The Raven

Supplies

Tube of choice - I am using this beautiful tube from KatNDKA which can be purchased from NK Art Shop

Scrapkit - 'Scream at the Night' a great freebie kit from Lacarolita's Designz here

Thanks!

Mask I am using is WSL 221 which you can find here
Font of choice - I am using Twilight and Tahoma

Ok - Open a new image 650x650 floodfill white

Add a new raster layer, select all and paste a background or paper of choice into selection, select none (I am using the background image that came with the tube)

Open the gates from the kit, copy & paste as a new layer

resize slightly & drop shadow 5 5 70 5

Copy & paste the gravestone below the gates layer, resize, sharpen & drop shadow

Resize the stars layer and paste as a new layer, sharpen more

Add any elements from the kit you like

I added the moon, a bat and one of the cats

Paste your tube as a new layer, position, resize if necessary and drop shadow

Add a new raster at the top, select all, contract by 6, invert and floodflill selection with black

Resize all layers by 85% and sharpen

Open a new image 600x600 floodfill white

Copy merged your tag onto this new image

select all, float, defloat, effects, 3d effects buttonize

Height & width at 20

Opacity 75

Transparent

select none

Copy Paper 8 from the kit and paste as a new layer above background

Apply mask, delete & merge group

Use your deform tool to push in the sides slightly

Type your words of choice around the frame

I used some quotes from 'The Raven' poem and lower the opacity of the words

Add your name and copyright info

Delete the background layer & save as a Png!