Springlicious- PTU

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I've used the lovely PTU artwork of Shawli. You can purchase her art HERE.
This is a PTU kit called Springlicious by Seven’s Scraps. You can visit her blog for links HERE.
The mask is provided in my supplies which is for personal use only! You can download it HERE.
Font used is Aquarelle.


Let’s Begin!

Open a new canvas, 800x800 pixels.

Open frame20 from kit.
Copy and Paste it as a new layer onto your canvas.

Open papers 27 from kit.
Using the magic wand select inside the open area of the frame.
Selections>Modify>Expand by 5.
Copy your paper and paste as a new layer.
Selections>Invert and hit the delete button on your keyboard.
Selections>None and move the paper layer below the frame.

Copy and Paste your tube on top of the frame.
Arrange it to the left.
Layer>Duplicate and Image>Mirror the tube
and move the tube behind the frame.
Resize and arrange it as shown, erasing portions of the tube hanging outside of the frame.
Layer>Duplicate, Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur- 3
Layer>Properties and set the Blend Mode to Soft Light
On the lower tube set the Blend Mode to Luminance (Legacy)

Open the following elements in the following order.
Copy and Paste them starting above the frame layer and
Resize and arrange as shown.

Paperdoodle02
String02
Ribbon05
Flower09 (duplicate 2 times and arrange)
Flower05
Butterfly01
Pearls02
Shamrock04 (Image>Mirror)
Shamrock01

Open paper13 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 2 from supplies.
Merge the mask group by right clicking the layer of the finished mask, go to Merge>Merge Group.
Change the opacity of the mask layer to 50%

I used the font Aquarelle. Set it a size you like and a stroke width of 5.
Foreground color to white and background color to #b14555.
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, 50 opacity, 4 blur.

Add your copyright info and your tag.

Merge everything in Layers>Merge>Merge Visible

All Finished!