Written by Gwenda on March 3rd 2011
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Lucyville, found
Blogtrain Fruits & Flowers scrapkit by Fantasy Moments FTU found
Tube of choice. I used Athena by Elias Chatzoudis. His work can be found at
Mask of choice – I used WSL84
Melissaz Template 85 which can be found
Open Melissaz Template 85. Copy, and close original
Delete raster 3 ( copyright ).
Delete raster 1, raster 4 and raster 6 (large circle, middle grey square and frame)
Image – canvas size 600 x 600
Add new raster layer at the bottom and floodfill white
Make foreground colour ee2c24 and background colour 5268aa.
Create background gradient angel 45 and 1 repeat.
Click on raster 8 ( dark grey rectangle ). Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and fill with gradient. Selections – select none.
Effects – texture effects – weave with settings at 1 4 5 white white.
Copy & paste close up tube. Image mirror, and place to left of gradient-filled rectangle. Layers – duplicate. Image mirror. Merge down. Drop shadow tube layer
Gradient-filled rectangle again. Selections – float – defloat – selections invert.
Click on tube layer and tap delete. Deselect.
On tube layer go to Properties – Luminance legacy, and reduce opacity to 75
Rectangle frame ( raster 2 ) Selections – float – defloat.
Layer – new raster layer – paste paper 4 into selection. Select none. Sharpen
Adjust – add noise, 55 with Gaussian & monochrome both checked.
Dropshadow
Change angle of gradient to 315, 3 repeats and invert checked.
Click on pink squares ( merged ). Selections – float – defloat.
Layer – new raster layer, fill both with gradient. Deselect.
Square frames ( merged ) Selections – float – defloat.
Layer – new raster layer – paste paper 3 into selection. Select none. Sharpen
Adjust – add noise, 55 with Gaussian & monochrome both checked.
Dropshadow
Element 59 – resize 25 percent. Duplicate Place inside squares, and lower opacity to 44. merge down, then merge flowers down to gradient filled squares. Merge frames down to this also.
Element 26 – resize 75 percent then again 60 percent. Sharpen.
Copy & paste underneath gradient-filled rectangle on right hand side. Layers duplicate, image mirror and arrange to suit. Dropshadow both.
Merge together both star layers. Selections – float – defloat.
Layer – new raster layer. Paste paper 2 into selection. Deselect.
Sharpen.
Adjust – add noise, 55 with Gaussian & monochrome both checked.
Layers – duplicate. On the BOTTOM layer go to adjust – blur – Gaussian with radius 5. Duplicate this layer.
Dropshadow TOP copy of the stars.
Copy & paste your main tube on top of all other layers. Dropshadow.
Add new raster layer on top of white background. Selections – select all – paste paper 27 into selection. Deselect
Layers – load/save mask from disk
Merge group
Reduce mask opacity to 53
Delete all original template layers.
Add any other embellishments of choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
