MYSTIK GOTHIC FTU

Written by Gwenda on October 28^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Coventry Garden

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Mystik Gothic scrapkit by Fantasy Moments. Gorgeous FTU kit found

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Tube of choice. I used Goth Princess close up by Keith Garvey. I purchased mine through MPT, but Keith’s work can now be found at PTE

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Mura Meister Copies filter, found

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Open a new canvas 700 x 700 and fill white.

Element 60 ( pink bead frame) – Resize 90%. Paste

Duplicate, and resize this one another 89%.

Dropshadow both

Element 59 ( black bead frame) – Resize 85%. Free rotate right 5

Dropshadow

Element 39 ( pink flower) – Resize 30% then 60%.
Paste in centre of your canvas.

Apply murameister copies – encircle, changing the top 3 settings to 20  75  75, and leaving all others as default.

Move this layer to the bottom of the layer palette, over the white background.

Adjust – blur – radial 20

Set foreground colour to #430019 and background to #ca92af

Make foreground gradient using the Sunburst option, repeats 0

Click inside the smallest pink frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand by 6

Layers – new raster layer and fill with gradient.

Deselect.

Apply texture of choice, if desired. I used one that came with my computer called sidewalk.

Move this gradient layer down under the blurred flower layer.

Element 22 ( black teardrops) – Resize 75% and paste over the gradient filled circle. Adjust – add noise Gaussian 50 with monochrome box checked.

Sharpen & Dropshadow.

Delete excess

You should now have the following layers, starting from the bottom:

White background

Gradient fill

Black teardrops

Blurred flower Layer

Large pink bead frame

Smaller pink bead frame

Black bead frame

Tube – Position over black bead frame.

Duplicate and move one down to sit over the blurred flower layer.

Delete excess, and dropshadow top tube only.

Element 40 ( doodle) – Resize 50%

Free rotate right 90 and paste to the right over the white background layer.

Duplicate – Mirror.

Merge together and Dropshadow.

Element 16 ( pink flowers) – Resize 60% then 70%

Free rotate right 20 and paste to the right over the frame.

Sharpen. Duplicate – Mirror.

Dropshadow.

Element 10 ( banner) – Resize 50%

Dropshadow

Element 13 ( black flowers) – Resize 60% twice.

Free rotate right 20 and paste to the right over the banner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – Mirror.

Dropshadow

I added words to the banner at this point – your choice

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.