Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Wordart #11

Here's another love themed wordart.
Available for download here
Hope you like it.
Luv Jo.xx.

Memories Are

Supplies Needed:
Image of choice, Im using the artwork of Keith Garvey which you can purchase from here
Scrapkit-FTU Red Hot Romance by Bluebird here
Template EOC-Template58 by Yvette here
Mask - WSL_Mask4 by Weescotslass here
Wordart#5 By Me, Available here

Plugins Used:
Lokas Software - Drop - Demo here
VM Extravanza - Transmission - here

Ok Lets Go.

Open your template and "Shift D" to duplicate, close original template. Back to duplicate template, Image-Resize, 600 pixels width, make sure Lock aspect ratio and Resize all layers is ticked. Select your background layer, Image-Canvas Size 600x600 pixels, placement middle-centre. Delete the © layer.

Select the rectangle layer, using your magic wand, select inside the rectangle, Open a paper of choice, I used paper 10, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, Hit delete, Selections-Select None. Delete the original rectangle layer.

Select the big heart layer, again using the magic wand select inside the heart, Open paper of choice, I used paper 11, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, Hit delete, Selections-Select None. Delete original big heart layer.

Select the smallhearts layer, using your magic wand, select inside both hearts, Open paper of choice, I used paper7, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, Hit delete. Select None. Delete original smallhearts layer.

Make sure your filled smallhearts layer is active, Effects-Plugins- Lokas Software-Drop with these settings:


Open Image of choice, edit-copy and paste as a new layer and position, and add a dropshadow of choice I used 3-3-47-12.87 Black. Add the same dropshadow to all layers except your smallhearts layer.

Add any other elements of choice.

Select the background layer, Open paper of choice, I used paper8, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Layers-Load/Save Mask-From Disk, WSL_Mask4, Layers-Merge-Merge Group, Layers-Duplicate, Layers-Merge-Merge Down, Effects-Plugins-VM Extravaganza - Transmission with these settings:

Line Width - 3
Offset - 0
Contrast - 40

Add wordart of choice and position.

Add your name and copyright.

Save as .png or .jpg however you prefer.

I hope you found this tut easy to follow.
I would love to see your results.
Luv Jo.xx.

Wordart #10


Here's another St Patricks Day themed wordart.
Available for download here
Hope you like it.
Luv Jo.xx.

Monday, 9 February 2009

Learn To Love


Supplies Needed:
Image of choice Im using the awesome artwork of Pinup Toons, which you can purchase here
Template EOC_Template57 By Yvette of Essence of Creativity here
Scrapkit PTU - Dream In Colour By Lynn of Poundstore Scraps here
Mask WSL_Mask26 By Weescotslass here
Wordart By Me, you can download here

Plugin Used:
Lokas Software-Gel Demo here

Ok Lets Go.

Open Template, "Shift D" to duplicate and close the original. Image-Resize width 600 pixels, Lock Aspect Ratio and Resize all layers ticked. Select white background layer, Image-Canvas Size 600x600 pixels, placement middle centre, Delete the copyright and wordart layers.

Select rounded rectangle layer, using magic wand select inside the grey rectangle, Open paper of choice, I used paper 5, Image-Resize 500x500 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, hit delete, Selections-Select None, Add a slight dropshadow, I used 3-3-34-3 Black. Delete original rounded ractangle layer.

Repeat this process for the heart layer, this time I used paper2, Apply Lokas Software-Gel using these settings: and dropshadow same settings as before.

Select dotted heart layer, Selections-Select All, Selections-Float, Selections-Defloat, floodfill with colour of choice I used black. Add same dropshadow as before.

Open Image of choice, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, and position how you wish, Add a dropshadow of choice if using the same tube as me I used 5-5-42-7.92 Black with dropshadow as a new layer, then using eraser tool, delete any shadow from the bottom where she is kneeling.

Add any other elements of choice from the kit.

Add wordart of choice.

Make background layer active, Open paper of choice I used paper9, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Layers- Load/Save Mask-From Disk-WSL_Mask26, Layers-Merge-Merge group, Layers-Duplicate, Layers-Merge-Merge Down, I repeated the duplicate layer and merged down once more.

Add name and copyright.

Save as .png or .jpg however you prefer.

I would love to see your results.
Luv Jo.xx.

Air That I Breathe



Supplies Needed:
Image of choice, Im using the fabulous artwork of Pinup Toons,
which you can purchase here
Template 002 By Dawn of Lollipops Candyland here
Scrapkit PTU Dream in Colour By Lynn of Poundstore Scraps here
Mask WSL_Mask3 By Weescotslass here
Wordart#4 By Me you can download here
Font used is FTU York Script ES available here

Plugins:(Optional)
Xero Fritillary - (Mask Layer)
Xero Porcelain - (Teddy Bear Layers)
Available Here

Ok Lets Go

Open Template and "Shift D" to duplicate, close the original.
Delete the © layer, Image-Resize (pixels) 600x600, Lock Aspect Ratio & Resize all layers ticked. Layers-New Raster layer, Selections-Select All, Floodfill white, Selections-Select None,
Layers-Arrange-Send to bottom.

Select Vertical Frame Back layer, Selections-Select All, Selections-Float, Selections-Defloat, Open paper of choice, I used paper1, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, hit delete, Selections-Select None. Delete the original Vertical Frame Back layer.

Select Vertical Frame layer, add a slight dropshadow, I used 3-3-32-3 Black.

Select your Horizontal Frame Back Layer, using your magic wand, select some or all of the black boxes, Open a paper of choice, I used papers 1 & 3, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit copy, paste as a new layer, Selections-Invert, hit delete, Selections-Select None. Repeat with remaining boxes if using more than one paper. Delete original Horizontal Frame Back Layer.

Select Horizontal Frame Layer, add a slight dropshadow, I used 3-3-32-3 Black.

Select Main Frame Back, using your magic wand, select inside the black square, Selections-Modify-Expand by 2, Open paper of choice, I used paper 8, Image-Resize 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, selections-Invert, hit delete, Selections-Select None. Delete original Main Frame Back layer.

Select main Frame layer and add dropshadow, I used the same settings as above.

Open image of choice, edit-copy, paste as a new layer, I also resized mine by 80%, position how you wish. To make mine look like its inside the main frame at the bottom I did the following,
On my image layer, Image-duplicate, I moved one of the image layers below the Main Frame layer, Select the Main Frame Back layer, Selections-Select All-Selections-Float-Selections-Defloat-Selections-Invert, using magic wand delete any parts of the tube from the bottom of the selection, on both image layers. Selections-Select None. Activate the top image layer and delete a small part of the image that overlaps the bottom of the Main Frame.
Dropshadow the bottom image layer, I used 5-5-39-7.92 Black.

With the D Frame Back layers, do the same as with Main frame Back layer, using your magic wand etc, I used paper9, Delete original D Frame Back Layers.

Dropshadow the D Frame layers, I used 3-3-32-3 Black.

Add any other elements of choice from the kit.

Select your background layer, Open paper of choice and resize to 600x600 pixels, edit-copy, paste as a new layer. Layers-Load/Save Mask-From Disk WSL_Mask3, in your layer palette right click on black mask layer, Merge-Merge Group. Effects-Plugins-Xero Fritallary with these settings:
Granularity - 5
Aggression - 30
Tesselation - 10
Variation - 0

Or whatever settings you prefer.

Add your name and copyright.

Save as .png or .jpg however you prefer.

I would love to see your results.
Luv Jo.xx.