Written by Gwenda on September 11th 2011
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Alba, FTU font found
Scrapkit called For Norma
This a gorgeous FTU kit by Persia Designs
Tube of choice. I used one by Anna Marine. This tube was purchased through CILM, but her work can now be found at
Mask of choice – I used WSL75 which can be found
You will need the babysbreath that was used in the grass cluster I made, and I have also included the cluster itself in case you want to use that.
Open new raster layer 700 x 700 and floodfill white
Layer – new raster layer – selections select all - paste Paper 14 into selection. Deselect
Apply mask WSL75.
Merge group.
Stretch mask to fill canvas.
Layer – new raster layer – selections select all - paste Paper 9 into selection. Deselect
Apply mask WSL75.
Merge group.
Leave mask the size it is
Frame 2 – Resize 80%. Dropshadow
Paper 9 – Resize 70% and paste under frame.
Click inside frame with magic wand and expand by 4
Selections – invert.
Click on paper 9 and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
Grass 1 – Resize 70% and paste over frame to the left.
Sharpen & dropshadow
Babysbreath – Resize 50%.
Erase bottom bit of the stalk.
Duplicate – mirror and resize 80%.
Sharpen & dropshadow
Leaves 1 – Resize 50%. Sharpen & dropshadow
Grass 5 – Mirror. Resize 60% and paste over Leaves 1 layer
Sharpen & dropshadow
Tree 1 – Mirror. Paste under grasses, and delete any poking out at the bottom, plus part of the top branches. See mine for reference.
Sharpen & dropshadow
Flower 12 – Resize 50% twice. Paste above grass 5.
Duplicate – mirror and move to sit above leaves 1 layer.
Sharpen & dropshadow
Flower 9 – Resize 25% then 35%. Sharpen.
Duplicate – mirror and place as you like.
Dropshadow.
Butterfly 1 – Mirror. Resize 60% then 70%
Sharpen & dropshadow
Tube - Place between frame & paper layers. Arrange as desired.
Duplicate, and move one copy above the frame.
Erase any bits you don’t want to show.
Dropshadow top tube only.
Flower 9 – Resize 25% then 40%. Sharpen & dropshadow.
( I used this to cover the blue flower in the tube’s hair. Tied it into the tag a bit better I thought . . )
Add any other embellishments of choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
