Raw Beauty

Supplies

1 tube and 1 close up image of choice – I used the beautiful artwork of Barbara Jensen which can be purchased here.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Before the Rain here

Moonbeams and Spiderwebs  Mask 2 here  - you can find it under Sunday, November 13, 2011.

Plug Ins:

Xero - Porcelain

“Elegant Love” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Bubble’s Dream and can be purchased from Scrappin’ with Friends.  You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Bubbles for such a beautiful 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 Element 33 as a new layer.

Resize 90%

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and paste Paper 19 Into Selection.

Copy and paste your close up image as a new layer below the frame.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Apply Xero – Porcelain to the tube.

Use Default settings accept lower the Blue Channel button to 0.

Copy and paste 32 as a new layer.

Resize 60%

Position on one side of the square frame.

Duplicate/Mirror

Highlight the tripe heart frame on the left side of your canvas.

Click inside of each heart with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and paste Paper 9 Into Selection.

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

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Apply Xero – Porcelain to the tube layer.

Use same settings.

Highlight the heart frame on the right side of your canvas.

Click inside of each one with your Magic Wand.

Seletions/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frames.

Copy and paste Paper 9 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Position in front of the frames on the right side.

To give the tube a feathered effect:

Make your Freehand Selection Tool active.

Make a circle around your tube making sure the line touches only the area of the tube you want feathered – keeping far away from the areas you don’t want feathered.

Selections/Modify/Inside Outside Feather

Both Checked

Feather amount: 40

OK

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key until you have the feathered look you want.

Deselect.

Add your elements.  I used:

30:  Resize 30%/Duplicate/Mirror

12:  Resize 65%/Duplicate/Mirror

34:  Resize 80%

4:  Resize 25%/Free rotate Left 15 degrees

Crop your Image.

Highlight your white canvas.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 11 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the mask.

Merge Group.

Duplicate

Add your name.

Resize all layers 80%

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