The tool of the week is Easy Lace Background...
I made a trivet out of one of the tiles I did by adding a soft inner bevel so I could show it off.

The tut calls for a couple of plugins... both free.
http://www.quickcreations.50megs.com/easylacebackground.html
This tut was done for PSP 7 but very easily adapted to PSP 9.

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