What you will need PSP or PhotoShop
Alienskin Eye Candy 5 Impact
Mira Meister Clouds
 
1.) Open Up a new image 200 x 200
 
2.) Fill with color of choice
 
3.) Open Up Mira Meister Clouds
Use These settings
 
4.) Now Go to Effects/distort/.twirl   ---- just make it the highest degrees it can go
 
5.) Now go to Presets shapes Eclipse tool and make a circle in the middle of the swirls
 
6.) Right Click on this layer and rasterize it
 
7) Grab your magic wand tool and select the inside of your circle.
 
8) Now go to your swirl layer and hit cut
 
9) Go to edit Paste as new image
 
10) Now go to Filters/Alienskin eyecandy impact 5.0 glass
 
lighting settings
 
 
You will now have this
 
 
Letter Bead---
 
1.) Open Up new image 200 x 200
 
2.) Create another circle with your Preset shape circle tool
This time filling with white..
 
3.) Go to effects/filters/Eyecandy impact 5/glass
use the same  settings as above.. alter them slightly if you wish.
 
4.) Go to your text tool choose a font.. type in center
 
5.) Now go to effects/filters/alienskin eyecandy impact 5/bevel
with these settings
 
It should look like this
 
 
 
 -----Make The Rope----
 
 
1.) Open new image 600 x 200
 
2.) Go to picture tubes and select rope size 30
Draw it straight across your new image
 
 
3) Go to adjust- add noise at these settings
 
 
4.) Adjust/hue and saturation
i used these settings
 
 
Put them all together
 
1.) I made 4 with different letters and resized the Letter Bead image by 50 %
 
2.) and i Resized  and colorized the beads by 30 percent
 
Then I put them all together on the string image we created..
which was 600x200