I love the look of the Vellum (semi-transparent) images overlayed on cards and tags. And we are going to make a couple different ones in the exercise.

Open a new raster image 330 x 330, transparent, 200 dpi. We are going to flood fill this image with white. Once we have a complete white image go to Layers / Load/Save Mask / Load Mask from Disk.

Pick a four edge mask similar to the one you see above that I chose. In the next window make sure that the image of your mask shows with black on the outside edge and the white inside, the white is the area we want to see once the mask is applied. The black will be the transparency.

Click load and you will have your new mask layer. At this point you want to merge your layers, go to Layers / Merge / Merge Visual.

The only thing left we need to do now is to lower the opacity, go to your Layer Palette and click on the newly merged layer and lower the opacity down to about 68% and the image will become semi-transparent. You can see that the grey and white tiles that we truly have a nice vellum. You can save this image now as a tube, pspimage, or .png to keep the transparency. (be aware if you try to print this vellum, it will not show the transparency unless you are printing on semi-transparent paper).

Now that we have our vellum let's use it. You did a note card in the last embellishment exercise we can use that for notes as it is but we can also add this nice vellum and have an space just for your text.

Open the note image, you may need to adjust the size of the vellum to fit the note, I had to resize down 80% to get it to fit on my note card. Copy and paste the vellum as a new layer into the note card and move it around if needed to center it onto the note. And here it is.

Now we will try a tag using the same kind of effect. We will be using the texture Lace7 you can find it here, you will need to copy this image into your My Documents / PSP Files / Textures folder to be able to use it. Once you have that done open a new raster image 300 X 300, 200 dpi, transparent background. In the materials palette choose white for the foreground and background colors, but in the background use the texture you have just supplied.

Choose the Preset Shape Tool making sure that you have the Create as vector clicked. We also want to have the anti-alias checked and the line width set to 3 then draw a large heart (or other shape) into the image. Like this.

Going to the Layers Palette we want to reduce the opacity down to about 65%. This is our vellum we can now save it as a tube, a .png or pspimage to use in the future. Lets make a tag using this image.

Open a new image, using the draw tool create a square and flood fill with a desired color, As I have below, then layer on new vector layer your heart vellum over the square once you have it placed where you want click on your selection or pick tool

and grabbing the handle with your mouse tilt the heart as shown here.