Thankfulness of the Season

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Supplies

3 tubes of choice - I used the artwork of Anna Marine at CILM
Font of Choice - I used Oh Lara - a pay font
Weescotlass mask 297 here
Brush Strokes: Sprayed Strokes - optional
Xenofex 2: Burnt Edges
Artmama Made Template 5 here - click on Templates at the top of the blog.
“Beary Autumn” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Valerie of BabyV Dezigns and can be purchased from Stargazer Scraps. You can visit her site here.
Thank you Valerie for such a warm and wonderful autumn 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 top layer and Dots layer.
Flood fill Raster 3 white.

In your Color Pallet:
Foreground: #c2610c
Background: #f4d0a9

Highlight Strips layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with the foreground color.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Apply Xenofex - Burnt Edges:


Highlight Oval layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with #000000
Selections/Modify/Contract by 5
OK
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with #c2610c
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer - move into position over the oval.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Back Rectangle layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with #000000
Selections/Modify/Contract by 3
New Raster layer.
Make a gradient with your foreground and background colors I have at the beginning of this tutorial.
Angle: 45
Repeat: 1
Invert checked.
Flood fill the layer.
New Raster layer.
Flood fill again
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian blur:
Radius: 20
OK
Copy and paste another tube as a new layer above the blurred gradient.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Change the Properties to Multiply.

Highlight Front Rectangle.
Repeat the above steps using a different tube.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Trim: Resize 50%/Duplicate as needed to position over the strips
Butterfly Bling: Resize 80%
Ribbon: Resize 70%
Tree 2
Flower 1: Resize 50%/Duplicate/Resize 70%
Flower 6
Butterfly: Resize 50%/Free rotate right 30 degrees

Crop your image.

Highlight your white background.
Select All.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply Brush Strokes - Sprayed Strokes:


Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your credits.

Add your name:
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Resize all layers 90%.

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