Beach Babe Scrapbook Page

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Tutorial by j0eswife

Tube used: BeachBabe1, by Pinup Bombshells. This tube is PTU and cannot be used without a license. Visit Scraps and theCity to purchase.

Kit used: BeachGirl, a PTU kit by Design byJoan. Her kits are available at Scraps and the City

Font used: A&S Snapper Script

Open a new canvas, 600 x 600. Flood fill white.

Open BeachGirl15, copy and paste onto your canvas.

Open BeachGirl59, resize 65%, copy and paste onto your canvas, Image>Mirror, arrange at bottom right.

Open BeachGirl41, resize 35%, copy and paste onto your canvas, bottom right.

Open BeachGirl43, resize 45%, copy and paste onto your canvas, bottom right. Image>Free Rotate 15 degrees right.

Open BeachGirl21, resize 60%, copy and paste onto your canvas, Image>Mirror, arrange bottom center.

Open BeachGirl27, copy and paste onto your canvas (behind and to the left of the life preserver).

Save your progress.

Open your tube. Copy and paste onto your canvas, above the life preserver.

Duplicate the life preserver and move the duplicate above your tube.

Erase any of the top life preserver layer that is covering the top half of your tube.

Erase any of your tube that is showing under the bottom of the life preserver. (She should look like she’s coming out of the life preserver.)

Open BeachGirl78, copy and paste onto your canvas at the bottom, just above your white background layer.

Open BeachGirl57, copy and paste above your water layer.

Save your progress.

Open BeachGirl53, resize 75%, Image>Mirror, copy and paste onto your canvas, as the top layer. Arrange in front of the lighthouse.

Open BeachGirl13, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas, below the life preserver, arrange at top right.

Open BeachGirl39, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas, behind the life preserver, to the right.

Open BeachGirl31, copy and paste onto your canvas, below the life preserver, arrange at bottom.

Duplicate sand layer. Image>Mirror

Open BeachGirl1, copy and paste onto your canvas. It should be above the sun layer, but below the lighthouse layer.

Open Paper3, copy and paste onto your canvas, just above the white background layer.

Save your progress.

Add a drop shadow to your tube and elements. I used 0, -5, 55, 5 black.

Duplicate your canvas. (Shift+D)

On the duplicate, merge all layers together.

Image>Picture Frame

Choose a picture frame you like. Try Early Color, Polaroid, or Platinum or the one I used, called “Window Card 04”. Adjust your settings based on the preview. I used “Frame current layer”, “Frame outside of the image”, and I UNchecked the other options.

Save your new canvas.

I resized mine to a height of 500, width 439.

Open BeachGirl62, resize 65%, copy and paste bottom right. Image>Free Rotate 10 degrees left. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen. Drop shadow, 3, 3, 55, 5, black.

Add your copyright & license info.

Add your name in your font of choice.

Convert your text to raster layer.

Selections>Select All, Float, Defloat

Selections>Modify, Expand by 3

Add new raster layer below your name.

On the new raster layer, flood fill the selection white.

Selections>None

Merge your name layer down onto the white name layer and add a drop shadow.

Save and you’re done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

Tutorial created by j0eswife, on May 30, 2013. Do not copy or claim as your own.

Alice

Tube used:  “The Heart of Alice” by Zindy S. D. Nielsen. You can find this tube at her store.

Scrap kit used:  “Alice” by Designs by Joan. You can find this kit at Scraps and the City.

Mask used:  Melissaz Creationz Mask 1

Plug Ins used: Xero: Radiance & Porcelain

Font used:  Cheri

In this tutorial, we will be starting with the bottom layer and working our way up. Each new layer you add should be added as the current top-most layer.

Open new image 500 x 500.

Open Paper3. Copy and paste onto canvas.

Apply Mask.

Right click on mask layer.  Merge>Merge Group

Open Alice98. Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Open Alice77. Resize 73%. Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Activate your Pick Tool (the arrow tool). Change Position X to 5.00 and Position Y to 233.00

Duplicate twice.

On the first copy, Mirror, Free Rotate 10 degrees to the right, and move to Position X: 52.00 Position Y: 

230.00.

On Copy (2), move to Position X: -14.00, Position Y: 318.00

Duplicate this layer, Mirror, move to Position X: 65.00, Position Y: 306.00

Name this newest layer “Front Grass” and hide it for now.

Save your progress.

Open Alice99, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange on the left of the tag.

Open Alice32, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at the bottom left of the tag.

