LUSCIOUS FTU

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 Alba Matter, found

HERE

Scrapkit is Plum Perfect, a FTU kit from Gimptastic scraps.

You can download this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used one by Keith Garvey called New Year 2012. You can purchase Keith’s fantastic tubes from his shop

HERE

Mask of choice – I used 0Mask 011

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 4 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask 011

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Frame 1 – Resize 110%

Paste above the mask layer.  

Stretch up and down.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Frame 3 – Resize 80%.

Paste above the Frame 1 layer.

Duplicate. On bottom copy, Free rotate left 20, and slide as far left as you can. Slide down slightly so the top corners are touching.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Merge both rotated frames together, Rename DOUBLE FRAME

Rename the middle frame FRAME

Paper 4 – resize 95% and paste below DOUBLE FRAME.

Duplicate paper, and in layers palette, move to sit below FRAME.

Click inside FRAME with magic wand.

Selections – modify – expand 3.

Selections – invert. Click on paper directly below FRAME and hit delete.

Deselect

Sharpen paper

Dropshadow frame.

Click inside both sides of DOUBLE FRAME with magic wand.

Selections – modify – expand 3.

Selections – invert. Click on paper directly below DOUBLE FRAME and hit delete.

Deselect

Sharpen paper

Dropshadow frame.

Tree – Paste under DOUBLE FRAME (above double frame paper) layer.

Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colorize 0   0 (it should go black)

Free rotate left 20. Erase trunk. and slide to the bottom left corner..

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror. Merge both trees together.

Erase top of trees outside the frame at the top only

Dropshadow.

Swirls – Paste above tree layers and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

 Dropshadow.

Feather – Resize 80%. Paste above Double Frame layer.

Free rotate right 40 and slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

 Dropshadow both.

Path – Flip. Paste above feather layers and slide to the top left corner.

Erase the two smallest stones.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Bullrushes – Paste above FRAME layer.

Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colorize 0   0 (it should go black)

Slide to the right .

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Tube – Position as desired above the bulrushes layers.
Dropshadow.

Leaf – Mirror. Paste above tube layer.

Slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Fruit 2 – Paste above leaf layer and slide to the bottom centre.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Bottles –Paste above Fruit 2 layer and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Bird –Resize 80%. Paste above bottles layer and slide to the bottom right.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Butterfly – Resize 70%. Paste above Bird layer and position as desired.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Erase the bottom part of your tube.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.