LAVENDER LOVE FTU

Written by Gwenda on March 28th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Alyssas template 9. Her blog no longer exists, so you can download this from

http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/10888843/a63d344a/sharing.html?rnd=12

Font of choice – I used Fat, FTU font found

http://www.getfreefonts.info/free_font.fat.html

Scrapkit called Lavender Love

This a FTU kit from Bubbles Dreams at

 http://bubbles-dream.blogspot.com/2010/11/scrapkit-lavender-love_09.html

Tube of choice. I used Summer in Greece by Elias Chatzoudis. This tube was purchased through MPT, but his work can now be found at

 http://psptubesemporium.com/index.php?p=home

Mask of choice – I used WSL4

http://weescotslasscreations.blogspot.com/

Open template, shift D to copy, then close original

Delete credits & pink background. Fill background with white.

Layer – new raster layer – selections – select all. Paste paper 7 into selection. Deselect

Apply mask WSL 4. Merge group. Stretch to edges. Duplicate mask layer and merge both layers.

Set colours in palette to  FG #6f62b8   BG #fafcf9

Make BG Gradient SUNBUST 45 degrees with 11 repeats.

Merge down doodle 1 and doodle 2 layers. Selections – select all – float – defloat – new raster layer and fill with Gradient. Deselect.

Give inner bevel of choice and dropshadow

Frame 1. Selections – select all – float – defloat – new raster layer. Paste paper 12 into selection. Deselect.

Adjust - add noise – 60% with Uniform and monochrome checked.

Sharpen & dropshadow

Repeat the above for Frames 2, 3 & 4.

Using the same technique as before, paste the following papers:

Paper 9 into square 4

Paper 5 into square 3

Paper 11 into square 2

Square 1 fill with same coloured gradient as before, but change to LINEAR 45 degrees and 1 repeat.

Delete all original template layers.

Paste tube over Frame 1 and position to liking.

Duplicate, and move this below frame, above gradient layer.

On top copy, delete any parts you don’t want to show ( same on bottom tube if necessary ) Dropshadow tube.

Add any other embellishments of choice. I used:

Wire. Paste over background layer top right. Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Merge down & dropshadow

Doodle. Paste over wire in top left corner. Dropshadow.

Beads Curtain. Resize 80% then 88% then 50%

Paste under gradient layer on left. Duplicate – mirror and merge together.

Sharpen.

Duplicate, and drag this copy above the gradient layer up to the top ( see my tag for reference ).

Dropshadow both bead curtains.

Eyelet. Resize 50% then 60%. Sharpen

Position towards top ( see my tag )

Duplicate and move to the right.

Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow all 3 eyelets

Hearts rope. Resize 90%

Paste as top layer & position towards bottom of tag. Dropshadow

Charm. Resize 75%. Past on right. Sharpen & dropshadow

Close off background and mask layers and merge visible.

Resize 95%.

Open mask layer. Merge visible

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.