Fairy Tales

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "Spring Fairy Tales" by Tootie's Creationz available from Paradise 4 Scrappers and Stargazer Scraps

Tubes of choice - I am using the magical artwork of Caron Vinson which is available for purchase from CILM

**PLEASE DO NOT USE HER ARTWORK WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE LICENCE**

Font of choice - I am using AL Age Old Love

Plugins:  Eye Candy 4000 Glass and Gradient Glow

Xero Porcelain

 

 

Ready? Let's begin...

 

 

Open a new 600 x 600 blank canvas flood-filled white

 

Open a Paper of choice from your scrap kit
Set it to your Background in your Materials Palette
Open your Palette on Pattern and set the scale to 50

 

Select your Preset Shape Tool and set to Ellipse

 

Holding your Shift key down draw out a circle with your Paper

 

Objects > Align > Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Glass with the following settings:

 

 

Set your Preset Shape Tool to a Star shape
Hold your Shift key down again and draw out the Star

 

Objects > Align > Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Paste a Triple Frame as new layer
Resize by 60%

 

With your Magic Wand select the inside of each Frame
Selections > Modify > Expand by 10
Paste a paper of choice as new layer
Selections > Invert
Delete and deselect

 

Open three tubes of choice
Paste each within each Frame and resize as necessary
Position to your liking

 

With your Magic Wand select the first Frame
Selections > Modify > Expand by 10
Selections > Invert
Delete and deselect

 

Repeat this step for the other two Frames

 

 

Hide your Background, Circle, Star, Frame Background and Frame
Layers > Merge > Merge Visible

 

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Porcelain with default settings

 

Then Unhide all layers again

 

Paste FairyWand as new layer
Resize by 30%
Position in lower right of bottom Frame
Repeat Glass effect as above

 

Paste a Flower of choice as new layer
Resize by 25%
Place over the Wand in the lower right and resposition both as necessary

 

Paste another Flower
Resize by 20%
Position in upper right of middle Frame

 

Paste Crown as new layer
Image > Rotate by 20 to the left
Resize by 25%
Position in upper left of top Frame

 

Paste Unicorn as new layer
Resize by 20%
Position in lower left behind Flower layer

 

Paste Castle as new layer
Resize by 35%
Position to the left then move down to between the Star and Frame Background layers

 

Paste Rainbow as new layer
Image > Rotate by 20 to the right
Resize by 35%
Position in the upper right between the top and middle Frames

 

 

Activate the Circle layer we drew at the beginning and duplicate
On the bottom layer go to:

 

Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a radius of 20.00

 

Then go to Effects > Texture Effects > Mosaic Antique with the following settings:

 

 

Select your Text Tool and font of choice
I am using AL Age Old Love
Choose a colour from your tag and set it as your background
I am using #a997c9

 

Type out your name
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

 

Apply a Gradient Glow using Eye Candy 4000, and a drop shadow of choice

 

Finally, add your © copyright, licence and watermark, then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

 

Thanks for trying my tutorial!
 
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© Tutorial written by Stina on 17th May 2009
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