This tutorial was written by me on June 26th 2011 Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental... This tutorial was written in pspx but should work in other versions.

you will need

a tube of choice i used a pin up toons tube you can purchase them here @ CDO

a scrap kit of choice im using USA GIRL by tamie you can purchase it @ Dreams N Digital

a font of choice ive used Freestyle Script

Open up a new image 650 x 200

open up paper 8 copy and paste it as a new layer

open up the partyflags copy and paste them as a new layer and move them up to the top of the tag

duplicate the partyflags then adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 3.00 then set that layers blendmode to overlay

open up fireworks copy and paste them as a new layer move them to the right hand side of the tag

duplicate the fireworks then adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 3.00 then set the blend mode to overlay

now its time to open up your tube of choice copy and paste it on the right hand side of the tag over the fireworks making sure you can still see some of the fireworks look up to my tag to see what i mean

duplocate your tube then adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 3.00 then set the blend mode to overlay

open up your font of choice and add some text to your signituare tag  i also used eyecandy 4 gradient glow on mine to make the text stand out...

add your name and copyrights to your tag

layers new raster layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used blue) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 5 - ok

delete then select none

layers new raster layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used red) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 9 - ok

delete then select none

adjust - add/remove noise - add noise - unifourm - 50% - check monochrome

now move this under the blue frame layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used white) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 14 - ok

delete then select none

now move this under the red frame layer

file save as....

now for the avatar

new image 175 x 125

open up paper 8 copy and paste it as a new layer

open up fireworks copy and paste it as a new layer then move it to the center of the avatar

layers new raster layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used the same blue as i used in my signature tag) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 4 - ok

delete then select none

layers new raster layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used the same red as i used in my signature tag) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 7 - ok

delete then select none

adjust - add/remove noise - add noise - unifourm - 50% - check monochrome

now move this under the blue frame layer

pick one of the mail colours on your tag (ive used the same white as i used in my signature tag) and flood fill the layer with that colour

selections - select all - modify - Contract Selection - 11 - ok

delete then select none

now move this under the red frame layer

merge down twice untill the 3 frame pieces are in one layer then add a dropshadow

add your name ive used eyecandy 4 glow on my name again

file save as

thanks for trying my tutorial