Wednesday, April 06, 2011

YOUR EASTER SURPRISE FTU



Written by Gwenda on April 6th  2011
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Brady Bunch remastered, found

Scrapkit by Fantasy Moments FTU found

Tube of choice. I used I Love Easter by Elias Chatzoudis. His work can be found at

Mask of choice – I used WSL95


New canvas 700 x 700 and floodfill white

Layers – new raster layer. Selections – select all, paste Paper 15 into selection. Deselect.

Apply Mask WSL 95. Merge group.

Element 14 – Resize 30%. Mura meister copies. Select Encircle and change top 3 settings to 12  75  75  and leave all others at default.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 70 - Resize 18%. Mura meister copies. Select Encircle and change top 3 settings to 12  75  75  and leave all others at default.
Sharpen. Dropshadow

Close background and merge visible. Resize 90%.
Re-open background

Paper 12 – resize 80% and paste under frame.

On frame layer, select preset shapes – circle – line size 3
FG black BG Null
Draw circle so it cuts through the centre of all the flowers. Convert to raster.

Click inside circle with magic wand. Selections – invert and delete the paper layer. Selections invert again. Layers – new raster layer BELOW pink paper circle. Fill white. Deselect.

Drop opacity of paper to 70 and merge paper down to white circle.

Paste tube above frame and position where desired. Duplicate and move one below frame.

Click on paper circle. Selections – select all – float defloat. Click on tube and  delete. Deselect. Dropshadow top tube layer.

Element 39 – resize 50%. Place centre bottom. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 35 – resize 50%. Place to right. Duplicate – mirror. Sharpen Dropshadow

Element 37 – resize 45%. Place to right. Duplicate – mirror. Sharpen Dropshadow

Element 54 – resize 20%. Paste as top layer and move over bow so it looks like he is peeping out. Sharpen Dropshadow

Element 2 – resize 30%. Sharpen Dropshadow

Element 28 – resize 40%. Sharpen Dropshadow



Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.