No Place Like Home

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
May 10,2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I'm using a tube
by Rebecca Sinz. It is available at
her store.

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Scrap of choice.
I’m using a kit called The Orchid
by Dark Yarrow.
It is also available at DAH 
Mask Vixbigmask 018
Here


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

Choose a frame of choice.
Resize 80% or as needed.
Paste the frame as a new layer.

Click inside your frame with your
magic wand tool.
Selections modify expand by 10.

Paste a paper of choice.
Selections invert & press delete.
Move the paper under the frame layer.

Keep selected.
On your tube, resize 85%.
Paste between the two layers on your tag.
Duplicate once.
Move the tube copy layer to the top
in your layer palette.

Back on the original tube layer,
press delete.
Select none.
Now on the tube copy layer,
use your eraser tool
to erase parts of the tube showing
past the frame you don't want.

Add a drop shadow to the frame
& original tube layers on the tag.
2,2,50,5 Black.

Open a house element.
Resize 80%
Paste between the frame & paper layers.
Add the above drop shadow to the house layer.

Open a ladder element.
Resize 70%.
Paste along the right side of the frame.

Open a plant branch.
Resize 70%
Paste on the right side along the ladder.
Duplicate once & mirror.
Move this layer back to along the original branch.

Open grass string element.
Paste on the bottom layer along
the top left side of the frame.
Duplicate once.
Mirror & flip.

Open a grassy ivy element.
Resize 50%
Paste twice along the bottom part of the frame.
You want these layers above the tube
copy layer in your layer palette.

Open a jar element.
Resize 50% twice.
Paste so that it appears to be sitting
on a lower branch of the frame.
I positioned mine on the left side in the ivy layer.

Open flying butterflies.
Resize 70%
Paste on the right side of the tag.
Make this layer underneath your tube copy layer.

On the bottom layer of the tag,
paste a paper of choice.
Apply the mask
Vixbigmask 018
Merge group.

Open a stiching circle frame.
Paste above the background mask layer.

Merge layers visible.
Resize 88%
Paste a wordart from the scrap.
Resize 80% & 88% once each.

Apply EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow
to the wordart.
Glow width 3.00 setting Fat.
Also add the drop shadow we used earlier.

Now merge layers visible again.
Add artist copyright info & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.