AMERICAN GIRL FTU

Written by Gwenda on June 18^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Alba Matter

American Girl scrapkit by Sophisticated Simone FTU found

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Tube of choice. I used Liberty2011 by Keith Garvey. His tubes can be found at PTE

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Mask of choice – I used WSL84

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Open a new canvas 700 x 700 and fill white.

Layers – new raster layer. Selections – select all.

Paste Paper 4 into selection. Deselect.

 Layers – load/save mask – load from disk. Source luminance & hide all mask checked.

In layers palette, merge group.

Lower opacity to 72.

Copy & paste Frame 09. Resize 90%. Free rotate right 45. Sharpen

Position close up tube under frame.

Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify -expand by 8

Layers – new raster layer. Fill white. DO NOT DESELECT

Layers – new raster layer Copy Paper 4 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT

Selections – invert, click on tube and hit delete.

NOW you can deselect lol

Lower opacity of Paper 4 to 73

Dropshadow tube and frame

Close off white background and merge visible. Rename “Main tube”. Re-open background.

Duplicate main tube layer. Resize BOTTOM copy 95% and move slightly to the right and down. Free rotate right 15.

Duplicate – mirror. Merge these 2 layers together and rename “merged tubes”.

Element 070 (wire) – Using selection tool (or eraser), remove the parts with the butterfly & the flowers, so you have a sort of square bit of wire. (You don’t have to be to fussy about the shape.)

Free rotate left 25. Position over white background bottom left and Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror, and merge together.

Duplicate and resize 90%. Flip.

Dropshadow both wire layers.

Element 04 (white flower) – Resize 60% then 90%. Flip.

Position top left over wire layer. Duplicate – Mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Element 037 (blue doodle) – Resize 60%

Adjust hue and saturation 166  242

Adjust brightness & contrast   minus 40    +5

Free rotate right 15 and position on right under merged tubes layer.

Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both

Element 038 (red doodle) – Resize 60%.

Position on right over blue doodle layers.

Dropshadow both

I alternated my doodle layers, because it looked a bit better for some reason, so from the bottom I had the following layers

Right red

Right blue

Left blue

Left red

Element 034 (banner) – Place under main tube layer at the bottom of your tag.

Dropshadow

Element 026 (pendant) – Resize 75% and paste over main tube layer at right. Erase part so it looks as if it is hooked over.

I added wording at this point.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.