Written by Gwenda on November 24th 2012
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely
coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Coventry Garden
Scrapkit is a lovely FTU kit called Monochrome, by
MizTeeques Scrap. You can find this kit
Tube of choice. I used My New Hat, by Barbara Jensen.
You can purchase these beautiful tubes from Barbara’s site.
Mask of choice – I used 0Mask 11 LT1-1. I am unsure where I got this mask, so if It is
yours, please let me know and I will give appropriate credits.
You can get it
Template 5 from Denz Designz. When you open it for
some reason it says #4, but it is definitely the right one lol
Resize template 120%, all layers checked.
Image - Canvas size 700 x 700.
Click on Raster 1 at the bottom and fill with white.
Delete top layer (copyright)
Select two colours from your tube. I used foreground
#8f2929 and background #061024
Make a background gradient, angle45 repeats 1
Add new raster layer above white background, and fill
with gradient.
Apply 0Mask 11 LT1-1
In layers palette, merge group.
Stretch mask to all edges.
Drop opacity to 75.
Element 39 (sequin scatter) – Resize 60% and position in top right corner.
Sharpen.
Duplicate – mirror. Merge both sequin layers
together.
Duplicate – flip. Merge both together.
Dropshadow.
Starting at the bottom, we are now going to fill our
template layers.
Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 7 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT.
Selections – modify – expand 3. Layers – new raster
layer. Fill black.
Deselect.
Move black layer below paper 7 layer.
Sharpen paper.
Dropshadow black square.
Strip 1 - Adjust – add
noise uniform 80, monochrome checked.
Sharpen.
Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat. Selections – modify – expand 2. Layers – new raster
layer. Fill with black.
Deselect.
Move black shape below Strip 1.
Dropshadow black.
Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 11 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT.
Selections – modify – expand 3. Layers – new raster
layer. Fill with white.
Deselect.
Move white layer below paper 11 layer.
Sharpen paper.
Dropshadow white circle.
Square 3 – Position tube above square as you want it.
Dropshadow.
Click on square 3. Selections – select all.
Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Layers – new raster layer. Fill with black. DO NOT
DESELECT.
Selections – invert. Click on tube and hit delete.
Deselect.
Duplicate tube. On bottom copy, Layers – properties –
Luminance legacy.
On top copy Layers – properties – Overlay.
Drop opacity of both tubes to 44
Frame - Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 11 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT.
Selections – modify – expand 3. Layers – new raster
layer. Fill with white.
Deselect.
Move white layer below paper 11 layer.
Sharpen paper.
Dropshadow white frame.
Square 2 - Selections – select all. Selections – float.
Selections – defloat.
Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 12 into selection.
Sharpen.
Add words to this square if you wish.
Frame – Same as previous frame
Square 1 – Same as Square 3. but mirror tube.
Frame – Same as previous frame
Element 9 (bow) – Resize 30% then 50%. Sharpen.
Position to the left of the top square frame.
Dropshadow.
Element 18 (flower) – Resize 30% then 80%. Position.
Duplicate – mirror and move to desired position.
Dropshadow both.
Dropshadow both.
Main Tube – Dropshadow.
Add any other embellishments of choice
Add copyrights
