Thursday, January 10, 2013

DRAGONFLY DREAM FTU

Written by Gwenda on January 1st 2013
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Beauty School Dropout, found

Scrapkit by Numbbum called Dragonfly Dreams. This is a glorious FTU kit, but unfortunately when I went to add the link after writing up this tutorial, I found that all links on her blog were  broken.
I have put the kit into my 4-shared account for now so you can use it, but I will change the link when it is fixed.
Numbbum's blog can be found

And you can get this kit for now from my 4-shared. I’ve split it into two as it is a large kit!


Tube of choice. I used DB2 by Alex Prihodko These tubes can be purchased through pics for design

Mask of choice – I used 0Mask046. Not sure where I got this, so if it’s yours, please let me know and I will either give credit, or remove it

Template 8 from Dzines by Melz

Open Template. Copy, and close original.
Resize 90%, all layers checked.
Image – canvas size 700 x 700
Click on background at the bottom and floodfill white

Delete Top layer, and all white shapes layers

Papers in this kit are HUGE, so it pays to resize them 20% before use.

Add new raster layer on top of white background. Selections – select all – paste paper 4 into selection. Deselect.
Layers – load/save mask 0Mask046
Merge group.
Duplicate mask. Drop opacity of this one to 50.
Merge both mask layers together.

Layer 6 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste Paper 2  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper circle is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 2 circle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 circle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP CIRCLE and TOP CIRCLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Duplicate TOP CIRCLE. Mirror - flip.
In layers palette, move this to sit above Layer 6 Copy.
rename BOTTOM CIRCLE.
Delete template for both layer 6 circles.

Duplicate TOP CIRCLE FRAME. Mirror - flip.
In layers palette, move this to sit above TOP CIRCLE.
rename BOTTOM CIRCLE FRAME.
Delete template for both layer 6 circle frames.

To both Circle frames, adjust - add noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow,

Set foreground to #48bebf and background to #16393d
Make background gradient 0 degrees with 1 repeat ( dark color should be on outsides).

Layer 5 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with gradient. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is above small one.
Click back on the gradient rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP RECTANGLE and TOP RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Layer 5 Copy - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with gradient. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is above small one.
Click back on the gradient rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM RECTANGLE and BOTTOM RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Layer 5 Copy 2 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with same gradient, but change angle to 90
 DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is above small one.
Click back on the gradient rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename UPPER RIGHT RECTANGLE and UPPER RIGHT RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Layer 5 Copy 3 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with same gradient, but change angle to 90
 DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is above small one.
Click back on the gradient rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE and UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

To all rectangle frames, adjust - add noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow,

Layer 1 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste Paper 12  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 square and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP L SQUARE and TOP L SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Layer 1 Copy - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste Paper 12  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 square and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP R SQUARE and TOP R SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Go back to Paper 12. Flip.
Layer 1 Copy 2 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste flipped Paper 12  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 square and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM R SQUARE and BOTTOM R SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Layer 1 Copy 3 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste flipped Paper 12  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 square and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM L SQUARE and BOTTOM L SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

To all square frames, adjust - add noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow,

Layer 3 - Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste Paper 19  into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 6. Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper 3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper circle is above small one.
Click back on the Paper 19 circle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 circle and hit delete.
Deselect.

You should be left with a frame.
Rename LARGE CIRCLE and LARGE CIRCLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.

Adjust - add noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow,

Close up tube – Paste above the LARGE CIRCLE layer and move into position.
 Click on LARGE CIRCLE. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on tube and hit delete.
Deselect.
Sharpen tube. Layers – properties – Multiply.
Drop opacity to 63 and Dropshadow.

Cluster 2 (from kit) – Resize 25% and paste above LARGE CIRCLE FRAME.
Slide to the right.
Duplicate – mirror and move down a bit.
Dropshadow both.

Plant 3 (from kit) – Resize 30% and paste above the UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE FRAME. Slide to the top. Sharpen.
Duplicate – mirror flip.
Dropshadow both.

Dragonfly 4 (from kit) – Resize 30% then 60%.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Tube – Resize as desired and position on right.
Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.


1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for creating such a beautiful tutorial.

    I will be featuring it this week for our non animated tutorial challenge.
    I will be providing a link back to your site.

    Hugs

    ReplyDelete