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Romancing the Heart Tutorial

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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 Elemen...

My Shining Star Tutorial

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You will need: My supplies - mask & brush HERE Scrapkit called 'FD Shiny' from FantasyDreamsDesigns HERE The scrapkit includes the tube. But you can use any tube you like. Drop Shadow we will be using throughout is: 1/3/100/12-Black Preset Shapes-5 sided Star Plugin Filters: dsbFlux-Bright Noise Filter Flaming Pear-SBP Filter Animation Shop New white canvas 700x700 Open up my supplies - minimise Vix Mask & Export my RaggedHeart Brush into your Custom Brush's. New Raster layer. Open up one of the Papers from the scrapkit - have it as your foreground colour in Patterns Stamp the RaggedHeart Brush a few times to get a nice colour. Drop shadow. Now make your bottom layer active (white) Select a dark coloured paper from scrapkit - paste it as a new layer - New Mask Layer-From Image- with these settings Merge Group Make top layer active - copy & paste one of the cluster flower elements as a new layer. Drop shadow. Copy &...

Sit On This Tutorial

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You will need: A sitting or laying tube. I use a free one from ©LisaK-SophisticatedScraps HERE If you use her cute lil tubes please use this copyright ©LisaK-http://sophisticatedscraps.blogspot.com Slatt - I used one of ©Moonshadows Slatts. I have included the Slatt in my supplies HERE Font - I used 'Fingerpop' - in my supplies Plugin Filters-Eyecandy-4000 & Tramages New white canvas 800x700 We will crop this later Open up my supplies - minimise the font for now. Copy & paste the Slatt as a new layer. Selections-Select All-Float-Defloat - new raster layer. Select 2 colours from your tube for the foreground & background colours. On the foreground -gradient with these settings Flood Fill Tool - floodfill the new layer with your gradient. Keep selected, go to Effects, Plugins-Eyecandy4000-Glass with these settings Selections-Select None. Delete the black Slatt layer. Give your new Slatt layer this drop shadow Move your Slatt...

Angelina Tutorial

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I have a few screen shots with this tutorial for those that are new to Slatts You will need: A tube - I used one of Henri Peter tubes called 'Rosa-Angelina'. Henri Peter is a Free To Use artist - you can find him HERE My supplies which contain a mask from ©Vix & a Slatt from ©Moonshadow HERE Font of choice New white canvas 700x700 OPen up the Mask & Slatt from supplies. Minimise the mask - copy & paste the Slatt as a new layer. Selections-select All-Float-Defloat - copy & paste your tube as a new layer, moving tube to the left of Slatt - Mirror your original tube, copy & paste it as a new layer, moving to the right of the Slatt - Selections-Invert, hit delete on both tube layers. Selections-None. Cross out the eyes on bottom layer & Slatt layer, Merge Visible both tube layers.Uncross eyes on bottom & Slatt layers. This is what you should have Delete the black Slatt layer, have tube layer active - Effects-Inner Be...

Lifetime Tutorial

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You will need: 2 tubes from the same artist. I used 2 from Henri Peters. Any 2 tubes will do though. My Mask which you find in my supplies HERE Font Filters Unlimited 2.0 Open up my Mask - minimise for now. Have your 2 tubes open on your work space New 700x700 white canvas New raster layer - flood fill with a colour from your tubes. New Mask Layer-From Image with these settings Merge Group. Effects-Plugin Filters-FiltersUnlimited2.0 - Paper Textures- Japanese Paper with the default setting. Copy & paste one of your tubes as a new layer. Now I feathered the bottom of mine. I used the Frehand Selection Tool & drew around the bottom of the tube went to Selections-Modify-Feather- with these settings Then hit delete a few times till you are happy with the feathering. Selections-None. Give a nice subtle drop shadow Make your Mask layer active - copy & paste your 2nd tube as a new layer. Do the same as 1st tube with the Freeha...

By The Light Tutorial-Revised

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I have had to amend this tutorial because the link to the original scrap kit doesn't work You will need: A tube - I used one from Caron Vinson. You must be a registered member of CILM to buy the tube - but any tube will do for this tutorial I made a 'clucter' from a scrap kit called "Surrender" from FantasyMoments Scraps HERE Mask - UF2 from UrbanFairyTalesBlog HERE Scroll almost to bottom of page to find the download link to her Masks - 1 - 25. Font - I used Asrafel - in my supplies HERE & HERE   The 2nd link is for the new cluster Filters Unlimited 2.0 Open up the cluster from my supplies. Make cluster layer active - resize 85% Bicubic-all layers unchecked. Freehand Selection Tool, draw around the cluster Copy one of the papers from the scrap kit that will match your tube. Selections-Invert, hit delete. Selections-None. Move paper below cluster. Have your Foreground colour the same colour as the paper & ...

"Daring" Tutorial

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You will need: A tube - I used one of Brian Roods. You must be a registered member of CILM to buy the tubes. Scrapkit called "Elegance" from Sophisticatsimone Mask 17 from WeeScotsLass Font The scrapkit, mask & font are in my supplies HERE Plugin Filters - Ommadawn New white canvas 650x650 Open up the scrapkit & mask - minimise the mask for now. Selections-Select All - new raster layer, copy one of the papers from the scrapkit & paste it into Selection. Selections-Select None. New Mask Layer-From Image with these settings Merge Group Resize mask- 85% Bicubic-all layers unchecked. Duplicate-Mirror-Merge Down Duplicate once more & on original mask layer - Effects-Plugins-Ommadawn Filter with the default settings. Merge Down Copy & paste Heart Big from scrapkit as a new layer. Magic Wans, click inside of the Big Heart. Selections-Modify-Expand 5. Copy & paste another paper from scrapkit as a new layer. S...