Monday, March 1, 2010

Precious Moments


Clicking on the image will enlarge to full view.

Supplies
1 tube of choice - I’m using the beautiful artwork of Michael Calandra here
Font of Choice - I’m using Oh Lara which is a pay font
Weescotlass Mask 249 here
Kelly’s Kreations template “You’re the One” here
“Love Song” is a PTU tagger size kit created by Lynne of Baby Cakes Scraps and can be purchased from her store Creative Scraps Store. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Lynne for your brilliant talent that shines through in this 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.
Delete Kelly’s Kreations, Hearts, and Text layers.
Resize all layers 75%
Image/Canvas Size
700 X 700
Highlight Bkg layer and flood fill white.
Highlight Rectangle Fill layer.

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

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


Highlight Strip Fill layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Strip Outline 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.

Keep the Strip Outline layer highlighted.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside the top square.
Copy and paste your tube below the frame.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels:
43
Tap the delete key until you have a slight feathered effect.
Change the Properties to Soft Light.
Duplicate and move it down into the frame below.
Repeat until you have the tube in each square.

Highlight Heart Fill layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Move into position.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the Heart Fill template layer.

Highlight Heart Outline layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Into Selection the same paper you used for the Strip Outline layer.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Paper Flower: Resize 25% and 70%
Butterflies
Curled Ribbon: Resize 60%
Word Art
Paper Butterfly 3: Resize 35% Duplicate/Mirror/Resize 70%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the Mask.
Resize 110%
Use your Pick Tool and pull the sides out slightly, the top down slightly.
Merge Group.

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

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