AUTUMN SMILE FTU

Written by Gwenda on October 7^th 2014

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

This tutorial may look a little complicated, but if you follow the steps, you’ll be fine J

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Blueplate Special

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Skye by Keith Garvey. These tubes can be purchased from his site

HERE

Scrapkit is called Autumn Sunset, by Bev at Horseplay Pasture Designs. It’s awesome, and it’s now FTU. Thanks Bev!

You can download it

HERE

Template 129 called Autumn Smile, by Dee at Dangerously Delicious Designz.

You can download this

HERE

Mask of choice  

I used a lovely Autumn mask, but I’m unsure where I got it.

If it is yours, please let me know and I will add appropriate credits.

You can download it from

HERE

Template layers will be identified with capitals, and items from the scrapkit will be in lower case.

I suggest you close template layers after use, rather than deleting them, as you will need to refer to them when you add your elements.

Open Template. Copy, and close original.

Resize 110%, all layers checked

Image – canvas size 700 x 700

Click on Raster 1 (at the bottom) and fill with white.

Delete top two layers

RASTER 16 (Dark orange top left circle) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 5 into selection

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 16

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 23 (Pale circle frame) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #fee2b2

Deselect.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 40

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above RASTER 22

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 17 (pink square) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 14 into selection

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 17

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 24 (dotted square) – Layers – new raster layer above raster 24.

Fill with #a63501.

Resize colored layer 98%, all layers Unchecked.

Click on Raster 24

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on colored layer and hit delete

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 24

Give both inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 21 (Octagon) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #fee2b2

Deselect.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 40

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above RASTER 20

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 18 (Orange top right circle) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 9 into selection

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 18

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 19 (Gold right rectangle) – Resize Paper 10 x 60%.

Paste above Raster 19 layer and slide to top right.

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 10 and hit delete.

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 119

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 1 (Orange left Octagon) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #5c2700

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 1

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 2 (Left Octagon frame) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #fff1db

Deselect.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 40

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 2

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 5 (Left cream Octagon) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #fff1db

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 5

Close template layers

RASTER 12 (Dotted Octagon frame) - Layers – new raster layer above raster 12.

Fill with #5c2700.

Resize colored layer 98%, all layers Unchecked.

Click on Raster 12

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on colored layer and hit delete

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, move the copy to sit above COPY OF RASTER 12

Give both inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow both.

Close template layers.

RASTER 14 (template leaves) – Dropshadow.

RASTER 15 (template leaves shadow) – Leave as it is.

RASTER 9 (Centre cream Octagon) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #5c2700

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Dropshadow

Close template layer.

RASTER 10 (Centre Octagon frame) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #fff1db

Deselect.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 40

Dropshadow

Close template layer.

RASTER 11 (Dotted Centre Octagon frame) - Layers – new raster layer above raster 12.

Fill with #5c2700.

Resize colored layer 98%, all layers Unchecked.

Click on Raster 11

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on colored layer and hit delete

Deselect.

Give both inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Close template layer.

RASTER 3 (Pink rectangle frame) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 13 into selection

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Close template layer.

RASTER 4 (Red rectangle frame) - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #5c2700

Deselect.

Dropshadow.

Close template layer.

RASTER 6, 13 and 8 (Background squares) – Merge all three squares to one layer. (Click on top square. In layers palette right click, and click merge – merge down. Repeat to merge all three squares).

Resize Paper 15 x 80%.

Paste above merged layer

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.

Click on Paper 15 and hit delete.

Deselect.

Sharpen paper.

Close template layer.

RASTER 7 (Dotted three frames) - Layers – new raster layer above raster 12.

Fill with #5c2700.

Resize colored layer 98%, all layers Unchecked.

Click on Raster 7

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on colored layer and hit delete

Deselect.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Close template layer.

RASTER 27 (Autumn Wordart) – Resize 80%.

RASTER 30 (White Wordart) – Drop opacity to 78

RASTER 28 (Black Wordart) – Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer.

Fill with #5c2700

Deselect.

Merge brown layer down to black

Adjust – add noise Gaussian 40.

RASTER 29 (Author’s name) – Leave as it is.

Click on Raster 27 and merge down to Raster 30

Repeat until all four wordart layers are merged together.

Resize 80%

Sharpen

Slide to bottom right of tag.

Dropshadow.

OK – Time to add our elements

Element 77 (Gold doodle) – Paste above RASTER 11

Slide to the left.

Duplicate – mirror

Dropshadow both.

Element 63 (Orange leaf line) – Resize 50%.

Paste above RASTER 7 (dotted frames) and slide to the right to cover the bottom of the right side frame. You can always move it later if you need to.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Tube – Paste above element 63 layer, and slide into position.

To make it appear as if she is sitting in the frame, do the following:

Click on COPY OF RASTER 12 layer. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.

Click back on your tube, and erase the bottom part.

Deselect.

Dropshadow tube.

Element 19 (Grass) – Paste above tube layer.

 Slide to the right.

Sharpen.

Duplicate - mirror

Dropshadow both.

Element 18 (Yellow Flower) – Flip. Resize 45%.

Paste above element 19 layer.

 Slide to the right and down.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 17 (Orange Flower) – Resize 60%.

Paste above element 18 layer.

 Slide to the left.

Sharpen.

Duplicate - mirror

Dropshadow both.

Element 12 (Cart) – Paste above element 17 layer.

 Slide to the bottom left.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 13 (Pumpkins) – Resize 35%.

Paste above element 12 layer.

 Slide to the bottom left.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

. Element (36 Butterfly) – Resize 50% then 65%

Paste above element 13 layer.

 Slide to desired position

Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror. Move to position

Dropshadow both.

Add any other embellishments if you want to.

Close off white background (click little eye next to it in layers palette), and make sure all your original template layers are either closed or deleted.

In layers palette, right click on the top butterfly layer. Merge – merge visible.

Resize 95%, all layers checked.
Centre this on your tag.

Close this for now (click little eye next to it in layers palette)

Click on white background layer (which should still be closed)

Layers – new raster layer. Selections – select all.

Paste Paper 10 into selection.

Deselect.

Flip paper.

Apply Autumn mask.

In layers palette, merge group.

Duplicate mask.

On top copy, layers – properties – multiply.

In layers palette, right click and Merge visible (don’t merge down as you lose the properties effect)

Re-open your tag

Merge visible.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.