DOGGY VALENTINE FTU

Written by Gwenda on 30^th January 2014

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Chick, found

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Mask of choice – I used 0Mask011

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.

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Tubes of choice. I used Facelick and Dogwash from Dean Yeagle, plus a couple of his dogs from other tubes. You can purchase these through CDO

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 Join MeTemplate by Manipulated by Magik

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Scrapkit is called Valentine Love, and is a FTU from Cadis Fun Scraps

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Open “Join Me” template.

Delete top three layers (credits, wordart & wordart background). Also outer dots and inner dots.

Set foreground color to black and background to #811d5f

Make gradient 45 degrees with 5 repeats.

Add new raster layer above the white background.

Fill layer with gradient

Apply mask 0Mask011

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to top and bottom.

NEGATIVE BASE – Adjust Hue & Saturation H = 228  S = 162

Dropshadow.

Paste head shot of tube above Negative Base. Erase outside so tube sits nicely inside the frame.

Layers – Properties – Luminance Legacy.

Duplicate tube – mirror

NEGATIVE BRUSH – Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

LEFT BACK REC - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 18 into selection.

Deselect. Delete template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

MIDDLE BACK REC - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect. Delete template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Flower 08 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above Middle Back Rec layer and slide into position at the top.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Flower 07 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above Flower 07 layer and slide into position at the top.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

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

Deselect. Delete template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

RIGHT BACK REC - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 11 into selection.

Deselect. Delete template layer.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Flower 17 – Mirror. Resize 30%. Paste above Right Back Rec layer and slide into position at the top.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Set foreground color to #92226f  and background to #f9d7e6

Make gradient 0 degrees with one repeat. (darker color at top and bottom).

BAR 3 - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect.

Delete template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

Flower 06 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above Bar 3 layer and slide into position at the left side.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Flower 05 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above Flower 06 layer and slide into position at the top.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

BAR 2 - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect.

Delete template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

Ribbonflower 2 – Resize 60%. Paste above Bar 2 layer and slide to the right.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

BAR 1 - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect.

Delete template layer.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

HEART – Resize 80%.

Set foreground color to white and background to #f9d7e6

Make gradient with angle 45 and 3 repeats.

Click on heart.

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient. DO NOT DESELECT YET

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #811d5f

Deselect.

DO NOT delete template layer.

Move darker heart below the pink one.

On dark color. Adjust – add noise – Gaussian 50, monochrome box checked.

On smaller pink heart. Adjust add noise – Gaussian 20, monochrome box checked.

Dropshadow darker heart.

Bow 7 – Resize 40% then 80%. Paste above lighter heart layer.

Free rotate left 20

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Beadstring 5 – Resize 50%. Paste above Bow 7 layer Move into position at the top centre of the heart.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Main tube – Paste above Beadstring 5 layer and position as desired.

Dropshadow.

Add a few copies of the dog. If you can, find a variety of poses from Dean’s various tubes. If not, just use the one that comes with the Dogwash tube.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.