Thursday, January 21, 2010

Ladybug- PTU


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I've used the lovely PTU artwork of Suzanne Woolcott of Gorjuss. You can purchase her art HERE.
This is PTU kit called Fly Away Home from Cora’s Creations (Pimp'd Designz). You can purchase this kit HERE.
The mask is WSL_Mask284, by Wee Scot Lass. You can get it HERE.
Font used is Refreshment Stand.


Let’s Begin!


Open a new canvas that’s 600x600 pixels.

Open frame-03 from kit.
Copy and Paste it to your canvas.
Rotate it 90 degrees to the right.

Open pp-01 from kit.
Using the magic wand, select inside the open area of the frame.
Go to Selections>Modify>Expand and expand by 5.
Copy and Paste your paper as a new layer.
Go to Selections>Invert and hit the Delete button on your keyboard.
Selections>None, and move the paper below the frame.

Open bench from kit.
Copy and Paste it above the frame.
Resize and arrange it as shown.

Open tube of choice.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer.
Resize and arrange it as shown.
(If you’re using this tube) Using your eraser, erase the heart directly in front of the girl that hanging off of the bench.

Open grass from kit.
Copy and Paste it below the bench.
Resize and arrange it to the bottom as shown.

Open cloud from kit.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer.
Resize and arrange it to the right as shown.
Layer>Duplicate and move it to the left, making slightly smaller.

Open flower-04 from kit.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer.
Image>Mirror and resize and arrange it as shown.

Open flower-05 from kit.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer.
Resize and arrange it as shown.

Open lady-bug-04 from kit.
Crop out one ladybug to use.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer.
Resize and arrange it over the left flower as shown.
Layer>Duplicate and move over the right flower.

Open paper pp-05 from kit.
Copy and Paste it at the bottom of the tag.
Add your mask by going to Layer>Load/ Save Mask>Load Mask from Disk.
Apply the mask named WSL_Mask284.
Merge the mask group by right clicking the layer of the finished mask, go to Merge>Merge Group.
Resize and arrange it to fit as shown.

I used the font Refreshment Stand. Set it to a size that you like and a stroke width of 4.
Foreground color to white and background color to black.
Duplicate the layer and select the second font layer with the font tool.
Set the stroke width to 0.
Merge the 2 font layer and convert to a raster layer.

Drop shadow everything except the mask.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, set the drop to 3 vertical, 2 horizontal, 75 opacity, 4 blur.

Add your copyright info and your tag.

Merge everything in Layers>Merge>Merge Visible



All Finished!

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