Supplies Needed
1 tube of choice – I used
the precious artwork of Katerina Koukiotis which can be purchased from Digital Art Heaven.
Greg’s Factory Output Vol
II – Pool Shadow
“Feelin’ Irish” is a
tagger size scrap kit created by Holly of Freek’s Creations and can be
purchased from Mystical Scraps here. You
can visit her blog here.
Thank you Holly for an awesome St. Pat’s kit!
This tutorial was written
assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.
~♥~ Let’s
get started ~♥~
Open up a 700 x 700 blank
canvas.
Flood fill white.
Copy and paste Frame 3 as
a new layer.
Resize 80%
Make your Selection Tool
active set on Rectangle.
Section off the bottom
half of the element from just above the large clovers:
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Duplicate the element
Flip
Move the flipped layer up
to match the original.
Merge Down.
You should now have a
longer frame:
If you need to, center it
on your canvas at this time.
Click inside of each
frame.
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 4.
Copy and paste Paper 4 as
a new layer below the frame.
Right click on the layer
and choose “Promote Section to layer” from the sub menu.
Delete the Original paper
layer.
Click the Lock Icon at
the top of the layers pallet to lock this layer.
Adjust/Blur/Motion Blur:
Angle: 242
Strength: 57%
OK
Duplicate the paper layer.
Change the Properties to
Soft Light.
Deselect.
Click the lock at the top
of the layers pallet to unlock the layer.
Copy and paste Clock as a
new layer.
Resize 80%
Be sure this is centered
over the frame.
Adjust/Add Remove
Noise/Add Noise:
Random and Monochrome
checked.
Noise: 56%
OK
Click anywhere outside of
this element with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Selections/Modify/Contract
by 10
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1
Into Selection.
Click the Lock Icon at
the top of your layers pallet to lock the layer.
Adjust/Blur/Radial Blur:
Match your settings to
mine -
Click the lock at the top
of the layers pallet to unlock the layer.
Deselect.
Copy and paste Frame 3 as
a new layer.
Resize 70%
Make your Selection Tool
active set on Rectangle and section out all of the 5 areas of the frame:
New Raster layer below
the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 8
Into Selection.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussion Blur:
Radius: 8
OK
Apply Greg’s Factory
Output Vol II – Pool Shadow:
Use default settings
accept change Intensity to 43.
Deselect for now.
Copy and paste your tube
as a new layer.
Center it over the
smaller frame. If you’re using the same
tube as I did, resize 50%
Paste the tube again as a
new layer below the frame. If you’re
using the same tube as I did, resize 70%
Move into position at the
Left side.
Duplicate/Mirror and move
into position under the right side of the frame.
Merge Down (so both tube
layers are on the same layer)
Highlight the paper
beneath the tubes and click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Highlight the merged tube
layer.
Right click on it in your
layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer” and change the Properties
to Luminance (Legacy).
Delete the original
merged tube layer.
Copy and paste Border 3
as a new layer at the top of your layers pallet.
Resize 90%
Duplicate/Flip and move
atop of the original border element – see my tag for reference.
Merge Down – so both
borders are on the same layer.
Center the merged layer
below the paper you gave the Pool Shadow effect to – see my tag for reference.
Click anywhere outside of
the merged border element with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Selections/Modify/Expand
by 2.
New Raster layer below
the border.
Copy and paste Paper 3
Into Selection.
Apply the Pool Shadow
effect using same settings.
Deselect.
Add your
elements. I used:
Lolli: Resize 50%/Duplicate/Flip/Mirror
Border: Resize 85%
Label: Resize 40%/Use Pick Tool to squash flat/Duplicate
Charm 2: Resize 25%/Duplicate
Bow 2: Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror
Bow 3: Resize 30%/Duplicate/Mirror
Lights
Boot: Resize 45%
Cupcake: Resize 25%/Duplicate
Coin 2: Resize 15%
Gold: Resize 40%
Crop your image so you
don’t have quite so much empty space at the top and bottom.
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: #473d29
Background: #417533
Make your Text Tool
active.
Set stroke width 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.
Hugs,
Bev
