March Aquamarine

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 14, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Floral Corner here

Plugins

Eyecandy Textures Weave

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Xenofex Constellation

Eyecandy HSB Noise

The tube I used March Aquamarine is by Maxine Gadd, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

The name of my font is Aquarelle

I used size 48 after resizing my tag

Open a new transparent canvas 940x400, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply eyecandy textures Weave

Settings>Satin tiny

Basic>Ribbon width 5

Apply graphics plus cross shadow using default settings

Apply xenofex constellation

Click on settings then on low density stars, check the keep original image box

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed & add a drop shadow

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a darker shade of your color

Contract 8

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Paste your floral corner as a new layer

Resize to 15%

Position lower left corner

Change layer properties to overlay

Add drop shadow

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Duplicate, flip & merge down

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy hsb noise

Click on settings then on tie dye

Pattern smooth fractal

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking on the random seed button each time

Rename these layers to animation 1, 2 & 3

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

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Result by Kaye W