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
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