Monday, January 20, 2014

A Little Touch of Australia


Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Alena Lazareva which can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Foglighten No 07 here

Vabys mask 111 here

Dangerously Delicious Valentine Template 3 - Cupid Cutie here

"A Little Touch of Australia" is a full size scrap kit created by Susan of Tootypup Scraps and can be purchased from any of her stores here.  Thank you Susan for another beautiful kit!

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let's get started ~♥~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Resize all layers 90%
Image/Canvas Size:
700 x 600
OK
Highlight bg layer.
Flood fill white.
Delete the top 4 layers.

Highlight Tan Oval layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 9b Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Light Pink Strip layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Small Hearts layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the heart paper layer a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight Gold Strip layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 9a Into Selection.
Deselect.
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Creme Strip layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Pink Strip layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 9a Into Selection.
Deselect.
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Delete the template layer.

Highlight White Circle layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 7 Into Selection.
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Uniform checked
Noise: 50%
OK
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Repeat the above step with white circles layer.

Highlight Brown Circle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Gum Tree 5 as a new layer over the paper layer.
Resize 60% - move into position - see my tag for reference.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Highlight Gold Circles layer.
Click on both of them with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 9b Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Color Pallet:
Foreground: #ffffff
Background: #e0d07b

Highlight Dotted Circles layer.
Make your Color Replacer Tool active.
Zoom in and double right click on the dotted circles.
The color of them should turn to yellow.

Highlight Pink Circles layer.
We're going to work one circle at a time....

Use your Magic Wand and click on the far left circle.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Koala 01 as a new layer over the paper layer.
Resize 55%
Change the Properties to Overlay.
Move into position at the left half of the circle - we'll come back to this layer 

in a minute.
Paste the element again.
Resize 50%
Move both elements into position - see my tag for reference.
Selections/Invert
Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Highlight the Pink Circles layer again.
Use your Magic Wand and click on the middle circle.
New Raster layer.
Cop and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Koala 2 as a new layer.
Resize 35%.
Change the Properties to Luminance (Legacy)
Open up Old Bush Stumps 01/Mirror
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Resize 40%
Move both elements into position - see my tag for reference.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Highlight the Pink Circles layer again.
Use your Magic Wand and click on the far right circle.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Kookaburra 2 as a new layer.
Resize 55% and change the Properties to Overlay.
Paste the element again.
Resize 40%
Move both element layers into position over the paper layer - see my tag for 

reference.
Selections/Invert
Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer - see my tag for reference.
If you're using the same tube I did, resize 70%

Add your elements.  I used:
Flower Deco 1:  Resize 50%/Duplicate 3x's
Sword Grass:  Resize 50%/Duplicate/Mirror
Bum Leaf Deco 3:  Resize 40%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your credits.

Add your name:
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #dfa727
Background: #a92d26
Make your Text Tool active and set the stroke to 0.8

Type your name.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I'd love to see your results and place in my gallery!
Email me!

Hugs,
Bev


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