DARK PEARLS PTU

Written by Gwenda on April 4^th 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used grave digger, found

HERE

Scrapkit is another beautiful kit called Oh Dark One by Nika of Devilish Designz.

I haven’t seen any of your kits that I haven’t fallen in love with Nika lol.

Nika’s kits are being sold at SATC. You can purchase them

HERE

Tube of choice. I used one by Unholy Vault Designs called Pearl Drops. But then I discovered that you can no longer purchase these tubes L.

You can view this awesome artwork at the UVD gallery

HERE

I guess window shopping is better than nothing.

The second version uses a FTU tube from Adelenta called Lauretta.

You can download it

HERE

Mask of choice – I used 0Mask 046

I’m not sure where I got this mask, so if it is yours, please let me know and I will either remove it, or give credit.

You can download this mask.

HERE

Open a new raster 600 x 600 and fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 5 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask 46

In layers palette, merge group.

Duplicate – mirror.

Merge both mask layers together.

Frame 3 – Resize 70%.

Paste above the mask layer. Sharpen.

Click inside frame with magic wand.

Selections – modify – expand 4.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 5 into selection.

Deselect.

Sharpen paper

Dropshadow frame.

Element 47 (sparkles) – Resize 70% twice. Paste above paper layer. Sharpen. Duplicate. Merge both sparkle layers together

Element 32 (grass) – Resize 80% then 90%. Paste above mask layer (under paper 5) and slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 3 (pink bubble scatter) – Resize 75%. Paste above frame layer and slide to top left corner.

Adjust Hue & Saturation – colorize 170  255.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip

Merge both together. Duplicate and merge together. Drop opacity to 70.
Dropshadow

Tube – Paste above element 3 layer.

Slide up to the top.

 Dropshadow.

Element 43 (grass & flowers) –Resize 70% twice. Paste above tube layer.

Slide to the bottom centre.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 34 (stones) –Resize 40%. Paste above element 43 layer and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 22 (blue flowers branch) –Resize 40%. Paste above element 34 layer.

Slide to the bottom left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 25 (skull) – Resize 15%. Paste above element 22 layer. Sharpen. Slide to the left and down.

Duplicate – mirror. Slide this one left, and position it so it appears to be sitting on the stone.

Dropshadow both.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.