Artwork by Carolyn Blish

Materials

Paint Shop Pro
Fantastic Machines - Paint Engine
Super Blade Pro
Simple Filters
Supplies

The mask for this tutorial is from Gardendale Designs a wonderful
site for Masks, Tutorials and lots more.
Super Blade Pro preset I have used is from The Treasure Trove which has
some outstanding presets.

1. Open your graphic.....resize to a workable size. Choose a colour from your graphic for the foreground. I used colour # 43695A.  Set the background to white. Put the mask in your mask folder within Paint Shop Pro.

2.  Add 2px border - select with magic wand.

3.  Effects - Plugins - Super Blade Pro.  Apply preset of your choice.  Selections - Invert. 

4.  Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout. Apply cutout again this time V & H  -2.  Select none.

5.  Add 10px border - select with magic wand.  Flood fill with foreground colour. Select none.

6.  Add 2px border - select with magic wand.  Effects - Plugins - Super Blade Pro. Apply the same preset as used before.

7.  Add 15px border - select with magic wand.  Flood fill with foreground colour.  Keep selected.

8.  Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds.  Select none.

9.  Add 2px border - select with magic wand. 

10.  Effects - Plugins - Super Blade Pro. Apply the same preset as used before.

11.  Add 15px border - select with magic wand.  Flood fill with foreground colour.  Keep selected.

10.  Effects - Plugins - Fantastic Machines - Paint Engine.  Apply the Ice Crystal setting as shown below.  If you don't have the Ice Crystal preset in your paint engine, once you have all the settings, hit the Save button and save it for use another time.  It makes just lovely sparkly backgrounds.

11.  Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds.  Select none.

12.  Add 30px border - select with magic wand.  Flood fill with foreground colour.

13.  Layers - New Raster Layer. 

14.  Masks - Load From Disk - select SNFrame32.msk.  Flood fill with white.

15.  Masks - Delete - answer yes to the question do you wish to merge with current layer.  Select none.

16.  Selections - Select All.  Selections - Float.

17.  Effects - Plugins - Super Blade Pro. Apply the preset previously used.

18.  Select none.

Here is another image I did, this time using a silver Super Blade Pro preset

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.