Give Thanks Tutorial FTU

This tutorial was created on November 18th, 2008. This tutorial was created from my mind if it resembles another tutorial it's purely coincidental. I'm using the gorgeous artwork of Suzanne Woolcott in this tutorial.

Supplies:

Tube of choice do not use the same tube unless you have the proper license to do so. You can purchase Suzanne Woolcotts work here.

Scrapkit I'm using is called Thankful and you can download it from Delicious Scraps here.

The mask and font I used are supplied in my supplies here.

The mask is from Weescottlass.

Let's Begin:

Open a new canvas size 600x600 flood fill white. We will crop and resize later.

Add a new raster layer then go to selections and click on select all. Open paper 4 copy and paste into selection. Select none. Open the mask from my supplies and minimize on your workspace. Go to layers and find new mask layer, down to from image. Find your mask in the drop down window and make sure source luminance is checked. Invert data uncheck. Now merge your group.

Open Frame square, Resize your frame to 500 pixels. Paste as a new layer on top of the mask layer. Grab your magic wand and click in the middle of your frame then go to selections modify expand by 5. Open paper 8 and resize it to 500 pixels. Copy paper 8 and paste as a new layer. Go to selections and invert then hit delete on your keyboard. Select none and move your paper layer under your frame layer.

Open felt tree and resize to 500 pixels. Then change your pixels to percent and resize your tree 50% smartsize, then resize 80% two times. paste your tree on your canvas and position how you like inside the frame. Duplicate the tree 2 times and position those also. Dropshadow your trees with my settings 2,2, 80, 6.00 color black.

Open clipart tag and resize it 50% smartsize, repeat the resize 2 more times then resize 80%. Sharpen your clipart and position where you think it looks best. Dropshadow with same settings as before.

Open a turkey of your choice from the kit and resize it using the same settings we did for the clipart tag. Position where you like and then dropshadow with same settings.

Open the tube you want to use and copy and paste as a new layer. Resize tube if needed. Position how you like. Dropshadow your tube and your frame same settings as before.

Open flower and resize 50% two times copy and paste as a new layer. Position in the top left corner of your frame and then duplicate. Go to image mirror and mirror you duplicate. Now dropshadow both flowers with the same settings as before.

Open bow with flower and resize 50% two times. copy and paste as a new layer and position at the bottom of your frame. Dropshadow with the same settings.

Open you Give Thanks wordart and resize it 50% two times and position it where you like. Dropshadow same settings.

Now Resize your tag. Add your proper copyright and license numbers if needed.

Open the font I supplied and minimize in your taskbar. Set your foreground color to black and your background color to #993c0f. Type out your text. Convert to raster layer. Now dropshadow your text with these settings. 1,1 50, 5.00 color black.

Save as a Jpeg and your done.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Would love to see your results.