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

Cano Digital Chaos Collab Tut

Supplies needed:

Scrapkit of choice - I used Created by Jill’s portion of the Digital Chaos Store Collab.

If you use another scrap kit, you will need a paper, a frame, a ribbon, and accents.

Tube or Image of choice – I am using an awesome tube by Jose Cano, canoart.net. You can currently purchase his work at PTE

Font of choice – I am using “Roselyn”, but you can use any font you like.

Mask of choice – I am using DBV Mask 138

Plugin – Optional - Eye Candy 3.1: Glow (Free to Use).

All links and supplies shared with permission.

This tutorial is written using PSP X2, but should be easy to do on other versions. It is written assuming you have a general working knowledge of PSP.

Let’s get started!

First, open a new canvas 600 x 600.

Optional – flood fill canvas white to better see what you’re doing. I usually do this, but then delete the white layer before saving the tag.

Open Paper03, copy and paste it onto your canvas.

Apply DBV Mask 138, merge group.

Save your progress.

Open Glitter1, resize 50%, copy and paste onto your canvas, above the masked layer.

Arrange at top right of canvas. Duplicate.

On the duplicated layer – Image>Mirror, Image>Flip. Save.

Open Frame1, resize 80%, copy and paste onto your canvas.

Duplicate frame layer.

Open your tube. Copy and paste it in between your frame layers.

Add a drop shadow to your tube. I used 5, 5, 55, 8, black.

On your top frame layer, erase the top part of your frame, so it looks like the tube is coming out of it. (See my tag for reference.)

Erase the parts of your tube that show at the bottom of the frame.

Add a drop shadow to your bottom frame layer (the one you didn’t erase any of). I used 0, 0, 55, 8, black. Save.

Open Flower2. Resize 60%. Copy and paste onto your canvas, at the bottom left of your frame. It should be your top layer.

Open Leaves2. Resize 60%. Copy and paste onto your canvas, below the flower layer.

Free rotate the leaves 25 degrees to the right. Image>Flip.

Move the leaves so that they are at the bottom of your frame. (See my tag for reference.)

Add a drop shadow to the flower and the leaves. I used 3, 3, 40, 5, black. Save.

Open Ribbon2. Resize 80%. Copy and paste onto your canvas.

Add the same drop shadow you used for the flower and leaves.

Duplicate. Move one of the ribbons below your bottom frame layer. Arrange it to the top left of your canvas.

On the other ribbon layer, move it above your leaves layer, but below your flower layer.

Image>Flip, Image>Mirror. Arrange it towards the bottom middle of your canvas. Save.

Resize the whole tag to 500 x 500, or whatever size you prefer.

Add your name in font of choice. Apply gradient glow (optional) and / or drop shadow.

Add your credits and license number (if applicable).

Save as .png and you’re done!

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

This tutorial was created on July 13, 2011. Tutorial is © tutsbyj0eswife and is registered with TWI.

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