Thankful

Supplies

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

Font of choice – I used Aquarelle here

Becky Mask 22 here

Scrapity Scrap and More template 37 here

“Beary Thankful” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Holly of Freek’s Creations and can be purchased from Heartbeatz Creationz.  You can visit her blog here.  Thank you Holly for a really festive kit.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template.

Shift + D.

Close out the original.

Delete the top 2 layers, Border Delicious, Delicious, Small Gray Rectangle, Border Small Orange Rectangle, and Small Orange Rectangle, and Line Diamond.

Image/Canvas Size:

750 x 525

OK

Highlight the background layer.

Flood fill white.

Highlight Big Rectangle layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give it a slight inner Bevel.

Highlight Circle layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 9 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give it the same slight inner Bevel.

Highlight Diamond layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Highlight Border Diamond layer.

Select All/Float/Defloat

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Border Gray Rectangle layer.

Repeat the above step.

Highlight Gray Rectangle layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

 New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 12 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Highlight Line Gray Rectangle layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with #c25204

Lower the Opacity to 62.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer over the small rectangle layer.

Change the Properties to Overlay.

Highlight the rectangle paper below the tube layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight the tube layer.

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Move the tube layer above the Orange strip layer.

Paste your tube again at the top of your layers pallet.

Move it into position so that it’s centered over the circle layer and diamond layer.

Highlight the circle paper layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Use your Eraser Tool to erase the part of the tube you don’t want to overhang the circle.

Deselect.

Color Pallet:

Foreground:  #000000

Background: #c25204

Highlight Dotted Line layer.

Make your Color Changer Tool active and double right click on the dotted line layer.

It should have turned the orange color.

Repeat the above step with the other Dotted Line layer.

Add your elements.  I used:

E17:  Resize 70%

E9:  Resize 30%

E8:  Resize 25%/Mirror

E4:  Resize 35%/Duplicate

E18:  Duplicate/Erase what overlaps

E22:  Resize 20%/Duplicate/Resize 50%/Duplicate

E23:  Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 20

OK

Apply the mask.

Use your Pick Tool and pull the sides out slightly.

Merge Group.

Duplicate

Add your credits.

Add your name.

Foreground:  #060201

Background:  #c25204

Stroke: 1

Type your name.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 80%.

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