I KISSED A FROG PTU

Written by Gwenda on September 28^th 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Chinese Takeaway, found

HERE

Scrapkit is a beautiful kit called To Kiss a Frog by Nika of Devilish Dezines.

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

HERE

Tube of choice. I used a gorgeous FTU tube by Adrie Janssen-Stark

Tube of choice. I used a FTU tube by Adrie Janssen-Stark. You can find her blog

HERE

And you can download this particular tube

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 700 x 700 and fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask 46

In layers palette, merge group.

Duplicate mask – mirror and merge both copies together

Element 33 (lace circle) – Resize 95%.

Paste above the mask layer.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

 Frame 3 – Resize 75%. Paste above lace circle layer.

Click inside frame with magic wand.

Selections – modify – expand 8.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 3 into selection.

Deselect.

Sharpen paper

Dropshadow frame.

In layers palette, move paper to sit below the frame layer.

Element 18 (hearts sprinkle) – Resize 90%. Paste above frame layer. Sharpen.

Slide to bottom.

Dropshadow.

Element 7 (leaves doodle) – Resize 85%. Paste above element 18 layer and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Erase the part inside the frame on the right hand side

Element 13 (pearly flowers) – Resize 50%. Paste above element 7 layer and slide down and to the right.

Sharpen. Duplicate - mirror
Dropshadow both

Element 5 (bullrushes) – Mirror. Resize 60%. Paste above element 13 layer and slide to bottom left corner.

Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 39 (leafy stalk) – Resize 50%. Paste above element 5 layer. Free rotate left 90 and slide left and up a bit.

Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 38 (flowers) – Resize 80% twice. Paste above element 39 layer.

Slide left and up a bit.

Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Tube – If using the one I have supplied, resize 90% then 85%. Paste above element 38 layer.

Slide into position.

 Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 4 (flowers) –Resize 60%. Paste above tube layer.

Free rotate left 90

Slide to bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Element 2 (vase) –Resize 40%. Paste above element 4 layer and slide to the bottom left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 27 (bird) –Resize 40%. Paste above element 2 layer.

Slide to the bottom left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 26 (necklace) – Resize 50%. Paste above element 27 layer.

Sharpen. Slide to the left and down.

Dropshadow.

Element 3 (flower) – Resize 40%. Paste above element 26 layer.

Sharpen. Slide to the bottom right corner. Duplicate – mirror. Resize 75% and slide back to the right.

Dropshadow both.

Element 1 (rose) – Resize 30% then 75%. Paste above element 3 layer.

Slide to the bottom centre.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 20 (Frog) –Resize 40% then 80%. Paste above element 19 layer.

Slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 50 (Frog) –Resize 30%. Paste above element 20 layer.

Slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 34 (butterfly) – Resize 30%. Paste above element 50 layer.

Slide to the right.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.