Hey Girlfriend

Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "No Boys Allowed" by Kristi Westling available from The Scrapping Divaz Designz and Sunshine Studio Scraps

Tube of choice - I am using the FTU artwork of Carol Barajas

Fonts of choice - I am using Tangled Up and A&S Snapper Script

Plugins: Mura Meister > Copies

Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow

Let's begin...

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

Paste IPod as new layer
Resize by 70%

Now activate your Background layer and hide the visiblity

We need it to be transparent to see what we are doing

Select your Preset Shape Tool and set to Rectangle
Foreground - #ffffff
Background - null
Width - 10.00

Draw out a long thing rectangle
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Duplicate, then Image > Flip
Duplicate again and position between the top and bottom rectangles

Hide IPod
Layers > Merge > Merge Visible



Select inside each of the rectangles with your Magic Wand
Selections > Modify > Expand by 5
Paste Paper of choice as new layer
Resize by 70%
Selections > Invert
Delete then deselect

Apply the following drop shadow:
Vertical and Horizontal - 1
Opacity - 30
Blur - 5.00
Colour - #000000

Paste a Flower of choice as new layer
Resize by 10%

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



Image > Flip
Erase flowers from bottom of iPod

Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a radius of 15.00

Effects > Texture Effects > Fine Leather with the following settings:



Activate top layer

Paste Doodle1 as new layer
Resize by 60%
Position with the upper loop centred in the MenuPad of the iPod

Duplicate, then set blend mode to Screen
Layers > Merge > Merge Down

Paste StarGems as new layer
Resize by 45%
Position to liking

Adjust > Brightness & Contrast with the Brightness set to 30

Duplicte, then Image > Mirror
Position to liking

Paste Phone as new layer
Resize by 25%
Position to the lower left

Paste some other elements to your liking and position

Now activate your iPod layer

With your Magic Wand select the grey area till it is completely selected

Selections > Modify > Feather by 2

Paste Tube of choice as new layer
Resize as necessary and position
Selections > Invert

Delete then deselect

Crop and then resize

Select your Text Tool and font of choice
I am using Tangled Up
Text colour to match tag - I am using one of the papers from the kit

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

Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow set to the Fat settings and a Glow width of 3.00

Apply a drop shadow of choice

Select another font of choice
I am using A&S Snapper Script
Same text colour

Type out your name
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Apply same Gradient Glow and drop shadow of choice

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

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

This is an easy animation

Activate your Tube layer and lower opacity to 0
Edit > Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop
Edit > Paste as New Animation

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 5
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 10
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 20
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 40
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 60
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 80
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

Back to PSP
Bring opacity up to 100
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste after Current Frame

You should no have EIGHT Frames

Select all then paste as new animation
Select all again then go to
Animation > Reverse Frames

Frames should still all be selected so COPY
Then on your original animation activate LAST frame, then
Paste after Current Frame

You should now have a total of 16 Frames
Select All and change Frame Properties to 20
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 4th September 2009
All rights reserved