Thursday, November 8, 2012

HARVEST SPECIAL FTU

HARVEST SPECIAL

Written by Gwenda on November 8th 2012
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Croobie, found

Cute Scrapkit by Harvest Special by Jen’s Sweet Temptations. This is part of a blogtrain and is FTU. You can get it

I used the tubes that came with the kit.

Template 2 from the collab collection by Aqua & Tonya at Creative Misfits

Wordart by Princess Mel

Mura Meister Copies


Open  Aqua & Tonya collab template 2 by Copy, and close original.
Resize 90% with all layers checked.

Delete credits, two wordart layers, Tine shape, pixel text and background.

Add new raster layer at the bottom and floodfill white.

Delete template layers as you finish with them.

HANDY HINT:
To achieve a frame effect on shapes:
In layers palette, move the larger shape above the smaller one.
Click on smaller shape and go to Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat
Click on larger shape and hit delete.
Deselect.

At this point, I moved all glitter shapes above the corresponding smaller shape, and made them into frames (see handy hint above).
Sharpen each. Dropshadow.

Halftone – Adjust Hue & Saturation – colorize 22   239
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Left Shape – Selections – Select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste paper 8 into selection..
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.
In layers palette, move copy to sit above right shape.
Delete right shape template layer.

Grad Heart 1 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer. Sharpen.

Grad Heart 2 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer. Sharpen.
Duplicate – mirror.
In layers palette, move copy to sit above Grad Heart 3.
Delete Grad Heart 3 template layer.

Left Arrow – Adjust Hue & Saturation – colorize 121   99
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Right Arrow – Adjust Hue & Saturation – colorize 121   99
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Black Rectangle – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer. Sharpen.
Give inner bevel of choice

Silver Glitter rectangle -  Adjust Hue & Saturation – colorize 22   239
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Set foreground colour to #5cb7a9 and background to #524638
Make gradient 0 degrees with 1 repeat. (brown should be at top and bottom, with blue in centre)

Gradient rectangle – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.
Deselect
Delete template layer.

Leaf 2 (from kit) – Resize 20% and paste in centre of canvas above Gradient rectangle.
Apply Mura Meister copies – tiling angle with default settings. Click OK
Resize 70%, all layers unchecked and erase any sticking out above and below frame.
Layers – properties – overlay.
Drop opacity to 55 and Dropshadow.

Branch – paste above leafy layer. Erase trunk on left.
Dropshadow.
Pumpkins – Mirror. Resize 60%. Sharpen and move to right.
Dropshadow.

Crow 1 – Mirror, resize 50% then 60%.
Position
Sharpen. Dropshadow

Turkey –Position above the right arrow glitter layer on the right.
Erase any you can see sticking out the side or bottom.
Dropshadow.

I typed some words on the turkey’s board, but that’s up to you J

Squirrel – Resize 50% then 60%.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Wordart – Resize 80% and position at the bottom.
Dropshadow.

Pilgrim 1 – Add Dropshadow. I ticked the box to put shadow on new layer, then moved the shadow to the right and down a bit.

Fairy Kitty – Mirror. Resize 40%
Sharpen. Dropshadow. (make sure you have unchecked the box next to shadow on new layer)

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.






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