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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Twilight Love

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Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using the "Twilight" kit by Jill from Created by Jill
which can be purchased from Paradise4Scrappers or a variety of stores (listed on her blog)
Four Twilight tubes of choice (or those I have supplied)
Template thrown together by me (supplied)
Twilight Eyelet Ribbon (supplied)
Becky_Mask023 (supplied)
Fire Gradient (supplied)
Twilight font (supplied)
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow (optional for name)

My Supplies here

~ Step 1 ~

Place Fire gradient in your Gradients folder

Open Mask and font and minimise for later

Open Template and duplicate
Close off original
Resize to 450 x 363

Image / Canvas Resize to 600 x 450
On your bottom layer flood fill excess area with white

Activate the Dotted Heart layer
Selections / Float then Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Paste Paper 18 as new layer
Selections / Invert
(it looks like the marching ants have disappeared but the dotted heart is now an inverted selection)
Hit delete
Deselect

With your magic wand click on the Heart Frill
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Paste Paper 15 as new layer
Resize by 65%
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Click the Heart layer
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Paste Paper 9 as new layer
Resize by 65%
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Click each frame layer
Paste Paper 18 as new layer
Resize by 65%
Selections / Invert
Delete

KEEP SELECTED

Paste Paper 14 as new layer
Delete
Deselect
Lower opacity to 70
Frame background now looks a deep red

Click the Rectangle layer
Paste Paper 6 as new layer
Resize by 65%
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

~ Step 2 ~

Now for your tubes
Open Kirsty08-Twilight-6
Paste as new layer and resize by 20%
Position under the layer in the first frame
With your magic wand click inside the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 5
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Open Kirsty08-Twilight-4
Paste as new layer and resize by 25%
Position under the layer in the second frame
With your magic wand click inside the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 5
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Open Kirsty08-Twilight-1
Paste as new layer and resize by 35%
Position under the layer in the third frame
With your magic wand click inside the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 5
Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

Open Kirsty08-Twilight-5
Paste as new layer
Resize by 35% and position behind the frame and rectangle layers in the centre at the top of the frame

~ Step 3 ~

Open BowWrap6 and paste as new layer
Resize by 72%
Position at the bottom of the frame with the lower part of the ribbon extending off the frame
With your freehand tool draw along the edge of the frame EXACTLY along and to the edge of the bow

Now you see it
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Now you dont!
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Duplicate the ribbon layer
Blend mode to Multiply and lower opacity to 50
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
Duplicate again and blend mode to Soft Light

You should now have something like this:
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~ Step 4 ~

Open Charm1 and paste as new layer
Resize by 40% then resize again by 50%
Adjust / Sharpness / Unsharpen Mask
1.00, 100, 4.00
Position on the top left corner of the frame

Open BinderClip2 and paste as new layer
Resize by 15%
Image / Rotate to the right by 15
Adjust / Sharpness / Unsharpen Mask
(same settings as above)
Position on the top right corner of the frame

Open Flowers1 and paste as new layer
Resize by 40% and position behind Bella's shoulders to the left
Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Position duplicate behind Edward's shoulders

Open Flowers2 and paste as new layer
Resize by 40% and position behind Edward to your liking (I moved them slightly to the right)
Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Position duplicate behind Bella to your liking

Open Flower2 and paste as new layer
Resize by 20% and position in the lower left corner beneath the frame
Paste Flower3 as new layer
Rezise by 25% and position over Flower2

~ Step 5 ~

Open Heart1 and paste as new layer
Resize by 15% then Image / Rotate by 25 to the right
Position in the lower right corner

Open BloodSpatter3 and paste as new layer
Resize by 25% and position to the right to your liking

Paste again (should be in your clipboard) and resize by 18%
Position to to the left to your liking

Open BloodSpatter2 and paste as new layer
Resize by 15% and position between HeartFrill and Heart layers protruding with some splatter

Open BloodHandPrint and paste as new layer
Resuze by 18% then Image / Rotate by 25 to the right
Image / Mirror
Position behind flowers

Add any other elements you wish to your creation

Add any drop shadows to your liking

Delete all template layers as you won't be needing them now

Activate background layer
Paste Paper 14 as new layer
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate Becky_Mask023 in drop down menu and apply
Resize by 95% and lower opacity to 65

Crop and resize your tag

~ Step 6 ~

In your materials palette use these settings:
Foreground: #000000
Background: Fire Gradient

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Gradient settings:
Linear Style
Angle - 45
Repeats - 3
Invert UNchecked

Select your text tool with the following settings:

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Type out your name

Objects / Align / Horizontal Centre in Canvas

Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise
Uniform
25%
Monocrhome checked

Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow
Glow width 3.00
Colour settings White

Add drop shadow
H & V - 1
Opacity - 40
Blur - 3.00
Colour - Black

Add your ©copyright and watermark and you're done!

Thank you for trying my tutorial

::st!na::

©Tutorial written by Stina on 30th January 2009
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