Romancing the Heart Tutorial

You will need:

A tube - I used one from Kel at ©OutLawByDesigns
Scrapkit called "Romancing The Heart" from DesignsByVaybs
HERE
Make sure you click on the Taggers size download.
Font of choice
Plugin Filter - MuRa's Meister-Copies

New white canvas 700x700



We will crop down & resize later.

Open up your tube - select 2 colours from it for
you Foreground & Background colours in your Material Palette.
Foreground dark colour - background light colour.

Preset Shapes - Rectangle-width 5 -  draw out a medium sized rectangle.
Objects-Align-Centre In Canvas. Convert to Raster layer. Magic Wand, click
on the dark border of your rectangle - Effects-3D Effects-Inner Bevel with these settings



Select None

Magic Wand again, click inside of the rectangle-Effects-Texture Effects-Fine Leather with these settings



Select None

Give this drop shadow



Plugin - Filters-MuRa's Meister-Copies with these settings



Copy & paste DBV Element 2 as a new layer - resize 90% Bicubic-all layers unchecked

Copy & paste DBV Element 29 as anew layer - resize 60% Bicubic-all layers unchecked.
Image-Free Rotate-Rotate 90 left - place top left of copied rectangles. Image-Sharpen-Sharpen More
Give drop shadow.
Copy & paste DBV Element 13 from scrapkit - resize 80% Bicubic-all layers unchecked.
Adjust-Sharpen-Sharpen More - give the same drop shadow as before. Place the Heart top left
Copy & paste you tube as anew layer. Give drop shadow.
Add your name & correct copyright.
Crop Tool - crop to remove excess white background. You may have to resize - I resized mine 85% Bicubic-all layers checked
Save as a *Png


This tutorial was written by ©Kate on 9th April 2010.