Be My Valentine – Forever And Ever

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.