CURIOUSLY CUTE FTU

Written by Gwenda on September 22^nd 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

You will need:

Font of choice – I used bellbottom laser

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Scrapkit is called Curious by Sophisticated Simone. You can find this kit

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Tube of choice. I used SchoolBabe by Keith Garvey.

You can purchase his tubes

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Template 143 by Sophisticated Simone at scrappy bit of fun

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Mask of choice. I used WSL84 by Wee Scots Lass.

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My lacy circle

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Open Simone’s Template 143. Shift D to copy, then close original

Delete top credits layer, raster 5, raster 15, copy of promoted selection, promoted selection, promoted selection shadow and vector 1

Resize template 95%, all layers checked.

Image – canvas size 700 x 700

Click on raster 1 at the bottom and floodfill white.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #0c6060.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

RASTER 13 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 4 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

RASTER 14 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 4 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow..

RASTER 12 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 5 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

COPY OF RASTER 12 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 8 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

RASTER 2 – Give inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow

Set foreground color to #f05348 and background to #a4d6de

Make background gradient 90 degrees with 1 repeat. (red on the outsides)

RASTER 6 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 11 – Dropshadow.

RASTER 9 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #F05348.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 3 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #a4d6de.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 7 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with same gradient used with Raster 6.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 4 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #F05348.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 8 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with same gradient used with Raster 6, but change angle from 90 to 0, with one repeat (red should be on outside)

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

RASTER 10 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

OK, that should be all the template layers done. Now we start adding elements.

Lacy Circle (supplied) – Resize 80%. Paste above mask layer and slide to top right corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Duplicate lacy circle. Resize this by 60%. In layers palette, move small copy to sit below raster 11 (the white oval).

Sharpen.

Flower 011 from scrapkit – Paste above lacy circle.

Slide to bottom left corner.

Dropshadow.

Ribbon 006 from scrapkit – Paste above raster 10 oval.

Slide to bottom centre.

Dropshadow.

Flower 003 from scrapkit – Resize 60%. Paste above ribbon 006 layer.

Slide to bottom right corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip. Slide this down slightly, so it looks evenly placed above the oval.

Dropshadow both.

Flower 014 from scrapkit – Resize 60%. Paste above flower 003 layer.

Slide down.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Slide this down slightly, so it looks evenly placed above the oval.

Dropshadow.

Tube – Paste above flower 014 layer and position as desired.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.