A Touch of Class

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Supplies
2 tubes of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Gennadiy Koufay here
Font of choice - I used Oh Lara which is a pay font
Gem’s Mask 61 here
“Caseopaya” is a FTU scrap kit created by Codi’s Fun Scraps and can be downloaded from here.
Please leave a thank you when downloading as it‘s a small gesture for hard work given freely.
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.

Make your Selection Tool active.
Create a 425 X 500 area in the center of your canvas.

New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a different paper of choice Into Selection.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a different paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.

Highlight the bottom paper.
Free rotate left 5 degrees.

Highlight the Top paper.
Free rotate right 5 degrees.

Copy and paste Heart 5 as a new layer.
Using your Freehand Selection Tool outline the left side of the heart.

New Raster layer.
Flood fill with a gradient of your choice.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Center it in the left side of the heart.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Merge Down.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Tap the delete key twice.
Deselect.

Using your Freehand Selection Tool again, section out the right side of heart.

New Raster layer.
Flood fill with the same gradient.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and move into position on the right side of the heart - don’t worry about the clothespins…we’ll take care of them in a bit.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Merge Down.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Tap the delete key once.
Deselect.

Duplicate Heart 5 layer.
In your layers pallet move it above both of the merged tube layers.
Using your Freehand Selection Tool outline the clothespins.
Selection/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Close out the 3 paper layers and white background layer.
Merge Visible.
Reopen all layers
.
Add your embellishments. I used:
Doodle 1: Resize 30 % Free rotate right 5 degrees Duplicate/Mirror/Flip - merge visible both doodle layers/Duplicate
Cherry Blossom 2: Resize 70% Mirror/Free rotate left 20 degrees
Wine 2: Resize 80% Mirror
Flower 4: Resize 25% Mirror
Flower 6: Resize 25%
Flower 5: Resize 25% and 80%
Deko 3: Resize 70%
Heart Pendant 5: Resize 40%
Leaf 2: Resize 25%

Highlight your white canvas.
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 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 gallery.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev