Friday, January 27, 2012

Dream Weaver

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I used the amazing artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen which can be purchased from her store here.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Jellyka Delicious Cake here

Gem Mask 8 here

Freebie Friends and More - Tracey’s Autumn Template 7 here.
Scroll down, on the right side you’ll find it under Tracey’s Bulk Templates – Autumn Templates 1 – 7.

“Grandma’s Treasures” is a tagger size scrap kit, also available in full size creted by Kissed by and can be purchased from TKO Scraps.  You can visit her here.
Thank you Cari for a really beautiful kit.

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~~ Lets get started ~~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Image/Canvas Size:
700 x 600
New Raster layer.
Send to bottom.
Flood fill white.
Delete the top 2 layers.

Color Pallet:
Foreground:  #000000
Background:  #3b2538

Make your Color Replacer Tool active.

Highlight Dotted Circle layer (the layer just above your white canvas in your layers pallet).
Zoom in.
Double click the right button on your mouse.
The dotted line should have turned to the purple color.

Highlight Circle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 13 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Change the Properties to Soft Light.

Highlight Dotted Circle layer – it’s actually the black frame to the circle.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 12 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Repeat the above step with Frame layer.

Highlight Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 14 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Change the Properties to Multiply.

Highlight Strip 1 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 15 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight Strip 2 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Copy and paste Flowers 3 as a new layer.
Move into position – see my tag for reference.
It’s long enough to reach the bottom of the rectangle so duplicate the flower layer.
Move it down so that the bottom of the stem is even with the rectangle.
Using your Eraser Tool and erase what you can see overlaps the other flower layer.

Add your elements.  I used:
Beads 2:  Resize 92%
Pansies:  Resize 40%/Free rotate Left 35 degrees
Fern:  Resize 70%/Duplicate/Mirror
Spilled Pearls:  Resize 60%/Duplicate
Feather 2:  Resize 60%

Highlight your white canvas.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 15 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your credits.

Add your name.
Foreground:  #000000
Background:  #9d8851
Stroke Width: 1
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 80%

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

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