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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