Monday, December 10, 2012

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I used the adorable artwork of Morgan Fitzsimons which can be purchased from My Tubed Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice –  I used Fontdinerdotcom here

Weescotlass Mask 138 here

Plug Ins used:
DSB Flux – Bright Noise

 “Christmas” is a FTU tagger size scrap kit created by me, Bev of HorsePlay’s Pasture Designs and can be downloaded from my designing blog here.
Leaving a thank you after download will be greatly appreciated but not mandatory.

~~ Lets get started ~~

Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.
Flood fill white.

Copy and paste El 25 as a new layer.
Resize 70%
Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.
New Raster layer below the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer over the paper layer.
Change the Properties to Soft Light.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Copy and paste El 24 as a new layer.
Resize 50%
Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.
New Raster layer below the frame.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Highlight the frame layer.
Merge Down.
Duplicate
Move both merged frame layers into position – see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Position it in front of the large Circle frame – see my tag for reference.

Add your elements.  I used:
47:  Resize 50%
6:  Resize 50%
41:  Resize 40%
38:  Resize 70%
23:  Resize 40%
22:  Resize 30%/Flip
10:  Resize 70%/Mirror/Free rotate Right 45 degrees
El 15:  Resize 60%/Free rotate Right 35 degrees/Duplicate/Mirror/Free rotate L 35 degrees
10 again:  Resize 50%
El 8:  Resize 45%/Mirror/Free rotate Right 30 dgrees/Duplicate/Mirror
El 16: Duplicate
El 17: Duplicate
El21:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate all as many times as you like

Crop your Image.

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Resize 120%
Merge Group.

Add your credits.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #244f04
Background: #9b0120
Stroke: 1.0
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:
Photobucket

Apply DSB Flux – Bright Noise:
Intensity:  45
Mix checked
OK

Resize all layers 80%.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev
 

2 comments:

  1. No matter what you do........ the tags are just perfect....... and the tuts are SO easy to follow. Thanks for all the inspiration you give me :-)

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  2. Thank you for sharing this wonderful tutorial. So much fun.

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