Diamond Elegance

This Tutorial was written by me, Angel Flower, from my own ideas. Any similarities to others is coincedence. All my tutorials are registered with TWI.

For this tutorial you will need a tube of choice. I am using the work of Jennifer Jenesko. You must purchase a license from CILM, www.cilm.com to use her work.

Scrapkit. I am using a PTU kit called Diamond Darkness by Shhh from ShhhSrapz. It can be purchased here http://www.fall3nangel.com/store/. Visit her blog here www.shhhscrapzshack.blogspot.com


New Image-600x600-Transparent.

Anytime we paste something and it is too big, you can resize it one of two ways. One way is to click the little arrow tool.
You should see a box around the layer you are on, unless of course what you are tyring to resize is bigger than your canvas.
We will get to how to fix that in a minute. Once you see the box, if you put your mouse at one of the corners, you can drag the corner to make the image smaller. Always drag the box by the corner, otherwise it will get all distorted.

The other way to resize, esp. for things that are bigger than the canvas, is to go to image, resize, and start with about 85%, all layers unchecked.
You may need to repeat this a few times until it is the size you want.


Paste a paper of choice, try to use one that is decorated rather than plain, as a new layer. Resize so it is the size of your canvas. This will be our background.
Paste a plain paper as a new layer and resize to the same as the first. Over in the layer palette, double click this layer, the plain paper, and change the opacity to
about 60. This is our overlay paper.

Paste a frame of choice. The one I used is actually a mat and was already decorated with paper. If you are using a regular frame, then you will need to add a paper for
the inside. To do this, grab your magic wand, mode-add, feather-0, tolerance-20, click the center of the frame, the empty space. Paste a paper as a new layer. Go to
selections-modify-anywhere between 2 and 10 depending on the type of frame. Now go selections, invert and on the paper we just pasted hit delete. Select none.
You should now have your frame with the paper only showing through the inside. Make sure the paper layer is below the frame layer.

Paste your tube as a new layer. Resize it so it fits nicely inside your frame. If there are parts sticking out that you want gone then get your magic wand again, same settings, make your frame layer active, click in the center of it and go selections-invert, back on your tube layer hit delete. Now select none.
I changed the blend mode on mine by double clicking the tube layer and under blend mode, choose lighten, or whichever you like the looks of best.

Paste a couple of heart and flower elements around one side of the frame. Make sure each one is below the frame and frame paper layer. See my tag for placement. I only put them on one side because the the mat i used as a frame had a decoration on the other side. If you used a regualar frame, you paste elements around both sides if you want.

Give each of your elements a drop shadow of 0,0,opacity 100, blur 10, color black. Give your frame layer the same drop shadow.

Paste a ruffle or ribbon of choice across the top of your tag. See my tag for reference. Duplicate this layer and go image flip. Position as i have mine.

Paste some sort of charm or chain with a charm. Position on one side of your tag under your frame layer. If needed resize. Duplicate and go image mirror. See my tag for reference.
Give each of these the same drop shadow we used above.

Now is the time if you wish to resize your tag to do so by going to image-resize, make sure all layers is checked this time, by about 85%.

Now add your copyright so it is clearly visible. Add Your name and give it the same drop shadow.

Thats it, you are done.

©Angel Flower November 2008