Sunday, November 8, 2015

Autumn Whispers



Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the artwork of Jennifer Janesko which can be purchased from CDO.

Font of choice – I used Aquarelle here

Rocked by Rachel mask – Set 56, Mask 3 here

Millie’s PSP Madness template 790 here

Plug Ins used:
Brush Strokes – Crosshatch
Toadies – Blast n Blur

“Autumn Whispers” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Rachel Designs and can be purchased from MysticalScraps.  You can visit her blog here. 
  
This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~~ Let’s get started ~~

Open the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Image/Canvas Size:
600 x 600
OK
Highlight Raster 1 and open that layer up.
Flood fill white.
Delete the top 5 layers and “4” layer.

Highlight “1”.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:
Stroke Length: 9
Sharpness: 6
Strength: 1
OK
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight “5”.
Repeat the above step accept DO NOT DELETE the template layer.
(We’ll come back to this later on in the tutorial)

Highlight “2”.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:
Use same settings.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight “3”.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:
Use same settings.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight “6”.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:
Use same settings.
Deselect.
DO NOT Delete the template layer.
(We’ll come back to this in a bit, too)

Color Pallet:
Foreground: #fdffff
Background: #44312c

Highlight “7”.
Make your Color Replacer Tool active.
Double right click your mouse on the template.
It should change to your background color.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer at the top of your layers pallet.
Change the Properties to Multiply.
Move this tube into position you want so that it covers the papers that belong to the templates “5” & “6”.
Once it’s in exact position –
Highlight “5” template.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the tube layer.
Right click on it in your layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer” from the sub menu that appears.
Close the Original tube out for now.
To this promoted layer – change the Properties to Soft Light and move it just above the paper that belongs to template layer “5”.
Deselect for now.
Duplicate the promoted tube layer and change the of Opacity of the duplicate to about 63.
To the original promoted layer apply Toadies – Blast n Blur:
Use Default Settings.
Highlight “5” again.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the tube you just applied Blast n Blur to.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Highlight template “6”.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the original tube layer that you closed out – no need to open this layer.
Right click on it and choose “Promote Section to Layer” from the sub menu that appears.
Change the Properties to Multiply.
Lower the Opacity to about 44.

Open up the Original tube layer.
Move into position on the right side of your tag – see my tag as reference.

Add your elements.  I used:
Bird:  Resize 30%
Button 2:  Resize 6%/Duplicate as many times as needed to place at the corners of the paper that can be seen.
Dragonfly:  Resize 30%
Frame 2:  Resize 65%/Duplicate/Resize 70
Flowers 2:  Resize 60%/Duplicate
Branch 1:  Resize 65% and 90%/Free rotate Left 90 degrees/Duplicate/Resize 80%
Bow 2:  Resize 60%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and Paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #180707
Background: #700b09

Make your Text Tool active.
Set stroke to 1.0
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.   
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

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