Paris Blues

Supplies

1 tube of your choice and 1 close up - I used the awesome artwork of Ismael Rac
Font of Choice - I used Nadall here
Becky Mask 22 here
My Template 98 here
“Paris Blues” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Kesha of KnC Scrapz and can be purchased from her store Lollipops n Gumdrops. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Kesha for such a classy kit!

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.
Delete the credit layer, words layer, Rectangle 2 layer, and Rectangle 3 layer.

Highlight Strips layer.
Click on all of them with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Rectangle 1 layer.
Click on both with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Rectangle 2 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Copy and paste Nperry_Dec_Gates 3 as a new layer.
Resize 25%/Move into Position
Change the Properties to Soft Light
Copy and paste Branch as a new layer.
Resize 50%
Change the Properties to Soft Light
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Rectangle 3 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Copy and paste Tower as a new layer.
Resize 80%
Move into position
Change the Properties to Soft Light.
Copy and paste your close up tube as a new layer.
Move into position
Change the Properties to Soft Light.
Selections/Invert
Highlight the tube layer and the tower layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Edger Ribbon: Resize 25%/Free rotate left 90 degrees
Button 2: Resize 50%/Duplciate 11 times
Table: Resize 25% and 70%
Chair 1 & 2: Resize 25% and 70%
Feather: Resize 40%

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All
Copy and paste the Preview Paper Into Selection.
Deselect.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:
18
Apply the mask.
Use your Pick Tool and pull the sides out slightly.
Merge Group.
Duplicate

Add your credits.

Add your name.

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