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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

One Day I'll Fly Away

Supplies
 
Scrap kit of choice - I am using the gorgeous "I'll Fly Away" kit by Helly which can be purchased from Cotton Candy Kreations
Thank you Helly for this wonderful kit - I simply enjoyed using it!!
Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Jennifer Janesko which can be purchased from CILM
**PLEASE DO NOT USE HER ARTWORK WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE LICENCE**
WSL_Mask10 by Chelle which is available from her blog
Fonts are Century Gothic and Carpenter Script
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow
 
~ Step 1 ~
 
Open Missy's Template #156
Duplicate (Shift D) and close off original
Delete watermark layer
 
Activate background
Image / Canvas Resize to 650 x 500
Flood fill the excess areas white
 
Activate Raster 1 (Black Rectangle)
Click inside it with your magic wand
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Add new raster layer
Paste Paper7 as new selections
Delete
Deselect
 
Activate Rectangle layer (grey)
Click the area inside it
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
 
Paste Paper 10 AS NEW LAYER
 
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

 
**FOLLOW THESE NEXT STEPS IF YOU WISH TO KEEP THE HANGING HEARTS AS PART OF YOUR TAG**
 
Activate THIN RECTANGLES
Click inside first and third ones
Now activate the HEARTS layer
Click inside the first and third hearts
 
Paste Paper 3 as new layer
 
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect
 
Repeat with the other two THIN RECTANGLES and HEARTS with Paper 9

 

~ Step 2 ~
 
Paste Sparklies as new layer
Resize by 70% and erase any excess
 
Paste PaperFlower as new layer
Resize by 20% and position in the top right hand corner
 
Paste Button Flower as new layer
Resize by 15% and tuck behind the flower in the upper left
Duplicate and move this layer on the other side of flower
 
Paste Paper Flower 2 as new layer
Resize by 25% and tuck in between flowers in upper left
 
Paste Window as new layer
Image / Mirror then position to the left
Reduce opacity of this layer to 45
 
Paste HeartString has new layer
Resize by 22% then Image / Mirror
Position in the window (beneath Sparklies layer)
 
Paste RaffiaBow as new layer
Resize by 25% and position over the heart string in upper right
 
Paste Butterfly as new layer
Resize by 15% then Image / Rotate by 14 to the right
Resize by 95% Bicubic resample
Position to the right
Add a Gradient Glow
 
Paste PaintedHeart as new layer
Resize by 15% and position to the left
Add a Gradient Glow
 
Paste Wings1 as new layer
Resize by 40%
Position at the bottom of the template
 
Paste JournalBlock as new layer
Resize by 55% then Image / Rotate by 20% to the right
Position between the two paper layers

 
 
~ Step 3 ~
 
Paste your tube as a new layer
Resize as necessary
Position to the right
 
Erase any excess that may be "squared" in the upper right corner
 
Add a slight drop shadow
 
In your Materials Palette set your background to #000000
Select your Text Tool and locate Century Gothic in font list
Size - 48
Type in all caps "ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY"
 
Position along the bottom of top paper layer (beneath Wings layer)
 
Convert to raster layer
 
Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy / Gradient Glow with the following settings:
 

Now change your background colour to #FFFFFF
 
Locate Carpenter Script in your font list
Change the size to 40
Change the case to Mixed and re-type the words "One Day I'll Fly Away"
 
Position directly over the black text
Convert to raster layer
Duplicate
 
Set Blend Mode to Screen and then
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
 
Activate your Background layer
Paste Paper 7 as new layer
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate WSL_Mask10
Source luminance
OK
 
Layers / Merge / Merge Group
 
Crop and resize
 

Add your name, © copyright, licence and watermark and you're done!
 
Thanks for trying my tutorial
 
::st!na::
 

©Tutorial written by Stina 17th February 2009
All rights reserved
 
 

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