No Scraps - Framed Fairy

Framed Fairy

 

 

This tutorial was written by me on May 31, 2012, using my own ideas. Any resemblance to others is coincidental and accidental. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of psp and is written in PSPX.

Please leave some love when downloading supplies. The artists/creators work hard to make/share their work with us, so let's be appreciative. Please use all correct copyright information and follow all TOU’s. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

As always, tutorials are only a guideline. If you don't have the exact supplies, use ones you have or ones you choose.

DS = Drop Shadow

C/P = Copy/Paste

Supplies: Tube of choice – I used an awesome little fairy by Carolina Seabra – aka: Queen Urial
Please do not use Ms. Seabra's art without the proper license

Brushes of choice

Mask of choice

Font of choice – This one is CircusCircus

Eye Candy 4000 – HSB Noise and Gradient Glow

Open a new 600x600 blank image in psp.

Select 2 colors from your tube

Rectangle tool – line width 10

Close the background color

Draw our a rectangle on canvas – convert to raster

Repeat with opposite color

I did mine in different sizes

Duplicate and place each shape as shown

Merge squares together

Duplicate

On duplicate – Eye Candy 4000 – HSB Noise – default settings

On original frames – Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur - 10

Using magic wand – click inside each shape

Selections – Modify – Expand – 5

Add new layer below squares

Flood fill each square with the opposite color (blue fills with green – green fills with blue)

Select none

Magic wand – select blue blocks

Effects – Texture Effects – Blinds_5_50_#5b9ece (or lighter shade of your color)_Hoizontal unchecked

Select none

Repeat for green blocks using #d1ce5c (or lighter shade of your color)

Duplicate

On duplicate – Effects – Xero – Fritillary_5_30_10_17

Effects – Edge Effects – Enhance

Lower opacity to about 65

Add new layer above blocks

Alternating colors, aply brushes of choice, adding new layer for each different brush

Add new layer and send to bottom

Make a gradient using the 2 colors you chose earlier – Angle_45_Repeats_2

Open mask in psp

Layers – New Mask Layer – From Image – choose mask from drop down list

Merge group

Select original frame layer

Effects – Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow_3_25_100_#fcd97f

DS_0_0_100_10_Black

Now add tube as a new layer

DS_0_0_50_10_Black

Add all correct copyright info

Add name_CircusCircus_100_Stroke_1_#314d68_Fill #fcd97f_alternate Upper and lower case letters

Convert to raster

DS_2_-5_50_5_Black

Save and you’re done!!