Full Of Love - Forum Set

Full of Love – Forum Set

written 1/29/2015

Supplies Needed:

Tube by Danny Lee. You can get it at http://scrapsncompany.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=113_132_219&products_id=7532

Scrap Kit by Lizquis Scraps. You can get it at http://scrapsncompany.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7573

Mask of your choice. I am using one by Moonbeams and Spiderwebs. I am using mask# 29. You can get it at http://moonbeamsandspiderwebs.blogspot.com/2013/01/mask-49-forum-mask-29.html

Font of your choice. I am using SNF Ambrosia Bold. It is a PTU font but you can get it at http://www.letteringdelights.com/font:snf_ambrosia_bold-10513.html It is on sale for 75cents right now.

Plugins:

None

Lets Begin:

Open a new blank canvas for 650x225.

Set your foreground color to white and your background color to a color from your tube.

Change the background color properties to a gradient with the following settings:

Flood fill your canvas.

Adjust blur gaussian blur at 25.00.

Layers new raster layer and flood fill with white.

Apply your mask.

Delete the mask layer and merge the group.

Lower the opacity of this layer to 50.

Open ribbon1 and re-size by 75%.

Copy and paste as a new layer.

Move to the lower left hand corner of the canvas.

You want to make it look as if it is coming out of the canvas.

Crop your canvas at this time.

Image add border of 3 in a color from the ribbon.

Image add border of 6 in any contrasting color. You want to make sure its something completely different so you can select it and we can fill it with a paper from the kit in a minute.

Image add border of 3 in the same color as the first border.

Using your magic wand select the off color border.

Open paper 4 and edit copy and paste into selection.

Selections select none.

Promote your background layer to a raster layer.

Image canvas size and make it large enough to work with.

Using your selection tool set on rectangle select the center portion of your tag canvas.

Open your tube and copy and paste as a new layer.

Move over to the far right side of the tag canvas within your selected area.

Selections invert and use your eraser tool to erase any bits of the the tube that are hanging out except for the balloons.

Once you are done selections select none.

Duplicate your tube.

On the top copy go to adjust blur gaussian blur of 10.

Lower the opacity of the blurred layer to 60.

Add a drop shadow to the bottom copy of the tube.

Open cookies element and re-size by 50%.

Copy and paste as a new layer and move to the bottom far left corner.

Add a drop shadow.

Open diamonds element and re-size by 50% and then again by 60%.

Copy and paste as a new layer and move to the far bottom right hand corner.

Add a drop shadow.

Open wordart and re-size by 50% 2x.

Copy and paste as a new layer and move to the bottom to the left of the diamonds.

Add a drop shadow.

Add your name in the tag canvas.

Add your copyright and licensing information.

Crop and save.

Now lets begin our avatar:

Open a new canvas of 145x205.

Flood fill with the same gradient as you did your tag above and apply the same gaussian blur as you did above.

Open light1 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Open your tube and copy and paste as a new a layer.

Duplicate the tube and gaussian blur by 10 as you did on your tag.

Add a drop shadow to the bottom copy of the tube.

Add a border of 3 in the same red you used on your tag border and then a border of white that is 2 wide and then another red border of 3.

Add your name or initial.

Add your copyright and licensing information.

Save.