BIRDS BABES AND BUTTERFLIES FTU

Written by Gwenda on August 10^th 2014

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Coventry Garden, found

HERE

Scrapkit is a lovely FTU kit by DeessignDepot, called Oh Mr Bluejay

You can download this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Lola, by Di Halim at Pics for Design. You can purchase these beautiful tubes

HERE

I didn’t bother using a mask for this tutorial. It didn’t seem to need it once I finished everything else J

Open new image 700 x 700.

Fill with white.

Frame 1 – Resize 90%.

Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 2.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Dropshadow frame.
Sharpen paper.

Element 15 (Star)  

Paste above white background layer and slide to bottom right corner.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow

Element 12 (Scatter)

Flip. Paste above element 15 layer and slide to top left corner.

Duplicate. Merge both scatter layers together.
Duplicate again. Mirror – Flip.

Dropshadow both.

Element 9 (Tree)

Resize 70%.

Paste above element 12 layer.
Free rotate right 90 and slide to the right.

Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror.

Dropshadow both.

Element 32 (heart balloons)

Paste above Frame layer.
Free rotate right 90 and slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror.

DO NOT DROPSHADOW

Element 19 (Purple flower)

Paste above element 32 layer.
Slide to the left.
Duplicate. Free rotate left 15. Sharpen and slide left and up.

Duplicate – mirror, and slide back to left and up.

Dropshadow all three.

Element 40 (leaf vine)

Paste above element 19 layer.
Slide to top right corner.

Dropshadow.

Tube close-up  

If using the same one as me, resize 90%.

I recolored the dress. Using the selection tool, carefully draw around the parts you want to recolor.

Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colorize H=145   S=144

Paste above element 40 layer and slide into desired position.

Erase left side and bottom of tube.

Sharpen.

 Dropshadow.

Element 13 (flower spray)  

Resize 85%.

Paste above tube layer and slide to the bottom right corner.

Sharpen.

Erase any parts that cover the tube.
Dropshadow.

Element 18 (Flower stem)

Resize 70%.

Paste above element 33 layer.

Free rotate right 90

Sharpen.

Slide to bottom left corner

Dropshadow.

Element 10 (grass stalks)

Resize 60%.

Paste between the two element 18 layers.

 and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen. Duplicate twice.

Move one copy up and to the right a little – you can arrange it again later.

Slide the last copy to the far right. In layers palette, move this coy to sit under element 40.

Dropshadow all three.

Element 31 (birdhouse)

Resize 75% then 80%.

Paste above the top element 18 layers under element 10 layer, and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow

If you want to get adventurous, you can add the small blujay peeking out of the hole. To do this:
Element 25 (blujay)

Mirror. Resize 10% then 80%

Sharpen

Position over hole in the birdhouse.
Drop opacity of the bird so you can see what you are doing.
Using selection tool, draw around bird and hit delete.

Should leave you a baby bird peeping out the door of the house

Dropshadow.

Merge bird down to birdhouse in case you want to move it.

Element 6 (grass tussock)

Resize 60% then 80%.

Paste above the top element 31 layer and slide to the bottom left corner.

Sharpen.

On bottom copy, duplicate – mirror. Resize this copy 80%

Slide it back to the left and position just up and right from the other.

Dropshadow both.

Element 16 (Flower)

Resize 50%.

Paste between the two element 6 layers, and slide to the bottom right.

Sharpen.

Duplicate.

Slide bottom copy up and right slightly

Dropshadow both.

Element 4 (log)

Resize 75% then 85%.

Paste above the top element 16 layer and slide to the bottom center.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 1 (frog)

Resize 50%.

Paste above element 4 layer and slide to the bottom to sit on the log

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

(Top copy of element 6 should be next, then element 10)

Element 27 (Butterfly)

Resize 40%.

Paste above the top element 10 layer and slide to desired position.

Sharpen.

Duplicate. Mirror. Resize 80% and slide to desired position

Dropshadow both.

Element 24 (bird)

Resize 50% then 85%.

Paste above the top element 27 layer and slide to bottom left.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 26 (bird)

Resize 35%.

Paste above element 24 layer and slide to the left to sit on the birdhouse

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 25 (bird)

Resize 35% then 85%.

Paste above element 26 layer and slide to the right.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Add any other elements of choice.

Resize if desired.

Add copyrights.