Beautiful Life

This tutorial was written by me on March 20th, 2019 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP 2019

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using an older tube by Alexandra Vanhek. You can purchase it here.

FTU mini kit from Raspberry Road Designs.

You can find it here.

Mask 852 by me. You can find it here.

Font of choice. I am using Matsury.


Open element 27. Resize by 47%. Resize again, this time all layers unchecked by 65%.

Open your mask & paper 5. Resize your paper by 17%. Paste your paper as a new layer onto your frame canvas. Move below the frame layer, then apply your mask, merge group.

Open paper 3. Resize by 17%. Copy your paper.

On your frame canvas, click on the frame layer. Now with your magic wand tool, click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expland by 10. Paste your paper as a new layer, selections, invert & press delete. Deselect & move the paper below the frame layer.

Now let’s add our elements:

9 – resize by 25%. Paste as a new layer above the frame layer. Place to the upper right corner of the frame.
19 – resize by 20%. Place over the knot of the yellow ribbon.
7 – resize by 15%. Place over the bottom section of the frame.
17 – resize by 20%. Place over the yellow lace.
1 – resize by 30%. Place just above the yellow lace, and a bit to the right on the bottom.
22 – resize by 20%. Place to the top left corner of the word strip.
5 – resize by 25%, rotate right. Place over the black berry branch.
11 – resize by 11%, rotate right. Place over the center of the left side of the frame.
20 – resize by 20%. Place over the center of the outer left edge of the frame. Duplicate & place down & a little to the left of the button.
23 – resize by 20%.Place to the bottom, a little to the right of the center point.
21 – resize by 20%. Place to the bottom, directly below the ‘LIFE’ text.
13 – resize by 15%. Place over the left side of the frame opening.
24 – resize by 20%. Place to the bottom left corner.

Duplicate the white flower layer & move to the top layer. Place to the left of the blue flower.

Make any adjustments to your elements, using my tag as a reference.

Open your tube. Paste as a new layer above the white paper layer. Flip horizontal & place your tube over the left side of the frame opening. On your white paper layer, select all, float, defloat. On the tube layer, selections, invert & press delete. Deselect. Duplicate your tube, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to soft light. On the original tube layer, lower the opacity to 25.

Paste your tube again, this time just above the original white flower layer, resizing your tube as necessary. With your eraser tool, remove any part of your tube that extends below the word strip layer. Duplicate your tube, gaussian blur using the same settings as before. Set the blend mode to Overlay, 36.

Add your name, copyright, & license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice to your layers, then merge visible. Save as a PNG.

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Odds & Bits

This tutorial was written by me on February 5th, 2019 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP 2019

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Nocturne. You can purchase her tubes here.

Odds and Bits freebie kit from Dhariana Scraps. You cand find it here.

Mask 846 by me. You can find it here.

Font of choice. I am using Halimun.


Open a new blank image, 600 x 600 px.

Open your mask & pp 3. Resize the paper by 17%. Paste as a new layer onto your blank canvas. Apply your mask, merge group.

Open el 25. Resize by 25%. Place to the top.

Open el 33. Resize by 34%. Paste as a new layer. Rotate slightly to the left. Move slightly to the right.

Open el 11. Resize by 35%. Place over the previous element.

Open el 9. Resize by 31%. Place to the left side.

Open el 12. Resize by 25%. Place to the bottom, a little to the right.

Open el 27. Resize by 12%. Place to the upper left.

Open el 19. Resize by 20%, rotate right. Place slightly above the center point.

Open pp 5 & resize by 17%. Copy your paper.

On your frame layer, use your magic wand and click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 5. Paste your paper as a new layer. Selections, invert & press delete. Deselect & move below the frame layer.

Open el 7. Resize by 12%, flip horizontal. Paste as a new layer above the frame layer. Place to the bottom right corner of the frame.

Open el 4. Resize by 15%. Place to the top left of the cream colored grungy layer, a little to the right.

Open el 6. Resize by 15%. Place to the top left of the frame.

Open el 3. Resize by 15%. Place between the two flowers we just added.

Open el 37. Resize by 20%. Place to the bottom of the cream grungy layer, a bit to the right.

Open your tube, resizing as necessary. Paste as a new layer just below the frame layer. Duplicate twice. Now arrange your tubes to your liking inside the frame opening. On the bottom two tubes, lower the opacity to your liking. Merge the bottom two tubes together. Now merge with the full opacity tube. On the paper layer below this, select all, float, defloat. On the merged tubes layer, selections, invert & press delete. Deselect.

Duplicate your tubes layer, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to Screen. On the original merged layer, set the opacity to 75.

Add your name, copyright, & license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice to your layers. Merge visible & save as a PNG.

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