Faery Princess

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on June 12, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

All the supplies I used were included with the tube I used

Plugins

Graphics plus cross shadow

The tube I used Fairy Princess (13-3) is by Chrissy Clark, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Tagettes

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Select all

Paste the sky background into selection

Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Add a drop shadow

Paste the balcony as a new layer

Move to the bottom center

Add drop shadow

Go back to your tube & move down a bit to make the balcony higher on her

Paste border 1 as a new layer

Duplicate

Rotate left 90

Merge down

Click inside with your magic wand

Expand 5

Add a new raster layer

Paste paper 2 into selection

Deselect

Move to below your tube layer

Add a drop shadow to your frame

Working from your frame layer

Paste the sparkles as a new layer

Duplicate, flip & mirror

Move to the upper left corner of your frame

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Duplicate, flip & merge down

Duplicate 3 times

On your 2nd layer apply graphics plus cross shadow using default settings

Repeat on your 3rd layer changing the bottom # to 168

Repeat on your 4th layer changing the bottom # to 208

Do not apply to the top layer

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3 & 4

Copy merged & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Copy merged & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Copy merged & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 3 & unhide #4

Copy merged & 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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Result by Kaye W