Carefree Summer Days

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Supplies

3 tubes of choice - I’m using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you can purchase here
Font of Choice - I’m using Kristen ITC (came on my pc)
Chica’s Template #9 here
“Summertime Fun” a PTU tagger scrap kit by DanI and can be purchased at her store Dazzling Scraps. Visit her blog here.

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template. Shift + D. Close out the original. Delete the watermark layer, Word Art 1, and Word Art 2. New Raster Layer. Send to bottom and flood fill white.

Highlight Frame Back 1 layer. Select All. Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Highlight Frame 1 layer. Select All. Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Highlight Ribbon 2 layer. Select All. Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Repeat the above step for Ribbon 1.

Highlight Circle Frame layer. Select All. Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Highlight Circle Back layer. Select All. Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Highlight Circle Frame layer again. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Copy and paste a tube of choice below the frame layer. Move into position. Selection/Modify/Expand by 4. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key.

Merge visible Circle Frame, Circle Back, and the tube layer.

Repeat the above steps for Frame 2 and 3.

Highlight Doodle 1 layer. Select All/Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Delete the template layer.

Repeat the above step for Doodle 2 layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Grass 1: Resize 30%
Earthworm 2: Resize 30%
Watering Pot 2: Resize 30%
Frog 1: Resize 20% and 90%
Butterfly 1: 25% and 80%
Flowers 1 & 3: Resize 25%

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

I gave mine an inner bevel:
Bevel: 5
Width: 7
Smoothness: 55
Depth: 16
Ambience: -27
Shininess: 45
Color: white
Angle: 135
Intensity: 31
Elevation: 88
Ok

Then I gave it a drop shadow
Vertical and Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 60
Blur: 6.89
Color: 390813
I repeated the drop shadow accept changed the color to
#000000

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!

Hugs,

Bev