Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Are You Ready

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Supplies
1 tube and 1 close up image of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Michale Landefeld at CILM
Font of Choice - I used Dream Orphans Bold here
Weescotlass Mask 138 here
Scraps of Enchantment Template 108 here
“Time for Coffee” is a FTU scrap kit created by Schnegge of Schnegge’s Scraps and can be downloaded from here.
Please leave a thank you when downloading as it’s a small gesture for hard work given freely.
This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~
Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Delete the credit layer.

Resize all layers 90%
Image/Canvas Size 700 X 600
New Raster layer.
Send to bottom.
Flood fill white.

Highlight Circle layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click on the black side.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a light colored paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it an inner bevel:


Highlight Circle layer again.
Repeat the above step with the pink side using a dark colored paper of choice.
   
Highlight Inner Frame layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a light colored paper of choice Into Selection.
Copy and paste your close up image as a new layer.
Position it over the paper.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Lower the opacity of the image to about 50.

Highlight Frame layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same inner bevel.

Highlight Black Dotted Lines layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste a light colored paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Pink Dotted Line layer.
Repeat the above step using a dark colored paper of choice.

Highlight Gray Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same inner bevel.

Highlight Pink Rectangle layer paper.
Repeat the above step using a different paper.
Highlight Are you Ready layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it an inner bevel.

Highlight BOYS layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Stars Right layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a light colored paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Stars left layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with a gradient of choice.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste Heart 2 as a new layer.
Resize 25%
Position it over the Large Star Template layer.
Delete the template layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Frame Round 2: Resize 80%
Schmuckkordel 1: Resize 40%
Flower 3: Resize 25%
Flower 4: Resize 25% and 90%
Butterflies 1, 2, and 3: Resize 25% and 80%

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Resize 120%
Merge Group.
Use your Pick Tool and pull it out slightly to the right.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Give it the same inner bevel.

Resize all layers 80%.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results and show it off in my gallery.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev
 
 
 

A Touch of Class

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Supplies
2 tubes of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Gennadiy Koufay here
Font of choice - I used Oh Lara which is a pay font
Gem’s Mask 61 here
“Caseopaya” is a FTU scrap kit created by Codi’s Fun Scraps and can be downloaded from here.
Please leave a thank you when downloading as it‘s a small gesture for hard work given freely.
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.

Make your Selection Tool active.
Create a 425 X 500 area in the center of your canvas.

New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a different paper of choice Into Selection.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a different paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.

Highlight the bottom paper.
Free rotate left 5 degrees.

Highlight the Top paper.
Free rotate right 5 degrees.

Copy and paste Heart 5 as a new layer.
Using your Freehand Selection Tool outline the left side of the heart.

New Raster layer.
Flood fill with a gradient of your choice.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Center it in the left side of the heart.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Merge Down.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Tap the delete key twice.
Deselect.

Using your Freehand Selection Tool again, section out the right side of heart.

New Raster layer.
Flood fill with the same gradient.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and move into position on the right side of the heart - don’t worry about the clothespins…we’ll take care of them in a bit.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Merge Down.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
OK
Tap the delete key once.
Deselect.

Duplicate Heart 5 layer.
In your layers pallet move it above both of the merged tube layers.
Using your Freehand Selection Tool outline the clothespins.
Selection/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Close out the 3 paper layers and white background layer.
Merge Visible.
Reopen all layers
.
Add your embellishments. I used:
Doodle 1: Resize 30 % Free rotate right 5 degrees Duplicate/Mirror/Flip - merge visible both doodle layers/Duplicate
Cherry Blossom 2: Resize 70% Mirror/Free rotate left 20 degrees
Wine 2: Resize 80% Mirror
Flower 4: Resize 25% Mirror
Flower 6: Resize 25%
Flower 5: Resize 25% and 80%
Deko 3: Resize 70%
Heart Pendant 5: Resize 40%
Leaf 2: Resize 25%

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Give it a slight inner bevel:


Resize all layers 80%.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results and show it off in my gallery.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev