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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Garden Path (CT Tutorial Freek's Creations)

I have a new tutorial for you all today.  Be gentle with me.  It's been a while since I've actually written one.

I used the gorgeous kit Forget Me Not by Freek's Creations.  It contains 80 elements, 4 frames, 4 word arts, and 17 papers.  It's perfect for those spring/summer tags, and the combination of yellow and blue is just so pretty to me.


 

Supplies
Tube of choice.  I use a tube by Marika, which can be purchased at CDO. 
Scrapkit - Forget Me Not by Freek's Creations.  You can purchase this kit from Mystical Scraps or Scraps & Co. 
Mask 92 by Moombeams & Spiderwebs
Font of choice.  I used Ellie Mae Demo.
Filters - Mura's Meister Copies and Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow (optional.)
 
1.  Open a new canvas 800 x 800.
2.  Copy and paste paper 12 as a new layer.
3.  Layers>New Mask Layer>From Image.  Choose Moonbeams & Spiderwebs mask 92.  Merge group.
4.  C/P frame 1 as a new layer.  Resize by 80%.4
5.  Click inside your frame with your magic wand.  Expand by 5 pixels.
6.  Add a new raster layer.  Paste paper 9 into selection.
7.  Drag this layer below your frame.
8. With your frame layer active, paste element 46 as a new layer.
9.  Resize by 75% and move toward the bottom of the frame, so it looks like it's coming out of the frame.
10.  Erase the little piece of the path that over laps your frame of the left.
11.  C/P your tube as a new layer and resize as necessary.  I resized my tube by 75% and placed her on the bottom center of the path.
12.  C/P element 24 and resize by 75%.  Move to the bottom of the path.
13.  C/P element 22 and resize by 35%.
14.  Apply Mura's Meister Copies with the following settings.


15.  Drag this layer to just above the mask layer in your layer palette.
16.  Duplicate this layer and rotate 30 degrees to the left.
17.  C/P element 76 as a new layer and resize by 35%.
18.  Apply Mura's Meister copies with the following settings.


19.  Duplicate this layer and rotate 30 degrees to the left.
20.  Drag the original layer in between the two leaf layers.
21.  On your top flower layer, C/P element 70 as a new layer. Resize 15%.
22.  Apply Mura's Meister copies with the following settings.


23.  With your frame layer active, C/P element 23 as a new layer.
24.  Resize by 50% and rotate 75 degrees to the right.
25.  Move this layer near the bottom of your canvas so it is coming from behind the path.  Duplicate and mirror.
26.  C/P element 73 as a new layer and resize by 50%.  Move the the bottom of the canvas, so it is coming from behind the path.  Duplicate and mirror.
27.  C/P element 77 as a new layer and resize by 50%.  Move to the top left of frame.  Duplicate and mirror.
28.  On your top layer, C/P element 40 as a new layer and resize by 25%.  Move to the edge of the path at the bottom.  Duplicate and mirror.
29.  Duplicate again and move up a little.  Duplicate one more time and mirror again.
30.  C/P element 66 as a new layer and resize by 35%.  Move to the bottom right of the path.
31.  At this point, add any other elements that you like to make it your own.  I added a basket a bird, a butterfly, a sun, and a scatter because I really like those scatters on this type of tag.
32.  Add a drop shadow to your tube and all your elements.  I used H/V - 2  O - 50 B - 5.
33.  Crop any excess canvas and resize to your tastes.  I resized mine by 65%.
34.  Add your copyright credits and name.  I added a fat glow to my name.

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