Tutorial: Friends Are Flowers

This tutorial is dedicated to ButterflyFlutterby, who gave me the courage to write it.

There are no filters used in this tutorial. You will need:

3 tubes from the same artist. I'm using the beautiful art of Caron Vinson. To use her art, you must purchase a licence, which you can do at CILM.

Suz template #12 from her blog HERE

Scrapkit: FTU Matters of the Heart (love it, Lou!) from her blog HERE

Mask: ButterflyFlutterby Mask 8 from her blog HERE

Font: A&S Jiggy Roman. This is a free font, just Google it.

Supplies: my wordart, HERE

Load the mask into your psp files.

Open the template, copy (shift+d) and close the original. Delete the copyright layer. Open paper #3 and paste as a new layer. Layers>load/save mask>load mask from disk, Source Luminance and Hide All Mask ticked. Merge>merge group, send layer to the bottom. Add a drop shadow of -1, -1, 30, 5, black, then add another of 1, 1, 30, 5, black. Use these same settings for all of the shadows on this tag.

Open paper #2. Click onto the rectangles layer of the template, Selections>select all>float>defloat and then copy and paste your paper into the selection. Selections>select none. Add the drop shadows.

Open paper #4. Click into the back 1 layer on the template, selections>select all>float>defloat, copy and paste your paper into the selection. Selections>select none.

While this paper is still copied, go up to the frame 3 layer on your template, and following the same steps, add paper #4 to this layer, too. Add the drop shadows to this frame layer.

Open paper #1. Click into back2 layer, selections>select all>float>defloat, copy and paste your paper into the layer, selections>select none.

Open paper #5. Click into back3 layer, selections>select all>float>defloat, copy and paste the paper into the layer. While this paper is still copied, click into frame1, and repeat the steps to paste the same paper into this layer. Selections>select none, and add the drop shadows.

Open paper #3. Click into frame2, selections>select all>float>defloat, copy and then paste the paper into the selection. Selections>select none. Add the drops shadows.

Now, for each tube, (one at a time, please, lol) copy and paste as a new layer, then position above the frame back and beneath the frame, and then erase any that shows outside the frame. Do this on each circle. Add the same drop shadows to each tube layer.

Open the wordart and paste as a new layer, use the move tool to put into the right position.

Open Flowerpot1, resize by 15 percent, and place on the lower left side of your tag (see mine for position.) Duplicate the flowerpot, mirror, and place to the right side of the tag.

Add your copyright info, and your name, merge all layers and save as a png. file, and you're done!

Do not copy, other than one printable copy for your own personal use.

TWI registration pending.

AngelMade 2009