YESTERDAY'S SPARKLE PTU

Written by Gwenda on October 20^th 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used 1 Snappy DNA, found

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Scrapkit is a Pay to Use kit called Dreams of Yesterday by Nika of Devilish Designz.

Thank you Nika – I love the colours in this one!

You can visit Nika’s site and purchase this kit

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Close up tube of choice. I used Show Off by Keith Garvey. I bought this tube at PTE, but you can now buy them from Keith’s store

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Mask of choice – I used WSL4

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Template 5 by Bev at HorseplaysPasture. You can find that

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Open Bev’s Template 5. Copy, and close original.

Resize template 110%, all layers checked.

Image – Canvas size 700 x 700

Fill background with white.

Delete copyright layer, and flower 1 and 2.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 4 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL4

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Duplicate and merge both mask layers together

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

Layers – new raster layer – paste paper 7 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT.

** Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #353229.

Deselect.

Delete template layer. Sharpen paper.

Now, in layers palette, move the dark circle above the paper one.

Click on the paper circle. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the dark circle and hit delete.

Deselect.

You will be left with a frame which should be sitting above the paper circle.

Add noise to this frame. Adjust – add noise Gaussian 50 monochrome checked.

Dropshadow. **

Rectangle 1 – Paper 11 into Selection. Repeat the steps above from ** to **

Rectangle 2 – Paper 5 into Selection. Repeat the steps above from ** to **

Rectangle 3 – Paper 9 into Selection. Repeat the steps above from ** to **

Set foreground colour to #353229 and background to #9b9275. Make background gradient 0 degrees with 1 repeat. (darker colour should be on the outside)

Rectangle 4 –. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient. Repeat the steps above from ** to **

Tube – Position with the bottom of the tube lined up with the bottom of Rectangle 4.

Dropshadow tube.

Element 58 (butterflies) – Paste as new layer above mask, and slide down to the bottom. Dropshadow.

Element 38 (pearl spiral) – Resize 60%. Paste above butterflies and slide up to right corner. (you can always rearrange these layers later if you want to).

Dropshadow.

Element 51 (corn stalk) – Resize 70%. Paste above paper 9 frame. Free rotate left 90 and position as shown. Dropshadow.

Leave the resized cornstalk open – you will need it again shortly J

Element 56 (flowers) – Resize 70% twice.

Position under Rectangle 4 layer and slide to the right.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror and slide up a bit.

Dropshadow both.

Element 21 (bead wire) – Resize 50% and paste beneath the tube. Slide into position with little bead on the corner of the rectangle.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 54 (dark leaves) – Mirror. Resize 60% and position above tube on the right.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 27 (leafy stalk) – Resize 40%. Sharpen. Position above dark leaves on right. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Element 51 (corn stalk) – copy resized corn stalk again. Position above element 27 on right. Erase part of the stem if you want to. Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Element 61 (paintbrush) – Resize 75% then 80%. Free rotate right 90.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 42 (white flower) – Resize 20% then 30%. Sharpen. Position as desired. Duplicate  - mirror a couple of times and move where you want them.

Dropshadow all.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.