Be a Friend Tutorial FTU

I created this tutorial on December 31st, 2008. If this tutorial resembles any other tutorial it's purely coincidental.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I'm using the beautiful artwork of Suzanne Woolcott which you must have a license to use. You can buy her artwork and a license here.

The scrap kit I'm using a ftu kit called Present from ScrappingMar's blogspot. You can download the kit Here. Please do check out her blog she has some great things on there.

Tag template #75 from Missy at divine intentionz. You can download it Here. Please check out her blog she has awesome stuff on there.

My supplies here.

Let's begin:

Place the brush from my supplies into your brushes folder in psp.

Open template 75 in psp and then hold shift + D to duplicate the template. Close the original template. Delete the copyright layer on the template. Now go to the bottom rectangle click on it in your layer palette. Go to selections select all, back to selections float, then defloat. Open paper of choice, I used paper 12. Copy and paste as a new layer. Go to selections invert then hit delete on your keyboard. Delete the original rectangle. Repeat these steps for the rest of the template layers. Add a dropshadow of choice to all template layers.

Now click on your Background Frame layer and paste the tube you are using. Resize your tube if needed. Then erase any part of your tube that is sticking out from under the frame. Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube.

Open a butterfly of choice from the kit and resize it until it fits nicely inside your frame place where you think it looks best. Duplicate your butterfly and then mirror. Dropshadow both butterflies.

Click on scalloped shape layer and then add a new layer. I used color #dfc66c. Now find the brush I supplied. Size should be changed to 300 now stamp your brush once in the center of the scalloped shape. Dropshadow your brush.

Open up one of the flower pots from the scrapkit and resize. Paste as a new layer and postion at the beginning of your saying. See my tag for reference. Duplicate the flower pot and mirror it. Add dropshadow of choice to both flower pots.

Open one of the Beaded rope friend tag and resize place it in the top right corner of your template. See my tag for reference. Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments you would like.

Add your proper copyrights and license number.

Set your foreground and background colors to #DFC66C and find the font I supplied size 65 stroke 1. Type out your text and convert to raster layer. Dropshadow your text.

Save your tag as Jpeg and thats it your done.

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

Christmas Dreams Tutorial

I wrote this tutorial December 2008, if it resembles any other tutorial it's purely by coincident. I wrote this tutorial using Psp X but it should be able to be done in all versions.

Supplies:

Tube of your choice: I'm using the beautiful artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. You must have a license to use her artwork. You can purchase one here.

The scrapkit I'm using is by the talented Bel Vidotti called Soft Holiday. You can find this beautiful scrap kit here.

You will also need Xenofex 2 filter constellation.

Font of your choice.

Let's Begin:

Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill white.

Open She61 from the scrap kit. Copy and paste as a new layer. Click in the middle of your frame with your magic wand. Go to selections Modify and expand 5. Copy and paste a paper of your choice. Selections invert then hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect. Now copy and paste the tube of your choice and position in the center of your frame once happy with the position hit delete on your keyboard. Select none.

Open She11 from the kit. Resize 50% paste as a new layer and move to the bottom of your frame. Then click on your frame layer in the layer pallet. Grab your magic wand and click outside of your frame. You should have marching ants around the outside part of the frame. Now click on your bow layer in the layer pallet and then grab your eraser and erase all the parts of the bow hanging over the sides of your frame. Now your bow should look like it's attached to the frame. Dropshadow your tube, frame and bow layers with dropshadow of choice.

Now open She46 from the scrap kit. Resize 80% and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Move it to the left side of the frame. Duplicate and then mirror. Dropshadow both vines.

Open She59 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move this layer to just above the white background. Now move the doodle to the right side so you can see it on the side of the frame. Duplicate and mirror. Merge down your two doodles so they are one layer. Dropshadow them.

Now resize all your layers by 85%. Apply your copyright.

Now click on your doodle layer and duplicate it 2 times for a total of 3 doodles. close off the 2 copies and click on the original doodle layer. Go to effects, xenofex constellation and use these settings:

Star Size 2.54

Size Variation 13

Edge Star Density 40

Overall Star Density 0

Overdrive 100

Twinkle amount 75

Twinkle Rotation 45

Background fill Keep original image.

