BLUE LACE CAMEO PTU

Written by Gwenda on October 19^th 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Coventry Garden, found

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Scrapkit is a Pay to Use kit called Blue Lace by Nika of Devilish Designz.

Thank you Nika for letting me play with your gorgeous kits!

You can visit Nika’s site and purchase this kit

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Close up tube of choice. I used Cameo by Jamie Kidd. I bought this tube at CILM, but you can now buy them through CDO

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Mask of choice – I used WSL84

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Template 11 by Tracy F Designs. You can find that

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Open Template 11. Copy, and close original.

Resize template 120%, all layers checked.

Image – Canvas size 700 x 700

Add new raster layer at the bottom, and fill with white.

Delete copyright layer.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 11 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Mirror.

OK. To fill template layers . . .  Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer – paste paper into selection. Deselect. Sharpen. Delete template layer.

Circle – Paper 9 into selection

Circle Frame – Adjust– add noise. Gaussian 50 monochrome checked

Rectangle – Paper 11 into Selection.

Rectangle Frame – Adjust– add noise. Gaussian 50 monochrome checked

Dotted Line 1 and Dotted Line 2 – Merge both together.

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

Layers – new raster layer. Fill black.

Deselect. Delete template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Adjust – add noise. Gaussian 100 monochrome checked

Dropshadow.

Set foreground colour to #808080 and background to Black.

Make gradient 90 degrees with 1 repeat (black should be in the centre).

Strip 1 – Fill with gradient.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Strip Frame 1 – Adjust– add noise. Gaussian 50 monochrome checked

Set foreground colour to #767779 and background to #c0c0c0

Make gradient 90 degrees with 1 repeat ( lighter colour should be in the centre).

Strip 2 – Fill with gradient.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Effects – texture effects blinds with settings 2   20  colour black.

Horizontal UNCHECKED.

Strip Frame 2 – Adjust– add noise. Gaussian 50 monochrome checked

Strip 3 – Same as Strip 2

Strip Frame 3 – Adjust– add noise. Gaussian 50 monochrome checked

Tube – Position as top layer over the circle. Dropshadow.

Element 120 (netting) – Resize 50%.

Position above mask layer towards the bottom. Line up with the edge of the rectangle on the right.

Sharpen. Duplicate – flip.

DO NOT DROPSHADOW

Element 28 (grey flower decoration) – Free rotate right 90. Mirror.

Resize 60%. Sharpen. Paste above the netting layer in top right corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – flip. Merge both together.

Dropshadow both.

Element 106 (Scatter flowers) – Resize 80%.

Adjust Hue & Saturation 169   255.

Carefully erase the 4 flowers on the far left.

Paste above the grey flower layer in the top left corner.

Duplicate – flip. Merge both together.

Duplicate – mirror and merge both together.
Dropshadow both.

Element 108 (Hanging flowers) - Resize 40%. Position as top layer over the strip at the far left. Free rotate right 7 and move so the flowers are at the bottom of the strip.

Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror and move back to the left. Position over the centre strip about a third of the way up.

Erase any part of the stem that is over the white frames.

Dropshadow both.

Element 63 (black lace flower) - Resize 20% then 35%. Sharpen. Dropshadow

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.