VALENTINE FTU

Written by Gwenda on February 1^st 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Mistral, found

HERE

Scrapkit by Daph’s Scrappin Creations called My Sweet Valentine. This cute kit is FTU, and can be found

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Valentine by Amberly Berendson. I bought this tube through MTA 

www.mytubedart.com

Mask of choice – I used WSL4

HERE

New raster layer 700 x 700 and floodfill white

Add new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Selections - float. Selections – defloat.

Layers – new raster layer

Paste Paper 2 into Selection.

Deselect.

Layers – load/save mask WSL 4 from disk

Merge group.

Stretch to edges.

Duplicate mask and merge both together.

Adjust Hue & Saturation 239   179

Chocolate candy – Resize 200% then 120% all layers checked. Paste in the centre of your tag over the mask layer. And don’t worry if it looks a little fuzzy around the edges lol

Duplicate.

On bottom copy, resize 85% all layers unchecked.

Selections - select all. Selections - float. Selections – defloat. Click on top copy and hit delete. Deselect.

Delete smaller candy in the centre.

Back to the new frame you just created. Selections – select all. Selections - float. Selections – defloat. 

Layers – new raster layer. Paste paper 9 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT

Selections – modify – expand 2. Layers – new raster layer. Fill black

Deselect.

Move black layer under paper 9 layer, and delete the original chocolate frame.

On Paper 9 layer, sharpen, and give inner bevel. Merge down to black layer.

Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 4

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 5 into selection.

Deselect.

Move paper 5 under frame. Sharpen

Dropshadow frame.

Love Wordart – Paste over frame to left.

Dropshadow

Ribbon – Paste under wordart.

Free rotate left 90. Flip, and move down into position.

Sharpen – dropshadow

Heart Scatter 1 – Mirror. Resize 60%. Paste under ribbon layer and move into position.

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Double Hearts – Resize 50% then 85%.

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Teddy – Resize 60%

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Tube – Position above Wordart layer.

Duplicate, and move one under the wordart.

Delete part of her bosom so it looks like she is leaning over the letters.

Dropshadow top tube copy only.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.