TEMPESTUOUS PTU

Written by Gwenda on February 2^nd 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Seabird Heavy, found

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Scrapkit called Tempest by Bibi’s Collections.

You can purchase this gorgeous kit

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Tube of choice. I used Loving the Life by Arthur Crowe. You can buy his tubes from his shop

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Mask of choice – I used one called 0Mask 046. I’m not sure who this belongs to, so if it’s yours, please let me know and I will either remove it, or give you credit for it. You can download it from

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Collab with Millie Template 01 by Denz Designz

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Open Collab template 01. Copy, and close original.

Delete the following layers: CR, 13, 12, 11, 10, 7

I added a white frame to all my template shapes, to make the papers stand out more, but the choice is yours. If you don’t want to add the frame, just leave those parts out.

You can achieve a pretty effect by giving an inner bevel and dropshadow to all the layers instead.

To achieve a frame effect on shapes:

Make sure the larger shape is above the smaller one.

Click on smaller shape and go to Selections – select all – Selections float – Selections defloat

Click on larger shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

Add new raster layer on top of white background. Selections – select all – paste PAPER 11 into selection. Deselect.

Layers – load/save mask 0Mask046

Merge group.

L1 pale blue rectangle - Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Paper 9 into selection.

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper.

In layers palette, move white rectangle above Paper 9 rectangle.

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

To white frame. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow.

Delete template layer.

L2 small blue circles – Duplicate this layer. On one copy, erase the top circle, and on the other, erase the bottom one, so each circle is on it’s own layer.

Click on the bottom circle layer.

Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Paper 8 into selection.

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper.

In layers palette, move white circle above Paper 8 circle.

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

Duplicate paper circle – mirror – flip

Duplicate white circle frame – mirror flip.

(Make sure the top white frame is sitting above the top circle)

To both white frames. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layers.

Open Paper 6 and mirror

L3 small white circles - Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Mirrored Paper 6 into selection.

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper.

In layers palette, move white circles above Paper 6 circles.

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

To white frame. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layer.

Open Paper 13 and mirror

L4 Dark blue rectangles - Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Mirrored Paper 13 into selection.

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper Rectangles.

Carefully erase the BOTTOM RIGHT paper rectangle.

Go back to the one in the top left. Duplicate – mirror - flip. Merge these two together.

In layers palette, move white rectangles above Paper 13 rectangles.

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

To white frame. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layers.

Open Paper 11 and mirror

Open Element 12 (Curtain) and mirror Resize 50% Sharpen.

L5 Left Circle, and L6 Right Circle – Paste Element 12 above the L5 circle layer and slide left into position. Click on Circle layer. Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Mirrored Paper 11 into selection.

Selections – modify – invert. Click on curtain and hit delete. Selections – modify – invert (again).

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper Circle.

Sharpen curtain

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

Duplicate Paper circle – mirror.

Duplicate curtain – mirror.

Duplicate white circle frame – mirror.

These now become L6 right circle)

To white frames. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layers.

L7 Centre rectangle - Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Fill with Black.

(Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

To black rectangle, add Effects – texture effects – weave with settings

1  2  50 Both colors #967222  .

In layers palette, move white rectangle above Black rectangle.

Click on black shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

To white frame. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layers

L8 Left Square, and L9 Right Square – Click on Left square and free rotate left 15.

Paste close up of tube over left square and move to desired position. ( I drop the opacity so I can see what I’m doing).

Click on left square Selections - select all – Selections - Float – Selections - defloat. Layers - New raster layer. Paste Paper 7 into selection.

Selections – invert. Click on tube and hit delete. Selections – invert again.

 (Stop here and deselect if you do not want to do the white frames).

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer fill white.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper Square.

Drop opacity of tube to 66

Make sure white shape is above paper and tube.

Click on paper shape. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.

Click on white shape and hit delete.

Deselect.

Duplicate Paper Square – mirror.

Duplicate tube - mirror

Duplicate white square frame – mirror.

These now become L9 right square)

To white frames. Adjust – add noise. Uniform 80, with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Dropshadow

Delete template layers.

OK that’s all the template layers done. Now we can add some elements!

Element 16 (Bush) – Paste above mask layer. Erase the bottom and slide to the top right corner.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.
Dropshadow both.

Element 29 (black & white flower) – Paste above element 16 layer and slide to to left.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Dropshadow both.

Element 47 (ball of light) – Resize 30% and paste above small circles layer (under small circles frames). Slide into position in the centre of the top small circle.

Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror – flip.
Dropshadow both.

Element 57 (heart) – Paste above centre rectangle frame
Dropshadow.

Element 5 (Yellow netting) – Resize 80%. Paste above right square frame layer and slide to the right and up a bit.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 33 (green heart) – Resize 50%. Paste above the yellow netting layer.

Free rotate left 15 and slide to the left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 38 (sparkles) – Resize 97%.

Paste above element 33 layer. Slide down a little.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Element 25 (flames) – Resize 50%. Paste above sparkles layer and slide down and left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Tube – Paste above flames layer and slide to right.
Dropshadow.

Element 50 (crow) – Resize 40%. Paste above tube layer and slide to bottom left.

Sharpen. Duplicate. Resize copy 80%. Sharpen this one

Dropshadow both.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.

 This is the example with no frames.