Monday, December 7, 2009

Season of Joyfulness

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the beautiful artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen here
Font of choice - I used Oh Lara. It’s a pay font and can be found here.
Weescotlass Mask 241 here
Babe’s Designz Template 31 here
DSB Flux - Bright Noise
Eyecandy 5: Impact - Glass
“White Christmas” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Julie of Bits ’n Bobs and can be purchased at AMI. You can visit Julie’s blog here.
Thank you Julie for a very beautiful kit!

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template.
Delete the credit and circle layer.

Highlight Large Rectangle layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Highlight Frame Inner layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Highlight Fancy Frame layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster Layer.
Flood fill with a color of your choice.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Apply DSB Flux - Bright Noise


Highlight Small Rectangle layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster Layer.
Flood fill with a gradient of choice.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Small Dots layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster Layer.
Flood will with the same color you used on the fancy frame.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Large Dots layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Flood fill with the same color you used for the fancy frame.
DO NOT DESELECT.
Effects/Artistic Effects/Balls and Bubbles
On the Shape tab:

On the Surface Tab:

On the Maps tab:


On the Illumination tab:

Deselect

Apply Eyecandy 5: Impact - Glass



Add your embellishments. I used:
Element 2: Resize 50%. Duplicate/Mirror as you like and use your Pick Tool to angle differently.
Element 13: Resize 80%
Element 12: Resize 50%
Element 15
Element 5: Resize 70%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste the BNB White Christmas Preview Into Selection.
Deselect.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:
Radius: 20
OK
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Give it a slight inner bevel:


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

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Frozen Ice Pop

Clicking on the image will enlarge to full view.

Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the wonderful artwork of Dean Yeagle here
Font of choice - I used Toontime here
Monti Circle Mask here
“White Christmas” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Julie of Bits ’n Bobs and can be purchased at AMI. You can visit Julie’s blog here.
Thank you Julie for a very festive kit!

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~
Open up a 700 X 700 transparent image.
Flood fill white.
Copy and paste Element 4 as a new layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.
New Raster layer below the frame.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Add your embellishments. I used:
Element 2: Resize 50% (for place behind the frame)
Element 2: Resize 30% (for placing in the flowers) Free rotate left 40 degrees. Duplicate/Mirror as you like.
Element 55
Element 32: Resize 50%. Duplicate/Resize 80%
Element 7: Resize 40%. Duplicate/resize smaller to your liking
Element 20
Element 48: Free rotate Left 37 degrees

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Copy and paste Element 40 as a new layer.
Move into position.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.
Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Give it a slight inner bevel:
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise
Gaussinan and Monochrome checked
Noise 25%
OK
Resize all layers 80%.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev