Wild Dreams

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I’m using the wonderful artwork of Joseph Corsentino here
Font of Choice - I’m using Aquarelle here
Vix mask 362 here
Mary of Country Bug Tutorials Template “Wild Dreams” here
“True Friends” is a FTU tagger size scrap kit created by Franny of Scraps from an Angel and can be downloaded from her blog here. Please leave a thank you when downloading. It’s a small gesture for hard work given freely and it would really make the designer feel appreciated.

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template.
Shift +D.
Close out the original.

Highlight Back layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Give a drop shadow to the template layer.

Highlight Line of Circles layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click on it.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight inner bevel:


Highlight Dream 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 a ribbon of choice as a new layer.
Resize 80%
Move into position over Thin Line 1 layer template.
Duplicate
Move into position over Thin Line 2 layer template.
Delete both template layers.

Highlight Frame Back layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click on it.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Using the down arrow key on your keyboard, hit it twice to move the paper down just a tad.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Frame layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click on it.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same inner bevel you used on the circles.

Highlight Wild 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.

Highlight Butterfly 1 layer.
Choose a color in your color pallet.
Using your Target Tool, colorize the template.
Give it the same inner bevel.

Repeat the above step with Butterfly 2 layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Give it a very heavy, casting type of drop shadow.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Word Art 7: Resize 70%
Flowers 1, 2, and 5: Resize 35%
Flower Border: Resize 55%
Bead 2, 3, and 4: Resize 25%

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

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Give it the same inner bevel you used last.

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