Letters To

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
May 26,2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
I am using a tube by Rachael Tallamy
which you can purchase at her store.

Supplies:
Tube of choice.
Scrap of choice.
I am using a scrap by Honored Scraps
called Dark Cinnamon.

Mask WSL Mask251 by weescottlass creations.
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Plugin EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 600x600 new image.
Open up your tube & scrap supplies.

Choose a frame to use for your tag.
Paste as a new layer.
Click inside the inside of your frame
with your magic wand.
Hold shift button down to select
multiple areas of the frame.

Paste a paper of choice.
Selections invert & press delete.
Select none.
Move the paper under the frame layer.

Add a drop shadow to the frame layer.
2,2,50,5 Black

Open a cloth ledge.
Resize 85%.
Paste on the bottom layer of your tag.
You want it to be under the bottom of the frame.
You are going to position your tube so it appears
to be sitting on the draped cloth from the ledge.

Open a clock element.
Resize 40%.
Paste along the top right side of
the frame.

Resize your main tube 80%.
Paste as a new layer onto your tag.

Open a hanging chandelair.
Resize 70% twice.
Paste on the left side between the
paper & frame layers.
You want it to appear to hang from the top
of the frame.
Add the above drop shadow.

Oepn a fence element.
Resize 50% twice.
Paste once on the bottom left side.
You want part of the fence to peek out
from behind the tag at the bottom.
Duplicate once & mirror.
Now you should have fence peeking out
on both sides of the tag.

Open a garden lamp element.
Resize 25%.
Paste on a bottom right corner by the tube.

Open a bird element.
Resize 25%.
Paste on a top corner of the frame -
like the bird is perched there.

Open flying butterflies.
Resize 50%.
Paste along the left side of your tube.
You want this layer partly hidden by
your tube - the butterflies to be coming out
from behind your tube.
Add the earlier drop shadow.

Open wordart from the scrap.
Resize 88%.
Paste as new top layer of your tag.

Add gradient glow.
EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow
Setting Fat Glow width 3.00
Add the earlier drop shadow we used.

On the bottom layer of the tag, paste a paper
as a new layer.
Apply the mask WSL Mask251.
Merge group.
Resize 88%.
Duplicate the mask once.
Rotate Free rotate Left 90.

Merge layers visible.
Resize 88%.
Add artist copyright info & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.