Spring's Aflutter

Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the artwork of Sara Butcher and can be purchased from CDO.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice – I used Freeze! here

Gem Mask 71 here

Plug Ins used:

Brush Strokes – Crosshatch

Mura’s Meister – Cloud and Copies

“Spring’s Aflutter” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Karen of Sweet Occasion Designs and can be purchased from Scrapsfrom the Heart.  You can visit her blog here.  Thank you Karen for a fantastic spring kit! 

  

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.

Flood fill white.

New Raster layer.

Make your Selection Tool active set on Rectangle.

Create a rectangle approximately 225 x 500 pixels.

Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.

Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:

Stroke Length: 49

Sharpness: 0

Strength: 1

OK

Deselect.

Give the paper a slight inner Bevel:

Duplicate this layer.

Don’t worry about placement yet.

New Raster layer.

Create a rectangle approximately 400 x 500 pixels.

Copy and paste Paper 12 Into Selection.

Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:

Use same settings.

Deselect.

Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Don’t worry about placement yet.

Copy and paste Daisy 1 as a new layer.

Resize 3%

Apply Mura’s Meister – Copies

Choose: Encircle.

Change the top 3 numbers to:

Number: 60

Shift X: 60

Shifty Y: 60

OK

Move all layers into exact position – see my tag for reference.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #feecb5

Background: #fafaf0

Highlight the ring of flowers.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

New Raster layer below the ring.

Apply Mura’s Meister – Cloud

Copy and paste the following elements below the frame – don’t worry about placement or what overhangs the ring of flowers:

Sweet Home 3:  Resize 30%/ Lower the Opacity to 24

Spring Flowers 1:  Resize 30%/ Lower the Opacity to 24

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Highlight the paper layer.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Copy and paste Beaded Ribbon 1 as a new layer.

Resize 3%

Apply Mura’s Meister – Copies:

Choose Line

Change Number to 25

OK

Move into position at the top of the large rectangle – see my tag for reference.

Make your Selection Tool active, still set on Rectangle and section off the element line.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Duplicate/Flip

Add the elements.  I used:

Flower Border 1:  Resize 15%/Free rotate Left 90 degrees/Duplicate/Mirror

Butterfly 1:  Resize 10%/Free rotate Right 25 degrees

Butterfly 2:  Resize 13%/Free rotate Left 25 degrees

Bow 1:  Resize 25%/Duplicate/Mirror

Bumble Bee 1:  Resize 20%/Mirror

Cricket 3:  Resize 10%

Butterfly Scatter 1:  Resize 55%

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 9

OK

Apply the mask.

Resize 105%

Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Color Pallet:

Foreground and Background: #f9965e

Stroke: 0.8

Type your name.

Convert to Raster layer.

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Random and Monochrome checked

Noise: 18%

OK

Select All/Float/Defloat

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

New Raster layer below your name.

Flood fill with #fdecb6

Deselect.

Resize all layers 85%.

   

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev