Sunday, September 18, 2022

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 


Supplies Needed 

One tube of choice – I used the incredibly adorable artwork of Lisa Victoria which can be purchased from Digital Art Heaven here.

Font of choice – I used Alien here

Weescotlass Creations Mask 466 here

My Template 1
here

Plug-Ins used:
Brush Strokes – Spatter

Greg’s Factory Output Vol II – Pool Shadow

Snaggables can be downloaded here

“Out of this World” is a PTU Tagger Size scrap kit designed by Tagcatz Design and can be purchased from The Digital Scrapbook Shop 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.
Delete the credit layer. 

Highlight Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Spatter:
Spray Radius; 15
Smoothness: 5
OK
Apply same effect once more.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Rectangle 2 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.
Apply Brush Strokes – Spatter:
Use same settings
OK
Copy and paste Element 104 as a new layer over the paper and move into position – see my tag for reference.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer. 

Highlight Circle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and Paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Lock the layer by clicking on the lock icon at the top of the layers pallet.
Adjust/Blur/Radial Blur:
Match your settings to mine –

OK
Copy and paste Element 30 as a new layer over the paper layer.
Resize 55%
Move into position over the paper.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Change the Blend mode of the element to Dodge.
Highlight the paper layer.
Selections/Modify/Select Selections Border:
Click “Both Sides” and “Anti Alias”
Border Width: 4
OK
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Uniform and Monochrome checked
Noise: 20%
OK
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Create a 700 x 700 blank canvas
Flood fill with #f2b000
Copy.
Do Not close this out as we’re going to use it again later on.

Make your working canvas active.
Highlight Stitches layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat.
New Raster layer.
Paste (the yellow canvas you copied) Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Large Rectangle Layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
Copy and paste Paper 7 as a new layer.
Move into a position you like – just make sure to keep the flare image out of the rectangle.
In your layers pallet right click on the paper and choose “Promote Section to Layer”.
Delete the original paper layer.
Highlight the Promoted layer in your layers pallet.
Selections/Modify/Select Selections Border –
Use same settings.
OK
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Use same settings
OK
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste Element 15 as a new layer over the paper.
Resize 70% and change the Blend Mode to Luminance (Legacy)

Copy and paste Element 82 as a new layer. 
Resize 30% and chance the Blend Mode to Exclusion.
Make your Pick Tool active and turn the spaceship slightly – see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste your Tube as a new layer.
If you’re using the same tube as I did, resize 45%

Add your elements.  I used: (see tag for placement reference)
El 67:  Resize 60%/Duplicate 3x’s
El 35:  Resize 20%/Duplicate 2x’s/Mirror and flip one of them.
El 63:  Resize 70%
El 76:  Resize 60%/Duplicate/Mirror
El 74:  Duplicate/Mirror
El 34:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Mirror 

Highlight the white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Copy and paste Element 105 as a new layer just above the paper.  Move into a position you like.
Merge Down.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground and Background: #000000
Set the stroke to 1.0
Type your name.
 Convert to Raster Layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.
Copy and paste that yellow canvas you made earlier as a new layer just below your name.
Right click on it and choose “Promote Section to Layer”.
Close out the original yellow layer.
Be sure the yellow name is highlighted.
Apply Noise effect accept change the Noise amount to 40
Ok.
Highlight the black name layer.
Merge Down. 

Copy and paste Element 102 as a new layer.
Move into position near the bottom - see my tag for reference.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Move the original yellow layer just above this layer. (keep it closed out)
Right click on it in your layers pallet and choose "Promote Section to Layer".
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Random and Monochrome checked
Noise: 40%
OK
Delete the original element layer.

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


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