Tut - Fairywishes

Hello, my precious Tigerlilies, I have a magical tut for you today!

This tut is just adorable!

Here is what you are going to need:

The font Christmas on Crack from www.dafont.com

A winter mask of your choice. 

A fairy tube in Christmas or Winter colors. I am using a tube by Amy Brown from Creative Design Outlet. You must have a license to use her work. www.creativedesignoutlet.com 

A winter or Christmas themed scrap kit that coordinates with your tube. My kit was also purchased at CDO. It is a mini kit by Babycakes Scraps called Holiday Glow. 

Now, here's the thing. Sometimes I use PTU but that doesn't mean you have to go out and buy what I am using. If you have something you love that is FTU or if you want to use a whole other kit or tube or another color or theme, go ahead. That is part of the fun of tuts. Nothing has to be exact exact. Tuts are for fun.

Flaming Pear Lacquer filter (or Inner Bevel or Eye Candy Glass)

I made this tut using Paint Shop Pro 9 on November 25. Any resemblance to existing tuts is coincidental.

OK, let's begin.

Open New canvas 600 X 600

Use Paper 2 and floodfill.

New Raster Layer, floodfill white.

Apply your mask.

Go back to Raster 1 and apply Lacquer Filter of your liking. I used Dodge and Burn, and it looked like a pen and ink drawing so I Changed to Target and colored in red to make it stand out a little bit more.

Use element 36 and resized it to 80% and added a drop shadow and pasted it as a new layer. 

Adjust your tube so that it is in front of the frame how you like it. Add a drop shadow.

Element 22 - Adjust - Add Noise - 51

Then add drop shadow.

The reason you want to add the noise before you do the drop shadow is because if you put the drop shadow on and then you add the noise is because then your shadow will be glittery and it might look strange.

Everyone likes a different drop shadow so I leave that up to you. That is why I don't indicate specific drop shadow numbers.

Element 7 - resize 70% - drop shadow - Paste as new layer 

Element 1 - resize 70% - free rotate 25 left

You may need to erase the stem behind the bird.

Adjust - add noise - 51

Drop Shadow

Element 8 - resize 30%

Apply Lacquer Vivid B change colors to gold

Adjust - Add Noise 51

Element 14 - resize 85

drop shadow

Duplicate Layer

Flip

Element 17 - Paste as New Layer - Lacquer - Add Noise 51

Drop Shadow

Element 13

Now, I needed to mirror this. You may not need to depending on your tube. Feel free to mirror, flip and adjust any elements so that your tube fits.

Resize 40% 

Add Noise 51

Drop Shadow

25 - free rotate right 25 and resize to 40%

Adjust - add Noise 51.

Paste and drop shadow

Merge all your layers and then go to Adjust and select Sharpen. Any time you resize anything, it is a good idea to sharpen it back up because sometimes resizing can blur the images a teeny bit. This way you can freshen them back up and it makes them crisp.

Add your credits and then we will do our word art.

You can use any phrase or font you wish. Or you can use a name. 

I chose the font Christmas on Crack because it looked like a story book fairy tale one. 

I used a gradient that I had made years ago. You can use any color, gradient or pattern that you like to go with your tag. Type your text and set it how you like. I applied the lacquer filter again and applied a drop shadow.

I hope you had fun!