Thursday, February 28, 2019

A Dream Come True


Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the beautiful artwork of Joanna Bromley which can be purchased from Digital Art Heaven.

Font of choice – I used Silhouette here

Weescotlass Mask 39 here

My Template 225 here

“Lively Lavender” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Tiny Turtle Designs and can be purchased here.  
  
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.
Highlight the background layer.
Image/Canvas size 700 px.
Flood fill white.
Delete the credit layer.

Highlight Template Layer 1.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster Layer.
Copy and paste Paper 13 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Click the lock icon at the top of the layers pallet to lock the layer.
Adjust/Blur/Motion Blur:
Angle: 0
Strength: 100%
OK
Click the lock at the top of your layers pallet to unlock the layer.
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper a slight Inner Bevel:


Highlight Template Layer 2.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Click the lock icon at the top of the layers pallet to lock the layer.
Adjust/Blur/Motion Blur:
Use same settings
Click the lock at the top of your layers pallet to unlock the layer.
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Template Layer 3.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste element 27 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Repeat the above step with Template Layer 4.

Highlight Template Layer 5.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight Template Layer 6.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 22 Into Selection.
Deselect.
DO NOT delete the template layer.

Highlight Template Layer 8.
Merge Down.
Template Layer 8 and 7 should now be on the same layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste Paper 20 as a new layer.
Right Click on it in your layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer”
Deselect.
Delete the original paper layer.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper layer the same slight Inner Bevel.

Copy and Paste the following items as new layers, resize as follows:
Element 50 – Change the Properties to Soft Light.
Your tube:  If you’re using the same as I did, resize 85% and change the Properties to Soft Light.
Move these 2 elements into position over the paper that belong to Template Layer 6. Don’t worry about what overhangs and overlaps, we’ll take care of that in a bit.
Your tube again:  Again, if you’re using the same as I did, resize this one 55%
Take a good look at your tag to be sure you like the position of the 3 elements.

Highlight Template Layer 6.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each of the elements that the Properties were changed to Soft Light and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Highlight the horse layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Highlight the tube layer that has the Properties set to Soft Light.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Add your elements.  I used:
6:  Resize 5%/Duplicate 3x’s for a total of 4
8:  Resize 5%/Duplicate 2x’s for a total of 3
106:  Resize 50%//Section off and remove bottom half. Duplicate 2x’s for a total of 3. Duplicate and flip each of them.
97:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Flip
26:  Resize 70%/Duplicate
48:  Resize 15%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate – Duplicate and flip all 3 flowers
19:  Resize 12%/Duplicate/Mirror – Duplicate and flip both elements.  Duplicate and flip all 4 elements.
108:  Resize 50%
80:  Resize 60%/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip
114:  Resize 35%
25:  Resize 15%
47:  Resize 20%
47 (again):  Resize 15%
50:  Resize 40%
90:  Resize 40%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 22 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Resize 120%
Merge Group.
Duplicate

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: Null
Background: #1a346b
Type your name.
Convert to Raster layer.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Close out your white background.
Save your tag as a PNG.

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