Written by Gwenda on April 4th
2013
Any similarity to any other tutorial
is purely coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used grave digger,
found
Scrapkit is another beautiful kit
called Oh Dark One by Nika of Devilish Designz.
I haven’t seen any of your kits that
I haven’t fallen in love with Nika lol.
Nika’s kits are being sold at SATC. You can purchase them
Tube of choice. I used one by Unholy
Vault Designs called Pearl Drops. But then I discovered that you can no longer
purchase these tubes L.
You can view this awesome artwork at
the UVD gallery
I guess window shopping is better than nothing.
The second version uses a FTU tube
from Adelenta called Lauretta.
You can download it
Mask of choice – I used 0Mask 046
I’m not sure where I got this mask, so if it is
yours, please let me know and I will either remove it, or give credit.
You can download this mask.
Open a new raster 600 x 600 and fill
white.
Layers – new raster layer.
Selections – select all. Paste Paper 5 into selection.
Deselect.
Apply mask 0Mask 46
In layers palette, merge group.
Duplicate – mirror.
Merge both mask layers together.
Frame 3 – Resize 70%.
Paste above the mask layer. Sharpen.
Click inside frame with magic wand.
Selections – modify – expand 4.
Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 5 into selection.
Deselect.
Sharpen paper
Dropshadow frame.
Element 47 (sparkles) – Resize 70% twice. Paste above paper
layer. Sharpen. Duplicate. Merge both sparkle layers together
Element 32 (grass) – Resize 80% then 90%. Paste above mask
layer (under paper 5) and slide to the bottom right corner.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 3 (pink bubble
scatter) – Resize 75%.
Paste above frame layer and slide to top left corner.
Adjust Hue & Saturation –
colorize 170 255.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip
Merge both together. Duplicate and
merge together. Drop opacity to 70.
Dropshadow
Dropshadow
Tube – Paste above element 3 layer.
Slide up to the top.
Dropshadow.
Element 43 (grass
& flowers)
–Resize 70% twice. Paste above tube layer.
Slide to the bottom centre.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 34 (stones) –Resize 40%. Paste above element 43
layer and slide to the bottom left corner.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 22 (blue
flowers branch)
–Resize 40%. Paste above element 34 layer.
Slide to the bottom left.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 25 (skull) – Resize 15%. Paste above element 22
layer. Sharpen. Slide to the left and down.
Duplicate – mirror. Slide this one
left, and position it so it appears to be sitting on the stone.
Dropshadow both.
Add any other embellishments of
choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
