Written by Gwenda on March 4th 2011
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Champagne & Limousines, FTU font found
Scrapkit called Bad Day Blues by Kristen Cronin-Barrow
This a PTU kit and can be purchased from Sweet Shoppe Designs http://sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=20085&cat=0&page=2
Tube of choice. I used Catherine by Anthony Guerra. This tube was purchased through CILM, but his work can now be found at
Mask of choice – I used WSL84
Open new raster layer 700 x 700 and floodfill white
Paper pp1 resize 700 x 700. Paste as new layer. Sharpen
Apply mask WSL84. Merge group. Using pick tool, stretch mask to each corner.
Frame3 resize to 550 x 550. Copy & paste
Paper solid6 resize to 600 x 600. Copy & paste under frame. Sharpen
Tube Copy & paste on top of paper
On frame layer Magic wand – click in centre of frame. Expand by 6 – invert – click on paper solid6 and tap delete, click on tube and tap delete. Deselect.
Swirlacrylic resize to 350 x 358. Copy & paste. Image mirror and place on top of frame at bottom right. Sharpen
( I erased part of the swirl in the corner just because I thought it looked better – your choice.)
Layer duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down
Leaf1 resize to 250 x 304. Copy & paste. Free rotate left 35.
Place under frame on top of mask layer in bottom left corner. Erase stalky bit sticking out.
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen
Falling Leaves1 resize 200 x 363. Copy & paste on top of swirls layer at left of tag.
Free rotate left 7 and move into position.
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen.
Butterflies resize 250 x 279. Copy & paste bottom left over falling leaves layer.
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen
Flower resize 100 x 96 copy & paste top left over corner of swirl.
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen.
Flower ( again ) resize 75 x 72 copy & paste over stalk of leaf at bottom left.
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen.
Tape resize 300 x 122 copy & paste on top of mask layer. Move to top left corner.
Free rotate left 35
Layers duplicate – mirror – flip. Merge down. Sharpen.
Pout resize to 200 x 111
Adjust hue & saturation 40 93
Place as desired. Sharpen
Add any other embellishments of choice.
Dropshadow all layers except mask and paper
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
