An Easter Wish for You

Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "Easter Parade" by Scraps by Jo
which can be purchased at Paradise4Scrappers
Thanks Jo for allowing me to work with this very cute kit!
Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous work of Suzanne Richards
which can be purchased from CILM
**PLEASE DO NOT USE HER WORK WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE LICENCE**
WSL_Mask230 by Chelle which can be downloaded from her blog
Fonts are 2Peas Blueberry Pie and 2Peas FatFrog which are pay fonts
No outside filters were used

~ Step 1 ~

Open mask and fonts and minimse for later

Open a new blank canvas 600 x 600 flood-filled white
Paste Frame2 as new layer
Resize by 80%

Using your magic wand select the blank centre area of the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 10
Add a new raster layer
Drag it below the frame

Open Paper2, copy and then paste into selection

KEEP SELECTED

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur
Radius - 5.00

STILL KEEP SELECTED *g*

Paste your tube as a new layer beneath frame
Resize by 130%
Position in frame to your liking
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Reduce the opacity of this layer to around 35

~ Step 2 ~

Paste the little Basket with the duck and eggs called "element" as a new layer
Resize by 40% and position in the lower right

Adjust / Brightness & Contrast / Brightness/Contrast

Paste Flower5 as new layer and resize by 10%
Position in front of the basket
Duplicate and set blend mode to Multiply
Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Paste Flower3 as new layer and resize by 10%
Position in front of the basket next to first flower
Duplicate and set blend mode to Multiply
Then lower opacity to 50
Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Paste Flower4 as new layer and resize by 10%
Place in front of flowers and basket

Paste Egg2 as new layer
Resize by 15%
Image / Rotate by 20 to the right
Position against the flowers
Move this layer beneath the basket layer

Paste Egg as new layer
Resize by 15%
Image / Rotate by 20 to the left and postion slightly behind Egg2

Paste Bow2 as new layer
Resize by 15% then place on basket handle

Paste FlowerPin2 as new layer
Resize by 30% then Image / Mirror
Position on the frame to the right

Paste Buttefly2 as new layer
Resize by 5%
Image / Rotate by 20 to the left
Position to the right of your frame
Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Position second butterfly above first

Paste your tube as a new layer
Resize if necessary (if using the same tube as me you do not need to resize)
Position to the left of the frame

Crop and resize tag

~ Step 3 ~

Activate your background layer
Add new raster layer
Using your eye dropper tool select a colour from your tube or kit ( I used #c996f8 )
and flood fill layer

Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate WSL_Mask230 in drop down
Source luminance checked
Invert Mask data UNchecked
OK

Layers / Merge / Merge Group

Reduce the opacity of this layer to about 40

Using your Preset Shape Tool:
Foreground - #000000
Background - null

Select Ellipse and draw out a circle over your tag

Select your Text Tool and set your foreground to a colour matching your tube (I used #ec6cb4)
Choose your font and on the curve type out "An Easter Wish for You" or anything you like

Once happy with the position in your layer palette click on the + to open the Vector Layer,
hide the ellipse shape and Convert to raster layer
**You can position the text anywhere along the curve by using the centre node to rotate it**

Swap the colours in your Material Palette:
Foreground - #ec6cb4 or one of your choosing
Background - #FFFFFF

With your Text Tool again, stroke width on 1.2 and a font of your choice (I used 2Peas Fat Frog) type out your name

Apply a drop shadow:
H & V - 1
Opacity - 50
Blur - 5.00
Colour - #ec6cb4 (again of your choosing)

Add your © copyright, licence and watermark

~ Step 4 ~
Animation (optional)

First we're going to merge the layers to make it easier for animation

Hide your background, Mask and name layers
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible
Then unhide layers

Activate your mask layer
Duplicate it twice so you have a total of 3 layers
Rename them Mask1, Mask2 and Mask3
Hide Masks2 & 3 and start with the original (Mask1)

Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise
Gaussian checked
Noise - 15
Monochrome checked
OK

Go to next layer
Apply the same effect but change the Noise to 20
OK

Go to third layer
Apply same again but change the Noise to 25

Now there are two ways of animating -
There is the copy and paste mode or the Save mode
I will show you both and let you decide which you prefer *g*

Copy and Paste Mode

Hide both Mask2 & 3 layers so only Mask1 is activated
Edit / Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop and Paste as New Image

Back in PSP, hide Mask1 and unhide Mask2
Edit / Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop, go to Edit / Paste / Paste AFTER Current Frame

Back in PSP again, hide Mask2 and unhide Mask3
Edit / Copy Merged
Go to Animation Shop, go to Edit / Paste / Paste AFTER Current Frame

Save as a GIF and you're done!

Save Mode

First duplicate your main graphic and name layers twice so you have three of each

You should now have:
3 Name layers
3 Tag layers
3 Mask layers

Hide 2 of each layer then
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

Hide your merged layer and then unhide one of each layer again
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

Hide second merged layer
Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

You should now have three layers the same - the only difference being the Noise on each Mask layer

Save file as a .psp file compatible for Animation Shop (PSP7 file)

In Animation Shop open file and save as a GIF!

Thanks for trying my tutorial

::st!na::

A non-animated version

©Tutorial written by Stina on 10th February 2009
All rights reserved