CANDIED HEARTS

This tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 30th January 2010 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental
For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of ELIAS CHATZOUDIS
you can purchase his tubes from mypsptubes .

for this tutorial you may need a basic knowledge of PSP

I am using PSP9 but any version will do

scrap kit is my Candied Hearts freebie available HERE

my blog is HERE

mask used was by weescotslass Mask261 download from her blog, look tot he left side under my masks HERE

Font used for my name was Carpenter, its a PTU one.

DOWNLOAD supplies and unzip them, place mask in your masks folder

now we are ready to begin......

open a new canvas 550 x 550

copy and paste the pink animal print paper from the kit as a new layer onto your canvas

now apply the mask by

going to to Layers - Load save mask from disk ..select the WSL_Mask261
with the following settings.

now go to layers -merge group

copy and paste the clouds from the kit and arrage to the left

open up frame 4 from the kit, resize using smartsize by 80%

now select your magic wand tool, and click inside the frame

now go to Selections - modify - expand by 8 , click ok.

copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, once you are happy with placement, got to selections invert and hit the delete key to remove excess..

then go to selections none.

duplicate the tube layer, then change the blend mode to soft light and merge down to merge the 2 layers

now slide the merged tube layer beneath the frame layer.

now add your full length tube of choice, if using the same elias tube as i did, then resize by 80% using smartsize , add a drop shadow. and arrange to the left.

 

copy and paste 'LOVE2' word from the kit, arrange to the bottom

do the same with the word 'sweet', add a drop shadow of choice.

now make sure that your tube is placed nicely behind the words...

now add the flower2 from the kit resize 70% see my tag for placement.

now open up the lips, rotate left by 20%

simply by going to image - rotate - free rotate left and change the number to 20.

then resize by 50% and copy and paste as a new layer

now add your name with a font of choice

i used carpenter font size 72, background red foreground null

then and the artists copyright

if you are happy save it as a either a jpg or .png and your are done!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial xx

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...