Friday, March 21, 2014

Easter Garden


Supplies Needed

Font of choice – I used Walker on the Moon here

Monti Circular Mask here

Millie’s PSP Madness template 130 here

 “Easter Garden” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Susan of Tootypup Scraps and can be purchased from any of her stores here.  Thank you, Susan for another outstandingly beautiful scrap kit! 
  
This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~~ Let’s get started ~~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Delete the top 5 layers.
Open up the background layer.

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

Highlight template layer 2.
Repeat the above step.

Color Pallet:
Foreground: #000000
Background: #403544

Highlight template layer 3.
Make your Color Replacer Tool active and double right click your mouse on the dotted circle.
It should change to your background color.

Highlight template 4 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight template 5 layer.
Copy and paste Paper 8 as a new layer.
Resize 40%
Mirror
Highlight the template layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Position the paper over the template.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight template 6 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Deselect for now.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.
Add the following elements as new layers just over the paper layer.  Move them into position – see my tag for reference.  Don’t worry about what overhangs.  We’ll clean it up in a bit.
Rainbow_01:  Resize 60%/Change the Properties to Screen
Easter Garden_02:  Resize 65/Mirror
Chicken_02:  Resize 70%
Highlight the paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add the rest of the elements.  I used:
Bow 4:  Resize 33%
Easter Daisies_02A
Daisy Cluster_01
Rabbit_00a
Chicken_01a:  Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror
Wild Grass_01

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Duplicate/Change the Properties to Multiply
Merge Down.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.

Copy and paste Sunrays_01 as a new layer.
Resize 40%
Move into position – see my tag for reference.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground:  #98829e
Background: #403544
Stroke: 0.8
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 85%.
   
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

Spring Sighs


Supplies Needed

Font of choice – I used Dragon is Coming here

Vix Mask 452 here

Millie’s PSP Madness template 16 here

 “Spring Sighs” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Conchi of DN Scraps and can be purchased from HeartbeatzCreationz.  You can visit her scrap blog here.  Thank you Conchi for a super sweet kit! 
  
This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~~ Let’s get started ~~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Delete the top 3 layers and #3 layer.
Image/Canvas Size
700 x 700
OK
Highlight Bg layer.
Flood fill white.

Highlight template 1 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Duplicate the round paper layer.
Mirror
Flip
Move into position over template 2 layer.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste Wire Frame as a new layer.
Resize 55%
Duplicate/Mirror
Move each frame into position over the circle paper layers – see my tag for reference.

Open up Paper 2.
Use your Selection Tool set on Rectangle and section out the “image” only of the paper.
Copy.

Make your working canvas active.
Highlight template 4 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Paste the paper Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight template 5 layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight template 6 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.
Deselect for now.
Copy and paste the following elements as new layer, positioning them over the paper layer.  Don’t worry about what overhangs the paper.  We’ll clean that up in a bit.
Fantasy House 2:  Resize 60%
Ladder:  Resize 25%
Walk
Mouse:  Resize 10%
Sunday:  Resize 40%
Eggss:  Resize 10%/Duplicate/Mirror
Eggss 2:  Resize 10%
Bunny:  Resize 15%

Once all elements are in position –
Highlight the paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each element and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight template 7 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper (1) Into Selection.
Deselect for now.
Add the following elements as new layer just over the paper layer.  Don’t worry about what overhangs.  We’ll clean it up in a bit.
Home Sweet Home:  Resize 40%
Tree 2:  Resize 50%
Highlight the paper layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each element layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight template 8 layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 6 Into Selection.
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Random and Gaussian checked
Noise:  40%
OK
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Copy and paste BunnyEggs as a new layer.
Resize 40%
Move into position so that a little bit of the egg overlaps the bottom right corner frame – see my tag for reference.
Highlight the frame layer.
Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
Highlight the bunnyegg element and use your Eraser Tool to erase the part of the egg that overlaps the frame.
Deselect.

Add the rest of the elements.  I used:
Bird:  Resize 20%
Sunflower:  Resize 35%/Duplicate
Sunflower again:  Resize 15%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate all 3 flower layers
Green:  Resize 35%/Duplicate/Duplicate/Resize 70%
Grass:  Resize 60%
Cute Chick:  Resize 20%
Cute Chick 2:  Resize 20%
Eggss:  Resize 10%/Duplicate/Mirror

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste 8 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.
Duplicate
Mirror

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground:  #150b05
Background: #4b5808
Stroke: 0.8
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 85%.
   
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev