BE THANKFUL FOR THE LITTLE THINGS FTU

Written by Gwenda on November 5th 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Alba Matter, found

HERE

Scrapkit is a pretty FTU kit from A Space Between called Simply Thankful

You can download this kit

HERE

Please note - I used the Taggers size kit

Tube of choice. I used Gail by Keith Garvey. His great tubes can be purchased from his store.

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 a new raster layer 700 x 700

Fill white

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 4 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask046 LT

In layers palette, merge group.

Duplicate mask. Merge both together. Duplicate again. Merge both together.

Element 10 (frame) – Resize 110%. Paste above mask layer.

Sharpen.

Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 4.

 Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.

Move paper under frame.
Dropshadow frame.

Element 39 (sign) – Resize 40%. Paste above frame layer and slide to top right corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Tube – Paste above element 39 layer. Slide to desired position.

Dropshadow.

Element 47 (violin) – Mirror. Paste above tube layer and slide to bottom right.

Dropshadow.

Element 26 (wheat) – Paste above violin layer. Free rotate left 45. Slide to top left.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror. Resize this copy 80% and slide left.

Dropshadow both.

Element 20 (leaves) – Mirror. Flip. Paste above wheat layer. Free rotate right 90 and slide to bottom right corner.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 13 (flower branch) – Paste above element 20 layer and slide to bottom right corner.

Dropshadow.

Element 11 (leaves) – Mirror. Flip. Paste above element 13 layer and slide to bottom and left slightly.

Dropshadow.

Element 18 (yellow mushrooms) – Resize 50% then 75%.. Paste above element 11 layer and slide to left and down a little.

Dropshadow.

Element 7 (bow) – Mirror. Paste above mushrooms layer and slide to bottom left corner.

Dropshadow.

Element 5 (sunflower cluster) – Resize 70%. Paste above bow layer and slide to bottom.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 30 (berries) – Resize 40%. Paste above sunflower cluster layer. Free rotate left 90.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 3 (flower) – Resize 45% then 80%. Paste above berries layer and slide to bottom right. Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror. Resize 85% and slide right.

Dropshadow both.

Element 44 (bird) – Resize 50%. Paste above element 3 layer and slide to bottom centre.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 38 (hedgehog) – Resize 50%. Paste above bird layer and slide to bottom right.

Dropshadow.

Element 9 (butterfly) – Resize 60%. Paste above hedgehog layer. Free rotate left 15 and slide left. Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror. Resize 85% and slide into desired position. Duplicate this copy. Resize 60%.

Dropshadow all three.

Add any other elements of choice.

Add copyrights.