Spring Vibes

Artist Tube by Alehandra_Vanhek

purchased from Very Many Artists

FTU Scrap kit Miggins

Scrapping YHO Blogtrain April ~ Blossom by Blossom

found HERE

Thank you Miggins ♥

This is such a beautiful kit!

*Please check out her entire blog HERE

MizMask291 by Mizteeque HERE ~ d/l the .jpg

Word Art 'Spring Vibes' HERE

Font Janelotus Demo

D/S of choice

Sharpen once when resizing

1. Open new transparent image 725 x 700 px

Flood Fill white

Add NRL, select all

Open PP7, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Apply mask to this paper. Merge group.

 Open frame 35 ~ 85%

C/P, select all, float, defloat, add NRL

Open PP2, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Edge Effects ~ Enhance More

Merge down.

Duplicate frame

On Original frame, Image Effects ~ Offset -10 & -10

Adjust Blur ~ Gaussian Blur ~ 7

Drop opacity to 55%

*this blur will replace a drop shadow*

2.  On 'top' copy of frame, using magic wand, settings : tolerance 10, feather 0

click inside all 3 circles of frame

by holding 'shift' on keyboard, expand selection by 5 px

Open PP4, C/Paste into the selection. 

Invert selection ~ do not deselect

Rename this layer 'paper fill'

Open main tube of choice, C/P tube concentrating on placing tube 

inside the top & right side circles.

Press delete.  Erase any part of tube

that sits inside the lower left circle.

In this circle, C/P place elem 28 ~ 50% (mirrored)

Place this flower in lower left circle & press delete to remove excess.

d/s

Duplicate flower, change blend mode to soft light on copy

Add D/S to original flower layer.

Select main tube layer, change blend mode to Luminance Legacy

Duplicate, change blend mode to soft light

& duplicate again.

Sharpen original tube layer.

3.  Elem 16 ~ 75% C/P as uppermost layer

*see reference tag*

On Materials Palette, close foreground colour

change background to #865ea8

Using Rectangle tool (preset shape), set Horizontal radius to 15 & vertical radius to 15

Draw out a horizontal thin line

approx. 600 x 10 px

Convert to raster layer. 

Effects ~ Weave:  1,2,20, white, white, fill gaps checked.

Duplicate this horizontal line.

Image ~ Offset:  -12,  - 15

Merge down.  Rename this layer: Lines

*see reference tag for placement*

Using rectangle selection tool,

draw out rectangle selelection to remove flower stems

as seen below:

4. Duplicate the 'Lines' layer, rotate 90 deg to left

& arrange

above masked layer

5.  To decorate tag, add elements of choice or as below:

elem 22 ~ 50%

elem 8 ~ 50%, duplicate, mirro

elem 8 ~ 100%, duplicate, mirror ~ 85%

elem 2 ~ 50%, duplicate, mirror & move slightly upward

elem 23 ~ has large drop shadow which I opted to remove

by using magic wand (same settings), click on each shadowed edge

around flower, delete. d/s

C/P above flower, rotate 15 deg to right

elem 42 ~ 15%, duplicate, mirror, r/s another 50%

elem 40 ~ 50%, dup & mirror (erase stem)

elem 17 ~ 40%, dup & mirror

elem 33 ~ 25%

Word Art of choice ~ erase credit

C/P as topmost layer

Change colour of WA if desired

by select all, float, defloat, add NRL

Make gradient with two colours of choice

angle 45, repeats 0

flood fill the selection

expand the selection by 3 px

Add NRL, flood fill white. d/s

Move white layer below your Word Art

then deleting the original word art.

Add D/S of choice or

as mine

5, -8, 30, 10 blur, colour black

Add D/S to any other elements if desire

except frame layer.

6.  Add copyright, URL, watermark & name to tag

Delete white bg layer, merge visible, crop ~ merged opaque

and save as a PNG.

I hope you enjoy your result. ♥