Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Us


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Supplies

1 tube of your choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Irene Shpak at MPT
Font of Choice - I used Bonheur Royale
Gem Mask 153 here
“Keirsten Rain” is a PTU scrap kit created by
Jacki of Wishing Well Designs and can be purchased from Lollipops n Gumdrops. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Jacki for a truly delightful 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 Keys and Heart element as a new layer.
Free rotate right 20 degrees.
Using your Freehand Selection tool outline the heart.
New Raster layer below the heart.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer below the heart.
Keeping it on the large size, move it up and to the left just a bit and change the Properties to Soft Light.
Paste your tube again.
Resize to make it just a bit smaller than your other tube layer and move it down and to the right just a bit.
Selections/Invert
Highlight each of the tube layers and tap the delete key.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Highlight each of the tube layers again and tap the delete key twice.
Deselect.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Flourish: Resize 60%/Free rotate right 20 degrees/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip
Bow 1: Resize 50%/Mirror
Ribbon 1: Resize 70%/Free rotate left 65 degrees/Duplicate/Free rotate right 10 degrees
Butterfly 1: Resize 25% and 80%

Highlight your white background.
Select All
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a Dark colored Paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Mirror
Merge Group.
Resize 90%

Highlight your white background again.
Select All
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a Light colored Paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Mirror
Merge Group.
Resize 90%

Position both mask layers below the heart in alignment.

Add your credits.

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

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