Saturday, October 15, 2011

Butterfly Rain

 

Supplies

1 tube of choice -  I used the beautiful artwork of Rachael Tallamy and can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Before the Rain here

My Mask 4 here

“Butterfly Rain” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Shelly of KairinaKat Kreations and can purchased from Heartbeatz Creationz.  You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Shelly for a really beautiful 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.

Make your Selection Tool active set on rectangle.
Make a rectangle approximately 500 x 225 pixels.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 15 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Center it on the canvas.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel.


Make your Selection Tool active again.
Make a rectangle approximately 600 x 60 pixels.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 13 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Center it on the canvas.
Give it the same Inner Bevel.

Make your Selection Tool active again.
Make a rectangle 275 x 325 pixels.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 14 Into Selection.
Deselect.
We’ll come back to this rectangle in a bit.

Make another rectangle approximately 190 x 150 pixels.
New Raster layer.
Paste Paper 14 Into Selection.
Deselect.

Move both rectangle papers into position on your canvas - see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Move into position in front of both of the rectangles.
Duplicate your tube layer - resize just a little bigger.
Move the duplicate layer up and slightly to the right. 
In your layers pallet move it below the original tube layer - just above the left rectangle. 
Change the Properties to Overlay.  Duplicate.
Move just above the right rectangle.

Highlight the smaller rectangle paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the tube layer above it.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Highlight the larger rectangle paper layer.
Repeat the above step.

Add your embellishments.  I used:
34:  Resize 25% and 50%
19:  Resize 60%/Duplicate/Resize 70%
17:  Resize 70%
32:  Resize 50%/Duplicate
45:  Resize 25%, 25%, and 30%/Duplicate 3x’s.
42:  Resize 45%/Duplicate
21:  Resize 25% and 60%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Mirror

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 13 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Crop your image.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #59cfe7
Background:  #000000
Stroke: 5
Type your name.

Resize all layers 80%

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

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Subtle Autumn

 

Supplies

1 tube of choice -  I used the beautiful artwork of Abranda Icle and can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Before the Rain here

Weescotlass Mask 208 here

My Template 140 here

“Subtle Autumn” is a tagger scrap kit also available in full size created by Wilma of Wilma4Ever and can purchased from her store Wilma4Ever.  You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Wilma for a really beautiful kit.

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.
Image/Canvas Size:
700 x 700
Delete the credit layer.

Highlight Rec layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Highlight Left Strips layer.
Click on each strip with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Highlight Right Strips layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Frame layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Highlight Oval layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 10Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer in front of the frame.
Position it to one side of the frame.
Duplicate/Mirror
Move the duplicate tube layer below the frame.
Highlight the Oval paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the duplicated tube layer.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Change the Properties to Overlay.

Add your embellishments.  I used:
El 6:  Resize 60%
El 5:  Resize 80%
El 10:  Erase the base
El 37:  Resize 25%/Mirror
El 50:  Resize 70%
El 30:  Resize 40%
El 7:  Resize 40%
El 19:  Resize 35%/Free rotate Right 90 degrees
El 14:  Resize 25%
El 36:  Resize 25%
El 32:  Resize 30%
El 31:  Resize 30%
El 12:  Resize 35%/Mirror/Flip

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Crop your image.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

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