First Kiss

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I’m using the beautiful artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen here. This particular tube is a FREEBIE and be found here at the moment.
Font of Choice - I used Lavishly Yours - a pay font
Weescotlass Mask 138 here
Xerox - Porcelain
“Baby Blue” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by ZaZa of Scraps and Tubes and can be purchased from Butterfly Blush Designs.
Thank you ZaZa for such an eloquent and beautiful kit!

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a 700 X 700 blank canvas.
Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Heart 21 as a new layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside the heart. Be sure to click inside the loops that are inside the heart.
New Raster layer below the frame.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Resize as needed and position under the heart frame.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Selections/Invert
Tap the Delete key until you have a nice feathered effect.
Deselect.
Apply Xero - Porcelain:
Default Settings.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Flower 5: Mirror Duplicate/Resize 75%
Flower 8
Flower 7: Duplicate/resize 80%
Flower 1: Mirror/Resize 90%
Feather: Resize 70%
Swan: Resize 70%
Butterfly 1: Resize 25% and 85%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the Mask.
Resize 130%
Merge Group.
Duplicate

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Choose your colors but be sure the stroke is set to 1.
Convert to Raster layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Selections/Modify/Contract by 1
Give it an inner bevel:


Give it a hint of Noise.
Deselect.

Resize all layers 80%.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results and show it off in my gallery.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev