Beautiful Spring

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
February 10, 2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube closeup by Rene Kunert
The tube is now FTU &
available here

Supplies:
Tube of Choice
Scrap of choice
I am using one called
Summer Breeze
by Schnegges Scraps
Blog.
BeckyMask022
Wordart by Word Art World
Here

Plugin EyeCandy2 Nature

Open a 600x600 new image.
Open up your tube closeup & scrap supplies
of choice.

Choose a frame of choice.
Paste as a new layer.
Click inside the frame with
your magic wand tool.
Selections modify expand by 2.

Paste a paper of choice
as a new layer.
Selections invert & press
delete on your keyboard.
Move the paper layer under
the frame layer.

Paste your tube closeup between
the paper & frame layers.
Duplicate once.
Move the copy layer to the top
in your layer palette.

Back on the original tube layer,
press delete.
Select none.

Now on the tube copy layer,
erase the parts of the tube
you don't want seen past the frame.
I erased the bottom part of the tube.

Add a drop shadow to the bottom tube
& frame layers.
2,2,50,5 Black

Open a kite element.
Resize 70% or as needed.
Paste along a side of the frame.

Open a bubbles sprinkles element.
Resize 70% twice.
Paste above the paper layer.

Open a butterfly element.
Resize 50%
Paste alongside the frame.
I did the opposite side of the kite
for my tag.

Open two flying butterflies.
Resize 70%
Paste on the bottom of the tag near
the top.

Open a bottle element.
Resize 50%
Mirror if needed.
Paste alongside the frame.

On the bottom layer of
the tag, Paste a scrap paper of choice.
Apply the mask
BeckyMask022
Merge group
Duplicate once & merge the two
mask layers together.

Now on the paper layer inside the
frame,
Select all, float,defloat

Plugin EyeCandy2 Nature
Waterdrops
Small drops Champagne
Default settings
Select none.

Open the wordart you are using.
I am using one which says Beautiful
Spring.
Resize by 50% three times.
If using a different wordart, skip the
next few steps.

Take your magic wand tool,
while holding shift button down,
click inside each letter of Spring.

Paste a paper of choice from the scrap.
Selections invert & press delete.
Select none.
Move the paper under the wordart.

Copy merged & paste onto your tag.
Position the wordart as wanted.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the wordart
layer on the tag.

Merge visible.
Resize 88%
Add copyright info & name.
Save as png.
Thanks so much for trying my tutorial.