Sweet Summer Beauty

This tutorial was written by me on April 18, 2010 using PSP 9.  All my tutorials assume you have some working knowledge of PSP and/or Animation Shop.

Supplies:

4 Tubes of choice - I'm using the beautiful ladies of Ismael Rac.  Do not use without a license.  You can purchase his tubes and a license at Artistic Minds.

Scrap Kit - I'm using Kreative Designs by Karen's portion of the "Candy Shoppe" store collab from Enchanted Designs Boutique.  You can purchase this beautiful kit here.

Mask - I'm using Floral 3 mask from Vicky.  You can download this mask from Creative Misfits Creations.

Font of choice

Filters : Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

To begin open up your tubes and mask in PSP - minimize for now

1.  Open up a new image 700 X 700 transparent background - copy/paste Embellishment 16 as new layer - resize - choose 3 of your tubes and copy/paste each one as new layer - resize if needed - dropshadow each tube layer - position one tube over each heart mirroring or rotating as needed - highlight your Embellishment layer and with magic wand tool click inside first heart - selections - invert - delete on tube layer - selections - select none - repeat for the other 2 hearts and tubes - now duplicate your tube layers - on the duplicate layers adjust blur gaussian blur 3, change properties to soft light - on original tube layers - change properties to Luminance(L) - when happy merge visible - add a fat gradient glow color yellow - with magic wand click inside the gradient glow - adjust - add/remove noise - add noise gaussian uniform checked 100% - minimize for the moment

2.  Open up another new image same size but with a white background - copy/paste Paper 5 as new layer - layers - new mask layer from image - okay - merge group

3.  Copy/paste Frame 1 as new layer - resize - click inside frame with magic wand - selections - modify - expand by 5 - copy/paste Paper 5 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - dropshadow frame

4.  Copy/paste Embellishment 8 as new layer - resize - move below frame layer - position in corner of paper layer ( see my tag) - dropshadow

5.  Copy/paste Embellishment 3 as new layer - resize - move above frame layer and position in the corner of frame - dropshadow

6.  Copy/paste your main tube as new layer - resize - position in frame and dropshadow - with selection tool drag box around bottom part of tube that is hanging below frame opening - delete

7.  Copy/paste Embellishments 5 and 17 as new layers -resize - dropshadow - rotate one a bit to the right and the other a bit to the left - position over the bottom right corner of tag

8.  Copy/paste Embellishment 6 as new layer - resize - position on the bottom of frame - duplicate - move duplicate layer over and align with other layer - repeat - merge these layers together - dropshadow

9.  Copy/paste Embellishment 11 as new layer - resize - position on the right side of frame and rotate left 20 - dropshadow

10.  Maximize your merged heart image that you did earlier - copy/paste as new layer - resize and position on the bottom right corner of frame - dropshadow

11.  Close white background - crop/resize tag to your preference - add copyright/license information and name - save as .png