This lesson was done in PSP 8

Materials needed:

1. A tube of your choice

2. A flower tube

3. Filter VM Natural - Sparkle
   Place the filter in your flters directory
   
   

Method

1. Choose 2 colors from your tube: one light and one dark and make a gradient with the light color with the following settings:
    
   
    

2. Open a new transparent image size  400-400 and fill with your gradient.
    

3. Effects --> Texture Effects -->Blinds, with the following settings:
    
   
    

4. Click on your Selection Tool and look for the Arrow 2 option as illustrated below.
    
   
   With your Selection tool draw out a figure, beginning at the bottom and pulling the arrow to the right.
   Keep selected. Don't Deselect.
   Repeat the drawing, but this time to the left.
   Keep selected.
   Then from the top to bottom right and keep selected.
   You must have 3 figures now.
    

5. Add a new raster layer.
   Reverse your gradient's angle and fill the layer with it.
   Go to Effects --> 3D Effects -- Inner Bevel with the settings below:
    
   
    
   Go to Effects --> 3D effects -- Drop Shadow with the following settings.
   
   Deselect.
    

6. Activate your tube, duplicate ( Shift + D ) and resize the copy to fit the  canvas. Copy and paste onto your image.
   
   On your layer palette: change the Blend Mode of this layer to Luminance, or something else you prefer.
   
   Add a drop shadow with the same settings as before.
   
   Drag your tube layer (mine is layer 3) below layer 2.
   It must be below the bottom arrow layer. 
    

7. Activate your Flower tube, resize to fit the image and paste as a new layer where you want it
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8. Go to your arrows - layer and activate it on the layers palette.           
   Effects --> Filter VM Natural --> Sparkle.
   
   Change the Maximum size to 31 and the Random Seed setting to 75. Change these two settings to suit your taste.
    

9. Effects --> Illumination Effects --> Sunburst with the following settings.
   
    

10. Merge all layers.
     

11. Go to Image --> Add Borders --> 5 pixels in the light color.             
    
    Effects -- 3D Effects -- Inner Bevel with the same settings as before.
    
    Reduce the size of your image to 350 pixels wide.
    Adjust --> Sharpen, add your watermark and you're finished !