at default
Layer properties opacity 30
Adjust/sharpen
Place close up of tube - layer properties to overlay
Place your sparkles
Place your tube
Crop
If doing avatar - 150x150
Merge visible
New raster and flood fill with gradient
Selections/all/modify/contract by 6/ hit delete on keyboard
Add an inner bevel or glass to your border
Add proper copyright

World off - PTU

Scrapkit - Cozy Garden by TTD - HERE

Template - HERE (thanks, Rosey!)

Tube - Vadis with PFD - HERE

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Open template and delete copyright layer and raster 14

Position your close up tube in the 3 frames as you see fit-adjust hue/saturation to 0

Layer properties of the tubes - luminance legacy

Resize template by 90%

As usual, I start at the bottom and work my way up

Remember to DS as you go

Paper of choice/add mask of choice

Merge raster 9 together - p12

Raster2 - p2

Merge raster 6 together - p4

Merge raster 7 together- p6

Raster3 - flood fill with color of tube

Eye Candy 4000 - chrome/use silver

Raster 13 - flood fill with a color of choice

E148

E147

E6 - resize 80%

Raster 12 - p13

Raster 15, 17, & 11 - p7

Raster 18 - I added a color and small gradient glow

Frames - flood fill with color of choice

Add an inner bevel

Crop

Canvas size 800x800

Flood fill the stars

E29 - resize 60%

Image/free rotate/right/90

E6 - resize 60% 

E64 - resize 30%

Image/free rotate/right/90

E58 - resize 30%

E44 - resize 40%

Duplicate/image/mirror

E55 - resize 35%

Add tube

E134 - resize 30% and position behind tube

E8 - resize 25%

Resize image as needed/add proper copyright - would love to see what you come up with

Summer Forum - FTU

Scrapkit by Dee - HERE

Tube - Elias - I bought when he was with PTE - you can now find him - HERE

Open new image 600x250

Remember to DS as you go

P4

Adjust blur/gaussian at 5

Crop image

Effects/texture effects/antique mosaic with the following settings:

Duplicate

Effects/reflection/kaleidoscope/ with the following:

Layer properties/screen

Grab your selection tool/rounded rectangle/add/shift/feather 10

Promote selection to layer

Layer properties.screen

Add a gradient glow

Position tube

E42

E9

Effects/mura meister/line rotate at 8
E7
E21 - paste behind tube
E46 - resize 40%
Merge all visible
Add new raster layer and flood fill with a color
Selections/all/modify/contract by 5/delete on keyboard/select none
Add noise or just a bevel to this
Add proper copyright
For the avatar:
I resized my image by 60% and just placed the image in a 150x150
Added the border as above

Rainbo - FTU

Scrapkit - Rainbow by MizT - HERE (scroll down to row 30)

Mask - choice

Tube - FTU by Marilyn Allen - HERE ( they are still working on their new website)

Remember to DS as you go

E16 - resize 80%

Image/canvas size800x800

P2 - send to bottom/add mask/merge group

Grab magic wand and click inside e16 -modify/expand by 4/invert/delete

Drag this layer down under frame

E21 - position right side

E11 - paste left side

E13 - drag below E16

E6 - resize 60%

Duplicate/image/mirror

E8 - resize 45%

E14 - resize 60%/duplicate

On copy - Image/free rotate/left 90 and position under the flower

E12 - resize 45%

E22,23,24 - resize 30%

E14 - position the buttons/merge visible and position

E27 - resize 30%

Image/free rotate/left 20

Position tube

Merge visible/crop/resize as needed/add proper copyright

Some friends from ATP made these for me

Shaz

Kittie

USA - Forum Style

Scrapkit - BBD - HERE

Template - HERE

Tube - Jose Cano - need a license to use - HERE

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As always, I work from the bottom up

I work the template and avatar at same time

Background - p1

DSB Flux  - mosaic ripple/mosaic 20/ripple 200

Triangles middle - flood fill white

Triangle right - flood fill blue

Triangle left - flood fill red

Place close up tube

Xero - porcelain - all sliders to the left

Layer properties - hard light - opacity at 80%

Merge the black layers together and add p6

Add a thin red gradient glow

Merge grey to layers together and add same p

Add thin blue gradient glow

Inner border - flood fill blue

Outer border flood fill red

E16- resize 30%

Word art04 - resize20% - I added a blue and white thin gradient glow

Crop/add proper copyright

American Girl - FTU

Scrapkit - All American Girl by Sylly - HERE

Mask - Mask by Sylly - HERE  (I used the first one)

Tube - Pinuptoons with CDO - HERE

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Remember to leave a thanks when downloading

As usual, use DS as you go

Open p5 and apply mask/merge group

Frame9 - resize 85%

Magic wand - click inside-selections/modify/4/P8/selections/invert/delete/select none

Bow2 - resize 45%

Button

E2 - resize 40%

Bubbles

Flower1 - resize 35%

Ribbon1

Fireworks -resize 60%

Calendar - resize 40%

Drink2 - resize 40%

Drink3-resize 45%

Ribbon2 - resize40%

Fingers - resize 35%

Sparkles 

Place you tube

Merge visible/crop/resize as needed/add proper copyright