KINDRED SPIRITS FTU

Written by Gwenda on November 2^nd 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Coventry Garden, found

HERE

Scrapkit is a gorgeous FTU kit called Kindreds by Gimptastic Scraps. You can find this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Early Visit, by Rachel Tallamy.

You can purchase her lovely tubes from Up Your Art

HERE

Template 193 by Pooker at Elegant Inspirations

HERE

Mask of Choice.

I used WSL75 by Wee Scots Lass

HERE

Open Pooker Template 193. Shift D to copy, then close original

Resize template 85%, all layers checked.

Image – canvas size 700 x 700

Delete: Credit info, brown half circle, white dotted 7 and brown rectangles.

There will be more layers to delete, but we will do that as we get to them.

Click on background layer at the bottom and floodfill white

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges

Scatter (from scrapkit) – Paste above Mask layer.

Slide to bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip.

NO DROPSHADOW

BLACK DOTTED SQUARES – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

ORANGE CIRCLES – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

PEACH CIRCLES – 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.

BROWN CIRCLES – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

BLACK DOTTED CIRCLES – Delete this layer.

BLACK CIRCLE – Delete this layer

WHITE DOTTED 9 – Delete this layer

BLACK RECTANGLES – Resize Paper 5 50% then 60%.

Paste above the black rectangles layer and slide to cover the top rectangle.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge both paper 5 rectangles together.

Click on Black Rectangle layer. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 5 layer and hit delete..

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

WHITE RECTANGLES – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 9 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

WHITE DOTTED 8 – Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

PEACH CIRCLES – Delete this layer

WHITE DOTTED 6 – Delete this layer

BROWN CIRCLES – Delete this layer.

WHITE DOTTED 5 – Delete this layer

Deco (from scrapkit) – Resize 80%. Paste above White circles layer.

Free rotate Left 45.
Slide up to cover top left circle. Duplicate – mirror – flip.
Dropshadow both.

Delete WHITE CIRCLES layer.

Doily (from scrapkit) – Resize 50%

Paste above Deco layer and slide up and left.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Dropshadow both.

ORANGE CIRCLES – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

WHITE DOTTED 4 – Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

BLACK CIRCLES – Delete this layer.

WHITE DOTTED 3 – Delete this layer

Deco 2 (from scrapkit) – Mirror. Paste above white dotted 4 layer.

Slide down and right. Position so the doily underneath just peeks out.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip

Dropshadow both.

Flower 2 (from scrapkit) – Paste above sparkles 1 layer.

Slide right.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip

Dropshadow both

BROWN GLITTER CIRCLE – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 50, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

ORANGE CIRCLE 1 – 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.

WHITE DOTTED 2 – Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

PEACH CIRCLE 1 – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Close template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

WHITE DOTTED 1 – Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

WHITE CIRCLE 1 – Paste Gem 2 above White Circle 1 layer. Resize 110% twice. Sharpen.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 50, monochrome box checked.

Dropshadow.

Delete White Circle 1 template.

I also used the butterfly that came with my tube. Carefully draw around the butterfly with your selection tool. In layers palette, right click. Promote selection to layer.

Deselect.

Copy the butterfly and paste onto your tag. Position as desired.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

I chose to use a quote from The Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann on my tag.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.