This tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 21st MAY 2009 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

for this tutorial you may need a basic knowledge of PSP

Fonts used were toonish get it free HERE

and Windsong also free HERE

Alienskin Xenofex 2 Plugin - Little Fluffy Clouds

and this Scrap kit by KNC Scraps called 'Heatherly'

which you can purchase HERE and her blog is HERE

open a new canvas 600 X 600

open frame2...rotate clockwise 90

resize by 50% then copy & paste onto your canvas.

click inside the frame with your magic wand tool, and go to selections modify expand by 3..
then go to Layers - add a new raster layer. and floodfill with white...

then selections none.
we are now going to apply a plugin ...

so go to effects - plugins - xenoffex - little fluffy clouds and use the following settings...

basic tab

camera and sky tab change the zenith colour as shown below

now slide this cluds layer underneath the frame

ok now click on the frame making this the active layer...
duplicate this frame, then rotate right by 5

duplicate again then mirror it....you should now have 3 frames, piled on top of each other

add a drop shadow to each

now open up the house from the kit, and resixe it by 25% and add to your canvas,
slide the house layer underneath the frames .

open up the pond, resize by 35%add to the canavs and arrange to the right side.
halfway up the frame...duplicate it and arrange to the bottom right..these should be behind the frames...
remove any excess hanging over the frames....
i just selected the overhang with the seection tool, and hit the delete key to remove the excess.

duplicate one more time and arrange to the left side of the canvas..
slide this layer to the top.

so that it is lying on top of the frames...add a drop shadow

now open the dark pink fae and resize by 25%, add a drop shadow

do the same for another fae from the kit.

arrange this one to the right side and slide this fae behind the frames layers

add flower2 from the kit and resize by 45% and arrange to the right...

add a blossom1 from the kit resize by 25% and arrange to the left side of the frame...

add a drop shadow...
do the same for blossom2 but instead of leaving this one ontop of the frame,

slide this one behind the frames.

for the PIXIELAND text..i used toonish font set to font size 48 stroke 2,

foreground purple - background pink

add a drop shadow

for the text 'join me in' I used windsong font..also set at 48 background colour white, foreground null, stroke null

or you can always snag and use my header at the top..

its a .png so just right click and save it.

Feel free to show off your results by emailing them to me or coming along to my forum HERE

who knows they may end up in the gallery...