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.