Starlight Kisses

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
Scrapkit. I am using a kit called Feathery Hugs and Butterfly Kisses by Crimson Butterfly Scrapz. You can purchase the kit from Digital Chaos here http://www.fall3nangel.com/store/

This tutorial is written for this specific kit.

Tube(s) of choice. I am using the work of Jasmine Becket-Griffith. You must purchase a license from CILM, www.cilm.com, to use her work.

Plugins-Eye Candy gradient glow(optional)

New Image-600x600-transparent.
Choose a paper for your background and paste onto your canvas. Resize if needed. If at any time a paper needs resizing, go to image-resize-I usually start with about 85%, all layers unchecked. You can repeat it a few times if needed.


Paste a frame as a new layer, I chose the triple frame. Resize if needed. For any elements you can use the method above or you can use the arrow tool by clicking it, make sure the layer you wish to resize is active, and once you click the arrow tool you will see a box around the layer you are on, grab the box by one of the corners and drag it to the size you want.

This next part may be a little tricky. Grab your selection tool, set it to ellipse, mode add, feather 0. Try to start in the center of the middle frame and draw out an ellipse the size of the frame without going outside the edges of the frame. If the marching ants are not around the border of the frame quite right then go to selections, select none, and try again until it is right. Once selected, choose another paper and paste as a new layer. Go to selections, invert, and hit delete.
Now the paper should only show through the frame. Select none. Move this layer below the frame layer.

Repeat those steps for the other two parts of the frame.

Give your frame only a drop shadow, go to effects, 3d effects, drop shadow. I used 0,0,75,10, and black.

Open the feather spray1 and paste as a new layer. Resize. Place at the bottom center of your tag. Duplicate it and position the duplicate on one side, the duplicate again and place on the other side. I also moved my center one up slightly. See my tag for reference.

Open the feather cluster1 and paste onto your canvas. Resize and place at the bottom of the tag so it goes all the way across, again see my tag for reference.

Give it the same drop shadow.

Paste the flower as a new layer, resize it and place one on each side of the frame, see my tag for placement. Move this layer above the frame but below the feather sprays.

Get the feather3 and paste as a new layer. Move this layer to just above the background paper. Place on one side where the side of the little frame attaches to the center frame.
It should stick out slightly from the top and bottom. If it is too big, resize it. Duplicate and go image mirror. This should put the duplicate where the two frames meet on the other side.
See my tag for reference.

Now it is time for the tube. Paste your tube as a new layer. I am going to do two versions of mine. The first one is to resize your tube and move it below the frame layer but above the paper.
Position so it shows through the frame. Once happy with the position, grab your selection tool, set to ellipse same as we did before, start in the center of the middle frame and make it the same size as the center frame, just like before. Selections invert, and back on your tube layer hit delete. Now there should be nothing sticking out of the frame. Select none.

Now do the same for the two little frames, you can use the same tube or a different one from the same artist if you choose. Once you are done with the two smaller ones, double click on one of the tube layers you used for the smaller frames. Change the blend mode to luminance. Do this for the other tube that was used in the other smaller frame.

For the other version the two smaller frames are done the same but for the main tube I pasted as a new layer and left it the size it was and positioned over the center frame rather than making it inside the frame. Make sure this layer is above the frame. See the bottom tag for reference.

You can now add any other elements you choose and place how you like. I placed the star 1 on each side and moved the layer under the frame and paper for the frame so they stick out.

Now is the time to resize your whole tag if you wish. Go to image resize, about 85% all layers checked.

Add your copyright so it is clearly visible.

Add your name. I used eye candy 4000 gradient glow with a size of 5 on mine but this is optional. Add a drop shadow.

Thats it, you are done.

©Angel Flower December 2008