Fleurs

Snaggable versions of this tag in my Fotki album

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X7, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Alex Prihodko (Springtime tube)

which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit by BLT Dezignz called Julep Garden 

Font of choice, I am using Brotherhood Script

Mask of your choice, I don't know who made mine or who made it sorry

Plugins: no outside plugins used

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 850 x 850 pixels with a white background

Open frame 1 copy and paste as a new layer resize 23%

click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open paper 2 resize 830 x 830 pixels copy and paste as a new layer 

click delete on your keyboard,

leave selected

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize by 50%

arrange in your frame

erase the bits that hang out of your frame where you don't want them

now add your elements:

crates resize 16% arrange on bottom right between tube & frame

lmap resize 16% arrange to the left of the cratess resize % arrange

grass 2 resize 11% arrange behind tube on right side

rosette resize 16% arrange behind lantern on left

flower 9 resize 13% rotate left 90 arrange behind crates, duplicate, resize 75% drag to the right

branch resize 15% rotate right 20 arrange on bottom behind the other layers

butterfly resize 4% rotate left 45 arrange in the grass on the right

add paper 6 above your white background

apply your mask, merge group

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save