Grave Silence

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I used the wonderful artwork of Anna Marine which can be purchased from CDO.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Antelope here

Becky Mask 9 here

Plug Ins used:

Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow

Eyecandy 3.1 - Glow

“Grave Silence” is tagger size scrap kit created by Dianna of Digicats (& Dogs) and can be purchased from her store CountryCorner Creations.  You can visit her blog here.

Thank you Dianna for an awesome 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 Frame 3 as a new layer.

Resize 35T

Free rotate right.

Duplicate/Mirror

Move both frames into position – see my tag for reference.

Highlight the top right frame.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

Copy and paste Paper 13 as a new layer.

Move into a position you like.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer below the frame.

Tap the delete key.

Change the Properties to Hard Light.

Deselect.

Highlight the bottom left frame.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

Copy and paste Paper 13 as a new layer.

Move into a position you like.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Open up element Barbed Wire 1.

Use your Freehand Selection Tool and circle around the single strand of barbed wire.

Copy.

Paste on your working canvas.

Resize 40%

The end needs to have a feathered look.

Using your Freehand Selection Tool again, surround the wire but be sure the dotted line is touching the ends – keep the line away from the rest of the wire.

Selections/Modify/Inside Outside Feather

Both checked

Feather Amount: 40%

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key until you have a nice feathered look.

Deselect.

Free rotate Right 70 degrees.

Duplicate/Free rotate Left 20 degrees

Duplicate both barbed wire layers.

Move all 4 layers into position  at the corners of the frames – see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste Fence 1 as a new layer.

Resize 50%

Move this into position just above your white canvas more on the right side.

Duplicate/Mirror

Make your Selection Tool active set on Rectangle and section out the part of the fence that overlaps.

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Merge Visible both frame layers.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Position it in front of the bottom left frame.

Feather your tube in the same manner as you did the barbed wire.

Add your elements.  I used:

Street Light 2:  Resize 70%

Dark Rose 3:  Resize 70%/Duplicate/Mirror

Highlight your white canvas.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 14 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow:

Use Default Settings.

Apply the mask.

Merge Group.

Add your name.

Convert to Raster layer.

Apply Eyecandy 3.1 – Glow:

Width: 3

Opacity: 100%

Opacity Drop off:  Fat

Color: #ded5d7

Resize all layers 80%

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev