Easter Garden

Supplies Needed

Font of choice – I used Walker on the Moon here

Monti Circular Mask here

Millie’s PSP Madness template 130 here

 “Easter Garden” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Susan of Tootypup Scraps and can be purchased from any of her stores here.  Thank you, Susan for another outstandingly beautiful scrap kit! 

  

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 5 layers.

Open up the background layer.

Highlight template 1 layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give the paper a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight template layer 2.

Repeat the above step.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #000000

Background: #403544

Highlight template layer 3.

Make your Color Replacer Tool active and double right click your mouse on the dotted circle.

It should change to your background color.

Highlight template 4 layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight template 5 layer.

Copy and paste Paper 8 as a new layer.

Resize 40%

Mirror

Highlight the template layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Position the paper over the template.

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight template 6 layer.

Click on it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.

Deselect for now.

Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Add the following elements as new layers just over the paper layer.  Move them into position – see my tag for reference.  Don’t worry about what overhangs.  We’ll clean it up in a bit.

Rainbow_01:  Resize 60%/Change the Properties to Screen

Easter Garden_02:  Resize 65/Mirror

Chicken_02:  Resize 70%

Highlight the paper layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Delete the template layer.

Add the rest of the elements.  I used:

Bow 4:  Resize 33%

Easter Daisies_02A

Daisy Cluster_01

Rabbit_00a

Chicken_01a:  Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror

Wild Grass_01

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Duplicate/Change the Properties to Multiply

Merge Down.

Apply the mask.

Merge Group.

Copy and paste Sunrays_01 as a new layer.

Resize 40%

Move into position – see my tag for reference.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Color Pallet:

Foreground:  #98829e

Background: #403544

Stroke: 0.8

Type your name.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 85%.

   

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev