Adrift

Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the wonderful artwork of Monica N. Galvan and can be purchased from PSP Tube Stop.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice – Windlass here

Vix Mask 451 here

My Template 142 here

My Supplies here

Plug Ins used:

Brush Strokes - Crosshatch

  

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template.

Shift + D.

Close out the original.

Delete the top 3 layers.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #163127

Background: #b9b6b7

Set the foreground to gradient with these settings:

Highlight the Oval layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with the gradient.

Duplicate the layer.

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 20

OK

Merge Down.

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Uniform and Monochrome checked

Noise: 20%

OK

Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:

Stroke Length: 25

Sharpness: 1

Strength: 1

OK

From the tube - Copy and paste the Stars layer as a new layer.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #6e5060

Background: #dacddb

Set the foreground to gradient and match your settings to mine:

Highlight Rectangle 2 layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with the gradient.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Delete the template layer.

Color Pallet:

Check off “Invert” on the gradient.

Highlight Rectangle 1 layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with the gradient.

Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Delete the template layer.

Highlight Glitter Oval layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Invert

New Raster layer.

Flood fill with #644d04

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Random and Monochrome checked

Noise: 41

OK

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #808080

Background: #17272a

Highlight Rec 1 Dotted Corner layer.

Make your Color Replacer tool active and double right click on the dotted corner.

Highlight Rec 2 Dotted Corner layer.

Repeat the above step.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

See my tag for placement.

Add the elements I supplied – see my tag for placement:

Flower 1:  Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

Flower 2:  Flip/Place behind the top left of the oval/Duplicate

Flower 2 again:  Mirror/Place behind the bottom right of the oval

Cattail:  Place in front of the tube, Duplicate/Resize 60%/Change the Properties to Soft Light/Duplicate

Leaf: Place behind the bottom right rectangle/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste the image layer from the tube Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the mask.

Use your Pick Tool and pull the sides out slightly.

Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Color Pallet:

Foreground:  #583d21

Background: #98c6c8

Stroke: 1.0

Type your name.

Apply the same slight Inner Bevel:

Deselect.

Decorate your name with Flower 3

Resize all layers 85%.

   

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev