Witching Hour

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Michael Calandra which can be purchased here.
Font of Choice - I used Haunt here
Weescotlass Mask 241 here
Mura Meister: Cloud
“Spookadoo” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Julie of Bits ’n Bobs and can be purchased at AMI. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Julie for such a spooky kit!

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a transparent 700 X 700 image.
Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Frame 8 as a new layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside the frame.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.
New Raster Layer below the frame.
Flood fill black.
DO NOT DESELECT

Apply Mura Meister Cloud:

Deselect

Copy and paste Element 40 as a new layer.
Position it so that it appears to be growing out of the frame.
See mine for reference.
Give it a heavy drop shadow using a light gray color.
Repeat the drop shadow using black.

Copy and paste Element 50 as a new layer.
Resize 50%.
Move behind the tree.
Give it a heavy drop shadow using a light gray color.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Element 65: Resize 40%
Element 13: Free rotate left 20 degrees. Duplicate/Mirror/Resize 70%
Element 17: Resize 50%

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster Layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Copy and paste Element 37 as a new layer.
Position it in the top right corner.
Duplicate/Mirror
Merge Down
Merge Down again.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
I gave mine a slight inner bevel:

Resize all layers 80%.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

I’d love to see your results and show it off in my Show Arena.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev