A NEW BEGINNING FTU

A NEW BEGINNING

Written by Gwenda on December 31^st 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Anakeim SSK, found

HERE

Scrapkit is a FTU kit called A New Beginning, by Sophisticated Simone.

You can download this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Kay by Keith Garvey. You can purchase these great tubes from Keith’s store

HERE

Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass

HERE

Grey scalloped frame

HERE

New canvas 700 x 700

Fill white.

Set foreground to Black and background to #eedaa2

Make gradient 45 degrees with 1 repeat

Layers – new raster layer.

Fill with gradient

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Grey scalloped frame (from my supplies) – Paste as a new layer.

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

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Delete template layer.

Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 6.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with same gradient as you used for mask layer.

Deselect.

Dropshadow frame.

Bow 9 – Resize 60%.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 46 (streamers) – Position on right side of frame under bow 9. Erase stars from top

Dropshadow

Tube – Paste above bow 9 layer. Dropshadow

Element 70 (flower spray) – Position above tube layer on left.

Dropshadow.

Element 69 (candles) – Resize 60%. Sharpen and position left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Flower 5  – Free rotate right 90

Sharpen. Place at bottom. Dropshadow.

Christmas flower – Resize 50% then 75% and position on the left.

Sharpen and duplicate – mirror and move into position

Dropshadow both.

Christmas flower 3 – Resize 50% then 75% and position on the left.

Sharpen and duplicate – mirror and move into position

Dropshadow both.

Element 75 (wine glass) – Resize 50%. Sharpen. Duplicate and move left and down a bit

Dropshadow both.

I moved some flowers below, and some above wine glasses. Just move them around until you like what you see J

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Resize if desired.

Add copyright and name