Sunday, February 8, 2015

LEAPING LEPRECHAUNS FTU


Written by Gwenda on February 8th 2015
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Celtic Garamond, found

Scrapkit is a lovely FTU St Patricks kit called Leaping Leprechauns. You can find this kit on Kittz Kreationz blog

Tube of choice. I used Patty by VeryMany.
You can purchase these lovely tubes

My grey scalloped frame


Open new canvas size 700 x 700
Fill white

Element 13 (shamrock frame)
Flip
Paste as new layer.
Drop opacity to 56

Grey scalloped frame
Paste above element 13 layer.
Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Layers – new raster layer.
Paste Paper 2 into selection.
Deselect.
Delete template layer.
Sharpen paper.
Give inner bevel of choice
Dropshadow.

Set foreground color to #e9f3ca and background to #426813
Make a gradient 0 degrees with 1 repeat.
(Dark green should be at top and bottom).

Click inside scalloped frame with your magic wand.
Selections – modify – expand 2.
Layers – new raster layer.
Fill with gradient.
Deselect.

In layers palette, move gradient below frame.

Element 23 (Sparkles)
Resize 80%.
Paste above gradient layer and slide up.
Sharpen.
DO NOT DROPSHADOW.

Element 9 (Balloon)
Resize 80%.
Paste above scalloped frame layer.
Free rotate Right 15 and slide right.
Sharpen.
Duplicate.
Free rotate Left 45
Sharpen.
Dropshadow both.

Element 8 (Garland)
Paste above element 9 layers and slide up.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Tube
Resize 80%
Erase from waist down.
Paste above element 8 layer and slide up to top.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 1 (Banner)
Resize 80%
Paste above tube layer and slide to bottom.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 11 (Hat)
Resize 80%
Paste above Element 1 layer and slide to bottom left corner.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 19 (Glass)
Resize 60%
Paste above Element 11 layer and slide to bottom right corner.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Element 24 (Butterfly)
Resize 60%
Paste above Element 19 layer and slide to bottom right.
Sharpen.
Dropshadow

Add more embellishments if you choose.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.

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