Strawberry Dreams

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 21, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit Strawberry Wine here

Plugins

DC Special Nylon

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Mura Meister Copies

The tube I used Sydney (20-3) is by Nikki Burnette, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Tagettes

I used size 42

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Apply dc special nylon using default settings

Apply graphics plus cross shadow changing the 2 bottom #'s to 80

Paste swirl 1 as a new layer

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed and add drop shadow

Position in a lower corner

Paste strawberry 2 as a new layer

Resize to 60%

Position at the bottom center

Add drop shadow

Paste strawberry 5 as a new layer

Resize to 40%

Positon on the left side of the basket

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Duplicate again & position at the bottom center of the basket

Paste strawberry 3 as a new layer

Resize to 60%

Add drop shadow

Position near your left tube

Duplicate & mirror

Resize to 75%

Reposition near your right tube

Duplicate

Resize to 75%

Position on the left side of the center strawberry 5

Duplicate & mirror

Merge all the strawberries around the basket

Paste strawberry 6 as a new layer

Resize to 40%

Duplicate & hide the original

Resize to 75%

Duplicate & position at the tip of a swirl

Keep duplicating until you have all the swirl ends covered

Merge these layers

Unhide your strawberry

Duplicate

Resize to 60%

Send to top

Hide the original again

Position on top of the basket

Duplicate a few times & arrange

Merge all your strawberry layers except the hidden one but not the basket

Duplicate 2 times

Apply dsb flux bright noise

Unhide your strawberry & send to the top

Apply mura meister copies

Line>number 21

Effects>distortion effects>wave

Use these settings

Move to above your bg layer

Change layer properties to soft light

Add drop shadow

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

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