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This Tutorial was written on November 15th, 2011 by Ashly
It is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy and do not post elsewhere.
This tutorial is written as if you have a general knowledge on how to use the program.

***What you'll need***
Program of Choice.
I am using Photoshop CS5

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of VeryMany

You must purchase their tubes for use and you can do so HERE

Kit of choice.
I am using a scrapkit called “Dark Love” by Alikas Scraps

You can purchase that for use HERE

You'll also need your own sparkles of choice :D

I am using some sparkles from Alika's Totally Zirconia Kit. You can get it at the same shop :)

Mask of Choice
I am using Mask_84 by WeeScotslass
You can snag that from HERE

Filters Needed
Xero – Radience
Xero – Porcelain

Penta.com – Jeans

~*~*~ Let's Get Started~*~*~

Open up a new canvas

600px x 600px.

Flood fill with white

Open Paper13

Resize 600px by 600px

Copy and Paste into your canvas

Take your preset shape tool, choose the heart shape and with your color set to black.

Draw out a decent sized heart on your canvas.

Drag it below your paper layer

Apply a clipping mask between them.

Merge them together.

Draw out another heart in the middle of the heart, smaller and once you're happy with how the frame will look, rasterize this layer, take your magic wand, select inside the heart.

Click on your heart paper layer and press delete.

Deselect and then delete the black heart layer.

On the paper layer again

Add a bevel and emboss

Rotate to your liking and resize if you'd like to as well.

Ctrl + Click on it in your layers pallate

Select → Modify → Expand, by 4

Add a new layer and flood fill with a color that compliments the paper.

Deselect.

Filter → Noise → Add Noise

Amount 20%, Gaussian and monochromatic checked.

Merge the two layers together

Add a drop shadow to this layer

Open Paper18

Resize to 600px by 600px

Copy and paste onto your canvas

use your magic wand and select inside of the frame

Select → Modify → Expand, by 5

Invert the selection and on the new paper layer click delete.

Deselect.

Filter → Penta.com → Jeans

amount 15, border width 4

Go to your tube and get your half body tube.

Copy and paste into your canvas.

I flipped mine horizontally.

Resize and Reposition to your liking.

Duplicate this layer.

Move one below your frame and one above it.

Delete any parts that are sticking outside of your frame

One the bottom one add a drop shadow.

One the top one

Filter → Xero → Porcelain

All at default, except blue channel to 0.

Filter → Xero → Radiance

Something subtle that brightens it back up a bit

Filter → Sharpen → Unsharp Mask

All at default.

Open your close up tube and copy and paste it into your canvas

This layer will be between your bottom half body tube layer and the paper background layer.

Repostion and Resize

Delete any parts that are outside the frame

Change the blend mode to luminosity and the opacity at 50%

Open Paper19

Resize to 600px by 600px.

Copy and paste into your canvas.

Drag this layer to just above your white background and apply your layer mask.

Now, we're just going to embellish.

Do so to your liking with your drop shadow of choice and resize as you'd like.

I used the following in this order:

~Above Mask Layer, Below Frame Background Layer~

flower4

flower3

~Above the top tube layer~

button02

flower01

flower02

heartstring2

flower05

flower06

button02

bow3

bow3

Add your sparkles of choice here (no drop shadow, opacity at 75%)

bow2

bow2

Add your name to your tag.

Image → Trim

Top left pixel color, all boxes checked

Resize if you'd like to.

***Most Important***

Add your copyright information.

If you like your tag, hide the bottom white layer and save as a .png to keep the transparency

or keep it as is and save as a .jpg.

Thank you for trying my tutorial!

I hope you enjoyed it!

If you have any questions feel free to email me!!

Huge Huggles!

Ashly.