MIDNIGHT HOUR FTU

Written by Gwenda on July 9^th  2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used A Charming font superexpanded, found

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Scrapkit called Midnight Hour by Tinabug Creations FTU found

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Sparkles by PunkyButt

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Tube of choice. I used a gorgeous FTU tube by Anna Rigby.

Anna’s site address is www.annarigby.com 

but I have included the tubes I used

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Mask of choice – I used WSL4

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Dropshadow I used was V&H 2, Opacity 30, Blur 3, except for frame where I used V&H 3, Opacity 50, Blur 10

New canvas 700 x 700 and floodfill white

Layers – new raster layer. Selections – select all, paste Paper 12 into selection. Deselect.

Apply Mask WSL 4. Merge group.

Frame 3 – Resize 70%. Free rotate right 90. Sharpen

FG #008ea9  BG#002235

Make gradient 45 degree  3 repeats.

Click inside frame – make sure you get the 4 small areas at the sides.

Selections – modify – expand 3

Layers – new raster layer – fill with gradient.

Deselect, and move gradient layer below frame.

Dropshadow frame 3 3 50 10

Paste close up tube over gradient, and add light dropshadow .

Remove excess ( easiest way is to select gradient layer with magic wand, selections – invert, and click delete on tube layer) .

On tube layer – go to layers – properties – luminance legacy.

Drop opacity to 50

PB Sparkles 1 – resize 80&. Free rotate right 90

Paste over tube. Sharpen and delete excess in same way as you did the tube.

Carriage 5 – resize 50%. Mirror

Resize Main tube about 85% and paste so it looks like she’s sort of sitting on carriage.

Leaf 3 – Resize 50% twice. Flip. Paste over frame on right.

Leaf 4 – Resize 50% then 35%. Free rotate right 30

Leaf 1 – Resize 50% then 40%

Glitter rose 3 – Resize 60% then 80%. Paste over leaves.

Duplicate – mirror. Resize 80% and move back over to the right

Candle 1 – Resize 20%.

Using lasso tool, select all except the flame and wick.

Adjust hue & saturation 135   251

Position under leaves

Heart 1 – Resize 50%. Flip.

Place over candle to the right. Duplicate – mirror and move back

Dragonfly 1 – Resize 40% then 60%. Free rotate left 15. Sharpen

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.