Honey Bee

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using the delightful mini kit "Beautiful Day" by Connie's Creative Chaos which can be purchased from Creative Scraps

Tube of choice - I am using the lovely artwork of Rion Vernon and PinUpToons which can b e purchased from CILM

**PLEASE DO NOT USE HIS ARTWORK WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE LICENCE**

Becky_Mask023 (supplied)

tp_tiger Gradient (supplied)

Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

 

My Supplies here

 

Place the tp_tiger gradient into your Gradients folder

and your Mask into your Masks folder

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open a new blank canvas 600 x 600 flood filled white

 

Paste BDFraming2 as new layer (leave in position)
With your magic wand click inside the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 10

 

Paste BDPaper04 as new layer
Resize by 50% and move into desired position

 

 

Selections / Invert
Delete
Deselect

 

Add a drop shadow to your frame:
H & V - 1
Opacity - 25
Blur - 10.00
Colour - #000000

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Paste your tube as new layer
Resize if necessary
Position to the centre of the frame
The clouds and tree should be somewhat visible behind your tube

 

Add a drop shadow:
H & V - 3
Opacity - 25
Blur - 10.00
Colour - #000000

 

Paste Beehive1 as new layer
Resize by 65%
Position in lower corner of frame alongside your tube

 

With your Freehand Tool draw along one of the petals of your tube
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Hit delete once or twice
Deselect

 

Paste Hearts1 as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position in the upper right corner of the frame
Duplicate

 

Adjust / Hue & Saturation / Colourise with the following settings:

 

 

Set the blend mode to Overlay or Hard Light whichever you prefer

 

Activate original heart layer and apply a drop shadow:

 

Veritcal - 0
Horizontal - 2
Opacity - 15
Blur - 10.00
Colour - #000000

 

Paste some bees as new layers
Resize as necessary
Duplicate
Image / Mirror then resize slightly once again

 

Apply a slight drop shadow

 

Crop and resize

 

 

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

With your Dropper Tool select a colour from your tag by left clicking anywhere on that colour

 

The colour should now be your foreground in your Materials Palette

 

 

Activate your white background layer
Add a new raster layer
Flood will with your foreground colour by left clicking

 

Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate Becky_Mask023
Source luminance
OK

 

Layers / Merge / Merge Group

 

Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds with the following settings: 

 

~ Step 4 ~

 

Select your Text Tool and font of choice - a flowery font would look nice
I am using 2Peas Groovy Bloom

 

Foreground - #000000 (Black)
Background - Tiger Gradient

 

With the following settings:

 

Stroke width - 1.00

 

Type out the words Honey Bee
Apply a slight drop shadow
Duplicate
Set blend mode to Screen then lower opacity to 70

 

Change the number of repeats in the Material Properties to 3

 

Choose another font and type out your name

Objects / Align / Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow with the following settings:

 

Add a drop shadow:
H & V - 1
Opacity - 30
Blur - 3.00
Colour - #000000

 

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

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial

 

::st!na::

 

© Tutorial written by Stina on 25th February 2009
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