not bad. work on your colors. as a rule, blue and red/orange don't work very well together. also, embossed/drop shadowed text will almost always look tacky. its not bad but it needs some work. check out some tuts.
Hehe, I don't follow trends. I'm still making whatever tags I feel like making. The only reason these tags get bad rep is most of the people that actually give C&C weren't even here when these trends were around.