Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sugar & Spice is Everything Nice

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Supplies
4 tubes of choice - I’m using the artwork of PinUpToons which you can purchase here
Font of Choice - I’m using Al Sandra here
Designs by Ali Template 51 here
Toadies - Ommadawn
EyeCandy 5 - Impact - Gradient Glow (optional)
“Sweet as Sugar” a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Nikki of Creative Intentionz and can be purchased here. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Nikki for such a fun 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 DBA layer. New Raster Layer. Flood fill white. Send to bottom and highlight it in your layers pallet.
Image/Canvas size
Width: 700
Height: 700
Set on Pixels
OK
Flood fill white

Highlight Circle Back layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections/Invert.
Hit the delete key.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Circle Frame layer. Repeat the above step.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside the frame.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.
New Raster Layer beneath the frame.
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout
Vertical & Horizontal: 10
Opacity & Blur: 25
Color: Black
OK

Drop Shadow the Circle Frame layer.

Highlight Rectangle Back layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections/Invert.
Hit the delete key.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Rectangle Frame layer. Repeat the above step.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside the frame.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.
New Raster Layer beneath the frame.
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout
Vertical & Horizontal: 10
Opacity & Blur: 25
Color: Black
OK
Repeat the Cutout effect accept change the Veritcal and Horizontal to -10.

Drop Shadow the Rectangle Frame layer.

Use your Magic Wand and click inside Rectangle Frame layer.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.
Copy and paste a tube of choice below the frame.
Hit the delete key.
(Just to jazz only this frame up a bit, I duplicated my tube, enlarged the original, moved it slightly to the left and decreased the opacity. On the copy I moved it slightly to the right a bit)

All the steps you just did to complete the rectangle frame - repeat with all the heart layers.

Copy and paste Button 1 as a new layer. Resize 30% and move into position over one of the Small Circles layer (we’re only using the Small Circles and Small Circle Frames as a guide).

Repeat the above step with Buttons 2,,3, and 4. Once you have all the buttons in place delete Small Circle and Small Circle Frame layers.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Sunflower 4: Duplicate 3 times and position the sunflowers behind the large circle.
Ribbon 1: Resize 38%. Free rotate Left 30 degrees
Ribbon Flower 1: Resize 38%. Free rotate Left 30 degrees
Dazzling Bow 1: Resize 25% and 90% Free rotate right 30 degrees
Butterfly 2: Mirror. Resize 50%
Handbag 1: Resize 60%
Sunglasses 4: Resize 30%

Close out your white background. Merge visible. Duplicate. Re-open your white background and highlight the merged layer.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur
Radius: 20
OK

Toadies/Ommadawn
Use Default settings

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
I used papers from the kit for my foreground and background colors.
Then used Eyecandy 5 Impact and added a Gradient Glow with these settings:
Basic Tab:
Outside Glow checked
Mask Selection checked
Glow Radius: 30
Soft Corners: 0
Overall Opacity: 100
Distortion Amount: 0
Distortion Lump Size: 100
Gradient Smoothness: 97
Opacity color: Black
 
Crop your image and resize all layers 85% if you like before saving your tag.

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

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