My Little Angel

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 10, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Flower mist here

Plugins

DC Special Nylon

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

Xenofex Constellation

The tube I used Little Souls (79-3) is by Karen Middleton, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Tagettes

I used size 36 for the 1st 2 words, 42 for the word Angel & 48 for my name

Open new transparent canvas 940x400, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply dc special nylon, I played with the red to change the shade a bit

Apply graphics plus cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 70

Paste flower mist as a new layer

Resize to 90%

Position to one side, not quite all the way, leave a little space

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Change layer properties to overlay

Duplicate 2 times

Apply constellation, click on settings then on low density stars

Make sure the keep original image box is checked

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

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & resize to 40%

Position in upper left corner

Duplicate & mirror

Position in lower right corner

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your color

Select all

Contract 8

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with your color

Select all

Contract 20

Invert your selection

Delete

Deselect

Select all>float>defloat

Contract 8

Delete & deselect

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Move to below your tube layers

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

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Result by Kaye W