Beauty in the Darkness

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Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the artwork of Anna Marine at CILM
Font of Choice - I used All Over Again here
Gem Mask 71 here
“Dark Xmas” is a FTU tagger size scrap kit created by Designs by Vaybs and can be found on her blog here.
Please leave a thank you or send her a small note of appreciation when downloading any of her creations as it’s a very small gesture for her 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.

Copy and paste Frame 3 as a new layer.
Resize 80%
Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Free rotate right 5 degrees both the frame and paper layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer below the frame.
Highlight the paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the tube layer.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Add your embellishments. I used:
4
12: Resize 70%/Mirror/Duplicate/Resize 90%
36: Resize 90%
24: resize 80%
18: Resize 70%
20
27

Highlight your white background.
Select All.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 11 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Crop your image.

Add your credits.

Add your name.

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