Open Alice7, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange on the right of the tag.

Open Alice80, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange on the left of your tag.

Duplicate, Mirror, Flip.

Save your progress.

Open Alice6, resize 70%, copy and paste onto your canvas, and arrange on the right of your tag.

Open your tube. If you’re using the same as me, resize 85%. Copy and paste in the center of your tag.

Apply Xero: Porcelain using default settings (50, 128, 128, 0, 0, 255).

Duplicate

On duplicate (top) tube layer, Apply Xero: Radiance using default settings (128, 50, 128, 255).

Change layer Blend mode to Luminance: Legacy, and lower the opacity to 70. Merge tube layers together.

Save your progress.

Now, unhide your “Front Grass” layer and make it your new top layer.

Open Alice5, Resize 50%, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at bottom left of tag.

Open Alice20, Resize 40%, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at bottom right of tag.

Open Alice74, Resize 50%, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at bottom right of tag.

Open Alice81, Resize 65%, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at bottom right of tag.

Open Alice69, Resize 50%, copy and paste onto your canvas, arrange at top left of tag.

Save your progress.

Apply a drop shadow to your tube. I used 5, 5, 55, 8 and 5, -5, 55, 8.

Apply a drop shadow to each of your element layers, excluding the grass layers. I used 3, 3, 45, 3.

Add your copyright & license info.

Add your name.

I added a border to my name by converting it to a raster layer. Selections>Select All, Float, Defloat. Selections>Modify>Expand by 3. Add a new raster layer under your name, flood fill selection with border color, Selections>None.

New PTU Tut - Lady in Black

Tube used:  “Valentine 2” by Ninaste. You can find this tube at Scraps and the City.

Scrap kit used:  “Lady in Black” by Tiny Turtle Designs. You can find this kit at Scraps and the City.

Mask used:  Mask 45 from Moonbeams and Spiderwebs

Plug In used: Xero: Radiance

Font used:  Honey Script

Open new image 500 x 500.

Open (56). Copy and paste onto canvas. Resize 70%.

Duplicate Frame.

Open tube. Copy and paste onto canvas, between the two frame layers.  Resize tube as needed.

Duplicate tube. On top tube layer, apply Xero: Radiance, settings: 50, 120, 130, 135.

On top tube layer, change the Blend mode to Overlay, and the opacity to 50%. Merge the tube layers together.

Save your progress.

Apply drop shadow to tube. 5, 5, 50, 8, black.

On top frame layer, erase the top half of the frame (the portion covering the top of the tube).

On the tube layer, erase the parts that stick out of the bottom of the frame.

Save your progress.

Open Paper(1). Copy and paste onto canvas, below the bottom frame layer.

Activate your bottom frame layer. Using your Magic Wand tool, click inside the frame.

Selections>Modify>Expand by 5. Activate your paper layer. Selections>Invert. Hit the Delete key.

Selections>None

Open Paper(38). Resize 70%. Copy and paste as bottom layer.

Apply Mask.

Right click on mask layer.  Merge>Merge Group

Save your progress.

Open (122). Resize 50%. Copy and paste at bottom right of frame.

Open (109). Resize 50%. Copy and paste behind your flower. Image>Free Rotate: 80 degrees left.

Duplicate Leaves. Free Rotate 140 degrees right.

Open (4). Resize 55%. Copy and paste below your flower layer.

Open (66). Resize 40%. Copy and paste at top left of frame.

Duplicate. Resize 75%. Free Rotate 45 degrees left. Arrange so it looks like mine. Merge the two together.

Open (130). Resize 70%. Copy and paste into the center of your “bow flower”.

Save your progress.

Add a drop shadow to each of your elements, including the bottom frame layer. 3, 3, 50, 5, black.

Save.

Add your name and credits, save and you’re done! 

New PTU Tut - Aquamarine Victoria

Tube used:  “Victoria” by Alexander McMillan. You can find this tube at Scraps and the City.

Scrap kit used:  “Aquamarine Butterfly” by AmyMarie. You can find this kit at Scraps and the City.

Mask used: WSL_Mask364, by WeeScotsLass

Plug-In used: Xero: Porcelain (FTU) 

Font used:  Cherish

Open new image 500 x 500.

Flood fill white.

Open Frame 2. Copy and paste onto canvas. Resize 75%.

Duplicate Frame.

Open tube. Copy and paste onto canvas, between the two frame layers.  Resize tube as needed.

