Circle of Friendship

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using the lovely "Heritage Love" by Creative Intentionz which is available from Exquisite Scraps and Paradise 4 Scrappers

Tube of choice - I am using the lovely artwork of Suzanne Woolcott which can be purchased from her store

WSL_Mask133 by Chelle available from her blog

Fonts of choice - I am using 2Peas Champagne and A&S Speedway

Plugin: Mura Meister Copies

Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Glass and Gradient Glow

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open a new 600 x 600 blank canvas flood filled white

 

Select your Preset Shape Tool to Ellipse and your background to #000000
Hold your Shift key and draw out a circle
Objects / Align / Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Selections / Select All
Selections / Float
Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2

 

Open Paper9
Edit / Copy
Then on your working canvas Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Selections / Select All
Selections / Float
Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Expand by 25

 

Add a new raster layer
Layers / Arrange / Move Down

 

Open Paper 15
Edit / Copy
On your new layer Paste Into Selection
Deselect

 

Select your Preset Shape Tool to Heart

 

Line width - 8.00
Foreground - #223324
Background - null

 

Draw out a heart
Objects / Align / Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Selections / Select All
Selections / Float
Selections / Defloat

 

Apply an Inner Bevel with the following settings:

 

 

Then Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy 4000 / Glass with the following settings (optional):

 

 

Select the inside of the heart with your Magic Wand
Selections / Modify / Expand by 3
Add a new raster layer
Layers / Arrange / Move Down

 

Open Paper11
Edit / Copy
Then Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Now Hide your Circle and Background layers leaving only your Heart and Heart Background showing
Edit / Copy Merged and Paste as a new Image
Minimise it for now as we will come back to it later

 

Unhide your Background and Circle again

 

You should now have something like this:

 

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Paste your tube as a new layer
Resize if necessary and position within the frame

 

Select the area inside your Heart frame again
Selections / Invert
Selections / Modify / Feather by 1
Grab your Eraser and carefully erase the bottom of the tube overhanging the frame
Deselect

 

Paste Bouganville5 as new layer
Resize by 25%
Position to the left of your tube beneath your Frame layer
Duplicate then Image / Mirror

 

Paste Bouganville2 as new layer
Resize by 30%
Position to the right just slightly above first flower
Layers / Arrange / Move Down
Repeat
This will bring it below both Flower layers
Duplicate then Image / Mirror

 

Activate your Heart background layer
Using your Magic Wand select the area OUTSIDE the heart
Now activate each flower layer and hit delete till the overhanging branches have been removed

 

 

Paste Organza1 as new layer
Resize by 30%
KEEP IN CENTRE

 

Effects / Plugins / Mura Meister / Copies with the following settings:

 

 

 

Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

Paste Organza4 as new layer
Resize by 40%
KEEP IN CENTRE

 

Repeat the Copies plugin with the same settings as above

 

Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

You should now have something like this:

 

 

Paste Wrap5 as new layer
Resize by 62%
Position along the bottom of heart with the end running to the edge of the outer circle

 

Select the outside of that area with your Magic Wand
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2

 

Activate Wrap layer and with your Eraser Tool erase the excess from that end ONLY

 

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

Now we come back to the heart we minimised earlier

 

Activate the minimised heart
Edit / Copy
Then paste as a new layer onto your canvas

 

Image / Rotate by 15 to the right
Resize by 10%
Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Position anywhere you like

 

Alternate in duplicating each heart, then
Resize by 50%
Duplicate again and position to your liking

 

Once you have finished with the hearts resize to 450 x 450

 

Then enlarge canvas by going to
Image / Canvas Resize to 500 x 500 centred
(this will give us extra space around the tag)

 

Open Paper14
Edit / Copy

 

Add new raster layer
Selections / Select All
Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate WSL_Mask133
OK

 

With Mask layer still activated
Resize by 95%

 

Layers / Merge / Merge Group
Lower opacity to 55

 

Now Activate your top layer
Select your Preset Shape Tool on Ellipse and your line width to 2.00

 

Draw out a circle around your tag (hold the shift key for an even circle)
Objects / Align / Centre in Canvas

 

Select your Text Tool and font of choice - I am using 2Peas Champagne
Text colour - #1e493b

 

Type out the words "The Circle of Friendship begins and ends with You"
Turn the Ellipse layer off in your Layer Palette
Convert to raster layer

 

Apply a Gradient Glow and a slight drop shadow

 

Choose another font for your name
Apply any effects you wish

 

Finally, add your © copyright, licence and watermark
Then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial

 

::st!na::

 

 

 

© Tutorial written by 11th March 2009
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