AUTUMN THOUGHTS FTU

Written by Gwenda on September 11^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Alba, FTU font found

HERE

Scrapkit called For Norma

This a gorgeous FTU kit by Persia Designs

HERE

Tube of choice. I used one by Anna Marine. This tube was purchased through CILM, but her work can now be found at

 CDO

Mask of choice – I used WSL75 which can be found

HERE

You will need the babysbreath that was used in the grass cluster I made, and I have also included the cluster itself in case you want to use that.

HERE

Open new raster layer 700 x 700 and floodfill white

Layer – new raster layer – selections select all  - paste Paper 14 into selection. Deselect

Apply mask WSL75.

Merge group.

Stretch mask to fill canvas.

Layer – new raster layer – selections select all  - paste Paper 9 into selection. Deselect

Apply mask WSL75.

Merge group.

Leave mask the size it is

Frame 2 – Resize 80%. Dropshadow

Paper 9 – Resize 70% and paste under frame.

Click inside frame with magic wand and expand by 4

Selections – invert.

Click on paper 9 and hit delete.
Deselect.

Grass 1 – Resize 70% and paste over frame to the left.

Sharpen & dropshadow

Babysbreath – Resize 50%.

Erase bottom bit of the stalk.

Duplicate – mirror and resize 80%.

Sharpen & dropshadow

Leaves 1 – Resize 50%. Sharpen & dropshadow

Grass 5 – Mirror. Resize 60% and paste over Leaves 1 layer

Sharpen & dropshadow

Tree 1 – Mirror. Paste under grasses, and delete any poking out at the bottom, plus part of the top branches. See mine for reference.

Sharpen & dropshadow

Flower 12 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above grass 5.

Duplicate – mirror and move to sit above leaves 1 layer.

Sharpen & dropshadow

Flower 9 – Resize 25% then 35%. Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror and place as you like.

Dropshadow.

Butterfly 1 – Mirror. Resize 60% then 70%

Sharpen & dropshadow

Tube - Place between frame & paper layers. Arrange as desired.

Duplicate, and move one copy above the frame.

Erase any bits you don’t want to show.

Dropshadow top tube only.

Flower 9 – Resize 25% then 40%. Sharpen & dropshadow.

( I used this to cover the blue flower in the tube’s hair. Tied it into the tag a bit better I thought . . )

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.