Apply Xero:Porcelain, using default settings. (50, 128, 128, 0, 0, 255)

Apply drop shadow to tube. 5, 5, 50, 8, black.

On top frame layer, erase the portion covering the top of the tube.

On the tube layer, erase any portion that shows outside of the frame. I also used my magic wand tool to click 

inside each of the frames little “holes”, and then deleted any portion of the tube that showed in the “holes.”

Save your progress.

Open Paper 5, Copy and paste onto canvas, below the bottom frame layer.

Apply Mask.

Right click on mask layer.  Merge>Merge Group

Open Element 81. Copy and paste onto canvas, resize 85%, arrange at bottom of frame.

Duplicate, resize 85%, Image>Mirror.

Merge the two cloud layers together. Duplicate.

On the duplicate layer, Image>Flip. Move the flipped clouds behind your tube layer, behind her head.

Open Element22. Copy and paste onto canvas, resize 75%, move it above your paper layer.

Open Element76. Copy and paste onto canvas, resize  70%, move to bottom of frame.

Image>Free Rotate>10 degrees to the left.  Resize 90%.

Save your progress.

Open Element78. Copy and paste onto canvas. Free Rotate 80 degrees to the left. Resize 90%.

Arrange on left side of frame. Move below your other flower layer. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen.

Open Element53. Copy and paste onto canvas. Resize 45%, Free Rotate 20 degrees to the left. Arrange on left side of frame. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen.

Open Element55. Copy and paste onto canvas. Resize 80%. Free Rotate 80 degrees left. Arrange on the left side of the frame, behind the flowers.

Duplicate. Free Rotate 90 degrees to the right. Resize 80%. Arrange at bottom of frame,  behind flowers.

Save your progress.

Open Element5. Resize 60%. Arrange at bottom right of frame, behind the flowers and ribbon.

Open Element40. Resize 90%. Arrange at bottom of frame, just above your paper layer.

Open Element68. Arrange behind your tube, above your cloud layer.

Add a drop shadow to each of your elements, including the bottom frame layer. 3, 3, 50, 5, black. (I didn’t drop shadow the cloud layers or the grass layer.)

Save.

Delete white background layer.

Add your name and credits,  and you’re done!

Fairest of Them All

Supplies needed:

Scrapkit – This tutorial uses the PTU kit “The Fairest of Them All,” by Designs by Sarah.

Tube of choice – Artwork used in this tutorial is “Snow Princess”, ©Jose Cano, and is available at Scraps and the City.

Mask of choice – I used Horseplay’s Pasture’s Mask 1

Font of choice – I used “2 Fairytale Fancy DNA”

Let’s get started!

Open a new canvas – 500 x 500, transparent.

Open Paper 6, resize 75%. Copy and paste it onto your canvas.

Apply Mask. Merge group.

Open Frame 1, resize 65%. Copy and paste it onto your canvas.

Open Tube. (If using the same one as me, resize 65%). Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Apply drop shadow to tube. 5, 5, 55, 8, black.

Duplicate Frame layer. Move duplicate frame above tube. Erase the top half of the frame, so it looks like the girl is coming out of the frame.

Erase the portion of the tube showing below the bottom of the frame.

Save your work.

Open Flower 2. Resize 40%. Copy and paste onto canvas. Arrange at bottom left of frame.

Save your work.

Open Greenery 1. Resize 50%. Copy and paste onto canvas, under the Flower2 layer.

Image>Mirror (Ctrl+M)  Duplicate.

On duplicate greenery layer- Image>Invert (Ctrl+I). Free rotate (Ctrl+R), left 90 degrees.

Open Ribbon 7. Resize 65%. Copy and paste onto canvas, below flower layer.

Open Print 4. Copy and paste onto your canvas, above your paper layer. Arrange it so you get a nice design inside the frame.

Activate your Magic Wand tool. Activate your frame layer. Click inside the frame.

Selection>Modify>Expand by 5. Selections>Invert. Activate your print layer. Click Delete. Selections>None.

Save your work.

Open Bird 2. Resize 40%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Arrange at top left of the frame, like he’s perching on the greenery.

Open Tag 1. Resize 65%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Arrange at the right side of the frame, below your tube layer.

Add a drop shadow to each of the elements you added. 3, 3, 45, 3, black.

Add your credits and license info.

Add your name onto the tag.

Save and you are done!

I would love to see your results! Email them to tutsbyj0eswife@gmail.com

Dark Angel - 100% FTU!

