Wednesday, 11 January 2023

POLKA VALENTINE

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube © Alex Prihodko - VMArtists - HERE
FTU Scrap Kit by SimplyVicki - Smoochie Woochie - HERE

Preset Shape Tool - Heart 

Font Used
Impact - for the wordart
Fixed_01 - for the pixel font
Fanfare - for the name

Mask - #44 by me - sylly creationz - HERE

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Okay, let's get started!

1.

File - New Image - 800 x 800 - Transparent
Open Element 51 from the kit, resize by 90% and paste to the canvas
Image - Rotate - to the Right by 90%
Make a gradient using two colors from the scrap kit now
I used #db1014 and #fb78ae
Using your Magic Wand Tool, click inside of the frame
You will see marching ants around the frame
Selections - Modify - Expand by 8
Add a new raster layer now and lower it beneath the frame layer
Floodfill with your gradient you made
Selections - Select None.

2. 

Open the tube you are using now and paste it to the canvas.
Resize it so it fits within the canvas, move it over the gradient layer to the right of the frame
Now, use a close up and move it to the left and underneath the tube you just pasted on.
Click on the gradient layer
Selections - Select All
Selections - Float 
Selections - Defloat 
Selections - Invert

Now click on each of the tube layers and hit the delete key.
Click on the closeup, add a dropshadow (0, 0, 30, 3.00) and duplicate it
Change the blend mode of the bottom layer to Luminance (Legacy)
And change the blend mode of the top layer to Screen
Now, click on the other tube to make it active
Add a dropshadow (same as above) and then duplicate it
Change the blend mode of the bottom layer to Luminance (Legacy)
And then change the blend mode of the top layer to Overlay
Add a dropshadow to the frame layer now
Click on the gradient layer again 
Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds


3. 

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
All layers should now be merged together
Duplicate your frame 
Image - Rotate - Free Rotate by 10% to the right
Lower this layer beneath your main frame layer
Now move the top frame layer to the left some, so the rotated one is more exposed.
This is what I now have: 
 

Now paste the main tube over the frames, add a dropshadow 
(I used 0, 0, 40, 4.00)

4. 

Now these are the elements I placed on my tag
Use my tag for reference, and add a dropshadow if you like
I used 0, 0, 30, 3.00


Element 35 - no resizing necessary
(Image - Rotate - Free Rotate - by 10% to the left)
Element 71 - resize by 60%
Element 38 - resize by 40%
Element 4 - resize by 35%
Element 43 - resize by 40%
Element 2 - resize by 45%
Element 36 - resize by 70%
Element 24 - resize by 65%
Element 13 - resize by 35%
Element 53 - resize by 50%

5. 

Select the Impact font, or a font of your choice
Size: 125 - Color: #db1014
Type out the words XOXO 
Convert to a raster layer
Image - Rotate - to the right by 90%

Move it to the right of your tag, like mine
Lower the layer below the main tube layer
Click on the main tube layer to make it active
Using your Selection Tool, draw around the top half of your tube
Edit - Copy 
Selections - Select None
Edit - Paste

Move it over top of the word XOXO
Now, make the XOXO layer active
Selections - Select All
Selections - Float 
Selections - Defloat
Selections - Invert

Click on the tube layer and hit the delete key on your keyboard
Selections - Invert again
Selections - Modify - Expand by 2

Add a new raster layer and lower it beneath the XOXO layer
Floodfill it with the color #fb78ae
Selections - Select None
Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise
Random - 11% - Monochrome: Checked
Add a dropshadow of 1, 1, 50, 5.00
Now click on the tube layer over the XOXO layer again to make it active
Change the blend mode to Soft Light
Now click on the XOXO layer
Duplicate it
Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds

(same settings as earlier) 
Now lower the opacity of this layer to 62%

6. 

Grab your pixel font and type the words XOXO 
I used the color white
Place them over top of the XOXO wordart in various places
Now using your preset shape tool 
Draw a heart and add it a few random places 
See my tag for reference
Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise
Random - 8% - Monochrome: checked

You can also just save and use this heart if you wish
(Just right click and save)


Add your mask, some sparkles of choice
Add your copyright, and tag is finished!
Thank you so much for following along!



© sylvie's tutorials.
Written January 11, 2023.

1 comment:

  1. Lovely tutorial Sylvie xx I am using this in my forum for a challenge ♥

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