Written by Gwenda on June 5th 2013
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely
coincidental.
You will need:
Font of choice – I used United States , found
Scrapkit is called Liberty by Bibi’s Collection. This is a
fantastic 4th of July kit – I love it! It can be purchased from SATC
Tube of choice. I used a new one by Keith Garvey
called Aunt Samantha.
You can purchase it from Keith’s store
Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass.
Set foreground color to #302b6e and background to
#a50a0d
Open a new raster 700 x 700 and fill white.
Layers – new raster layer.
Fill with gradient
Apply mask WSL84
In layers palette, merge group.
Stretch mask to edges.
Duplicate mask and merge both together.
Element 2 (frame) – Resize 65%. Paste above the mask layer. Slide to
the right.
Sharpen. Duplicate – mirror. Slide the frames
together a bit if you need to. They should be almost touching at the bottom
centre,
Merge both frames together and centre on the canvas.
Cut then paste gets things bang in the
middle J
Click inside frame with magic wand – don’t forget the
little bit inside the bows. Selections – modify – expand 8.
Layers – new raster layer. Fill with same gradient
you used for mask.
Deselect.
Dropshadow frame.
Element 67 (starburst) – Resize 75%. Paste above gradient layer, just under
frame. Slide to the top and left a bit. The bottom corner of the starburst
should align with the corner of the top right frame.
Sharpen. Duplicate. Merge both layers together to
give more depth.
Duplicate – flip.
Dropshadow both.
Element 57 (black net) – Paste above mask layer and slide to the bottom left
corner.
Duplicate – mirror. Merge both together.
Duplicate and slide to the top
Dropshadow both.
Element 89 (red firework) – Resize 70%. Paste above element 57 layers and
slide to the top right corner.
Duplicate and merge together.
Duplicate again – mirror. Merge both together.
Duplicate again – flip.
Dropshadow both.
Dropshadow both.
Element 12 (gold mesh) – Resize 60%. Paste above element 89 layers.
Free rotate right 45. Slide to top left corner.
Sharpen. Duplicate. Merge both together.
Duplicate again – mirror. Merge both together.
Duplicate - flip
Dropshadow
both.
Element 48 (hanging bottles) –Resize 60%. Paste above frame layer.
Slide to the right.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Element 106 (Flag) – Resize 65% then 70%. Paste above element 48 layer and
slide to the top left corner.
Duplicate. On the bottom copy, free rotate left 15.
On the top copy, free rotate right 15.
Sharpen both and Dropshadow.
Element 42 (roses) – Resize 70%. Paste above the flag layers.
Free rotate left 10. Slide to the left.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Tube – Paste above the roses layer and slide into position.
Dropshadow.
Add any other embellishments of choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
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