A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using the lovely "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Pimpd Designs available at Paradise for Scrappers

Tube of choice - I am using the lovely artwork of Guy Powers which can be purchased at UpYourArt

WSL_Mask7 by Chelle available from her Blog

Fonts of choice - I am using Platthand, Mayfair and Mayfair Alt

Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open a new 600 x 600 blank canvas flood-filled white

 

Paste Green-08 as new layer
Resize by 85%
Leave in position

 

Select your Freehand Tool and draw around the "stem" careful not to go either inside or outside the area

 

 

Add a new raster later
Paste PP17 into Selection
Deselect
Layers / Arrange / Move Down

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Paste Cloud as new layer
Place between the paper and Green Frame layers protruding slightly

 

Paste Green01 as new layer
Resize by 35%
Position in upper right slightly protruding
Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Image / Rotate by 80 to the left
Position on the underside in the lower left

 

 

Paste Paper-Heart as new layer
Image / Rotate by 20 to the right
Position in upper right then
Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

Paste Flower-07 as new layer
Resize by 25%
Position at the top of Frame

 

Paste Flower-08 as new layer
Resize by 23%
Position along the top beside first flower

 

Paste Fairy-Dust-02 as new layer
Resize by 40%
Position over Frame
Select your Eraser Tool and lower the opacity to around 30
Then carefully click on some of the excess to soften it

 

 

Paste Stardust as new layer
Position over Frame as desired

 

Paste Star-Cluster as new layer
Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom
Position it centrally behind Frame
Lower opacity to 20

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

Paste Tube as new layer
Resize as necessary
Place as desired then LEAVE IN POSITION
Duplicate then move duplicate layer beneath Greenery Frame

 

Lower opacity of top tube layer or turn off visibility altogether
Use your Eraser Tool to erase the bottom of the duplicate Tube that protrudes the Frame
Return to your top tube layer
With your Freehand Tool draw around the bottom of your tube
Delete then deselect

 

 

Layers / Arrange / Move Down
The layer should now fall below your Stardust layer

 

Paste Greens-Ribbon as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position along the bottom with the bow over one of the flowers

 

Paste Green-03 as new layer
Resize by 35%
Position in the centre of the greenery with ribbon

 

 

Paste PP16 as new layer
Layers / Arrange / Send to Bottom

 

Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate WSL_Mask7
OK
Layers / Merge / Merge Group

 

Crop and resize

 

~ Step 4 ~

 

Select your Text Tool and a colour from your tube or scrap
Set it as your Background colour with your Foreground NULL

 

Foreground - null
Background - #28605b (colour I am using)

 

Select your font
I am using Platthand
Type out your text of choice
Convert to raster layer
Add a gradient glow

 

Apply a drop shadow:
H & V - 1
Opacity - 20
Blur - 3.00
Colour - #4c7994

 

Select another font of choice
I am using Mayfair Alt
Type out your name
Object / Align / Horizontal centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Add the same Gradient Glow as above following the same drop shadow

 

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 Stina on 2nd April 2009
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