Friendship's Dance

Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "Bouquet of Friends" by Lynn Earwicker available from The Scrapping Divaz Designz

Tube of choice - I am using the lovely artwork of Carmen Keys available with a licence from CILM

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

WSL_Mask225 by Chelle available from her blog

Fonts of choice - I am using Centime and CAC Pinafore

Plugins: Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact > Glass

Filters Unlimited > Colour Effects > Blue Sky

Eye Candy 400 Gradient Glow

Xenofex 2 Constellation

Ready? Let's begin....

Open a new 600 x 600 canvas flood-filled white

Open a paper of choice and minimise

Select your Preset Shape Tool and set to Ellipse
Line style - Solid
Width - 25.00

Open your Materials Palette and select the Patterns tab
Find the paper you minimised and set the scale to around 70

Hold your Shift key and draw out a circle
Objects > Align > Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

Effects > Plugins > Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact > Glass with the following settings:

Select the inside of frame with your Magic Wand
Selections > Modify > Expand by 2

Add a new raster layer

Paste Paper of choice INTO selection
Layers > Arrange > Move Down

KEEP SELECTED!

Then, Effects > Plugins > IC Net Software > Filters Unlimited > Colour Effects > Blue Sky with the following settings:

KEEP SELECTED!!

Paste Rainbow as new layer
Resize by 75%
Position to your liking
Selections > Invert
Delete

KEEP SELECTED!!

Paste Grass as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position along bottom of Frame
Delete

KEEP SELECTED!!

Paste Tree as new layer
Resize by 55%
Position to the left partially within the Frame
Delete

STILL SELECTED!!

Paste Tree again as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position to the opposite side just slightly inside the Frame
Delete

STILL SELECTED!!

Paste a PaperFlower as new layer
Resize by 10%
Position in lower front and centre
Duplicate and position to liking

Paste another PaperFlower as new layer
Resize and repeat step as above

Press delete on each of the duplicate layers as necessary
And DESELECT!

Activate top layer

Paste HeartClusters as new layer
Resize by 75%
Position across Frame

Paste Tube as new layer
Resize as necessary
Position to your liking

Paste Flower as new layer
Resize by 10%

LEAVE IN POSITION!!

Effects > Plugins > Mura Meister > Copies with the following settings:

Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom

Paste a paper of choice
Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom

Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image
Apply WSL_Mask225
OK
Layers > Merge > Merge Group

Lower opacity to 65

Select your Preset Shape Tool and set to Ellipse

Hold you Shift Key and draw out a circle

Objects > Align > Centre in Canvas

Select your Text Tool and font of choice
I am using Centime
Background - #968ebd (or to match tag)

On the curve of the Ellipse type out text of choice

Open your Layer Palette and Vector Layer
Turn off Ellipse and convert to raster layer
Apply a Gradient Glow and drop shadow of choice

Select another font of choice
I am using CAC Pinafore
Use same colour as above

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

Apply same Gradient Glow and a drop shadow of choice

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

** IF YOU WISH TO ANIMATE PLEASE FOLLOW THESE NEXT STEPS **

Activate your encircled Flower layer

Duplicate twice and rename Sparkle1, Sparkle2 and Sparkle3

Hide Sparkle2 and Sparkle3 and activate Sparkle1

Effects > Plugins > Xenofex > Constellation with the following settings:

Hide Sparkle1 and activate Sparkle2
Apply the Constellation again, adjusting the Random Seed

Hide Sparkle2 and activate Sparkle3
Apply the Constellation effect again, adjusting the Random Seed

Now for the animation!

Activate Sparkle1 and hide Sparkle2 and Sparkle3
Edit > Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop
Edit > Paste as New Animation

Back to PSP
Hide Sparkle1 and activate Sparkle2
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop

Edit > Paste AFTER Current Frame

Back to PSP
Hide Sparkle2 and activate Sparkle3
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste AFTER Current Frame

Save as a GIF and you're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial!

::st!na::

Here is a non-animated version:

© Tutorial written by Stina on 11th June 2009

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