February 2010

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Be My Valentine – Forever And Ever

February 10, 2010 in Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | 1 comment

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Beginner

Supplies: Kit Forever And Ever by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

A tube of your choice. I use one of Suzanne Woolcott´s artworks. You can buy her artworks here.

© Suzanne Woolcott - www.gorjuss.co.uk - SW4287

Plugins: EC6 Perspective Shadow. Can be substituted with PSP´s drop shadow or another shadow plugin.

* Open a new 600*600 px. canvas. This is now your working canvas. Save!

* Open paper1 and 9_blue from the kit. Resize both to 600*600 px. (Smartsize). C/p to your working canvas.

* Open frame 1, resize to 32%. C/p to the canvas.

* Open heart ribbon 1, resize to 30%. C/p to the canvas.

* Open bow 2, resize to 30% and the to 75% TWICE. C/p to the canvas.

* C/p your tube to the canvas. Resize as needed.

* Place everything to your liking.

* Go to the frame layer. Click inside the frame with your magic wand. Expand the selection with 2 px. Then  make paper 1 (the beige paper) your active layer, promote to selection. X-out the original paper layer.

* Go to the ribbon heart layer, also select with the magic wand inside the heart. Expand the selection with 2 px. Then make paper 9 your active layer, promote to selection and x-out the original paper layer.

* Time to add some shadow. I use a perspective shadow for the bow and a regular drop shadow on the rest of the layers.

These are the settings for the regular shadow:

And the settings for the perspective shadow:

* Add your text. I wrote “Be My Valentine” with a font called Juice ITC, size 60.

* Place your text, where you would like it to be. Then select it like this: Selections/Float/Defloat. Then expand the selection with 2 px.

* Still keeping selected. Create a new raster layer beneath the text layer. Fill it with a color of your choice.

* Add a drop shadow to this layer.

* I croped my result, but it is not necessary to do so.

* Your tag is now finished!

* Save!

This is my result:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial. :)

Nature Kids

February 9, 2010 in Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Nature Kids by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

A picture of your choice.

My PSP frame. It can be downloaded here.

* Open paper 08, duplicate, resize to 600*600px. (Smartsize). Save!

* Resize the canvas to 600*500px.

* Open the following elements: frame 01, label paper 01, metal label 01, owl 01, kid 01, tied ribbon 07, small heart 01 and tree with leaves 01.

* Resize all (EXCEPT the frame and the tree) to 15%. C/p to the canvas.

* Resize the frame and the tree to 20%, also c/p to the canvas.

* Flip the frame. Mirror the tree.

* Resize the tied ribbon again, this time with 95%.

* Rotate the metal label and the label paper 3 degrees to the right. Make sure the paper is beneath the label.

* Make the paper layer the active layer, then go to Picture Frames and find the lhsTORNEDGE_01 frame and apply it with these settings:

* Move the embellishments to your liking. This is what my canvas looks like now:

* Time to add some shadow. I use EC6 Perspective Shadow for this. I add a regular drop shadow to all elements EXCEPT the tied ribbon, which I add a perspective shadow to instead.

For the drop shadow I use these settings:

And for the perspective shadow on the tied ribbon, I use these settings:

* Now with your freehand selection tool trace inside the frame like this:

* Then go to the paper layer and press delete. Deselect.

* Open the picture/tube, you would like to use. C/p it to your canvas. Move it, so it is the bottom layer. Resize as needed.

* Add your text (title/journaling). I used a font called “Milk & Cereal”.

I applied a gradient glow with EC5 using these settings:

Then I added a drop shadow to it.

* Your tag is now finished. SAVE!

This is my result:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial! :)