AUTUMN SMILES FTU

Written by Gwenda on September 24^th 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Alba Matter, FTU font which can be found

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Dean Yeagle’s Mandy in Grass, which I purchased through CILM.  You can now find Dean’s awesome tubes at CDO

HERE

Scrapkit called Autumn by KittzKreationz

This a lovely FTU kit which can be found

HERE

Mask of choice – I used 0Mask046 LT.

I’m not sure where I got this mask, so I have supplied it. Please let me know if this is yours, and I will either remove, or supply credits.

You can download it

HERE

Open new canvas 700 x 700

Fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections - select all. Paste Paper 7 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask046 LT

In layers palette, merge group.

Duplicate mask. Merge both layers together.

Duplicate – mirror. Merge both mask layers together.

A37 (frame) – Paste above mask layer.

Dropshadow.

Set foreground color to #fff7c4 and background to #71a42e

Make background gradient 45 degrees with 1 repeat (green on outsides).

Click inside frame with magic want. Selections – modify – expand 8

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect.

In layers palette, move color gradient layer below frame.

A26 (sparkles) – Paste above gradient layer.

Dropshadow.

Tube – Paste above frame.

Dropshadow.

A41 (sunflower) – Resize 50%. Paste above tube layer. Slide to the right.

Duplicate sunflower. Move down and left a bit.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow both.

A56 (Ivy) – Resize 60% then 75%. Paste above sunflower layers. Slide to the bottom right.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

A8 (oak leaves) – Paste above ivy layer. Slide to the bottom left corner.

Duplicate – mirror. Slide this copy up a little.

Dropshadow both.

A12 (pumpkin cluster) – Paste above oak leaves layers. Slide to the bottom right corner.

Dropshadow..

A3 (ribbon) – Paste above cluster layer. Slide to the bottom right corner.

Dropshadow.

A36 (kitten) – Resize 80%. Paste above ribbon layer. Slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

A63 (cat and pumpkin) – Resize 50%. Paste above kitten layer. Slide to the bottom.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

A21 (squirrel) – Resize 60%. Paste above cat with pumpkin layer. Slide to the bottom.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

A69 (beads) – Resize 70%. Paste above squirrel layer. Slide to the right.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

A48 (butterfly) – Resize 50% Paste above beads layer. Slide into desired position.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.