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This Tutorial was written on April 5^th, 2012 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.

Do not translate or script.
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

But, if you know your tools you can use any program of choice

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of Rion

Use must purchase a license to use his artwork and can do so HERE

Scrapkit of Choice

I am a PTU kit called “Hoppy Spring” by Designs by Sarah

You can find this kit HERE

It comes with a set of clusters as well and we're going to be using one of those too.

Mask of Choice

I am using PTUMask8 by Vix

Which you can find HERE

Additonal Filters Needed

Penta - Jeans

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

Start a new canvas

600px by 600px

Flood fill with white.

Go to the cluster frames and open Cluster 1

Add it to your canvas

Scale down to 70% and rotate 10 degrees

Add a drop shadow

Open pp9

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas

use your magic wand to select inside the two frames there, get as much of it as you can

Select → Modify → Expand, by 7

Invert and on the paper press delete

Deselect

Add your tube and arrange and resize how you're wanting to

Once you have that duplicate the tube

On the bottom add a drop shadow

On the top one

Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Add your tube again

Have it below the frame layer

Flip horizontally, resize and reposition to your liking

Once you have that, Select the paper background

Invert the selection and on the tube layer, press delete

Deselect

Change the blend mode to luminosity, lower the opacity to 53%

Duplicate the paper background layer

Bring it to above the tube we placed in the frame in the pallate

Filter → Penta → Jeans

amount – 20, border – 4

Change the blend mode to, soft light

Open pp7

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas, have just above the white background layer

Apply the mask to this layer

Now add which elements you'd like

I used the following from the bottom up with a drop shadow unless stated:

splatter3 (no drop shadow)

splatter1 (no drop shadow)

splatter2 (no drop shadow)

ribbon 2

flower 1

flower 1

flower 2

flower 2

bow2

bunny

carrots

Add your name

Image → Trim

Top left pixel color all boxes checked

Resize if you'd like to

****Most Important****

Add your copy right information

If you're happy with you're result save to your liking and you're done!