Monday, January 25, 2010

Tell Me You Love Me First

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the gorgeous artwork of Elias Chatzoudis here
Font of choice - I used Al Sandra here.
Monti Circular Mask here
Xerox - Porcelain - Optional
“My Blue Valentine” is a PTU scrap kit created by Valerie of BabyV Dezign and can be purchased at Scraps with Attitude. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Bea for a fabulous 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 Double Heart Frame 1 as a new layer.
Resize 85%
Use your Magic Wand and click in each frame.
New Raster layer below the frames.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection or flood fill with a gradient of choice.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer below the frames.
Move into position.
Selections/Invert.
Tap the delete key.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels: 43
Tap the delete key until you have a nice feathered look.
Deselect.
Apply the Xero-Porcelain effect to your tube layer - default settings.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Beads: Resize 60%. Duplicate/Free rotate right 15 degrees.
Rose 1: Resize 45%
Rose 2: Resize 40%
Locket 2: Duplicate/Mirror
Key 2: Resize 50% Free rotate left 80 degrees. Duplicate/Free rotate right 15 degrees
Highlight your white background.
New Raster Layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection or flood fill with a gradient of choice..
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
In your layers pallet, highlight the paper layer (or gradient layer, whichever you did…)
Copy and paste Stars 2 as a new layer.
Merge Group.
I discovered that neat trick this morning while trying to save time!
It doesn’t take much to impress me...hehehe

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.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

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