Devilicious

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on April 27, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Flowers here

Plugins

Xenofex Constellation

The tube I used Chubby Twisted is by Popeye Wong, you can get his ftu tubes here

If you haven't been there lately he has some new tubes

The font I used is called Shower Flower

I used size 42 all caps

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize layer

Floodfill with black

Select all

Add a new raster layer

Paste your flower into selection

Deselect

Add drop shadow

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & position on one side

Resize to 75% and leave in the position it landed

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Apply constellation

Settings>small star constellation>overall star density 0>twinkle amount 75>keep original image checked

On your big tube layer

Zoom in on the tail & activate your freehand selection tool

Select around the tail

Copy & cut

Erase any lines

Paste as a new layer

Postion back into place & duplicate

Rotate right 25

Position back into place

Activate your clone tool & cover up the gap

Activate the original tail move to above the rotated one

Duplicate & rotate left 25

Do same as you did with the other tail

Rename these layers to tail 1, tail 2 & tail 3

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

I added the constellation effect to my text & name changing overall density to 4

Animation:

Hide animation tail 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide tail 1 & unhide 2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide tail 2 & unhide 3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

Copy frame 2 and paste afer frame 3

I set my frame properties at 20

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

You'll find my email blinkie on your left

:)

Result by Kaye W

Christmas Snow

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on November 18, 2010

Please read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit Xmas Candy Cane by Lacarolita Designz here

Gradients MQC Ribbon Green & MQC Holiday Here

Snow Mound Here

Font Used:  Christmas, you can get it at dafont.com

I used the fabulous artwork of Popeye Wong here

Plugins

Filters Unlimited 2.0

Vanderlee Snowflakes

Open a new transparent canvas 930x450, we can resize later.  I made this for a blog so thats why so big lol

Flood fill with gradient, angle 45 and repeats 4

Apply Filters Unlimited Kaleidoscope 2>Divisions 48 and Variation 192

Apply Filters Unlimited>Paper Textures>Cotton Paper/ Fine>Intensity 128 and lightness 96

Copy and paste as new image, minimize for now

Apply border size 15 all the way around with a contrasting color

Select with your magic wand and flood fill with the Holiday Gradient same settings as above

Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds with the following settings

Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel with these settings

Deselect

Add another border size 20

Flood fill with a dark red gradient, select with your magic wand and repeat the blinds effect, UNcheck horizontal

Repeat inner bevel changing the bevel from #12 to #2

Deselect

Add 1 more border size 15, repeat same as the first one

Resize back to 930 pixels wide

Back to your copied image

Add a border 15 pixels all the way around

Flood fill with your red gradient

Apply blinds effect with the same settings as the screenshot shows

Apply inner bevel using bevel #2

Resize to 80% and paste as a new layer on the image with 3 borders, duplicate 3 times for a total of 4

Paste Candy Cane Tree as a new layer, resize to 38%

Move over to the edge of the frame on the larger image, duplicate & mirror.  Merge down.  Using your move tool, press your down arrow one time

Paste your tube as a new layer, resize if needed

Paste the snow mound as a new layer, place below the trees and resize to 93%

Move to the top of your smaller image border

Add your copyright info

Animation

Activate the top layer of your duplicates

Using your selection tool select around the inside of the border

Apply Vanderlee Snow Flakes with the following settings

Rename layer to snow 1

Apply snowflakes on the next layer changing amount from 40 to 38 and random seed to 2, rename to snow 2

On next layer change amount to 36 and random seed to 3, rename to snow 3

On last layer change amount to 34 and random seed to 4, rename to snow 4

Deselect

Merge your copyright info, tube, trees and snow mound layers

Hide the bottom 3 snow layers, merge visible.  Copy and paste to animation shop

Back to PSP, undo your merge.  Hide snow 1 and UNhide snow 2, merge visible and paste after current in animation shop

Repeat with snow layers 3 & 4

I resized mine to 650 pixels wide

Frame properties 15

Save as gif and you're all done

I hope you have enjoyed doing this tutorial

:)

Bibbity Bobbity Boo

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This tutorial was written by Sharon1958 on October 14, 2010.

Please read my TOU on the right side of this blog

This tut uses no scrap kits and is easy to do for any skill level with a working knowledge of psp.  The supplies I provided are already the right size for this template.

Template Bibbity Bobbity Boo by Creative Misfits Here.  Scroll about 1/2 way down

Materials Here

I am using the beautiful artwork of Popeye Wong

Font I used was Vampiress, you can get it at dafont.com

Open template, shift D to duplicate, close out original.  Delete credits layer.

Open supplies

Paste all as a new layer and position into place referring to my tag, no need to resize any of them.  Mirror the right cat

Activate 2grad layer, select all, float, defloat.  Paste your tube as a new layer, invert selection then hit your delete key to remove the excess, deselect.

New raster layer, send to bottom.  Flood fill with a dark red gradient.  Apply an inner bevel of your choice settings.  Merge visible

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your copyright info and your text

Merge and save

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial

Sharon