Tube used: Cookie by Lisa K. Included in scrap kit

Kit used:  Dark Angel by Grunge & Glitter Scraps – Freebie

Mask used:  BabesDesignz Mask32. Her blog is no longer available, so I've supplied the mask HERE

Font used: Eight fifteen – Free font by Kevin andAmanda

Open a new canvas, 500 x 500.

Open Paper 8, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas.

Open Paper 9, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas.

On Paper 9, apply BabesDesignz, Mask 32 (Invert transparency checked), merge group, resize layer by 105%.

Open Frame 4, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas.

Shift+L to Colorize the frame – Hue & Saturation set to 0.

Save your progress.

Open Paper 8, resize 75%, copy and paste onto your canvas.

Open your tube. If you’re using the same one as me, resize 75%.

Copy and paste it above your frame layer. Arrange your tube in the frame.

Apply a drop shadow to your tube – 5, 5, 50, 5, black.

Duplicate the frame layer and move the duplicate frame above your tube.

Erase the portion of the frame that covers the head and right wing of your tube, so it looks like she is coming out of the frame.

Erase the portion of the tube that shows below the bottom of the frame.

Apply a drop shadow to your bottom frame layer. 5, 5, 55, 5, black.

Save your progress.

Open Harp. Resize 75%. Copy and paste onto your canvas as the top layer. Arrange at the bottom right of the frame.

Open Candle2. Resize 50%. Copy and paste onto your canvas as the top layer. Arrange at the bottom right of the frame.

Open Flower2. Resize 55%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Arrange at the bottom left of the frame.

Open Flower4. Resize 40%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Arrange behind the Flower2 layer. Duplicate, move the duplicate slightly lower – or however you like it!

Open Ribbon2. Resize 85%. Copy and paste onto your canvas.  Image>Mirror (Ctrl+M).  Arrange at the bottom of the frame.

Open Butterfly2. Resize 35%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Arrange at the top left corner of your frame.

Add a drop shadow to each of the elements you added. 3, 3, 55, 3, black.

Save your progress.

Add your copyright & license info. I used the copyright that came on the tube.

Add your name in your font of choice.

To add the border around your name like mine is –

Convert name layer to raster layer.

Selections> Select All, Float, Defloat, Modify, Expand by 3

Add a new layer below your name layer.

On the new layer, flood fill the selection area with a color of choice.

Selections>None.

Add drop shadow, 3, 3, 55, 3, black.

Delete the bottom white layer.

Save and you’re done!

New PTU Tag- Fairy Story

I made this tag using AmyMarie's kit Dark Fairy, available for purchase at Scraps and the City.

Tube is by Rachel Anderson, available at CDO.

50 Shades

Tube used:  “2013 Corset” by Ismael Rac. You can find this tube at his store, http://xeracx.net/store/

Scrap kit used:  “50 Shades” by Designs by Sarah. You can find this kit at Pimp My Tag w/ Scraps

Font used:  AridITC

Open new image 500 x 500.

Flood fill white.

Open Frame 2. Copy and paste onto canvas. Resize 75%.

Duplicate Frame.

Open tube. Copy and paste onto canvas, between the two frame layers.  Resize tube as needed.

Apply drop shadow to tube. 5, 5, 55, 8, black.

On top frame layer, erase the portion covering the top of the tube.

On the tube layer, erase any portion that shows below the frame.

Save your progress.

Open Paper 10, Copy and paste onto canvas, below the bottom frame layer.

Activate your frame layer. Using your Magic Wand tool, click inside the frame.

Selections>Modify>Expand by 8. Selections>Invert.

Activate paper later. Hit delete. Selections>None

Open Print2, Copy and paste onto canvas, below the paper layer. Resize 75%.

Duplicate, Mirror, Flip.

Save your progress.

Now for your elements:

Branch 1, resized 65%, arrange on right side of frame.

Duplicate, resize 85%, arrange slightly lower than the first branch.

Heart, resized 50%, free rotate 20 degrees right, arrange on bottom right of frame.

Branch 2, paste under paper layer, free rotate 20 degrees left.

Colorize (Shift+L) your Branch 2 – Hue 125, Saturation 35.

Duplicate, Mirror.

Save your progress.

Bow 3, resized 85%, free rotate 90 degrees left. Flip. Arrange on left side of frame.

Add a drop shadow to each of your elements, including the bottom frame layer. 3, 3, 50, 5, black.

Save.

Delete white background layer.

Add your name and credits,  and you’re done!