Fright Night

Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Lollipop Labs which can be purchased from PSP Stop.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Parseltongue here

Plug Ins used:

Brush Strokes - Sprayed Strokes

Eyecandy 5: Texture - Stone Wall and Swirl

"The Perfect Scream" is a FTU tagger size scrap kit created by myself.  You can download it from my designing blog here...scroll to the bottom and it'll be under Thursday, October 6, 2011.

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let's get started ~♥~

Open up a blank 590 x 250 canvas.

Flood fill with #808080

Apply Eyecandy 5: Texture - Swirl:

Settings Tab:

Solid, Small Loops

Basic Tab:

OK

Apply Brush Strokes - Sprayed Strokes:

OK

Color Pallet:

Foreground:  Null

Background:  #000000

Make your Rectangle Tool active.

Create a rectangle approximately 240 x 250 pixels.

Objects/Align/Center in Canvas.

Convert to Raster layer.

Click on the rectangle with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Contract by 5.

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with #000000

Deselect.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Position it over the white rectangle.

Copy and paste Element 17 as a new layer.

Resize 60%

Free rotate Left 90 degrees

Move into position behind the black rectangle on the left side near the top - see my tag for reference.

Duplicate

Mirror

Merge Down.

Duplicate

Flip

Copy and paste Element 11 as a new layer above your tube layer.

Resize 80% and move into position - see my tag for reference.

Duplicate

Mirror

Move below the black rectangle in your layers pallet.

Image/Add Borders:

Symmetric checked

Color: #000000

Top, Left, Right, Bottom: 4

OK

Image/Add Borders:

Change the color to #ffffff

Symmetric checked

Top, Left, Right, Bottom: 8

OK

Click on the white border with your Magic Wand.

Apply Eyecandy 5: Texture - Stone Wall:

Basic Tab:

OK

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Deselect.

Image/Add Borders:

Symmetric checked

Color: #000000

Top, Left, Right, Bottom: 2

OK

Copy and paste Element 13 as a new layer.

Resize 40%

See my tag for placement.

Copy and paste Element 1 as a new layer.

Resize 35%

See my tag for placement.

Copy and paste Element 40 as a new layer.

Resize 60%

Move into position in the lower right corner.

Duplicate - move to the upper left corner.

Add your name -

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #000000

Background: #af7432

Stroke: .80

Type your name.

Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Decorate with the spider from kit.

Save as a jpeg.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it.

Would love to see your results...email me!

Hugs,

Bev