Dirty Princess

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I used the gorgeous artwork of Elizabeth Austin which can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Inspiration here

Dee’s Sign post mask 5 here

Plug Ins used:

Brush Stroke – Crosshatch

 “Rock Music” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Aurelie of Pink Candy Designs and can be purchased from Lollipopsn Gumdrops.  You can visit her blog here.

Thank you Pearl for 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 Film Strip as a new layer.

Resize 80%

Click inside of each square with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Click inside the first square of the film strip.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

Copy and paste your tube below the film strip.

Resize if needed and move into position.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Repeat the above step with the remaining squares in the film strip but show a different area of your tube in each.

Merge Visible all tube layers.

Highlight the film strip layer.

Click inside of each square with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

Duplicate the merged tube layer.

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 2

OK

Apply Brush Stroke – Crosshatch:

Stroke Length: 22

Sharpness:  6

Strength: 2

OK

Deselect.

Close out your white canvas.

Merge Visible.

Reopen your white canvas.

New Raster layer.

Make your Selection Tool active set on Rectangle.

Create a rectangle approximately 225 x 175 pixels.

Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Duplicate

Move both rectangles into position behind the merged layer – see my tag for reference.

Highlight either of the rectangles.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Invert

Selections/Modify/Contract by 4.

New Raster layer.

Open up Paper 9

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 20

OK

Make your working canvas active.

Copy and paste Into Selection.

Deselect.

Repeat with the other black rectangle.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Position it over both of the pink rectangles in a way that looks nice.

Change the Properties to Soft Light.

Duplicate/In your layers pallet move above the other pink rectangle.

To each tube layer:

Highlight the pink rectangle.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight the tube layer above it.

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer in front of the merged film strip.

Add your elements.  I used:

Wire 2

Bow:  Resize 40%

Bottle:  Duplicate

Fuzzy Heart:  Resize 35%/Free Rotate Right 15 degrees

Butterfly:  Resize 30%/Free rotate Right 15 degrees/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate/Mirror

Star Chain:  Resize 25%/Free rotate Left 15 degrees

Sparkles

Highlight your white canvas.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the mask

Resize 105%

Merge Group.

Add your credits.

Add your name.

Crop your image.

Resize all layers 80%.

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