Random Seed 1

Click ok then hide the original doodle layer. Open up your second doodle layer apply constellation to it but hit random seed once.

Close off your second doodle layer and open your 3rd doodle layer apply constellation to it but hit random seed again.

Now type out your text.

Time to animate:

Open animation shop. Close off your 3rd doodle layer and open your original doodle layer copy merge and paste as new animation in animation shop.

Back in psp close off your original doodle and open your 2nd doodle layer copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.

Back in psp close off your 2nd doodle and open your 3rd doodle layer copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.

View your animation and if your happy with it save as a gif. Thats it your done.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and I would love to see any results.

Tru Blu Gal Tutorial

This tutorial was written on Dec. 1, 2008. This tutorial is completely my own design and if it resembles any other tutorial it's completely coincidental.

Supplies:

Tube or choice. I'm using the fantastic artwork of Keith Garvey and you must own a license to use his artwork. You can purchase his artwork and license here.

The Scrapkit I'm using is a FTU scrapkit from Misfitscrapz called True Blue. You can download it from their blog here.

The template is template #50 by Yvette. You can find the template at her blog here. Be sure to check out the rest of her blog she has some awesome templates and such on her blog.

The mask I'm using is from Zuzzanna and you can download it here. Then find mask 15.

Font of choice.

Let's Begin:

Open your template 50 in psp and then hold down shift and D to duplicate. Close your original template. Delete the copyright off your template. Now go to image and down to resize canvas and resize your canvas to 600x600. Now add a new raster layer just above your white background. Select all and then open paper 6 copy and paste into selection. Select none. Go to layers down to load/save mask and load mask from disk. Find your mask zuzzanna_mask15 and apply it using my settings: Source luminance, fit to canvas, Hide all mask, invert transparency. Hit load. Then merge your mask group. Resize your mask 90% smartsize.

Click on circle 1 select all, float, defloat, modify down to smooth and 10 on both. Open paper 13 copy paste as a new layer. Invert and hit delete on your keyboard. Delete your template circle. We will do the same thing for the rest of the template layers. Open paper 11 paste as a new layer and the invert delete. Delete your circle 2 template. Click on template circle 3 do all the above steps. Open paper 12 paste as new layer invert delete. Delete circle 3 template. Click on rectangle 4 do the above steps. Open paper 1 copy paste as a new layer invert delete. Delete your template 4 rectangle. Click on rectangle 5 open paper 2 copy paste invert delete. Delete rectangle 5 template. Click on rectangle 6 do above steps. Open paper 8 copy paste as new layer invert delete. Delete rectangle 6 template. Dropshadow all template layers with your choice of settings.

Set your foreground color to pattern and then find paper 6. Background to null. Click on your preset shape ellipse. We are going to make a frame around our light blue circle. Set your width to 8 and make sure your line style is solid line. draw out a circle large enough to go around your light blue circle. Use your nodes around your frame to pull it out until it covers the edges of your blue circle. Once you have it the right size click on it and convert it to a raster layer.

Now open the tube you want to use and copy and paste as a new layer on your tag. Position your tube over your lower right rectangle. Once you have her position the way you like then go to your rectangle layer click on it to make it the active layer. Go to selections select all, float defloat, invert. Then click on your tube layer and hit delete on your keyboard. All that should be left is the part you want showing on the rectangle. On your tube layer change your blend mode to Luminance (L). Repeat these steps for the rectangle in the upper right. I mirrored my tube on that rectangle. I changed the blend mode on her to luminance (L) also. Now paste your tube as a new layer one more time. Move her so that she is position over the light blue circle. Make sure this tube is the top layer. Now duplicate her and move the original tube layer under the frame you made around the blue circle. Now click on your eraser tool and erase the bottom of your original tube that is sticking out from your frame. You will want to close your duplicate tube layer so you can see what you are doing. Once your done with erasing the bottom of your tube open your duplicate tube. Erase all the bottom until she looks like she's coming out of the frame. Dropshadow your bottom tube.

Now add any emblishements you like from the scrapkit and make sure you dropshadow them also.

Resize your tag. Add your proper copyrights and license number.

Add your text and dropshadow it also.

Save as a Jpeg and your done.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.