Seaside

Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the artwork of PinUpToons which can now be purchased from CDO

Font of Choice - I used Clive Barker here

Divine Intentionz Template 380 here

Vaybs Mask 133 here

Dock of the Sea” is a tagger size scrap kit created by ZaZa of Scrap and Tubes and can be purchased from Butterfly Blush Designs. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you ZaZa for a gorgeous sea themed 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.
Resize all layers 85%
Image/Canvas Size
650 x 550
Flood fill the background layer white.
Delete the top 5 layers, Frame 1, and Frame Back 1, Square 2, Raster 2 Shadow 2.

Highlight Raster 2 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Highlight Oval Back layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Random & Monochrome checked:
Noise: 45%
OK

Highlight Frame 2 layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Oval layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Raster 1 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Square layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 7 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Glittered Square Back layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Apply the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Frame Back 2 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
55
51: Resize 35%
1: Resize 70%
18: Resize 40%
19: Resize 40%
2: Resize 25% and 50%/Duplicate/Mirror
36: Resize 40%
40: Resize 35%
47: Resize 25%
42: Resize 40%
8: Resize 40%
17: Resize 55%

To get the same drop shadow effect on the beach ball that I have…
Give it a drop shadow on it’s own layer.
Make your Pick Tool active and push the top of the drop shadow down and move it slightly off to the side.

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Copy and paste Element 12 as a new layer.
Resize 60%
Merge Down.
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