Lilac Dreams Tutorial

You will need:

A tube - I used a Jenifer Janesko PFU tube from CILM
You need to be a registered member to buy the tubes.
A nice script font
Scrapkit called "Lilac Dreams from SimplySensationalScraps
HERE
Plugin Filter - Eyecandy 4000


New white canvas 700x700



Preset Shapes - draw out a rectangle, colour black or
a dark colour to suit your tube.Place it left on your canvas



Go to Effects-Image Effects-Page Curl-LOwer Left Corner, with these settings



Chose 2 colours that will suit your tube.

Duplicate-Mirror - Merge Down

Preset Shapes - have your foreground colour active, background nulled using the Line
Style - draw out another rectangle just a little bigger that the Merged ones





Selections-Select All-Float-Defloat - Plugin Filters-Eyecandy 4000-Glass.



Pheww - that is hard part done.

Copy & paste one of the Scrolls from the scrapkit, placing it centre of the rectangles.
Give the Scroll this drop shadow



Adjust-Sharpen.

Copy & paste one of the Bows from scrapkit - resize 80% Bicubic-all layers unchecked.
Move the Bow to top left corner. Image-Free Rotate-25 Left. Sharpen.Drop shadow the same as before.

Copy & paste one of the Crystal Drops from scrapkit. Move it down under the Bow.Drop shadow.

Make top layer active - copy & paste one of the Bling Doodles from scrapkit - Image-Free Rotate-90 left.
Move the Bling Doodle up to the top - duplicate-Flip. Merge Down. Now move the merged Bling Doodles down to
just under the Scroll. Drop shadow.

Make top layer active - copy & paste your tube as a new layer. You may have to resize the tube if
it is a bit small. Drop shadow.

Cross out eyes on bottom layer (white), Merge Visible all other layers.
Add your name & correct copyright - Merge Down. I resized my image 85% Bicubic-all layers unchecked.
Crop Tool - crop to remove excess white background.Resize as required - I resized mine 87%
Bicubic-all layers checked. Save as a *Png


This tutorial was written by ©Kate on 21st April, 2010.