Gypsy

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the beautiful artwork of Karen Middleton here
Font of choice - I used Bambino here
Babes Designz Template 34 here
“Gypsy” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Rieneke and can be purchased at Twilight Scraps. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Rieneke for such an amazing kit filled with such bright, rich colors!

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~
Open up the template.
Delete the Credit layer.

Highlight the Circle layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight inner bevel:

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
(Duplicate if you want any part of your tube at all to go beyond the dot circle layer. Close the duplicated tube layer out.)
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
53
OK
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key until you have a nice feathered look.
Deselect.

If you duplicated your tube, open it up.
Use your erase tool to erase all but the portion that you want to go beyond the dot circle.

Highlight Dot Circle layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat.
New Raster Layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same inner bevel.

Repeat the above step with Black Bars layer, Bar 1 & 2 layers.

Highlight Doodles layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with a gradient of your choice.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same inner bevel.

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

Copy and paste Fabric Flower 1 as a new layer.
Resize 25% and 75%
Duplicate.
Move each of the flowers into position over the small heart templates.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste Felt Heart as a new layer.
Resize 25% and 85%
Position over the Large Heart Template.
Delete the template.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Arrangement 2: Resize 40% - erase the bottom of the step and one of flowers that overlaps one of the paper layers where the fabric flower is.
Duplicate/Flip/Mirror.
Butterfly 3: Resize 50%. Mirror.
Butterfly 4
String 3: Resize 40%

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Give it the same inner bevel.

Crop your image.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev