friends for ever

Friends for Ever 

any similarity

to another tutorial is strictly coincidental

please do not copy  my  work or claim as your own 

supplies needed

paint shop pro i used psp9 but any will do

two masks

a font 

a scrap kit 

i used the beautiful freebie kit 

from Dwana Designs

you can find it HERE

i used the beautiful art work of  © chiichanny

who is an artist for SATC

you can purchase the tube HERE

lets get started :o)

open a new raster layer 1000x1000 we will resize later 

find  an element flower or something similar to what i have used 

copy paste as new layer 

effects /plug ins/muras meister/copies /encircle

with setting below

 

duplicate this layer and  merge/merge down

back to your kit find a paper of choice

copy paste as new layer and drag below  the  circle 

highlight circle layer and using your magic wand 

click inside the circle

selections/modify/enlarge by 16

selections/invert 

highlight your paper layer and hit delete on your keyboard 

selections/select none

find your tube and copy/paste as new layer 

drag your tube layer below the circle layer , resize if needed 

if you find there is  some of your tube showing below the frame then erase  if like me you like to show the top of the tube so it shows like they are coming out of the frame

highlight tube layer if not highlighted  

go to selections select all/selections/float/selections/defloat

now make your circle layer highlighted and  carefully erase around the top of the area you see the marching ants 

highlight tube layer and duplicate 

on original tube layer effects/plugins/xero/porcelain with the settings below

on copy of tube layer 

effects/plugins/xero/mistifier with setting below

staying on copy of tube layer again  effects/plugins/xero/radience  with settings below

on copy tube layer change blend to softlight 

on original tube layer  add a drop shadow of choice 

add any other embeleshments until you have what you like

once you have added everything you want  go to layers /merge/merge/visible

finding two contrasting papers you havent used open them in your psp 

first paper copy /paste as new layer 

layers/saveloadmask and find your first mask with settings below

click load

right click the  mask layer in your layer pallette and choose merge group

if your mask seems to large resize by 85%

repeat this with your second paper 

now finding a colour from your paper go to effects/drop shadow and change the colour of the shadow to your paper colour on your first mask layer 

settings for drop shadow as below

again on second mask layer different paper  repeat as above

 drop shadow again changing the colour box to match the paper

on mask layers right click/merge/merge down

now find another contrasting paper copy/paste as new layer

again layer/load save mask and find your second mask

again load as above and repeat for the drop shadow

add your copyright info and © of tube and your name

and any licence if you are using a PTU tube

layers/merge/merge visible

thats it your done :O)