Saturday, 3 July 2010

Miss Independence

Happy 4th July to all you Americans!!!!
Supplies
Tube of choice - I am using a tube by BamBam which is available to purchase from MPT
Scrapkit - a fab freebie kit from Artmama 'America 2010' which you can download from her site here
Thank you!
Mask of choice - I am using WSL 111 here
Fonts of choice
Eye candy gradient glow
OK - Open a new image 650x600 floodfill white
add a new raster layer and select all
copy paper 9 and paste into selection
apply mask, delete and merge group, duplicate & merge down
duplicate again and on the bottom layer adjust blur gaussian blur 10
Paste your tube as a new layer and position
resize if necessary and apply a drop shadow
copy stars 34 and 35 from the kit, resize by 50% and duplicate both
position down one side and sharpen each star
copy & paste the flowers 25, resize and sharpen
position at opposite side
copy & paste the button 31, resize and position at bottom of flowers
resize the words 16 and position at bottom of tag, sharpen & drop shadow
copy & paste the statue of liberty. resize and position on tag
copy embellishment 06, paste as a new layer below the mask layer
position and duplicate, mirror
copy & paste element 13, resize and position
duplicate & mirror - position and merge down
duplicate this layer & flip, position and merge down again
Using a dark blue colour from the tag type the words 'Miss Independence' (or your words of choice)
apply a white gradient glow then a red gradient glow
position along the bottom of tag
add your name and apply the same glow
hide background layer and merge visible
resize by 85% and crop
add your copyright info
delete the white background layer & save as a Png