DRAGON TATTOO PTU

Written by Gwenda on April 12^th 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Seven Monkeys Fury, found

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Scrapkit is called Dragon Tattoo by Bibi’s Collection. This is definitely my favorite Bibi kit – I love it! It can be purchased from SATC, on sale for just $1 at the moment

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Tube of choice. I used a FTU tube from Adelenta, called Dragon Watcher.

You can download it

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In my other example I used a tube I love, from Unholy Vault Designs. You can no longer buy these tubes unfortunately, but it fits in with this scrapkit as if it was made for it lol

 Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass.

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Open a new raster 700 x 700 and fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 9 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to edges.

Element 97 (frame) – Paste above the mask layer.

Click inside frame with magic wand.

Selections – modify – expand 4.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect.

Sharpen paper

Dropshadow frame.

Element 19 (pink & blue scatter)) – Paste above mask layer. Slide to the bottom left corner. Duplicate twice..

On one copy. Mirror – flip.

On the other copy, resize 85% and slide to top left corner.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Element 101 (palm tree) – Resize 60%. Paste above element 19 layer and slide to the left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 7 (beaded web) – Paste above frame layer and slide to the left.

Duplicate and merge together. Duplicate again - mirror
Dropshadow both.

Element 77 (pink fern) – Paste above element 7 layer.

Slide up to the right and down.

Duplicate – flip. Free rotate left 90. Sharpen. Slide to the left.

 Dropshadow both.

Element 94 (silver fern) –Resize 30%. Paste above element 77 layers.

Free rotate right 90. Sharpen twice. Slide to the right.

Duplicate – mirror. Slide down a little.

Dropshadow both.

Element 100 (grass) – Paste above element 94 layers and slide to the left.

Duplicate – mirror and slide this one to the bottom right corner.

Dropshadow both.

Tube – If using the Adelenta one, resize 75%.

Paste between the two element 100 grass layers and slide into position.

Sharpen. Dropshadow. You can erase the bottom later if you need to.

 

Element 23 (flower) – Paste above tube layer.

Slide down.

Duplicate. Resize 80%. Sharpen. Slide to the left slightly.
Dropshadow both.

Element 102 (pelican) – Mirror Resize 70%. Paste above element 23 layers. Sharpen. Slide to the bottom right corner.

Dropshadow.

Element 81 (dragon) – Resize 75%. Paste above element 102 layer.

Slide to bottom left corner.

Dropshadow.

Element 39 (bird) – Resize 80%. Paste above element 81 layer.

Sharpen. Slide to bottom right.

Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.