We shall make two types of bead, round ones and long ones. The procedure is identical for both, so I will describe them together. Use circular shapes and selections for the round ones, ellipses for the long ones.

If your wood texture is not already open in PSP, load it now. Use colours/adjust/gamma correction to make the wood texture a little lighter than you used for the hoop. If the red green and blue figures are not all at the same level, uncheck link and level them off. Check link again, and auto-proof, and move one of the sliders to the right - the rest will follow - until the colour of your wood is just a little lighter. Click OK.

Open two new images, each 200 x 200, 16.7 million colours, 72 pixels/inch and background transparent. Use the selection tool set on circle, with antialias checked, and draw a circle in one of them, starting at 100,100 and going almost, but not quite to the edge. In the other, set the tool to ellipse and starting at 100, 100, draw an ellipse going almost to the top of the image, and make it the width you want your long buttons to be.

From now on, the instructions must be carried out on both images.

Use the fill tool , and on the control palette set fill style to pattern, and use the options button to select your wood fill. Click in the selection to fill it with the wood.

Without de-selecting the shape, use Layers/Duplicate.

Use Selections/float. Use Image/effects/cutout, with fill interior with colour unchecked, shadow colour black, opacity 80, blur 14.5, both offsets at -6. Use selections/select none.

Add a layer, and on this layer, with foreground colour white and the shapes tool set at fill, draw a small copy of the appropriate shape.

Use Image/blur/gaussian blur. Mine was set at radius 10 for the ellipse and 16 for the circle, but the settings will depend on the size of your beads and the colour of your wood. Move the blurred highlights to a position more or less opposite the cutout shadows.

Just as you did with the feather, add a layer right at the bottom of the layer palette (move it there from wherever you add it), fill it with black and check for spillage in the blur. Use the erase tool with a small brush size and, on the blur layer only, remove the spillage if there is any. Click on the bottom layer in the layer palette (the one you coloured black) and use the delete button to remove the layer.

Use Layers/merge/merge visible. Use Image/resize, 50 %, smart resize, resize all layers and maintain aspect ratio both checked. Use Image/sharpen/sharpen.

Your beads are now finished and can be saved as bead1.psp and bead2.psp.

Beads and feather are all too large for the dream catcher and you will have to resize them again to an appropriate size, but they are now stock images in your personal clip art collection, and you may wish to use them in other things or make them into tubes, when the extra size will be useful. You can colourize the beads if you wish to.

Reload the dream catcher web and hoop if it is not already in PSP. It must be made longer to accommodate the strings and feathers, so use Image/canvas size, new width 400, new height 700, centre image horizontally checked, vertically unchecked and top set to 0. Bottom will take care of itself. OK this.

Click on the background layer on the layer palette to make it the current one, and use the fill tool set on solid colour, set the foreground colour to black, and fill the layer with black.

Click on the top layer (web) and then click the add layer button. Call this layer strings.

Use the eyedropper and select a dark colour from one of your beads for the string colour. Use the line tool, line type normal, width 4, antialias checked and draw three strings hanging down from the hoop. The side ones should be level and the centre one a little longer. The illustration on the right is half size so that you can see the proportions I have used, but the effect you want is up to you.

Add feathers and beads to the strings as you wish, resizing them to suit your design. You can colourize the beads, vary the colours and number of feathers, and you can add dreams if you wish. Here is my finished dream catcher. I have not colourized my feathers and beads so that you can see the effects of the plain ones. But you do what you like to decorate yours.

Have fun with it.